Institutional Researchers as Knowledge Managers in Universities: Envisioning New Roles for the IR Profession

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Teodorescu
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Researchers

Balancing Agency with Structure: Institutional Entrepreneurship as an Embedded Discovery Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 239395752110106
Author(s):  
Desmond Ng
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discovery Process ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Dual Structure ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Institutional Researchers

While mainstream research has treated entrepreneurship as a highly individualised and agentic process, institutional researchers contend that entrepreneurship operates within a greater embedded setting. Various researchers have appealed to Giddens’ dual structure to explain an entrepreneur’s embedded-agency. According to Giddens’ dual structure, this embedded-agency consists of the rules or norms of a social group in which these rules constrain and enable an entrepreneur’s resources. Yet, despite Giddens’ contributions, Giddens is criticised for conflating the rules of this embedded setting with an entrepreneur’s resources in which neither affects the other in any significant way. By drawing on concepts of the Austrian entrepreneur and embeddedness, a theory of institutional entrepreneurship is developed to address this conflation problem. This institutional entrepreneurship offers an embedded-agency to explain how an entrepreneur can create, maintain and disrupt their embedded social settings. This embedded-agency addresses Giddens’ conflation problem and broadens the agent-centric focus of institutional entrepreneurship research.

Accessibility Implementation for Disabled Students in PMBOLD Environments

2013 ◽  
pp. 1173-1195
Author(s):  
Henry C. Alphin
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Disability Services ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Cost Effective Approach ◽  
Institutional Researchers ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Individual

Project management theory provides an organized, cost-effective approach to providing an accessible e-learning environment. Such a collaborative project has the opportunity to bring together such professionals as instructional designers, disability services staff, and institutional researchers. Accessibility as an afterthought is a costly approach, and disabled students are a large enough minority to seek equality of opportunity. E-learning accessibility empowers the individual by providing educational content in formats that not only encourage collaboration and learning, but also reduce frustration and develop a sense of inclusiveness. A project manager who understands the importance of e-learning accessibility will be able to grow the project from the ground up in a manner that empowers the disabled, while benefiting all learners.

Comparing Data Mining Models in Academic Analytics

2016 ◽  
pp. 970-987
Author(s):  
Dheeraj Raju ◽  
Randall Schumacker
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Students At Risk ◽  
Academic Analytics ◽  
Institutional Researchers ◽  
Forest Models ◽  
Random Forest Models ◽  
Student Graduation ◽  
Misclassification Rates ◽  
First Time

The goal of this research study was to compare data mining techniques in predicting student graduation. The data included demographics, high school, ACT profile, and college indicators from 1995-2005 for first-time, full-time freshman students with a six year graduation timeline for a flagship university in the south east United States. The results indicated no difference in misclassification rates between logistic regression, decision tree, neural network, and random forest models. The results from the study suggest that institutional researchers should build and compare different data mining models and choose the best one based on its advantages. The results can be used to predict students at risk and help these students graduate.

Higher Education and Current E-Learning Potential in the MENA Region

2016 ◽  
pp. 68-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry C. Alphin Jr. ◽  
Jennie Lavine ◽  
Richard J. Croome ◽  
Adam J. Hocker
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Disability Services ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Cost Effective Approach ◽  
Institutional Researchers ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Individual

Project management theory provides an organized, cost-effective approach to providing an accessible e-learning environment. Such a collaborative project has the opportunity to bring together such professionals as instructional designers, disability services staff, and institutional researchers. Accessibility as an afterthought is a costly approach, and disabled students are a large enough minority to seek equality of opportunity. E-learning accessibility empowers the individual by providing educational content in formats that not only encourage collaboration and learning, but also reduce frustration and develop a sense of inclusiveness. A project manager who understands the importance of e-learning accessibility will be able to grow the project from the ground up in a manner that empowers the disabled, while benefiting all learners. In the MENA region, urban and rural, poor and rich, all contribute to the possibilities of being able to access education and technological factors inhibit or allow access to online or e-learning.

Shame and institutional stability – or – change in healthcare

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 173-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee C. Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Error Reporting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
Institutional Stability ◽  
Institutional Researchers ◽  
Trade Magazines

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help introduce the empirical study of emotion within an institutional framework by examining shame and shaming as drivers of institutional stability and change, respectively. Design/methodology/approach – The author conducted a qualitative study of 101 US print media articles generated by major US news publications and trade magazines from 1999 to 2011 in the wake of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Findings – This study resulted in two major findings. First, this research found that the institutions constituting the collective professional identity of physicians persisted via institutionalized shame inculcated in physicians during their extensive socialization into the medical profession. Potential shame over medical error served to reinforce institutionalized cultures which exacerbated medicine’s problems with error reporting. Second, this study reveals that field-level actors engage in shaming to affect institutional change. This research suggests that the IOM report was in effect a shaming effort directed at physicians and the institutions constituting their collective identity. Research limitations/implications – This study provides some verification of recent theoretical works incorporating emotion into institutional theory and also illustrates how shame can be incorporated into collective identity as an institutional imperative. Originality/value – This study provides a rare empirical investigation of emotion within an institutional framework, and illuminates ways in which the emotion of shame interacts with institutional processes. This research also focusses on collective identity and institutional stability, two topics which are largely ignored by contemporary institutional researchers but are integral aspects of social life.

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