Learning in a Multilingual and Multicultural Business Setting

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Michał Wilczewski ◽  
Anne-Marie Søderberg ◽  
Arkadiusz Gut
Keyword(s):  
Business Setting

Being a retailer: narratives not on display

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Ruth ◽  
Frances Gunn ◽  
Jonathan Elms
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Actual Nature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Strategy As Practice ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Retail Entrepreneurs

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the everyday tasks and activities undertaken by retailer entrepreneurs and owner/managers when they strategize. Specifically, it interrogates the nature of the intuitive, idiosyncratic strategic agency of a retail owner/manager.Design/methodology/approachThrough adopting a combination of phenomenological and narrative approaches, focussing on illuminating the everyday operational and strategic practices of one retail entrepreneur and owner/manager, a richly contextualized, ideographic account of the procedures and outcomes of their strategizing is provided.FindingsBy revealing narratives that are seldom obvious – often kept behind the counter, and not on display – the authors are able to unravel the social reality of the retailer's decision-making, and the influences of identity, connections with customers and community, emotions and the spirit, and love and family. This study also illuminates how entrepreneurs retrospectively make sense out of the messiness of everyday life particularly when juggling the melding of personal and business realities.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper explores the experiences and reflections of the decision-making of one retail entrepreneur manager within a particular business setting. However, the use of an ideographic approach allowed for an in depth investigation of the realities of strategic practices undertaken by a retail owner that may be extrapolated beyond this immediate context.Originality/valueThis paper develops original insights into the retailer as an individual, vis-à-vis an organization, as well as nuanced understanding of the actual nature of work undertaken by retail entrepreneurs and owner/managers. To this end, this paper contributes to the “strategy-as-practice” debate in the strategic management literature, and to narrative analysis and advances insights to the perennial question: “what is a retailer?”.

Using Hard Times to Teach Business Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Michael Stodnick ◽  
Nancy Schreiber ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Real World ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Business Principles ◽  
Business Setting

In this research we employ an inter-disciplinary project that uses active learning theory to help bridge the gap between a university’s extensive liberal arts core and its business program. We believe this project will improve and enrich classroom discussions of the more complex and nuanced issues found in the application of business principles. To redress the fact that many undergraduate students do not have extensive work experience to draw on when discussing the application of business ethics principles, we present a project that uses a classic novel, Hard Times, to improve students’ abilities to contextualize and apply common business ethics frameworks. The project focuses on active learning and non-linear thinking, and aims to immerse the student in a fictional environment that models the complexity of, without being identical to, a real world business setting.

Československá Obchodní Banka, a.s.: Applying Business Risk Audit Techniques in an Emerging Market Economy

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Ballou ◽  
W. Robert Knechel
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Communist Country ◽  
Business Risk ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Audit Approach ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Impact

The case involves Československá Obchodní Banka, a.s. (ČSOB or “the bank”), which was the third largest bank in the Czech Republic in 1997 when the case initially takes place. The case is based on publicly available information relating to ČSOB at a time when the bank was emerging from the state-owned environment of the former Communist country of Czechoslovakia. You will serve in the role of an auditor who is trying understand how to assess the fairness of financial information related to one business process of the entity, based, in part, on the effectiveness of the bank in carrying out its strategy and, in part, on the performance of the business process. This case is designed to provide you with an opportunity to apply important aspects of a business risk audit approach similar to what is utilized to some extent by all major international accounting firms (e.g., Lemon et al. 2000; the Joint Working Group [JWG] Report 2000) in a unique business setting. The requirements of the case also involve assessing the impact on the audit of the bank from privatization by a foreign investor.

The REA Pattern, Knowledge Structures, and Conceptual Modeling Performance

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Gerard
Keyword(s):  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Domain Specific Knowledge ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Structured Knowledge

Most database textbooks on conceptual modeling do not cover domainspecific patterns. The texts emphasize notation, apparently assuming that notation enables individuals to correctly model domain-specific knowledge acquired from experience. However, the domain knowledge acquired may not aid in the construction of conceptual models if it is not structured to support conceptual modeling. This study uses the Resources Events Agents (REA) pattern as an example of a domain-specific pattern that can be encoded as a knowledge structure for conceptual modeling of accounting information systems (AIS), and tests its effects on the accuracy of conceptual modeling in a familiar business setting. Fifty-three undergraduate and forty-six graduate students completed recall tasks designed to measure REA knowledge structure. The accuracy of participants' conceptual models was positively related to REA knowledge structure. Results suggest it is insufficient to know only conceptual modeling notation because structured knowledge of domain-specific patterns reduces design errors.

Web 2.0 Social Networking Technologies and Strategies for Knowledge Management

2013 ◽  
pp. 84-102
Author(s):  
Edward Chen
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
Rss Feeds ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the Internet phenomenon known as Web 2.0. It explores Internet use, Internet users, and the continuous improvements being made to the Internet. The purpose of this chapter is to explain the impact that social networking has on the modern enterprise; particularly, when it comes to collaboration and knowledge sharing. The growth trajectory of Web 2.0 software such as social networking, blogs, tags, RSS feeds, wikis, YouTube videos, and widgets are presented, and each component is outlined in detail. Each application is also applied to a practical business setting. The benefits and challenges of each application are discussed, and examples of organizations that are implementing Web 2.0 strategies are presented. Some limitations and concerns of Web 2.0 are discussed. The chapter concludes with an examination of the implications of Web 2.0 on companies and their business and marketing strategies.

Knowledge and event leadership (Jane Tattersall)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Tattersall
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Technology Competition

The aim of this chapter is to explain the value and management of different types of knowledge in an events or music festival business setting, where its potential to maximise profit and help an organisation to outperform its rivals has received less attention in academic literature than other sectors such as manufacturing or information technology. Competition in the events and festivals sectors has increased considerably as more companies join the market, and the nature and scope of events has widened to satisfy consumer appetites for more diverse and engaging experiences. Leaders that nurture, recognise, manage and employ knowledge effectively are more likely to be innovative and successful in their sector. Throughout the chapter, knowledge is explored mostly through the lens of music festivals, although the points made are easily applicable to the wider events, tourism and leisure sectors.

Promoting logistics performance in Vietnam-based manufacturing firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuan Luu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Business Departments

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWSs) contribute to logistics performance and the mediation mechanisms underlying this relationship.Design/methodology/approachEmployees and their managers from logistics departments and/or business departments of manufacturing firms in the Vietnamese business setting were recruited as participants in the data collection. Structural equation modeling was employed for the data analysis.FindingsService-oriented HPWSs demonstrated the positive effects on logistics performance via serving culture. Serving culture was found to have the positive link with logistics performance via the mediating roles of collective role breadth self-efficacy and collective customer knowledge.Originality/valueThe current research extends the logistics management research by identifying service-oriented HPWSs as an antecedent of logistics performance as well as the mediation mechanisms underlying this effect.

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