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Top Management and Organizational Ambidexterity Paradox: A Qualitative Research on Dynamic Managerial Capabilities
No full textOrganizational ambidexterity refers to a firm’s ability to balance both exploitation and exploration activities. While explaining the equilibrium between exploitation and exploration activities in organizational ambidexterity studies, ambidexterity is usually considered as a skill or capacity and many researchers refer it to the framework of dynamic capabilities. Previous studies have extensively researched the outcomes of ambidexterity, instead in this study the antecedents or origins of organizational ambidexterity have been investigated using an inductive grounded theory method. İt is aimed to shed light on the vital role top managers have in developing an ambidextrous orientation of the firm.
The participants of the study have been selected through purposive sampling, and data has been collected through one-to-one in-depth interviews the researcher conducted with individual senior manager participants of the study. The collected data was analyzed through an inductive content analysis approach of conceptualization and theory generation, through an iterative cyclic coding process.
The findings of this study confirm the initial assumptions that it is senior managers who shape the ability of a firm to sense and capture opportunities for organizational ambidexterity and shape its ability to compete in dynamic markets by combining, integrating and reorganizing exploitative and exploratory resources and activities. The data analysis process managed to visualize or map emergent clusters of themes that relate to the research purpose of this study.
From the inductive data-driven coding process, a framework of 5 main top-level themes as follows has been constructed; “Idiosyncratic Capabilities”, “Interpersonal Connectedness Capabilities”, “Organizational Capabilities”, “Market Dynamism”, and “Ambidexterity Activities”.
This research concludes that strategic contradictions between exploitation and exploration could be resolved by senior managers who act as engines for organizational ambidexterity orientation. Furthermore, implications of the study are discussed, and limitations and directions for future research are outlined
Behavior of RC frames under quasi-static diagonal loads
Get PDFThe aim of this investigation is to analyze the mechanical behavior of reinforced concrete frames
under diagonal loads. The study provides a combination of analytical and experimental work related to the
quasi-static diagonal loading of the reinforced concrete frames. The analytical modeling of the RC frames
was performed in ETABS software on a real scale frame, whereas the experimental test was performed on
a RC frame of a scale 1/3 of the analytical model. The load displacement curves were built from both the
investigation methods and the maximum strength, yielding point, maximum displacement parallel and
perpendicular to the loads, Modulus of Elasticity, and ductility factor (Rµ) of the RC frames were obtained
and analyzed
Experiencing the Research-Based Learning: Case of the graduate course “Landscape Perspectives in Disaster Risk Management and Fire Safety”
Get PDFPolypropylene reinforced mortar coating for improvement of unreinforced masonry (URM) shear resistance
Get PDFBody and biology
Get PDFThe social community is neither a mosaic nor a sum of different identities but something akin to a new, compound being, characterised by its own genome: the mfDNA. It involves, in particular, a kind of colonisation, the outcome of events, contingencies, probabilistic dynamics, interrelationships between the individual (or society) and the environment. Furthermore, community does not imply a mere list of species but a milieu that exists to serve their relative, not simply single and bi-univocal representations and interrelationships, acting within a complex multifactorial network characterized by a preliminary mathematical-model approach. Therefore, it is possible to introduce a new perspective, driven by the mfDNA approach and biology, and suggest a wider context capable of improving our understanding of the role of individuals within societies. We propose a new tool, the “social mfDNA model”, as an interior indicator of the properties, composition and dynamics of human society
Attitudes toward e-recruitment. An explorative study in Romania
Get PDFThis paper uses a measurement scale to identify the vision of individuals in relation to online recruitment. The main objectives seek to identify what sources of recruitment respondents prefer, whether their opinions are differentiated by gender and age; the occupational status is an important variable which might change the participants’ opinion on the effectiveness of recruiting websites. The key objective of this paper is to emphasize the relationship between social media and recruitment, more precisely how is the entire process by the virtual environment. Based on the obtained results we may conclude that people who tend to use Facebook above the average are inclined to use and to have a positive attitude with respect to recruiting platforms. Furthermore, it can be noticed that people who would choose as a primary source of search of a job the recruitment websites display differences in perception compared to the other respondents. The conclusions drawn from this research are that age and gender are not a variable which displays differences in perception. Yet, based on the obtained results we may notice that the preferences for the use of recruiting platforms influence their opinions
Personality and Institution - Reflections on paradigmatic structures in Max Weber’s thinking
Get PDFThe structure of scientific revolutions - if we follow Thomas Kuhn - is characterized by crises of knowledge and chances by changes of paradigm, a term that is mostly outside the natural sciences only used metaphorically. But also, in sociology, there are something like paradigmatic premises, questioning, research strategies, conceptual structures and perspectives of research in the competition between successful major theories. At least that could be said of Talcott Parsons’s system theory in the period after the Second World War, maybe also of the Critical Theory or later of the approaches of Niklas Luhmann or Pierre Bourdieu. Against this background, the publishers of the Max Weber complete edition, especially Wolfgang Schluchter and his students, were concerned with establishing a “Weber paradigm” more than half a century after the death of this “Myth of Heidelberg”. The essay proposes a combination of Weber’s concept of action with the development of (institutional) forms of order and their enforcement. The prerequisites of the Weber Renaissance since the 1970s are discussed and then a systematization of Weber’s questions based on its “basic sociological concepts” and their logic of grading are proposed. Aspects of a Weber Paradigm are developed from a presentation of the basic principles of the “Theory and Analysis of Institutional Mechanisms”, because the institutional analytical method was proven in various research contexts, especially in the interdisciplinary research of historians and social scientists
Anglophone and Civilian Convergence: Law, Values, Culture, and Learning in the Global Age
Get PDFThis paper examines the question of what values might underlie a global regimen of law. It is concerned with the level of culture and learning that could prevail among a future global public. It begins by explaining how law is a central element in the project of globalization, and how legal influence touches on all areas of global order. The paper discusses the two predominant Western traditions of law, Anglophone and Civilian, the legal culture each represents, and the values implicit in their two different conceptions of legality. It reviews certain fundamental elements present in each tradition since their near simultaneous beginnings in the medieval world. It explores the relationship of both legal methods to the realm of public understanding, especially in their two differing versions of the university as a center of learning. In doing so, the paper also examines the contrasting roles of scholar and judge in each legal system. It then looks forward to probable difficulties in any attempt at combining the two traditions of law into a single global regime. The paper concludes by using America as a model to contemplate what values might shape an Anglophone legal culture, applicable to all peoples in all localities around the world. Finally, the paper summarizes the foregoing, and looks toward the possible redefinition of culture and learning in a global Rule of Law
Transcendental Philosophy, The History of Psychology Kant and Freud.
Get PDFKant is not generally recognised to be an Aristotelian hylomorphic Philosopher because of his extension of logic into Philosophical Psychology in the form of Transcendental Logic. This extension is a natural articulation of hylomorphic metaphysics. Aristotle’s 4 kinds of change, 3 principles, and 4 “causes” are all transformed into the Kantian system of categories of judgement and also transposed into the faculties of sensibility, understanding, and reason. The principles of noncontradiction and sufficient reason obviously have origins in Aristotelian logic and Metaphysics. Freud claims that he is writing the Psychology that Kant would have written had he written subsequent to the “divorce” between Philosophy and Psychology in 1870 but it is clear that Freud too must be considered a hylomorphic Psychologist. This latter claim must be true if it is the case that Kant can be regarded, a hylomorphic Philosopher. Freud regards Consciousness and psychological residues (rituals) that we find in institutions as vicissitudes of Instinct. Instinct is here of course a philosophical concept possessing an aim, an object, a bodily source and a demand for motor activity. Early vicissitudes of instincts are narcissistically based and give rise the genesis of a strong ego under favourable circumstances. Freudian theory correctly interpreted ought to give rise to ethical theory of the type we find in Kant. This is a requirement for theories that we find in the arena of transcendental psychology