scholarly journals Making matters worse by trying to make them better? Exploring vicious circles of decision in hybrid partnerships

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1331-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Ungureanu ◽  
Fabiola Bertolotti ◽  
Elisa Mattarelli ◽  
Francesca Bellesia
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Escalation Of Commitment ◽  
Longitudinal Field ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Our research is concerned with how and why vicious circles of decision occur in hybrid partnerships. The literature reports three types of decision dysfunctions that can alter the trajectory of multi-stakeholder collaborations: escalation of commitment, procrastination and indecision. While previous studies focused on one dysfunction at a time, we inquire about cases in which dysfunctions coexist and interact in the same partnership. Employing multiple sources of qualitative data, we conducted a longitudinal field study in a cross-sector partnership that co-created and managed a science park. We offer an in-depth account of ‘vicious circles of decision’ in which partners’ attempts to solve a dysfunction paradoxically led to the accumulation of additional dysfunctions. We explain that the process is more likely to happen when solutions are (1) conditioned by the very risk–opportunity tensions they try to solve and (2) inscribed in material artefacts for greater visibility. As well as augmenting the literature on hybrid partnerships, we contribute to the debate in organization studies about the evolution of collaborations within frames of concurrent risk–opportunity tensions and theorize about the role of materiality in such processes.

scholarly journals How to Form Good Habits? A Longitudinal Field Study on the Role of Self-Control in Habit Formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk van der Weiden ◽  
Jeroen Benjamins ◽  
Marleen Gillebaart ◽  
Jan Fekke Ybema ◽  
Denise de Ridder
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Habit Formation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Longitudinal Field

scholarly journals The trainer, the verifier, the imitator: Three ways in which human platform workers support artificial intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395172091977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Tubaro ◽  
Antonio A Casilli ◽  
Marion Coville
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Maturity Stage ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Scope Of Application

This paper sheds light on the role of digital platform labour in the development of today’s artificial intelligence, predicated on data-intensive machine learning algorithms. Focus is on the specific ways in which outsourcing of data tasks to myriad ‘micro-workers’, recruited and managed through specialized platforms, powers virtual assistants, self-driving vehicles and connected objects. Using qualitative data from multiple sources, we show that micro-work performs a variety of functions, between three poles that we label, respectively, ‘artificial intelligence preparation’, ‘artificial intelligence verification’ and ‘artificial intelligence impersonation’. Because of the wide scope of application of micro-work, it is a structural component of contemporary artificial intelligence production processes – not an ephemeral form of support that may vanish once the technology reaches maturity stage. Through the lens of micro-work, we prefigure the policy implications of a future in which data technologies do not replace human workforce but imply its marginalization and precariousness.

Facing the Consequences: Examining a Workaround Outcomes-Based Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawna M. Drum ◽  
Rhetta Standifer ◽  
Kristina Bourne
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Enterprise Systems ◽  
Longitudinal Field ◽  
Large Organization ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Downstream User ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT Increasingly, organizations are adopting Enterprise Systems (ES) in an effort to increase productivity and reduce costs. Unfortunately, system-wide implementations such as these often fail to produce the outcomes desired by those that champion them. One noted reason for unsuccessful ES utilization rests in “workarounds”—the deviation or circumvention of the ES by users (employees) of the system. Our research question asks, “How do the outcomes of a workaround impact the downstream user and the system overall?” We assert that the motivation or why workarounds are employed is not as important as the outcomes these workarounds create. Using qualitative data from a longitudinal field study of a large organization in the U.S. Midwest, we categorize workarounds based on the outcomes they generate and consider the resultant effects these workaround outcomes have for the downstream user. In particular, we explore how workaround outcomes impact the effectiveness of accounting functions.

scholarly journals Implementation Role Of Notary Deed Incorporation Of Foundation Making Based On Act No. 28 Of 2004 Regarding The Foundation In The Jepara District

Jurnal Akta ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Kanzu Khirzul Yaman ◽  
Amin Purnawan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Research Types

The purpose of this study was to: 1) To determine the role of the Implementation of the notary in the deed establishment of the Foundation under Act No. 28 of 2004 on the foundation of Jepara. 2) To know the difficulties and Solutions faced a notary in the deed establishment of the Foundation under Act No. 28 of 2004 on the foundation of Jepara.Method approach used in this research is a normative juridical approach. Specifications descriptive analytical research. Types and sources of data using secondary data and primary data as well as the use of primary legal materials, secondary law and tertiary legal materials. The collection of data through library research and field study. Qualitative data analysis and deductive.Based on the results of data analysis concluded that: 1) The role of the notary in the deed establishment of the Foundation under Act No. 28 of 2004 on the foundation of Jepara includes three important things, namely, to explain the terms of the deed establishing the foundation to the founder of the foundation, make certificates of establishment, then submit the ratification to the Minister of Justice and Human Rights. 2) Barriers and Solutions encountered in the manufacturing notary deed of incorporation of the Foundation under Act No. 28 of 2004 on the foundation of Jepara is in the maintenance of the terms of the deed establishing the foundation has not completed such as TIN foundations as well as the identity of the parties is not an e-ID card, the solution is certainly advise coaches / administrators to quickly gather the requirements in the manufacture of its founding act.Keywords: Implementation; Notary Deed; Role of Establishment Foundation

Investigating the Unified Motive Scales

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Martin Bettschart ◽  
Marcel Herrmann ◽  
Benjamin M. Wolf ◽  
Veronika Brandstätter
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Longitudinal Field ◽  
Explicit Motives ◽  
Achievement Motive

Abstract. Explicit motives are well-studied in the field of personality and motivation psychology. However, the statistical overlap of different explicit motive measures is only moderate. As a consequence, the Unified Motive Scales (UMS; Schönbrodt & Gerstenberg, 2012 ) were developed to improve the measurement of explicit motives. The present longitudinal field study examined the predictive validity of the UMS achievement motive subscale. Applicants of a police department ( n = 168, Mage = 25.11, 53 females and 115 males) completed the UMS and their performance in the selection process was assessed. As expected, UMS achievement predicted success in the selection process. The findings provide first evidence for the predictive validity of UMS achievement in an applied setting.

Positive and negative self-efficacy effects revisited: A longitudinal field study

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuhua Sun ◽  
Zhaoli Song ◽  
Vivien Kim Geok Lim ◽  
Don J. Q. Chen ◽  
Xian Li
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Longitudinal Field

Cognitive development and tonal systems of Greek language: A comparative longitudinal field study

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalis N. Papadakis ◽  
Evdokia Lagakou ◽  
Christina Terlidou ◽  
Dimitra Vekiari ◽  
Ioannis K. Tsegos
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Longitudinal Field ◽  
Greek Language

A field study of Value-Based Management sophistication: The role of shareholders

2015 ◽  
pp. 65-100
Author(s):  
Andrea Dello Sbarba ◽  
Riccardo Giannetti ◽  
Alessandro Marelli
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Value Based Management

“Wi, se kretyènn mwen ye” (Yes I am Christian)

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadège Mézié
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Christian Woman

During a field study of a year and a half in the Haitian mountains, I was forced to re-evaluate my research strategy, and consequently the object of my study, after a setback that denied me access to the American evangelical mission, which I had hoped to study from within. This failure to integrate as a non-Protestant researcher, led me to adopt a methodological falsehood to allow me to penetrate the Haitian evangelical mission. The researcher who chooses methodological falsehood has to fashion a passing and superficial redefinition of her appearance, beliefs and practices, and live her new religious identity according to the prevalent beliefs and norms. This paper will focus on the fieldworker’s daily performance in her role of “Christian woman,” and the strategies put in place to respond to the prescriptive criteria of the role being played.

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