External corporate venture capital investment: Towards a framework for capturing and measuring strategic value

This paper presents the initial results of on-going research in the field of external Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) investments, i.e. equity investments of large corporations in entrepreneurial ventures which originated outside the corporation. The research is motivated by the fact that external CVC plays an increasingly important role within the strategy of corporations. Driven by a general trend towards a more open approach to innovation, companies see particular value in external corporate venturing as a tool to gain, for example, access to complementary technologies and a general window on technology developments. The review of literature in the field of external corporate venturing clearly reveals that theoretical gaps exist in understanding mechanisms for capturing value and measurements of this value. To help close these gaps, the research addresses the underlying question "How do corporations and start-ups capture and measure strategic value through external CVC investments" by using embedded, multiple case studies. Following an initial set of case studies, steps towards the development of a framework for capturing and measuring strategic value from CVC investments are outlined within this paper and the resulting preliminary framework is presented. The paper closes with an outlook on ongoing and future research steps. © 2009 PICMET.

Uma análise de cenários à luz das tendências atuais: sua importância para gestão do capital humano nas organizações.

Este trabalho analisa os cenários previstos por Peter Drucker (1985) e Alvin Toffler (1990) sob a perspectiva da obra de Thomas Friedman (2005). Friedman, em sua obra ?O mundo é plano?, descreve os fatores determinantes do cenário econômico e tecnológico do século XXI. A análise efetuada neste trabalho evidencia que os paradigmas da sociedade da informação na qual vivemos, que são descritos por Friedman (2005), comprovam grande parte das predições efetuadas há mais de uma década por Drucker e Toffler. Estes autores contribuiram para a construção do ?presente? de diversas organizações uma vez que seus pensamentos embasaram o planejamento estratégico de várias empresas e instituições. Este trabalho visa ressaltar que projeções de futuro criteriosas, sustentadas por fatos e tendências, são importantes ferramentas para o desenvolvimento de ações empresariais, dentre elas, o estabelecimento de estratégias de gestão de pessoas.

Can theories of social capital explain dissenting patterns of engagement in the new Europe?

Korosteleva-Polglase, Elena, 'Can theories of social capital explain dissenting patterns of engagement in the new Europe?', Contemporary Politics, (2006) 12(2) pp.175-191 RAE2008

Re-conceptualising rural resources as countryside capital: The case of rural tourism

Brian Garrod, Roz Wornell and Ray Youell (2006). Re-conceptualising rural resources as countryside capital: The case of rural tourism. Journal of Rural Studies, 22 (1), 117-128. RAE2008

Lights and shades of mission work, or, Leaves from a worker's note book : being reminiscenses of seven years service at the capital, 1885-1892 / by B.H.W.

http://www.archive.org/details/lightsandshades00bhwuoft

Are immigrant remittance flows a source of capital for development?

There is a general presumption in the literature and among policymakers that immigrant remittances play the same role in economic development as foreign direct investment and other capital flows, but this is an open question. We develop a model of remittances based on the economics of the family that implies that remittances are not profit-driven, but are compensatory transfers, and should have a negative correlation with GDP growth. This is in contrast to the positive correlation of profit-driven capital flows with GDP growth. We test this implication of our model using a new panel data set on remittances and find a robust negative correlation between remittances and GDP growth. This indicates that remittances may not be intended to serve as a source of capital for economic development. © 2005 International Monetary Fund.

Beyond signaling and human capital: Education and the revelation of ability

We provide evidence that college graduation plays a direct role in revealing ability to the labor market. Using the NLSY79, our results suggest that ability is observed nearly perfectly for college graduates, but is revealed to the labor market more gradually for high school graduates. Consequently, from the beginning of their careers, college graduates are paid in accordance with their own ability, while the wages of high school graduates are initially unrelated to their own ability. This view of ability revelation in the labor market has considerable power in explaining racial differences in wages, education, and returns to ability.

Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital.

Credit scores are the most widely used instruments to assess whether or not a person is a financial risk. Credit scoring has been so successful that it has expanded beyond lending and into our everyday lives, even to inform how insurers evaluate our health. The pervasive application of credit scoring has outpaced knowledge about why credit scores are such useful indicators of individual behavior. Here we test if the same factors that lead to poor credit scores also lead to poor health. Following the Dunedin (New Zealand) Longitudinal Study cohort of 1,037 study members, we examined the association between credit scores and cardiovascular disease risk and the underlying factors that account for this association. We find that credit scores are negatively correlated with cardiovascular disease risk. Variation in household income was not sufficient to account for this association. Rather, individual differences in human capital factors—educational attainment, cognitive ability, and self-control—predicted both credit scores and cardiovascular disease risk and accounted for ∼45% of the correlation between credit scores and cardiovascular disease risk. Tracing human capital factors back to their childhood antecedents revealed that the characteristic attitudes, behaviors, and competencies children develop in their first decade of life account for a significant portion (∼22%) of the link between credit scores and cardiovascular disease risk at midlife. We discuss the implications of these findings for policy debates about data privacy, financial literacy, and early childhood interventions.

El capital social como factor de producción en los sistemas de agronegocios en Argentina : un análisis comparado de los sistemas aviar, vitivinícola y vacuno

El sector agroalimentario se ha convertido en el de mayor importancia durante los 90 para la economía argentina junto a los sectores del petróleo y acero. Sin embargo, el gran empuje proveniente del 'campo' no se traslada al resto de redes de abatecimiento de alimentos. El desarrollo veloz de las interrelaciones comerciales que conducen al establecimiento de distintas formas de relaciones para el abastecimiento de alimentos es un fenómeno clave en las economías agroalimentarias modernas. Los principales actores de las cadenas agroindustriales deben diseñar las mejores opciones respecto del diseño de sus relaciones comerciales. El objetivo principal del siguiente trabajo es identificar al capital social como un factor de producción para el desarrolo de los sistemas de agronegocios argentinos. Los objetivos específicos serán identificar el nivel de capital social del sistema de ganados y carnes vacuna, del sistema avícola y del sistema vitivinícola de la Argentina. El trabajo determina que el desarrollo global de los agronegocios en Argentina depende del grado de enforcement de la ley y los contratos y del nivel de acción colectiva. Dentro de las variables estudiadas 'confianza', 'acción colectiva' y 'cooperación y ética' presenta altos niveles en las tres variables, el sistema vitivinícola medios y el sistema de ganados y carnes vacuno los presenta bajos. El sistema de negocios avícola es la que marca un mayor desarrollo de capital social a lo largo de la muestra. El nivel de confianza expresado por sus miembros demuestra su capacidad para resolver los dilemas que presenta la acción colectiva en el negocio real, contrariamente al sistema vacuno, mientras que el sistema vitivinícola se coloca en una posición media. El sistema avícola presenta mayor cantidad de contratos formales y como vimos un mayor respeto por su cumplimiento más allá de la incompltitud de los mismos. La falta de contratos formales y la falta de control por parte del Estado, en mayor medida en el subsector vacuno por sobre el vitivinícola, favorece el doble estándar impositivo, comercial y sanitario (no en el caso del vino). En tal sentido, el no respeto por el conjunto de reglas de conducta formales (leyes, tradiciones, costumbres, sistema de valores, religiones, tendencias sociológicas, etc.), es decir las instituciones, que facilitan la coordinación o rigen las relaciones entre individuos o grupos, le agrega mayor incertidumbre a la interacción humana

El capital social como factor de producción en los sistemas de agronegocios en Argentina : un análisis comparado de los sistemas aviar, vitivinícola y vacuno

El sector agroalimentario se ha convertido en el de mayor importancia durante los 90 para la economía argentina junto a los sectores del petróleo y acero. Sin embargo, el gran empuje proveniente del 'campo' no se traslada al resto de redes de abatecimiento de alimentos. El desarrollo veloz de las interrelaciones comerciales que conducen al establecimiento de distintas formas de relaciones para el abastecimiento de alimentos es un fenómeno clave en las economías agroalimentarias modernas. Los principales actores de las cadenas agroindustriales deben diseñar las mejores opciones respecto del diseño de sus relaciones comerciales. El objetivo principal del siguiente trabajo es identificar al capital social como un factor de producción para el desarrolo de los sistemas de agronegocios argentinos. Los objetivos específicos serán identificar el nivel de capital social del sistema de ganados y carnes vacuna, del sistema avícola y del sistema vitivinícola de la Argentina. El trabajo determina que el desarrollo global de los agronegocios en Argentina depende del grado de enforcement de la ley y los contratos y del nivel de acción colectiva. Dentro de las variables estudiadas 'confianza', 'acción colectiva' y 'cooperación y ética' presenta altos niveles en las tres variables, el sistema vitivinícola medios y el sistema de ganados y carnes vacuno los presenta bajos. El sistema de negocios avícola es la que marca un mayor desarrollo de capital social a lo largo de la muestra. El nivel de confianza expresado por sus miembros demuestra su capacidad para resolver los dilemas que presenta la acción colectiva en el negocio real, contrariamente al sistema vacuno, mientras que el sistema vitivinícola se coloca en una posición media. El sistema avícola presenta mayor cantidad de contratos formales y como vimos un mayor respeto por su cumplimiento más allá de la incompltitud de los mismos. La falta de contratos formales y la falta de control por parte del Estado, en mayor medida en el subsector vacuno por sobre el vitivinícola, favorece el doble estándar impositivo, comercial y sanitario (no en el caso del vino). En tal sentido, el no respeto por el conjunto de reglas de conducta formales (leyes, tradiciones, costumbres, sistema de valores, religiones, tendencias sociológicas, etc.), es decir las instituciones, que facilitan la coordinación o rigen las relaciones entre individuos o grupos, le agrega mayor incertidumbre a la interacción humana

Cooperativas en conflicto : el capital social hace la diferencia?, estudio de caso

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The effect of ownership structure, country governance, and financial development on the capital structure of unlisted eastern European firms

This paper investigates the determinants of capital structure for a sample of 20,713 unlisted firms from 11 eastern European countries over the period 1994-2004. We employ usual firm-specific financial variables as well as country-specific variables that describe the degrees of governance structure and financial development of each country. Using regression analysis, our results indicate that firm ownership concentration and country governance structure are insignificant explanatory variables to the degree of leverage of the firms in our sample. On the other hand, indicators of country financial development are robust determinants of capital structure. However, the marginal explanatory power of country-specific variables is small. We conclude that firm-specific characteristics are decisive in capital structure.