scholarly journals An Empirical Examination of the Relationship Between Data Storytelling Competency and Business Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 42-73
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kamel Daradkeh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
The Relationship

With the proliferation of big data and business analytics practices, data storytelling has gained increasing importance as an effective means for communicating analytical insights to the target audience to support decision-making and improve business performance. However, there is a limited empirical understanding of the relationship between data storytelling competency, decision-making quality, and business performance. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV), this study develops and validates the concept of data storytelling competency as a multidimensional construct consisting of data quality, story quality, storytelling tool quality, storyteller skills, and storyteller domain knowledge. It also develops a mediation model to examine the relationship between data storytelling competency and business performance, and whether this relationship is mediated by decision-making quality. Based on an empirical analysis of data collected from business analytics practitioners, the results of this study reveal that the data storytelling competency is positively linked to business performance, which is partially mediated by decision-making quality. These results provide a theoretical basis for further investigation of possible antecedents and consequences of data storytelling competency. They also offer guidance for practitioners on how to leverage data storytelling capabilities in business analytics practices to improve decision-making and business performance.

scholarly journals The Quality Of Leader/Employee Relationship

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Carstens ◽  
Neil Barnes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Employee Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

This study set out to investigate what role the quality of the relationship between business leaders and their employees played in the performance of their business. The study compared the business performance of forty-five area managers in one of the major listed banks in South Africa with their specific leader/employee relationship profiles. The research approach was quantitative and of a correlational nature. The results indicate that although certain elements within the relationship between business leaders and employees indeed have an influence on business performance this alone was not a sufficient condition. The study suggested that the dimensions relating to vision, trust, accountability and decision- making have the strongest influence on business performance. Further research in this area is suggested.

scholarly journals Disentangling the Relationship between Physician and Organizational Performance: A Signal Detection Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 746-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Kostopoulou ◽  
Martine Nurek ◽  
Brendan C. Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Signal Detection ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Urgent Referral ◽  
Detection Approach ◽  
Referral Decision ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Stable Feature

Background. In previous research, we employed a signal detection approach to measure the performance of general practitioners (GPs) when deciding about urgent referral for suspected lung cancer. We also explored associations between provider and organizational performance. We found that GPs from practices with higher referral positive predictive value (PPV; chance of referrals identifying cancer) were more reluctant to refer than those from practices with lower PPV. Here, we test the generalizability of our findings to a different cancer. Methods. A total of 252 GPs responded to 48 vignettes describing patients with possible colorectal cancer. For each vignette, respondents decided whether urgent referral to a specialist was needed. They then completed the 8-item Stress from Uncertainty scale. We measured GPs’ discrimination ( d′) and response bias (criterion; c) and their associations with organizational performance and GP demographics. We also measured correlations of d′ and c between the 2 studies for the 165 GPs who participated in both. Results. As in the lung study, organizational PPV was associated with response bias: in practices with higher PPV, GPs had higher criterion (b = 0.05 [0.03 to 0.07]; P < 0.001), that is, they were less inclined to refer. As in the lung study, female GPs were more inclined to refer than males (b = −0.17 [−0.30 to −0.105]; P = 0.005). In a mediation model, stress from uncertainty did not explain the gender difference. Only response bias correlated between the 2 studies ( r = 0.39, P < 0.001). Conclusions. This study confirms our previous findings regarding the relationship between provider and organizational performance and strengthens the finding of gender differences in referral decision making. It also provides evidence that response bias is a relatively stable feature of GP referral decision making.

Can Linguistic Predictors Detect Fraudulent Financial Filings?

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunita Goel ◽  
Jagdish Gangolly ◽  
Sue R. Faerman ◽  
Ozlem Uzuner
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Verbal Content ◽  
Percent Accuracy

ABSTRACT: Extensive research has been done on the analytical and empirical examination of financial data in annual reports to detect fraud; however, there is scant research on the analysis of text in annual reports to detect fraud. The basic premise of this research is that there are clues hidden in the text that can be detected to determine the likelihood of fraud. In this research, we examine both the verbal content and the presentation style of the qualitative portion of the annual reports using natural language processing tools and explore linguistic features that distinguish fraudulent annual reports from nonfraudulent annual reports. Our results indicate that employment of linguistic features is an effective means for detecting fraud. We were able to improve the prediction accuracy of our fraud detection model from initial baseline results of 56.75 percent accuracy, using a “bag of words” approach, to 89.51 percent accuracy when we incorporated linguistically motivated features inspired by our informed reasoning and domain knowledge.

Framing Sustainable Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 1510-1526
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Gauthier ◽  
Chris Meyer ◽  
David Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This paper develops and clarifies social intrapreneurship theory by examining the “how” of effective intrapreneurial championing. More specifically, the authors consider the following research question: How does the manner in which middle managers frame sustainable practices influence successful championing outcomes? The authors integrate the natural-resource-based view of the firm with research on middle management championing behaviors and issue-contingent models of ethical decision making to propose a model of sustainability championing for social intrapreneurs. To that end, propositions are developed concerning the relationship between the types of sustainable practice championed, how the argument for a given practice is framed, and successful championing outcomes. This paper contributes to a growing body of literature on social intrapreneurship, providing insight into how intrapreneurial championing can be more effective and building a foundation for future research.

The Relationship between Strategic Resources and Business Performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-05
Author(s):  
Sitti Syamsiar Muharram ◽  
Sarminah Samad
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Relationship Type ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Business Survival ◽  
Strategic Resources ◽  
Physical Resources ◽  
Paper Review ◽  
The Relationship

Objective- The paper aims to develop a conceptual framework to study the relationship between strategic resources and business performance. Methodology/Technique - Reviews of published works to explore the concept of strategic resources and business performance. Findings The decisions to put or acquire certain strategic resources are part of the management responsibilities in order to ensure the business survival is not under pressure. There are four components of strategic resources namely: physical resources, technology, reputation and human capital. Novelty This paper demonstrates the relationship between strategic resources and business performance using resource-based view. The conceptual framework can be used by the academics and practitioners to study this relationship. Type of Paper: Review Keywords: Strategic Resources, Business Performance.

Where Do We Go From Here? An Examination of the Relationship Between Changes in Social Structure and Strategic Priorities in Cross-Sector Collaborative Organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-212
Author(s):  
Larry R. Hearld ◽  
Jeffrey A. Alexander ◽  
Laura J. Wolf ◽  
Yunfeng Shi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Internet Survey ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Cross-sector collaborative organizations are increasingly viewed as an effective means of addressing multifaceted health and social challenges. Given their dependence on volunteers to develop and implement strategy, members’ perceptions of future strategic priorities is a critical concern for leaders and sponsors of these organizations. Research set in more hierarchical, single-sector organizations acknowledges the important relationship between structure and strategy; however, relatively little research has explored these relationships in the context of collaborative organizations. We examined these relationships using multiple rounds of an Internet survey. All three dimensions of social structure (locus of decision making, formalization, and integration) had independent associations with participant’ perceptions of different strategic priorities, suggesting there is more than one approach to influencing the perceived priorities of the alliance. However, some dimensions of the social structure changed more than other dimensions over time, highlighting differential opportunities for influencing strategic priorities.

CO-OPETITION STRATEGY FROM THE PATENT ANALYSIS PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE OF THE STENT MARKET

2007 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 137-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
KUEI-KUEI LAI ◽  
FANG-PEI SU ◽  
CALVIN S. WENG ◽  
CHIAU-LING CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Patent Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Patent Information ◽  
Patent Rights ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Technological Strength

Information about technological innovation and its evolutionary path can be explored by patent analysis. Therefore, for those firms which are dependant on large investments and a high business performance, such as stent manufacturers, integrating patent information with business strategy is the critical issue. The competition between stent manufactures is intensifying because of increasing global volume demand and improving technological performance. From a resource-based view, adopting a co-opetition strategy is essential for firms to keep sustainable competitive advantage. Over the last decade, patent rights have become a major tool of the co-opetition strategy. This study analyzes patent data from the USPTO during 1984 to 2005 and constructs patent information indicators to verify the process of technology evolution. On these grounds, we can understand the relative technological position and technological strength of the major manufacturers in this industry and also inspect their changes of position and business scope to examine the relationship between each firm's technology strategy and business strategy.

scholarly journals Operational Capability: The Missing Link between Supply Chain Practices and Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 856-860
Author(s):  
Ai Chin Thoo ◽  
Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid ◽  
Amran Rasli
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Operational Capability ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Mediating Factor ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between supply chain practices and business performance has been widely investigated by many academics and practitioners; however, the relationship is not yet fully understood. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the relevance of several prominent theories in strategic management for explaining the mediating role of operational capability in the relationship between supply chain practices and business performance. The resource-based view of the firm and neo-institutional theory are reviewed for their applicability to relate supply chain practices and operational capability in explaining sustained business performance. Supply chain practices are insufficient to drive business performance. Firms need to be able simultaneously to increase efficiency through supply chain practices and to be innovative through operational capability. Specifically, operational capability is forwarded as a key firm-specific capability that can result in significant and long-term improvement in organisational sustainability. Operational capability can serve as a critical mediating factor that better transmits the ambitions of supply chain practices onto business performance. As such, this paper provides a conceptual support to urge further research to empirically evaluate the relationship between supply chain practices, operational capability and business performance.

scholarly journals The rhythm of effective entrepreneurs’ decision-making process. The pathways of alertness scanning and search and cognitive style. A mediation model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Sassetti ◽  
Vincenzo Cavaliere ◽  
Sara Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Decision ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractHow can entrepreneurs be effective when making decisions? To enrich current research on entrepreneurship and cognition, the present study shows how alertness and decision making are closely related. Prompted by the scant attention that scholars have paid to the link between alertness and the pathways of entrepreneurs’ thought, it proposes that being alert by adequately scanning and searching for information is likely to increase decision-making effectiveness. Distinguishing between rational and intuitive cognitive styles and based on a sample of 98 Italian entrepreneurs from small and medium manufacturing companies, the analysis shows that while a rational cognitive style significantly mediated the relationship, intuition did not play a role in shaping entrepreneurial decision-making effectiveness. The results suggest that developing individual alertness might not be sufficient for entrepreneurs to make effective decisions; a rational cognitive style might also be a key mechanism shaping this association.

scholarly journals Academic Procrastination: Relationships with Support from the Environment and Self-Leadership

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tais Guedes de Melo ◽  
Helenides Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Longitudinal Studies ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Leadership Strategies ◽  
Academic Procrastination ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Procrastination is the behavior related to voluntary delays at the beginning or end of tasks and in decision making. The aim of this study was to evaluate the mediational effect of self-leadership strategies on the relationship between academic procrastination and support from the environment. A cross-sectional correlational study was carried out with the participation of 1,436 students. Three instruments were used: Learning Support Scale, Academic Procrastination Scale - Short Form and Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire. The findings confirmed the hypotheses by demonstrating that the more students use self-leadership strategies, the less they procrastinate and the lesser the influence of support from the environment. The full mediation model has been confirmed. The study stands out for its understanding of procrastination and the influence of support from the environment and self-leadership. It is suggested that further longitudinal studies be conducted, assessing differences in these behaviors between groups of students, programs, levels of higher education or shifts.

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