On The Role Of Management Commitment In Export Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Research on exporting frequently points the role of management commitment in the export performance of the firm. This article reviews the conceptual, methodological, and empirical insights gained from a systematic analysis of 65 studies conducted on this subject. Undoubtedly, this stream of research has enhanced understanding of the importance of management commitment in affecting exporting activities. However, conceptually, there is still a lack of integral theoretical framework. Methodologically, limitations are identified concerning sampling designs, fieldwork procedures, and analytical methods. Empirically, hypothesized associations between export commitment and export performance lead to conflicting findings. After a presentation of meta-analysis techniques used and articles compiled, our paper provides an original investigation of this issue by implementing three meta-analyses to examine the relationship between commitment to export and export performance. The meta-analysis, more relevant than simple literature surveys, generally leads to the conclusion that there is a significant positive relationship between export commitment and export performance. Moreover, our findings suggest directions for future research in the field.

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Mood Disorders and Gluten: It’s Not All in Your Mind! A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu10111708 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 1708 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Eleanor Busby ◽

Justine Bold ◽

Lindsey Fellows ◽

Kamran Rostami

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Mood Disorders ◽

Prospective Studies ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Cochrane Library ◽

Future Research ◽

One Year ◽

Randomised Controlled ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

The Relationship

Gluten elimination may represent an effective treatment strategy for mood disorders in individuals with gluten-related disorders. However, the directionality of the relationship remains unclear. We performed a systematic review of prospective studies for effects of gluten on mood symptoms in patients with or without gluten-related disorders. Six electronic databases (CINAHL, PsycINFO, Medline, Web of Science, Scopus and Cochrane Library) were searched, from inception to 8 August 2018, for prospective studies published in English. Meta-analyses with random-effects were performed. Three randomised-controlled trials and 10 longitudinal studies comprising 1139 participants fit the inclusion criteria. A gluten-free diet (GFD) significantly improved pooled depressive symptom scores in GFD-treated patients (Standardised Mean Difference (SMD) −0.37, 95% confidence interval (CI) −0.55 to −0.20; p < 0.0001), with no difference in mean scores between patients and healthy controls after one year (SMD 0.01, 95% CI −0.18 to 0.20, p = 0.94). There was a tendency towards worsening symptoms for non-coeliac gluten sensitive patients during a blinded gluten challenge vs. placebo (SMD 0.21, 95% CI −0.58 to 0.15; p = 0.25). Our review supports the association between mood disorders and gluten intake in susceptible individuals. The effects of a GFD on mood in subjects without gluten-related disorders should be considered in future research.

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Examining Psychological Science through Systematic Meta-Method Analysis: A Call for Research

10.31222/osf.io/cj7xf ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Malte Elson

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Research Synthesis ◽

Effect Sizes ◽

Psychological Science ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

The Relationship ◽

Method Analysis

Research synthesis is based on the assumption that when the same association between constructs is observed repeatedly in a field, the relationship is probably real, even if its exact magnitude can be debated. Yet this probability is not only a function of recurring results, but also of the quality and consistency in the empirical procedures that produced those results and that any meta-analysis necessarily inherits. Standardized protocols in data collection, analysis, and interpretation are important empirical properties, and a healthy sign of a discipline's maturity.This manuscript proposes that meta-analyses as typically applied in psychology benefit from complementing their aggregates of observed effect sizes by systematically examining the standardization of methodology that deterministically produced them. Potential units of analyses are described and two examples are offered to illustrate the benefits of such efforts. Ideally, this synergetic approach emphasizes the role of methods in advancing theory by improving the quality of meta-analytic inferences.

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International Entrepreneurship: A Meta–Analysis on the Internationalization and Performance Relationship

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice ◽

10.1177/1042258718795346 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 (5) ◽

pp. 734-768 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Christian Schwens ◽

Florian B. Zapkau ◽

Michael Bierwerth ◽

Rodrigo Isidor ◽

Gary Knight ◽

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Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

International Entrepreneurship ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Future Research ◽

Entrepreneurial Firms ◽

Research Opportunities ◽

And Performance ◽

The Relationship

The article conducts a meta–analysis on the relationship between internationalization and firm performance in international entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from 15,648 internationalizing entrepreneurial firms nested in 43 independent samples reveals a positive relationship between degree and scope of internationalization and performance. Knowledge intensity positively moderates the relationship between speed of internationalization and performance and negatively moderates the scope of internationalization and performance association. In contrast, we neither find a relationship between speed of internationalization and performance nor for knowledge intensity's moderation on the degree of internationalization–performance association. Based on the findings, the article systematically points at future research opportunities.

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Social Anxiety, Loneliness, and the Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology ◽

10.1521/jscp.2019.38.9.751 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 38 (9) ◽

pp. 751-773 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Emily B. O'Day ◽

Amanda S. Morrison ◽

Phillippe R. Goldin ◽

James J. Gross ◽

Richard G. Heimberg

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Stress Reduction ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Future Research ◽

Expressive Suppression ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy ◽

The Relationship

Background: Loneliness is a universal experience that is particularly relevant to social anxiety. However, research has not examined loneliness among treatment-seeking individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) or assessed whether mal-adaptive or adaptive emotion regulation strategies moderate the relationship between social anxiety and loneliness. Methods: We examined the baseline scores of individuals with SAD (n = 121) who sought treatment as part of a waitlist-controlled trial of cognitive behavioral group therapy versus mindfulness-based stress reduction. Healthy controls (n = 38) were also examined. Results: Individuals with SAD exhibited greater social anxiety (SA), greater loneliness, more frequent expressive suppression (ES), and less frequent cognitive reappraisal (CR) than controls. Hierarchical multiple regressions indicated that emotion regulation variables moderated the relationship between social anxiety and loneliness. At lower CR and higher ES, there was a positive relationship between social anxiety and loneliness. At higher CR and lower ES, there was unexpectedly a stronger positive relationship between social anxiety and loneliness. Higher SA was associated with higher loneliness regardless of emotion regulation strategy, whereas lower SA was associated with more moderate and lower levels of loneliness dependent on level of ER strategy. Discussion: Implications for understanding the prevalence and burden of loneliness among individuals with SAD, the role of emotion regulation in the relationship between social anxiety and loneliness, and directions for future research are discussed.

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HUBUNGAN ANTARA SELF ESTEEM DENGAN PENYESUAIAN DIRI SEBAGAI PERAN IBU RUMAH TANGGA PADA IBU BERHENTI BEKERJA DI JAKARTA

Psibernetika ◽

10.30813/psibernetika.v11i1.1154 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Yuke Riana Devi ◽

Endang Fourianalistyawati

Keyword(s):

Positive Relationship ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Correlation Technique ◽

Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽

Household Chores ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

The Subject ◽

The Relationship

Mother stopped working, and chose to become a housewife as may be necessary to adjust themselves well, such as nurturing and caring for the child, completing household chores well, and socialize with the environment around the house. Adjustment is done well will be associated with the formation of a good self esteem. This study aims to determine the relationship between self-esteem with the adjustment to the role of a housewife mother stopped working in Jakarta. The sampling technique in this research using accidental sampling technique by taking the subject as much as 70 housewives in Jakarta. Data analysis techniques used in this study is the Pearson Product Moment Correlation technique. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between self-esteem with the adjustment to the role of a housewife mother stopped working in Jakarta, (r = 0.608, p = 0.000). It can be said that the higher the mother's self-esteem, the better the ability to adjust himself to be a housewife. Conversely, the lower the mother's self-esteem, the worse the ability to adjust himself to be a housewife. Keywords: Self Esteem, Adjustment, Housewife, Mother Stopped Working

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cyber-Victimization and Educational Outcomes for Adolescents

Review of Educational Research ◽

10.3102/0034654316689136 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 87 (2) ◽

pp. 283-308 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Joseph H. Gardella ◽

Benjamin W. Fisher ◽

Abbie R. Teurbe-Tolon

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Educational Outcomes ◽

Variance Estimation ◽

School Attendance ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Time Frame ◽

Future Research ◽

Cyber Victimization ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

The Relationship

Adolescents’ Internet use is increasingly mobile, private, and unsupervised, which raises concerns given that the Internet increasingly serves as a medium for experiencing victimization. Although it is widely recognized that in-person victimization has a deleterious effect on adolescents’ educational outcomes, the extent to which cyber-victimization has similar effects is less well known. This systematic review and meta-analysis offers a synthesis of the relationship between cyber-victimization and educational outcomes of adolescents aged 12 to 17, including 25 effect sizes from 12 studies drawn from a variety of disciplines. A series of random-effects meta-analyses using robust variance estimation revealed associations between cyber-victimization and higher school attendance problems (r = .20) and academic achievement problems (r = .14). Results did not differ by provided definition, publication status, reporting time frame, gender, race/ethnicity, or average age. Implications for future research are discussed within context of theoretical, critical, and applied discussions.

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Creatief onder druk

Gedrag & Organisatie ◽

10.5117/2015.028.002.005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Paul Boogerd ◽

Joris van Ruysseveldt ◽

Karen van Dam

Keyword(s):

Positive Relationship ◽

Time Pressure ◽

Future Research ◽

Curvilinear Relationship ◽

Positive Linear Relationship ◽

Creative Behavior ◽

Creative Behaviour ◽

Low Levels ◽

The Relationship

Creative under pressure: The role of time pressure, creative requirements and creative orientation in creative behavior Creative under pressure: The role of time pressure, creative requirements and creative orientation in creative behavior The increasing turbulence within and around organizations requires employees to work harder and be more creative. This study investigated the relationship between time pressure and creative behaviour, and the role of creativity demands and creative orientation in it. Based on current literature, we predicted that time pressure and creative behaviour would show a curvilinear relationship. Creativity demands and creative orientation were assumed to have a positive linear relationship with creative behaviour and also to moderate the hypothesized curvilinear relationship. The results (N = 192) did not confirm the expected curvilinear relationship between time pressure and creative behaviour. However, we did find a linear positive relationship between time pressure and creative behaviour, while – as expected – creativity demands and creative orientation were positively related to creative behaviour. Moreover, indications were found of an interaction between time pressure and creativity demands: at low levels of creativity demands, time pressure and creative behaviour were positively associated, while at high levels of creativity demands, there was no significant relationship between these variables. Several avenues for future research are presented.

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Is it happy to work with leaders viewing their work as a calling?

The Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology ◽

10.24230/kjiop.v31i2.353-385 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 353-385 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jiyoung Park ◽

Young Woo Sohn

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Transformational Leadership ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Job Crafting ◽

Future Research ◽

Working Adults ◽

The Relationship

Although scholars have paid increasing attention to people with callings, relationships between leader's calling and follower's job attitudes have been understudied. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between leader calling and follower job satisfaction, and mediators and a moderator on the relationship. We hypothesized that leader calling would be positively related to follower job satisfaction via follower's perceived transformational leadership and occupational self-efficacy and that the two mediators would be positively related. As a boundary condition, we tested a moderating role of job crafting on the positive relationship between leader calling and follower occupational self-efficacy. To examine the hypotheses, we conducted two survey studies using a sample of 242 Korean working adults (Study 1)　and a sample of 221 American working adults in diverse industries (Study 2). We found a positive relationship between leader calling and follower job satisfaction (Study 1) and a significant mediating effect of transformational leadership on the relationship (Studies 1, 2). In both studies, follower occupational self-efficacy mediated the link between transformational leadership and follower job satisfaction rather than directly mediating the relationship between leader calling and follower job satisfaction. Also, when followers were highly involved in job crafting (Study 1) and cognitive crafting (Study 2), their occupational self-efficacy did not vary depending on the level of leader calling. Interestingly, the relationship between leader calling and follower occupational self-efficacy was negative when followers showed low levels of job crafting and cognitive crafting. We discuss the implications of these results, study limitations, and practical suggestions for future research.

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Examining Psychological Science through Systematic Meta-Method Analysis: A Call for Research

10.31234/osf.io/cfbzt ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Malte Elson

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Research Synthesis ◽

Effect Sizes ◽

Psychological Science ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

The Relationship ◽

Method Analysis

Research synthesis is based on the assumption that when the same association between constructs is observed repeatedly in a field, the relationship is probably real, even if its exact magnitude can be debated. Yet this probability is not only a function of recurring results, but also of the quality and consistency in the empirical procedures that produced those results and that any meta-analysis necessarily inherits. Standardized protocols in data collection, analysis, and interpretation are important empirical properties, and a healthy sign of a discipline's maturity.This manuscript proposes that meta-analyses as typically applied in psychology benefit from complementing their aggregates of observed effect sizes by systematically examining the standardization of methodology that deterministically produced them. Potential units of analyses are described and two examples are offered to illustrate the benefits of such efforts. Ideally, this synergetic approach emphasizes the role of methods in advancing theory by improving the quality of meta-analytic inferences.

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