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No full textInnovativeness contested – discrepancies between managerial ideals and employee identities
No full textIn the contemporary discourse of innovation, every organizational member is constructed as a potential innovator who is expected to contribute creative outputs for the benefit of the organization. This drives organizations to introduce structures and procedures through which the creative potential of employees can be most efficiently utilized. Earlier research has studied extensively organizational antecedents for innovativeness, however, studies discussing employee responses concerning managerial efforts to increase innovativeness have been less explored.
This study complements earlier work on innovation by exploring the ways in which managers seek to enhance innovativeness and justify these methods, as well as how employees respond to these efforts. This micro-level investigation of the processes through which innovativeness is constructed unveils its controversial nature in organizations. Drawing on empirical data from managerial efforts to increase innovativeness in six large Finnish organizations, the study unveils the subtle forms of resistance resulting from identity struggles and the plurality of meanings concerning innovativeness held by organizational actors. The thesis is comprised of four empirical sub-studies that illuminate this phenomenon from different perspectives. The empirical material is comprised of altogether 112 interviews with managers and employees, and 49 hours of non-participant observation in company premises.
The analysis of the study focuses on the discursive construction of organizational efforts to increase innovativeness and particularly the ways in which the innovative subjectivity is constructed in the managerial discourse. In addition, the study explores how employees respond to the managerial efforts to increase employee innovativeness. The study illuminates the discrepancies between the managerial ideals of innovative subjectivity and the ways in which employees identify themselves with innovativeness. The results show, how the managerial efforts to increase innovativeness are contested by employees and may have counter-productive influence on employee identification with organizational innovation pursuits. Managerial efforts driven by abstract notions such as creative freedom, encounters, collaboration, proactivity and future orientation resulted in alienation from the organizational innovation pursuits by employees. Moreover, the study illustrates how the fluidity and ambiguous nature of the concept of innovativeness enables organizational actors to position themselves within the discourse in a multiplicity of ways in different organizational contexts
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
Predictors of job crafting in SMEs working in an ICT-based mobile and multilocational manner
No full textFunding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research project was financed by the European Social Fund awarded by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022.This article extends the discussion of the predictors of job crafting to include small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in an information and communication technologies (ICT)-based mobile and multilocational manner. Based on a survey (N = 412) conducted in 43 Finnish SMEs, the job and personal resources-related predictors of approach and avoidance types of job crafting were analysed. From job resources, co-working, multilocality, the resources in the physical work environment, useful ICT and social support predicted the approach types of job crafting. Intrinsic motivation, relatedness and feeling competent as personal resources activated the approach types of job crafting. Drawing on background variables, being a younger firm activated job crafting. Avoidance type of job crafting was predicted positively by the resources in the physical work environment. This article suggests that knowledge about the predictors of job crafting encourages SMEs to activate this practice among its personnel.Peer reviewe
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
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