Empirical Research on Moral Distress: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities

HEC Forum ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann B. Hamric
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Understanding innovation in Canadian wine regions: an exploratory study

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Doloreux ◽  
Anthony Frigon
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Innovation Modes ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Strategy Innovation ◽  
Cool Climate

Purpose Despite the importance of innovation in and the growth of the wine industry in recent years, empirical research devoted to innovation in this industry remains scarce. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to filling this gap by exploring innovation among Canadian wine firms. Design/methodology/approach The data used in this paper are drawn from an original firm-level survey conducted between April and July 2018 to study the business and innovation strategies of Canadian winery firms over the 2015–2017 period. Findings First, the study has identified four innovation modes which are distinct in terms of firms’ strategy, innovation activities, and knowledge sourcing and openness. The second finding is that these different innovation modes are associated with different innovation outputs. The third finding is that there here is a tendency for certain innovation modes to better reflect firms in some regions, although all innovation modes are represented to different degrees in each of the three wine regions. Originality/value Empirical research devoted to innovation in this industry remains scarce. This paper contributes to filling this gap by exploring innovation among Canadian wine firms. These firms deal with several challenges and opportunities arising from the production and transformation of cool-climate grapes that impact on business innovation approaches.

scholarly journals OPEN DATA PLATFORMS FOR A DATA COMMONS, HOW TO SUPPORT THE LIFE OF DATA BEYOND RELEASE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Hamilton ◽  
Stefano De Paoli ◽  
Anna Wilson ◽  
Greg Singh
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Open Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Government Data ◽  
The One ◽  
Project Data ◽  
Data Commons

In this paper we will discuss the challenges and opportunities of infusing in open data a life beyond its original public release. Indeed, it is often unclear whether open data has a life beyond the one it was initially collected for, to the extent that some authors have even described the public reuse of government data as no more than a “myth”. We will present the results of the project Data Commons Scotland launched with the idea of creating an Internet based prototype platform for creating a trustworthy common of open data, thus facilitating a life for data beyond the one of the original producer. We will discuss the results of our empirical research for the project based on 31 qualitative interviews with a number of actors, such as data producers or citizens. Moreover, we will present the results of the co-design conducted for the design of the Data Commons Scotland platform. With the results of our analysis we will reflect on the challenges of building Internet based platforms for open data supporting the generation of a common.

scholarly journals South African Reformed Baptists and contextualisation: Contemporary understanding, attitudes and praxis

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Koning ◽  
P.J. Buys
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Church Growth ◽  
South African ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The West ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Christian Witness

Postmodernism and urbanisation pose significant challenges and opportunities to Christian witness in the West. In South Africa, Reformed Baptists as well as the Reformed Churches in South Africa (RCSA) seem to be battling to engage with and reach new generations in the cities with the gospel. While the reasons for this may be many and varied, one reason for our faltering and seemingly ineffective witness can be traced back to inadequate and unbiblical views of contextualisation. While South African Reformed Baptists are passionately committed to biblical truth and orthodoxy, they appear to be negligent in the matter of faithful biblical contextualisation. Reformed Baptist pastors appear to be slow to take cognisance of and adjust to the unique challenges and opportunities that Postmodernism and urbanisation presents to gospel ministry in South Africa. Some conservative Baptists are suspicious of, or even critical of contextualisation, considering it a compromise with liberal theology. This article provides an overview of the findings of an empirical research that was done among a selected group of Reformed Baptist pastors as well as a selected group of ministers of the RCSA concerning their views on and practice of contextualisation. The article also provides some critical reflection on the findings and some proposals for more effective outreach to postmodern urban people.Keywords: Contextualisation, Reformed, Baptists Reformed Churches in South Africa Church, growth, Postmodernism

scholarly journals Cultural Changes in Neural Structure and Function

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. W. Varnum ◽  
Ryan Scott Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Behavioral Ecology ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Neural Structure ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
And Function

Human cultures are not static. An emerging body of research has documented cultural changes in a wide variety of behaviors, psychological tendencies, and cultural products. Increasingly, this field has also begun to test hypothesis regarding the causes of these changes and to create forecasts for future patterns of change. Yet to date, the question of how our brains may change as a function of systematic changes in our environments has received relatively little attention and scant empirical testing. In the present chapter we begin by reviewing the literature on cultural change, including Varnum and Grossmann’s program of research using a behavioral ecology framework to understand patterns of cultural change. Next we offer some initial predictions for changes in neural structure and function that may occur in the coming decades. Finally, we offer some ideas about how empirical research testing these predictions might be conducted and discuss challenges and opportunities for extending the study of cultural change to neuroscience.

Designing Research on Radicalisation Using Social Media Content: Data Protection Regulations as Challenges and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Manjana Sold ◽  
Hande Abay Gaspar ◽  
Julian Junk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Using Data

The analysis of data retrieved from social media has become more and more important. However, working with social media and audio-visual formats as data sources has its own challenges. Communication patterns are increasingly diverse shifting to closed spaces and between platforms, not only but in particular for those who are radicalized or becoming radicalized. Consequently, ethical and legal issues are pertinent to discourses about the feasibility and acceptance of scientific studies in online environments. However, despite limitations and challenges, legal and moral guidelines provide also opportunities and flexibility particularly for researchers aiming to explore virtual space. This chapter summarizes the current debates on weighing legal and moral principles. It provides guidance of the various requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related ethical considerations researchers face when designing empirical research using data from social media platforms. In a solution-oriented way, we give an overview of some key ethical and legal considerations that can serve as a basis for prudently designed empirical research projects. The overview is informed by our research experiences in the field of Salafist jihadist radicalisation in Germany.

Methodological Challenges and Opportunities in Testing for Racial Discrimination in Policing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Neil ◽  
Christopher Winship
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Police Behavior ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Computationally Intensive

A large body of empirical research exists that attempts to determine whether or not police discriminate on the basis of race. We investigate whether the methods used typically produce valid inferences. We find that they often most likely do not and that results may diverge from reality in either direction, indicating discrimination when it is not present or alternatively indicating a lack of discrimination when it is in fact present. The reason for this is that tests make assumptions about police behavior that are often implausible. Because of this, the simplest forms of benchmark and outcome tests should not be used, although the problem is more general. We discuss several possible ways to improve inferences about the absence or presence of discrimination, such as employing matching or weighting techniques and using novel, computationally intensive methods.

Mining GitHub for research and education: challenges and opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-473
Author(s):  
Mohammad AlMarzouq ◽  
Abdullatif AlZaidan ◽  
Jehad AlDallal
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
External Data ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Research And Education

Purpose This study aims to highlight the challenges and opportunities of using GitHub as a data source in both research and programming education. Design/methodology/approach This study provides general overview of the challenges and opportunities faced while conducting empirical research using GitHub as a data source. The challenges and opportunities are framed using the input–process–output model of open-source software. Findings GitHub data accessed from the application programming interface (API) can have several limitations, which can be overcome by Web scraping and using external data repositories such as GHArchive and GHTorrent. There are also several idiosyncrasies about GitHub that researchers need to be aware of to be able to use the data effectively, which can represent an opportunity for research. The challenges and opportunities are summarized for the licenses, community, development process and product of free/libra and open-source software communities hosted on GitHub. Originality/value This study provides a summary of GitHub-related challenges and opportunities that researchers can leverage to improve their empirical research. Furthermore, this summary can be a valuable resource for instructors that plan to use GitHub as a data source in their data-focused programming courses.

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