Organizational Routines

2015 ◽  
pp. 363-385
Author(s):  
Theo Kishna ◽  
Robert J. Blomme ◽  
Jack A.A. van der Veen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Organizational Routines ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Cognition And Emotion ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Duality Model

This chapter presents an integrated duality model to understand how changes in core processes caused by strategic interventions are related with views on human conduct, organizational routines and embedded organizations, particularly in today's society that is characterized by fluidity and continuous change. This model is developed from a Deweyian perspective on human conduct including the interplay between habits, cognition and emotion. Using this duality model, the current chapter discusses why top-down strategic plans and initiatives will result in resistance amongst organizational members. Finally, it discusses directions for further theoretical development and empirical research.

Collaborative Enterprise Architecture for Municipal Environments

2011 ◽  
pp. 294-310
Author(s):  
Leonidas G. Anthopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Government

E-government evolves according to strategic plans with the coordination of central Governments. This top-down procedure succeeds in slow but sufficient transformation of public services into e-Government ones. However, public agencies adapt to e-Government with difficulty, requiring holistic guidance and a detailed legal framework provided by the Government. The setting up of common Enterprise Architecture for all public agencies requires careful analysis. Moreover, common Enterprise Architecture could fail to cover the special needs of small or municipal agencies. The chapter uses data from various major e-Government strategies, together with their enterprise architectures, in order to introduce a development model of municipal Enterprise Architecture. The model is based on the experience collected from the Digital City of Trikala, central Greece, and results in “Collaborative Enterprise Architecture”.

Collaborative Enterprise Architecture for Municipal Environments

2011 ◽  
pp. 392-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas G. Anthopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Government

E-government evolves according to strategic plans with the coordination of central Governments. This top-down procedure succeeds in slow but sufficient transformation of public services into e-Government ones. However, public agencies adapt to e-Government with difficulty, requiring holistic guidance and a detailed legal framework provided by the Government. The setting up of common Enterprise Architecture for all public agencies requires careful analysis. Moreover, common Enterprise Architecture could fail to cover the special needs of small or municipal agencies. The chapter uses data from various major e-Government strategies, together with their enterprise architectures, in order to introduce a development model of municipal Enterprise Architecture. The model is based on the experience collected from the Digital City of Trikala, central Greece, and results in “Collaborative Enterprise Architecture”.

scholarly journals Organisational training perspectives in a changing South Africa

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-611
Author(s):  
F. W. Struwig ◽  
E. E. Smith ◽  
D. J.L. Venter
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
African Context ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Relationship

This article focuses on organisational training perspectives within a changing South African context. To achieve the aim of this research project, a literature study, including an Internet-based search, and empirical research were undertaken. During the empirical research, a self-administered questionnaire was sent to 365 training practitioners in order to investigate various training perspectives and its relationship with organisational change. Five null hypotheses are tested to investigate the relationship between training and change variables. The traditional role of training has become obsolete, because of organisational change. Training should be placed at the centre of human resources planning programmes and the strategic plans of the organisation. It is emphasised that actions should be taken to ensure that training programmes affect change and that trainees involved in the change process are effectively managed.

On the neural implausibility of the modular mind: Evidence for distributed construction dissolves boundaries between perception, cognition, and emotion

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leor M. Hackel ◽  
Grace M. Larson ◽  
Jeffrey D. Bowen ◽  
Gaven A. Ehrlich ◽  
Thomas C. Mann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Brain Networks ◽  
Context Sensitivity ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Cognition And Emotion ◽  
The Mind

AbstractFirestone & Scholl (F&S) rely on three problematic assumptions about the mind (modularity, reflexiveness, and context-insensitivity) to argue cognition does not fundamentally influence perception. We highlight evidence indicating that perception, cognition, and emotion are constructed through overlapping, distributed brain networks characterized by top-down activity and context-sensitivity. This evidence undermines F&S's ability to generalize from case studies to the nature of perception.

scholarly journals Challenges for the Theory and Practice of Business Coaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Blackman ◽  
Gianna Moscardo ◽  
David E. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Systematic Review Methodology ◽  
Business Coaching ◽  
Effective Coaching ◽  
Coaching Effectiveness ◽  
Development Practice

Until recently, there has been little published systematic empirical research into business coaching. This article reports on a systematic, critical review of 111 published empirical papers investigating business coaching theory, processes, and outcomes. The present article identifies a significantly larger body of empirical research than covered in previous reviews and uses a Systematic Review methodology (SRm) to conduct a comprehensive review of the available empirical evidence into business coaching effectiveness focusing on implications for theoretical development, practice (within human resource development) and further research in this area. This review identifies convergence around factors that contribute to perceived effective coaching practice but nevertheless highlights a number of issues to be resolved in further research. These include determining the primary beneficiaries of coaching, the factors that contribute to coach credibility, and how the organizational and social context impacts on coaching. Weaknesses in coaching research methodology and research gaps are also noted.

Developing Public Policy Theory: Perspectives from Empirical Research

1977 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1532-1543 ◽  
Author(s):  
George D. Greenberg ◽  
Jeffrey A. Miller ◽  
Lawrence B. Mohr ◽  
Bruce C. Vladeck
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Policy Theory

There has been considerable interest in the development of theories of public policy formation, but theoretical efforts to date have not demonstrated adequate recognition of the distinctive qualities of the dependent variable as a focus of research. Facets of public policy are far more difficult to study systematically than most other phenomena investigated empirically by political scientists. Our attempt to test hypotheses with some rigor demonstrated that public policy becomes troublesome as a research focus because of inherent complexity–specifically because of the temporal nature of the process, the multiplicity of participants and of policy provisions, and the contingent nature of theoretical effects. We use examples of policy making taken from the case study literature to show concretely how such complexity makes it essentially impossible to test apparently significant hypotheses as they are presented by Lowi, Dahl, Banfield, and others. Our effort here is to enhance theoretical development by carefully specifying and clarifying the major shortcomings and pointing out the apparent directions of remedy.

Is Strategic Processes

2013 ◽  
pp. 222-241
Author(s):  
Harald Oddvar Fardal ◽  
Jan Sørnes
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
General Level ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Strategic Processes ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Is Strategy ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Is Projects

In large, geographically dispersed organizations, achieving a successful Information Systems (IS) strategy can prove very challenging. This case describes how a CIO in such an organization met that challenge by focusing on actions rather than plans, and on bottom-up processes rather than top-down decisions. The CIO keyed on benefitting from employees’ competencies. The organization, here called “NorConstruct,” has few long-term IS strategic plans. Instead, it has developed five different IS strategic themes on a general level. It’s actual IS strategy takes place through different IS projects. The case is told through the CIO and provides rich descriptions of IS strategic processes in NorConstruct, as well as the CIO’s thoughts on the pros and cons. Throughout the case, several relevant reflections are described.

Towards a Comparative Politics of Movement-Regimes

1961 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Post War ◽  
Theoretical Apparatus

Those who specialize in the study of Soviet government and politics are beginning to feel and acknowledge the need for a more effective theoretical apparatus. The post-war years of expanded research in this field have been fruitful in empirical studies of Soviet political history and institutions, but the theoretical development has not kept pace; and now the lag is beginning to inhibit the further fruitful progress of empirical research itself. Instead of a gradually developing body of theory, we still have a mélange of “ten theories in search of reality,” as Daniel Bell has summed it up in the title of a recent article.The purpose of the present paper is not to propound an eleventh theory. It is only an exploratory effort, a consideration of a somewhat different approach to the problem than has been customary in the field of Soviet studies. In presenting it, I shall try to shed the blinkers of a Russian specialist and take a look at the whole political galaxy in which Russia is only the biggest star and probably no longer the brightest one.The best way out of the theoretical difficulty may lie in making the study of Soviet government and politics more comparative than it has generally been so far, thus bringing it into much closer working relations with political science as a whole and particularly with the slowly growing body of theory in comparative politics. As this statement implies, our work on Soviet government and politics has been characterized by a certain theoretical isolationism.

scholarly journals The presence of the undertaken social and economic role in the university's strategy-making

2012 ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Szabolcs Németh
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Third ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The University

It is vital to examine the strategic plans and leadership insights of the university, the faculties, the departments and the institutions in the research of the „third mission” of the universities. Because of the undertaken social-economic role in the region it is indispensable to know the turbulently changing environment (hazards – opportunities), to map the competencies available in the university (strengths – weaknesses) and to recognize the relations between the external and internal environment. It is an important factor to define the strategic directions of the departments, examining them in direction dimension (pro-active – adaptive) and in role dimension (top-down – bottom-up). The main objective of this research is to recognize the formal and informal strategic visions of the institutes and departments in the Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences of the University of Debrecen, and to examine how these visions are related to the university's role in the regional innovation system.

scholarly journals Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach

2022 ◽  
pp. 009539972110693
Author(s):  
Lieke Oldenhof ◽  
Rik Wehrens ◽  
Roland Bal
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Value Conflicts ◽  
Policy Experiments ◽  
Multiple Value ◽  
Over Time

Despite the “turn to values” in Public Administration, there is still a lack of empirical research in situ that investigates how various stakeholders in interaction develop strategies to deal with conflicting values over time. By using a new pragmatist approach, this article fills in this gap by investigating policy experiments in Dutch healthcare. The results show how professionals, citizens, and policymakers differently valued the worth of policy experiments, which manifested itself in multiple value conflicts. To deal with these conflicts, stakeholders adopted different strategies: colonization, compromising, prioritization, short-cutting, organizational enmeshing, and pilotification. The results show a shift from exclusive top-down strategies to inclusive multi-value strategies over time.

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