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    Research rigor and the gap between academic journals and business practitioners2017-09-11

    Purpose: This paper examines the engagement of business practitioners with academic business research. The main purpose is to assess whether there is a gap between academic research and business people, and, if so, how to bridge this gap.  Design/methodology/approach: Over 150 senior business practitioners were surveyed, in order to capture their views on the usefulness of academic research to them in their roles as practicing managers. Survey questions covered both their current access and reading of business related publications and what the ideal academic business journal should be, in terms of access and contents.  Findings: Academic journals are not very well known among business professionals. If these professionals could choose, they would like academic journals to be written by experienced business people, to contain business cases and to be accessible on line. Existing academic business journal ‘repositories’, such as Google Scholar, are not mentioned in the survey results.  Practical implications: The findings indicate that potential solutions to bridge the gap between academic journals and business practitioners should not be overly complicated to implement, and would greatly help bring these two communities closer, with mutually enriching results.  Originality/value: This article takes a very pragmatic view of the gap between academic journals and business practitioners, and seeks to assess this gap in terms of how it can be bridged on an everyday basis, rather than take a theoretical approach. It begs for the definition of actionable next steps.

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    The instructional simulation in the business environment and attitude towards entrepreneurship in improving oral communication in English2018-06

    This article is an empirical study to analyze the oral production in English by simulation as a teaching instructional strategy among college students of Business Management at the University Abat Oliba CEU. A design group pre-test and post-test in the overall assessment of oral expression variable is used. Quantitative data on progress and contribution to learning English with the simulation were collected in a questionnaire online. The results show how the instructional simulation and the use of new technologies are effective tools in the acquisition of language skills in English.

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    Navegando en el siglo XXI : el valor de las artes y la literatura en la formación ejecutiva2023

    La formación en el arte y la belleza mejora la capacidad social y emocional de las personas. La educación de la sensibilidad y el sentido estético es muy necesaria en la actualidad para todo el mundo. En humanidades es algo sabido y de gran importancia, pero también lo es para los estudiantes de todos los ámbitos, tanto de ciencias puras como de ciencias sociales, incluyendo a los estudiantes de empresa y economía (Zander, 2000). La educación en la belleza es importante por varias razones. En primer lugar, la belleza es una parte integral de nuestra experiencia humana, y puede tener un impacto significativo en nuestra calidad de vida (Kaimal et al., 2016). La apreciación de la belleza puede mejorar nuestro bienestar emocional, reducir el estrés y mejorar nuestra capacidad de concentración (Leder et al., 2004).

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    Caracterización de la empresa familiar catalana y factores diferenciadores respecto a la empresa familiar en España2018

    La Universidad se encuentra en pleno progreso desde su tiempo cero; de hecho, halla su carta de naturaleza en la necesidad de mejorar el medio que la nutre y por y para el que existe: la sociedad. Rompiendo las viejas membranas de la enseñanza imperante hasta el siglo XX, las nuevas ®evoluciones de contenidos y fórmulas, como lo fuera el EEES (o Plan Bolonia) o las TIC, suponen la respuesta a esas actualizadas necesidades docentes y curriculares. Las Humanidades, las Artes, las Ciencias sociales y la Docencia se reescriben, hibridando, gracias a los nuevos lenguajes y herramientas, contenidos otrora lejanos. La nueva Academia es poliédrica, ínter y multi disciplinar, dialógica y colaborativa. En este estado de cosas la colección Herramientas universitarias se erige como atalaya para agrupar bajo su égida al más amplio conjunto de autores internacionales que iluminen, con sus investigaciones, la panoplia de contenidos que conforman el mundo científico donde nace el futuro. La calidad intelectual queda refrendada mediante la rigurosa implantación del habitual proceso garante, basado en la revisión o arbitraje por pares ciegos (peer review) de estos capítulos, sin renunciar a la más antigua tradición universitaria que obliga al opositor de lo publicado, a soportar el peso de la prueba. Este doble modelo de evaluación, a priori y a posteriori, garantiza la calidad del contenido de los textos de esta colección. Pertenecer a la Academia, y en ello radica orgullosamente su valía, supone que todos sus miembros responden a una ambición irrenunciable: mostrar que el conjunto de sus trabajos conforma la vanguardia científica internacional. El texto que aquí se presenta está auspiciado por el Fórum Internacional de Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas (Fórum XXI), la Sociedad Española de Estudios de la Comunicación Iberoamericana (SEECI), la Asociación cultural Historia de los Sistemas Informativos y el Grupo Complutense (nº 931.791) de Investigación en Comunicación Concilium.

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    Evaluation of decision making in family business mixing data based and socioemotional wealth considerations2020

    Rational use of the information available to companies is one of the strategic concerns for both family businesses and non-family businesses. The aim is to make the best use of the information resulting from data analysis in order to gain strategic advantage and to be more competitive as a company in all its functional areas. Experience indicates that emotions play an important role, especially in family businesses. Many maturation models exist to analyze decision-making processes (DMPs), but none from the perspective of family business cognition. The authors start from their own “Circumplex Hierarchical Representation of Organisation Maturity Assessment” (CHROMA) model (Parra, Tort-Martorell, Ruiz-Viñals, & Alvarez-Gomez, 2017), which was created to support decision processes in family businesses. This model was proven successful in the analysis of DMPs in large family businesses. The model was simplified as CHROMA-SHADE (Parra, Tort-Martorell, Ruiz-Viñals, & Alvarez-Gomez, 2019), more adequate for the analysis of small and medium-sized family businesses. Despite being a good DMP analysis instrument, intangible aspects such as family values and emotions have not yet been included. Both entrepreneurial emotions and entrepreneurial cognition must be taken into account when analyzing the DMP of the family business. In this chapter, the authors wish to explore attributes that can be introduced into a new dimension in the CHROMA model in order to make it more specific in the analysis of DMPs of family businesses regardless of size. The resulting FAMILY-CHROMA model represents a specific maturation model to evaluate DMPs based on the use of business information of family businesses.

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    Value-based management and responsibility in the management of people: a competitive advantage for family business2021

    Human resource management (HRM) systems are an under-researched area in family business studies even though they arguably play an important role. To exploit their entrepreneurial orientation and achieve their goals, family firms must be willing to adopt a specific configuration of the organizational variables to succeed in the competitive environment of today. Designing and Implementing HR Management Systems in Family Businesses is a pivotal reference source that focuses on HRM in family businesses aiming at clarifying what HRM topics are relevant in family firms given their distinctive featur.

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    Initial adaptation among university student: The case of the social sciences2023-11-13

    Students’ academic and social adaptation is linked to factors such as their initial study moti- vations, the atmosphere of the academic environment and their perception of academic wellbeing. This paper analyses the initial adaptation of first-degree students in their first semester through a quantitative ex post facto study with a descriptive-exploratory approach, using a questionnaire as the information-gathering instrument. Findings shed light on the concept of initial adaptation itself (through the creation of an index) and validate the study of the construct through three factors: initial motivation, the academic environment and per- ception of academic wellbeing. Also, the influence on initial adaptation of the academic and social context of the degree course taken is demonstrated:, as the constitutive features of the degree contribute information predicting how students will integrate into the institution. Therefore, it is suggested that institutional means and actions should be designed and put in place in accordance with measurements that indicate how students function best in a spe- cific context (the bachelor’s degree), in order to boost motivation and the perception of aca- demic wellbeing.

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    El engagement de los influencers literarios con sus seguidores en Instagram: contenido y estrategia de los Bookstagrammers2024-01-01

    El marketing de influencia se ha convertido en una herramienta efectiva para que las marcas conecten con sus consumidores en las redes sociales a través de los influenciadores. Aunque esta forma de marketing ha generado en los últimos años un mayor interés en la comunidad científica, se sabe relativamente poco sobre el contenido y la estrategia de los influencers y los vínculos con los comportamientos que generan en sus seguidores. En este contexto digital, cabe destacar un tipo de influencer relacionado con la literatura: los bookstagrammer. Usuarios que comparten su pasión por los libros, reseñan noticias de editoriales y fomentan el hábito de la lectura. Este estudio analiza cómo la estrategia de contenido y engagement de los bookstagrammers (medida por el número de seguidores, volumen de contenido y publicaciones de interés) se asocia con el engagement de los seguidores de estos influencers culturales en Instagram, tanto de forma independiente como interactiva. El estudio analiza un conjunto de datos recopilados de booskstagrammers analizando el contenido generado por estos influencers para probar las hipótesis propuestas. Los hallazgos muestran que las publicaciones que incluyen fotografías del autor o portadas de libros se asocian positivamente con la participación de los seguidores en las cuentas de Instagram, mientras que las publicaciones emocionales que expresan sentimientos se asocian negativamente con la participación de los seguidores. Estos hallazgos demuestran que los elementos analizados y la estrategia de contenido de los influencers literarios contribuyen al compromiso de los seguidores en Instagram.