Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Lewis Author-Name-First: Robert Author-Name-Last: Lewis Author-Email: ralewis@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Les Roches Gruyčre University of Applied Sciences Title: Generation Y at work: insight from experiences in the hotel sector Abstract: ?Generation Y,? according to recent literature, refers to people born between 1980 and 1990. Participants in the study used for this paper (aged between 23 and 33) fit into this category at the time of data collection (in 2013). The literature suggests that generation Y is reliant on feedback at work, a need for immediate results and a desire for personal satisfaction from work. From a managerial standpoint, the literature indicates that generation Y seeks high levels of communication at work and perceives lower hierarchical barriers. This study explores the perceptions of generation Y working in the hotel industry within these dimensions. 80 generation Y university students volunteered to answer open-ended questions in questionnaires. Participants had at least six months? work experience in hotels as part of their curriculum. Open-coding was used to extract key quotes from raw data. Findings reveal that the group studied emphasised the importance of self-achievement, congruence of work with personal values and open communication. The conceptualisation of generation Y?s perceptions of work in the hotel sector reveals a more fragmented understanding of time and unconventional views of careers. Classification-JEL: J24 Keywords: Careers, Generation Y, Hotels, Work Expectations, Work Relationships Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 1-17 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-66 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-66?download=1 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:1-17 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Éva Málovics Author-Name-First: Éva Author-Name-Last: Málovics Author-Email: malovics@eco.u-szeged.hu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Szeged Author-Name: Gergely Farkas Author-Name-First: Gergely Author-Name-Last: Farkas Author-Email: farkas.gergely@mailbox.hu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Szeged Author-Name: Beáta Vajda Author-Name-First: Beáta Author-Name-Last: Vajda Author-Email: vajdabea@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: University of Szeged Title: Appearance of entrepreneurial values and strategic orientations in the basic values* Abstract: According to Schwartz, behaviour is oriented by values through motivations. In our opinion, these values in case of the entrepreneurial behaviour are expressed as entrepreneurial values and factors of strategic orientations in the specific literature. Entrepreneurial orientation includes the dimensions of risk taking, innovativeness and pro-activeness. Learning orientation summarizes the factors of common vision, a commitment to business and the ability to accept bottom-up initiatives in a well-defined approach. We study these orientations because our goal is to describe the value structure of an innovative entrepreneurial behaviour what is desirable in a science park. At first, we investigated the difference between the values of Hungarian citizens and Hungarian entrepreneurs. After that, we assessed whether there is a difference of values among entrepreneurs who have different levels of entrepreneurial or learning orientation. Our results suggest that Hungarian entrepreneurs differ from other citizens in several dimensions of fundamental values, and they also differ in having different strategic orientations. Classification-JEL: L26 Keywords: values, entrepreneurial orientation, innovativeness, learning orientation Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 18-35 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-67 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-67?download=2 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:18-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Behrooz Noori Author-Name-First: Behrooz Author-Name-Last: Noori Author-Email: bnoori@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Industrial Engineering, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Title: Prioritizing strategic business units in the face of innovation performance: Combining fuzzy AHP and BSC Abstract: Large corporations may be composed of multiple strategic business units (SBUs), each of which is responsible for its own profitability. Innovation performance management of SBUs boosts corporation business results. In the present work, SBU ranking based on innovation performance was addressed. The contribution of the proposed model was threefold: (1) it proposed a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for SBU ranking with triangular fuzzy numbers; (2) it provided a comprehensive and systematic framework that combined balanced scorecard (BSC) and fuzzy AHP; and (3) it explored practical application and illustrated the efficacy of the procedures and algorithms. It used a real-world case study in a large steel manufacturing company to present the applicability of the system. Finding SBU priorities would help the corporations to develop strategies and policies to manage and improve SBU performance. Classification-JEL: C44, L25, L21 Keywords: strategic business unit, innovation performance, SBU performance, balanced scorecard, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, steel sector Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 36-56 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-68 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-68?download=3 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:36-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zuzanna Ostraszewska Author-Name-First: Zuzanna Author-Name-Last: Ostraszewska Author-Email: zuzannao@zim.pcz.pl Author-Workplace-Name: Czestochowa University of Technology Author-Name: Agnieszka Tylec Author-Name-First: Agnieszka Author-Name-Last: Tylec Author-Email: atylec@zim.pcz.pl Author-Workplace-Name: Czestochowa University of Technology Title: Reverse innovation ? how it works Abstract: Innovation is nowadays one of the most important factors of modernity and competitive position of business units and the entire economy. To continue developing and maintaining an advantage in the market enterprises will increasingly need to focus on radical innovation. This undoubtedly is reversed innovation. The concept of reverse innovation bases on research on innovation implemented in poor, developing countries, what generates incomparably lower costs than in the case of laboratories held in developed countries. The main idea of the concept is final transfer of the product and its adaptation, then its use and distribution on highly developed markets. This is the opposite of the traditional approach to innovation, which is used in knowledge-based economies in the developed world. It is expected that emerging markets will be in greater extent used as a cheap production resources on a larger scale than at present ? both for research and development. The concept of reverse innovation, that is the production of ideas on emerging market and then their ?upstreaming? to Western markets, is however a big challenge for the organization. It involves elimination of existing organizational structures and creation of new ones, modernization of research, development and production methods, as well as reorientation of awareness of employees and executives. The paper presents the theoretical aspects of reverse innovation, its role in building the company?s strategy and the impact on the development of emerging economies. Classification-JEL: M21, O00, O31 Keywords: Frugal Innovation, Reverse Innovation, Good-enough Innovation, Gandhian Innovation, Jugaad Innovation, BOP Market, Emerging Markets Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 57-74 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-71 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-71?download=4 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:57-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aelita Skarzauskiene Author-Name-First: Aelita Author-Name-Last: Skarzauskiene Author-Email: aelita@mruni.eu Author-Workplace-Name: Mykolas Romeris University Author-Name: Viktorija Stokaite Author-Name-First: Viktorija Author-Name-Last: Stokaite Author-Email: v.stokaite@mruni.eu Author-Workplace-Name: Mykolas Romeris university Author-Name: Monika Maciuliene Author-Name-First: Monika Author-Name-Last: Maciuliene Author-Email: maciuliene@mruni.eu Author-Workplace-Name: Mykolas Romeris university Title: Empowering patients and professionals: case of Lithuanian e-health system Abstract: New technologies change our social ? economic everyday life by making considerable impact on its quality. The healthcare in the meantime is becoming more and more dependent on information and communication technologies, which enable the development of high quality healthcare services. The deployment of new ICTs has the potential to increase organisational efficiency of healthcare providers, change the processes of work organisation and create the conditions for electronic patient information exchange between healthcare providers according to the nationally agreed standards. The main idea of the paper is a proposition that the engagement of various stakeholder groups into the process of e-Health development has the potential to pave a more effective way of introducing innovation in healthcare sector and contribute to the greater sustainability of achieved changes. Quantitative research explored the extent and trends of the engagement and participation of stakeholder groups in the process of e-Health development in Lithuania. Classification-JEL: Keywords: e-Health, information technologies, social technologies, stakeholders, healthcare policy, public management, Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 75-89 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-69 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-69?download=5 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:75-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: JESUS SOSA Author-Name-First: JESUS Author-Name-Last: SOSA Author-Email: otonielsosa@ucol.mx Author-Workplace-Name: UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA Author-Name: ANDREE ROY Author-Name-First: ANDREE Author-Name-Last: ROY Author-Email: andree.roy@umoncton.ca Author-Workplace-Name: UNIVERSITE DE MONCTON Author-Name: ADRIANA BAUTISTA Author-Name-First: ADRIANA Author-Name-Last: BAUTISTA Author-Email: acbautista@ucol.mx Author-Workplace-Name: UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA Title: MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TOURISM INDUSTRY IN MANZANILLO, COLIMA, MEXICO Abstract: Nowadays, the use of social media has become an important tool to introduce new products and services in the world. However, in some countries social networks are very important to show what the company is and what they are doing with their businesses, it means that they sharing everything with their customers, like products, services, goals, some cases they try to educate their public about the use of the product or service, among other things.When people started using social networks on the internet, these were conceived as a mean to communicate with relatives or friends. However, with time, the social networks have evolved to a point that they now allow people to use them to generate sales and increase the competitiveness of enterprises.The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the lack of training and knowledge about the use of social networks by local businesses and the barriers they face when they decide to use them as sales platforms, and to demonstrate the impact it could have on their businesses. Four SMEs located in Colima State in Mexico were studied, selected to be sufficiently successful and representative in terms of industry and size, for theoretical generalization purposes. These tourism SMEs stem from various sectors, such as: travel agencies, tour operator, hotel and restaurant. Data were collected through semi-structured tape-recorded interviews, ranging approximately one hour and a half each, with the owner-manager or the manager responsible for social media. Interview transcripts were then coded and analyzed following Miles and Huberman?s (1994) prescriptions with the assistance of the Atlas.ti application.The results allow us to conclude that the investigated companies believe that the use of social networks is extremely important to be able to compete in the market. However, due to a lack of training, they were not able to implement properly the utilization of social networks in their companies. Classification-JEL: D22, D23, O39 Keywords: Social networks, enterprises, barriers, Micro, small and medium business Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 78-92 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-70 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-70?download=6 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:78-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jana Svarcova Author-Name-First: Jana Author-Name-Last: Svarcova Author-Email: Author-Workplace-Name: Tomas Bata University in Zlín Title: The Macroeconomic View of the Unemployment of University Graduates in the Czech Republic Abstract: EU and the Czech Republic as well as are suffering from high unemployment rates of graduates in the past five years.This is partly a consequence of the economic crisis that has hit Europe since 2008. This paper analysed noncyclic factors, which had an impact on the increase in youth unemployment in the Czech Republic and compared the results with strategic objectives of EU employment and training for the labour market (targets EU 2020). Primary research among students of Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín in the years 2011-2014 found a weak focus in the choice of professions. The research used the classification system of professions according to Roe because of CZ-ISCO has proved to be unsatisfactory for this purpose. Student preferences in choosing the professions largely do not match the structure of the Czech economy. Research, on the other hand, confirmed the prevailing educational aspirations of students at the bachelor level of the tertiary education. This is important to fulfilling the target that 40% of the population aged 30-34 years successfully finish tertiary education till 2020. Lengthening the period of economic inactivity of students before entering the labour market in the borders of 26 years will bring increased demand for funding from relatives. Higher investment required from the students' families may limit their support if they do not see adequate growth of wages in the labor market for university graduates. The labor market is becoming increasingly complex, which provides the background for asymmetric information in a significant proportion of the population. There are two types of asymmetric information: hidden knowledge about attributes and hidden knowledge about action. Tools to remove both types of asymmetric information on the labor market should be more involved in the education system. It is also a way to delegate at least part of the transaction costs of obtaining relevant information about the labor market away from the students and their parents (funding students) to the State. Classification-JEL: J21, J24, J23 Keywords: Labour Market, Youth Unemployment, ESA 2010, Educational Aspirations, Choice of Professions Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 106-118 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-72 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-72?download=7 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:106-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pekka Tervonen Author-Name-First: Pekka Author-Name-Last: Tervonen Author-Email: pekka.tervonen@oulu.fi Author-Workplace-Name: University of Oulu Author-Name: Harri Haapasalo Author-Name-First: Harri Author-Name-Last: Haapasalo Author-Email: harri.haapasalo@oulu.fi Author-Workplace-Name: University of Oulu Title: A creating business from innovations ? essential mission of intermediate organization Abstract: Oulu Innovation Alliance (OIA) is an example of triple-Helix consortium. It integrates top know-how from printed intelligence, wellbeing technology, cleantech and 3D internet and brings together research institutions, businesses and public sector organizations. OIA generates cutting-edge global business from research, development and innovation projects and ventures. The essential mission of the Centre for Environment and Energy (CEE) is to be strongly involved in branding Oulu as an eco-innovative city with green economy. The focus of CEE is on air, water, energy and efficiency of resources with measurement technology as a cross-sectional theme. Their vision is to be the number one partner in eco-innovative solutions. The strategy is to develop a knowledge hub that brings together the fields of environment and energy, thus, creating efficient connections between top experts and research, development and innovation projects (R&D&I projects); and co-operation networks and investors. To achieve this goal, the CEE uses a transparent network of connections where the top research of a chosen field and the business expertise in Oulu can find each other both nationally and internationally. This creates a lasting foundation for co-operation between research and business. The operational philosophy of CEE is based on research programs and networking which allows for swift and proactive co-operation between research communities and businesses. Through co-operation and joint projects new expertise can be develop edand new business created for the world market. The aim of this paper is to describe the theoretical foundation and operative model for our centre of expertise ? CEE. Classification-JEL: O32 Keywords: Innovations, environment, energy, cleantech Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 119-131 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-73 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-73?download=8 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:119-131