Do employees’ generational cohorts influence corporate venturing? A multilevel analysis

Organizations are facing an interesting phenomenon in the composition of theirworkforce: the concurrence of multiple age generations that demand suitablestrategies regarding work design, job satisfaction, and incentives. Ongoingentrepreneurship and strategic management debates require a betterunderstanding of the relationship between workplace generational cohorts’configurations and organizational performance. We propose a conceptual modelfor understanding how a diversified workforce influences some determinants(i.e., employees’ human capital and attitudes, organizational climate, andenvironmental conditions) of entrepreneurial organizations’ outcomes (i.e.,corporate venturing). Our framework offers insights into corporate venturingdeterminants for three generational cohorts: Baby Boomers, Generation X, andGeneration Y. Using a sample of 20,256 employees across 28 countries, ourfindings lend support to the positive effect of individual and organizationaldeterminants on corporate venturing, as well as how these effects are reinforcedper generational cohort. Specifically, our results show that younger generations(millennials) have more propensity to be involved in corporate venturingactivities. This study also contributes to thought-provoking implications forentrepreneurial organizational leaders who manage employees from differentgenerations

Do employees' generational cohorts influence corporate venturing? A multilevel analysis

Organizations are facing an interesting phenomenon in the composition of their workforce: the concurrence of multiple age generations that demand suitable strategies regarding work design, job satisfaction, and incentives. Ongoing entrepreneurship and strategic management debates require a better understanding of the relationship between workplace generational cohorts' configurations and organizational performance. We propose a conceptual model for understanding how a diversified workforce influences some determinants (i.e., employees' human capital and attitudes, organizational climate, and environmental conditions) of entrepreneurial organizations' outcomes (i.e.,corporate venturing). Our framework offers insights into corporate venturing determinants for three generational cohorts: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. Using a sample of 20,256 employees across 28 countries, our findings lend support to the positive effect of individual and organizational determinants on corporate venturing, as well as how these effects are reinforced per generational cohort. Specifically, our results show that younger generations (millennials) have more propensity to be involved in corporate venturing activities. This study also contributes to thoughtprovoking implications for entrepreneurial organizational leaders who manage employees from different generations

Analysis, visualization and study of bike sharing dataset using Matlab

MobilitatThe purpose of this study is to demonstrate the ease of use of Matlab (with new releases) regarding the field of Data Analysis, especially for users who have little to no knowledge of complex programming languages in a field that is completely dominated by R, focusing in the use of multivariate analysis techniques and Machine learning.The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the ease of use of Matlab (with new releases) regarding the field of Data Analysis, especially for users who have little to no knowledge of complex programming languages in a field that is completely dominated by R, focusing in the use of multivariate analysis techniques and Machine learning.L'objectiu d'aquest estudi es demostrar que es pot fer ús de Matlab per estudis d'anàlisi de dades, que son dominats per R. Es centra en l'ús de tècniques d'analisis multivariable i machine learnin

Cartografia fitoclimàtica a gran escala i la seua aplicació en estudis corològics en el marc del canvi climàtic. Anàlisi de les zones de muntanya de la província d'Alacant

L'Atles Climàtic Digital de la Península Ibèrica permet analitzar les temperatures anuals i mensuals, amb una resolució espacial de 200x200 metres, i per tant es pot calcular l'índex de termicitat dels sectors culminants de la província d'Alacant caracteritzats com a supramediterranis. Per al cas d'Aitana, i juntament amb estudis corològics de detall de Genista longipes Pau i Vella spinosa Boiss., s'elabora una cartografia fitoclimàtica a gran escala per a conèixer les condicions climàtiques en què es troben les poblacions d'aquests endemismes i quina és la seua distribució potencial atenent a l'índex de termicitat. Posteriorment s'assaja un escenari de canvi climàtic per veure com pot canviar l'hàbitat, ja en posició finícola, d'aquestes espècies

Entrenamiento polarizado en atletas de medio fondo y fondo

SE REVISÓ LA BIBLIOGRAFIA CIENTIFICA PARA OBTENER INFORMACIÓN ACERCA DEL MÉTODO DE ENTRENAMIENTO POLARIZADO EN ATLETAS DE FONDO, PARA A CONTINUACIÓN CONTRASTAR SI ESTE MÉTODO SE LLEVA A CABO CON UNA MUESTRA DE ATLETAS DE ALTO NIVEL DE MEDIO FONDO Y FONDO

Hydrolytic Dehydrogenation of Ammonia Borane Attained by Ru-Based Catalysts: An Auspicious Option to Produce Hydrogen from a Solid Hydrogen Carrier Molecule

Chemical hydrogen storage stands as a promising option to conventional storage methods. There are numerous hydrogen carrier molecules that afford satisfactory hydrogen capacity. Among them, ammonia borane has attracted great interest due to its high hydrogen capacity. Great efforts have been devoted to design and develop suitable catalysts to boost the production of hydrogen from ammonia borane, which is preferably attained by Ru catalysts. The present review summarizes some of the recent Ru-based heterogeneous catalysts applied in the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane, paying particular attention to those supported on carbon materials and oxides.This work was financed by the MICINN, FEDER (RTI2018-095291-B-I00). MNG thanks the Plan GenT project (CDEIGENT/2018/027) for their financial support. DST thanks MICINN for the “Juan de la Cierva” contract (IJCI-2016-27636) and the Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia de Conocimiento de la Universidad de Alicante (GRE19-16)

The end of scarcity? Water desalination as the new cornucopia for Mediterranean Spain

In this paper we explore the new orientation taken by Spanish water policy since the beginning of the 21st century and very specifically the shift towards desalination as an alternative to other water supply options such as river regulation or inter-basin water transfers. Desalination has been seen as the cure for everything that dams and inter-basin water transfers were unable to solve, including droughts, scarcities, social conflicts, environmental impacts, and political rivalries among the different Spanish regions. Desalination also means a new and powerful element in water planning and management that could provide water for the continuous expansion of the urban and tourist growth machine in Mediterranean Spain and thus relax possible water constraints on this growth. However, by 2012 most new desalination plants along the Mediterranean coast remained almost idle. Focusing on the case of the Mancomunidad de Canales del Taibillla in South-eastern Spain, our aim is to develop a critical, integrated and reflexive perspective on the use of desalination as a source of water for urban and regional growth

Uniform and scalable SAT-sampling for configurable systems

Several relevant analyses on configurable software systems remain intractable because they require examining vast and highly-constrained configuration spaces. Those analyses could be addressed through statistical inference, i.e., working with a much more tractable sample that later supports generalizing the results obtained to the entire configuration space. To make this possible, the laws of statistical inference impose an indispensable requirement: each member of the population must be equally likely to be included in the sample, i.e., the sampling process needs to be "uniform". Various SAT-samplers have been developed for generating uniform random samples at a reasonable computational cost. Unfortunately, there is a lack of experimental validation over large configuration models to show whether the samplers indeed produce genuine uniform samples or not. This paper (i) presents a new statistical test to verify to what extent samplers accomplish uniformity and (ii) reports the evaluation of four state-of-the-art samplers: Spur, QuickSampler, Unigen2, and Smarch. According to our experimental results, only Spur satisfies both scalability and uniformity.Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades VITAL-3D DPI2016-77677-PMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades OPHELIA RTI2018-101204-B-C22Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid CAM RoboCity2030 S2013/MIT-2748Agencia Estatal de Investigación TIN2017-90644-RED

The influence of human and relational capital on the rapid internationalization of firms: A comparative study between Spain and Chile

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the influence of entrepreneurs human and relational capital on the rapid internationalization of their firms from two economically different contexts. Design/methodology/approach:This study was developed using data that were collected from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor of Spain and Chile. A logistic regression analysis was used to examine and compare the influence of some elements of entrepreneurs´human and relational capital on the likelihood of their firms' rapid internationalization. Findings: The results revealed that Chilean entrepreneurs rely more on their formal education or experience to rapidly internationalize their firms. In contrast, Spanish entrepreneurs complement their formal education with their relational capital to conduct international entrepreneurial activities. Research limitations/implications: The implications of this study are related to the role that public policies play in promoting these types of entrepreneurial initiatives. Originality/value: This study presents several contributions. First, it advances the understanding of entrepreneurial internationalization in emerging economic contexts. Second, it provides a comparative study regarding entrepreneurial internationalization, which is considered a fundamental current in the field of international entrepreneurship. Finally, this comparative study improves our understanding of the influence of different economic contexts on entrepreneurial internationalization

Uniform and scalable sampling of highly configurable systems

Many analyses on confgurable software systems are intractable when confronted with colossal and highly-constrained confguration spaces. These analyses could instead use statistical inference, where a tractable sample accurately predicts results for the entire space. To do so, the laws of statistical inference requires each member of the population to be equally likely to be included in the sample, i.e., the sampling process needs to be “uniform”. SAT-samplers have been developed to generate uniform random samples at a reasonable computational cost. However, there is a lack of experimental validation over colossal spaces to show whether the samplers indeed produce uniform samples or not. This paper (i) proposes a new sampler named BDDSampler, (ii) presents a new statistical test to verify sampler uniformity, and (iii) reports the evaluation of BDDSampler and fve other state-of-the-art samplers: KUS, QuickSampler, Smarch, Spur, and Unigen2. Our experimental results show only BDDSampler satisfes both scalability and uniformity.Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) OPTIVAC 096-034091 2021V/PUNED/008Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades RTI2018-101204-B-C22 (OPHELIA)Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid ROBOCITY2030-DIH-CM S2018/NMT-4331Agencia Estatal de Investigación TIN2017-90644-RED