Blueprint and Approach to Grow Revenue in Small Technology Companies

This article examines a new approach to grow the revenue of small technology companies and technology startups. We name this new approach the business ecosystem approach. The article is organized into five sections. The first section provides a blueprint to grow revenue and an inventory of growth formulas that top management teams of small technology companies and founders of startups find useful. The second section briefly defines business ecosystems, keystones and platforms. The third section describes the business ecosystem approach to grow the revenue of small technology companies and technology startups. It compares the traditional and business ecosystem approaches to growing revenue; identifies when the business ecosystem approach works better than the traditional approach; explains what small companies and startups need to do to grow revenue using the business ecosystem approach; and describes the benefits and risks of implementing the business ecosystem approach. The fourth section compares three approaches to growing revenue and highlights the differences between i) business ecosystems and development communities and ii) the business ecosystem approach and outsourcing. The fifth section identifies the key decisions a small technology company or technology startup needs to make to become the keystone that anchors a business ecosystem

Relativismo, derechos humanos de las mujeres y feminismo(s): dilemas para los estudios de género en América Latina

GT 2, GT3, GT4 – Calidad de la democracia, comprensión crítica de los derechos humanos y descolonización del derecho y de la polítca em América Latina. “Anais do I Encuentro de Estudios Sociales desde América Latina y el Caribe: cenários linguístico-culturais contemporâneos” - 07, 08 e 09 de novembro de 2013 – UNILA - Coordenação geral: Félix Pablo FriggeriEl presente trabajo se plantea como objetivo problematizar a partir de conceptos ofrecidos por el campo de la antropología cuestiones referidas a los “derechos humanos de las mujeres”. Se realizará una comprensión crítica de la filosofía política de los derechos humanos, prestando particular atención a la concepción de sujeto (presente en gran parte de la teoría feminista) para poder comprender lo que la antropóloga argentina­brasilera Rita Segato denomina “frontera intransponible” y “tensión irreductible”. Entiendo esto como un ejercicio de­constructivo fundamental a la hora de pensar los derechos humanos desde nuestra diversidad latinoamericana y con perspectiva de género.Universidad Federal de Integración Latino Americana (UNILA) ; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC

¿Pueden las cláusulas de estabilidad otorgar una adecuada protección para las inversiones mineras frente a cambios en la legislación ambiental?

La protección del medio ambiente a través de regulaciones nacionales puede afectar seriamente la economía de una inversión minera, incluso produciendo una toma regulatoria. Esta disertación explora si alguna forma de cláusula de estabilización puede ser adecuada y efectiva para proteger las inversiones mineras contra el riesgo referido, concluyendo que algunas fórmulas de estabilización contractual pueden utilizarse como protecciones adecuadas a favor de los inversionistas mineros.The protection of the environment through national regulations may seriously affect the economics of a mining investment, inclusively producing a regulatory taking. This dissertation explores whether some form of stabilization clause may be appropriate and effective to protect the mining investments against the referred to risk, concluding that some formulas of contractual stabilization may be used as suitable protections in favour of the mining investors.Reino Unido. British Commonwealth Office y el Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Polic

What Technology Startups Must Get Right to Globalize Early and Rapidly

Upon or shortly after inception, growth-oriented technology startups must operate in a market that is global. Management teams and investors of technology startups can benefit from approaches and models that can help them operate in a global market early and rapidly. How well a technology startup addresses the realities of globalization will determine its success. A better understanding of what management teams and investors of technology startups must get right to globalize their startups is needed. This article is an attempt to meet this need. In this article, lessons that have been extracted from six literature streams and from information on 21 startups founded in 12 countries are used to identify the six elements that a startup must get right to globalize early and rapidly. These six elements are: i) Problem scope, ii) Stakeholders’ commitments, iii) Collaborative entrepreneurship, iv) Relational capital, v) Legitimacy, and vi) Global capability. The main contribution of this article is that it throws the spotlight on the need to develop prescriptive rules and practitioner-oriented models that can help a technology startup operate globally from an early stage

Towards the Development of a Research Methodology for Studying the Nature of Value Co-Creation in Internet Driven Businesses

Value co-creation, is an emerging innovation, marketing and business paradigm describing how customers and users are seen as active participants in the design of personalized products, services and experiences (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004; Payne, Storbacka, & Frow, 2008). Often this participation is organised via the Internet to enable the opportunity for customers to integrate their knowledge, experience and skills into existing, modified or entirely new market offerings reflecting their personal preferences, needs and contexts (Sawhney, Gianmario & Prandelli, 2005). There is a growing body of literature dedicated to the discussion of value co-creation frameworks, mechanisms and processes, however, these typically focus on the study, discussion and analysis of a small number of cases using deep, ethnographic description of their practices aiming at conceptualization and categorization of the different types of interactions between end users, the firm and the value network. Although very useful, such an approach misses the advantages of an empirically driven quantitative approach that would be able to benefit from larger size samples of firms and that could be more appropriate for theory building through the development and testing of hypotheses

Transnational Entrepreneurship: Distinctive Features and a New Definition

Definitions of transnational entrepreneurship are too general making it difficult to understand what distinguishes transnational entrepreneurship from other forms of entrepreneurship. In addition, these definitions identify the “immigrant”, “ethnic”, or “migrant” entrepreneur as the focal actor rather than the company. This makes it difficult to align transnational entrepreneurship with the theory of the firm and provide practical insights to practitioners. This article examines 11 definitions of transnational entrepreneurship, discovers the groups of words that best represent the information in a corpus comprised of 44 journal articles, identifies the key features that distinguish transnational entrepreneurship from other forms of entrepreneurship, and advances a new definition of transnational entrepreneurship. The results indicate that transnational entrepreneurship has two key distinctive features: cross-border investment logic and institutional distance – the difference in institutional context between countries. Accordingly, transnational entrepreneurship may be usefully defined as “a cross-border investment to acquire, combine, and recombine specialized individuals and heterogeneous assets to create and capture value for the company under conditions of institutional distance and uncertainty”. This proposed definition builds on the features that make transnational entrepreneurship distinctive, is consistent with the theory of the firm, and carries implications for how to grow companies at an early stage

Mujeres, Encierro Carcelario y Educación : El caso de los talleres universitarios en una cárcel de máxima seguridad para mujeres

El poder punitivo se ha construido sobre la negación y aniquilación de las expresiones genéricas diferentes a la masculina-hegemónica. Esto ha significado la invisibilidad de las mujeres dentro del derecho penal, así como el desconocimiento de las especificidades del encierro carcelario para ellas. Este trabajo procura documentar algunos aspectos de la vida de estas mujeres, vinculados prioritariamente a su derecho a la educación en el encierro. Esta tesis trata sobre un grupo particular de personas, quienes participan de talleres universitarios, y focaliza en la situación educativa, así como en los sentidos e intereses que las mujeres presas construyen a partir de la asistencia a los mismos. En otro aspecto, este trabajo se ubica en la intersección entre el derecho a la educación en el encierro, la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba que procura intervenir en esos espacios, el Servicio Penitenciario cordobés con su lógica punitiva de clara matriz andro y hetero céntrica, y cada una de las mujeres presas que viven en carne propia las tensiones y contradicciones que significa concretar un espacio educativo que les permita gozar de sus derechos

Technology entrepreneurship: Overview, definition, and distinctive aspects

Technology entrepreneurship lies at the heart of many important debates, including those around launching and growing firms, regional economic development, selecting the appropriate stakeholders to take ideas to markets, and educating managers, engineers, and scientists. Unless a generally accepted definition of technology entrepreneurship is established, however, these debates lose their focus. The purpose of this article is to identify the themes that dominate the technology entrepreneurship literature, provide a definition of technology entrepreneurship, and identify its distinguishing aspects relative to economics, entrepreneurship, and management. The author argues that technology entrepreneurship is an investment in a project that assembles and deploys specialized individuals and heterogeneous assets to create and capture value for the firm. What distinguishes technology entrepreneurship from other entrepreneurship types (e.g., social entrepreneurship, small business management, and self-employment) is the collaborative experimentation and production of new products, assets, and their attributes, which are intricately related to advances in scientific and technological knowledge and the firm’s asset ownership right

What technology startups must get right to globalize early and rapidly

Upon or shortly after inception, growth-oriented technology startups must operate in a market that is global. Management teams and investors of technology startups can benefit from approaches and models that can help them operate in a global market early and rapidly. How well a technology startup addresses the realities of globalization will determine its success. A better understanding of what management teams and investors of technology startups must get right to globalize their startups is needed. This article is an attempt to meet this need. In this article, lessons that have been extracted from six literature streams and from information on 21 startups founded in 12 countries are used to identify the six elements that a startup must get right to globalize early and rapidly. These six elements are: i) Problem scope, ii) Stakeholders’ commitments, iii) Collaborative entrepreneurship, iv) Relational capital, v) Legitimacy, and vi) Global capability. The main contribution of this article is that it throws the spotlight on the need to develop prescriptive rules and practitioner-oriented models that can help a technology startup operate globally from an early stage

Gestión de riesgos y fraude contable en instituciones bancarias, distrito de Comas, año 2018

El siguiente estudio de investigación, tendrá la finalidad de definir cómo la gestión de riesgos tiene relación con el fraude contable en Instituciones Bancarias, distrito de Comas, año 2018. La relevancia de la investigación está basada en la falta de información por parte de las entidades bancarias en gestionar sus riesgos para reducir la probabilidad de fraudes contables. Este grupo bancario expresa dificultades de este tipo principalmente por los cambios bruscos que se dan por parte de la tecnología, y por la reducida gestión de control, del recurso humano interno y por ámbito externo que conoce el funcionamiento del sistema. El banco deberá determinar el riesgo que está dispuesto a aceptar y cuál será la forma de gestionarlo. El tipo de investigación es correlacional, en este estudio no se manipularán las variables ni se expondrán las condiciones de los sujetos de la investigación correlacional, teniendo un poblamiento por 48 bancos que están ubicados en Comas, la prueba está constituida de 43 bancos. El procedimiento a usar es el sondeo y la herramienta recolección de información, el formulario será dado a los bancos ubicados en el distrito de Comas. La autenticidad de las herramientas utilizará el discernimiento de expertos y estará avalado por el Alfa de Crombach; el valor del posible resultado se ejecutará con el estudio de Normalidad y por ser una muestra menor de 50, se usó la prueba de ShapiroWilk. En el siguiente estudio de investigación se obtuvo la terminación que la gestión de riesgos posee un 87.9% de relación con fraude contable de las instituciones bancarias del distrito de Comas, año 2018