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Liu N, Pu Q, Shi Y, Zhang Y. Social facilitation effects in online coaction: the moderating role of social comparison direction. Int J Occup Saf Ergon 2023; 29:676-684. [PMID: 35416133 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2022.2065780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Online and face-to-face coactions are widely used work organization modes. This study aims to investigate the effect of social comparison direction on task performance when people coact online. A total of 40 individuals were recruited to participate in a 2 (coaction type: online and face to face) × 3 (social comparison direction: upward, downward and no comparison) × 2 (phase: pre-comparison and post-comparison) within-subject experiment. The participants performed visual search tasks while their response time and search accuracy rates were measured. Results showed that the participants were reported to perform faster when they coacted online than face to face. The upward comparison led to a stronger social facilitation effect than the downward and no comparison directions, either in online or face-to-face coaction. These findings provide practical implications in the design of coaction modes for groups and teams working remotely.
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- Na Liu
- School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, People's Republic of China
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- School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, People's Republic of China
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- School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Human Factor and Ergonomics, China National Institute of Standardization, People's Republic of China
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Nicolai M, Thompson NA. ‘How might we?’: Studying new venture ideation in and through practices. Scandinavian Journal of Management 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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Xu Y. An exploration of the role played by attachment factors in the formation of social media addiction from a cognition-affect-conation perspective. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2023; 236:103904. [PMID: 37216219 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
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More and more users are overusing social media and the situation is getting worse, yet there is still a lack of research on social media addiction. Based on attachment theory and the Cognition-Affect-Conation (CAC) framework, this study combines the perception of intrinsic motivation and the technical features of social media as extrinsic motivators and explores the formative factors in social media addiction. The results show that social media addiction is determined by an individual's emotional and functional attachment to the platform, and that attachment is in turn influenced by intrinsic motivation (perceived enjoyment and perceived relatedness) and extrinsic motivation (functional support and information quality). The SEM-PLS technique was used to analyze the data collected from a questionnaire survey of 562 WeChat users. The results showed that social media addiction is determined by an individual's emotional and functional attachment to the platform. This attachment is, in turn, influenced by intrinsic motivation (perceived enjoyment and perceived relatedness) and extrinsic motivation (functional support and informational quality). The study first explains the latent antecedents of social media addiction. Second, it examines user attachment, particularly the role of emotional and functional attachment, and explores the platform technology system, which plays a key role in the development of addiction. Third, it extends attachment theory to the study of social media addiction.
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- Yan Xu
- School of Transportation, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350118, China.
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Kim C, Lee C, Lee G. Impact of Superiors' Ethical Leadership on Subordinates' Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior: Mediating Effects of Followership. Behav Sci (Basel) 2023; 13:454. [PMID: 37366706 DOI: 10.3390/bs13060454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2023] [Revised: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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This study examined the impact of superiors' ethical leadership on subordinates' unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) and the mediating effects of followership. The research subjects were officials from the ten central departments of the South Korean government, and a cross-sectional survey was conducted among them. Overall, 404 questionnaires were used in the empirical analysis. Multiple regression analysis and Hayes Process Macro were used to validate the research hypotheses, which examined the relationship among ethical leadership, followership, and UPB. The results are as follows: First, the relationship between ethical leadership and followership was statistically significant. Second, the study showed that followership had a statistically significant effect on UPB but not ethical leadership. Third, testing the hypotheses regarding the mediating effect of followership on the relationship between ethical leadership and UPB revealed statistically significant results. This study confirms that followership significantly influences UPB and suggests that ethical leadership is an important precedent factor of followership. The study concludes with the theoretical and practical implications of these findings, along with the study's limitations.
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- Chulwoo Kim
- Department of Public Administration, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Public Administration, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Public Administration, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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Jabbari J, Zheng H, Roll S, Auguste D, Heller O. How Did Reskilling During the COVID-19 Pandemic Relate to Entrepreneurship and Optimism? Barriers, Opportunities, and Implications for Equity. J Fam Econ Issues 2023:1-20. [PMID: 37360658 PMCID: PMC10230455 DOI: 10.1007/s10834-023-09906-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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With shorter durations and fewer barriers to entry, reskilling programs may serve as vehicles for social mobility and equity, as well as tools for creating a more adaptive workforce and inclusive economy. Nevertheless, much of the limited large-scale research on these types of programs was conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, given the social and economic disruptions spurred by the pandemic, our ability to understand the impact of these types of programs in recent labor market conditions is limited. We fill this gap by leveraging three waves of a longitudinal household financial survey collected across all 50 US states during the pandemic. Through descriptive and inferential methods, we explore the sociodemographic characteristics related to reskilling and associated motivations, facilitators, and barriers, as well as the relationships between reskilling and measures of social mobility. We find that reskilling is positively related to entrepreneurship and, for Black respondents, to optimism. Moreover, we find that reskilling is not merely a tool for upward social mobility, but also economic stability. However, our results demonstrate that reskilling opportunities are stratified across race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status through both formal and informal mechanisms. We close with a discussion of implications for policy and practice.
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- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
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- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
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Żuk P, Żuk P. The role of trust, information and legal stability in the development of renewable energy: the analysis of non-economic factors affecting entrepreneurs' investments in green energy in Poland. Environ Dev Sustain 2023:1-36. [PMID: 37362984 PMCID: PMC10229400 DOI: 10.1007/s10668-023-03400-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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The aim of the article is to analyse the factors influencing entrepreneurs' decisions about investing in renewable energy. It outlines a number of different factors that may affect the process of transforming entrepreneurs into business prosumers, who thus want to limit the effects of rising energy prices. The article defends the thesis that in addition to the economic, technological and psychological dimensions, legal and political stability, access to reliable information and the level of trust in a given society are equally important. Based on the quantitative research results, the article indicates which elements are particularly important for entrepreneurs when making decisions about investing in renewable energy and which institutions are indicated by Polish entrepreneurs as responsible for implementing energy transition. The article also indicates that information about the possibility of receiving funding from the European Union and the government, the government's energy policy and technological possibilities is important for entrepreneurs' decisions about investing in renewable energy in Poland. It is always difficult to implement sustainable development goals without an atmosphere of trust and predictable legal stability in which entrepreneurs can run their businesses. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10668-023-03400-z.
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- Piotr Żuk
- The Centre for Civil Rights and Democracy Research, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Wrocław University of Economics and Business, Wrocław, Poland
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de Graaff B, Huizenga S, van de Bovenkamp H, Bal R. Framing the pandemic: Multiplying "crises" in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. Soc Sci Med 2023; 328:115998. [PMID: 37271079 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this paper we explore the impact of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic on the governance of healthcare in the Netherlands. In doing so, we re-examine the idea that a crisis necessarily leads to processes of transition and change by focusing on crisis as a specific language of organizing collective action instead. Framing a situation as a crisis of a particular kind allows for specific problem definitions, concurrent solutions and the inclusion and exclusion of stakeholders. Using this perspective, we examine the dynamics and institutional tensions involved in governing healthcare during the pandemic. We make use of multi-sited ethnographic research into the Dutch healthcare crisis organization as it responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on decision-making at the regional level. We tracked our participants through successive waves of the pandemic between March 2020 and August 2021 and identified three dominant framings of the pandemic-as-crisis: a crisis of scarcity, a crisis of postponed care and a crisis of acute care coordination. In this paper, we discuss the implications of these framings in terms of the institutional tensions that arose in governing healthcare during the pandemic: between centralized, top-down crisis management and local, bottom-up work; between informal and formal work; and between existing institutional logics.
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- Bert de Graaff
- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Page A, Holmström J. Enablers and inhibitors of digital startup evolution: a multi-case study of Swedish business incubators. J Innov Entrep 2023; 12:35. [PMID: 37274430 PMCID: PMC10227780 DOI: 10.1186/s13731-023-00306-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Global advances in digital technology are facilitating corresponding rises in digital entrepreneurship and its startup manifestation. There are many uncertainties on the road to digital startup evolution, some of which may be successfully navigated with the assistance of business incubators. While these organisations provide valuable guidance and support to the startup community, their efforts are at least partly constrained by the lack of a consistent, coherent roadmap to guide both them and their incubatees. T0 help efforts to develop such a map, this paper seeks to identify factors that influence digital startup evolution within an incubator setting through a multiple-case study focusing on digital startups under the umbrella of three business incubators in the Swedish city Umeå. Sets of enabling and inhibitory factors are identified through literature searches and the case studies. The latter may include inertia and possibly attitudes towards failure. In addition, present the Ideation Dynamics Model as a guide for both incubators and digital startups is proposed.
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- Andrew Page
- Swedish Center for Digital Innovation, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Swedish Center for Digital Innovation, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Song R, Hu H. Impact of green technology innovation based on IoT and industrial supply chain on the promotion of enterprise digital economy. PeerJ Comput Sci 2023; 9:e1416. [PMID: 37346566 PMCID: PMC10280464 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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With the gradual deterioration of the natural environment, a green economy has become a competing goal for all countries. As a trend of green innovation development, the digital economy has become a research hotspot for scientists. In this article, we study the supply chain management of enterprises in green innovation and digital economy development and complete the identification and demand prediction of warehouse goods through the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). As the stuff meets the goods detection and storage, we employ an intelligent method to detect and classify the goods. The demand prediction analysis is carried out based on historical data on goods demand in the enterprise. The absolute error between the prediction result and the actual demand within 1 week is less than 30 goods by the particle swarm optimization-support vector machine (PSO-SVM) method used in this article. First, the goods identification task is completed based on video surveillance data using YOLOv4, and the recognition rate is as high as 98.3%. This article realises enterprises' intelligent supply chain management through the intelligent identification of goods and the demand forecasting analysis of goods in the warehouse, which provides new ideas for green innovation and digital economy development.
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- Ruilin Song
- Economics and Management Division, Wuhan City College, Wuhan, Hube, China
- Hubei Science and Technology Innovation High Quality Development Research Center, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Economics and Management Division, Wuhan City College, Wuhan, Hube, China
- Hubei Science and Technology Innovation High Quality Development Research Center, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Anna T Mayo
- From Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (A.T.M.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (C.G.M.); Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York (J.C.B., C.E.J.); and the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.F.)
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- From Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (A.T.M.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (C.G.M.); Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York (J.C.B., C.E.J.); and the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.F.)
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- From Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (A.T.M.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (C.G.M.); Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York (J.C.B., C.E.J.); and the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.F.)
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- From Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (A.T.M.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (C.G.M.); Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York (J.C.B., C.E.J.); and the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.F.)
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- From Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (A.T.M.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (C.G.M.); Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York (J.C.B., C.E.J.); and the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.F.)
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Liu Y, Wang W, Liu J. Work-related use of information and communication technologies (W_ICTs) and job satisfaction of kindergarten teachers: A moderated mediation model. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2023; 237:103947. [PMID: 37244056 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2023] Open
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The high turnover rate of kindergarten teachers has become a global problem. Job satisfaction is regarded as a contributing factor that can reduce turnover intention. We sought to examine the relationship between work-related use of information and communication technologies after hours (W_ICTs) and kindergarten teachers' job satisfaction, as well as the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of perceived organizational support in the link between W_ICTs and emotional exhaustion. A sample of 434 participants of kindergarten teachers completed questionnaires on W_ICTs, job satisfaction, perceived organizational support and emotional exhaustion. Results indicated that kindergarten teachers' emotional exhaustion played a partial mediating role in the relationship between W_ICTs and job satisfaction. In addition, perceived organizational support moderated the association between W_ICTs and emotional exhaustion. Specifically, W_ICTs had a greater impact on emotional exhaustion for kindergarten teachers with low perceived organizational support.
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- Yongli Liu
- Department of Education, Shanxi Datong University, Datong 037009, China; Department of Education Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanxi Datong University, Datong 037009, China; Department of Education, Da Tong Normal College, Datong 037009, China.
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- School of Journalism, Shanxi Datong University, Datong 037009, China
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Espedal G, Struminska-Kutra M, Wagenheim D, Husa KJ. Moral Agency Development as a Community-Supported Process: An Analysis of Hospitals' Middle Management Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis. J Bus Ethics 2023:1-15. [PMID: 37359808 PMCID: PMC10209571 DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05441-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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This paper investigates the process of moral agency development as a community-supported process. Based on a multimethod qualitative inquiry, including diaries, focus groups, and documentary analysis, we analyze the experiences of middle managers in two Norwegian hospitals during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that moral agency is developed through a community-embedded value inquiry, emerging in three partially overlapping steps. The first step is marked by moral reflex, an intuitive, value-driven, pre-reflective response to a crisis situation. In the second step, the managers involved the community in value calibration, a collective-ethical sensemaking. In the third step, they took active stances to translate values into actions, with an increased awareness of values and an ability to explain and justify their actions. We label the steps, respectively: value inquiry-in-action, value inquiry-on-action and reflective enactment of value. An analysis of the process reveals two aspects critical for moral agency development: it happens through confrontation with uncertainty, and it is relational, that is, embedded in a community. While uncertainty forces an intuitive moral response, dialogical reflection in the community develops value awareness and relationships of mutual care and support.
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- Gry Espedal
- Faculty of Theology, Diaconia and Leadership studies, VID Specialized University, PB 184, Vinderen, 0370 Oslo, Norway
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- Faculty of Theology, Diaconia and Leadership studies, VID Specialized University, PB 184, Vinderen, 0370 Oslo, Norway
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Haslam SA, Reutas J, Bentley SV, McMillan B, Lindfield M, Luong M, Peters K, Steffens NK. Developing engaged and 'teamful' leaders: A randomized controlled trial of the 5R identity leadership program. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0286263. [PMID: 37228145 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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The social identity approach to leadership argues that leaders' capacity to influence and inspire others is grounded in a shared sense of social identity (or 'us-ness') that those leaders create, advance, represent, and embed for the groups they lead. The approach therefore argues that a key task for leaders is to develop insights and skills of (social) identity leadership that allow them to motivate and mobilize groups and transform them into a potent social and organizational force. In contrast to other approaches and programs which focus on leaders' leader identity (their 'I-ness'), the 5R leadership development program supports the development of leaders' social identity by raising awareness of the importance of social identity ('we-ness') for leadership and taking leaders through structured activities that help them build engaged and inclusive teams. The present research assessed the benefits of facilitated and learner self-directed versions of the 5R program (Ns = 27, 22 respectively) relative to a no-treatment control (N = 27). Results (including those of an intention-to-treat analysis; N = 76) indicated that, relative to leaders in the control condition, those who participated in both forms of 5R reported large increases in identity leadership knowledge, as well as medium-sized increases in both team engagement (a compound factor comprised of team identification, team OCB, team efficacy, and work engagement) and 'teamfulness' (comprised of team reflexivity, team psychological safety, team goal clarity, and inclusive team climate). We reflect on the importance of teamfulness for leadership and team functioning and on the value of programs that help leaders develop this.
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Exeter Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Atwine B, Okumu IM, Nnyanzi JB. What drives the dynamics of employment growth in firms? Evidence from East Africa. J Innov Entrep 2023; 12:33. [PMID: 37251555 PMCID: PMC10206556 DOI: 10.1186/s13731-023-00295-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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This study examines the firm level drivers of employment growth in East Africa in which they are categorized as firm specific, entrepreneur specific and business environment characteristics. Using a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise survey dataset and pooled Ordinary Least Squares estimation (OLS), the results indicate that; (1) employment growth is significantly associated with firm specific characteristics (employment growth is positively related to firm size and innovation while it is negatively associated with the age of the firm), (2) a weak business environment characterized by electricity outages, informal payments and poor court system undermines the firm's ability to contribute to employment growth while strong business environment such as access to finance is positively associated with employment growth (3) employment growth is also positively influenced by managerial experience. Policy recommendations are suggested.
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- Blessing Atwine
- Research Analyst, Microeconomics Department, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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- Department of Economic Theory and Analysis, School of Economics, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, Pool Road, P. O. BOX 7062, Kampala, Uganda
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Sánchez-García E, Martínez-Falcó J, Marco-Lajara B, Pizoń J. Cognitive proximity for innovation: Why matters? an applied analysis. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0283557. [PMID: 37224166 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
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The purpose of this research is to deepen the study of the influence of cognitive proximity has on the innovative performance of firms, as well as the mediating effect of potential and realized absorptive capacity in this relationship. For this purpose, an empirical analysis has been carried out. The primary data have been analyzed by means of PLS-SEM technique. The results show that the cognitive proximity of firms has both a direct and an indirect impact on their innovative performance, through their potential and realized absorptive capacity. We conclude that cognitive proximity matters for the innovation performance of firms, as it facilitates the understanding and establishment of positive reciprocity agreements between the companies, especially in terms of knowledge. Nevertheless, firms must develop a great capability to absorb new knowledge to exploit the advantages derived from its cognitive proximity to its stakeholders and leverage all the knowledge within their reach.
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- Eduardo Sánchez-García
- Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Department of Management, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Department of Management, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Department of Management, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Faculty of Management, Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland
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Georgiou A, Murillo D. From strangers to social collectives? Sensemaking and organizing in response to a pandemic. Eur Manag J 2023:S0263-2373(23)00068-3. [PMID: 37362858 PMCID: PMC10205040 DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2023.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic temporarily exposed the inadequacy of established institutions and markets to handle a multidimensional crisis, but it also revealed the spontaneous emergence of social collectives to mitigate some of its consequences. Building upon more than 600 responses from an open-ended survey and follow-up qualitative interviews, we seek to understand the spontaneous formation of social collectives in neighborhoods during the initial global lockdown. Applying the sensemaking lens, we theorize the process that prevented the collapse of sensemaking; motivated neighbors to comply with the pandemic-related restrictions; and inspired the development of collective initiatives and the sharing of resources, experiences, and a feeling of belonging. In doing so, we identify mechanisms that allow distributed sensemaking and organizing for resilience: widely shared and accepted cues and frames, simultaneous enactment of practices, embeddedness, visibility of actions, and sense of community. Contrary to the literature on local community organizing and entrepreneurship, which emphasizes the importance of shared values and beliefs, we reveal how the abovementioned mechanisms enable social collectives to emerge and build resilience in times of crisis, even in the absence of pre-existing ties and physical and social isolation. Implications for sensemaking, resilience, organization studies, and community psychology are discussed.
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- Andreas Georgiou
- University of Exeter Business School, Streatham Court, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK
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- Universitat Ramon Llull, ESADE Business School, Av. Torreblanca 59, 08172, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Jensen UT, Rohner D, Bornet O, Carron D, Garner P, Loupi D, Antonakis J. Combating COVID-19 with charisma: Evidence on governor speeches in the United States. Leadersh Q 2023:101702. [PMID: 37361053 PMCID: PMC10201331 DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Revised: 04/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Using field and laboratory data, we show that leader charisma can affect COVID-related mitigating behaviors. We coded a panel of U.S. governor speeches for charisma signaling using a deep neural network algorithm. The model explains variation in stay-at-home behavior of citizens based on their smart phone data movements, showing a robust effect of charisma signaling: stay-at-home behavior increased irrespective of state-level citizen political ideology or governor party allegiance. Republican governors with a particularly high charisma signaling score impacted the outcome more relative to Democratic governors in comparable conditions. Our results also suggest that one standard deviation higher charisma signaling in governor speeches could potentially have saved 5,350 lives during the study period (02/28/2020-05/14/2020). Next, in an incentivized laboratory experiment we found that politically conservative individuals are particularly prone to believe that their co-citizens will follow governor appeals to distance or stay at home when exposed to a speech that is high in charisma; these beliefs in turn drive their preference to engage in those behaviors. These results suggest that political leaders should consider additional "soft-power" levers like charisma-which can be learned-to complement policy interventions for pandemics or other public heath crises, especially with certain populations who may need a "nudge."
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- Ulrich Thy Jensen
- Center for Organization Research and Design, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, United States
- Crown Prince Frederik Center for Public Leadership, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne & E4S, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Switzerland
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- Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne & E4S, Switzerland
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Assing Hvidt E, Atherton H, Keuper J, Kristiansen E, Lüchau EC, Lønnebakke Norberg B, Steinhäuser J, van den Heuvel J, van Tuyl L. Low Adoption of Video Consultations in Post-COVID-19 General Practice in Northern Europe: Barriers to Use and Potential Action Points. J Med Internet Res 2023; 25:e47173. [PMID: 37213196 DOI: 10.2196/47173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023] Open
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, video consultation was introduced in general practice in many countries around the world as a solution to provide remote health care to patients. It was assumed that video consultation would find widespread adoption in post-COVID-19 general practice. However, adoption rates remain low across countries in Northern Europe, suggesting that barriers to its use exist among general practitioners and other practice staff. In this viewpoint, we take a comparative approach, reflecting on similarities and differences in implementation conditions of video consultations in 5 Northern European countries' general practice settings that might have created barriers to its use within general practice. We convened at a cross-disciplinary seminar in May 2022 with researchers and clinicians from 5 Northern European countries with expertise in digital care in general practice, and this viewpoint emerged out of dialogues from that seminar. We have reflected on barriers across general practice settings in our countries, such as lacking technological and financial support for general practitioners, that we feel are critical for adoption of video consultation in the coming years. Furthermore, there is a need to further investigate the contribution of cultural elements, such as professional norms and values, to adoption. This viewpoint may inform policy work to ensure that a sustainable level of video consultation use can be reached in the future, one that reflects the reality of general practice settings rather than policy optimism.
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- Elisabeth Assing Hvidt
- Research Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Unit of Academic Primary Care, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Tranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg Universit, Tilburg, Netherlands
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- Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Research Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Institute of Family Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
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- Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
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John M, Kloyer M, Fleßa S. Sustaining medical research - the role of trust and control. Health Econ Rev 2023; 13:33. [PMID: 37204524 DOI: 10.1186/s13561-023-00445-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND Medical research is increasingly interdisciplinary. However, not all projects are successful and cooperation is not always sustained beyond the end of funding. This study empirically assesses the effect of control and trust on the sustainability of interdisciplinary medical research in terms of its performance and satisfaction. METHODS The sample consists of 100 German publicly funded medical research collaborations with scientists from medicine, natural and social sciences (N = 364). We develop a system model to analyze the influence of trust and control on performance and satisfaction of the cooperation. FINDINGS Both control and trust are important prerequisites for sustainability, control mainly for the performance of the collaboration, and trust primarily for its satisfaction. While the level of interdisciplinarity is a positive moderator for performance, expectation of continuity is a negative intervening variable for the effect of trust and control on satisfaction. Moreover, trust principally adds to the positive impact of control on sustainability. CONCLUSIONS Interdisciplinary medical research requires a participative but systematic management of the respective consortium.
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- Michael John
- Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Loeffler-Str. 70, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Business Administration, Organization, Human Resources, and Innovation Management, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Loeffler-Str. 70, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Business Administration and Health Care Management, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Loeffler-Str. 70, 17489, Greifswald, Germany.
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Abahuje E, Diaz CM, Lin KA, Tesorero K, Bushara O, Yang S, Berry ABL, Rafferty MR, Johnson JK, Stey AM. A qualitative study of how team characteristics and leadership are associated with information sharing in multidisciplinary intensive care units. Surgery 2023:S0039-6060(23)00163-0. [PMID: 37211509 DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2023.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Better information sharing in intensive care units has been associated with lower risk-adjusted mortality. This study explored how team characteristics and leadership are associated with information sharing in 4 intensive care units in a single large urban, academic medical center. METHODS A qualitative study was conducted to understand how team characteristics and leadership are associated with information sharing. Qualitative data were conducted through ethnographic observations. One postdoctoral research fellow and one PhD qualitative researcher conducted nonparticipant observations of a Medical, Surgical, Neurological, and Cardiothoracic intensive care unit morning and afternoon rounds, as well as nurse and resident handoffs from May to September 2021. Field notes of observations were thematically analyzed using deductive reasoning anchored to the Edmondson Team Learning Model. This study included nurses, physicians (ie, intensivists, surgeons, fellows, and residents), medical students, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, dieticians, physical therapists, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. RESULTS We conducted 50 person-hours of observations involving 148 providers. Three themes emerged from the qualitative analysis: (1) team leaders used variable leadership techniques to involve team members in discussions for information sharing related to patient care, (2) predefined tasks for team members allowed them to prepare for effective information sharing during intensive care unit rounds, and (3) a psychologically safe environment allowed team members to participate in discussions for information sharing related to patient care. CONCLUSION Inclusive team leadership is foundational in creating a psychologically safe environment for effective information sharing.
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- Egide Abahuje
- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
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- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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Heidenreich S, Handrich F, Kraemer T. Flawless victory! Investigating search and experience qualities as antecedent predictors of video game success. Electron Mark 2023; 33:20. [PMID: 37252672 PMCID: PMC10197035 DOI: 10.1007/s12525-023-00647-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In recent years, video games have been on the rise as entertainment goods, leading to a growing interest by practitioners, researchers, and, of course, consumers alike. While a few unusually successful video games produce overall high revenues, most released games struggle to break even. Hence, there is an urgent need to better understand what distinguishes financially successful games from nonsuccessful video games. Accordingly, several researchers have called for investigations into the drivers of the financial success of video games. However, empirical studies within this respect are still lacking. Based on longitudinal data of 351 video games, the current study strives to fill this research gap by investigating the relative importance of potential success factors for the short-term and long-term financial success of video games. The results of multiple regression analyses confirm that search qualities such as brand popularity, reviews, and awards as well as experience qualities such as graphics, sound, and game duration significantly drive financial success in terms of the total number of sold video games in Europe. Consequently, managers in the video game industry can boost their chances for the production of a successful video game by focusing on these factors.
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- Sven Heidenreich
- Faculty of Human and Business Sciences, Saarland University, Building C3 1, 66123 Saarbruecken, Saarland, Germany
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- Faculty of Human and Business Sciences, Saarland University, Building C3 1, 66123 Saarbruecken, Saarland, Germany
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- Institute for Management, University of Koblenz, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070 Koblenz, Germany
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Deng Z, Deng Z, Liu S, Evans R. Knowledge transfer between physicians from different geographical regions in China's online health communities. Inf Technol Manag 2023:1-18. [PMID: 37359990 PMCID: PMC10196303 DOI: 10.1007/s10799-023-00400-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Online Health Communities (OHCs) are a type of self-organizing platform that provide users with access to social support, information, and knowledge transfer opportunities. The medical expertise of registered physicians in OHCs plays a crucial role in maintaining the quality of online medical services. However, few studies have examined the effectiveness of OHCs in transferring knowledge between physicians and most do not distinguish between the explicit and tacit knowledge transferred between physicians. This study aims to demonstrate the cross-regional transfer characteristics of medical knowledge, especially tacit and explicit knowledge. Based on data collected from 4716 registered physicians on Lilac Garden (DXY.cn), a leading Chinese OHC, Exponential Random Graph Models are used to (1) examine the overall network and two subnets of tacit and explicit knowledge (i.e., clinical skills and medical information), and (2) identify patterns in the knowledge transferred between physicians, based on regional variations. Analysis of the network shows that physicians located in economically developed regions or regions with sufficient workforces are more likely to transfer medical knowledge to those from poorer regions. Analysis of the subnets demonstrate that only Gross Domestic Product (GDP) flows are supported in the clinical skill network since discussions around tacit knowledge are a direct manifestation of physicians' professional abilities. These findings extend current understanding about social value creation in OHCs by examining the medical knowledge flows generated by physicians between regions with different health resources. Moreover, this study demonstrates the cross-regional transfer characteristics of explicit and tacit knowledge to complement the literature on the effectiveness of OHCs to transfer different types of knowledge.
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- Zihao Deng
- School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074 China
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- School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074 China
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- School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049 China
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- Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Canada
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Zarate JM. In conversation with Lucina Q. Uddin. Nat Neurosci 2023:10.1038/s41593-023-01348-x. [PMID: 37202554 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01348-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Chadha S, Kleinbaum AM, Wood A. Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence. Sci Rep 2023; 13:7974. [PMID: 37198298 PMCID: PMC10192412 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34723-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023] Open
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Cultural outsiders, like immigrants or international students, often struggle to make friends. We propose that one barrier to social connection is not knowing what it means to be socially competent in the host culture. First-year students at a U.S. business school (N = 1328) completed a social network survey and rated their own social competence and that of several peers. International students were rated by peers as less socially competent than U.S. students, especially if they were from nations more culturally dissimilar to the U.S. International students' self-reported competence ratings were uncorrelated with peers' judgments. Social network analysis revealed international students were less central to their peer networks than U.S. students, although this gap was reduced if peers evaluated them as socially competent. Peer-reported competence mediated the effects of international student status on social network centrality. Since learning local norms takes time, we suggest inclusivity will require host communities to define social competence more broadly.
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- Sareena Chadha
- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 485 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
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- Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 485 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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Anvari-Clark J, Rose T. Financial Behavioral Health and Investment Risk Willingness: Implications for the Racial Wealth Gap. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:ijerph20105835. [PMID: 37239561 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20105835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Financial behavioral health (FBH) influences numerous socio-ecological domains, affecting investment risk willingness and consequent wealth levels. The experience of FBH by racial group is unknown, and findings of differences between Black and White investors' risk willingness are mixed. The study's aims are to establish an FBH measure and explore its application to risk willingness by racial group. The study used a subset of data from FINRA's 2018 National Financial Capability Study, including Black (n = 2835) and White (n = 21,289) respondents. Through factor analysis, 19 items were confirmed for the FBH measure; the measure was then applied to investment risk willingness using structural equation modeling (SEM). Invariance analyses showed that the FBH model had an excellent fit for White respondents but not Black respondents. The SEM analysis determined that FBH accounted for 37% of the variance in risk willingness (R2 = 0.368; β = 0.256, p < 0.001). Racial group affiliation was a negligible predictor of risk willingness (β = -0.084, p < 0.001). This project contributes an empirical basis for FBH, emphasizes the importance of FBH for investment risk willingness, and elucidates that racial group differences in risk willingness could be an unlikely contributor to the wealth gap.
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- Jeffrey Anvari-Clark
- Department of Social Work, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
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- School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Chin T, Shi Y, Del Giudice M, Meng J, Xing Z. Working from anywhere: yin-yang cognition paradoxes of knowledge sharing and hiding for developing careers in China. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 2023; 10:239. [PMID: 37214218 PMCID: PMC10184063 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01744-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Digital technology coupled with the quarantines caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has made working from anywhere (WFA)-a modern form of remote working-a widespread phenomenon. Given that WFA brings new career challenges to and engenders paradoxes of knowledge exchange among employees, this research aims to examine how the interactions of remote work time (RWT), knowledge sharing (KS), and knowledge hiding (KH) affect career development (CD) from a culturally grounded paradoxical framing of yin-yang harmonizing. The data were collected from Chinese manufacturing employees, and a moderated hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the hypotheses. The results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between RWT and CD. The interaction of KS and KH is significantly related to CD, and the inverted U-shaped RWT-CD relationship is moderated by the interaction term, in which RWT exerts the most substantial positive impact on CD when KS is high and KH is low. This study offers valuable implications for coping with perplexing employment relationships and increasing career challenges in volatile work environments. The primary originality is to adopt a novel cognitive frame of yin-yang harmonizing to examine the nonlinear effect of remote working and the symbiotic impact of KS and KH on CD, which not only enriches the understanding of flexible work arrangements in the digital economy but also provides novel insights into the interconnectedness of KS and KH and their interacting effects on HRM-related outcomes.
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- Tachia Chin
- School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Marxism Studies, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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Wachs J. Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. EPJ Data Sci 2023; 12:14. [PMID: 37215283 PMCID: PMC10184088 DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00389-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused large scale destruction, significant loss of life, and the displacement of millions of people. Besides those fleeing direct conflict in Ukraine, many individuals in Russia are also thought to have moved to third countries. In particular the exodus of skilled human capital, sometimes called brain drain, out of Russia may have a significant effect on the course of the war and the Russian economy in the long run. Yet quantifying brain drain, especially during crisis situations is generally difficult. This hinders our ability to understand its drivers and to anticipate its consequences. To address this gap, I draw on and extend a large scale dataset of the locations of highly active software developers collected in February 2021, one year before the invasion. Revisiting those developers that had been located in Russia in 2021, I confirm an ongoing exodus of developers from Russia in snapshots taken in June and November 2022. By November 11.1% of Russian developers list a new country, compared with 2.8% of developers from comparable countries in the region but not directly involved in the conflict. 13.2% of Russian developers have obscured their location (vs. 2.4% in the comparison set). Developers leaving Russia were significantly more active and central in the collaboration network than those who remain. This suggests that many of the most important developers have already left Russia. In some receiving countries the number of arrivals is significant: I estimate an increase in the number of local software developers of 42% in Armenia, 60% in Cyprus and 94% in Georgia. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00389-3.
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- Johannes Wachs
- Institute for Data Analytics and Information Systems, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
- Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Taylor LA, Aveling EL, Roberts J, Bhuiya N, Edmondson A, Singer S. Building resilient partnerships: How businesses and nonprofits create the capacity for responsiveness. Front Health Serv 2023; 3:1155941. [PMID: 37256212 PMCID: PMC10225548 DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2023.1155941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Increasingly, businesses are eager to partner with nonprofit organizations to benefit their communities. In spite of good intentions, differences between nonprofit and business organizations can limit the ability of potential partnerships to respond to a changing economic and public health landscape. Using a retrospective, multiple-case study, we sought to investigate the managerial behaviors that enabled businesses and nonprofits to be themselves together in sustainable partnerships. We recruited four nonprofit-business partnerships in the Boston area to serve as cases for our study. Each was designed to address social determinants of health. We thematically analyzed qualitative data from 113 semi-structured interviews, 9 focus groups and 29.5 h of direct observations to identify organizational capacities that build resilient partnerships. Although it is common to emphasize the similarities between partners, we found that it was the acknowledgement of difference that set partnerships up for success. This acknowledgement introduced substantial uncertainty that made managers uncomfortable. Organizations that built the internal capacity to be responsive to, but not control, one another were able to derive value from their unique assets.
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- Lauren A. Taylor
- Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Survey and Qualitative Methods Core, Division of Population Sciences, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States
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- MassHealth, Executive Office of Health & Human Services, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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Wamba SF, Fotso M, Mosconi E, Chai J. Assessing the potential of plastic waste management in the circular economy: a longitudinal case study in an emerging economy. Ann Oper Res 2023:1-23. [PMID: 37361074 PMCID: PMC10184617 DOI: 10.1007/s10479-023-05386-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Plastic waste management represents a fundamental challenge in terms of environmental pollution and health in many emerging countries. Yet, some firms believe improved plastic waste management could lead to value creation and capture, especially from a circular economy perspective. This study draws on a longitudinal research approach that involved 12 organizations in assessing plastic waste management's contribution to Cameroon's circular economy. Our findings suggest that plastic waste management for value creation is still embryonic in Cameroon. Moving to the full value creation and capture stage will require overcoming various challenges identified and presented in the paper. We then discuss our findings and put forward several future research avenues. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10479-023-05386-3.
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- Independent, Expert in Waste Management, SAMO Foundation, BP 10 Douala, Douala, Cameroun
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- Business School, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l’Université, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1 Canada
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- School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No.2006, Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan China
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LeNoble C, Naranjo A, Shoss M, Horan K. Navigating a Context of Severe Uncertainty: The Effect of Industry Unsafety Signals on Employee Well-being During the COVID-19 Crisis. Occup Health Sci 2023:1-37. [PMID: 37359454 PMCID: PMC10183695 DOI: 10.1007/s41542-023-00155-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Complex disaster situations like the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) create macro-level contexts of severe uncertainty that disrupt industries across the globe in unprecedented ways. While occupational health research has made important advances in understanding the effects of occupational stressors on employee well-being, there is a need to better understand the employee well-being implications of severe uncertainty stemming from macro-level disruption. We draw from the Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress (GUTS) to explain how a context of severe uncertainty can create signals of economic and health unsafety at the industry level, leading to emotional exhaustion through paths of economic and health anxiety. We integrate recent disaster scholarship that classifies COVID-19 as a transboundary disaster and use this interdisciplinary perspective to explain how COVID-19 created a context of severe uncertainty from which these effects unfold. To test our proposed model, we pair objective industry data with time-lagged quantitative and qualitative survey responses from 212 employees across industries collected during the height of the initial COVID-19 response in the United States. Structural equation modeling results indicate a significant indirect effect of industry COVID-19 unsafety signals on emotional exhaustion through the health, but not economic, unsafety path. Qualitative analyses provide further insights into these dynamics. Theoretical and practical implications for employee well-being in a context of severe uncertainty are discussed.
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- Chelsea LeNoble
- Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
- Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC Australia
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- Department of Psychological Science, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA USA
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Hagum CN, Tønnessen E, Nesse MA, Shalfawi SAI. A Holistic Analysis of Team Dynamics Using Relational Coordination as the Measure regarding Student Athlete Total Load: A Cross-Sectional Study. Sports (Basel) 2023; 11:sports11050104. [PMID: 37234060 DOI: 10.3390/sports11050104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite its small population, Norway wins a disproportionately large number of medals in international competitions. Therefore, it has been thought that the Norwegian sports model and sports school programs are influential in developing young Norwegian athletes to achieve such results. Today, more than 110 Norwegian private and public schools offer the elite sports program in Norway. Most student athletes attending those schools combine their high school education with elite sports, where they attend training sessions at both school and clubs. The number of people involved with the student athlete on a daily basis (i.e., other student athletes, club coaches, school coaches, schoolteachers, parents, and health personnel) indicate the importance of optimal communication and coordination. However, to the authors' knowledge, no previous studies have explored communication and coordination among this population group. Therefore, the primary objective of this study was to use a holistic analysis of team dynamics using the Relational Coordination Survey as a measure to explore the relational coordination within and between student athletes, club coaches, and school coaches. A secondary objective of this study was to explore student athletes', club coaches', and school coaches' relational coordination with schoolteachers, parents, and health personnel. In addition, the study aimed to explore differences in student athletes' relational coordination with their significant others according to sport, school, performance level, sex, and school year. METHODS The quality of relational coordination was measured by a cross-sectional questionnaire of student athletes (n = 345), club coaches (n = 42), and school coaches (n = 25) concerning training load and life load. Multiple one-way analyses of variance were used to assess differences between groups. RESULTS The results show that student athletes, club coaches, and school coaches perceived moderate to weak relational coordination with parents, schoolteachers, and health personnel. Student athletes' relational coordination score with parents was the only strong score observed. Furthermore, the results reveal notable differences in student athletes' relational coordination with the roles according to their characteristics. CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest a potential for enhancing relationships and communication within and between the significant roles involved with student athletes. The results further indicate that those involved with the student athlete should consider a holistic approach to enhance communication and coordination, including physical, psychological, and other life factors, for optimal student athlete management and development. More resources are necessary to facilitate effective communication and coordination regarding the student athlete's total load.
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- Cathrine Nyhus Hagum
- Department of Education and Sports Science, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Kristiania University College, 0107 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Education and Sports Science, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
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- Department of Education and Sports Science, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
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Veretennik E, Yudkevich M. Inconsistent quality signals: evidence from the regional journals. Scientometrics 2023; 128:3675-3701. [PMID: 37228829 PMCID: PMC10182839 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-023-04723-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Nowadays many countries and institutions use bibliometric assessment of journal quality in their research evaluation policies. However, bibliometric measures, such as impact factor or quartile, may provide a biased quality assessment for relatively new, regional, or non-mainstream journals, as these outlets usually do not possess a longstanding history, and may not be included into indexing databases. To reduce the information asymmetry between academic community (researchers, editors, policymakers) and journal management, we propose an alternative approach to evaluate journals quality signals using previous publication track record of authors. We explore the difference in the quality signals sent by regional journals. Traditional, journal-level, bibliometric measures are contrasted with generalised measures of authors' publishing records. We used a set of 50,477 articles and reviews in 83 regional journals in Physics and Astronomy (2014-2019) to extract and process data on 73 866 authors and their additional 329,245 publications in other Scopus-indexed journals. We found that traditional journal-level measures (such as journal quartile, CiteScore percentile, Scimago Journal Rank) tend to under-evaluate journal quality, thus contributing to an image of low-quality research venues. Author-level measures (including the share of papers in the Nature Index journals) send positive signals of journal quality and allow us to subdivide regional journals by their publishing strategies. These results suggest that research evaluation policies might consider attributing greater weight to regional journals, not only for the training purposes of doctoral students but also for gaining international visibility and impact.
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Hunter JG, Ulwelling E, Konishi M, Michelini N, Modali A, Mendoza A, Snyder J, Mehrotra S, Zheng Z, Kumar AR, Akash K, Misu T, Jain N, Reid T. The future of mobility-as-a-service: trust transfer across automated mobilities, from road to sidewalk. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1129583. [PMID: 37251058 PMCID: PMC10219791 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023] Open
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While trust in different types of automated vehicles has been a major focus for researchers and vehicle manufacturers, few studies have explored how people trust automated vehicles that are not cars, nor how their trust may transfer across different mobilities enabled with automation. To address this objective, a dual mobility study was designed to measure how trust in an automated vehicle with a familiar form factor-a car-compares to, and influences, trust in a novel automated vehicle-termed sidewalk mobility. A mixed-method approach involving both surveys and a semi-structured interview was used to characterize trust in these automated mobilities. Results found that the type of mobility had little to no effect on the different dimensions of trust that were studied, suggesting that trust can grow and evolve across different mobilities when the user is unfamiliar with a novel automated driving-enabled (AD-enabled) mobility. These results have important implications for the design of novel mobilities.
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- Jacob G. Hunter
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- Industrial and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- Industrial and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
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- Industrial and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
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- Industrial and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
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- Honda Research Institute USA Inc., San Jose, CA, United States
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- Industrial and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
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- Honda Research Institute USA Inc., San Jose, CA, United States
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- Honda Research Institute USA Inc., San Jose, CA, United States
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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Suryaningrum DH, Abdul Rahman AA, Meero A, Cakranegara PA. Mergers and acquisitions: does performance depend on managerial ability? J Innov Entrep 2023; 12:30. [PMID: 37200553 PMCID: PMC10177728 DOI: 10.1186/s13731-023-00296-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Companies in difficult financial situations may seek to survive through mergers and acquisitions. Managers must be able to use company resources efficiently to maintain and improve competitiveness and sustainable advantages. Managers' ability to make strategic decisions may determine whether a merger and acquisition is successful. This study aims to reveal the role of the acquirer's managerial ability in mergers and acquisitions based on short- and long-term performance as well as the type of M&A. Two metrics are used to assess short- and long-term performance: the market-to-book ratio (MTBR) as an indicator of operating performance and the buy-and-hold abnormal return (BHAR) as an indicator of stock return performance. The research sample consists of 153 M&A cases conducted by companies registered with the Business Competition Supervisory Commission in Indonesia between 2010 and 2017, and the performance till 2020. We used regression and difference analysis to analyze the data. We find that managerial ability has a positive impact on MTBR operating and BHAR stock performance. This result confirms that the higher ability of the acquirer's manager will ensure a successful M&A in the long run. Investors and potential investors might consider managerial ability in choosing investments in companies after an M&A. This study contributes to the M&A literature by examining the role of MA in the short- and long-term performance of acquiring firms following M&As in Indonesia.
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- Diah Hari Suryaningrum
- Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Department of Finance and Accounting, College of Business Administration, Kingdom University, Riffa, Bahrain
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- Department of Finance and Accounting, College of Business Administration, Kingdom University, Riffa, Bahrain
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- Department of Management, Faculty of Business, President University, Cikarang, Indonesia
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van Leeuwen L, Ruiter A, Visser K, Lesscher HMB, Jonker M. Acquiring Financial Support for Children's Sports Participation: Co-Creating a Socially Safe Environment for Parents from Low-Income Families. Children (Basel) 2023; 10:children10050872. [PMID: 37238420 DOI: 10.3390/children10050872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Despite the many benefits of club-organized sports participation for children, sports participation is lower among children from low-income families than among those from middle- or high-income families. Social safety experienced by parents from low-income families is an important facilitator for parents to request financial support for their children's sports participation. Therefore, the first aim of this study was to better understand parental social (un)safety in the context of acquiring financial support for children's sports participation and how to create a safe social environment for low-income parents to request and receive this financial support. The second aim was to describe the co-creation process, which was organized to contribute to social safety solutions. To reach these goals, we applied a participatory action research method in the form of four co-creation sessions with professionals and an expert-by-experience, as well as a group interview with parents from low-income families. The data analysis included a thematic analysis of the qualitative data. The results showed that from the perspective of parents, social safety encompassed various aspects such as understandable information, procedures based on trust, and efficient referral processes. Sport clubs were identified as the primary source of information for parents. Regarding the co-creation process, the study found that stakeholders tended to overestimate parental social safety levels. Although the stakeholders enjoyed and learned from the sessions, differences in prior knowledge and a lack of a shared perspective on the purpose of the sessions made it challenging to collaboratively create solutions. The study's recommendations include strategies for increasing parental social safety and facilitating more effective co-creation processes. The findings of this study can be used to inform the development of interventions that contribute to a social environment in which parents from low-income families feel safe to request and receive financial support for their children's sports participation.
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- Lonneke van Leeuwen
- Public Health Department, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of CoDesign, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance Utrecht, Utrecht School of Law, Utrecht University, 3512 BK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Hesmert L, Vogel R. Espoused implicit leadership and followership theories and emergent workplace relations: a factorial survey. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1123303. [PMID: 37235094 PMCID: PMC10206136 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1123303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Previous research on implicit leadership and followership theories (ILTs/IFTs) and interpersonal congruence thereof has primarily focused on preexisting, vertical leader-follower dyads. This study explores interpersonal congruence of ILTs/IFTs at earliest stages of emergent workplace relations in which formal leader and follower roles are not preassigned. We suggest that ILTs/IFTs, when espoused to others, have sorting effects in the social marketplace of organizations toward adaptive workplace relations. We introduce the notion of espoused ILTs/IFTs (i.e., assumptions about leaders and followers that someone claims to have and articulates to others) and examine how congruence of self- and other-espoused ILTs/IFTs facilitates the initiation and emergence of lateral workplace relations in a 'New Work' design (i.e., job sharing). Results of an experimental study show that interpersonal congruence in espoused ILTs/IFTs drives attraction to a job sharing partner consistently across different types (ILTs vs. IFTs) and valences (prototypes vs. antiprototypes). While ILTs and IFTs have a similarly strong attraction effect when shared by self and other, the effect of prototype congruence is significantly larger than the effect of antiprototype congruence. The findings encourage leadership scholars to study ILTs/IFTs in a broader range of expression than hitherto and make practitioners aware of similarity biases in the formation of flexible work arrangements.
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Redmond T, Conway P, Bailey S, Lee P, Lundrigan S. How we can protect the protectors: learning from police officers and staff involved in child sexual abuse and exploitation investigations. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1152446. [PMID: 37235098 PMCID: PMC10206139 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Background Police officers and staff who work in child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) investigations are routinely exposed to traumatic materials and situations. Despite support services, working in this space can have negative impacts on wellbeing. This paper explores the experiences and perceptions held by police officers and staff involved in CSAE investigations in the United Kingdom, regarding work-related wellbeing support and barriers to accessing such support. Method A sample of 661 serving police officers and staff working in CSAE investigations participated in a United Kingdom-wide 'Protecting the Protectors' survey. We analysed quantitative and qualitative responses relating to participants' experiences and perceptions regarding three main areas: (1) availability, usage and helpfulness of existing work-based well-being support; (2) barriers to accessing support; and (3) desired support services. Findings Five interconnected themes emerged from the qualitative data that represented participants' experiences and views of work-based wellbeing support and the barriers to accessing it. These were 'Lack of trust', 'Stigma', 'Organisational approaches to wellbeing', 'Support services', and 'Internalised barriers'. The findings suggest that whilst respondents were aware of work-based support, they indicated most frequently that they 'never or almost never' used them. Respondents also identified barriers to accessing support, which related to a perception of a critical or judgmental workplace culture and indicating a lack of trust in their organisations. Conclusion Stigma regarding mental ill health has a pervasive and harmful impact on emotional health and wellbeing of police officers and staff involved in CSAE investigations, which creates a sense of lack of emotional safety. Therefore, eliminating stigma and creating a workplace culture that explicitly values and prioritises the emotional health and wellbeing of the workforce would improve the wellbeing of officers and staff. Police organisations could further improve CSAE teams' wellbeing by developing a continuum of care which is available to workers from recruitment to the end of the role, training managers and supervisors to better support CSAE teams, improving workplace practices, and ensuring high quality, specialist support services are readily and consistently available across forces.
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- Theresa Redmond
- The Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- The Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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- The Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
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Baquero S, Montes F, Stankov I, Sarmiento OL, Medina P, Slesinski SC, Diez-Canseco F, Kroker-Lobos MF, Caiaffa WT, Vives A, Alazraqui M, Barrientos-Gutiérrez T, Roux AVD. Assessing cohesion and diversity in the collaboration network of the SALURBAL project. Sci Rep 2023; 13:7590. [PMID: 37165002 PMCID: PMC10172186 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33641-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023] Open
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The SALURBAL (Urban Health in Latin America) Project is an interdisciplinary multinational network aimed at generating and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities of Latin America. We conducted a temporal multilayer network analysis where we measured cohesion over time using network structural properties and assessed diversity within and between different project activities according to participant attributes. Between 2017 and 2020 the SALURBAL network comprised 395 participants across 26 countries, 23 disciplines, and 181 institutions. While the cohesion of the SALURBAL network fluctuated over time, overall, an increase was observed from the first to the last time point of our analysis (clustering coefficient increased [0.83-0.91] and shortest path decreased [1.70-1.68]). SALURBAL also exhibited balanced overall diversity within project activities (0.5-0.6) by designing activities for different purposes such as capacity building, team-building, research, and dissemination. The network's growth was facilitated by the creation of new diverse collaborations across a range of activities over time, while maintaining the diversity of existing collaborations (0.69-0.75 between activity diversity depending on the attribute). The SALURBAL experience can serve as an example for multinational research projects aiming to build cohesive networks while leveraging heterogeneity in countries, disciplines, career stage, and across sectors.
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- Sofía Baquero
- Department of Industrial Engineering, Social and Health Complexity Center, Universidad de los Andes, Crr 1 Este No.19ª-40 Piso 8, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Social and Health Complexity Center, Universidad de los Andes, Crr 1 Este No.19ª-40 Piso 8, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5000, Australia
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- School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Social and Health Complexity Center, Universidad de los Andes, Crr 1 Este No.19ª-40 Piso 8, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 81377, Munich, Germany
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, 15074, Peru
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- INCAP Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (CIIPEC), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, 01011, Guatemala
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- Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte (OSUBH), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-100, Brazil
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- Department of Public Health, CEDEUS, Universidad Católica de Chile, 8330077, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute of Collective Health, National University of Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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Lai AY, Larson JD, DePuccio MJ, Hilligoss B. Starting from scratch: New work design to enact entrance screening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Care Manage Rev 2023; 48:260-273. [PMID: 37158406 DOI: 10.1097/hmr.0000000000000373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Health care organizations are constantly creating new work to achieve evolving goals such as digitalization, equity, value, or well-being. However, scholars have paid less attention to how such work becomes "work" in the first place, despite implications for the design, quality, and experience of work and, consequently, employee and organizational outcomes. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate how new work becomes enacted in health care organizations. METHODOLOGY A longitudinal, qualitative case study on the enactment of entrance screening-a new operation in response to COVID-19-in a multihospital academic medical center was performed. RESULTS Entrance screening comprised four tasks, whose design was initially influenced by institutional guidelines (e.g., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations) and clinical experts. Organizational-level influences (e.g., resource availability) then became more prominent, necessitating multiple feedback-response loops to calibrate the performance of entrance screening. Finally, entrance screening was integrated into existing operations of the organization to ensure operational sustainability. The treatment of entrance screening as an operation changed over time-initially seen as infection control work, it eventually bifurcated into patient care and clerical work. CONCLUSION The enactment of new work is constrained by the fit between resources and its intended output. Furthermore, the schema of work influences how and when organizational actors calibrate this fit. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Health care leaders and managers should continuously update their schemas of work so that they can develop more sufficient and accurate representations of the employee capabilities that are required for the performance of new work.
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Qian L, Zhou Y, Sun Y, Zhou Q, Zhang M. Carbon emission reduction effects of intellectual property institution construction in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023:10.1007/s11356-023-27347-w. [PMID: 37156945 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-27347-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Institutions are the fundamental determinants of carbon emission performance. However, the environmental impact of intellectual property institution, especially its impact on carbon emissions, has been paid little attention. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to assess the effect of intellectual property institution on carbon emission reduction, revealing a new solution to control carbon emissions. To achieve the goal, this study regards the National Intellectual Property Demonstration City (NIPDC) policy in China as a quasi-natural experiment of intellectual property institution construction and exploits the difference in difference approach to objectively evaluate the impact of intellectual property institution on carbon emission reduction based on the panel data of China's cities. The study draws the following important conclusions. First, compared with non-pilot cities, the NIPDC policy has reduced urban carbon emissions by 8.64% in pilot cities. In particular, the "carbon emission reduction dividend" of the NIPDC policy is in the long term but not in the short term. Second, the influence mechanism analysis shows that the NIPDC policy can promote carbon emission reduction by stimulating technology innovation, especially breakthrough innovation. Third, the space overflow analysis reveals that the NIPDC policy can mitigate carbon emissions in adjacent areas, resulting in obvious spatial radiation effect. Fourth, the heterogeneity analysis confirms that the carbon emission reduction effect of the NIPDC policy is more obvious in low administrative hierarchic cities, small and medium-sized cities, and western cities. As a result, Chinese policymakers should orderly promote the construction of NIPDCs, strengthen technology innovation, give full play to the spatial radiation role of NIPDCs, and optimize the role of government, so as to better release the carbon emission abatement effect of intellectual property institution.
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- Long Qian
- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China.
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- School of business, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, 243002, Anhui, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China
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Scheffelaar A, Janssen M, Luijkx K. Learning as a way of achieving quality improvement in long-term care: A qualitative evaluation of The Story as a Quality Instrument. Nurse Educ Pract 2023; 70:103659. [PMID: 37201265 DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/07/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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AIM/OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the use of the narrative quality instrument 'The Story as a Quality Instrument' (or SQI) for learning as a way of achieving quality improvement. BACKGROUND Learning is a widespread aim in long-term care. If professionals share detailed information about their views on the quality of care, they can see it from each other's perspective and create a new joint perspective that may generate a broader meaning in total. One useful source for learning and improvement is the narratives of older adults. These narratives enable reflection and learning, which encourages action. In care organizations, there is a drive to find methods that can be used to facilitate learning and encourage quality improvement. DESIGN A qualitative evaluation design. METHODS Data collection was performed in 2021-2022 at six field sites of four large care organizations providing long-term care to older adults in the Netherlands. At each field site, SQI was applied: an action plan was formulated in a quality meeting and, 8-12 weeks later, the progress was evaluated in a follow-up meeting. The data collected was participants' responses during focus groups: the verbatim transcripts of both meetings and the observation reports of the researchers. 46 participants took part in the quality meetings and 34 participants were present at the follow-up meetings. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis. RESULTS The results are mechanisms that help learning, participant responses, and practical challenges and conditions. Four mechanisms became visible that encourage learning among participants for achieving quality improvements: in-depth discussions, exchange of perspectives, abstraction, and concretization. The participants listed several outcomes regarding individual learning such as change of attitude, viewing older adults more holistically and the realization that possibilities for working on quality improvement could be just a small and part of everyday work. Participants learned from each other as they came to understand each other's perspectives. The added value lay in getting insights into the individual perceptions of clients, the concrete areas for improvement as an outcome, and getting a picture of the perspectives of diverse people and functions represented. Time was found to be the main challenge when applying SQI. CONCLUSIONS SQI is deemed promising for practice, as it allows care professionals to learn in their workplace in a structured way from narratives of older adults in order to improve the quality of care.
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- Aukelien Scheffelaar
- Department Tranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands.
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- Department Tranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department Tranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
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Xu J, Cornelissen J. Disequilibrium and complexity across scales: a patch-dynamics framework for organizational ecology. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 2023; 10:211. [PMID: 37192950 PMCID: PMC10163862 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01730-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Based on equilibrium assumptions, traditional ecological models have been widely applied in the fields of management and organization studies. While research using these models is still ongoing, studies have nonetheless struggled with ways to address multiple levels of analysis, uncertainty, and complexity in their analyses. This paper conceptualizes the dynamic co-evolution mechanisms that operate in an ecosystem across multiple organizational scales. Specifically, informed by recent advances in modelling in biology, a general 'patch-dynamics' framework that is theoretically and methodologically able to capture disequilibrium, uncertainty, disturbances, and changes in organizational populations or ecosystems, as complex and dynamically evolving resource environments are introduced. Simulation models are built to show the patch-dynamics framework's functioning and test its robustness. The patch-dynamics framework and modelling methodology integrates equilibrium and disequilibrium perspectives, co-evolutions across multiple organization levels, uncertainties, and random disturbances into a single framework, opening new avenues for future research on topics in the field of management and organization studies, as well as on the mechanisms that shape ecosystems. Such a framework has the potential to help analyse the sustainability and healthiness of the business environment, and deserves more attention in future research on management and organization theory, particularly in the context of significant uncertainty and disturbances in business and management practice. Overall, the paper offers a distinct theoretical perspective and methodology for modelling population and ecosystem dynamics across different scales.
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- Jin Xu
- School of Economics and Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Chang F, Östlund B, Kuoppamäki S. Domesticating Social Alarm Systems in Nursing Homes: Qualitative Study of Differences in the Perspectives of Assistant Nurses. J Med Internet Res 2023; 25:e44692. [PMID: 37145835 DOI: 10.2196/44692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND New social alarm solutions are viewed as a promising approach to alleviate the global challenge of an aging population and a shortage of care staff. However, the uptake of social alarm systems in nursing homes has proven both complex and difficult. Current studies have recognized the benefits of involving actors such as assistant nurses in advancing these implementations, but the dynamics by which implementations are created and shaped in their daily practices and relations have received less attention. OBJECTIVE Based on domestication theory, this paper aims to identify the differences in the perspectives of assistant nurses when integrating a social alarm system into daily practices. METHODS We interviewed assistant nurses (n=23) working in nursing homes to understand their perceptions and practices during the uptake of social alarm systems. RESULTS During the four domestication phases, assistant nurses were facing different challenges including (1) system conceptualization; (2) spatial employment of social alarm devices; (3) treatment of unexpected issues; and (4) evaluation of inconsistent competence in technology use. Our findings elaborate on how assistant nurses have distinct goals, focus on different facets, and developed diverse coping strategies to facilitate the system domestication in different phases. CONCLUSIONS Our findings reveal a divide among assistant nurses in terms of domesticating social alarm systems and stress the potential of learning from each other to facilitate the whole process. Further studies could focus on the role of collective practices during different domestication phases to enhance the understanding of technology implementation in the contexts of complex interactions within a group.
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- Fangyuan Chang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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See KE, Miller CC, Sitkin SB. Stretch goals have enduring appeal, but are the right organisations using them? BMJ Lead 2023:leader-2022-000695. [PMID: 37192105 DOI: 10.1136/leader-2022-000695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND The healthcare industry faces significant challenges and opportunities that demand lofty aspirations and novel approaches. Pursuing seemingly impossible goals, popularly known as 'stretch goals', can be a way to instigate dramatic change and innovation, but such extreme goals also come with substantial risks. After briefly reporting the results of a national survey we conducted to provide examples of how stretch goals are used in healthcare, we review and translate prior research on the effects of stretch goals on organisations and their members. FINDINGS The survey results indicate that stretch goals are used regularly in healthcare and a wide range of other industries. Roughly half of respondents indicated that their current employer had used a stretch goal in the past 12 months. Healthcare stretch goals were focused on reductions in errors, wait times, and no-show rates, and increases in workload, patient satisfaction, clinical research participation, and vaccination uptake. Our review of prior research suggests that stretch goals can instigate both positive and negative psychological, emotional, and behavioural reactions. Although existing scholarly evidence suggests that stretch goals will have problematic effects on learning and performance for the majority of organisations that use them, stretch goals actually can have beneficial effects under some specific circumstances that we outline. CONCLUSION Stretch goals are risky yet regularly used in healthcare and many other industries. They can be valuable, but only when an organisation has both strong recent performance and available slack resources to devote to goal pursuit. Under other conditions, stretch goals tend to be demotivating and destructive. We explain the paradoxical nature of stretch goals, whereby the organisations least likely to benefit from them are most likely to adopt them, and offer guidance on how healthcare leaders can tailor their goal setting practices to conditions most likely to lead to successful outcomes.
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- Kelly E See
- Business School, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Gupta S. Model-Selection Inference for Causal Impact of Clusters and Collaboration on MSMEs in India. J Quant Econ 2023; 21:1-22. [PMID: 37360927 PMCID: PMC10157132 DOI: 10.1007/s40953-023-00349-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Do firms benefit more from agglomeration-based spillovers than the technical know-how obtained through inter-firm collaboration? Quantifying the relative value of the industrial policy of cluster development vis-à-vis firm's internal decision of collaboration can be valuable for policy-makers and entrepreneurs. I observe the universe of Indian MSMEs inside an industrial cluster (Treatment Group 1), those in collaboration for technical know-how (Treatment Group 2) and those outside clusters with no collaboration (Control Group). Conventional econometric methods to identify the treatment effects would suffer from selection bias and misspecification of the model. I use two data-driven, model-selection methods, developed by (Belloni, A., Chernozhukov, V., and Hansen, C. (2013). Inference on treatment e ects after selection among high-dimensional controls. Review of Economic Studies, 81(2):608 650.) and (Chernozhukov, V., Hansen, C., and Spindler, M. (2015). Post selection and post regulariza- tion inference in linear models with many controls and instruments. American Economic Review, 105(5):486 490.), to estimate the causal impact of the treatments on GVA of firms. The results suggest that ATE of cluster and collaboration is nearly equal at 30%. I conclude by offering policy implications.
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- Samarth Gupta
- Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India
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Semaan R, Nater UM, Heinzer R, Haba-Rubio J, Vlerick P, Cambier R, Gomez P. Does workplace telepressure get under the skin? Protocol for an ambulatory assessment study on wellbeing and health-related physiological, experiential, and behavioral concomitants of workplace telepressure. BMC Psychol 2023; 11:145. [PMID: 37138296 PMCID: PMC10155671 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-023-01123-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The daily working life of many employees requires the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) devices such as computers, tablets, and smartphones. The double-edged nature of digital work environments has been increasingly highlighted. Benefits such as increased flexibility come at a personal cost. One of the potential downsides is workplace telepressure, i.e., the experience of urge and preoccupation to quickly reply to work-related messages and demands using ICT. There is initial - mainly survey-based-evidence that workplace telepressure may have negative effects on a variety of wellbeing and health outcomes. AIMS AND HYPOTHESES Adopting the Effort-Recovery Model and the concept of allostatic load as theoretical frameworks, the present study aims to investigate the hypothesis that workplace telepressure is significantly associated with increased "wear and tear", in the form of more psychosomatic complaints, worse sleep quality (self-reported and actigraphy-based), worse mood, and biological alterations (lower cardiac vagal tone, lower anabolic balance defined as the ratio of salivary dehydroepiandrosterone to salivary cortisol, and higher salivary alpha-amylase). Additionally, the study aims to investigate the hypothesis that connection to work defined as work-related workload and work-related perseverative cognition plays a significant role in the mediation of these relationships. METHODS To test our hypotheses, we will conduct an ambulatory assessment study with a convenience sample of 120 healthy workers regularly using ICTs for job communication. For one week, participants will be asked to complete electronic diaries assessing their level of workplace telepressure, psychosomatic complaints, sleep quality, mood, work-related workload, and work-related perseverative cognition. They will also continuously wear the Bittium Faros 180L ECG monitor, the wrist-worn actigraph MotionWatch 8, and perform saliva sampling five times per day. DISCUSSION This study will be the most comprehensive ambulatory investigation of workplace telepressure and its psychophysiological concomitants to date and constitutes an important step towards understanding how high levels of workplace telepressure may lead in the long term to secondary alterations (e.g., hypertension, chronic inflammation) and disease (e.g., heart disease). The findings of this study are also anticipated to contribute to guiding the development and implementation of interventions, programs, and policies relevant to employees' digital wellbeing.
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- Raphaël Semaan
- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- University Research Platform "The Stress of Life - Processes and Mechanisms Underlying Everyday Life Stress", University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Investigation and Research on Sleep, Department of Medecine, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Investigation and Research on Sleep, Department of Medecine, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Work, Organisation and Society, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Work, Organisation and Society, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Sarhan AA, Gerged AM. Do corporate anti-bribery and corruption commitments enhance environmental management performance? The moderating role of corporate social responsibility accountability and executive compensation governance. J Environ Manage 2023; 341:118063. [PMID: 37146491 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Revised: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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This study aims to examine the potential impact (substantive or symbolic) of firms' anti-bribery and corruption commitments (ABCC) on environmental management performance (ENVS). We also seek to explore whether this link is contingent on corporate social responsibility (CSR) accountability and executive compensation governance. To achieve these aims, we use a sample of 2151 firm-year observations representing 214 FTSE 350 non-financial companies from 2002 to 2016. Our findings support a positive association between firms' ABCC and ENVS. In addition, our evidence shows that CSR accountability and executive compensation governance are significant substitutes for ABCC to engender enhanced ENVS. Our study highlights practical implications for organisations, regulators and policymakers, and suggests several avenues for future environmental management research. Overall, our findings are unsensitive to alternative measures of ENVS, different types of multivariate regression methods, namely ordinary least squares (OLS) and two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) regressions, and controlling for industry environmental risk and the implementation of the UK Bribery Act 2010.
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- Ahmed A Sarhan
- Department of Accounting and Financial Management, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle, NE1 8ST, UK; Department of Accounting, Faculty of Commerce, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.
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- Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, United Kingdom; Faculty of Economics, Misurata University, Misurata City, PO Box 2478, Libya.
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Mi Y, Zhang X, Liang L, Tian G, Tian Y. To share or not to share: How perceived institutional empowerment shapes employee perceived shared leadership. Curr Psychol 2023:1-12. [PMID: 37359701 PMCID: PMC10154746 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-04701-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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The present study aims to expand the existing research by uncovering the overlooked role of situational factors in shaping employee perceived shared leadership. To further advance this field of research, our study introduces a novel situational phenomenon called perceived institutional empowerment. Based on social information processing theory and adaptive leadership theory, we assume that perceived institutional empowerment may have a positive impact on perceived shared leadership via a chain mediating mechanism of perceived organizational support (POS) and psychological safety. Using a sample of 302 participants from a large Chinese service company, the hypotheses were successfully validated. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in our study.
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- Yaping Mi
- School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China
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- College of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200233 China
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- College of Economics and Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150001 China
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- School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China
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- School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China
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Chudziński P, Cyfert S, Dyduch W, Koubaa S, Zastempowski M. Strategic and entrepreneurial abilities: Surviving the crisis across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0285045. [PMID: 37134095 PMCID: PMC10155951 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023] Open
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This paper seeks to identify organisational abilities that influence the company's survival during crises. To address this issue, first-through literature review-we identified five groups of crucial organisational abilities that companies pursue during the crisis, i.e., strategic, technological, collaboration, entrepreneurial and relational. We have also identified four objectives that relate to surviving the crisis. Next, we have scrutinised 226 companies from two sides of the world, Poland (Europe) and Morocco (Africa), during the Covid-19 crisis. Quantitative analysis using Structural Equations Modelling demonstrated that surviving during a crisis depends mostly on strategic and entrepreneurial abilities such as the ability to shift resources quickly, organise the work in the firm effectively and plan strategically, as well as diversify its products and services perceived as critical.
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- Paweł Chudziński
- Business Partners Club, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Management, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management, University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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- Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco
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- Department of Enterprise Management, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
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Ashraf Y, Nazir MS. Corporate sustainability and environmental reporting: triggers and consequences. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:68743-68769. [PMID: 37127740 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-27160-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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This paper explores the triggers and consequences of sustainability reporting in the developing economy of Pakistan. Moreover, the study examines whether the corporate factors have any indirect and conditional indirect effects on financial performance through sustainability reporting where sector-affiliation acts as a moderator. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach has been applied for the data collection and analysis. The study uses secondary data collected from annual reports of 178 companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange for 2010-2018. The quantitative results reveal that size, age, leverage, earnings, sustainability awards, CEO duality, and board independence significantly influence sustainability reporting. In contrast, foreign ownership, ownership concentration, women on board, and media visibility do not determine sustainability reporting. Mediation results indicate significant indirect effects of each corporate factor on financial performance through sustainability reporting. Similarly, except for a few, conditional indirect effects in all the models were also seen to exist. Subsequently, interviews with prominent players in the field helped validate and understand the quantitative results. This study has implications for regulators, corporate managers, investors, NGOs, and academic researchers.
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- Yasir Ashraf
- Institute of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
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