Business Teams Research Articles

NASCENT ENTREPRENEUR: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTION

The growth of new entrepreneurs becomes a benchmark of entrepreneurial spirit to be independent. The performance of MSMEs still has a number of problems in entrepreneurs first explaining the growth intentions of new business teams with greater family ties. The method used in this study is to collect a number of article literature from reputable journal sources Q1 to Q2. Data collection is done by prisma method which is then data dioalh using Watase software and article clustering using Vos Viewer. Literature searches based on articles published from 2011 – 2021 based on titles, keywords and abstracts. The findings from data sources obtained that the improvement in business planning achieved from nascent entrepreneurs can be improved through institutional strength. The practical implication of these findings is that institutional forces will always be able to excel at measuring the sustainability of innovation performance especially in the context of nascent entrepreneurs. While theoretically strengthening that the institutional strength of the adoption of institutional theory and resource advantage theory of competition to improve the sustainability of MSME performance.

Learning From Highly Effective Teams: What Can We Apply to the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit Team?

Learning From Highly Effective Teams: What Can We Apply to the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit Team?

Barriers to Integration of Interactive Communication Between Business Teams and Publication Teams in Gaining Profits Through the Deureuham Program at Bank X Syariah Head Office 2018-2019

Deureuham program is the result of collaboration between Bank X Syariah and BEKRAF, consisting of a Publication Team and a Business Team as the responsible party and communicate interactively through the WhatsApps Group media. Ironically, the program did not generate profits as targeted. This is the rationality of the reasons, as well as the urgency of this research, so that the title of this research is determined, namely, the obstacles to the integration of interactive communication between the business team and the publication team in getting benefits through the Deureuham program at Head Office Bank X Syariah on 2018-2019. This qualitative research uses case study as a method, with a constructivist paradigm. The theoretical foundation is the Kincaid school of convergence theory and the Karl Weick Organizational Process Theory, the data collection technique is by means of in-depth interviews. As a result: One, the obstacles to the integration of interactive communication between the two teams, namely, a lack of communication processes, a lack of a sense of belonging and shared responsibility, and poor information shared, including dialogue between teams. Two, the result is poor processes and information flow between teams, confusion of information, and a low sense of responsibility for each team, information is not conveyed optimally, and low business absorption rates. Three, the input is that coordination is not only through interactive media, but also face-to-face meetings. The use of interactive media is maximized internally for each team. In order to avoid confusion of information, it is necessary to involve branches in interactive communication between teams, as well as the need to control the progress of communication from the superiors of each team.

Role of intellectual property as key element of innovation activities: legal grounds

Keywords: intellectual property, intellectual property rights, innovation activities,innovation activity companies (entities), open innovations concept, open innovationplatforms
 The article determinates that, on the background of a digitaleconomics actively development, the open innovations become a key source of digitalbreakthrough. The author states that within such a concept, the entities carryinginnovation activity, keep focus on monetizing both the internal research results aswell as the external ideas. Such approach, enhanced with external partners involvementinto the innovations process, helps the innovative technologies to move remarkablyfaster through the lifecycle. It is also emphasized that the approach enabling externalaccess to the companies’ innovations, need a concept to be set up, with focus onintellectual property rights protection. The author draws attention that the key roleof legal instruments for intellectual property protection, is to minimize the risk forthose companies which contribute to the innovations market development. It is clarifiedthat within such a concept, the innovation activity companies provide their partnersthe right to use the intellectual assets, which may be either already in use bysuch companies or idle to use. Thus, the companies providing legal protection of theintellectual property, have more favourite conditions to come into a strategic partnership.The author highlights that the innovations-industry companies make profitfrom getting access to science-research and related production outputs which areowned by their partners, as well as from further development of their own productsresulting from the intellectual property under the strategic agreement. The articlealso proposes creation of digital platforms which will facilitate the effective partnershipof the business, state organizations and innovation teams within the developmentprocess of innovation products.

Factors Influencing Tech-Focused Government Agency in Funding Tech Start-ups: The Evidence from Thailand

This study aims to analyze factors that influence tech-focused government agencies’ decision-making process to evaluate tech start-ups for supporting funds. The conceptual framework was based on qualitative research principles from in-depth interviews with seven tech-focused government agencies and confirmed the factors used in their decision-making processes. It was confirmed that the main factors consist of entrepreneurship characteristics, product/service characteristics, market characteristics, financial consideration, and capability of the management team. Furthermore, our findings revealed additional factors that influence tech-focused government agencies’ decision-making process, namely technology and innovation, business potential, and personnel and team.

Fueling Spin-offs: Case Studies of University-based Technology Start-up Funding

The new technologies born from academic research can be very promising, yet they are often very early stage. University spin-off companies are uniquely positioned to tackle the risks associated with new technologies emerging from academia by developing proofs of concept, functioning prototypes, and new products. While these enterprises start from a solid research and development foundation, they face their own unique set of challenges—they are strongly anchored in the scientific and technological expertise that is typically backed by intellectual property but often lack the business experience needed to develop and market products demanded by customers. University spin-offs have access to substantial non-dilutive funding that can be utilized for advancing product development. While the relentless pursuit of these funds builds a company's credibility and improves its position for negotiating future private investment, university spin-offs would greatly benefit from an early focus on complementing their technology teams with their business teams. These new enterprises should consider pursuing private investment in parallel to utilizing sources of non-dilutive funding. Timing of private investment is extremely important to maximize the value of the opportunity, and, therefore, building relationships with investors early on and getting ready for executing an investment round can greatly increase odds for success. While there is no single path to formulate, pursue, and adapt successful financing strategies, lessons can be learned from real-life cases of university spin-offs that continue their journeys towards ultimate success.

Exploring trust in the boardroom: the case of Nordic region

Purpose This paper aims to understand the relationship between the trust of executives in their board, board effectiveness (board performance and strategic decision quality) and organizational performance (financial and operational performance). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 184 board members in the Nordic region, using cross-sectional research design. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the validity of the used scales, whereas correlational analysis and mediation analysis via PROCESS macro in SPSS were used for testing of the hypotheses. Findings Trust between board members is positively correlated with both dimensions of board effectiveness and both tested dimensions of organizational performance. Besides, trust between the board members positively affects both financial and operational performance (significant total effects in mediation analysis). However, trust had a direct effect only on financial performance, whereas it shows an indirect effect on operational performance through both mediators, board performance and strategic decision quality. Research limitations/implications Future research should investigate trust into the board using a longitudinal design, and expand the sample cross-culturally, and control for the influence of other interpersonal variables in board members. Practical implications The development of trust in work relationships serves as the foundation for the establishment of significant team and organizational benefits. Business leaders should take into consideration trust issues in business teams and cultivate a trust culture in their organizations. Social implications The findings advance theoretical, social and empirical understanding of trust of executives in their board and its effect on board performance, strategic decision quality and perceived performance. The development of trust in work relationships enhances team performance, networks with strategic partners, community and government, and serves as the foundation for the establishment of trust in the society. Originality/value This is one of the scarce studies that examines direct and indirect effects of trust in board and organizational outcomes.

ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL COMPETENCES OF MANAGERS IN MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY

Innovative policy in personnel management today is the main task for company executives. The manager needs to identify an innovative strategy that will improve the quality of corporate culture in business management in a competitive global economy. The author's vision of a constructive approach to ensure the creative development of the organization is presented, namely, it is necessary to rethink and adjust the interaction of the whole company and each of its participants to transform corporate strategy, to implement new business models and innovative management processes - it gives flexibility to make key changes. which can lead to increased company productivity and competitive advantage. Despite the existing diversity of scientific and practical approaches to the classification of competencies, each organization, as practice shows, develops its own models of competencies in the field of business management and team, which greatly helps in building the management process. In the article, the authors argue that one of the main tasks of the leader is to find a way to effective relationships with the team: communication with staff, helping subordinates to resolve unclear issues in work processes and innovation of a flexible approach to management. An assessment of the competitive strategy of professional and personal competencies is analyzed and provided to explain how managers can achieve greater success in management, using a combination of creativity with the features of analytical thinking. With the development of technology and innovation, new trends in the transformation of competencies are emerging, which will allow companies to make the right decision taking into account the main risks in the conditions and market changes. The article explores the tools in the management of the relationship between business owners and staff, voiced individual analytical approaches of domestic and foreign scientists-practitioners, who in their research are acquainted in detail with their developments and approaches.

Panasonic life solutions: anchoring its future growth strategy

Learning outcomes The learning outcomes of this paper is as follows: to explain the importance of rationalizing business operations to achieve efficiencies. To explain the importance of constantly re-inventing the product portfolio and the business for the survival and growth of the business. To discuss the use of product-market expansion strategies as used by businesses for growth and sustainability. To evaluate the internal challenges faced by a company as they adopt business strategies for business growth. To discuss a firm’s strategy to exploit significant opportunities in an evolving business environment. Case overview/synopsis Panasonic Life Solutions India Limited (PLSIND) an electrical products company with operations in India – an emerging market has set a Vision 2022 to achieve INR 69.21bn revenue target by the year 2022. PLSIND is marketed through the distributor business to consumer sales channel. To achieve the new growth targets, it was imperative for them to expand the product portfolio and explore marketing through the new business to business (B2B) and business to government (B2G) sales channels. Dinesh Aggarwal the Joint Managing Director of PLSIND was tasked with this responsibility. Both propositions depicted attractive business potential but at the same time came with additional risks of a longer sales/revenue cycle. PLSIND to a certain extent had ventured into new business projects with the launch of home automation, solar solutions for industries and smart street lighting business projects. In 2019, they also made a modest beginning by achieving revenues of INR 3.4bnn (constituting 10% of their aggregate revenues of INR 34bn) from B2B/B2G sales channels. Aggarwal believed that this was a good beginning. However, to achieve 2022 growth targets, they had to aggressively move forward with the new business strategy. Aggarwal had to work with the management team to gain acceptance and then to manage these additional risks for growth that came with this new business strategy. How could he win the confidence of the management team? How could he best reorganize the business teams and processes internally to enhance the required operational efficiencies for business growth? Complexity academic level This case is designed for business students at the MBA or executive MBA level courses. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

Insights on Entrepreneurship Education and Mentoring Programs

Many engineers are drawn to technologybased start-up ventures for professional and personal fulfillment. Success in entrepreneurship, however, is not easy. A survey conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay of 326 start-up founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, mentors, and other stakeholders showed a critical need for training in business finance, design thinking, team management, and marketing and sales. Another survey of 28 start-ups founded by alumni of the Desai Sethi (DS) School of Entrepreneurship in Mumbai, India, highlighted the role of structured mentoring programs.

Ethics-by-design: the next frontier of industrialization

During the past few years, most companies have launched experiments on how they can use artificial intelligence (AI) to leverage their data. These experiments generally correspond to prototypes solving a specific business case, such as fraud detection in banking or predictive maintenance for industrial equipment. If the estimated return on investment of the prototype is positive, the technical and business teams start thinking about how to industrialize their experiments. Deployment of AI systems comes with a set of specific challenges, such as data governance, model lifecycle management, and collaborators training and onboarding, among others. Overcoming these challenges hedges most performance risks. However, a new set of risks and challenges, related to ethical considerations, is emerging. In this paper, we review in detail all these challenges, share our experience on best practices that help build well-integrated AI systems, and argue in favor of an ethics-by-design approach to prototyping.

Effective Cross-Cultural Communication for International Business

In today’s business and pandemic scenario, working in an international team is common with remote workers, overseas offices, and inescapable cultural gaps. The diversity of co-workers may become a cultural barrier that some people don’t know how to overcome. Most of the professionals do not even realize the problems of cultural differences in their work. Cultural awareness helps managers to effectively transact with their employees and other stakeholders. Understanding the diverse workforce and guiding them for effective cross-cultural communication is essential for multicultural firms, or else they may face several issues in the areas of employee relationships, staffing, attrition rates, trade policies, mergers, advertising, business stakeholder relationships, team building, and negotiations. Language, stereotypes, non-verbal signs, emotional display, ethnocentrism, anxiety, uncertainty, perception, and prejudice are the invisible barriers to enculturation. This paper discusses how to effectively communicate in a culturally diverse organization by sharing and exchanging ideas based on mutual understanding, respect, and credibility. Best practices for effective cross-cultural communication are summarized in this chapter for the use of students, academicians, and managers in intercultural contexts. This will help them to gain some insights about multicultural environments and how to get along with people by maintaining etiquette, mutual respect, reciprocal cognition, and avoiding stereotypes. The study also discusses the importance of inclusive communication, constructive transactions, cross-cultural training, and design thinking in modern organizations. The paper may be very effective to teach subjects like Organisation behavior and International business communication.

The impact of engineering students’ communication behavior on the teams’ performance (case study: Chemical process engineering classes)

The activity of modern engineer requires the ability to work in a multi-discipline team and the ability to hand over clearly the professional information to the other team members who are specialists from another field. Therefore, according to the researches graduates from engineering universities lack skills of business communication and team work interaction. That is why the organization of work of future engineers in small groups fulfilling different team roles and the use of moderation methods for the achievement of the effective team cooperation will enable the achievement of the goal of necessary cooperation skills development.

Database and Application Migration in the Financial Services Industry Sector in the Acquisition Environment and Environmental Science

Financial Services Industry (FSI) is a sector with day-to-day business transaction operation dealing with numbers of classified information owned by its customers. It can be managed by the private sector or other institutions pointed by the government, either it is a bank or an insurance company. Aiming to improve services, acquisitions between companies can occur. There will be a migration of applications and databases in the acquisition process. This process will present certain constraints and challenges and prone to data fraud. Improper handling will also have a negative impact on the environment, especially e-waste generation of IT components from financial sector due to company’s acquisition case. So, study on database and application migration is important to be conducted. This research aims to identify constraints and challenge factors behind application and database migration in the FSI during a company acquisition. It uses a descriptive qualitative method with a case study approach that examines as much data as possible regarding the subject under study. The case studies use a single-case method, considering that the cases studied are unique and essential. The migration methodology used in this study combines application migration and databases from previous research journals and is added to the processes that occur in the field. Two factors become obstacles and challenges in the migration process, namely technology and non-technological factors. Database migration strategy uses a big-bang strategy based on joint decisions between the business and IT teams. The organizational challenge is the approval process for the transfer of membership management and data conditions that require validation and confirmation before migration. This research suggests using a mature migration strategy to anticipate technical and organizational constraints applying clear and scheduled policies and regulations.

The realist approach for evaluation of computational intelligence in software engineering

Secured software development must employ a security mindset across software engineering practices. Software security must be considered during the requirements phase so that it is included throughout the development phase. Do the requirements gathering team get the proper input from the technical team? This paper unearths some of the data sources buried within software development phases and describes the potential approaches to understand them. Concepts such as machine learning and deep learning are explored to understand the data sources and explore how these learnings can be provided to the requirements gathering team. This knowledge system will help bring objectivity in the conversations between the requirements gathering team and the customer's business team. A literature review is also done to secure requirements management and identify the possible gaps in providing future research direction to enhance our understanding. Feature engineering in the landscape of software development is explored to understand the data sources. Experts offer their insight on the root cause of the lack of security focus in requirements gathering practices. The core theme is statistical modeling of all the software artifacts that hold information related to the software development life cycle. Strengthening of some traditional methods like threat modeling is also a key area explored. Subjectivity involved in these approaches can be made more objective.

A Statistical Learning Approach to Personalization in Revenue Management

We consider a logit model-based framework for modeling joint pricing and assortment decisions that take into account customer features. This model provides a significant advantage when one has insufficient data for any one customer and wishes to generalize learning about one customer’s preferences to the population. Under this model, we study the statistical learning task of model fitting from a static store of precollected customer data. This setting, in contrast to the popular learning and earning paradigm, represents the situation many business teams encounter in which their data collection abilities have outstripped their data analysis capabilities. In this learning setting, we establish finite-sample convergence guarantees on the model parameters. The parameter convergence guarantees are then extended to out-of-sample performance guarantees in terms of revenue, in the form of a high-probability bound on the gap between the expected revenue of the best action taken under the estimated parameters and the revenue generated by a decision maker with full knowledge of the choice model. We further discuss practical implications of these bounds. We demonstrate the personalization approach using ticket purchase data from an airline carrier. This paper was accepted by J. George Shanthikumar, Management Science Special Section on Data-Driven Prescriptive Analytics.

Dear Frances Crockett

Dear Frances Crockett Chris Arvidson (bio) Just about every dayI walk around the ballparkWhere flags with the pictures of pastBallplayers, owners, and managers wave to meThe legends of Charlotte baseball. Yours is my favorite—the only woman.You look so serious and businesslikeSo smart and professionalYour blond hair stylish and smoothIt's not how I remember you. I see you decades ago out at the old ballparkThe wooden one that sometimes burnedThat sat in the middle of a middle-class neighborhoodThrough the open door of the rickety trailer near the front gateThat served as your general manager's office. You're sitting at a beat-up old deskA huge fluffy white dog at your feetAnd do I recall a cigarette in one waving hand?The other holding a phone to your earAs you conducted the team's business. [End Page 1] Chris Arvidson chris arvidson is a writer living in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she frequented the Charlotte O's (Orioles) minor league games decades ago. She coedited The Love of Baseball: Essays by Lifelong Fans (McFarland). Chris holds an MFA from Goucher College and teaches at UNC Charlotte. Her poetry chapbook The House Inside My Head was released by Finishing Line Press in May 2021. Copyright © 2022 University of Nebraska Press

핸드볼 지도자와 선수 간의 지도효율성을 높이기 위한 라포요인 탐색

The purpose of this study explores the factors of rapport that improve the efficiency of coaching between handball coaches and players. Also, It searches how the rapport affects players’ performance on games, and indicates the causal relationship between the variables. The factors will be able to create the rapport which can be offered as a basic materials of handball courts. In this study, the factors of rapport that improve the efficiency of coaching were derived from the guidance methods of players’ subjective opinions. For this purpose, preliminary questions were extracted through two processes, and then the final 33 questions of Q statement were extracted by confirming the appropriateness and validity. Based on the final questions, 38 handball players from university and business teams in G city were selected as P-Sample. Since none of the questions were answered undependably, all 38 subjects were forced to be classified into Q-Sorting Chart according to the Q-Sorting classification method, and the scores given in the sorting distribution chart were coded in numerical order of Q samples. Principal Factor Analysis was performed through QUANL program. The result of this process is as follows: First, The result was analyzed on the factors that showed positive and negative consent for Type I, Type II and Type III. Second, the result of positive and negative differences was confirmed through analyzing the differences between two types. Third, the result of positive and negative consents was indicated from the matched items between types. The result of these analyses is as follows:

CYCLIC-GENETIC METHODOLOGY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF THE INTERMODAL HUB SYSTEM UNDER UNCERTAINTY

In the article, the authors consider the problematic aspects of project management, the research is devoted to the issues of wave crises in projects based on the method of simulation. The article provides a theoretical and methodological analysis of the theory of cycles, crises and innovations, developed in the theories of the classics of both economics and project management, which contributed to the way out of crises on a global scale and economic recovery thanks to the developed tools and models of N. Kondratyev, A. Bogdanov. Tugan-Baranovskyi, as well as the cyclical-genetic theory of project management, which can become the basis for more reliable forecasting of consistently unbalanced dynamics in the economic and managerial environment. This approach, in contrast to the existing ones, makes it possible to take into account the achievement of goals to a greater extent in the following procedures for determining the content of the competitiveness of a business. It has been found that synergy in business development programs is manifested in cost savings and an increase in the final value of business projects. The developed concept model of crises on the basis of simulation modeling of the behavior of the system "goals – value – competitiveness – man – machine" in the process of implementing programs on infrastructure projects, and in the world economy. The paper gives a general description of crises on the example of infrastructure business companies. The analysis of the conceptual apparatus of business projects, business teams, business processes is given. The given problems of forming teams of business projects. The authors analyzed and identified the main sources of the formation of the business synergy effect associated with these costs. Formalized the formation of the synergy effect in the models and theory of business projects, arising from the joint implementation of port business projects, arising from the joint implementation of business projects within the framework of the program, makes it possible to more reliably assess the achievement of the goals of infrastructure business companies and the necessary resources in conditions of risks and uncertainty.

‘His’ and ‘Her’ Career: Exploring the Unexpected Consequences of Gendered Stereotypes

Although women are still overall more likely to experience career disadvantages relative to men at work, empirical analyses have shown how socialized and cultural expectations about gender in work settings can produce positive and negative career outcomes for both genders. This symposium offers novel insights on the conditions under which gender stereotypes can help or hinder careers in unexpected ways. Specifically, we bring together a set of five papers that examine how cultural beliefs about gender, gendered differences in social tie formation, and the gender composition of teams and organizations can positively and negatively influence the career trajectories of men and women. Identifying these consequences of gender stereotypes serves as a starting point for finding practical ways to promote gender equity and improve working conditions for both men and women throughout professional organizations. Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot: Gender Differences in Networks & Performance Following Mobility Presenter: Evelyn Ying Zhang; U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management Presenter: Brandy Aven; Carnegie Mellon U. The Help-Seeking Paradox: Gender and the Effects of Career Re-Entry Assistance Presenter: Julia Lee Melin; Stanford U. A Fatherhood Penalty? Examining Fatherhood and Promotion Time in the Workplace Presenter: Maima Aulia Syakhroza; Cass Business School Presenter: Ming De Leung; U. of California, Irvine Distributions that Divide: Structural Predictors of Gender Pay Inequality Presenter: Mabel Abraham; Columbia Business School Presenter: Youjin Jenna Song; Columbia Business School Gender, Team Composition, and Career Attainment in Organizations Presenter: Elizabeth Linos; U. of California, Berkeley Presenter: Sanaz Mobasseri; Boston U. Questrom School of Business