A Resource-Based Typology of Dynamic Capability: Managing Tourism in a Turbulent Environment

Depth Interviews ◽

Advance Knowledge ◽

This study develops a typology of dynamic capabilities to advance knowledge on how tourism organizations can manage disruptive external changes. It uses the context of a natural disaster. The article goes beyond a simple classification of organizational activities in responding to crises/disasters to create a typology of 12 dynamic capabilities. The typology is based on three dimensions that align with the disaster life cycle, source of resources, and deployment of resources. This study also provides empirical explanations for each type of dynamic capability, using qualitative data collected from 40 in-depth interviews with tourism organizations and other stakeholders across two years. Several practical implications and future research directions are provided based on the findings and limitations of the study.

Perfume and Flavor Engineering: A Chemical Engineering Perspective

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26113095 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (11) ◽

pp. 3095

Author(s):

Alírio E. Rodrigues ◽

Idelfonso Nogueira ◽

Rui P.V. Faria

Keyword(s):

Diffusion Model ◽

Chemical Engineering ◽

Reaction Engineering ◽

Ternary Diagram ◽

Future Research ◽

Performance Parameters ◽

Liquid Equilibrium ◽

Research Directions ◽

Future Research Directions

In the last two decades, scientific methodologies for the prediction of the design, performance and classification of fragrance mixtures have been developed at the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering. This review intends to give an overview of such developments. It all started with the question: what do we smell? The Perfumery Ternary Diagram enables us to determine the dominant odor for each perfume composition. Evaporation and 1D diffusion model is analyzed based on vapor-liquid equilibrium and Fick’s law for diffusion giving access to perfume performance parameters. The effect of matrix and skin is addressed and the trail of perfumes analyzed. Classification of perfumes with the perfumery radar is discussed. The methodology is extended to flavor and taste engineering. Finally, future research directions are suggested.

Job Apathy

Journal of Career Assessment ◽

10.1177/1069072715599536 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 484-501 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Gordon B. Schmidt ◽

Guihyun Park ◽

Jessica Keeney ◽

Sonia Ghumman

Keyword(s):

Employee Engagement ◽

The United States ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Popular Media ◽

Incremental Validity ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Directions ◽

Personal Initiative ◽

Work anecdotes and popular media programs such as Office Space, The Office, and Dilbert suggest that there are a number of workers in the United States who feel a sense of apathy toward their workplace and their job. This article develops these ideas theoretically and provides validity evidence for a scale of job apathy across two studies. Job apathy is defined as a type of selective apathy characterized by diminished motivation and affect toward one’s job. A scale of job apathy was developed and data from a sample of currently or recently employed college students supported two dimensions: apathetic action and apathetic thought. Job apathy was found to be empirically distinct from clinical apathy, negative affectivity, cynicism, and employee engagement. Job apathy was also found to have incremental validity in the prediction of personal initiative, withdrawal, and organizational deviance. Practical implications and future research directions for job apathy are discussed.

Climate Change and Forests

Annual Review of Resource Economics ◽

10.1146/annurev-resource-110419-010208 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 23-43

Author(s):

Brent Sohngen

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Carbon Sink ◽

Wood Products ◽

Biomass Energy ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Directions ◽

The Future ◽

Carbon Fertilization ◽

Advance Knowledge

Forests have become an important carbon sink in the last century, with management and carbon fertilization offsetting nearly all of the carbon emitted due to deforestation and conversion of land into agricultural uses. Society appears already to have decided that forests will play an equally ambitious role in the future. Given this, economists are needed to help better understand the efficiency of efforts society may undertake to expand forests, protect them from losses, manage them more intensively, or convert them into wood products, including biomass energy. A rich literature exists on this topic, but a number of critical information gaps persist, representing important opportunities for economists to advance knowledge in the future. This article reviews the literature on forests and climate change and provides some thoughts on potential future research directions.

How Anonymity and Visibility Affordances Influence Employees’ Decisions About Voicing Workplace Concerns

Management Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0893318918813202 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 160-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Chang M. Mao ◽

David C. DeAndrea

Keyword(s):

Communication Channel ◽

Communication Channels ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Directions ◽

Safety And Efficacy ◽

Practical Implications ◽

Prohibitive Voice

Employees can provide invaluable input to organizations when they can freely express their opinions at work. Employees, however, may not believe that it is safe or efficacious to voice their concerns. How features of communication channels affect employees’ safety and efficacy perceptions is largely ignored in existing voice models. Therefore, this study seeks to understand how the anonymity and visibility affordances of a communication channel influence employees’ safety and efficacy perceptions, and, thus, their intention to engage in prohibitive voice at work. Two between-subjects experiments were conducted to test how these channel affordances affect voicing behavior in organizations. The results indicate that the more anonymous and less visible participants perceive a voicing channel to be, the safer and the more efficacious they evaluate the channel. Theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

Research Partnerships in Sport for Development and Peace: Challenges, Barriers, and Strategies

Journal of Sport Management ◽

10.1123/jsm.2014-0288 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 282-297 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Jon Welty Peachey ◽

Adam Cohen

Keyword(s):

Future Research ◽

Strategic Partnerships ◽

Research Strategies ◽

Research Partnerships ◽

Research Directions ◽

Track Record ◽

Sport For Development ◽

Research partnerships between scholars and sport for development and peace (SDP) organizations are common, but firsthand accounts of the challenges and barriers faced by scholars when forming and sustaining partnerships are rare. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine them, and to uncover strategies to overcome these challenges across different partnership contexts. Eight prominent SDP scholars were interviewed. Guided by collaboration theory and the partnership literature, findings revealed challenges included navigating the political and organizational landscape; securing commitments from organizations with limited resources; negotiating divergent goals, objectives, and understandings; and conducting long-term evaluations and research. Strategies to address these issues involved developing strategic partnerships, cultivating mutual understanding, building trust, starting small, finding the cause champion, and developing a track record of success. Key theoretical and practical implications are drawn forth, as well as intriguing future research directions.

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCES OF JOB AUTONOMY AND NEUROTICISM ON JOB STRESSOR-STRAIN RELATIONS

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2007.35.8.1007 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 35 (8) ◽

pp. 1007-1020 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Wei-Tao Tai ◽

Shih-Chen Liu

Keyword(s):

Emotional Exhaustion ◽

Future Research ◽

Job Autonomy ◽

First Line ◽

Research Directions ◽

Service Department ◽

Job Stressor ◽

The Impact ◽

The impact of job autonomy and traits (i.e., neuroticism) on job stressor-strain relations was examined. Data were collected from 311 first-line employees and supervisors belonging to the service department of 42 enterprises. The results showed that low neuroticism negatively related with hindrance stressors, emotional exhaustion and disengagement. In addition, challenge stressors positively impacted employees' emotional exhaustion and negatively influenced employees' disengagement. However, hindrance stressors positively increased both the emotional exhaustion and disengagement of employees. Finally, results showed 3-way interactions among neuroticism, job autonomy, and stressors on strains. As predicted, the interaction of neuroticism and job autonomy moderated the relationships between challenge stressors and two strains (i.e., emotional exhaustion and disengagement), and the relationships between hindrance stressors and disengagement. Future research directions on the topic and practical implications of results are discussed.

How Job Tenure Weakens the Positive Influence of Education on Creative Performance through Task Performance

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su14010537 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 537

Author(s):

Lu Yang ◽

Jun Wei ◽

Jinyi Zhou

Keyword(s):

Task Performance ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Future Research ◽

Job Tenure ◽

Creative Performance ◽

Research Directions ◽

Indirect Relationship ◽

High Level ◽

Researchers indicate that employees with a high level of education tend to have better creative performance. However, few studies have investigated the boundary conditions of this association. The componential model of creativity demonstrates that both task-relevant skills and creativity-relevant skills are indispensable factors of creative performance. Job tenure, which generally hinders employees from acquiring creativity-relevant skills, is regarded as a potential boundary condition. In this study, we investigate how job tenure weakens positive influence of education on creative performance through task performance. Using a sample of 368 employees and 43 leaders in a provincial bank in China, we indeed find that job tenure negatively moderates the indirect relationship between education and creative performance via task performance. Specifically, the positive relationship is weakened when job tenure is high than when it is low. We also discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our study and highlight future research directions.

Concrete Floors and Cabinet Appointments

Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190069018.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 249-278

Author(s):

Claire Annesley ◽

Karen Beckwith ◽

Susan Franceschet

Keyword(s):

Future Research ◽

National Politics ◽

Research Directions ◽

Concrete Floor ◽

Prime Ministers ◽

Minimum Number ◽

Research Questions ◽

Chapter 11 answers the three research questions and summarizes the book’s findings in terms of the timing, magnitude, and persistence of women’s cabinet inclusion. It outlines the process for initiating, confirming, and sustaining “concrete floors” for women’s cabinet inclusion across each of the country cases. Concrete floors are the minimum number or proportion of women in cabinet for that ministerial team to be perceived as legitimate. The concept captures the process by which cabinets have been re-gendered to include ever greater numbers of women. The concrete floor helps to explain why presidents and prime ministers have not reverted to appointing all male-cabinets and, in most cases, have refrained from appointing fewer women to cabinet than their predecessors. The concrete floor also provides a strategic foothold for feminist activists who want to increase women’s presence in national politics, specifically in cabinets and shadow cabinets. The chapter concludes by identifying future research directions and the practical implications of the book’s findings.

A systematic review of innovation in family firms and future research agenda

International Journal of Emerging Markets ◽

10.1108/ijoem-06-2021-0936 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Manzoor Ul Akram ◽

Koustab Ghosh ◽

Dheeraj Sharma

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Capabilities ◽

Family Firms ◽

Institutional Environment ◽

Family Firm ◽

Strategic Decision ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Directions ◽

Content Type ◽

Future Research Agenda ◽

Future Research Directions

PurposeIn this paper, the authors have used a systematic literature review methodology of 147 journal articles published in peer-reviewed journals. The analysis includes studies based on country of origin, the periodic proliferation of studies and the methodological design of the studies. As an outcome of the review, the studies are classified on the innovation in family firms under four broad categories – innovation input, family governance mechanisms, innovation output and the external environment. Some fruitful avenues of research are outlined in this domain.Design/methodology/approachThe literature on innovation in family firms – the most dominant and ubiquitous form of organization across the world – is gaining pace. The influence of family by way controlling ownership, management and governance on, and in interaction with business acts as a complex proposition that shapes the strategic decision-making in the family firm including innovation. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to advance the understanding of innovation in family firms and provide a list of future research questions of theoretical and practical value.FindingsBased on this review, the authors provide future research directions pertaining to innovation in emerging economy family firms, effect of the institutional environment of family firm innovation as well family firms' innovativeness in the wake of pro-market reforms, different classes of ownership in family firms and innovation, family firm goal heterogeneity and innovation, and family firm dynamic capabilities and innovation.Originality/valueThe review provides a comprehensive understanding, trends and future research directions in the domain of innovation in family firms.

Ion-Generating and Ion-Capturing Nanomaterials in Liquid Crystals

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/iecc_2018-05257 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (14) ◽

pp. 1122

Author(s):

Yuriy Garbovskiy

Keyword(s):

Liquid Crystal ◽

Liquid Crystals ◽

Electric Fields ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Directions ◽

Liquid Crystal Devices ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Practical Implications ◽

Good Agreement

The majority of tunable liquid crystal devices are driven by electric fields. The performance of such devices can be altered by the presence of small amounts of ions in liquid crystals. Therefore, the understanding of possible sources of ions in liquid crystal materials is very critical to a broad range of existing and future applications employing liquid crystals. Recently, nanomaterials in liquid crystals have emerged as a hot research topic, promising for its implementation in the design of wearable and tunable liquid crystal devices. An analysis of published results revealed that nanodopants in liquid crystals can act as either ion-capturing agents or ion-generating objects. In this presentation, a recently developed model of contaminated nanomaterials is analyzed. Nanoparticle-enabled ion capturing and ion generation regimes in liquid crystals are discussed within the framework of the proposed model. This model is in very good agreement with existing experimental results. Practical implications and future research directions are also discussed.