scholarly journals Creating advantages through franchising in healthcare: a qualitative, multiple embedded case study on the role of the business format

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlijn J Nijmeijer ◽  
Robbert Huijsman ◽  
Isabelle N Fabbricotti
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Case Study

scholarly journals Becoming Salient: The TMT Leader’s Role in Shaping the Interpretive Context of Paradoxical Tensions

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 403-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Knight ◽  
Sotirios Paroutis
Keyword(s):  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Top Management Team ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium Model ◽  
Embedded Case Study ◽  
Over Time

How do paradoxical tensions become salient in organizations over time? Ambidexterity and paradox studies have, thus far, primarily focused on how tensions inside organizations are managed after they have been rendered salient for actors. Using a longitudinal, embedded case study of four strategic business units within a media organization, we theorize the role of the top management team leader’s practices in enabling tensions to become salient for their respective lower-level managers when there are initial differences in how tensions are interpreted across levels. Our findings extend a dynamic equilibrium model of organizing by adding interpretive context as an enabling condition that shapes the emergence of salience through the provision of a constellation of cues that guide sensemaking. Informed by a practice-based perspective on paradox, we also contribute a conceptual model of leadership as practice, and outline the implications for ambidexterity studies.

scholarly journals Pathways to Improving Nutrition among Upland Farmers through Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions: A Case from Northern Laos

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13414
Author(s):  
Indu K. Sharma ◽  
Dirk Essink ◽  
Victoria Fumado ◽  
Ranjan Shrestha ◽  
Zefanya D. Susanto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Institutions ◽  
Intervention Package ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Impact Pathways ◽  
Agricultural Income ◽  
Farming Families ◽  
Nutrition Sensitive ◽  
Embedded Case Study

While there is an increased awareness of the role of nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) interventions on nutrition, the studies that investigate holistic pathways from interventions to nutrition outcomes are inadequate. We aimed to understand these pathways to improved nutrition from the Enhancing Nutrition of Upland Farming Families (ENUFF) Project implemented in northern Laos. We applied an embedded case study design by recruiting 101 participants representing implementers, school and private sector representatives, and beneficiaries, of which 34 participated in interviews and 68 participated in 11 FGDs. This was supplemented by a desk review of project documents. We analyzed the data using a directed content analysis across five pathways using a published framework on impact pathways from NSA interventions to nutrition outcomes. The project contributed to nutrition mainly through three core pathways-food production, nutrition and WASH-related knowledge, and agricultural income, supported by strengthening local institutions within the project’s scope. While it is evident that the project contributed to empowering women by saving their time and increasing income, further study is needed to investigate the translation of these aspects to nutrition-related practices. We also suggest the need to sustain the capacity of local institutions and their engagement beyond the project cycle. To enhance the effectiveness of NSA interventions on nutrition, there is a need to design and implement intervention package with multiple pathways and tailored strategies based on nutrition outcomes, the envisaged pathways, geographical context, and factors affecting these.

scholarly journals Buyer–Supplier Role in Improving Ergonomics in Garment Supplier Factories: Empirical Evidence from the Garment Industry of Bangladesh

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 492
Author(s):  
Imranul Hoque ◽  
Peter Hasle ◽  
Miguel Malek Maalouf
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Supplier Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Embedded Case Study ◽  
The Impact

Ergonomics is a key concern of garment suppliers to improve their workers’ well-being and efficiency. However, suppliers’ isolated initiatives are not sufficient to improve ergonomics conditions. Thus, buyers’ cooperation and collaboration with suppliers are necessary to make the ergonomic initiatives successful and sustainable. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of buyer-assisted ergonomics intervention on suppliers’ performance and the role of buyers’ assistance and suppliers’ initiatives for improving ergonomics conditions in garment supplier factories. Following a qualitative research approach and multiple embedded case study method, this study intervened in supplier factories and collected qualitative and quantitative data from one Danish buyer and their four key suppliers on ergonomics and the role of buyers and suppliers in improving ergonomics conditions. Collected data were analysed by employing both quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques. This study demonstrates that buyer-assisted ergonomics intervention on the shop floor can improve ergonomics conditions in garment supplier factories. This study also shows that improving ergonomics in supplier factories need joint efforts of buyers and suppliers. The findings of this study will enrich the literature on ergonomics, sustainability, and buyer–supplier relationships by demonstrating how garment suppliers in developing countries can improve ergonomics to meet the expectations of lead buyers and their workers. This is a unique research attempt to understand ergonomics from a buyer–supplier relationship perspective and its impact on the social sustainability of garment suppliers.

The Role of the Consultant in Enterprise Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 88-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian K. Bathgate
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Strategic Options ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Embedded Case Study

Business failure crisis is not a new phenomenon. The competitive dynamism to which businesses are susceptible exposes free economic agents to the vagaries of the marketplace, encompassing problems of growth, sustainability, and paradoxically, failure. However, the problems are more exacerbated in small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) than large businesses, which is why they have continued to experience disproportionately high failure rates. Set against this background, this chapter focuses on the role of early consultancy intervention in securing sustainable development of SMEs. It does this by analysing SME growth strategies with respect to the interface with consultants. Using the ‘embedded case study’ approach and leaning significantly on the author’s consultancy undertakings with SMEs in the UK, the chapter provides refreshing perspectives on the nature of consultancy, strategic options open to SMEs, entrepreneurial competences and characteristics, the need for consultants, and an assessment of role effectiveness in the SME sector.

The Role of the Consultant in Enterprise Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 1358-1383
Author(s):  
Ian K. Bathgate
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Strategic Options ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Embedded Case Study

Business failure crisis is not a new phenomenon. The competitive dynamism to which businesses are susceptible exposes free economic agents to the vagaries of the marketplace, encompassing problems of growth, sustainability, and paradoxically, failure. However, the problems are more exacerbated in small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) than large businesses, which is why they have continued to experience disproportionately high failure rates. Set against this background, this chapter focuses on the role of early consultancy intervention in securing sustainable development of SMEs. It does this by analysing SME growth strategies with respect to the interface with consultants. Using the ‘embedded case study’ approach and leaning significantly on the author’s consultancy undertakings with SMEs in the UK, the chapter provides refreshing perspectives on the nature of consultancy, strategic options open to SMEs, entrepreneurial competences and characteristics, the need for consultants, and an assessment of role effectiveness in the SME sector.

scholarly journals The Engagement of Complementors and the Role of Platform Boundary Resources in e-Commerce Platform Ecosystems

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Engert ◽  
Julia Evers ◽  
Andreas Hein ◽  
Helmut Krcmar
Keyword(s):  
Content Management ◽  
Content Management System ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Platform Ecosystems ◽  
Embedded Case Study ◽  
And Control ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThe success of digital platforms can be attributed to the engagement of autonomous complementors as exemplified by e-commerce Content Management System (CMS) platforms such as WordPress and Shopify. Platform owners provide Platform Boundary Resources (PBRs) to stimulate and control complementor engagement. Despite the increasing scholarly interest in digital platform ecosystems, their exact role in facilitating and channeling complementor engagement remains unclear. Therefore, we conducted an embedded case study on CMS platform ecosystems, comprising a total of 24 interviews with platform owners and complementors. We inductively derive five types of complementor engagement and their respective manifestations and two overarching engagement goals of complementors. Moreover, we determine the different types of PBRs utilized, including their critical effects, and distinguish between uniform and individual PBRs reflecting their respective generalizability and scalability. We discuss the findings by introducing the concepts of complementor resourcing and complementor securing and shed light on the standardization-individualization tension of PBRs faced by platform owners.

The role of multiplicity in a cult: A case study

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Worrall ◽  
Ann W. Stockman

Ties to the outside: An exploration of faculty interactions with external organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karley A Riffe
Keyword(s):  
Study Design ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Faculty Interactions ◽  
Embedded Case Study

Faculty work now includes market-like behaviors that create research, teaching, and service opportunities. This study employs an embedded case study design to evaluate the extent to which faculty members interact with external organizations to mitigate financial constraints and how those relationships vary by academic discipline. The findings show a similar number of ties among faculty members in high- and low-resource disciplines, reciprocity between faculty members and external organizations, and an expanded conceptualization of faculty work.

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