scholarly journals Including the Dark Side of Entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneurship Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pawel Ziemianski ◽  
Jakub Golik
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Positivity Bias ◽  
University Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Met Expectations

Pursuing an entrepreneurial career is often rewarding in terms of both economic and psychological outcomes. However, becoming an entrepreneur also has its darker side that affects professional and personal life. Meanwhile, the positivity bias is prevalent in entrepreneurial education and research. It is recognized as emphasizing the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur and giving considerably less attention to potential downsides. Based on the theoretical model of met expectations, it is proposed that building an accurate and balanced image of the entrepreneurial career is crucial to help students prepare to pursue it successfully. Using data from SEAS (Survey on Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Students) Project, authors quantitatively test the perception of the severity of negative aspects of entrepreneurship among 513 business students from northern Poland. Further, the results of 16 semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted with mature and experienced entrepreneurs from the same region are presented. They are focused on the entrepreneurs’ perspective on the experienced dark sides and reveal employed coping strategies. A call is made to include these findings in designing university entrepreneurship programs by eliciting the awareness of the existence of the dark sides and indicating the means of their attenuation.

Do Relationships have a Dark Side for Innovation Performance in the High-Tech Industry?

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Hung Wang ◽  
Kuan-Liang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
High Tech ◽  
High Tech Industry ◽  
Calculative Commitment ◽  
Bright Side ◽  
Using Data

It is widely held that good relationships between partners are beneficial for firms' performance, and the literature on strategic management has consistently promoted the bright side of these relationships. This study extends that stream of investigation by investigating the degree to which three components of relationships (trust, affective commitment, and calculative commitment) can contribute to or impede innovation performance in high-tech industries. Thus, a theoretical model is developed and tested using data from 173 Taiwanese high-tech firms. The findings reveal that the relationships between trust and commitment and innovation performance can be depicted as an inverted curve.

scholarly journals Creativity Unbound: The Interaction of Disciplinary Contexts and Extradisciplinary Thinking in Creative Processes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Peacock ◽  
Gregory Tate ◽  
Rebecca Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores how academics in different disciplines articulate the role creativity plays in their work. Instead of attempting to test a pre-existing theoretical model of creativity, 32 qualitative interviews and 4 focus groups were conducted in which 7 academics working in diverse fields were encouraged to explore creativity in their own terms and discuss the extent to which it was relevant in their disciplines. Thematic analysis of their data generated a number of themes; those presented here describe the relationship between creativity and disciplinarity. Participants in different fields shared a tendency to characterise creative work as drawing on ideas and practices commonly utilised in their particular discipline but also requiring methods and styles of thinking falling outside those norms. Creative work in academic disciplines, therefore, may require both a fluency in one’s own disciplinary ways of working and the capacity to transcend those conventions when required. Practitioners in different disciplines placed different degrees of emphasis on these two elements and drew upon different language when describing the relationship between them. This paper uses these points of comparison to investigate how ideas about creative working interact with and sometimes transcend disciplinary contexts.

scholarly journals Development of an interpreting service model at the Durban University of Technology

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rosethal Loli Makhubu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Delivery Mechanism ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Equity Of Access ◽  
Modelling Process

This research deals with the development of a model of interpreting services for a newly merged multilingual University of Technology, the Durban University of Technology. The rationale for the study was the urgent need to give students whose mother tongue is not the medium of instruction (i.e. English) equity of access to higher-degree education. The research was carried out within a critical realist approach, which seeks to transform society by practical application of theory. Unlike previous studies in interpreting, this research focuses on the service provision aspect of interpreting. It falls within the field of educational interpreting, but goes beyond the classroom situation in considering other university interpreting needs, such as seminars and in-house conferences, graduation and other ceremonies, operational meetings and labour-related meetings. Franck‟s modelling process was used to formulate a theoretical model of the interpreting service delivery mechanism using data gathered during visitations to local and international universities. The theoretical model, or system of essential functions, was used to arrive at the applied aspect of the mechanism, termed an empirical model of interpreting service delivery. The model was then validated in terms of its application in various contexts at the Durban University of Technology. It is suggested that the theoretical and practical models developed have application not only for educational interpreting, but also in other interpreting contexts. The models are also considered to have relevance for service delivery in general, which is a critical issue at present in South Africa.

scholarly journals Complementary roles of mechanotransduction and inflammation in vascular homeostasis

2021 ◽  
Vol 477 (2245) ◽  
pp. 20200622
Author(s):  
Marcos Latorre ◽  
Bart Spronck ◽  
Jay D. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Vascular Health ◽  
Induced Hypertension ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Vascular Geometry ◽  
Mechanical Homeostasis ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Function ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Structure Properties

Arteries are exposed to relentless pulsatile haemodynamic loads, but via mechanical homeostasis they tend to maintain near optimal structure, properties and function over long periods in maturity in health. Numerous insults can compromise such homeostatic tendencies, however, resulting in maladaptations or disease. Chronic inflammation can be counted among the detrimental insults experienced by arteries, yet inflammation can also play important homeostatic roles. In this paper, we present a new theoretical model of complementary mechanobiological and immunobiological control of vascular geometry and composition, and thus properties and function. We motivate and illustrate the model using data for aortic remodelling in a common mouse model of induced hypertension. Predictions match the available data well, noting a need for increased data for further parameter refinement. The overall approach and conclusions are general, however, and help to unify two previously disparate literatures, thus leading to deeper insight into the separate and overlapping roles of mechanobiology and immunobiology in vascular health and disease.

Examining the dark side of human resource analytics: an empirical investigation using the privacy calculus approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheshadri Chatterjee ◽  
Ranjan Chaudhuri ◽  
Demetris Vrontis ◽  
Evangelia Siachou
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employee Privacy ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Privacy Calculus

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the negative consequences of human resource analytics applications using the privacy calculus approach.Design/methodology/approachBy using the existing literature and privacy calculus theory, a theoretical model has been developed. This model helps to examine the benefits and risks associated with HR analytics applications. The theoretical model was validated using the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique with 315 respondents from different organizations.FindingsHR analytics provides multiple benefits to employees and organizations. But employee privacy may be compromised due to unauthorized access to employee data. There are also security concerns about the uncontrolled use of these applications. Tracking employees without their consent increases the risk. The study suggests that appropriate regulation is necessary for using HR analytics.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is based on cross-sectional data from a specific region. A longitudinal study would have provided more comprehensive results. This study considers five predictors, including other boundary conditions that could enhance the model’s explanative power. Also, data from other countries could improve the proposed model.Practical implicationsThe proposed model is useful for HR practitioners and other policymakers in organizations. Appropriate regulations are important for HR analytics applications. The study also highlights various employee privacy and security-related issues emerging from HR analytics applications. The study also discusses the role of leadership support for the appropriate usage of HR analytics.Originality/valueOnly a few research studies have explored the issues of HR analytics and its consequences. The proposed theoretical model is the first to consider the negative consequence of HR analytics through privacy calculus theory. In this perspective, the research is considered to be novel.

scholarly journals The Dark Side of Visionary Leadership in Strategy Implementation: Strategic Alignment, Strategic Consensus, and Commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nüfer Yasin Ateş ◽  
Murat Tarakci ◽  
Jeanine Pieternel Porck ◽  
Daan van Knippenberg ◽  
Patrick J. F. Groenen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Strategy Implementation ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Strategic Commitment ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
Strategic Consensus ◽  
Management Literature

Drawing from visionary leadership and strategy process research, we theorize and test the mechanism through which middle and lower-level managers’ visionary leadership affects their teams’ strategic commitment. The management literature extols the virtues of visionary leadership. In contrast to this positive stance, we reveal a dark side to visionary leadership. Our theoretical framework suggests that team manager visionary leadership harms team strategic consensus when the manager is not strategically aligned with the CEO, which in turn diminishes team commitment to the strategy. In contrast, when a team manager is strategically aligned with the CEO, team manager visionary leadership is positively related to team strategic consensus and subsequently to team strategic commitment. Data from 136 teams from two organizations support our moderated mediation model. A supplemental analysis of the content of strategic consensus and additional qualitative interviews with managers and employees in one of these organizations provide additional insights concerning the meaning of the theorized relations in practice.

Policing Human Trafficking

2014 ◽  
Vol 653 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Farrell ◽  
Rebecca Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Labor Trafficking ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
Perceptions Of Police ◽  
Using Data

Since 2000, the federal government and all fifty states have passed laws that criminalize the trafficking of persons for labor and commercial sex. To date, relatively few human trafficking cases have been identified, investigated, and prosecuted by local criminal justice authorities. Using data from case records and qualitative interviews with police, prosecutors, and victim service providers in twelve counties, we discuss the challenges local police face in identifying cases of human trafficking. We find that the culture of local police agencies and the perceptions of police officials about human trafficking do not support the identification of a broad range of human trafficking cases. Since local definitions of human trafficking are still evolving, police focus on sex trafficking of minors, which they perceive to be the most serious problem facing their communities. Reluctance to differentiate between vice and sex trafficking minimizes the problem of human trafficking and makes labor trafficking seem largely nonexistent.

Building a Caring-Based Hyperglycemic Crisis Prevention Model for Patients With Diabetes Mellitus, Thailand

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
Nongnut Oba ◽  
Charlotte D. Barry ◽  
Shirley C. Gordon ◽  
Rachada Pipatsart ◽  
Viruch Sirigulsatien
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Crisis Prevention ◽  
Patients With Diabetes ◽  
Prevention Model ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Using Data

The purpose of this study was to understand patient experiences of hyperglycemic crisis (HC) and develop a caring-based, interdisciplinary model for preventing HC in Thailand. A 2-Phase approach was used. In Phase 1, qualitative interviews were conducted with 15 in-patients with diabetes mellitus who had experienced a HC. Four themes emerged: not knowing, depending on others for care, experiencing stress, and seeking help for self-care. In Phase 2, interdisciplinary, participatory team focus groups were conducted using data from Phase 1 to develop a model of hyperglycemic crisis prevention.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of the Living Wage: Identifying Pathways Out of In-Work Poverty

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Swaffield ◽  
Carolyn Snell ◽  
Becky Tunstall ◽  
Jonathan Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Important Determinant ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

This article reports the results of a case study on the introduction of the living wage. Three employers in the City of York became living wage employers. Using data derived from a sample survey of their employees and qualitative interviews, this article explores what impact the receipt of the living wage had on poverty and deprivation. It found that not all living wage employees were income poor or deprived, although those on living wage rates were more likely to be poor and deprived than those on even higher wages. The more important determinant of the employees’ living standards was the household they lived in, and there were a high proportion of living wage employees living in multi-unit households. Also important were the number of earners in the household and the hours worked by the living wage employee. Lone parent families and single people appeared to be most vulnerable to poverty and deprivation. In addition, whether the employee took up their entitlement to in-work benefits was critical and, using benefit checks by welfare rights experts, it was found that some were not.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Attitudes Of MBA Students In The United States Relative To The CIS: The Case Of Armenia

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor V. Claar ◽  
Vicki R. TenHaken ◽  
Robery Frey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Business World ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
The U.S

This paper compares the entrepreneurial attributes of MBA students in Armenia to those in the United States. If entrepreneurial attributes are more learned cultural behaviors and not only inherent personality factors, business students in a recently-privatized economy such as Armenia would not score as high on an entrepreneurial personality index as would business students in the U.S. where both models of entrepreneurship and expectations of certain proactive characteristics in individuals entering the business world are widespread.

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