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Administrative Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 4

2018 December - 27 articles

Cover Story: An analysis of recent literature revealed the, as yet untreated, methodological issues relating to female entrepreneurship. It is, in fact, not yet clear whether female entrepreneurship is an individual or a collective concept and whether it should be considered a social or natural variable. The first concern deals with the notion that, although entrepreneurship is considered by the literature to be an individual characteristic, the term female refers to a collective gender. The second issue relates to the conception of entrepreneurship as a characteristic that is at once historic and socially constructed. It is looked upon as a feature that has endured the pressures of time and can, therefore, be taken for granted. The purpose of this article is to investigate these issues, as a prerequisite for any future research into the features of female entrepreneurship. View this paper
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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,555 Views
32 Pages

18 December 2018

Organizational performance development and financial slack have drawn extensive attention in management research. Recent studies have indicated that financial slack has a positive effect on innovation outcomes and organizational performance. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,425 Views
14 Pages

13 December 2018

Moving marketing strategies, which are changed through digital channels, into the social media environment, has led to changes in customer preferences in the tourism sector and is affected by the comments made in social media. Despite the fact that n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,305 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2018

Recently, risk assessment has become one of the most challenging issues in the areas of construction and public-private partnerships (PPPs). To address risk assessment issues, various decision-making techniques have been proposed, each with its own s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rational Decision Making in Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,644 Views
10 Pages

5 December 2018

This study aimed to explore the employment status of women in the higher educational sector and to uphold women’s productivity and commitment in executive positions of responsibility. Management tended to show preferential treatment for men in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,180 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2018

This initial report of a longitudinal study of 192 English hospital nurses measured Nursing Values (the 6Cs of nursing); Personality, Self-Esteem and Depression; Burnout Potential; Work-Life Balance Stress; “Hardy Personality”; and Intent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,217 Views
21 Pages

30 November 2018

In the retail sector, the creation of shopping experiences becomes increasingly important to obtain a competitive advantage, and to meet consumers’ needs and desires. Knowing how to design and apply these experiences can stimulate consumer enga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Customer Loyalty and Brand Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,212 Views
9 Pages

27 November 2018

The CSR theme has taken on an increasingly central role within financial markets. In fact, the last decade has been characterized by a rapid development of “socially responsible” investment, conventionally known as SRI. In this sense, an...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,331 Views
15 Pages

26 November 2018

Many services are provided in the form of self-service. In self-service, customers simultaneously become the sole producer and a consumer of a service. Using a scenario-based experiment, we examine the psychology of queuing for self-service, and how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,721 Views
16 Pages

It’s Always a Women’s Problem! Micro-Entrepreneurs, Work-Family Balance and Economic Crisis

  • Francesca Maria Cesaroni,
  • Maria Gabriella Pediconi and
  • Annalisa Sentuti

24 November 2018

Gender inequality in the division of family work is vastly corroborated and work–family balance is an important topic in the female entrepreneurship field of research. Even if work–family balance should be a necessity indiscriminately per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,582 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2018

Service organizations use quality management systems as a part of their overall strategies to improve business processes and operations management. Nevertheless, how quality management components lead to improvement and whether task conflicts influen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,335 Views
25 Pages

20 November 2018

This research addresses the problem of planning tourism routes and finding appropriate shopping (market place) locations for agricultural product transportation. Generally, tourists visit popular tourism attractions; and generally, unpopular tourism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
32,514 Views
14 Pages

An Exploratory Study of Consumer Attitudes toward Green Cosmetics in the UK Market

  • Yifeng Lin,
  • Shaohua Yang,
  • Haniruzila Hanifah and
  • Qaisar Iqbal

19 November 2018

People’s health awareness has extended from the food industry to the personal beauty industry. Consumers have increased their interest in natural ingredients, sustainable packaging, and other green elements of cosmetics. This research explores...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
12,483 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2018

The spur of innovative startups has provided an unprecedented opportunity for female entrepreneurship. However, the mainstream literature on startups has elaborated a gender performance gap hypothesis. Considering the speed of technological, social,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,201 Views
19 Pages

14 November 2018

In today’s versatile and dynamic industrial scenario more and more industries are adopting advanced manufacturing technologies and systems like flexible manufacturing system (FMS) which combines the efficiency of a mass production line and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,053 Views
6 Pages

3 November 2018

A methodological approach to the concept of female entrepreneurship concept has not yet been treated: is female entrepreneurship an individual or collective concept? Is it considered a social or natural variable? The purpose of this research is to cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,757 Views
13 Pages

Adoption of Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by an Italian Municipality

  • Giovanna Galizzi,
  • Gaia Viviana Bassani and
  • Cristiana Cattaneo

3 November 2018

Over the past few decades, many governments throughout the world have promoted gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). With its focus on equality, accountability, transparency and participation in the policy-making process, GRB shares some relevant princi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,654 Views
31 Pages

29 October 2018

The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of the current literature of this business phenomenon with regard to gender studies and to point out what is substantially happening and what has happened in the Italian economic context. The main resear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,068 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2018

This paper aims to investigate the three-stage theory of international expansion in the long run from the perspective of firm behavior. Although this topic has been mostly explored using data from developed countries, this paper aims to fill the rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,377 Views
12 Pages

25 October 2018

In spite of the importance of the brand management in marketing studies and practice, there is a scarcity of prior research on the links between brand equity and financial performance, particularly in unlisted (unquoted) firms. The study contributes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Customer Loyalty and Brand Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,216 Views
13 Pages

20 October 2018

The issue of women’s participation in top management and boardroom positions has received increasing attention in the academic literature and the press. However, the pace of advancement for women managers and directors continues to be slow and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,713 Views
16 Pages

Women Career Paths in Accounting Organizations: Big4 Scenario

  • Adriana Tiron-Tudor and
  • Widad Atena Faragalla

17 October 2018

In this paper, we analyze the gender issues that are present in the accounting profession, and more precisely, on the career paths one could follow in the accounting profession and what the underlying reasons are for each option. Our conclusions show...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,007 Views
21 Pages

The Strategic Behaviour of SMEs

  • Vanessa Yanes-Estévez,
  • Ana María García-Pérez and
  • Juan Ramón Oreja-Rodríguez

16 October 2018

This paper analyses the strategic behaviour of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and identifies the entrepreneurial, technological, and administrative problems of the Miles and Snow typology (1978). This typology is applied to a sample of SME...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,440 Views
14 Pages

9 October 2018

Multiparty systems (MPSs) are defined as collaborative task-systems composed of various stakeholders (organizations or their representatives) that deal with complex issues that cannot be addressed by a single group or organization. Our study uses a b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of Interorganisational Collaborative Relationships)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,644 Views
13 Pages

8 October 2018

Cross-boundary collaboration, both multiprofessional and interorganizational, is needed when providing integrated care for people with multiple problems, who need services at the same time from diverse care providers. Multiple problems of clients als...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of Interorganisational Collaborative Relationships)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,968 Views
17 Pages

4 October 2018

New master’s degrees in computer engineering, designed according to Spanish government requirements, include both technical and business subjects to provide advanced knowledge compared to undergraduate studies. In spite of acquiring this advanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,007 Views
20 Pages

1 October 2018

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a voluntary competitive strategy that is based upon social, economic, and environmental improvement in which the organisation is involved. Internationalisation, a type of corporate strategy, is a set of proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,183 Views
17 Pages

A Community of Practice Approach to Teaching International Entrepreneurship

  • Martina Musteen,
  • Ross Curran,
  • Nuno Arroteia,
  • Maria Ripollés and
  • Andreu Blesa

23 September 2018

With a dearth of research on international entrepreneurship pedagogy, there is a gap in knowledge on the effectiveness of educational programs, courses, and teaching methods in stimulating and promoting international entrepreneurship practice. To add...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Widening International Entrepreneurship Research)
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