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Relationships between project governance and information technology governance and their impact on project performance
No full textThis research endeavors to address the question of how to enhance project performance through exploring the relationships among information technology (IT) governance, project governance and project performance. The research utilizes an empirical survey methodology. The survey of 533 working professionals in various industries renders 282 usable responses or a response rate of 53.91%. The results suggest that both IT governance and project governance have a positive impact on project performance. Moreover, we found that three dimensions of IT governance (i.e., strategy setting, value delivery, and performance management) are positively associated with project performance while all three dimensions of project governance (i.e., portfolio direction, project sponsorship as well as project effectiveness & efficiency, and disclosure & reporting) are positively associated with project performance. Additionally, the alignment between IT governance and project governance is also found to be positively associated with project performance. These findings provide evidence to project management professionals in regard to IT governance and project governance being part of the operational strategy in facilitating the success of projects. It also demonstrates the importance of the alignment strategy between IT governance and project governance in enhancing project performance
Rise of the Early Roman Republic: Reflections on Becoming Roman
No full textAn audaciously daring narrative, this text presents an overview of the early history of Rome, focusing the reader’s attention to those distinctive and often hidden cultural features that contributed to create a unique ancient Roman mindset and civic outlook. Using an historical format, Thomas L. Dynneson addresses these cultural forces which ultimately shaped the Romans into the ancient world’s most powerful military city-state.
Comprised of numerous values and beliefs, the Romans sought to develop their citizens as a cohesive whole. This approach enabled a mastering of both the practical and utilitarian tactics for solving problems, an expression of classical intellectualism. Identifying this sense of idealism paralleled with the Romans embodiment of sacrifice to overcome all obstacles, the author explores several features of becoming Roman. Within this text, each section is designed to pull together the general historical elements which helped to create a unique Roman citizenship. The final section of each chapter contains further analysis, including the author’s narrative regarding the general sources used, and the second containing a review of one exceptional recommended reading. The later chapters of the book provide a special Recent Scholarship section, which explores the work of recent scholars’ revisionists perspectives related to the traditional ancient sources.https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-facbooks/1012/thumbnail.jp
Entrepreneurial Cognition In Serial And Parallel Entrepreneurs: The Necessity To Segregate Success And Failure
No full textEntrepreneurship and the cognitive processes of entrepreneurs have drawn the attention of researchers in recent years and resulted in the tremendous growth of the segment in the academic literature. To date, researchers have not clearly identify that entrepreneurial element that makes entrepreneurs different from others. This study reviews the literature on serial, habitual, and parallel or portfolio entrepreneurship and not only argues the importance of differentiating between them but also identifying failure versus success when conducting research, especially when researching cognition. The identifying entrepreneurial element that researchers seek lies deep within the metacognitive processes of multi-success entrepreneurs; those who have demonstrated the repeated ability to succeed. Many extant entrepreneurship studies are inconclusive or misleading due to sampling error because they report findings from samples where, based on widely known statistics, most of the entrepreneurs eventually failed or just got lucky once. This paper also suggests that successful serial or parallel, labeled multi-success in this paper, entrepreneurs engage in pessimistic falsification, not excessive optimism, during the early stages of opportunity evaluation and they often engage in entrepreneurial fishing through the allocation of specific but limited resources to test the waters before proceeding with new ventures
Will: Parenting at the Crossroads of Disability and Joy
No full text“Why did God allow my child to have a disability?” Parents of children with special needs often wonder whether it was God’s will for their child to develop an intellectual, physical, or spectral disorder. While this question is only natural, answers from God or anyone else are hard to come by. In this new collection of stories from Clark Moreland, we learn that rather than answering our questions about disability and divine providence, God is often more interested in pulling us toward fellowship with Himself instead. Journeying with Clark and his aptly named son Will through times of frustration, suffering, and uncertainty, you will not only learn to trust God and His plans, but will experience something better than understanding: joy.https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-facbooks/1024/thumbnail.jp
An Analysis of Higher Education Facility Expansion
No full textAmerica\u27s colleges and universities have expanded campus facilities by renovating and increasing square footage. This is in contrast to general construction activity during the same time period. This quantitative study investigates the relationship between university and college campus facility square footage per Full Time Equivalent (FTE) and university enrollments, institution endowments, and tuition and fees. Dummy variables were created for Carnegie classification and whether the college or university was private or public. Literature documents concern that these increased and upgraded facilities may become overbuilt and thus become liabilities to the institutions. Square footage data gathered over a five-year period from college and university administrators were regressed against enrollment, endowment, tuition, and fees for the same time period (2002-2007). Results show a relationship between university square footage per FTE and endowments per FTE and tuition. The relationship between enrollment and square footage per FTE indicates that total square footage increases with enrollment, however at a lower rate than enrollment. This indicates that administrators may act rationally using this empirical data as suggested in teleological theory. However, the results also show that this theory cannot explain all the increases in campus square footage. It leaves room for such theories as arms race theory and public choice theory. This study adds to the body of knowledge regarding the motivation of administrators to increase campus facility square footage and creates a predictor model for administrators to compare institutions
Strategic positioning, timing of entry, and new product performance in business-to-business markets: do market-oriented firms make better decisions?
No full textPurpose: The mechanism by which market orientation contributes to positional strength of a new product, appropriate timing of entry to the market, and new product performance is examined in a business-to-business (B-to-B) context. Methodology/Approach: We examine the role of new product positional strength and the role of timing of entry in the market orientation—new product performance relationship using 178 firms operating in the B-to-B market. Findings: The results show that establishing a new product’s positional strength is a key step in the success of the new product. Market orientation does not directly influence new product performance. Instead, it shapes a new product’s positional strength, which, in turn, positively influences new product performance in the B-to-B market. Timing of entry decision for the new product, shown to be an outcome of its positional strength, is not a determinant of new product performance. Research implications: We depict the tactical process in new product success and highlight the role of new product positional strength in linking market orientation and new product performance. Practical implications: The findings reveal that market-oriented firms achieve superior new product performance through well-defined positioning strategy for a new product, not rapidity of action. Originality/Value/Contribution: This study explains how market orientation influences new product performance in the B-to-B market, taking into consideration new product positional strength and timing of entry
Post-Concussion Symptom Score as a Possible Predictor of Protracted Recovery in High School Athletes
Get PDFAs concussion research shifts from diagnostic to managing return to play (RTF), many studies have sought to establish safe guidelines for recovery. Computer-based neuropsychological programs measure cognitive function performance typically affected by brain injury and include a self-report post-concussion symptoms scale. The use of the total score of a post-concussion symptoms scale as a possible predictor of protracted recovery in high school athletes following injury is still being researched. This study used stored data obtained from the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center involving concussed high school athletes with a post-concussion symptom score and subsequent documentation of recovery time. A one-way ANOVA compared the dependent variable of total initial symptom score to age, gender, days between, symptom change, and previous concussion history. A pot hoc regression analysis was used to determine if there was a relationship between the dependent initial post-concussion symptom score and independent variables above. Data analysis from this study presented evidence that a higher symptom load at injury correlated to a protracted recovery. Further results showed individuals with previous concussion history reported more symptoms at the onset of injury and had a protracted recovery from a concussion than those individuals with no previous history of concussion. There was also a significant effect of gender on symptom reporting
Ethics in American Public Administration: A Response to a Changing Reality
No full textThis article tracks the evolution of ethics in American public administration from the inception of the field in the late nineteenth century to the present, and employs the ethical lens to address some of the current pressing problems (e.g., immigration, climate change, and e-surveillance). The study acknowledges the fact that ethics has not evolved in a vacuum. Ever since the Progressive Era, various forces—social, political, legal, as well as technological—have greatly shaped the evolution of ethics, with every era injecting its opportunities and challenges, as well as its dictating values. This article highlights the continuity of ethics in public administration, by arguing that administrative ethics has not been static as it evolved over the years; it has evolved not by omission but by addition, in reflecting the changing reality of every age
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Groundbreaking Ceremony - Kinesiology Building
Get PDFGroundbreaking Ceremony for Kinesiology Building Program
Designed by SmithGroup Architects of Dallas and Vandergriff Group of Midland, the Kinesiology Building contains 63,000 gross square feet. The one-story steel frame structure will have exterior cladding of masonry veneers, aluminum curtain wall, and roof panels. The new facility will provide the campus with classrooms, biomechanics and exercise physiology labs, offices, lecture spaces, a weight room, and athletic training space - including hydrotherapy pools - for clinical activities and support spaces. The athletic portion of the building will house an equipment room, locker rooms for football and women\u27s soccer, and coaches\u27 offices.https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-admin/1000/thumbnail.jp