Abstract This study attempts to establish the importance of specific formally achieved higher skills for innovation intensity in firms across a group European countries. Innovation expenditures are calculated as ratio turnover and main explanatory variable is proportion highly skilled employees (tertiary education ICT-oriented or other fields). The analysis employs official data on activities (...

The affiliation is missing for the sixth author. Laura Otero-García is affiliated with #4 and #6. There are errors in affiliation 4 for authors Carmen Vives-Cases and Laura Otero-García and in affiliation 6 for author Laura Otero-García. Affiliation 4 should be: CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. Affiliation 6 should be: Nursing Section, Faculty of Medicine, Unive...

Business Process Management (BPM) can improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency by optimizing the performance of cross-functional processes. Despite its potential, BPM deployment success has been mixed, due in part to the substantial changes required within the organization. Three changes considered necessary for BPM deployment success include a properly defined business process organ...

of dominance and affiliation in social organization. Videotapes of one group of boys (N = 12) and one group of girls (N = 12) were coded. The results indicated that for both male and female groups, it was possible to specify dominance, leadership initiation, and leadership organization hierarchies. Moreover, there was a highly convergent pattern among multiple indicators of social organization ...

You walk into a crowded negotiation room. Who do you notice? Who do you later remember? Do you try to fit in, or attempt to stand out from others? Do you accept the first reasonable offer, or do you balk at that offer? The answers likely depend critically on your current motivational state. Emerging evidence shows that a person’s behavior differs—sometimes dramatically—depending on whether that...

This study tests the hypothesis that high levels of high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) predisposes individuals to affiliate with new groups. Resting cardiac physiological recordings were taken before and after experimental sessions to measure trait high-frequency heart rate variability as an index of dispositional autonomic influence on heart rate. Following an experimental manipula...

For many species, dyadic interaction during courtship and pair bonding engage intense emotional states that control approach or avoidance behavior. Previous studies have shown that one component of a common social brain network (SBN), dopaminergic areas, are highly engaged during male songbird courtship of females. We tested whether the level of activity in dopaminergic systems of both females ...