Current State of Family Business Theory and Practice as Reflected in Family Business Review 1988—1997

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Gibb Dyer ◽  
Marcelino Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Current State

Family Business Review (FBR) has made a significant contribution to the development of the field of family business. This article examines the evolution of the field as reflected in FBR since its inception and attempts to create a guide for future research and practice. It is suggested that more collaboration between academics and practitioners, along with more case studies and cross-cultural work could prove useful to develop increasingly better theory and enhance practice.

Adult Learner Characteristics Important for Successful Learning in Cross-Cultural Web-Based Learning Environments in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 436-469
Author(s):  
Joseph George M. Lutta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Web Based Learning

For more than 40 years, cognitive psychological perspectives have dominated pedagogical frameworks and models for designing technology-mediated teaching and learning environments. Social learning perspectives are increasingly becoming viable or even desirable frames for research and practice as pertains to teaching and learning, particularly in web-based learning environments (WBLEs). The author considers these social learning perspectives and how they relate to the design and implementation of curricula that are delivered in web-based learning environments in higher education. The author further reviews the foundational theories of adult learning that enhance adult learners' experiences in cross-cultural web-based learning environments. This review and analysis of the research related to social learning perspectives on WBLEs have three implications for future research and practice: (1) examining learners' individual characteristics in WBLEs, (2) identifying strategies for promoting social interaction in WBLEs, and (3) developing effective design principles for WBLEs. The author presents recommendations for future research.

Intergroup Dialogue: A Review of Recent Empirical Research and Its Implications for Research and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 654-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keri A. Frantell ◽  
Joseph R. Miles ◽  
Anne M. Ruwe
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Intergroup Dialogue ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Current State ◽  
Intergroup Relationships ◽  
Future Practice

Intergroup dialogue (IGD) is a small group intervention that allows for sustained communication between people across social identity groups. It aims to foster intergroup relationships, develop critical consciousness, and increase capacities for promoting social justice. A decade after Dessel and Rogge published their review of the empirical research on IGD from 1997 to 2006, we reviewed the empirical IGD research from 2006 to 2017. We explore research that has examined IGD outcomes, processes, and facilitation, seeking to understand the current state of the research and practice of IGD. We discuss advances and new approaches to IGD, assess growth since Dessel and Rogge’s review, and discuss future directions. We provide five key recommendations for future research on IGD, and five key recommendations for future practice of IGD.

Knowledge transfer in family business successions

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta Boyd ◽  
Susanne Royer ◽  
Rong Pei ◽  
Xiaolei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Theoretical Reasoning

Purpose – Knowledge often is the fundament for strategic competitive advantage. Thus, it is highly relevant to understand better how knowledge is transferred from one generation to the next in family businesses. The purpose of this paper is to link the competitive advantage realisation in family businesses to the success of transferring strategically valuable knowledge in different business environments to the next generation. Design/methodology/approach – Building on the contingency model of family business succession (Royer et al., 2008) knowledge transfer in family businesses from different cultures is investigated in this paper. From a resource-oriented and transaction cost inspired perspective two family businesses with a similar industry background from China and Europe are compared regarding knowledge transfer in the context of family firm succession taking into account the respective transaction atmosphere. Findings – Different successions for two long-lived family firms are illustrated in a systematic fashion: based on the theoretical elements suggested both cases are described to get insights into the usefulness of the theoretical reasoning developed. On the basis of these, the cases are compared with each other and conclusions for both cases are drawn. Implications for theory and practice as well as avenues for future research are sketched. Originality/value – The focus of the current study is to gain more insight into long-lived family businesses by comparing two cases over a period of more than 200 years with regard to strategically relevant resources as well as the underlying transaction atmospheres. Implications for family firms depending on the resource types and transaction atmosphere are discussed.

scholarly journals Re-defining the Play Cycle: An empirical study of playworkers’ understanding of playwork theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pete King ◽  
Shelly Newstead
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Six Elements ◽  
Out Of School

In 1998, Sturrock and Else introduced the Play Cycle which has been integrated into both playwork theory and practice. An online survey with 157 responses found that playworkers’ understanding Play Cycle varied to how they were first introduced to the theory. In addition, understandings of the six elements of the Play Cycle were significantly different from the original author’s definitions. To provide a more consistent use of the Play Cycle in both future research and practice, this article offers new definitions for each element of the Play Cycle based on the results from this study. This has implications for any childhood setting where the Play Cycle is used, including playgroups, nurseries and out of school provision catering for primary-aged children.

SEMI-AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION OF WEB SERVICES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH AGENDA

2012 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 243-259
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD MOURHAF AL ASSWAD ◽  
AUHOOD ALFARIES ◽  
SERGIO DE CESARE ◽  
MARK LYCETT
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Automatic Annotation ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Annotation Process

Semantic web services (SWS) have recently attracted much attention because of their potential to automate all common service tasks such as discovery, composition, invocation and execution. The successful implementation of SWS is profoundly based on the availability of appropriate methods for SWS description. There is, however, no consensus in the SWS arena on the significant service elements that make SWS description comprehensive. Furthermore, semantic annotation of those elements is still a manual process where human involvement is a must. Therefore, automating the annotation process is highly desired as the manual annotation is a difficult, costly and time-consuming process. Few approaches exist aiming to semi-automate the annotation task. These approaches have limitations preventing their wide adoption by the research and practice communities. This paper contributes by analysing and comparing those existing semi-automatic Web service annotation approaches in order to highlight the major challenges and provide fruitful guidelines to aid future research. Particularly, a synthesis of service elements that require semantic annotation is provided and then used to assess the completeness of semi-automated approaches. The comparison leads to significant implications for theory and practice.

scholarly journals A reversal theory perspective on the motivational states of soccer players in Canada, Germany, and Japan

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Geisler ◽  
Larry M. Leith
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reversal Theory ◽  
Motivational States ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Theory Framework

This descriptive, exploratory study used a reversal theory framework to examine the in-event motivational states of 179 intercollegiate soccer players in Canada, Germany, and Japan. Information was also gathered on players’ thoughts about the university soccer environment. The results suggest that all of the participants were oriented toward the mastery (strength, control) and conformity motivational states while playing. In addition, Japanese players reported the strongest endorsement of the telic (serious) state, and they were more sympathetic and alloic (concerned with others’ outcomes) than the Canadian and German cohorts. With respect to the salience of these motivational states, Canadian players were most aware of the mastery orientation. In Japan it was the telic state that was most dominant, and in Germany it was spread out between the alloic, autic (concern about own outcomes), and mastery states. Other findings, obtained through content analysis, revealed that university soccer in Canada and Japan fosters both a social and performance-focused atmosphere, while in Germany it is perceived as more social and recreational than in the other two countries. These results provide a preliminary foundation for follow-up cross-cultural work. Future research should also examine the motivational states of more elite players (including those in Brazil) and the correlation of these states with winning and losing over time.

Children and Political Violence: An Overview

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Coping

The papers presented in this special section provide an introduction to the area of research on the effects of political violence on children. The articles cover a wide range of topics from the well-researched question of stress and coping to the less often investigated questions of the development of aggression, the long-term effects of political violence, and the evaluation of attempts at reconciliation. In addition, they represent those geographical areas which at present dominate work in this area the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. They also illustrate emerging debates concerning resilience versus vulnerability and the effectiveness of outsiders versus insiders as investigators. The research reported here also points to the need for more cross-cultural work. Finally, it is argued that there is a need to understand the collective nature of political violence. This has implications not only for future research methods but, more importantly, for the development of a theoretical basis that is needed for work in this area.

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane House ◽  
Dániel Z. Kádár
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Business Politics ◽  
Cultural Pragmatics

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics is relevant for a variety of fields, such as pragmatics, applied linguistics, language learning and teaching, translation, intercultural communication and sociolinguistics. Written by two leading scholars in the field, this book offers an accessible overview of cross-cultural pragmatics, by providing insights into the theory and practice of systematically comparing language use in different cultural contexts. The authors provide a ground-breaking, language-anchored, strictly empirical and replicable framework applicable for the study of different datatypes and situations. The framework is illustrated with case studies drawn from a variety of linguacultures, such as English, Chinese, Japanese and German. In these case studies, the reader is provided with contrastive analyses of language use in important contexts such as globalised business, politics and classrooms. This book is essential reading for both academics and students.

Crowdfunding: What Do We Know So Far?

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Academic Debate

Crowdfunding is an innovative financial instrument that is continuously gaining importance in research and practice. In order to promote the economic and theoretical discussion on this topic, a systematic overview of the literature is essential. The present work represents a literature-based research on crowdfunding to determine which research topics have been addressed so far and whether or not a focus has been developed on a particular topic, research stream, and model. The literature review identified 90 scientific papers, published between 2011 and 2016. The study consequently develops seven research areas: individual, managerial, legal, platform-based, sustainability-based, innovation-related, and conceptual. Through this conceptualization and the presentation of the current state of the research as well as the determination of the future research potential, this work is relevant for the academic debate on the organizational implications on crowdfunding. In addition, the review supports practitioners, or in particular crowdfunding initiators, to understand how crowdfunding mechanisms function and to deduce consequences for successful crowdfunding.

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