Customers can participate in open innovation communities posting innovation ideas, which in turn can receive comments and votes from the rest of the community, highlighting user preferences. However, the final decision about implementing innovations corresponds to the company. This paper is focused on the customers’ activity in open innovation communities. The aim is to identify the main topics...

Visual management (VM) is the managerial strategy of consciously integrating visual tools in workspaces with the aim of increasing transparency on construction sites. Several VM tools and approaches that had been originally developed in the manufacturing context were implemented in construction. However, research on the application of VM in construction as a managerial strategy is scarce. This ...

We describe, in this paper, a component-based software engineering method for helping development teams to plan, organize, control, and develop web applications. The method is described in terms of three methodological elements: a product model that captures the architectural characteristics of web applications, a team model that describes the different roles to be played by the members of a te...

Despite the growing interest of wine industry in quality and environmental certifications influence these standards on positioning international markets, scholarly research has paid proportionally limited attention to link between winery export intensity adoption internationally recognized standards. This study aims analyze which factors make an organizational model performant, verify impact th...

Does the type of knowledge, and levels of ability and experience needed, depend on rank in managerial accounting? Are the knowledge, ability, and experience needed for managerial accounting success, consistent with the Libby & Luft (L&L) model (1993) of the determinants of judgment performance in accounting? We explore these questions using structural equation models of the performance evaluati...

the purpose of this paper is to study how the characteristics of successful managers are somehow related to their programme in co-operatives. the study shows there is a significant relationship between managers' characteristics such as innovation, authority and leadership, with managerial skills, self confidence and degree of success. however, there is no correlation between intelligence, ...

The nonlinear relationship between corporate value (Tobin's Q) and managerial ownership is well documented. This has commonly been attributed to the onset of managerial entrenchment, which results in a decrease of corporate value for increasing levels of managerial holdings. We propose a more complex structure for the corporate value { managerial ownership function, which accounts for the e®ect...

In this paper, we present a variant of Datalog language (we call it Datalog ) able to deal with weights on ground facts and to consequently compute a feedback result for the goal satisfaction. The weights are chosen from a proper c-semiring. In our context, our goal is to use this language as a semantic foundation for languages for expressing trust relationships. As a matter of fact, many of th...