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Capabilities For Catching-up: Economic Development and Competitiveness in Uganda: Implications for Human Resource Development
The study summarizes desk research for a GTZ report on the human resource dimension of Uganda's economic development
Willing and able: action-state orientation and the relation between procedural justice and employee cooperation
Existing justice theory explains why fair procedures motivate employees to adopt cooperative goals, but it fails to explain how employees strive towards these goals. We study self-regulatory abilities that underlie goal striving; abilities that should thus affect employees’ display of cooperative behavior in response to procedural justice. Building on action control theory, we argue that employees who display effective self-regulatory strategies (action oriented employees) display relatively strong cooperative behavioral responses to fair procedures. A multisource field study and a laboratory experiment support this prediction. A subsequent experiment addresses the process underlying this effect by explicitly showing that action orientation facilitates attainment of the cooperative goals that people adopt in response to fair procedures, thus facilitating the display of actual cooperative behavior. This goal striving approach better integrates research on the relationship between procedural justice and employee cooperation in the self-regulation and the work motivation literature. It also offers organizations a new perspective on making procedural justice effective in stimulating employee cooperation by suggesting factors that help employees reach their adopted goals
Innovative Service-Based Business Concepts for the Machine Tool Building Industry
Organised by: Cranfield UniversityDuring the last decade, machine tool building companies have been forced to put innovative offers on the
market. Due to the technical features of their products and the prevailing organizational structures in this
sector, especially product-service systems are a promising way of creating a unique selling point. In this
paper, potential new business concepts for machine tool builders will be presented which aim at fulfilling
basic customer needs like the increase in quality, flexibility, productivity and the reduction of lead times,
costs and risks. For the implementation of these product-service systems, practical examples are given.Mori Seiki – The Machine Tool Compan
An approach to relate business and application services using ISDL
This paper presents a service-oriented design approach that allows one to relate services modelled at different levels of granularity during a design process, such as business and application services. To relate these service models we claim that a 'concept gap' and an 'abstraction gap' need to be bridged. The concept gap represents the difference between the conceptual models used to construct service models by different stakeholders involved in the design process. The abstraction gap represents the difference in abstraction level at which service models are defined. Two techniques are presented that bridge these gaps. Both techniques are based on the Interaction System Design Language (ISDL). The paper illustrates the use of both techniques through an example
Analysing the composition of the SME sector in high- and low-income regions. Some research hypotheses
Certain qualitative characteristics of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating within a territory might be essential to explain their macroeconomic impact. From this perspective, the current paper explores the relationship between the composition of the SME sector and the level of
regional economic development. In this respect, a conceptual framework to analyse the composition of SME sectors is proposed considering two key aspects: on the one hand, different dimensions of SMEs’entrepreneurial orientation –innovation, cooperation, proactivity and quality orientation- and, on the other hand, the role of the external effects resulting from the inter-firm productive linkages within a specific area –differentiating between domestic, dependent, exporting and extravert SMEs. The relationship between these two key aspects is also considered and tested using a multinomial logit model. The empirical analysis uses data from a survey among over 650 SMEs in two Spanish provinces: Barcelona, as an example of a high-income economy, and Seville, as an example of a comparatively backward area
Competing and Learning in Global Value Chains - Firms’ Experiences in the Case of Uganda. A study of five export sub-sectors with reference to trade between Uganda and Europe
Executive Summary and Chapter 5: Presentation and discussion of main finding
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