Market orientation of business schools: a development opportunity for the business model of University Business Schools in transition countries

Rosi, Maja; Tuček, David; Potočan, Vojko; Jurše, Milan

doi:10.15240/tul/001/2018-4-012

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“…The business model concept, although designed primarily for the private sector, has recently been explored in the field of universities [11,12,29]. For example, some research has examined how entrepreneurial activities developed by HEIs contribute to shape their business model [11].…”

Section: Digital Transformation Business Model Innovation and Heimentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Transformation for Business Model Innovation in Higher Education: Overcoming the Tensions

2020

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The higher education sector is in the eye of the hurricane of the digital revolution, immersed as it is in an ongoing digital transformation (DT) process that is expected to result in significant changes in the current business model. Despite the relevance of this transformation, little remains known about how the business model is innovated (BMI), due to the impact of digital transformation in the context of higher education institutions (HEI). This research explores the impact of DT on the HEI business model, through analyzing the case of a traditional university, conceived non-digitally. The results present the HEI understanding of DT, the main tensions arising from the DT process for each of the business model dimensions, and the anticipated solutions for solving these tensions. Additionally, the results uncover the existence of an emergent (non-formalized) envisioned business model, which is a visualization of how the current business model is expected to be innovated, due to the impact of DT. The main originality of this paper is in addressing a research gap at the intersection of DT and BMI in the HEI context.

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Section: Digital Transformation Business Model Innovation and Heimentioning

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Digital Transformation for Business Model Innovation in Higher Education: Overcoming the Tensions

2020

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“…For example, many authors consider the values of higher education from the viewpoint of economics, financial profit achieved by university and return of investment (Freeman, 1981;D'Aguiar & Harrison, 2016;Agiomirgianakis et al, 2018;etc.). Other authors consider the values from the viewpoint of marketing and/or marketization of university (Rosi et al, 2018;Sellar, 2013;Tomlinson, 2018). Other authors (including the authors of this paper) consider university values from the viewpoint of psychology, sociology, management and behaviorism (Miller & Nadler, 2016;Watts, 2017;O'Doherty et al, 2019).…”

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Relations of University Values and Competences of University Teachers

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Tumová

Blaško

2019

Journal of Intercultural Management

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Objective: The paper deals with the theoretical and empirical examination of university values in relation to key competences of university teachers. The combination of values that universities should prioritize and the competences that university teachers should possess is seen in the paper as an important precondition for improving the quality and acceleration of modern university progress. The theoretical part analyzes, compares and synthesizes opinions on key terms examined in the paper, i.e. higher education, university, values, and competences. The empirical part presents, on the one hand, the results of the questionnaire survey aimed at defining important university values. The survey was carried out on a sample of n = 279 students of the University of Žilina, Slovak Republic, and obtained 1,786 statements on crucial values or sub-values of the university. On the other hand, based on results of the previous survey (n = 27 university teachers) which was targeted on key competences of the great university teachers, the empirical part seeks to experimentally link university key values with teachers’ key competences. Methodology: Analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, questionnaire survey, thinking experiment. Hypothesis H1: University values defined by students will be repeated in the survey, i.e. student views on the core values of university will be identical or similar in content. Negation hypothesis H0: University values defined by students will not be repeated in the survey. Findings: Respondents reported a total of n0 = 1,786 statements regarding the university values or sub-values. A substantial consensus was found: many of values were repeated for respondents. Defined values were subsequently grouped: from the initially defined n1 = 229 values, n2 = 32 complex values were generated. This leads to a rejection of H0, in favor of H1: the university values generated by students are similar in the content. The results in the evaluative question confirmed the assumption that respondents considered most important mostly those values that the previous open question most frequently reported. Although depending on the study program is always the quality of education in the first place of importance, the order of importance of other values varies to some extent. Value Added: Opinions on university teachers’ competences and university’s values were discussed. Experimental linking of university values to competences of teachers was performed based on the survey results conducted by the authors in 2012 (this one consisted of three sequential interviews/workshops with teachers of University of Žilina). A logical conclusion was formulated: All the university teachers and scientists are becoming authorities competent to build, preserve and transform universal knowledge into an ever-higher level. Recommendations: A conclusion of the paper contains the characteristics recommended for achieve an effective process of developing university competences.

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“…The factor of access to financial resources has been investigated in several studies. The results indicate that women, upon entering small businesses and establishments, encounter some limitations in accessing formal and informal financial resources (Heinzen et al, 2019;Rosi et al, 2018;Tummers, 2016;Haltiwanger et al, 2013). The advent of urban entrepreneurship compliant with the scaling of city policies toward economic growth and local government participation is to be adequately considered (Zellweger et al, 2019;Ziyae, 2018;Qian and Haynes, 2014;Arregle et al, 2012).…”

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A framework of urban entrepreneurship for women breadwinners

Ziyae

Sadeghi

Nejad

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Purpose Today, urban entrepreneurship is considered one of the vital strategies that directed cities toward self-control by reducing the unemployment rate and its arising problems, creating sustainable revenue and preparing the ground for citizens’ independence. This paper aims to present an integrated foresight framework and establish the boundary conditions for urban entrepreneurship of women breadwinners. The study explains how particular women solve workplace-specific poverty and foster urban wealth by developing startups, new businesses or ventures. Design/methodology/approach The current research uses a qualitative method and uses the grounded theory approach. Data were collected by selecting 24 outstanding women entrepreneurs using snowball sampling and semi-structured interviews in Tehran Metropolitan. Findings The results of the study reveal that the main aspects of the model of urban entrepreneurship consist of causal factors, intervening factors and contextual conditions. By shaping the policies and organizing educational plans, training courses and empowering of women, as well as the establishment of supportive units for the development, identification of the opportunities, developing protective rules, the factors as mentioned above lead to cultural, social and economic development, tendency toward entrepreneurship and development of entrepreneurship among women. Originality/value This study undertakes a first of its kind cross-disciplinary conceptual analysis at the level of how women breadwinners foster urban wealth using developing new businesses, startups or ventures. Despite the importance of urban entrepreneurship, theories for understanding the nexus of urban contexts remain underdeveloped. Therefore, there is still a theoretical gap and lack of research; hence, the current study tries to shed light on the topic and fill this gap in the body of knowledge.

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Market orientation of business schools: a development opportunity for the business model of University Business Schools in transition countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Digital Transformation for Business Model Innovation in Higher Education: Overcoming the Tensions

Digital Transformation for Business Model Innovation in Higher Education: Overcoming the Tensions

Relations of University Values and Competences of University Teachers

A framework of urban entrepreneurship for women breadwinners

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