scholarly journals The Role of Awareness, Learning and Knowledge in Entrepreneurial and Firm Leadership Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-109
Author(s):  
Neus Vila ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Leadership Effectiveness ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Learning Patterns ◽  
Double Loop Learning ◽  
Key Resources

Scholars in recent years have urged researchers to shift from their traditional focus on specific characteristics of entrepreneurs and leaders toward research on entrepreneurship and leadership processes. To do this, researchers must better understand entrepreneurs and leaders’ cognitive processes involved in learning, awareness and knowledge acquisition. In this paper systems thinking theory and system dynamics methodologies are used in the development of a dynamic conceptual framework of learning effectiveness. The research applies the conceptual framework to nine U.S. wineries and identifies the consequences of varying levels of awareness and types of knowledge, as well as alternative learning processes on entrepreneurship and leadership effectiveness. Results indicate that one’s level of awareness and knowledge are key factors in enhancing one’s ability to learn. The types of awareness and knowledge identified most critical for enhancing entrepreneurship and leadership effectiveness are: (a) awareness of one’s mental models and learning patterns, (b) systemic knowledge and (c) business related knowledge. Results also identify that there is a positive relationship between the level of entrepreneurs’ intangible key resources and the scope of the learning process undergone. The higher the level of the intangible resources the entrepreneur moves from conducting single loop learning to double loop learning.

scholarly journals Radical Transparency and Brand Equity as Key Factors for Successful Business Strategy

2017 ◽  
pp. 63-89
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Entry Barriers ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Related Process

This chapter analyzes the phenomenon of branding and the related process of creating new value, and thus a sustainable competitive advantage through recognition of the concept of radical transparency. The brand equity is a common denominator of all tangible and intangible resources of the company, the amount of its abilities, of any activity indicating a slightly higher value, any attempt to be better and to achieve more. Therefore, in addition the brand equity is elaborated as a source of value for the business. This chapter examines the role of brand equity in providing greater market share, creating entry barriers for new competitors, achieving production and market expansion, providing a price premium, attracting quality workforce, ensuring consumers loyalty and stimulating innovation. For the brand equity to truly provide value it should be more than the company's image or position of the product – the brand should be a unifying force across the company, providing the business with direction and purpose.

Firm collaborative capability and new product development performance: the mediating role of heterogeneous knowledge acquisition

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zhang ◽  
Lei Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Npd Performance ◽  
Heterogeneous Knowledge

PurposeFrom the dynamic capability perspective, the aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for collaborative capability, including scanning, relational skills and adaptation and to test the impact of each dimension on the acquisition of technological and marketing knowledge from partners. The conceptual framework also suggests that these two types of knowledge acquisition have different impacts on new product development (NPD) creativity and speed.Design/methodology/approachThis study builds a theoretical framework and tests it with survey data from 289 Chinese manufacturing firms.FindingsFirms with strong collaborative capability are identified to gain better knowledge acquisition from their partners and achieve higher NPD performance. While acquired technological knowledge has a greater effect on NPD creativity than acquired marketing knowledge, the latter has a greater effect on NPD speed. In addition, these two types of knowledge acquisition form different mediating paths between collaborative capability and NPD performance.Practical implicationsThis study not only underlines the important role of collaborative capability in facilitating knowledge acquisition, which in turn improves NPD performance, but also suggests that decision-makers should note the different roles of technological knowledge and market knowledge in influencing NPD performance.Originality/valueThese findings enrich the understanding of how firms enhance NPD performance by developing collaborative capability in a major emerging economy (i.e. China). In addition to demonstrating the differential effects of heterogeneous knowledge acquisition on NPD performance, different pathways of mediation through knowledge acquisition are also identified in the relationship between collaborative capability and NPD outcomes.

scholarly journals Radical Transparency and Brand Equity as Key Factors for Successful Business Strategy

2017 ◽  
pp. 1407-1433
Author(s):  
Elena Veselinova ◽  
Marija Gogova Samonikov
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Entry Barriers ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Related Process

This chapter analyzes the phenomenon of branding and the related process of creating new value, and thus a sustainable competitive advantage through recognition of the concept of radical transparency. The brand equity is a common denominator of all tangible and intangible resources of the company, the amount of its abilities, of any activity indicating a slightly higher value, any attempt to be better and to achieve more. Therefore, in addition the brand equity is elaborated as a source of value for the business. This chapter examines the role of brand equity in providing greater market share, creating entry barriers for new competitors, achieving production and market expansion, providing a price premium, attracting quality workforce, ensuring consumers loyalty and stimulating innovation. For the brand equity to truly provide value it should be more than the company's image or position of the product – the brand should be a unifying force across the company, providing the business with direction and purpose.

scholarly journals Acquisition integration flexibility: toward a conceptual framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svante Schriber ◽  
David R. King ◽  
Florian Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Acquisition Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Integration Management ◽  
Acquisition Integration ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop the role of integration flexibility as a mediator of acquisition performance and demonstrate how this capability varies across firms. Design/methodology/approach The study develops a conceptual framework of anticipated relationships by building on existing but so far unintegrated acquisition research. Findings The study suggests integration flexibility provides an explanation for variance in acquisition performance. The study identifies drivers behind acquisition integration flexibility in acquirer characteristics, deal characteristics and integration management. The authors further specify the positive and negative impact of several key factors commonly discussed in acquisition research. Research limitations/implications Integration flexibility stands out as a novel explanation for acquisition performance. Still, the benefits from flexibility are not universal and developed logic suggests it represents a dynamic capability for acquirers. Our framework helps predict which acquirers and deals are more likely demonstrating this capability, thus contributing to predict acquisition performance. Practical implications Acquisitions often take place in dynamic environments and reportedly often fail. Predicting and developing acquisition integration flexibility stands out as an important task for acquiring management. Social implications Annual global acquisition values are on par with the GDP of large industrial nations (e.g. Germany) and failures for reasons of lacking acquisition integration flexibility contributes to value destruction harming not only firms, but society at large. Improved integration flexibility likely mediates this risk. Originality/value Making an acquisition to adapt to environmental change implicitly assumes greater integration that can limit flexibility. While our argument builds on key concepts from acquisition research these so far have remained unconnected in relation to acquisition integration flexibility. The authors develop factors influencing this important capability and show how it mediates acquisition performance. This links acquisition antecedents with integration or phases typically treated separately.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

The role of social and cognitive processes in children's adjustment to community violence.

1998 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Kliewer ◽  
Stephen J. Lepore ◽  
Deborah Oskin ◽  
Patricia D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Community Violence ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Children’S Adjustment

Role of Social Business in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-700
Author(s):  
Mohammed Salim Bhuyan ◽  
Valliappan Raju ◽  
Siew Poh Phung
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Business

PTTG has a Dual Role of Promotion-Inhibition in the Development of Pituitary Adenomas

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 800-818
Author(s):  
Zujian Xiong ◽  
Xuejun Li ◽  
Qi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Pituitary Adenoma ◽  
Pituitary Adenomas ◽  
Cell Cycle Progression ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Cycle Progression ◽  
Sister Chromatids ◽  
Regulation Of Cell Cycle ◽  
Late Stages

Pituitary Tumor Transforming Gene (PTTG) of human is known as a checkpoint gene in the middle and late stages of mitosis, and is also a proto-oncogene that promotes cell cycle progression. In the nucleus, PTTG works as securin in controlling the mid-term segregation of sister chromatids. Overexpression of PTTG, entering the nucleus with the help of PBF in pituitary adenomas, participates in the regulation of cell cycle, interferes with DNA repair, induces genetic instability, transactivates FGF-2 and VEGF and promotes angiogenesis and tumor invasion. Simultaneously, overexpression of PTTG induces tumor cell senescence through the DNA damage pathway, making pituitary adenoma possessing the potential self-limiting ability. To elucidate the mechanism of PTTG in the regulation of pituitary adenomas, we focus on both the positive and negative function of PTTG and find out key factors interacted with PTTG in pituitary adenomas. Furthermore, we discuss other possible mechanisms correlate with PTTG in pituitary adenoma initiation and development and the potential value of PTTG in clinical treatment.

Childhood Weight Management for School Health Nurses and School Children in Malaysia: A conceptual framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Norimah Said ◽  
Norazmir Md Nor ◽  
Siti Sabariah Buhari ◽  
Siti Khuzaimah Ahmad Sharoni
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Weight Management ◽  
School Children ◽  
School Health ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Childhood Weight

In developing an effective Chidhood weight management, it needs to be based on a theory. The Social Cognitive theory (SCT) and Urie Bronfenbrenner model with integrated Kolb's model of Learning Styles and Experiential Learning is used in this study to modify and make changes to the personal factor influences such as knowledge, attitude and expectations, behavior modification and environmental influences among overweight and obese school children. The aim of this study is to provide a new model for the professional development role of the nurses in the School Health Program (SHP) and health education promotion towards obese school children to improve their quality of life. Furthermore, in this study SHP and future health education and promotion are integrated with the role of SHN to facilitate the effective management of childhood obesity. Keywords: obesity; school children; school nurses; conceptual framework;weight management eISSN 2514-7528 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v4i13.331

scholarly journals The Role of Cultural Beliefs, Norms, and Practices in Nigerian Women’s Experiences of Sexual Abuse and Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110001
Author(s):  
Chinyere Elsie Ajayi ◽  
Khatidja Chantler ◽  
Lorraine Radford
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Rape Myths ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Bride Price

This study aims to explore if and how cultural beliefs, norms, and practices might contribute to Nigerian women’s experiences of sexual abuse and violence. In-depth narrative interviews were conducted with 12 women of Nigerian origin living in the Northwest of England who had experienced sexual abuse and violence. Women’s accounts were analyzed thematically, and drawing upon a feminist-intersectional conceptual framework, analysis reveals that male privilege defined by gendered role and expectation, religious beliefs, rape myths, and bride-price with the associated practice of libation may have contributed to women’s experiences of sexual abuse and violence.

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