502 research outputs found
Work intensification and Ambidexterity - the Notions of Extreme and ‘Everyday’ Experiences in Emergency Contexts: Surfacing Dynamics in the Ambulance Service
Full text linkMany organizational contexts have experienced radical changes resulting in work intensification. Whilst emergency services face evident ‘macro-extreme’ challenges (emergencies, major traumas) employees also experience parallel, everyday ‘routine’ in microsettings. How such micro-episodes interact with macro-extreme dynamics remains underexplored providing an opportunity to extend literature on micro-foundational organizational ambidexterity. This paper empirically examines these dynamics in the UK Ambulance Service by developing a conceptual model to explore the exploitative and explorative shifts and manifestations of work intensification. The findings demonstrate a recognition of macro-type intense-extremes impacts but less appreciation of their interaction with micro-situational mundane-extremes. <br/
The role of non-market strategies in establishing legitimacy: The Case of Service MNEs in emerging economies
Full text linkIn this article, we examine the mechanisms of corporate political activity of service multinational enterprises (SMNEs) operating in an emerging economy. Reporting the findings of qualitative interviews with key decision-makers in Ukraine, the article illuminates how SMNEs operating in turbulent institutional contexts can enact various corporate political strategies, which include social responsibility activities to mitigate the market costs and develop legitimacy. The findings elucidate how government agencies and institutions may also invoke corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a strategy. The article makes key contributions, firstly, it underscores the complementary dynamics between CPA and CSR strategies in host markets characterised by weak and incomplete institutions. Secondly, the article contributes to the relatively underexplored nature of service sector MNEs operating in such institutional contexts
Digital Innovation, Data Analytics, and Supply Chain Resiliency: A Bibliometric-based Systematic Literature Review
No full textIn recent times, the literature has seen considerable growth in research at the intersection of digital innovation, data analytics, and supply chain resilience. While the number of studies on the topic has been burgeoning, due to the absence of a comprehensive literature review, it remains unclear what aspects of the subject have already been investigated and what are the avenues for impactful future research. Integrating bibliometric analysis with a systematic review approach, this paper offers the review of 262 articles at the nexus of innovative technologies, data analytics, and supply chain resiliency. The analysis uncovers the critical research clusters, the evolution of research over time, knowledge trajectories and methodological development in the area. Our thorough analysis enriches contempo- rary knowledge on the subject by consolidating the dispersed literature on the significance of innovative technologies, data analytics and supply chain resilience thereby recognizing major research clusters or domains and fruitful paths for future research. The review also helps improve practitioners’ awareness of the recent research on the topic by recapping key findings of a large amount of literature in one place
Gaining legitimacy through proactive stakeholder management:the Experiences of high-tech women entrepreneurs in Russia
Full text linkIn this article, we offer insights into the critical role played by stakeholder relationships for female-owned high-technology firms in their pursuit of the legitimacy they need to acquire the resources that, in turn, will lead to sustainable innovation and firm growth. By reporting the findings drawn from interviews conducted with Russian female business owners, we showcase how, being faced with the liabilities of smallness and newness—which are further exacerbated by gender-associated liabilities—these entrepreneurs develop strategies suited to assist their entrepreneurial ventures. Within the nascent high-technology global sphere, these female entrepreneurs develop legitimacy for their ventures abroad by accessing external international stakeholders, which leads them to securing much-needed financial and knowledge resources. In addition, their ties with international stakeholders enable them to gain legitimacy among internal Russian stakeholders, thus further enhancing the innovation and performance of their ventures
Hybrid market offering in the medical technology sector and the role of network configuration : An exploratory assessment of dynamics in developed and emerging markets
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"Financial dynamics of public private partnership in the design of welfare system"
No full textThe primary aim of this research is to offer an overview of the reflections gained from the economic literature on business ethics issues, on corporate social responsibility and on ethical probity in a narrow managerialist focus ederickson, underlining the role
and evolutionary dynamics of public private partnership in the design of social benefits (social card, social housing, social income, social bonds)
The Performative University: ‘Targets’, ‘Terror’ and ‘Taking Back Freedom’ in Academia
Full text linkThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This special issue assembles eight papers which provide insights into the working lives of early career to more senior academics, from several different countries. The first common theme which emerges is around the predominance of ‘targets’, enacting aspects of quantification and the ideal of perfect control and fabrication. The second theme is about the ensuing precarious evocation of ‘terror’ impacting on mental well-being, albeit enacted in diverse ways. Furthermore, several papers highlight a particular type of response, beyond complicity to ‘take freedom back’ (the third theme). This freedom is used to assert an emerging parallel form of resistance over time, from overt, planned, institutional collective representation towards more informal, post-recognition forms of collaborative, covert, counter spaces (both virtually and physically). Such resistance is underpinned by a collective care, generosity and embrace of vulnerability, whereby a reflexive collegiality is enacted. We feel that these emergent practices should encourage senior management, including vice-chancellors, to rethink performative practices. Situating the papers in the context of the current coronavirus crisis, they point towards new forms of seeing and organising which open up, rather than close down, academic freedom to unleash collaborative emancipatory power so as to contribute to the public and ecological good
Exploring the determinants of location choice decisions of offshored R&D projects
Full text linkThis article extends the understanding of R&D offshoring with a particular micro-level focus on the determinants of location choice decisions for R&D activities at the project level. Using multinomial logistic regression, supplemented with PLS modelling, the article adopts an innovative R&D project-level approach to examine the key determinants of the location choice decisions made by 126 UK-based MNEs. The findings demonstrate that project characteristics—such as speed, quality, interactivity, innovativeness, and routineness—have a greater impact on location choice decisions than traditional considerations such as cost and wage, which have been extensively examined. We further find that the classification of R&D projects is not one of the key determinants of R&D project location-related decisions. Theoretically, the article uses an approach proposed by Demirbag and Glaister (2010), combined with Dunning's OLI framework, to highlight the scope for utilizing integrated theoretical frameworks to investigate location choice decisions for R&D offshoring within IB studies. We draw implications for research and practice
A Self‐Tuning Model for Smart Manufacturing SMEs: Effects on Digital Innovation
Full text linkWith the changing way people live, communicate, and work, enterprises are striving to shift their existing business model into a “self-tuning” one. Enterprises are becoming more agile, adaptive, and ambidextrous in order to boost innovation in the current digital transformation era. Nowadays, “digital innovation” is closely associated with Industry 4.0 enablers and smart enterprises. Prior research has shown that while multinational enterprises—across many sectors—have already embraced the aforementioned advancements, their adoption by small and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has so far taken place mainly in the manufacturing sector. Thus, based on a sample of 280 self-tuned smart manufacturing SMEs and having utilized the structural equation modeling (SEM), this study was aimed to investigate how digital innovation is influenced by the three pillars of self-tuning models—agility, adaptation, and ambidexterity. Our paper has focussed on the digital systems in which SMEs, spurred by networking and open innovation solutions, operate and innovate in response to external triggers, displaying a balance between exploration and exploitation, and a strong agile capacity.</p
Publishing your Research Methodology Paper, Eighth ‘Sharing our Struggles’ Workshop, Research Methodology Special Interest Group – British Academy of Management
No full textSeminar/WorkshopBRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH METHODOLOGY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
EIGHTH ANNUAL ‘SHARING OUR STRUGGLES’ WORKSHOP
‘Dealing with (the struggles of) revise and resubmit, and picking yourself up after rejection’
Friday 9 December 2016, Meadow TR.01, Leeds University Business School
The workshop relates to the struggles involved in publishing an aspect of research methodology, from those papers where the intended contribution concerns some aspect(s) of research design, method or analysis, to those which entail 'simply' writing up the 'methods' section.
The workshop will provide opportunities for participants to:
• Consider how best to identify the correct research methodology paper
• Write up the paper, or ‘methods’ section to maximise the chances of a R&R
• Identify the key requirements, and respond to the challenge of the R&R
• Devise strategies to move on from the ‘reject’
Those contributing to the day include: Peter Stokes, Shlomo Tarba, Mohammad Ahmadad, Cathy Cassell and Kerrie Unsworth, all of whom have a considerable experience of journal editorship, reviewing, and publishing (and the inevitable rejection ….). The workshop will provide the opportunity for workshop participants to exchange their experiences and all are encouraged to bring copies of their personal R&R and rejection letters to share with all, and to discuss specific response strategies to on-going papers, and follow the history of published papers, together with those that continue to languish on desktops
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