473 research outputs found
A fine-grained perspective on big data knowledge creation: dimensions, insights, and mechanism from a pilot study
Get PDFThe creation of knowledge from Big Data is increasingly drawing the attention of scholars and practitioners in management research. Valuable knowledge first requires identifying the Big Data features connected to knowledge insights creation and the mechanism beyond this creation. This paper examines Big Data dimensions and insights creations at a fine-grained level by adopting the knowledge creation lens. Specifically, what is the mechanism of creating knowledge from Big Data? How to transform raw Big Data into knowledge? We adopted a qualitative case study to explore the large-scale multinational pilot launched in three European cities. The pilot amalgamated a large amount of data feeds from different sensors and open data and created various insights to inform cities’ strategies. By employing an inductive content analysis with abductive procedures and coupling it with participatory observations, we were able to ground findings on the multi-level empirical and theoretical base and build a framework that embraces all discovered complexities and fine-grained features of Big Data dimensions and guides knowledge creation from Big Data. Our research offers a more in-depth understanding of the mechanism of knowledge creation in the BD context. First, we opened up BD's black box by disentangling the knowledge creation mechanism while transforming raw BD into BD insights. Second, our study offered empirical evidence of the growth mechanism working on Volume and Variety dimensions. The uniqueness of this study lies in the fine-grained perspective of BD characteristics and the underlying mechanism of insights creation
Interview with Azar Nafisi
No full textIranian author Azar Nafisi speaks about her experiences and the themes of women's rights and struggle that motivate her work including her famous memior Reading Lolita in Tehran. She also shares her thoughts and feelings on the 40 year fight for women's rights in Iran
Azar Nafisi, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAzar Nafisi is the author of numerous books including Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which has been translated in 32 languages; Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels; and The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and New Republic. She has received many literary and humanitarian awards including the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; an American Immigration Law Foundation achievement award; a Persian Golden Lioness Award for Literature from the World Academy of Arts, Literature, and Media; and a Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation International Thought and Humanities Award. She currently is a visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC
The Effect of Board Roles on Firm Environmental Governance
Get PDFIn recent years much attention has been paid to firms’ environmental profile. Implementing and improving firm’s environmental profile are twofold. First, launching the environmental governance is a foundation for firm’s environmental profile. Second, the characteristics of board of directors directly affect the decisions made by board on all firm’s performance. Drawing on the resource-dependence theory and agency theory, board characteristics represent board resource-provision role and board monitoring role. This paper aims to understand how the board monitoring and board resource-provision roles influence firm’s environmental governance for 267 US firms from 2010 to 2012. The findings confirm that effective boards increase their monitoring of management when there are more independent directors on the board, higher CEO–chairman duality, higher share ownership for insiders and the CEO and finally lower share ownership for outsider–directors. Boards with strong social network connections, larger board size and lower board tenure are classified as resource-rich boards. The results also confirm that resource-rich boards with effective monitoring roles tend to have a board, or a committee appointed by the board that is responsible for environmental initiatives, paying incentives for the management of climate change issues, publishing information in annual reports, voluntary communications and other regulatory filings
Unpacking the relationship between environmental profile and financial profile; literature review toward methodological best practice
No full textDespite a large body of empirical studies examining the relationship between Environmental Profile (EP) and Financial Profile (FP), the results are still inconsistent. The majority of research exploring EP-FP relationships have focused on the results and overlooked the precedence of data in the process. To understand where the field currently stands, the purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it offers a comprehensive definition and conceptualisation of both EP and FP as both are multidimensional constructs. Secondly, it identifies several critical issues in theorising and testing these relationships for which current practice falls short. These focus on construct clarity by highlighting the inconsistency in measuring constructs, sampling errors, different research design, and sample characteristics. This paper analyses 98 empirical studies using data as the key element in each study, and to outline what is known and unknown about the EP-FP relationship from methodological points of view. The outcomes then made related to the comparability and replicability of studies.The results indicate how methodological artefacts such as characteristics of data sources and a data sample, data quality, data collection method as well as analysis method directly influence the results. In addition, comparability and replicability of results are strongly influenced by data source and data type. Moreover, the findings of this review reveal that the main analysis trend is the impact of EP on FP, particularly examining the linear relationship between environmental performance-output-based and accounting-based variables as EP and FP measurement respectively
Inlet patch: The under-explored island
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Exploring the relationship between the Social Network Profile of S&P1500 Firms and their Environmental and Financial Profiles
Get PDFThe Effect of Board Roles on Firm Environmental Governance
Get PDFIn recent years much attention has been paid to firms’ environmental profile. Implementing and improving firm’s environmental profile are twofold. First, launching the environmental governance is a foundation for firm’s environmental profile. Second, the characteristics of board of directors directly affect the decisions made by board on all firm’s performance. Drawing on the resource-dependence theory and agency theory, board characteristics represent board resource-provision role and board monitoring role. This paper aims to understand how the board monitoring and board resource-provision roles influence firm’s environmental governance for 267 US firms from 2010 to 2012. The findings confirm that effective boards increase their monitoring of management when there are more independent directors on the board, higher CEO–chairman duality, higher share ownership for insiders and the CEO and finally lower share ownership for outsider–directors. Boards with strong social network connections, larger board size and lower board tenure are classified as resource-rich boards. The results also confirm that resource-rich boards with effective monitoring roles tend to have a board, or a committee appointed by the board that is responsible for environmental initiatives, paying incentives for the management of climate change issues, publishing information in annual reports, voluntary communications and other regulatory filings
Is collaborative consumption a remedy for sustainability? A cross-cultural investigation on branded second-hand online shopping
No full textPurpose – The rise of the Internet has facilitated the emergence of sustainable consumption, enabling consumersto easily purchase second-hand products through online platforms. Research on branded second-hand onlineshopping is limited, and as a cross-cultural study, this research investigates the circumstances under whichcustomers buy branded second-hand products in an online environment via websites and apps.Design/methodology/approach – Fuzzy TOPSIS was applied to a set of factors by seven marketing professorsto rank the most crucial variables associated with branded second-hand online shopping behavior (Study 1).Moreover, to explore customers’ perspectives on the extracted factors, this study employed a survey approachwith a sample of 261 Malaysian participants (Study 2) and 317 French participants (Study 3) who had experiencewith branded second-hand online shopping. Covariance-based structural equation modeling was utilized toassess the measurement, structural, and rival models.Findings – The results of Study 1 identified the need for uniqueness, price, brand involvement, brand nostalgia,and eco-consciousness as the primary variables influencing branded second-hand online shopping behavior. Thefindings from Study 2 and Study 3 indicate that price, eco-consciousness, and brand involvement are the keyfactors contributing to branded second-hand online shopping behavior in both Malaysian and French samples.Research limitations/implications – The findings also suggest that the need for uniqueness and brand nostalgiais not relevant to branded second-hand online shopping in either cultural setting. Multi-group analysis reveals nosignificant differences across gender groups in both samples. The low price of branded second-hand products ismore important for Malaysian online shoppers than their French counterparts. Interestingly, the choice ofplatform (apps vs. websites) indicates that French app users are more committed to brands, while French websiteusers are more eco-conscious.Originality/value – Research on branded second-hand online shopping is scarce, and as a cross-cultural study,this research showed under what circumstance
Rejections and the Importance of First Response Times (Or: How Many Rejections Do Others Receive?)
Get PDFPrevious studies about the academic publishing process consider the publication delay as starting from the submission to the publishing journal. This ignores the potential delay caused by rejections received from previous journals. Knowing how many times papers are submitted prior to publication is essential for evaluating the importance of different publication delays and the refereeing process cost, and can improve our decisions about if and how the review process should be altered, decisions that affect the productivity of economists and other scholars. Using numerical analysis and evidence on acceptance rates of various journals, I estimate that most manuscripts are submitted between three and six times prior to publication. This implies that the first response time (the time between submission and first editorial decision) is much more important than other parts of the publication delay, suggesting important policy implications for editors and referees.academic-publishing-process; turnaround-time; academic- journals; review-process; publication-delay; rejections
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