Responsibility and Organization Science: Integrating Micro and Macro Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Aguilera ◽  
David Waldman ◽  
Donald Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Science ◽  
Multiple Levels

Responsibility is an important issue in organizations and society. Employees, managers, and owners can behave responsibly in the workplace and beyond. In addition, these individuals can be influenced by the propensity of the organization to behave responsibly. Organizations can pursue strategies that take into account responsibility at the product, firm, industry, and societal levels. This virtual special issue examines 19 articles published in Organization Science that consider responsibility at multiple levels of analysis. An important theme that emerges is that although some studies have crossed levels of analysis, future research would benefit from cross-level or more meso-based approaches.

scholarly journals Organizational working time regimes: Drivers, consequences and attempts to change patterns of excessive working hours

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blagoy Blagoev ◽  
Sara Louise Muhr ◽  
Renate Ortlieb ◽  
Georg Schreyögg
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
German Journal ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Levels

A 40-hour working week is the norm in Europe, yet some organizations require 60 or more working hours and in investment banks an alarming 120-hour weeks are known to be worked. What is more, these organizations often require workers to be permanently on call and demonstrate high production rates. Consequences of such practices include frazzled employees, with their families’ and their own health under pressure. This article introduces our special issue of the German Journal of Human Resource Management. It tackles the many reasons behind excessive work hours and failed attempts to change working time arrangements in organizations. It first identifies three core ideas in previous research, namely the dispersed nature of regimes of excessive working hours, their high levels of persistence and their constitution at multiple levels of analysis. It then summarizes the contributions in this special issue. Finally, it proposes avenues for future research, such as focusing on the genesis and the historicity of organizational working time regimes, studying the interrelation of factors across multiple levels of analysis, and probing new theories to explain the extreme persistence of excessive working hours. The overarching aim of our special issue in this core area of human resource management is to contribute to an understanding of organizational working time regimes and the tenacity of excessive working hours in an effort to deepen our knowledge of how to change them.

Resilience in developing systems: Progress and promise as the fourth wave rises

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 921-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann S. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Gene Environment ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Levels Of Functioning ◽  
Fourth Wave

Perspectives based on the first three waves of resilience research are discussed with the goal of informing the fourth wave of work, which is characterized by a focus on multilevel analysis and the dynamics of adaptation and change. Resilience is defined as a broad systems construct, referring to the capacity of dynamic systems to withstand or recover from significant disturbances. As the systems perspective on resilience builds strength and technologies of measuring and analyzing multiple levels of functioning and their interactions improve, it is becoming feasible to study gene–environment interactions, the development of adaptive systems and their role in resilience, and to conduct experiments to foster resilience or reprogram the fundamental adaptive systems that protect development in the context of adversity. Hot spots for future research to study and integrate multiple levels of analysis are delineated on the basis of evidence gleaned from the first waves of resilience research.

Emotion Generation, Regulation, and Dysregulation as Multilevel Transdiagnostic Constructs

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Sheila E. Crowell ◽  
Robert D. Vlisides-Henry ◽  
Parisa R. Kaliush
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Emotion Generation ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Points Of View

Emotion generation, regulation, and dysregulation are complex constructs that are challenging to define and measure. This chapter reviews prevailing definitions and theories of these constructs and examines the literature across multiple levels of analysis. It adopts a developmental perspective, which guides interpretation of the literature and helps clarify discrepant points of view. The extent to which emotion generation and regulation are separable represents a significant controversy in the field. When viewed as cognitive constructs, it is virtually impossible to disentangle emotion generation and regulation. However, at the biological level, there are important differences in neural structures involved in bottom-up emotion generation processes versus those associated with top-down regulation of emotions. From a developmental perspective, emotions and emotion dysregulation emerge early in life, whereas emotion regulation strategies develop more gradually as a function of maturation and socialization. Future research should continue to reconcile different perspectives on emotion generation, regulation, and dysregulation.

Resilience in Organizations: An Integrative Multilevel Review and Editorial Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-656
Author(s):  
Sebastian Raetze ◽  
Stephanie Duchek ◽  
M. Travis Maynard ◽  
Bradley L. Kirkman
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Advance Knowledge ◽  
Different Levels

The interest of organization and management researchers in the resilience concept has steadily grown in recent years. Although there is consensus about the importance of resilience in organizational contexts, many important research questions remain. For example, it is still largely unclear how resilience functions at different levels of analysis in organizations and how these various levels interact. In this special issue, we seek to advance knowledge about the complex resilience construct. For laying a foundation, in this editorial introduction we offer an integrative literature review of previous resilience research at three different levels of analysis (i.e., individual, team, and organization). Furthermore, we demonstrate what is already known about resilience as a multilevel construct and interactions among different resilience levels. Based on the results of our literature review, we identify salient research gaps and highlight some of the more promising areas for future research on resilience. Finally, we present an overview of the articles in this special issue and highlight their contributions in light of the gaps identified herein.

Succession in Family Business: A Review of the Research

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy C. Handler
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Succession In Family Business

This paper reviews the research to date on succession in the field of family business management. Five streams of research are highlighted: (1) succession as a process, (2) the role of the founder, (3) the perspective of the next generation, (4) multiple levels of analysis, and (5) characteristics of effective successions. Gaps in the literature and future research directions are also presented.

Despite Leaders’ Good Intentions?

2012 ◽  
Vol 220 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Peus ◽  
Susanne Braun ◽  
Dieter Frey
Keyword(s):  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Implicit Leadership ◽  
Implicit Leadership Theories ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Stable Conditions ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Negative Leadership

This article introduces the concept of adverse leadership. Adverse leadership arises when followers (1) perceive their leader to violate leadership prototypes or to concur with antiprototypes, and (2) attribute this violation to internal stable conditions within the leader (i.e., actor-observer bias), even though (3) the leader had no intention to cause harm. Adverse leadership goes above and beyond earlier leadership concepts because it focuses on (a) the role of followers’ implicit leadership theories and attributions in negative leadership, and on (b) leader behavior that is not intended to be harmful by the leader; it is conceptualized on (c) multiple levels of analysis, and posited to have (d) differential negative and positive effects on outcomes in organizations. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

After the Storm Has Passed: Translating Crisis Experience into Useful Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 1037-1051
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn K. Lee ◽  
Joseph Lampel ◽  
Zur Shapira
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Organization Science ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Economic Well Being

This virtual special issue (VSI) collects together 19 papers published in Organization Science that explore how organizations learn from crises. The objective is to discuss insights that can help us understand the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, implications that existing research carries for organizations’ abilities to keep hard-earned lessons after the storm passes, and opportunities that the current phenomenon offers for future inquiry in this domain. Organizations, large and small, in scores of countries, have suspended normal operations. To survive, many organizations have adapted by shifting almost all human-to-human interactions online while facing an ethical dilemma and a tense tradeoff between public health and economic well-being. We take stock of the research on organizational learning from crises, summarize useful knowledge for managing the current crisis, and provide directions for future research.

Developmental language learning impairments

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAULA TALLAL ◽  
APRIL A. BENASICH
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Unknown Origin ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Learning Impairments ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Developmental language learning impairments (LLI) are one of the most prevalent of all developmental disabilities, can occur in children for a wide variety of reasons, and have been shown to co-occur frequently with other developmental social, emotional and behavioral disorders, as well as with academic achievement problems. Research pertaining to developmental LLI of unknown origin, with an emphasis on the continuum between oral and written language impairment, is the focus of this review. Given the complexity of language learning, research has focused on multiple levels of analysis, including linguistic, neuropsychological, genetic, neurobiological, and remediation studies. To date, the vast majority of data on LLI derive from studies focused on a single level of analysis. Although attempts have been made to integrate data across studies and multiple levels of analysis, this has proven to be problematic, given the heterogeneity of the subject populations used to study LLI, as well as the differences in ages, degree of impairment, and types of impairment included in each study. Given that LLI is a complex developmental disability, it is suggested that future research would benefit from taking a multiple levels of analysis approach with the same individuals, incorporating mathematical models designed to analyze dynamically changing complex systems, and studying individual differences in language learning, prospectively and longitudinally, throughout the most dynamic stages of the process.

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