A paradigm shift in the global strategy of MNEs towards business ecosystems: A research agenda for new theory development

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 100755
Author(s):  
Hongryol Cha
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Business Ecosystems

scholarly journals Commentary: transformative service research and social marketing – converging pathways to social change

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Russell-Bennett ◽  
Raymond P. Fisk ◽  
Mark S. Rosenbaum ◽  
Nadia Zainuddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Marketing ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Common Interests

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss two parallel but distinct subfields of marketing that share common interests (enhancing consumers’ lives and improving well-being): social marketing and transformative service research. The authors also suggest a research agenda. Design/methodology/approach The paper offers a conceptual approach and research agenda by comparing and contrasting the two marketing fields of transformative service research and social marketing. Findings Specifically, this paper proposes three opportunities to propel both fields forward: 1) breaking boundaries that inhibit research progress, which includes collaboration between public, private and nonprofit sectors to improve well-being; 2) adopting more customer-oriented approaches that go beyond the organizational and individual levels; and 3) taking a non-linear approach to theory development that innovates and co-creates solutions. Originality/value This paper presents the challenges and structural barriers for two subfields seeking to improve human well-being. This paper is the first to bring these subfields together and propose a way for them to move forward together.

Uses and Gratifications

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lance Holbert
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Modeling ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Media Research

This chapter summarizes uses and gratifications, a media research framework that asks why people consume certain media forms. The author explains the general framework of this approach to media, outlines the explanatory principles undergirding work of this kind, and identifies what is needed to move this research agenda toward more formal theory development. The issue of how best to measure gratifications sought, gratifications obtained, and media use is discussed. The chapter identifies three areas for potential developments (i.e., dynamic modeling, complementarity, expansion of communication inputs) within the uses and gratifications framework that may benefit political communication scholars. This issue of what media should be defined as “political” is also addressed, with an argument made for the inclusion of entertainment outlets.

scholarly journals Hook Up Culture: Setting a New Research Agenda

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Wade
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Discrete Events ◽  
College And University ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Research ◽  
Self Objectification ◽  
Sexual Subculture

Summarizing the major findings of literature on hook up culture, we propose a new research agenda focusing on when and why this sexual subculture emerged. We explore a series of hypotheses to explain this sexual paradigm shift, including: college and university policies; the gender distribution of students; changes in the nature of alcohol use; access to and consumption of pornography; the increased sexual content of non-pornographic media; rising self-objectification and narcissism; new marriage norms; and perceptions of sexual risk. We then recommend new directions for research, emphasizing the need to explore structural and psychological as well as cultural factors, the role of discrete events alongside slowly-emerging social change, the need for intersectional research and studies of non-college-attending and post-college youth, and the benefits of longitudinal and cross-college designs.

scholarly journals Full-Spectrum Undergraduate Field Research at a Community College

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Scott L. Walker ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Knowledge Application ◽  
Second Category ◽  
Skill Building

Two broad categories of thinking guided the development of an undergraduate research agenda in the Geography and Environmental Sustainability (GES) Program at Northwest Vista College. The first category was a paradigm shift in categorizing need, focusing on skill-building. These interdisciplinary skills typically included communication, teamwork, decision-making, critical thinking, and knowledge application. The second category consisted of measuring research levels in the GES program.

scholarly journals Markets and Manipulation: Time for a Paradigm Shift?

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaushik Basu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Market Place ◽  
New Research ◽  
Shed Light

There is a growing appreciation in economics that people have emotional vulnerabilities, commitments to social norms, and systematic irrationalities that impact their decision making and choice in the market place. The flip side of this is that human beings are susceptible to being manipulated by unscrupulous agents single-minded about marketing their services and wares. This paper reviews George Akerlof and Robert Shiller's Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, alongside other writings in the field, and discusses how this research agenda can be taken forward. The paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for controlling corruption. (JEL D11, D90, M31, Z13)

scholarly journals Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives on Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda for Business Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 343-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank G.A. de Bakker ◽  
Andreas Rasche ◽  
Stefano Ponte
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Extensive Review ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

ABSTRACT:Although the literature on multi-stakeholder initiatives for sustainability has grown in recent years, it is scattered across several academic fields, making it hard to ascertain how individual disciplines, such as business ethics, can further contribute to the debate. Based on an extensive review of the literature on certification and principle-based MSIs for sustainability (n = 293 articles), we show that the scholarly debate rests on three broad themes (the “3Is”): theinputinto creating and governing MSIs; theinstitutionalizationof MSIs; and theimpactthat relevant initiatives create. While our discussion reveals the theoretical underpinnings of the 3Is, it also shows that a number of research challenges related to business ethics remain unaddressed. We unpack these challenges and suggest how scholars can utilize theoretical insights in business ethics to push the boundaries of the field. Finally, we also discuss what business ethics research can gain from theory development in the MSI field.

scholarly journals Environmental peacebuilding: Towards a theoretical framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaïs Dresse ◽  
Itay Fischhendler ◽  
Jonas Østergaard Nielsen ◽  
Dimitrios Zikos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
Main Building ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Environmental Scarcity ◽  
Zero Sum

Environmental peacebuilding represents a paradigm shift from a nexus of environmental scarcity to one of environmental peace. It rests on the assumption that the biophysical environment’s inherent characteristics can act as incentives for cooperation and peace, rather than violence and competition. Based on this, environmental peacebuilding presents cooperation as a win-win solution and escape from the zero-sum logic of conflict. However, there is a lack of coherent environmental peacebuilding framework and evidence corroborating the existence of this environment-peace nexus. Building on a multidisciplinary literature review, this article examines the evolution of environmental peacebuilding into an emerging framework. It unpacks the concept and explains its main building blocks (conditions, mechanisms and outcomes) to develop our understanding of when, how and why environmental cooperation can serve as a peacebuilding tool. It assembles these building blocks into three generic trajectories (technical, restorative and sustainable environmental peacebuilding), each characterised according to their own causality, drivers and prerequisites, and illustrated with concrete examples. Finally, this article draws attention to the remaining theoretical gaps in the environmental peacebuilding literature, and lays the foundations for an environmental peacebuilding research agenda that clarifies if and how environmental cooperation can spill over across borders, sectors and scales towards sustainable peace.

Agile and Value Creation in Agent-Based Social Simulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Navarro-Meneses
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Simulation ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
The Relationship

Agile software development is having a profound impact on the software industry. Agent-Based Social Simulation (ABSS) has led a paradigm shift in the way social scientists understand and manipulate complex systems. However, little is known about the relationship between the two and how they can create meaningful synergies. A review of the evidence available on the connection agile-ABSS was conducted. The review investigates what is currently known about agile adoption by ABSS and the value and limitations that can be derived from the connection. The main implication for researchers is the need to implement agile methods in a greater number of ABSS projects, on which to support further research and experimentation. For practitioners, the review raises awareness on the topic and reveals that there is a long road ahead of challenges and opportunities for those willing to unlock value from ABSS. For both, it would be highly beneficial if they joined forces and agreed on a common research agenda.

Making the Case for “Architectural Informatics”

2014 ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
Mikael Wiberg
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Cross Point ◽  
Methodology Development ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Research Themes

Society is undergoing a major digitalization - not at least in the field of architecture. The digitalization of our built environment has also begun to reflect itself in research (see e.g., Cai & Abascal, 2006; Margolis & Robinson, 2007; Greenfield, 2006). At the cross point in-between architecture, urban development, and the digitalization of modern society, there is a major research potential – untapped and ready to be explored. This paper initiates an “architectural informatics” perspective and outlines a research agenda as to address questions of how to better integrate our built environment and digital world. This paper outlines three research themes including: 1) Architectural composition with digital materials (theory development), 2) Architecture for sustainable digitization (development of value ground), and 3) Digitization processes & architecture as social intervention processes (methodology development). Common to these three areas is the overall aim to develop architectural and computational concepts and theories as to address this common area, to find new practice based methods to facilitate new forms of cooperation between engineers, architects and the inhabitants of our built environment, as well as to explore architectural informatics as a phenomenon and opportunity.

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