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Towards the Paradox Mode of Theorizing in HRM - Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Examples
No full textAs operating environments become more complex and volatile, organizations and individuals face multitudes of intense and persistent tensions and competing demands. The Human Resources (HR) function, responsible for the most complex element of organizing—people—is particularly prone to tensions. However, despite the persistence of tensions in HRM research and practice, existing studies seldom go beyond recognizing and attempting to resolve them, to examine the nature and concurrent pursuit of competing demands. To address this, I advance an alternative, the paradox mode of theorizing and studying tensions in HRM.
Paradoxes comprise competing, interrelated, simultaneous, and persistent elements that cannot be resolved for good and require concurrent pursuit (Smith; Lewis, 2011). In this thesis, composed of three interlinked essays, I propose that many long-standing tensions in HRM are paradoxical. In turn, I advance the conceptual foundations for and provide empirical examples of the paradox mode of theorizing in HRM. To that end, in the Summary part of this thesis I explore approaches to tensions in established perspectives on HRM to illustrate how the paradox mode complements existing research and explain its metatheoretical and philosophical foundations. Then, in Essay 1 I theorize the manifestations of the fundamental organizational paradoxes of learning, organizing, belonging, and performing (ibid.) in HRM, and discuss potential responses to paradoxical tensions.
Within empirical examples, in Essay 2 I ground the concepts of the learning (operational–strategic) and organizing (integration–differentiation) HRM paradoxes in the theories of ambidexterity and absorptive capacities and examine their interaction in the adoption of corporate HRM practices in 105 subsidiaries of 12 MNCs. I find that ambidextrous HR departments, which possess high levels of both operational and strategic capabilities, are more adept at absorbing the corporate practices. In turn, in Essay 3 I build on studies of occupational logics, identities, and roles to explore how the belonging (managerial–professional logics) and performing (management–employee demands) paradoxes of HR practitioners manifest and interact at the level of an HR association. I observe a collective pursuit of professional identity, but also current decoupling of professional principles from the managerial standards of best practice, which reflects the co-existence and separation of paradoxical logics and role demands in the thinking of the largest HR association in Europe.
This dissertation hopes to illustrate the potential benefits of and facilitate the studies of tensions in HRM to advance research, education, and the practice of people management, encouraging the pursuit of synergistic solutions to competing demands, current and future
Using online data and network-based text analysis in HRM research
Full text linkPurpose The purpose of this paper is to propose new directions for human resource management (HRM) research by drawing attention to online data as a complementary data source to traditional quantitative and qualitative data, and introducing network text analysis as a method for large quantities of textual material. Design/methodology/approach The paper first presents the added value and potential challenges of utilising online data in HRM research, and then proposes a four-step process for analysing online data with network text analysis. Findings Online data represent a naturally occuring source of real-time behavioural data that do not suffer from researcher intervention or hindsight bias. The authors argue that as such, this type of data provides a promising yet currently largely untapped empirical context for HRM research that is particularly suited for examining discourses and behavioural and social patterns over time. Practical implications While online data hold promise for many novel research questions, it is less appropriate for research questions that seek to establish causality between variables. When using online data, particular attention must be paid to ethical considerations, as well as the validity and representativeness of the sample. Originality/value The authors introduce online data and network text analysis as a new avenue for HRM research, with potential to address novel research questions at micro-, meso- and macro-levels of analysis.Peer reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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