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.

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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.

Experiencias asociativas de tipo cooperativo como estrategia de inserción de la pequeña y mediana producción citrícola familiar en el mercado internacional de frutas frescas

En los últimos años asistimos a un proceso de transformación constante de la estructura agrícola, en el cual la naturaleza de los sistemas productivos y la producción de alimentos han pasado de un modelo tradicional basado en la producción para mercados locales y nacionales, a la internacionalización de los complejos agroalimentarios. Dicho proceso plantea situaciones de naturaleza compleja para la pequeña y mediana producción agrícola familiar y a la vez genera interrogantes respecto a sus posibilidades de persistencia como productores, especialmente en los circuitos de exportación. Teniendo en cuenta lo arriba expuesto y poniendo especial atención a la asociatividad como estrategia de articulación/integración de este tipo de productores a los mercados globales, en esta tesis se partió de un análisis general que puso énfasis en el complejo citrícola agroexportador de Monte Caseros (Corrientes), y en la situación de pequeña y mediana producción citrícola familiar en él inserta (incluyendo sus estrategias productivas y de inserción en los mercados), para luego, a través del estudio de caso de una cooperativa exportadora citrícola, profundizar en los factores determinantes para la conformación de este tipo de emprendimientos, las estrategias implementadas en las fases de producción agrícola, agroindustrial y comercial, así como la incidencia de dichas estrategias en el carácter del vínculo establecido con los asociados, y sobre sus unidades productivas. Para tal fin se aplicaron técnicas de análisis de tipo cualitativo a entrevistas semiestructuradas y en profundidad realizadas a informantes calificados seleccionados en función del papel desempeñado dentro del complejo, productores citrícolas de la zona bajo estudio, directivos y asociados de la cooperativa seleccionada. Al tiempo se recopiló y analizó información secundaria proveniente de artículos científicos, libros, revistas, páginas web de organismos públicos y privados, estadísticas sectoriales, entre otros. Las conclusiones más relevantes se focalizan en la importancia de la estrategia asociativa a través de cooperativas para el acceso de la pequeña y mediana producción citrícola en los mercados externos, no obstante parece existir una tendencia hacía la homogeneización del perfil de los productores asociados, prevaleciendo aspectos como el nivel económico-productivo, un adecuado conocimiento de los mercados y un mayor grado de compromiso con la organización. Lo cual lleva a plantear que la membrecía estaría permitiendo a aquellos productores de perfil familiar-empresarial y empresarial, que han implementado los cambios necesarios y que cumplen con los requisitos públicos y privados en términos de sanidad y calidad, la colocación de su fruta en el mercado internacional. En contraste, no estaría asegurando la inserción exportadora para aquellos productores familiares puros con capacidades limitadas en cuanto al acceso a capital e información tecnológica y de mercados, dada su mayor dificultad para realizar las inversiones necesarias y afrontar los costos inherentes.