scholarly journals The Role of Strategic Management on Exporting Performance: A Case Study of Iranian Firms

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Homa Doroudi ◽  
Maryam Gharakhanlou
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Strategy Implementation ◽  
Strategy Management ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Exporting Firms

The current study investigates the strategy implementation of Iranian export performance, in Februy, 2015. It was conducted among 150 managers of Iranian exporting firms in order to find any significant relationship between strategy management and success in exporting performance. The methodological approach adopted for this study is Structural Equational Model (SEM) approach. It was processed in two sections (Pilot and Main study).The salient instrument of the study was questionnaire. The data were coded in SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science, Version 22) and Lisrel (Version 8.8) Software. Three types of analyses were conducted to identify any significant relationship between them. The results revealed that there are significant relationship in most of strategies and exporting performance.

The Role of Big Data in Social Science: A Case Study Using Hadoop

2021 ◽  
pp. 243-251
Author(s):  
Nour Alqudah ◽  
Mohammed Q. Shatnawi
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Social Science

Localising Global Norms: The Case of Family-Friendly Parliaments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Palmieri ◽  
Kerryn Baker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Global Norms

Abstract In this article, we extend empirical understandings of feminist institutionalism by outlining a new methodological approach to the study of parliament as a gendered workplace. We argue that while a localised approach to studying institutional change allows a more nuanced appreciation of the role of local cultural context, internationalised norms can be an interesting starting point to work back from. A case study of the New Zealand parliament’s ‘family-friendly’ workplace practices illustrates this methodological approach. By tracing the establishment of family-friendly practices in this parliament, our study shines a light on the intractable nature of local institutional context in global norm diffusion and hints at the next phase of work required to further the agenda of transformational gender-sensitive parliaments.

Comprehensive Trace Processing: A Qualitative Innovation in Social Science Case Study Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Evan Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Independent Variables

This paper proposes a new social science oriented methodological approach to examining the behavior of different policymaker’s actions in the process of shaping and implementing public policies. Under this new model, the policymakers’ behavior constitutes the dependent variable under observation in the study while various external mechanisms are treated as independent variables acting to manipulate policy outcomes. Each of the objects studied in their respective models, as well as each of the external mechanisms, are inextricably intertwined in the political systems which enact, adjudicate, and ultimately implement policy. As complex organizations, these dependent variables are infinitely complicated and their behavioral patterns subject to multiple independent variable impacts. This proposed case study model will focus on individual cases that allow for an in depth examination of events and draw inferential causal connections using a number of innovative techniques. The mechanisms of policy change, or the independent variables, will additionally be explored using a case study analysis and intervening causal factors will be carefully examined by using within case analysis to plot interrelationships among event observations. The validity of a hypothesis would be rigorously tested by both within-case analyses, and will be supplemented by a comparative cross-case analysis when appropriate, and further bolstered by a novel interview process to reject or reinforce inferential assumptions drawn from the model. This unique combination of qualitative testing methodologies when applied in linear sequence creates a rigorous analytical framework with enhanced internal and external model validity that can be utilized across social science disciplines.   Keywords - Social Sciences, Qualitative Innovation, comprehensive trace processing, policy change, Vietnam

scholarly journals The role of competitive advantage on the relation between internationalization and export performance: case study of EFACEC

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua ◽  
Liliana Freitas Melo
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
The One ◽  
Object Of Study

The main goal of this study is to analyze the factors that in the internationalization’s process of Portuguese companies that allows to understand the contributions of the competitive advantage that influenced export performance. This will assess how the internationalization’s strategies, considering the competitive advantage as well its interaction with the market’s characteristics, may lead companies, on the one hand, to the implementation of strategies for success, and, on the other, and to the top performances of its export activity. In this context embarked by the qualitative methodology, we used the case study method, regarding to the single case of the largest and the most representative Portuguese multinational company of the electromechanical sector (EFACEC), thus enabling a holistic and integrated vision of organizational phenomena object of study. This methodological option allowed objectify results of practical importance, which will contribute to a lower dispersion in companies’ strategic internationalization process, accentuating the assertiveness of its exporting activity. As main conclusions we highlight the fact of internationalization’s strategies positively influence competitive advantage which, in turn, positively influence the export performance, and this one is positively influenced by markets’ characteristics.

scholarly journals Ride to die: masculine honour and collective identity in the motorcycle underworld

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Rahman ◽  
Adam Lynes
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Founding Member

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature and extent of violent practice in the motorcycle underworld. It does this by considering the murder of Gerry Tobin, and then uses the biography of the founding member of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club (HAMC) for a critical analysis. The authors are interested in understanding the role of masculine honour and collective identity, and its influences in relation to violence – namely, fatal violence in the motorcycle underworld. The authors argue that motorcycle gangs are extreme examples of what Hall (2012) considers “criminal undertakers” – individuals who take “special liberties” often as a last resort. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach seeks to analyse the paradigm of “masculine honour”, and how the Outlaws MC (OMC) applied this notion when executing the seemingly senseless murder of Gerry Tobin. So too, the author triangulate these findings by critically analysing the biography of the founding member of the Californian chapter of the HAMC – Sonny Barger. Further to this, a case study inevitably offers “constraints and opportunities” (Easton, 2010, p. 119). Through the process of triangulation, which is a method that utilises “multiple sources of data”, the researcher can be confident that the truth is being “conveyed as truthfully as possible” (Merriam, 1995, p. 54). Findings What is clear within the OB worldview is that it can only be a male dominant ideology, with no allowance for female interference (Wolf, 2008). Thus, Messerschmidt’s (1993) notion of “hegemonic masculinity” fits the male dominated subcultures of the HAMC and OMC, which therefore provides the clubs with “exclusive” masculine identities (Wolf, 2008). For organisations like the HAMC, retaliation is perceived as an alternative form of criminal justice that is compulsory to undertake in order to defend their status of honour and masculinity. Originality/value Based on our understanding, this is the first critical think piece that explores a UK case of homicide within the context of the motorcycle underworld. It also provides a comprehensive understanding of violent practice with the motorcycle underworld from criminological and sociological perspectives. This paper will inform readers about an overlooked and under researched underworld culture.

scholarly journals We say no to La Monroe closure! local defiance to global restructuring in a transnational company

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holm-Detlev Köhler ◽  
Sergio González Begega
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
Transnational Company

Purpose This paper aims to examine the reaction of a local workforce to global restructuring in a transnational company (TNC), which entailed the closure of a manufacturing plant (La Monroe) in Northern Spain. The article explores the micro-political nature of the corporate decision to close the plant, the workforce reaction to relocation and the discourse legitimizing global restructuring. It also delves into the contra-hegemonic potential of labour as a main stakeholder in TNCs. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach is qualitative. The article presents a theoretically informed and analytical case study based on the literature on micro-politics and power relations in TNCs. Fieldwork is based on semi-structured interviews carried out with relevant stakeholders and other external actors to the TNC. Findings The findings substantiate the dynamic role of micro-politics within TNCs. The article presents and discusses evidence of the formation of a broad multi-level political network of resistance to a plant closure plan. Research limitations/implications More case study analysis would further support the findings in the paper and provide for a comparative approach. Originality/value The article substantiates the dynamic role of micro-politics and power relations in the reification of social norms and discourses on production relocation. It offers an empirical appraisal of the micro-political approach to global restructuring in TNCs. The article also puts labour strategies at the forefront of the analysis in corporate relocation.

How to dress up in Eretz Israel, 1880s–1948: A visual approach to clothing, fashion and nation building

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svenja Bethke
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Fashion Studies ◽  
Visual Approach ◽  
Hebrew Culture ◽  
The Individual

This article provides a methodological approach to the integration of Zionist photographs into research on the pre-state Jewish community in Eretz Israel from the end of the nineteenth century until the foundation of the Jewish state in 1948. By focusing on dress, and drawing on visual culture and fashion studies, the article highlights the role of the individual in nation building and foregrounds the influence of various migrant groups in the emergence of a national project. While scholarship has largely ignored the role of dress, and especially male dress, in pre-state settings, the article takes the example of Eretz Israel to show how examining dress in Zionist photographs sheds light on the experimental and transnational character in search of a new Hebrew culture. By examining three photographs of socialist Zionist groups of the second Aliyah, the article shows how male Zionist settlers integrated transnational dressing habits and fantasies about their imagined homeland. They created a new way of dressing as an expression of political agendas that were interconnected with the reinvention of a new image of the male Jew. Looking beyond the case study of Eretz Israel, the article stresses the broader relevance of dress in the negotiations and power struggles at the micro level of a pre-state community and the emergence of national clothing ideals. It concludes by outlining ways of refining the methodological approach, and suggesting future research avenues at the intersection of fashion studies and nation building by shifting the focus towards case studies prior to the existence of national fashion systems.

scholarly journals Gastronomy, Tourism, and the Soft Power of Malaysia

SAGE Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401880921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanafi Hussin
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
Environment Recognition ◽  
Insight Into

This review article examines the link between tourism and soft power in view of five (four proposed by Ooi) interlinked ways (approaches). It also looks whether Malaysia (as a case study) by using the soft power approaches has achieved the desired outcomes or not. The article found that Ooi’s approach is adequate to analyze a country’s tourism policy, strategies, tourists’ perceptions, and the outcomes of tourism. However, it has ignored the independent role of gastronomy, the business-enabling environment, recognition of the cultural and natural sites as world heritage, and methodological approach to address negative stereotypes against other nationalities. The article also maintains that Malaysia has efficiently used the soft power approach and maximally received benefits from it without the use of coercive powers. This research offers insight into different power tools applied in a variety of contexts which shape the image of the country.

The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 381-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social Scientific

This article reviews classic and contemporary case study research in law and social science. Taking as its starting point that legal scholars engaged in case studies generally have a set of questions distinct from those using other research approaches, the essay offers a detailed discussion of three primary contributions of case studies in legal scholarship: theory building, concept formation, and processes/mechanisms. The essay describes the role of case studies in social scientific work and their express value to legal scholars, and offers specific descriptions from classic and contemporary works.

scholarly journals Combining the Knowledge Appropriation Model and epistemic networks to understand co-creation and adoption of learning designs using log data

2020 ◽  
pp. 190-205
Author(s):  
María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana ◽  
Luis P. Prieto ◽  
Tobias Ley ◽  
Denis Gillet ◽  
Ton De Jong
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Log Data ◽  
Knowledge Appropriation

Social practices are well-known mediators in the adoption of educational innovations during professional learning, as postulated by the Knowledge Appropriation Model (KAM). However, understanding how teachers adopt new pedagogical approaches at scale is often difficult due to the lack of evidence available about their daily practices. In that sense, log data from online authoring and learning tools offer the possibility of better understanding the creation process of a learning design that reifies an educational innovation.  This paper explores how statistical models and Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) can help us understand large-scale patterns in the co-creation and adoption of educational innovations, using KAM as a theoretical framework to analyse log data. More concretely, this paper presents a case study on Go-Lab, an initiative to promote inquiry-based learning at school. Its authoring and learning tool -Graasp- gives us a unique opportunity to track, not only the (co)creation of learning designs, but also their potential implementation in the classroom. The case study uses the aforementioned methodological approach to analyse the role of large-scale support initiatives in the co-creation and adoption of learning designs.

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