scholarly journals Management and Organizational Research: Structural Topic Modeling for a Better Understanding of Theory Application

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Rohit Bhuvaneshwar Mishra ◽  
Hongbing Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Topic Model ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Theory Application ◽  
Theoretical Application ◽  
Structural Topic Modeling ◽  
Structural Topic Model ◽  
Organization Research

In management and organization research, theory development is often linked with developing a new theory. However, regardless of the number of existing theories, most theories remain empirically untested, and the progress in understanding the application of theories has been scarce. This article discusses how theories are applied in existing management and organization research studies. This study applies the Structural Topic Model to 4636 research papers from the S2ORC dataset. The results reveal twelve research themes, establish correlations, and document the evolution of themes over time. The findings of this study reveal that the theoretical application is not consistent across research themes, theories are primarily used for descriptive and communicative properties, and most research themes in management and organization research are more concerned with discovering phenomena rather than with understanding and forecasting them.

Research Topics and Trends in the Maritime Transport: a Structural Topic Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiwen Bai ◽  
Xiunian Zhang ◽  
Kevin X. Li ◽  
Yaoming Zhou ◽  
Kum Fai Yuen
Keyword(s):  
Topic Model ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Structural Topic Model

scholarly journals An Analysis of Current Trends in CBR Research Using Multi-View Clustering

AI Magazine ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Greene ◽  
Jill Freyne ◽  
Barry Smyth ◽  
Pádraig Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Core Set ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Promising Application ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Case Based

The European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) in 2008 marked 15 years of international and European CBR conferences where almost seven hundred research papers were published. In this report we review the research themes covered in these papers and identify the topics that are active at the moment. The main mechanism for this analysis is a clustering of the research papers based on both co-citation links and text similarity. It is interesting to note that the core set of papers has attracted citations from almost three thousand papers outside the conference collection so it is clear that the CBR conferences are a sub-part of a much larger whole. It is remarkable that the research themes revealed by this analysis do not map directly to the sub-topics of CBR that might appear in a textbook. Instead they reflect the applications-oriented focus of CBR research, and cover the promising application areas and research challenges that are faced.

Relationship of Occupational Therapists' Education and Experience to Perceived Value of Theory Development

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Van Deusen
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Certificate Programs ◽  
Theory Application ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Relationship Of

The development and validation of theoretical bases for intervention have been identified as crucial goals for the profession of occupational therapy. An earlier study showed that recent graduates at the baccalaureate level tended to place less value on theory development than theory application, whereas graduates of professional master's degree or certificate programs in occupational therapy placed a significantly higher value on theory development. This finding led to speculation that theory valuing may be related to professional experience and maturity. This study sought to determine if attitudes of occupational therapists toward theory development are related to their level of education or to their length of professional experience. Using a survey instrument devised by the author, data were collected from a sample of 138 experienced therapists and compared with data collected earlier from recent graduates. Results indicated that both longevity of practice as well as level of education were associated with high priorities for theory development.

Self Work in Management and Organizational Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-114
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Lawrence ◽  
Nelson Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Work First ◽  
Organization Research

The study of self work is one of the oldest and most developed areas of management and organizational research that focuses on social-symbolic work. This chapter reviews three literatures on self work in management and organization research. For each, it introduces the type of self work, reviews its development in management and organizational research, and explores the implications of studying it as a type of self work. First, the chapter explores how the concept of self work can help organize an extensive and well-developed literature through a discussion of emotion work. Second, it explores how the concept of self work can extend an existing research area by using the example of identity work. Third, it explores how a social-symbolic work perspective can motivate a new stream of literature by examining career work as a form of self work that remains largely unresearched.

New theories and organization research: from the eyes of change

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoud Shadnam
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Reality ◽  
Organization Research

PurposeIn recent years, organization scholars have engaged in several conversations about the process of theory development, and offered many proposals for building new theories of organization. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a fundamental, fruitful and often neglected method for developing new theories of organization.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on Peirce's typology of reasoning: deduction, induction and abduction. This typology helps in analyzing and categorizing the extant proposals for developing new theories of organization, and also makes it visible what approach has been most often missing.FindingsThis paper shows that the offered proposals can be categorized into the following two models: (1) armchair theorizing; (2) present capturing. This categorization also highlights a third model – change sensitizing – that is based on shifting organization theories by sensitizing ourselves to macro shifts of organizational reality.Originality/valueAlthough the change sensitizing model is an unusual, marginal practice in today's organization research, it has historically been used to develop many of the renowned theories in social sciences. If taken as a serious agenda, it has the potential to generate a host of new, valuable theories of organization.

scholarly journals The Voice of Drug Consumers: Online Textual Review Analysis Using Structural Topic Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifeng He ◽  
Dongmei Han ◽  
Xiaohang Zhou ◽  
Zheng Qu
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Consumer Dissatisfaction ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Document Level ◽  
Structural Topic Model ◽  
Over Time

Many web-based pharmaceutical e-commerce platforms allow consumers to post open-ended textual reviews based on their purchase experiences. Understanding the true voice of consumers by analyzing such a large amount of user-generated content is of great significance to pharmaceutical manufacturers and e-commerce websites. The aim of this paper is to automatically extract hidden topics from web-based drug reviews using the structural topic model (STM) to examine consumers’ concerns when they buy drugs online. The STM is a probabilistic extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which allows the consolidation of document-level covariates. This innovation allows us to capture consumer dissatisfaction along with their dynamics over time. We extract 12 topics, and five of them are negative topics representing consumer dissatisfaction, whose appearances in the negative reviews are substantially higher than those in the positive reviews. We also come to the conclusion that the prevalence of these five negative topics has not decreased over time. Furthermore, our results reveal that the prevalence of price-related topics has decreased significantly in positive reviews, which indicates that low-price strategies are becoming less attractive to customers. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first study using STM to analyze the unstructured textual data of drug reviews, which enhances the understanding of the aspects of drug consumer concerns and contributes to the research of pharmaceutical e-commerce literature.

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