Showing papers by "Texas Christian University published in 2004"
TL;DR: The authors argue that service provision rather than goods is fundamental to economic exchange and argue that the new perspectives are converging to form a new dominant logic for marketing, one in which service provision is fundamental for economic exchange.
Abstract: Marketing inherited a model of exchange from economics, which had a dominant logic based on the exchange of “goods,” which usually are manufactured output The dominant logic focused on tangible resources, embedded value, and transactions Over the past several decades, new perspectives have emerged that have a revised logic focused on intangible resources, the cocreation of value, and relationships The authors believe that the new perspectives are converging to form a new dominant logic for marketing, one in which service provision rather than goods is fundamental to economic exchange The authors explore this evolving logic and the corresponding shift in perspective for marketing scholars, marketing practitioners, and marketing educators
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TL;DR: The authors argue that these characteristics do not distinguish services from goods, only have meaning from a manufacturing perspective, and imply inappropriate normative strategies, and suggest that advances made by service scholars can provide a foundation for a more service-dominant view of all exchange from which more appropriate normative strategies can be developed.
Abstract: Marketing was originally built on a goods-centered, manufacturing-based model of economic exchange developed during the Industrial Revolution. Since its beginning, marketing has been broadening its perspective to include the exchange of more than manufactured goods. The subdiscipline of service marketing has emerged to address much of this broadened perspective, but it is built on the same goods and manufacturing-based model. The influence of this model is evident in the prototypical characteristics that have been identified as distinguishing services from goods—intangibility, inseparability, heterogeneity, and perishability. The authors argue that these characteristics (a) do not distinguish services from goods, (b) only have meaning from a manufacturing perspective, and (c) imply inappropriate normative strategies. They suggest that advances made by service scholars can provide a foundation for a more service-dominant view of all exchange from which more appropriate normative strategies can be developed...
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TL;DR: Applications of the treatment model for incorporating science-based innovations into clinical practice for improving early engagement and retention, performance measurements of patient progress, program monitoring and management using aggregated patient records, and organizational functioning and systems change also are addressed.
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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study was conducted to examine in-depth the young girl's mall experience, and a theoretical model was developed from the findings that included some factors that have been examined in previous research, such as mall atmosphere and utilitarian and hedonic shopping motives.
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TL;DR: This article analyzed the relationship between the outsourcing of human resource (HR) activities, namely training and payroll, and firm performance, and found that both outsourcing and payroll outsourcing have implications for firm performance.
227 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how education, experience, and job skills influenced performance of these managers, and how performance in turn influenced the worth of the manager to the firm. But neither experience nor education was found to significantly affect performance.
Abstract: Hiring and retaining the best employees - human capital - is a challenge. This recent study addressed the long-standing problem of finding sufficient numbers of quality logistics managers to fill logistics jobs. The research examined how education, experience, and job skills influence performance of these managers, and how performance in turn influences the worth of the manager to the firm. As hypothesized, job skills were found to be good predictors of both logistics manager performance and worth. However, neither experience nor education was found to significantly affect performance. Managerial implications are also provided.
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TL;DR: Data suggest that exogenously supplied CoQ(10) can play a significant anti-aging function and may do so either by acting as an antioxidant to dismutate the free radical superoxide anion or by reducing the uncoupling of reactions during election transport that could otherwise result in superoxideAnion production.
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TL;DR: The authors developed a microeconomic model of the AP participation decision and found that low income is the single most important factor behind the minority AP participation gap and that minority students enroll in AP math, science, and English at lower rates than comparable white students.
186 citations
TL;DR: Widespread intraplate magmatism during Rodinia assembly shows that mantle upwellings required to generate such provinces may occur independently of the supercontinent cycle.
Abstract: We show that intraplate magmatism occurred 1106 to 1112 million years ago over an area of two million square kilometers within the Kalahari craton of southern Africa, during the same magnetic polarity chron as voluminous magmatism within the cratonic core of North America. These contemporaneous magmatic events occurred while the Rodinia supercontinent was being assembled and are inferred to be parts of a single large igneous province emplaced across the two cratons. Widespread intraplate magmatism during Rodinia assembly shows that mantle upwellings required to generate such provinces may occur independently of the supercontinent cycle.
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TL;DR: Recent methodological advancements for structural equation modeling were used to test a comprehensive version of the TCU Treatment Model, especially for addressing the hypothesized sequential relationships of early engagement components and early recovery that contribute to retention and posttreatment recovery.
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TL;DR: This paper conducted interviews with fortyone entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and government officials all working with fast growth entrepreneurial firms in East Asia and found that these practices are hindering the building of firms that can be taken public and experience the high growth consistent with vibrant entrepreneurial firms.
Abstract: Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs in East Asia have achieved notable success in a number of traditional, slow growth industries. This success has been ascribed to distinctive aspects of Chinese business culture that favor alacrity, adaptability, networking, and close control of firm operations. Recently, some have suggested that the same characteristics that have promoted these firms' success in slower growth sectors may hinder firm success in faster growth sectors of the economy. To explore this proposition, we conducted in-depth interviews with forty-one entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and government officials all working with fast growth entrepreneurial firms in East Asia. The results suggest that, in general, Overseas Chinese entrepreneurial firms also follow many of the traditional business practices associated with Overseas Chinese firms. Most venture capitalists and government officials in the sample expressed concern that these practices are hindering the building of firms that can be taken public and experience the high growth consistent with vibrant entrepreneurial firms. The results also showed that the Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs sampled are aware that some of these characteristics may be creating constraints to faster growth and, at the behest of venture capitalists and government officials, are sometimes making the changes thought necessary to create faster growth firms.
TL;DR: The results suggest that the mechanisms of sensitization may play a considerable role in drug-induced alterations of the perception of time in rats, and that stimulant-induced increases in clock speed can be sensitized.
Abstract: The roles that psychostimulant sensitization and tolerance play in temporal perception in the seconds-to-minutes range were assessed in rats. Cocaine (20 mg/kg/day) was administered for 2 weeks either intermittently via daily injections (induces sensitization) or continuously via an osmotic minipump (induces tolerance). Interval timing was evaluated throughout administration and withdrawal. Injections of cocaine caused immediate, proportional, leftward shifts in peak times, indicating an increase in the speed of an internal clock. These shifts grew progressively larger with repeated administration, indicating that stimulant-induced increases in clock speed can be sensitized. Continuous cocaine administration produced no reliable effects. These results suggest that the mechanisms of sensitization may play a considerable role in drug-induced alterations of the perception of time.
TL;DR: It is concluded that the increased myostatin in response to cortisol and/or resistance training appears to have no effects on training-induced increases in muscle strength and mass.
Abstract: WILLOUGHBY, D. S. Effects of Heavy Resistance Training on Myostatin mRNA and Protein Expression. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 574–582, 2004.PurposeMyostatin is a negative regulator of muscle mass and its effects seem to be exacerbated by glucocorticoids; however, its response
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined an alternative perspective to behavior-based management control in sales organizations and found that salespeople who work under a more visible control system (high control) perform better, are more satisfied, and display lower burnout and role stress, compared to salespeople working under bureaucratic, clan, and low control combinations.
TL;DR: Pb baddeleyite crystallization ages of ~1927 and ~1879 to ~1872 Ma for dolerite sills intruding the Waterberg Group in Botswana and South Africa were reported in this article.
Abstract: We report U–Pb baddeleyite crystallization ages of ~1927 and ~1879 to ~1872 Ma for dolerite sills intruding the Waterberg Group in Botswana and South Africa. These data increase the known extent of ~1.9 Ga intraplate magmatism in southern Africa and place tighter age constraints on the Waterberg Group than previously available. In South Africa, ~1.88 Ga dolerite intrudes upper Waterberg strata, constraining most, if not all, of the succession to have accumulated between ~2.06 Ga (age of the underlying Bushveld Complex) and ~1.88 Ga. This is consistent with derivation of much of the group from uplifted sources in reactivated segments of the Limpopo Belt. The dolerites are typical continental tholeiites, but their trace-element contents discriminate them from dolerite sills of the 1.1 Ga Umkondo Igneous Province, which occur in the same region. Paleomagnetic samples from dolerite intrusions in the Waterberg Group in South Africa (including one sill with a U–Pb baddeleyite age of ~1872 Ma), and from dolerite sills and basalt flows in the Soutpansberg Group to the east-northeast, yield antipodal directions with a site mean pole at 15.6°north, 17.1°east, A95 = 8.9°. These data are interpreted to indicate that the ~1879 to ~1872 Ma dolerites were intruded into the Waterberg Group during voluminous magmatism associated with development of the Soutpansberg rift basin. Older, ~1927 Ma dolerite in Botswana is similar in age and geochemistry to basalts in the craton-margin Olifantshoek Supergroup, suggesting that the mafic magmatism in those two regions is genetically related.
TL;DR: In this article, X-ray diffraction patterns, Raman spectra and high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) images were analyzed for diamond powders of different sizes ranging from 5 nm to 40 μm.
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that bismuth is involved in the rate-determining hydrogen abstraction from propene in both cases, and may be involved in later steps of the process as well.
TL;DR: Healthcare providers can help improve communication with women with type 2 diabetes by actively seeking to meet their support needs and educating families so that provisional support is more meaningful and diabetes management more attainable.
Abstract: PURPOSE This study evaluated the relationship between perceived social support among African American women with type 2 diabetes and diabetes self-management. METHODS The sample included 12 African American female patients at a diabetes clinic in the southeastern United States. Focus group participants responded to questions related to social support and its influence on diabetes management. RESULTS Support comes particularly from family, but also friends and/or healthcare providers. The dual challenges of diabetes management and multicaregiving were an expected theme from the sessions. A unique emerging theme, however, was the women's perception of a lack of understanding of their needs by members of their social networks. Participants believed that those who provide support claim they care and try to be helpful but provide minimal physical assistance or emotional understanding of their needs, which could vary daily. Those who provide informational support seem to care but misunderstand the type of information actually needed and how best to deliver it. CONCLUSIONS Healthcare providers can help improve communication with these women by actively seeking to meet their support needs and educating families so that provisional support is more meaningful and diabetes management more attainable.
TL;DR: In the same way, the machinery of modern criminology has organized a vast collectivity of boredom buttressed by rationalized methodologies and analytic abstraction, and with it the possibility of intellectual excitement by way of methodological innovation, momentary insight and human engagement.
Abstract: Under the dehumanizing conditions of modernism, boredom has come to pervade the experience of everyday life. This collective boredom has spawned not only moments of illicit excitement—that is, ephemeral crimes committed against boredom itself—but larger efflorescences of political and cultural rebellion. In the same way, the machinery of modern criminology has organized a vast collectivity of boredom buttressed by rationalized methodologies and analytic abstraction. Against this institutionalized boredom, cultural criminology offers a rebellion of its own, and with it the possibility of intellectual excitement by way of methodological innovation, momentary insight and human engagement.
TL;DR: The polymeric catalyst generally gives good yields for a variety of substrates and is water- and air-tolerant, although the scope of alkenes and alkynes which can be employed is somewhat narrower than with the original xantphos/Pd(2)dba(3) catalyst.
TL;DR: In this paper, a diamond-SiC nanocomposites with superhardness and greatly enhanced fracture toughness were synthesized by a synthetic approach based on high-energy ball milling to form amorphous Si precursors followed by rapid reactive sintering at high pressure (P) and high temperature (T).
Abstract: We synthesized diamond–SiC nanocomposites with superhardness and greatly enhanced fracture toughness through a synthetic approach based on high-energy ball milling to form amorphous Si precursors followed by rapid reactive sintering at high pressure (P) and high temperature (T). We show how the simultaneous P–T application allows for better control of the reactive sintering of a nanocrystalline SiC matrix in which diamond crystals are embedded. The measured fracture toughness KIC of the synthesized composites has been enhanced greatly, as much as 50% from 8.2 to 12.0 MPa m1/2, as the crystal size of the SiC matrix decreases from 10 μm to 20 nm. Our result contradicts a commonly held belief of an inverse correlation between hardness and fracture toughness. We demonstrate the importance of nanostructure for the enhancement of mechanical properties of the composite materials.
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a brief overview of organizational culture and then examine culture as an organizational resource that facilitates four key knowledge management activities: knowledge creation, storage, transfer, and application.
Abstract: Organizational culture has long been recognized as the underlying set of values systems that determines how firms perceive and react to their environments. While there is widespread agreement over the relevance of culture and its impact on organizations, many believe that culture exists as a concept than can be neither measured nor controlled. This chapter considers an alternate view in characterizing culture as an important knowledge resource that facilitates the management of a firm’s intellectual (knowledge) assets. We first present a brief overview of organizational culture and then examine culture as an organizational resource that facilitates four key knowledge management activities. As part of this analysis, a series of research hypotheses is offered to provide a link between certain cultural sub-types and effective knowledge management practice in each of four areas: knowledge creation, storage, transfer, and application. A key implication of this chapter is that firms must increasingly view their culture as a competitive resource that must be managed in order to become a learning organization. As part of this management process, senior executives must be able to manage the various sub-cultures found within their organizations and to foster those sub-cultures consistent with knowledge management objectives. The chapter concludes by considering knowledge management initiatives as an opportunity to change corporate cultures.
TL;DR: In this paper, a sediment budget of the lower basin shows that the effects of this disruption are undetectable in the lower river, and the sediment budget suggests that a majority of the sediment in this reach is likely derived from channel scour and bank erosion.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether executive stock option repricings are systematically timed to coincide with favorable movements in the company's stock price and find that the repricing dates tend to either precede the release of good news or follow bad news in the quarterly earnings announcements.
Abstract: We investigate whether executive stock option repricings are systematically timed to coincide with favorable movements in the company's stock price. For a sample of 236 repricing events, we observe sharp increases in stock price in the 20-day period following the repricing date. In addition, repricing dates tend to either precede the release of good news or follow the release of bad news in the quarterly earnings announcements. Since information about stock option repricing is not generally released to the public around the repricing date, these findings suggest that CEOs opportunistically manage the timing of the option repricing date.
TL;DR: In this article, the determinants and consequences of Latino political representation in the field of K-12 education were investigated, and the regression results showed that Latino population positively affects Latino board representation, but that at-large systems hinder descriptive representation.
Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants and consequences of Latino political representation in the field of K-12 education. The first task is to examine the association between Latino population and the Latino presence on school boards. We then investigate if Latino representation is affected by the electoral structure of school boards, as scholars have reached differing conclusions on whether at-large and ward systems hinder or enhance minority descriptive representation. The next step examines the consequences of Latino representation, specifically whether board membership is associated with the share of Latino school administrators and teachers. The regression results show that Latino population positively affects Latino board representation, but that at-large systems hinder descriptive representation. The primary determinant of Latino administrators is Latino school board membership, and the primary determinant of Latino teachers is Latino administrators. In sum, at-large elections negatively influence Latino educational representation, which produces a ripple effect that ultimately reduces the share of Latino teachers.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide teachers with examples of how to perform effective think-alouds, and a rationale for their use in kindergarten through grade 5 is also included.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide teachers with examples of how to perform effective think-alouds. Twelve think-alouds are described. A rationale for their use in kindergarten through grade 5 is also included. In addition, this article was designed to provide teachers with lessons and activities to assist students in developing the ability to perform think-alouds independently, without teacher prompting. The last section of the article provides teachers with methods of assessing think-alouds.
TL;DR: The College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Program, which allows students to take college-level courses while in high school, enjoyed tremendous growth in the 1990s as discussed by the authors, but despite overall growth, small rural schools and high poverty schools continue to offer relatively few AP courses, and black, Hispanic, and low income students remain grossly underrepresented in AP classes.
Abstract: The College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Program, which allows students to take college-level courses while in high school, enjoyed tremendous growth in the 1990s. Despite overall growth, small rural schools and high poverty schools continue to offer relatively few AP courses, and black, Hispanic, and low income students remain grossly underrepresented in AP classes. During the 1990s, AP incentive programs primarily subsidized test fees for low income students, but this provided no incentive for low income and rural schools to expand their AP course offerings and did nothing to strengthen the weak academic preparation of low income, black and Hispanic students. Recent federal funding changes provide a step in the right direction by supporting a comprehensive approach to increasing the AP access and participation of traditionally underserved students.
TL;DR: In this paper, the uniqueness of the founding event is examined through the examination of two implicit assertions, those of temporal stability and temporal locus of growth determinants, and the authors test their validity through an examination of the validity of these implicit assertions.
TL;DR: The authors examines how institutions, particularly those related to the regulatory environment and culture of East Asia, shape the venture capital industry and create differences from the Venture capital industry in the West, and concludes with a research agenda for building a fuller understanding of how venture capital works in East Asia and what outside investors and firms need to familiarize themselves with.
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TL;DR: The MDI appears to contribute to the identification of a newly formed disorder by offering a multi-dimensional measure of factors related to Muscle Dysmorphia.
Abstract: Aim. The development of the 6-factor, 27-item Muscle Dysmorphia Inventory (MDI) was based on Lantz et al. proposed model of characteristics associated with Muscle Dysmorphia. Methods. Experimental design: quantitative procedures including item-to-total correlations, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and structure equation modeling confirmed the construct validity of the scale. Convergent validity was also tested. Setting: bodybuilding and powerlifting competition venues, weight training facilities, and university athletic venues. Participants: the 1 st study consisted of 77 experienced male free weight lifters. The 2 nd study consisted of 156 male non-competitive bodybuilders and weight lifters and 168 elite level powerlifters and bodybuilders. The 3 rd study consisted of 151 male and female bodybuilders and weight lifters. Measures: each participant completed demographic information, the MDI, Drive for Thinness subscale of the Eating Disorder Inventory, and the Training Dependency subscale of the Bodybuilding Dependence Scale. Results. Reliability estimates (Cronbach's a) ranged from 0.72 to 0.94. Factor loadings in all 3 studies supported the 6-factor structure (size/symmetry, supplement use, exercise dependence, pharmacological use, dietary behavior, and physique protection). Much of the scale validation was focused on construct validity, however, correlations with the MDI's subscales and the Training Dependency subscale of the Bodybuilding Dependence Scale and the Drive for Thinness subscale of the Eating Disorder Inventory provided evidence of convergent validity also. Conclusion. From these preliminary results, the MDI appears to contribute to the identification of a newly formed disorder by offering a multi-dimensional measure of factors related to Muscle Dysmorphia.