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Researching management ideas:an introduction
No full textThis chapter introduces the research field of management ideas by identifying different approaches and literatures and discussing some of the reasons why it has expanded in recent years. The fragmentation of the field is outlined and linked to a diversity in terminology, theoretical perspectives and empirical objects. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the structure of the handbook and summaries of each of the individual contributions
The system of management ideas: origins, micro-foundations, and dynamics
No full textWe then move on to what we see as the main contribution of this chapter: We examine the micro-foundations of a system of management ideas, focusing on the role of managers and organizations in particular and how these actors are part of the evolutionary dynamics of systems of management ideas
Retirement decision-making among Registered Nurses’ and Allied Health Professionals: A descriptive analysis of Canadian longitudinal study on aging aata
No full textConceptual models of early and involuntary retirement among Canadian registered nurses and allied health professionals
No full textRetirement decision-making among registered nurses’ and allied health professionals: A descriptive analysis of Canadian longitudinal study on aging data
No full textA population’s health is dependent on the availability of skilled health professionals. We
know little about retirement decision-making among publicly employed Canadian registered
nurses (RNs) and allied health professionals (AHPs). We identified and compared factors
reported to influence early versus 65+ retirement decisions among RNs (n = 794) and AHPs
(n = 393). RNs, on average, retired at 58.1 years and AHPs at 59.4 years. More than two
thirds retired before age 65. Among RNs, caregiving demands predict early retirement –
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Early retiree divests the health workforce: A quantitative analysis of early retirement among Canadian Registered Nurses and allied health professionals
No full textLook what’s back! Institutional complexity, reversibility and the knotting of logics
Get PDFThrough a comparative historical study of community pharmacy in the UK, Italy, Sweden and the USA, the authors examine what happens to institutional arrangements designed to resolve ongoing conflicts between institutional logics over extended periods of time. It is found that institutional arrangements can reflect the heterogeneity of multiple logics without resulting in hybridization or dominance. Because logics remain active, similar conflicts can reappear multiple times. It is found that the durability of the configurations of competing logics reflects the characteristics of the polities in which fields are embedded. The dominance of any societal institutional order leads to more stable field-level arrangements. The authors suggest that the metaphor of institutional knots and the related image of institutional knotting are useful to capture aspects of this dynamic and to foreground the discursive and material work that allows multiple logics to coexist in local arrangements with variable durability
How Can an Oppressed Social Group Gain the Right to Participate in a Field : An Investigation of First Nations in the Canadian Gambling Field
Get PDFPrior research on organizational fields has suggested that the arrival of new actors is an important exogenous source of field change, as it can trigger the transformation of field boundaries, governance, and the distribution of power and interests. However, a majority of studies tend to focus on powerful, dominant actors as new entrants, such as corporations, professional associations, and government entities. In this dissertation, I shift the focus to oppressed social groups, and explore how oppressed groups can gain the right to participate in mature fields. Specifically, I draw from the literature on tensions within oppressed groups, regulative institutions, and stigma, (as most, if not all, oppressed groups carry stigma, and stigma often plays the role of a barrier to social inclusion), and investigate how oppressed groups overcome the hurdles of intra-group tension, existing field-level regulative institutions, and stigma when attempting to participate in mature fields. Adopting a qualitative historical design, I investigate how First Nations—an indigenous population whose ancestors are predominately indigenous—gained the right to participate in the Canadian gambling field. My interpretative analysis of documents and interview data, supplemented by understandings of indigenous culture, history, and worldviews, reveals that oppressed groups may engage in three overarching processes to accomplish field participation: forging in-group consensus, regulative maneuvering, and resourcing stigma. This study contributes to the field literature by revealing a “bold” pathway by which actors with low resources and power accomplish purposeful actions in mature fields. It also highlights how adhering to or promoting a stigmatized identity, rather than acculturating to the mainstream, can support this process. In addition, this study shows that the arrival of new actors may result in the expansion of field boundaries but field governance may remain intact. Overall, this study contributes to the stigma literature by demonstrating how social groups can use stigma as a resource, and how stigma that is neither concealable nor revealable can be managed. Further, this study sheds light on how those at the bottom of society can address social inequality through self-initiated measures
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
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