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Exploring microfoundations and multilevel mechanisms of absorptive capacity in an emerging economy: empirical evidence from a leading car manufacturer
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Despite the importance of knowledge processes in building absorptive capacity, we are less clear about the micro-processes of absorptive capacity development and particularly about the role of individuals’ knowledge processes.
Design/methodology/approach
This study empirically examined, via an in-depth case study, the microfoundations of absorptive capacity and their influence on building absorptive capacity in an automaker across the course of four product innovation projects.
Findings
Findings suggested that dynamics in a knowledge environment informed individual-level tacit and explicit knowledge processes. In return, knowledge processes at the individual level informed organizational learning processes and the emergence of knowledge processes at organization level for acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation of new knowledge.
Originality
This study contributes to the literature by revealing individuals’ knowledge processes from which absorptive capacity emerges. Practically, managers can use the findings of this study to promote certain knowledge processes to develop intended aspects of absorptive capacity at an individual level
Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company changed cinema
No full textHollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars including Steve McQueen and Shirley MacLaine, as well as banking on the reputations of established auteurs like Billy Wilder, they were also pioneers in dealing with controversial new themes with films about race (In the Heat of the Night), gender (Some Like it Hot) and sexuality (The Children's Hour), devising new ways of working with film franchises (The Magnificent Seven, The Pink Panther and In the Heat of the Night spun off 7 Mirisch sequels and multiple TV series between them) and cinematic cycles, investing in IP with adaptations of bestsellers and Broadway hits, exploiting frozen funds abroad and exploring so-called runaway productions. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system by about 1960 and the emergence of a new cinema in the mid-1970s, dominated by the Movie Brats
Deconstructing discourse: applying interview research in the economic newsroom
No full textThis chapter provides a discussion on applying interview research in the economic newsroom. It puts the current research on economic news into context and outlines the benefits and practicalities of conducting interviews, using two tangible case studies – the reporting of the global financial crisis and sustainable finance – to demonstrate both the value of choosing the interview method and how the method works in practice. It introduces some key concepts, tips and practical approaches to this method and presents a guided activity
Lupus anticoagulant testing: Taipan snake venom time with ecarin time as confirmatory test
No full textTesting for lupus anticoagulants (LA) in the presence of therapeutic anticoagulation is largely discouraged because of the risk of false-positive and false-negative results, although the ability to detect LA in this setting can be clinically valuable. Strategies such as mixing tests and anticoagulant neutralization can be effective, but have their own limitations. The prothrombin activators in venoms from Coastal Taipan and Indian saw-scaled viper snakes provide an additional analytical avenue in that they are insensitive to the effects of vitamin K antagonists and inevitably bypass the effects of direct factor Xa inhibitors. Oscutarin C in Coastal Taipan venom is phospholipid- and Ca -dependent, so the venom is used in a dilute phospholipid design as an LA screening test called the Taipan snake venom time (TSVT). The ecarin fraction of Indian saw-scaled viper venom is cofactor-independent and operates as a prothrombin-activated confirmatory test, the ecarin time, because the absent phospholipid precludes inhibition by LAs. Bypassing all coagulation factors except prothrombin and fibrinogen renders the assays innately more specific than other LA assays, while TSVT as a screening test has good sensitivity to LAs detected in other assays, as well as occasional antibodies unreactive in other assays
Student video curation
Get PDFIn the academic year 2020-21 Middlesex University maths students accessed all learning sessions remotely. Each of these interactive sessions was live-streamed, recorded and uploaded to our Virtual Learning Environment, providing hundreds of hours of recorded, unedited maths lecture for students to review.
This case study reports on a project (partially funded by an IMA Education Grant) in which we invited undergraduates to reflect on their remote learning experiences and curate these video lectures. Students were asked to identify the most engaging, useful and interesting segments, and categorise and explain their choices in free-text comments to help us develop our approach to remote lectures and video resources.
A total of 33 video clips were identified by students across levels 4 to 6 on our specialist BSc Mathematics and BSc Mathematics with Computing programmes. In this paper we will discuss our findings, illustrate with examples clips, identify themes in the student choices, and conclude with tips to produce engaging video content.
We will also discuss applications of video curation as a social pedagogic tool for the current Generation Z students. We will argue that sharing how students interact with digital learning resources can help address the significant digital divide in education
The unreliable socio-visual performance and identity of a novelist
No full textThis short piece of creative non-fiction playfully considers aspects of intersectionality, how those aspects physically present/manifest and how they are often incorrectly interpreted
Neurologists' lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
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Receiving the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition (MNDC) can be a life-changing experience. Although several studies of individuals' experiences have indicated dissatisfaction with aspects of how an MNDC diagnosis was communicated, few studies have addressed doctors' experiences of breaking bad news for these conditions, especially from a qualitative perspective. This study explored UK neurologists' lived experience of delivering an MNDC diagnosis.
METHODS
Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used as the overarching method. Eight consultant neurologists working with patients with MNDCs took part in individual, semi-structured interviews.
RESULTS
Two themes were constructed from the data: 'Meeting patients' emotional and information needs at diagnosis: a balancing act between disease, patient and organization-related factors', and 'Empathy makes the job harder: the emotional impact and uncovered vulnerabilities associated with breaking bad news'. Breaking the news of an MNDC diagnosis was challenging for participants, both in terms of achieving a patient-centred approach and in terms of dealing with their own emotions during the process.
CONCLUSIONS
Based on the study's findings an attempt to explain sub-optimal diagnostic experiences documented in patient studies was made and how organizational changes can support neurologists with this demanding clinical task was discussed
Splitting reactions preserves nondegenerate behaviors in chemical reaction networks
Get PDFA family of results, referred to as inheritance results, tell us which enlargements of a chemical reaction network (CRN) preserve its capacity for nontrivial behaviours such as multistationarity and oscillation. In this paper, the following inheritance result is proved: under mild assumptions, splitting chemical reactions and inserting complexes involving some new chemical species preserves the capacity of a mass action CRN for multiple nondegenerate equilibria and/or periodic orbits. The claim has been proved previously for equilibria alone; however, the generalisation to include oscillation involves extensive development of rather different techniques. Several inheritance results for multistationarity and oscillation in mass action CRNs, including the main result of this paper, are gathered into a single theorem. Examples are presented showing how these results can be used together to make claims about reaction networks based on knowledge of their subnetworks. The examples include some networks of biological importance
Criminology against war
Get PDFFollowing the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia, a new criminology of war developed, producing fresh insights and opening up original research streams. The incorporation of war within the remit of criminological analysis, advocated by classical as well as critical criminology, rapidly gained new momentum. The focus on asymmetrical conflicts and invasions unveiled the massive killing of civilians, bringing war into the arena of victimology. Moreover, the examination of the material forces that drive international conflicts situated such conflicts among the violent predatory offences that concern most criminological theories. The study of ‘war crimes’, ultimately, led some authors to shift attention towards ‘war as crime’. After briefly summarizing the developments that shaped a criminology of war, this paper attempts further analytical steps towards the formulation of a criminology against war. A critique of the concept of ‘just wars’ is followed by the examination of the ambiguities that cloud the notions of jus ad bellum and jus in bello. Current legal provisions regulating international conflict are described as blank norms, while principles of peace-building are finally pinpointed
Two posters: 'The Things That Make You Sick' and 'Women Beware of Man Made Medicine'
No full textTwo A2 offset litho posters produced in 1980 as part of the East London Health Project and now included in the Tate exhibition 'Women in Revolt!
Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the United Kingdom 1970 – 1990'.
For exhibition at: Tate Britain, London, 08 November 2023 – 07 April 2024, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, May 2024 – January 2025 and The Whitworth, Manchester, February 2025 – August 2025