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Identity-Society (Mis)Alignment And The Instrumentalization Of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction And Creative Reconstruction

Research on founder identity has significantly advanced our understanding of entrepreneurship and related literatures. By departing from the widely held-though often implicit-assumption that culture defines the parameters of identity formation, this paper ...

ACAD MANAGEMENT2022

Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Shirah Eden Foy

Entrepreneurship is a highly contextualized process. Yet, the vast majority of entrepreneurship research has focused on Western contexts, yielding a skewed picture of global entrepreneurial behavior. Moreover, theories of mainstream psychology explaining t ...

EPFL2020

Social Representations of Mexico City Historic Center: Heritage and Controversial Memories

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

In this paper, we present the results of a research project that deals with the controversial memories of historic urban landscapes that have been designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO. We observe - through the study of social representations of Mex ...

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIV, INST PAEDAGOGIK & PSYCHOLOGIE2020

Exponential Collapse Of Social Beliefs Over Weakly-Connected Heterogeneous Networks

Ali H. Sayed, Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos

We consider a distributed social learning problem where a network of agents is interested in selecting one among a finite number of hypotheses. The data collected by the agents might be heterogeneous, meaning that different sub-networks might observe data ...

IEEE2019

Entangled Memories in the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing

Florence Graezer Bideau

In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalize, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with it. As a result, more than one hundred households living in 66 tradit ...

2019

Dynamics of MOOC Discussion Forums

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

In this integrated study of dynamics in MOOCs discussion forums, we analyze the interplay of temporal patterns, discussion content, and the social structure emerging from the communication using mixed methods. A special focus is on the yet under-explored a ...

2017

Historic Urban Landscape

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Within the UNESCO Recommendation of 2011, the historic urban landscape is defined as: “The urban area understood as the result of a historic layering of cultural and natural values and attributes, extending beyond the notion of “historic center” or “ensemb ...

2015

Human Interaction Discovery in Smartphone Proximity Networks

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Since humans are fundamentally social beings and interact frequently with others in their daily life, understanding social context is of primary importance in building context-aware applications. In this paper, using smartphone Bluetooth as a proximity sen ...

Springer London Ltd2013

GroupUs: Smartphone Proximity Data and Human Interaction Type Mining

Daniel Gatica-Perez

There is an increasing interest in analyzing social interaction from mobile sensor data, and smartphones are rapidly becoming the most attractive sensing option. We propose a new probabilistic relational model to analyze long-term dynamic social networks c ...

2011

Un hôtel à Sigliano (AR), Italie

Albert Schrurs

L'énoncé théorique, portant sur les fantasmes hôteliers au travers d'un voyage dans la littérature et le cinéma, nous a permis de découvrir les univers magiques que peuvent offrir les hôtels et comment le programme a évolué au cours du temps pour s'adapter ...

2009

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