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Formative Versus Reflective Indicators in Organizational Measure Development: A Comparison and Empirical Illustration
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison between scale development and index construction procedures is made to trace the implications of adopting a reflective versus formative perspective when creating multi-item measures for organizational research.
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Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks
TL;DR: A taxonomy that distinguishes between different categories of theories, models and frameworks in implementation science is proposed to facilitate appropriate selection and application of relevant approaches in implementation research and practice and to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue among implementation researchers.
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Mode of questionnaire administration can have serious effects on data quality
TL;DR: The biasing effects of mode of questionnaire administration has important implications for research methodology, the validity of the results of research, and for the soundness of public policy developed from evidence using questionnaire-based research.
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Research dilemmas: Paradigms, methods and methodology
Noella Mackenzie,Sally Knipe +1 more
TL;DR: Mackenzie and Knipe as discussed by the authors discuss issues faced by early career researchers, including the dichotomy which many research textbooks and journal articles create and perpetuate between qualitative and quantitative research methodology despite considerable literature to support the use of mixed methods.
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Internet addiction: a systematic review of epidemiological research for the last decade.
TL;DR: The results indicate that a number of core symptoms of Internet addiction appear relevant for diagnosis, which assimilates Internet addiction and other addictive disorders and also differentiates them, implying a conceptualisation as syndrome with similar etiology and components, but different expressions of addictions.
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Essays on the nature and dynamics of higher-order organizational capabilities
Abstract: Today’s business environments have become fast-moving, involving frequent, rapid and unpredictable change As such, firms are struggling to (find new ways to) create and sustain competitive advantage Scholars in organization science, and strategic management in particular, have shifted focus towards competing on higher-order (ie meta-)organizational capabilities in fast-moving business environments; organizational capabilities that may define a firm strategically as being key drivers of long-term business performance However, the main question that needs to be answered refers to what the key dimensions of such higher-order organizational capabilities in dynamic business environments are This doctoral dissertation therefore examines the following central research question: What are the key dimensions of higher-order organizational capabilities in addressing situations of changing market and competitive conditions? This dissertation builds upon the notions of dynamic capability and ambidexterity The notion of dynamic capability explains how organizations may develop competitive advantage in fast-moving business environments, by focusing on the dynamic processes of assembling, deploying and integrating a firm’s resource base Dynamic capabilities stress the importance of the history of a firm’s current capabilities, and the importance of revising and reconfiguring these in the future As such, firms are able to address changing environments and/or create market change However, in situations of changing market and competitive conditions, firms need to demonstrate the ability to timely response to new circumstances, along with the ability to address existing environments In this respect, scholars introduced the notion of ambidexterity, which refers to performing different and often competing challenges Here, competitive advantage may result from being efficient in managing today’s business demands, while at the same time being effective in adapting to changing business environments and/or in creating market change As such, firms need a focus on both exploitation and exploration; that is, on their current activities in existing domains along with developing new activities in non-existing domains The current literature comprises a variety of conceptualizations and interpretations of dynamic capability and ambidexterity, providing a significant challenge for both scholars and practitioners to understand and develop these meta-organizational capabilities In order to assess the collective understanding of both concepts, Chapter 2 introduces a systematic literature review approach Such an approach involves a comprehensive search of all potentially relevant papers and books of dynamic capability and ambidexterity, and the use of explicit, reproducible criteria in the selection of papers and books for review Drawing on systematic literature reviews, the foundations, antecedents and consequences of dynamic capability and ambidexterity are explored in terms of definitions, operationalizations and measurements of their key dimensions As a result, a (re-)definition of dynamic capability and ambidexterity is proposed These definitions point at ways in which dynamic capability and ambidexterity can be operationalized and measured more effectively in future research As such, Chapter 2 develops a definition and operationalization of dynamic capability and ambidexterity in terms of their key dimensions Chapter 2 therefore contributes to the development of a theoretical understanding of the key dimensions of dynamic capability and ambidexterity, providing a starting point for future theoretical and empirical studies that advance our collective understanding of dynamic capability and ambidexterity The insights from the systematic literature reviews provide a theoretical basis for the empirical studies in this dissertation The empirical studies in Chapter 3 and 4 extend our empirical understanding of the dynamics entailed in the way ambidexterity is performed in service firms Empirically studying ambidexterity in the service industries contributes to previous studies that have mainly been conducted in manufacturing firms, whereas relatively less attention has been paid to the challenges of exploitation versus exploration in service firms Moreover, ambidexterity is particularly challenging for service firms, because new service development requires integrating the needs of new service operations and processes with existing business activities As such, this dissertation extends and builds (new) theory in the field of dynamic capability, and ambidexterity in particular, which lead to main findings and implications that are of general scientific value for scholars and provide valuable insights for practitioners (in service firms) The empirical study in Chapter 3 studies ambidexterity from an organization design perspective by examining the relationship between decentralization and ambidexterity As such, this study provides an in-depth understanding of the impact of decentralization on the dynamics entailed in the way ambidexterity is organized, balanced and connected in large service firms, incorporating the role of timing and interdependencies Recently, scholars have suggested that a decentralized structure facilitates ambidexterity However, comparative case studies of two service innovations in a large decentralized retail bank in the Netherlands paint a more complex picture First, a literature review implies that decentralization may activate highly different generative mechanisms Subsequently, the case study findings show that the activation of these generative mechanisms depends on the actual use of the decentralized structure Moreover, these generative mechanisms and their outcomes gain and lose dominance in different phases of the innovation process In particular, the effectiveness of the decentralized structure depend on the interdependence of exploitation and exploration activities A decentralized structure appears to be of limited help for ambidexterity if exploration involves complex service innovation that needs to be integrated into the exploitative core of the organization In other words, a decentralized structure does not support ambidexterity when exploitation and exploration activities are strongly interdependent Overall, the main contribution of chapter 3 is to elaborate and extend existing theory In this respect, Chapter 3 contributes to the literature by combining the literature on ambidexterity, organizational design and service innovation The empirical study in Chapter 4 studies ambidexterity from a managerial perspective by examining the relationship between an organization’s founding conditions and the degree of ambidexterity in organizational practices in small-to-medium sized service firms As such, this study extends our understanding of the dynamics entailed in the way competing priorities are performed, especially when these priorities demand both continuity and renewal More specifically, this study explores the way founding conditions impact organizational practices, and in particular the capability to change these practices The findings of comparative case studies of two practices in three management consulting SME’s in the USA, the Netherlands and the UK reveal how founding conditions affect the way competing demands of continuity and renewal are addressed The case study findings primarily suggest the importance of founders’ blueprints, embedded in their employment models These blueprints are difficult to alter, and as such mark the firm’s future path by impacting the level of ambidexterity in practices over an extended period of time Overall, the main contribution of Chapter 4 is to build new theory In this respect, Chapter 4 contributes to the literature by combining the literature on ambidexterity, founding conditions and practice-based research Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the main findings and (practical) implications of the studies described in previous chapters of this dissertation Subsequently, a general conclusion regarding the central research question is given In this respect, by drawing on the systematic literature reviews and empirical studies, this chapter describes a taxonomy of key dimensions of ambidexterity as a higher-order organizational capability As such, this taxonomy integrates the previous chapters, and serves to answer the central research question in this dissertation Finally, this chapter describes the main limitations of this dissertation and makes suggestions for future research
Urban and Suburban Differences in Cultural Identification, Life-Guiding Principles, and Person-Organization Fit
TL;DR: Edigin et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a correlational study to examine differences in lifeguiding principles, urban identification, and person-organization fit between urban and suburban residents.
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Historical Thinking Skills among Pre-Service Teachers in Indonesia and Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative study examined student thinking skills and their attitudes towards learning history and found that teachers in Malaysia and Indonesia have high levels of historical thinking skills, including chronological skills, facts exploration, imagination skills, interpretation skills and rationalization skills.
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Municipal cultural policy and development in South Africa : a study of the city of Tshwane metropolitan municipality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of acronyms and their usage in the literature: http://www.thesociety.org/blogs/blogs.asp.
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A study of participatory approaches used by headteachers to control drug abuse in public secondary schools in Nyerl district
Abstract: Many secondary school head teachers have dealt with matters related to drug abuse among the students single handedly without involving the entire school community of teachers, students, boards of governors and parents. This style of management used by Head teachers may be one of the reasons why the menace of drugs has resulted into destructive riots, boycotts, sit-ins and unruly conduct that have resulted to loss of lives and destruction of school properties. The purpose of this study was to examine the participatory approaches used by head teachers to control drug abuse in public secondary schools in Nyeri District. The study also sought to identify the kinds of drugs abused by secondary school students, the sources of drugs abused, the causes of drug abuse among the students used to control drug abuse among the secondary school students. There were five hypotheses that were tested to estat iish if there were any significant difference between the participatory approaches used by headteachers and selected demographic variables; age, gender, administrative experience, professional grade of the headteachers and the size of school. Literature review was discussed under the following subtopics: introduction, the concept of participatory administration and its application on drug abuse control, democracy in administration and education administration, drug dependence and abuse as a global epi demic, drug abuse and discipline in Kenyan secondary schools, research findings related to the study, participatory approaches in the prevention of drug abuse in schools and other methods of preventing drug abuse. From the literature review, an integrated approach to drug abuse control and conceptual framework was designed.