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The liaison between performance, strategic knowledge management, and lean six sigma. Insights from healthcare organizations
No full textKnowledge Management is a cornerstone to assisting health organisations in staying competitive and providing high-quality services in today's constantly evolving scenario. Lean and Six Sigma (LSS) approaches help organisations improve their Quality Performance (QP) by employing more efficient, streamlined, and accurate patient-centric processes. Nonetheless, if these methods are implemented to address a single issue rather than as part of an organisational strategy, they are likely to be ineffective and wasteful. As a result of its focus on human resources, Strategic Knowledge Management (SKM) might serve as a standpoint in ensuring LSS success in health organisations as well as in achieving consistent improvement in QP. Therefore, this study investigates the efficacy of QP improvement methodologies through systematic information sharing at the organisational level
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA USE ON THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF SMES
No full textSocial media (SM) are one of the marketing tools growing in importance with increasing digitalisation. Companies use marketing to increase interest in their services or reach new customers. Therefore, SM can help companies access a new international market. The aim of this paper is to determine the impact of SM as a marketing strategy tool to gain a new market in the process of internationalisation of SMEs in the countries of Visegrad Four. The paper also evaluates differences in SM approaches according to the selected factors. To obtain relevant data, Tomas Bata University in Zlín organised empirical research in 2019-2020. The online form of the questionnaire was distributed among randomly selected SMEs. In total, 1,585 managers’ responses were analysed. The t-test was performed to compare means and the chisquare test was used to assess differences between variables. Data analysis was performed with SPSS 23 software. A statistically significant difference was found in the perception of the impact of SM on business performance. No statistically significant differences were shown in the case of SM use and the relation to internationalisation
Unveiling the Good and Evil of Organisational Power: An Empirical Study
No full textThis research seeks to investigate the “relational side’s role” of Organisational Power in mitigating that of the “role
power” in private firms under the lens of gender dynamics.
Employing a sample of service firm workers, a regression analysis is conducted to investigate the role of Reference
and Experience, framed as Personal Power because of their relational nature, in mitigating the impact of Coercive
power (Positional Power) and the gender-based dynamics occurring between them. From a theoretical standpoint,
this study represents an encouraging update on organisational power studies, focusing on the way different forms
of power impact and coexist with each other. Furthermore, the originality of this work lies in the will of framing
power relationality - understood as personal power - to overcome the exercise of power as a form derived from the
role supervisors. Lastly, to contribute to gender studies on the role and predisposition of women to have a perhaps
natural predisposition for forms of coercion, as they are more sensitive to relationality and to establish bonds that
produce, among their superiors, forms of positive powe
Resistance is power.” How can coercion be affected by organizations? Insights from Italy
No full textThis research seeks to investigate the “relational side’s role” of organizational power in mitigating
that of “positional power” in private firms under the lens of gender dynamics.
Employing a sample of service firm workers, a regression analysis is conducted to investigate the role
of Reference and Experience, framed as Personal Power because of their relational nature, in
influencing coercive power and the gender-based dynamics occurring between them.
From a theoretical standpoint, this study represents an encouraging update on organizational power
studies, focusing on how different forms of power coexist. The novelty of this work lies in the will to
frame power relationality—understood as personal power—to overcome the exercise of power as a
form derived from supervisors. Furthermore, this study aims to contribute to gender studies on the
role of women as being more predisposed towards forms of coercion given their natural sensitivity to
relationality, which enables the establishment of bonds that produce, among their superiors, forms of
positive power. Gendered power relations are important characteristics of science, technology
systems, and service firms because understanding the extent to which they are perceived in
organizations or the extent to which the differential value and status attached to management are
gender-related is relevant to management. This study provides a relevant contribution to the literature
on innovative inputs, mechanisms, and strategies to manage organizational power and raise gender
awareness within service firms by leveraging relational power
Bridging Sustainable Higher Education and Metaverse During the Post-pandemic Era: Highlights from a Multiple Case Study
No full textIn the last years, technological solutions have been applied in a massive way in the educational system to face the unexpected challenges due to the spread of Covid-19, leading to increased efforts in the development and spread of sustainable education. However, in the new post-pandemic situation, although it is evident how essential it is to ensure a sustainable education, little attention has been paid in bridging between thought-provoking technological tools and the educational sphere, such as the possible applications of the metaverse in the Higher Education system. Starting from these considerations, the main purpose of this paper is to contribute to the recent debate on the new applications of the metaverse in the higher education system with a particular focus on sustainable education development. To meet this research question, this study is based on a qualitative investigation approach that follows the Multiple Case Study model. In meeting this aim, three international companies active in the field of the application of the metaverse in the higher education system are analyzed. The findings highlighted the metaverse’s potential to offer technology-enhanced learning in a sustainable way. However, some criticalities in terms of barriers to technology and democratization of technology (social sustainability) and digital skills (human sustainability) have emerged. In this sense, the study offers several insights, potentially capable of generating useful implications for both researchers and professionals in both the educational and IT sector
Il ruolo della cultura e delle competenze dei dipendenti nel rapporto tra preparazione strategica e tecnologica all'e-health
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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
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