IE University

About: IE University is a education organization based out in Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Context (language use). The organization has 527 authors who have published 1709 publications receiving 64682 citations.

Service's scientific community: a social network analysis (1995‐2010)

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to characterize and discuss the collaborative network formed by researchers that published about services in the top journals in Operations, Marketing, and Human Resources Management, and provide further comparison with major Service journals.Design/methodology/approach – The method used was designed documentary research using papers published in the top three relevant international journals specific to Operations, Marketing, and Human Resources from 1995 to 2010. Papers were selected using a search of the ABI/Inform Global (Proquest) database on the word “service” in the title, abstract, or keywords. Additionally, it included two major Service journals. A total of 1,481 papers and 2,457 authors composed the Social Network Analysis (SNA).Findings – The co‐authorship network revealed that the social structure is highly fragmented. However, its main component can be classified as “small world”, indicating that authors are connected to others outside their group through...

Business Schools and the Development of Responsible Leaders: A Proposition of Edgar Morin’s Transdisciplinarity

Abstract: We propose Edgar Morin’s notion of transdisciplinarity as a complementary educational perspective for preparing business school students in addressing the complex global socio-economic and environmental challenges that our planet has been facing for some time. Morin’s notion of transdisciplinarity spans various disciplines, both within disciplines and beyond individual disciplines. Morin’s transdisciplinary approach is inquiry driven and presents a systemic/humanistic vision and form of awareness that challenges habitually dualistic and simplistic thinking. Morin’s transdisciplinarity is based on a dialogical and translogical principle that extends classical and rigid logic and that helps students to explore and unify concepts of a simultaneous complementary and contradictory nature. Confronting students with different modes of thinking, imagining and feeling can help them to develop greater self-awareness, critical reflection, and creativity; with various frames of reference; and with an openness toward and confidence in engaging in changes needed to address global challenges in a sustainable and responsible way.

Container Rehandling at Maritime Container Terminals: A Literature Update

Abstract: This chapter provides an updated survey on rehandling of containers at maritime container terminals. In particular, we review contributions with a particular focus on post-stacking situations, i.e., problems arising after the stacking area has already been arranged. Three types of post-stacking problems have been identified, namely (1) the re-marshalling problem, (2) the pre-marshalling problem, and (3) the relocation problem. This research area has received an increasing attention since the first version of this contribution appeared in 2011. Within this update, we discuss recent developments presented in literature. In particular, available solution approaches from the fields of exact and (meta-)heuristic methods are given and benchmark datasets are summarized. Moreover, an overview on extensions of post-stacking problems and according solution methods are discussed.

Revisión y propuesta de indicadores (KPI) de la Biblioteca en los medios sociales

Abstract: El objetivo de este estudio es la revision de una parte significativa de la literatura existente sobre indicadores en la web social, en el contexto del social media marketing, y la propuesta de una serie de indicadores para la Biblioteca social, que ayude a las unidades de informacion a evaluar el uso e impacto de los servicios que ofrecen a traves de las herramientas de la web social o web 2.0, con el objetivo de poder obtener los costes y retorno de inversion (ROI) de dichos servicios. Aunque la evaluacion es una tarea con larga tradicion bibliotecaria, en este articulo nos planteamos valorar el ROI, como justificacion necesaria ante las organizaciones que sustentan dichas unidades de informacion, demostrando el valor anadido que ofrecen los servicios de la web social.