Common method variance (CMV) is the amount of spurious correlation between variables that is created by using the same method-often a survey-to measure each variable. CMV may lead to erroneous conclusions about relationships between variables by inflating or deflating findings. We analyzed recent survey research in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management to assess if and how scholars address CMV. We found that two-thirds of the relevant articles published between 2001 and 2009 did not formally address CMV, and many that did address CMV relied on relatively weak remedies. These findings have troubling implications for efforts to build knowledge within information technology, operations and supply chain management research. In an effort to strengthen future research designs, we provide recommendations to help scholars to better address CMV. Given the potentially severe effects of CMV, authors should apply the recommended CMV remedies within their survey-based studies, and reviewers should hold authors accountable when they fail to do so.

Addressing Common Method Variance: Guidelines for Survey Research on Information Technology, Operations, and Supply Chain Management

This paper reports a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the effects of speakers’ accents on interpersonal evaluations. Our review of the published literature uncovered 20 studies that have compared the effects of standard accents (i.e., the accepted accent of the majority population) versus non-standard accents (i.e., accents that are considered foreign or spoken by minorities) on evaluations about the speakers. These 20 studies yielded 116 independent effect sizes on an array of characteristics that were selected by the original researchers. We classified each of the characteristics as belonging to one of three domains that have been traditionally discussed in this area, namely status (e.g., intelligence, social class), solidarity (trustworthiness, in-group–out-group member), and dynamism (level of activity and liveliness). The effect was particularly strong when American Network accented speakers were compared with non–standard-accented speakers. These results underscore prior research showing that speakers’ accents have powerful effects on how others perceive them. These and other results are discussed in the context of the literature along with implications for future research in this area. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

A meta-analysis of the effects of speakers' accents on interpersonal evaluations

"The Random House Dictionary of the English Language"に於ける新語の実例

Research literature in career and technical education is replete with studies using survey research as a means of seeking answers to any number of different questions. On occasion, however, one wishes to collect opinions of experts and, to the greatest extent possible, achieve consensus among them. For example, consensus among educators in a specific area about what technologies should be taught in today's technology-based world would be important to many educators and their students. This goal presents a unique research situation.

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The Delphi Technique: a research strategy for career and technical education

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine knowledge-sharing phenomena from the perspective of recipients’ characteristics. Specifically, this study examines the influence of knowledge recipients’ competence, learning attitude and personal relationship with knowledge sharer on knowledge sharers’ willingness to share. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted two studies, a scenario experimental study and a field survey study to test their hypotheses about the effects of recipients’ characteristics on knowledge sharers’ willingness to share. Findings – The results revealed that recipients’ characteristics play different roles in different situations (responsive and proactive knowledge sharing) in triggering the knowledge sharers’ motivation to share. In responsive knowledge sharing, a recipient’s learning attitude and personal relationship with the knowledge sharer affected the sharer’s willingness to share. In proactive knowledge sharing, a recipient’s professional ability and personal re...

With whom shall I share my knowledge? A recipient perspective of knowledge sharing

Problem: The business education literature isn't accessible Research Questions: Which business education periodicals do vital business educators perceive to be more useful? In which databases and/or indices are they found? How much literature is fugitive? What strategies might increase literature accessibility? Research Method: Delphi technique Data Collection Procedures: A survey was distributed to 25 vital business educators Results: The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal and the NABTE Review were rated as essential to the profession; nine periodicals were rated as very useful; and six periodicals were rated as useful Eleven databases and indices were identified as potentially useful Conclusions: Approximately 37% of the studied periodicals are fugitive, confirming literature inaccessibility Recommendations: Strategies to increase the accessibility of the business education literature include libraries carefully selecting complementary databases, getting periodicals indexed, placing periodical tables of contents on the web, improving fugitive-literature retrieval skills, and developing an electronic business education database Introduction THE BUSINESS EDUCATION LITERATURE, the lifeblood of the profession, is no longer readily accessible As Blaszczynski and Scott (2003a) observed, "With the demise of The Business Education Index, a serious problem in accessing the business education literature has been created" (p 23) Even using a series of electronic databases will not retrieve many pieces of relevant business education literature, suggesting that a significant portion of business education literature is fugitive literature, literature that exists although most business educators do not know that it exists or how to go about retrieving it (J C Scott, personal communication, August 16, 2005) The challenge facing business educators is to make more of their literature known and accessible than it is currently Literature Review Blaszczynski (2001) found that prolific business education researchers use the literature extensively Often they turn to online electronic sources to replace print-based sources and indices However, Miller (1997) pointed out a widespread myth in both academe and society at large: "All information is now available electronically" (p A44) The business education literature is not comprehensively covered in major electronic databases (Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003a; Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003b), creating a major problem for business educators who are relying on databases without fully understanding their shortcomings, including limited coverage of business education periodicals According to Anderson and Perez-Carballo (2005), Ever since humankind learned how to record messages on portable long-lasting media-clay tablets, papyrus, much later paper and more recently various electronic media-we have devised ways to describe and organize these messages so that they could be found, used and enjoyed later on (p 7) However, for some disciplines, including business education (Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003a; Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003b), technical and professional communication (Smith, 1996), and others, the coverage of the discipline in electronic databases is woefully incomplete and inadequate Mann (1993) observed If a system makes only some sources easily available-especially if those sources are very superficial or of poor quality-then it can do real damage to the quality of research, for it will encourage users simply to make do with whatever resources are readily retrievable within it, regardless of their quality or completeness (p 92) Blaszczynski and Scott (2003a) found, among other things, that "no database or index provides anything approximating full coverage of the 18 business education-related periodicals in which the studied authors had disseminated their business education-related research and writing between 1999 and 2001" (p …

Vital Business Educators' Perceptions about the Usefulness of Business Education Periodicals: Making the Relevant Literature More Accessible.

Perceptions about Representative English-Language Accents from Prospective and Practicing Providers of Business-Related Language Services in Argentina.

A Qualitative Exploration of the Organizational Humor Used by Social Care Managers in England.

Values and Assumptions of Business Subcultures: A Neglected Aspect of Business Communication Instruction

A Delphi panel of 22 U.S.-based international business communication experts rated 57 international business communication action statements using a 5-point Likert-type scale of importance. They rated 17 of these action statements as major ones. Factor analysis grouped the action statements into the following 11 factors that impact international business communication: Business Language, Instructional Guidelines, International Standards, Desirable Standards, Instructional Goals, Research Goals, Business-World Dimensions, Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Business Foreign Language, Broadening Background, and Business Language Differences. A statistically significant difference (p > .05) was found between the factor of Business Language Differences and the demographic characteristic of level of academic degree.

James Calvert Scott

Papers

Vital Business Educators' Perceptions about the Usefulness of Business Education Periodicals: Making the Relevant Literature More Accessible.

Perceptions about Representative English-Language Accents from Prospective and Practicing Providers of Business-Related Language Services in Argentina.

A Qualitative Exploration of the Organizational Humor Used by Social Care Managers in England.

Values and Assumptions of Business Subcultures: A Neglected Aspect of Business Communication Instruction

U.S. Experts' Perceptions on International Business Communication Action Statements