Nick ChandlerBudapest Business School | BGF · Entrepreneurship and Human Resources
Nick Chandler
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Introduction
Current research interests:
Higher education and entrepreneurship, employer demand vs. university supply, GEM data analysis, the nature of the craft entrepreneur.
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A társas-érzelmi vagyon (röviden: TÉV) kitüntetett szerepet élvez a családi vállalkozási elméletek között, köszönhetően a családi vállalkozásokat a nem családiaktól megkülönböztető szerepének. A társas-érzelmi vagyon koncepciója 2007 óta széles körben használt a családi vállalkozások sajátosságainak magyarázatára, miközben a nemzetközi tudományos k...
The pandemic has had not only economic, social and environmental implications, but also appeared to put our leaders, whether of companies or countries, in a new light. People questioned why and how decisions were made, why some countries reacted differently to others in the pandemic. The resulting outcome was a mixture of failed expectations, uncer...
This study investigates the motives of Hungarian early-stage entrepreneurs and the relationship between these motives and aspects of the entrepreneurial personality. Using the 2021 GEM data, it is found that key motives for these entrepreneurs are both push and pull: ‘making a difference in the world’ and ‘earning a living because jobs are scarce’....
In a higher education institution, perceptions and values are split due to the emergence of subcultures, and market orientation is split into competitive, customer (student) and interfunctional orientation. This study seeks to shed light on the concept of market orientation in this context through a comparison of perceptions and values of market or...
This chapter presents an extensive review of the literature for a number of key areas for examining the family businessFamily business in the context of a learningLearning organisation and how knowledge managementKnowledge management practices in family businesses may be considered as an important indicator of central elements of a learning organis...
In challenging times, the need for innovation is heightened and stems from employees who exhibit intrapreneurial characteristics. Not every corporate culture is a suitable environment for intrapreneurial behavior. This study examines the relationship between potential entrepreneurial behavior and preferred culture type. Through a principal componen...
The aim of this study is to examine how bankruptcy prediction models forecast financial strength for family businesses. Three predictive tests are used to study financial strength for three consecutive years (2016, 2017 and 2018) for a sample of 462,200 active Hungarian companies using the Amadeus database and expert data. Complex statistical model...
Although differentiating which employers are the best to work for is not a new concept, employer branding has been in greater focus since the term was first used in 1996. More recently, increasingly sophisticated communication methods, technology and services have all changed the environment in which the employer brand is devised, developed and com...
Our study explores which characteristics (norms, values and principles) relating to responsible leadership are evoked between the founder and the successor during succession in family businesses. We undertake a dyadic (predecessor-successor) approach through 24 semi-structured interviews at 10 family firms in Hungary to identify these characteristi...
Two contrasting views exist regarding subcultures: the classical view and the post-subcultural perspective of subcultures as “neo-tribes.” However, there is scarcity of empirical studies of organizational studies with the latter perspective. This study aims to examine whether there is sufficient evidence for subcultures to be considered as “neo-tri...
This study focuses on employer attractiveness, namely the attributes that motivate job-seekers to apply for a job and the demographic variables that may affect employer attractiveness. The demographics of age, gender, years worked, and the faculty/study-related variables are examined through a quantitative approach with a sample of 1056 Hungarian s...
The paper aims to examine the role of human capital in ensuring the successor’s readiness for intra-family succession in Hungarian family businesses. Existing research has neglected the readiness of successors in the succession process of family businesses. The paper presents an integrated framework of the seemingly fragmented elements. The study f...
Welcome to the reader/training materials for the module Fundamentals of SME Management. These materials introduce the reader to key concepts, models, ideas and
academic debate that are key to understanding the nature, management and workings
of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Established ‘classic’ business models are outlined,
and contemporary aca...
The objective of this study was to uncover the nature of subcultures in a higher education institution in Hungary with a mixed-method approach. Following a quantitative repeated cross-section study in 2011 and 2016, it was found that in spite of significant change drivers both externally and internally, there was little change in culture on the org...
Számos szerző rámutat arra, hogy a hallgatói csalás különböző formái folyamatosan és széles körben jelen vannak a felsőoktatásban. Ez a jelenség több szinten is nagy jelentőségű: egyik oldalról a csalás és annak kezelése komoly etikai és fegyelmi dilemmákat vethet fel az érintett intézmények, oktatók, adminisztrátorok és diákok számára, másik oldal...
Paternalistic leadership as a more humanistic type of autocratic style has long been identified in leadership research. However there is quite a lot of disagreement on the evaluation of such leadership: most Asian studies on the topic identifies it as a desirable type, which is quite the contrary to most Western research results. Research suggests...
The main aim of this chapter is to provide insight into how HRMactivities (e.g. reward management, performance management, recruitment and selection) can affect organisational culture and how organisational culture, in turn, can affect the approaches to HRM activities, with a special emphasis on the operational perspective of HRM. Once we have cons...
Practitioners and researchers have agreed upon the fact that the culture of organizations is one of the most difficult challenges and holds the key to the success of knowledge management. The basis for formation of subcultures has been found in empirical studies to range from age and gender though to department and function within the organization...
With the withdrawal of state funding for students of business-related topics in 2012, Hungarian business schools have been under increased pressure to become market-oriented, especially as enrolment levels have at times shown a 50% decline in applications for business-related studies. With the assumption of subcultures existing in a large complex o...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how organisational culture has changed between 2011 and 2016 in a higher education institution (HEI) that has been faced with both significant internal and external changes. There are three areas to be examined: the change in culture on an organisational level, the demographic changes in the workforc...
In this paper we conduct an extensive review of empirical evidence for the basis of formation of subcultures. We then consider the potential type of formation in the case of a higher education institution through a longitudinal study undertaken in 2011 and 2016. The findings indicate no single basis for the formation of subcultures. This leads us t...
In this paper we conduct an extensive review of empirical evidence for the basis of formation of subcultures. We then consider the potential type of formation in the case of a higher education institution through a longitudinal study undertaken in 2011 and 2016. The findings indicate no single basis for the formation of subcultures. This leads us t...
Several scholars (Anderman and Murdock, 2011; Davis et al. 2011; Lang 2013) point to the fact that student cheating is prevalent in higher education institutions. This widespread (and often collectively practiced) student activity not only cast a shadow on the validity of the degrees offered by these institutions, but also raises the question of wh...
This chapter presents the key concepts and perspectives involving cultural diversity in large
organisations. The concept of a large homogenous organisations culture is questioned using the case study of a large Higher Educational Institution and arguments are made for adopting a differentiation perspective. With this new perspective, employee subcu...
Higher education in Central Europe has been scrutinised from many different perspectives during the last 30 years. In our analysis, we focus solely on Hungary and specifically on two key areas: governance and organisational structure. Using an analytical model proposed by Leisyte (2014), we analyse how the governance and organisational structure of...
Hungarian Higher education has gone through many changes over the past five years. Our literature review part indicates that these changes are likely to have an impact on the organisational culture. Using the same methodology as our previous study in 2011 we explore the changes in organisational culture through our snapshots of the organisational c...
The study focuses on two features of family businesses (FBs), namely familiness and paternalism. These two concepts are inseparable in two ways: inseparable from family businesses and also from each other. Family businesses differ from one another in the degree of family involvement, leadership and management in the business.
Paternalism as a leade...
This study examines the organisational culture in the Budapest Business School. Hungarian Higher education has gone through many changes over the past five years, with the most significant being changes in financing, structure and the composition of the workforce. These changes are likely to have an impact on the organisational culture. Using the s...
In this study we investigate the generational differences between students and language teachers in the setting of Hungarian higher education through a review of the literature and an empirical study of the motivations and preferences of the millennial generation i.e. the current generation of students in Higher education in Hungary.
The findings o...
Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, this study seeks to explore the diversity of culture amongst the staff of a business school in Hungary and then examine how this diversity may impact upon the organisation’s orientations towards three aspects of market orientation: interfunctional cooperation; competition and the student...
Existing research into generational differences in Hungary was based primarily on adapting findings from
studies undertaken in Western Countries. If we consider not only the comparative history and wealth but also
the cultural differences between Hungary and the countries in which these studies took place, then the apparent
adaptability is brought...
When a subculture claims a territory for its own, they are not only drawing up the boundaries for outsiders but also identifying themselves with a given territory. Given the empirical evidence for the existence of organisational subcultures in large complex organisations, notions of subcultural territory and boundaries present themselves as signifi...
The term 'agile' has been used in various workplace settings, and more recently in relation to the management of universities. We consider the meaning of this term and consider how its context of facilitating more creative problem-solving and enhancing the tailoring and maintenance of innovative organizational processes may apply in higher educatio...
Regardless of the size of an organization, collaboration has become a fundamental element with regard to engagement between the organization and internal and external stakeholders. With the rapid advance of communication technologies and the free-flow of information, the concept of collaboration extends beyond physical locations and time zones in t...
A tanulmány célja egy felsőoktatási intézmény példáján keresztül azonosítani és megvizsgálni a szubkultúrákat, illetve azok hatását a piacorientált működésre. A szerzők a szubkultúrák azonosítását követően bemutatják a szubkultúrák természetét, különös tekintettel a homogenitással és heterogenitással való viszonyukra. Tanulmányuk a piacorientációt...
Ivory Towers are Falling? The Analysis of the Changing Social and Economic Role of Higher Education
Institutions Using the Case of a Business School
The role of Higher Education Institutions is in a radical change all over the world. Social, economic and public
pressures are forcing these organisations to question their beliefs of hundreds of years...
The aim of this paper is to review the literature concerning the key factors affecting a post-merger organisation from the aspect of market orientation and organisational culture as a means of developing a conceptual framework. In the context of a large complex organisation (a Higher Education Institution), the literature indicates that there is a...
Through a review of the reasons and types of changes in higher education, this paper seeks to analyse the types of resistance to organisational change. Through extensive analysis of the findings of existing case studies, it is found that certain factors are commonly experienced by staff as key triggers for resistance to change, namely, the nature o...
Some writers contend that HEIs have set a course for a new era of
‘academic capitalism’. Students are becoming referred to as the ‘raw
materials’ by some HEIs and as ‘customers’ who need to be attracted
and then their demands satisfied by others. A new era in any research
field would appear to indicate a need for further study, however if the
natur...
This paper considers the Mintzberg's entrepreneurial school through the application to a case study and considers the differences between theory and reality. Differences are highlighted concerning issues such as the strategy of this School tending to take the form of a niche, protected from forces of outright competition, that strategy making is do...
Over the last decade, HEIs (higher education institutions) around the world have undergone transformation for a number of reasons, including mergers and acquisitions. The reasons for this vary from remaining competitive in an ever-increasingly competitive academic environment to being forced to do so. With deeply engrained traditions, long tenures...
Nicholas.chandler@pszfb.bgf.hu Like any other organisation, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are subject to change due to a plethora of internal and external environmental factors. Over the past few decades universities and colleges have had to become more market-orientated and, like any other organisation, have had to adapt to modern technolog...
Higher education institutions have complex cultures with subcultures forming due to a variety of factors such as occupation ,department, faculty, discipline and location. This paper considers the added complexities of merged cultures in higher educational institutions and an appropriate methodology for identifying the make-up of HEI culture as well...
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Looking for the variety of ways that could be used to cluster values of employees in a large complex organisation into subcultures.
So far, I have used Hierarchical Cluster Analysis with Ward's method.
We have identified subcultures in 2011 and 2016 with quanatitative methods: Hierarchical custer analysis (Ward's method), and are now considering a suitable qualitative method to examine subcultures further. First thoughts are to set up focus groups of members from each subculture, present them with scenarios / problems and see what values, perceptions and behaviours arise from problem solving. It might also show the degree of variance of values and perceptions within subcultures.
Scenarios would be in a higher education setting dealing with future directions of the orgnanisation, importance of students, competition, cooperation, staff, and issues specific to Hungary.
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Dear Colleagues,
The Guest Editor invites you to submit publications for a Special Issue on Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics in Finance. The existing economic literature is diverse in economic modelling; however, in this turbulent world with volatile market indicators there is a space for discussion about the measurement of equilibrium. This Special Issue will cover, inter alia, financial themes related to financial (money market, stock exchange and foreign exchange) markets; ESG-related financing; green, social and sustainable financing; asset-based financing; trade finance; commodity finance; project and structured financing; financing of service industries; financing of sovereign debts; as well as innovative financing solutions like FinTech or WealthTech.
Modelling and methodologies of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
Stochastic modelling of monetary transmission mechanisms;
Modelling of independent and identically distributed time series or power law distributions, etc. for capital market instruments (i.e., stock indices, bonds, FX rates) or macroeconomic indicators (i.e., inflation, industrial production, GDP);
Parametric or non-parametric modelling of economic bubbles or other monetary anomalies;
Non-linear, exponential and asymmetric generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (NGARCH, EGARCH, APARCH, GJRGARCH, TARCH and GARCH) models to predict the volatility of returns on financial assets;
Applying generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models to measure market shock and autoregressive distributive lagged (ARDL) regression model to display COVID-19 measurements and stock indexes performance relationship;
Model-based and estimation-based approaches for equilibrium exchange rates over the short-, mid- and long-term horizons (PPP, UIP, CHEER, etc. models);
Understanding the role of shocks: structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) approaches to the foreign exchange rate;
Predicting price behaviors with vector autoregression (VAR) model, ridge regression, etc.;
Modelling the financial accounts and the reserve assets within the balance of payments (e.g., with quantile regression);
Modelling FX rates within conventional and non-conventional monetary policy regimes.
Application of non-linear threshold autoregressive (TAR), smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) or Markov-switching (MS) models for regime change;
Analyzing co-movements among financial market indicators (i.e., FY rates or stock indices) with dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) or copulas;
Exploring risk contagion using graph theory and Markov chains;
Logit and probit models for sovereign or corporate bankruptcy prediction;
Modelling behavioral aspects of banking services, the occurrence of Fintech in commercial and investment banking.
Dr. Judit Sági
Dr. Nick Chandler
Guest Editors
Link to details: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/risks/special_issues/Stochastic_Modeling_Computational_Statistics_Finance
In an attempt to enhance my development as a researcher, I have been accepted onto the Editorial Board of a small Journal called the International Journal of Business Research and Management, which has been started at the University of Rome.
Therefore, I am looking for researchers for the Reviewer Board for the occasional review of articles. It is a small journal so the reviews would be few and far between, but if any researchers here on Researchgate are interested, please email me at: chandler.nicholas@uni-bge.hu
Journal details can be found here: http://www.cscjournals.org/journals/IJBRM/description.php
Goals are:
1) Collate literature on 'shadows' in leadership and management
2) Review and build synthesized model
3) Test model with groups
