Search results for "Strategy"

Margot Katz. (2007).Tarzan and Jane: How to Thrive in the New Corporate Jungle. London: Profile Books. 216 pages

2010

Social inclusion in sports clubs across Europe: determinants of social innovation

2019

Based on the multi-dimensional framework of Damanpour and Schneider [2006. “Phases of the Adoption of Innovation in Organizations: Effects of Environment, Organization and Top Managers 1.” British ...

Measuring organisational learning capability among the workforce

2007

PurposeThe present study sets out to propose and validate a measurement scale that aims to capture the organisational capability to learn, based on a comprehensive analysis of the facilitating factors for learning. The organisational learning capability scale consists of 14 items grouped into five dimensions: experimentation, risk taking, interaction with the external environment, dialogue, and participative decision making.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from eight Spanish ceramic tile manufacturers. The survey was addressed to shop floor workers. A total of 157 valid questionnaires were obtained, representing a response rate of 61 per cent. Using confirmatory factor analysi…

The mediating role of work engagement on the relationship between job involvement and affective commitment

2013

This study examines job involvement and work engagement as predictors of affective commitment. Specifically, we test the proposal of Hallberg and Schaufeli (2006) that work engagement is a mediator of the relationship between job involvement and affective commitment using a survey of 405 Italian working adults. To test the model, mediation effects technique and structural equation modelling were applied to the collected data. Our hypothesis that work engagement fully mediates the relationship between job involvement and affective commitment was supported. This is the first study to demonstrate the importance of job involvement in promoting affective commitment via three dimensions of work e…

Le tweet stratégique: Use of Twitter as a PR tool by French politicians

2015

Edited By Dejan Verčič, Ana Tkalac Verčič, Krishnamurthy Sriramesh and Jon White; National audience; This study, adopting a qualitative approach to political communication, looks in depth at the way Twitter is used as a PR tool by five French politicians. It suggests that the microblogging service plays a specific role in allowing them to monitor public opinion and current affairs, to interact with voters, journalists, stakeholders and other politicians and to disseminate information. The way politicians use Twitter is influenced by concerns of impression management (content and style of tweets), and also various institutional, political and social/symbolic limits, which contribute to revea…

Guest Editorial: The New Normal – Implications for Change

2010

Crossing Borders: An Online Interdisciplinary Course in Health Informatics for Students From Two Countries.

2017

A cross-countries and interprofessional novel approach for delivering an international interdisciplinary graduate health informatics course online is presented. Included in this discussion are the challenges, lessons learned, and pedagogical recommendations from the experiences of teaching the course. Four professors from three different fields and from three universities collaborated in offering an international health informatics course for an interdisciplinary group of 18 US and seven Norwegian students. Highly motivated students and professors, an online technology infrastructure that supported asynchronously communication and course delivery, the ability to adapt the curriculum to meet…

Differentiation in knowledge‐creating organizations

2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to focus on the analysis of the influence of organizational design variables on the creation of knowledge within the organization. The impact that enablers have on knowledge creation has been widely demonstrated and established in the relevant literature. Using this assumption as a starting‐point, the main aim of this study is to consider and explore the role of differentiation – horizontal and vertical – in knowledge creation using enablers as mediator variables.Design/methodology/approachThe paper has created a model of relations of the design variables that correspond to differentiation – horizontal job specialization, vertical job specialization and n…

Psychometric properties of the interaction on supervised classes scale (ISCS)

2016

Objeto: La presente investigación se centra en la construcción y validación de una escala diseñada para evaluar la calidad de la clases dirigidas: Escala de Interacción en las Clases Dirigidas (EICD). Diseño/metodología/enfoque: Se trata de un estudio descriptivo correlacional. Para la elaboración de la escala se recurrió a tres fases diferenciadas en las que diferentes expertos evaluaron la adecuación de los ítems, finalmente se estudiaron las propiedades psicométricas de la versión final en una muestra de 314 socios (69.1% mujeres) con edades entre los 18 y los 77 con una media de 39.33 años (DT=12.25). Aportaciones y resultados: La escala presenta una validez y fiabilidad adecuadas, sien…

Agritourism, between legislation and marketing: A leading sector for local development the case of the province of Palermo

2018

This work stems from a desire to understand the dynamics of a sector that is of particular interest for the economy and regional development of Sicily. Due to its geographical position, rich history, and natural beauty, Sicily is a year-round attraction for large numbers of tourists from all over the world. In this respect, it is vital to invest in the local area, to try to maintain and increase the potential that the territory itself can offer. With this work, we consider the agritourism sector to specifically assess its potential interest for business people and consumers, both actual and potential. Indeed, if on one side modern tourism was born from a desire to visit faraway places, it i…