Enterprise Partner Research Articles

Политика импортозамещения в гостиничном бизнесе: ориентация на отечественного производителя

The article discusses the new conditions for the functioning of the hotel enterprises, due
 to the state policy of import substitution, which is carried out under the influence of economic
 sanctions on European countries and the United States against Russia. Focusing on domestic
 producers can have a positive impact on the efficiency the hospitality industry through the
 development of direct cooperation links. The most urgent needs of the hotel, the satisfaction of
 which by domestic producers faced with certain organizational and financial problems, require
 the development of public-private partnership. Small farmers are regarded as the main suppliers
 of foods to hotels in the regions. The necessity of government support measures for farmers as
 key strategic partners of the hotel enterprises in the regions is justified. The experience of the
 pilot project for the integration of farmers in the Internet space, which provides rapid remote
 communication of small farmers and hotel companies in the process of cooperation, is
 represented.

Social Return on Investment of an Innovative Employment Option for Persons with Developmental Disabilities

Common Ground Co‐operative (CGC) provides training, administrative, and job coach support to five social enterprises for which persons with developmental disabilities are the non‐share‐capital partners. This study examines the use of social return on investment (SROI) as a means of determining the value of program impacts related to quality‐of‐life changes for enterprise partners and their families. The process of conducting this SROI analysis is described and analyzed in terms of its utility in employment services for persons with developmental disabilities.

Open Innovation Between Higher Education and Industry

A largely recognised fact is that knowledge creates the base for innovations in technology development. This means that enterprises need to adopt the newest technology knowledge in order to develop and create new innovations. This research is based on the assumption that technology knowledge transfer should be executed according to a plan based on need recognition in order to enable open innovation processes between higher education institutions and industry. In this paper, the two types of open innovation processes are modelled. The models are described and evaluated with case examples. The models are based on the research and innovation projects carried out with university and enterprise partners during the last seven years. The projects have varied from technology evaluating projects executed mainly by the students to targeted open innovation projects conducted by the researchers. In the paper, e.g. the processes and models are illustrated with case examples. The paper models technology transfer processes that have been created combined with targeted innovation processes and have been executed in practice. Comparisons between cases will be done, best practices will be pointed and filtering of explicit knowledge based on our tacit knowledge will be explained. Writers assume that partnerships based on trust will be one significant method to identify drivers towards targeted open innovation. As the main outcome of this research, two models of open innovation processes between a university and industry are modelled and evaluated. In the paper also, this modelling with the help of technology knowledge transfer process is presented. The open innovation process modelled and called innovation targeting participatory research process can be used by universities and enterprises which aim for open innovation process where university has an important role as a knowledge and technology source for the enterprise. The model emphasises committed participation and continuous dialogue.

The Selection and Evaluation of Manufacturing Partner Based on AHP-FUZZY and Genetic Algorithm

The essence of virtual enterprise partner selection in agile manufacturing is optimization problem. Aiming at the optimization selection feature of virtual enterprise manufacturing partner, a qualitative and quantitative combination method is proposed to solve the problem of partner selection by combination of AHP-FUZZY and genetic algorithm. At last, a practical example will be used to demonstrate.

How Partnerships Affect the Social Performance of Korean Social Enterprises

Social enterprises receive a lot of attention, because of their ability to balance social service-enhancing and profit-making activities. They can survive and have financial sustainability in markets and provide social services that would otherwise not be provided due to the failure of private or government provision. In the Korean context, social enterprises have another function – to provide jobs and increase employment rates in times of low economic growth and growing inequality. Given this situation, it is useful for researchers to investigate what types of partners provide particular sorts of resources to social enterprises and what types of resources from such partners may have mediating effects on the relationship between partnerships and the social performance of social enterprises. First, this research shows that all partners of social enterprises provide financial support and public and social partners provide marketing support, while private partners do not provide marketing support. However, no partners provide any managerial support. Second, public and social partners are helpful for the social performance of social enterprises but their financial support influences the social performance of social enterprises negatively. Private partners and their financial support also influence the social performance of social enterprises negatively.

Researches on Resource Allocation of Virtual Enterprise Based on Multi-Agent

The resource allocation problems of virtual enterprise were analyzed by introducing the content of the virtual enterprise resource management and classifications. From the task decomposition of virtual enterprise, the enterprise business process reengineering (BRP) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) were introduced into the actual operation on resource allocation of virtual enterprise. The framework model, which was based on artificial intelligence body hierarchical Multi-Agent system, was put forward. Finally, through constructing the operation of the management system of virtual enterprise partners, it proved that the resource allocation model which was put forward in this paper could effectively meet customer needs and reduce the enterprise cost.

Emerging Opportunities for Commercial Recreation

The commercial recreation industry faces new opportunities due to the changing economic climate and its impact upon public recreation providers (Outdoor Industry Association, 2012). Those recreation opportunities historically offered by public entities are transforming and as a result recreationists are experiencing more park closures, limited hours of operation, a reduction in quality, and ultimately dissatisfaction (Crompton, 1999; Koeberer, 2011). There is a shift occurring and this opens up a wide market for new commercial recreation operators to fulfill this gap. For trail-based recreation this usually requires a sizable piece of land that often precludes most potential market interests. However, with a new approach to commercial recreation enterprise via partnerships, this market can be better utilized while serving a distinct population. The Kingdom Trails Association (KTA) in northeastern Vermont is a model success story for this type of partnership enterprise and offers valuable information for other entrepreneurs wishing to create similar opportunities. KTA provides 110 miles of well-designed trails on 57 different private land owner parcels and two public sites. Facing similar challenges of a commercial business, they have grown to fulfill a new niche in trail-based recreation and now draw over 60,000 visitors a year, have an economic impact of more than $5.6 million, and are entirely self-funded. The story of how this entity grew from an idea by a few local mountain bikers to become “Best Trail System in North America” (Bike magazine, 2008), and “Best of New England” (Travel and Life, 2011), provides a unique look into developing trends in outdoor recreation and ways that commercial interests can serve them.

Cyber supply chain risk management: Revolutionizing the strategic control of critical IT systems

Cyber supply chain risk management (CSCRM) is a new discipline designed to help IT executives address the challenges of the rapid globalization and outsourced diffusion of hardware and software systems. CSCRM is an integrative discipline combining elements of cybersecurity, supply chain management, and enterprise risk management into a new and powerful concept to exert strategic control over the end-to-end processes of the focal organization and its extended enterprise partners. This article provides a survey of the field, as well as a detailed analysis of the results of a four-year research project on CSCRM, conducted by the Robert H. Smith School of Business Supply Chain Management Center for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, that focused on the development of organizational assessment tools and a capability/maturity model for this emerging discipline.

A Study on Contractual Relationship Handle and Control in Constructional Engineering Disputes

If the contracts signed by the construction enterprises with the relationship of affiliating operation under the name of themselves or titular enterprises, affiliating operators and titular units are usually co litigants to prosecute or response. It’s stipulated in Article of Supreme Court “Suggestions on Civil Procedure Law” that “if individual businesses, individual partnership or private enterprises affiliate themselves with collective enterprises and operate under the name of collective enterprises, the individual businesses, individual partnership or private enterprises and the titular collective enterprises shall be the co litigants.”Constructors are affiliated to other construction enterprises and sign construction contracts under the name of titular construction enterprises, but the titular construction enterprises don’t want to prosecute, the constructors can be plaintiffs, titular construction enterprises are not necessary to be regarded as co-plaintiffs.

Ireland's new Innovation Academy: academic‐practitioner partnerships in action

PurposeIn November 2010 Ireland launched a new multi‐institutional academic initiative called The Innovation Academy to provide credited teaching programmes in innovation and entrepreneurial thinking to be taken in parallel with university doctoral programmes of any discipline. This article aims to examine the design and development of this new initiative, how it integrates external organizations into its teaching programmes and how this practically translates into employment and job creation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors approached this paper using a standard qualitative data gathering approach, analyzing student reflection documents and enterprise partner feedback as well as quantitative data on participation from both academic and enterprise sources.FindingsIt was found that working with enterprises as part of the Innovation Academy Graduate Certificate in innovation and entrepreneurship has a significant impact on both the student and the enterprise partner. Students describe an increase in confidence, creativity and team‐working skills. Enterprise partners find that having student teams in their workplace reinvigorates their own staff.Originality/valueThe Innovation Academy is a new initiative in Ireland that promotes entrepreneurial thinking in postgraduate students. The structure of the course is designed to be broadly appealing so that it easily translates to an undergraduate and professional student base. The tight integration of industry (public, private and charitable) ensures that the programme consistently has its finger on the pulse of the current economic climate.

Evaluation of the Impact of Furniture on Communications Performance for Ubiquitous Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Homes

The extensions of the environment with the integration of sensing systems in any space, in conjunction with ubiquitous computing are enabling the so-called Smart Space Sensor Networks. This new generation of networks are offering full connectivity with any object, through the Internet of Things (IoT) and/or the Web, i.e., the Web of Things. These connectivity capabilities are making it feasible to sense the behaviours of people at home and act accordingly. These sensing systems must be integrated within typical elements found at home such as furniture. For that reason, this work considers furniture as an interesting element for the transparent location of sensors. Furniture is a ubiquitous object, i.e., it can be found everywhere at home or the office, and it can integrate and hide the sensors of a network. This work addresses the lack of an exhaustive study of the effect of furniture on signal losses. In addition an easy-to-use tool for estimating the robustness of the communication channel among the sensor nodes and gateways is proposed. Specifically, the losses in a sensor network signal due to the materials found within the communication link are evaluated. Then, this work proposes a software tool that gathers the obtained results and is capable of evaluating the impact of a given set of materials on the communications. This tool also provides a mechanism to optimize the sensor network deployments during the definition of smart spaces. Specifically, it provides information such as: maximum distances between sensor nodes, most suitable type of furniture to integrate sensors, or battery life of sensor nodes. This tool has been validated empirically in the lab, and it is currently being used by several enterprise partners of the Technological Centre of Furniture and Wood in the southeast of Spain.

Selection of Scrap Automobile Manufacturers Reverse Logistics Suppliers

Evaluation index system of reverse logistics partners is designed from four aspects: cost, environment performance and basic factors of an enterprise, combined with features of automobile manufacturing enterprises. Meanwhile, weight of indexes is derived from an integrated method, and TOPSIS method is adopted for evaluation. An example is given to show the feasibility of the method in selection of reverse logistics partners for automobile manufacturing enterprises.

Problem solving methods as Lessons Learned System instrumentation into a PLM tool

Among the continuous improvement tools of the performance in enterprise, the experience feedback represents undoubtedly an effective lever of progress by offering important prospects for a progression in almost all the industrial sectors. However, several reserves to its use slow down the diffusion of its employment. We are interested in the installation of experience feedback system in a partner enterprise. In this paper, we propose an instrumentation of a Lessons Learned System (LLS) by problem solving methods (PSM) and its integration with a product lifecycle management (PLM). These proposals support an improvement of LLS performance and a facility of his application.

NEUES VOM STRUKTURWANDEL DER ÖFFENTLICHKEIT. Gewährleistungsverwaltung nach dem Fraport-Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts

In its Fraport Case decision of February 22, 2011, the German Constitutional Court stated the duty of mixed-economy societies under a dominant position of the state to act according to fundamental rights. The Fraport Case deals with the constitutional complaint of an activist claiming freedom of speech and freedom of assembly in an airport terminal run by Fraport AG, a private company with 70 percent of the shares being owned by several public authorities. Marking a significant evolution of German Public Law, the Fraport decision not only enhances the scope of constitutional rights towards public-private partnership enterprises, but also releases the ties which strictly bind the exercise of these rights in semi-public and private spheres to mediation by private law. While public control over state investments used to be subject to judicial monitoring only in an indirect manner, by obligation of public authorities to act according to the common good and in respect to constitutional standards in their position as shareholders, the Fraport jurisdiction now opens a direct way for the plaintiff to claim fundamental rights positions such as freedom of speech and freedom of assembly by direct legal action against the company. Thus, higher responsibility for implementing the promises of the Constitution′s fundamental rights is imposed on the subjects of these rights. As a consequence, the Fraport decision must be seen in the light of the continuing debate on the enabling state and its economic implications. Following a more theoretical approach, the Court′s deliberations can be analyzed within the framework of “structural transformation of the public sphere”, as Jürgen Habermas puts it. Differentiating two main concepts of public sphere in their overall appearance in German public law, the contribution envisages the perspectives of moderately rethinking the idea of fundamental rights in line with the transformation of the public sphere.

A Method for the Virtual Enterprise to Select its Partners

Multiple factors are required to take into consideration when evaluating the performance of candidates. This paper formulates selecting partners for virtual enterprises as a multi-criteria analysis model, and presents an effective approach by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for solving the problem. A relatively complete database of indicators for different types of candidate is established first. AHP and entropy are simultaneously uesd to weight these indicators. An empirical example is conducted to illustrate the application of this model. The result shows that the approach can reflect the information emitted by the ratios used.

Kooperation in Genossenschaften − Stabilität und Perspektiven für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

Zusammenfassung Genossenschaften sind auch in Zeiten der Krise starke Marktpartner des deutschen Mittelstands. Nicht nur in der Kreditwirtschaft, der Landwirtschaft oder dem Handel, sondern auch für Selbstständige und Freiberufler, im Energiesektor und Gesundheitswesen sowie zur Förderung regionaler Standorte bieten Genossenschaften Stabilität und Perspektiven.

An extended TOPSIS method with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers for virtual enterprise partner selection

How to select suitable partners is critical to virtual enterprise (VE) success and has attracted much attention for both researchers and practitioners. In many practical situations, there usually exists incomplete and uncertain information, and the decision makers cannot easily express their judgments on the candidates with exact and crisp values. Therefore, an extended technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method for group decision making with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers is proposed to solve the partner selection problem under incomplete and uncertain information environment in this paper. And the feasibility and practicability of the extended TOPSIS method are further manifested through an illustrative example. Results show that this extended TOPSIS method for group decision making with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers is more suitable to cope with the partner selection problem under incomplete and uncertain information environment.

The influence of organizational democracy on employees' socio‐moral climate and prosocial behavioral orientations

AbstractThis study investigates the effects of workers' perceived participation in democratic decision‐making on their prosocial behavioral orientations, democratic values, commitment to the firm, and perceptions of socio‐moral climate. The sample consists of 325 German‐speaking employees from 22 companies in Austria, North Italy, and Southern Germany that vary in their level of organizational democracy (social partnership enterprises, workers' co‐operatives, democratic reform enterprises, and employee‐owned self‐governed firms). The findings suggest that the extent employees participate in democratic forms of organizational decision‐making is positively related to the firm's socio‐moral climate as well as to their own organizational commitment and prosocial and community‐related behavioral orientations. The results also indicate that socio‐moral climate is positively related to employees' organizational commitment. The effect of participation in decision‐making on organizational commitment is partially mediated by socio‐moral climate. Implications for promoting societal and organizational civic virtues among individuals are described. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An integrated optimization algorithm of GA and ACA-based approaches for modeling virtual enterprise partner selection

In the emerging information age, traditional enterprises have been increasingly replaced by virtual enterprises because they are incompatible with new business environments. The virtual enterprise, also called the dynamic alliance, gradually becomes a new organization pattern. In the process of establishing virtual enterprises, the appropriate method of partner selection is one of key problems. After reviewing the virtual enterprise concept, characteristics, and constitution, this paper proposes a hybrid algorithm in which it fuses the Genetic Algorithm (GA) into an Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm (ACA) for optimizing the problem of partner selection. The paper briefly analyzes some flaws and merits in both ACA and GA methods and proposes the benefits and necessity of applying the integration of GA into ACA to resolve partner selection problems. A hybrid algorithm is then presented for optimizing the problem of virtual enterprise partner selection. Finally, the result of an illustrative numerical case demonstrates the integrated algorithm, showing better performance in both efficiency and effectiveness than the GA and ACA methods in partner selection. The conclusions in this paper can be useful for guiding problem solving in similar virtual enterprise scenarios.

To Boldly Go: A Partnership Enterprise to Produce Applied Health and Nursing Services Researchers in Canada

This paper describes the origins of the Regional Training Centres (RTCs) from the perspective of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF), a national funder of applied health and nursing services research in Canada. The author details the contributions of CHSRF, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Capacity for Applied and Developmental Research and Evaluation (CADRE) program, as well as an essential feature of the RTCs: their application of the linkage and exchange model (Lomas 2000). The discussion encompasses the RTC program requirements and selection process, as well as the fourth-year review, the aim of which was to assess the early results of the RTCs. The role that CHSRF plays in facilitating the national network of RTCs is highlighted. The author concludes with reflections on what has worked well, what might be done differently and advice to others interested in developing graduate education based on the linkage and exchange model.