A5021416376- Management and Organizational Studies
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Accounting and Organizational Management
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Team Dynamics and Performance
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Engineering Education and Pedagogy
- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Psychology of Social Influence
University of Portland
2001-2023
The concept of psychological contracts has become detached from its historical grounding in clinical psychology. current emphasis on economic transactions and justice elements transgressions led to the neglect developmental needs employees organizations managing dependence, emotional distance, mutual coping with change, forming adult occupational identities. Managers academics need take into account understanding resistance changing work roles relationships.
Bouchikhi (1993) introduces themes from chaos and complexity theory to gain an understanding about chance in entrepreneurship. We expand on these using example the Cuban immigrants South Florida increase dynamism of Waldinger et al.'s (1990) model immigrant These are: (1) large differences outcomes can come small initial conditions; (2) largely unpredictable, radical changes be intermixed with become directly dependent incremental, predictable changes; (3) short-term predictability accompany...
A great deal of confusion exists about social construction and what it means for administrative organizational scientists. Eighteen years ago, W. Graham Astley (1985) argued that science is a subjective artifact rather than body objective scientific truths. With the help contemporary works John Searle, Alvin Goldman, Ian Hacking, we distinguish correct from mistaken in Astley's other similar theses. In particular, argue just because theories are socially constructed subject to continued...
This paper offers a framework for understanding how management decision errors may lead to iatrogenic outcomes. Organizational iatrogenesis is the unintentional genesis of qualitatively different problems due mistakes such as unwise intervention strategies, well-intended work on wrong problems, or ignorance significant correlations. Iatrogenic outcomes sometimes involve "black swan" (Taleb, 2007) scenarios. Three error types are well documented in literature: type I, α (alpha), II, β (beta),...
This article extends communication and technology use theories about factors that predict e-mail by explaining the reasons for cultural contingencies in effects of managers’ personal values social structures (roles, rules norms) are most used their work context. Results from a survey 576 managers Canada, English-speaking Caribbean, Nigeria, United States indicate may support participative lateral decision making, as it is positively associated with contexts show high reliance on staff...
There is no greater threat to the relevance of organizational and administrative research, or effective management, than erosion confidence in truth objectivity. The authors warn management organization researchers against becoming institutionalized into an exaggerated perspective self-doubt by giving too much credence discussions subjectivity underdetermination theory evidence. concepts trustworthiness, integrity, honesty, reliability, competency, fairness, bias all rest on urge managers...
Research about the implications that cultural differences have for managers in different parts of Anglophone Canada and United States, like management studies regional culture throughout world, been based on varied, narrowly focused theories reached varied conclusions. Here, we identify compare immigrant group characteristics contemporary socioeconomic figure strongly research comparing Canada, their regions. We summarize predictions each immigration theory characteristic makes two are most...
Temporary vertical groups shift boundary decisions from a make, buy, or ally choice by single firm acting alone to collaborative decision influenced the entire group. Using archival data on bridge construction project networks, we apply traditional theories of at group level analysis. maximum likelihood estimation (Tobit) techniques, our findings uncertain and complex projects support organizational logics. However, contrary orthodox Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) predictions, found that...