The legitimacy of corporate entrepreneurship: a structured literature review

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is essential for today’s firms and currently a topic of considerable interest within the business community. Although the magnitude of related studies has increased over the last years, research on CE is missing an integrated concept and a research agenda for understanding the dynamics of resource deployment and withdrawal, resulting from legitimacy within the organization. The objective of this study is to examine the determinants influencing the provision and withdrawal of resources in the context of corporate entrepreneurship and identify the underlying strategies for gaining legitimacy. Analyzing more than 30 years of research, we provide a multidimensional framework synthesizing the state-of-the-art of resource allocation and withdrawal in CE. Our findings suggest that CE entities undertaking legitimation efforts, to be perceived as a meaningful and trustworthy organizational element and receive active and passive support, is very important. Based on the structured literature review, we propose a legitimacy perspective on the resource dynamics in CE settings, to further advance our understanding of resource deployment and withdrawal within organizations.

Lost in Translation? Class Cleavage Roots and Left Electoral Mobilization in Western Europe

I investigate whether the strength of the class cleavage in Western Europe still “translates” into the electoral mobilization of the left. This research question is addressed through comparative longitudinal analysis in nineteen Western European countries after World War II. In particular, the impact of class cleavage is investigated by disentangling its socio-structural (working-class features) and organizational (corporate and partisan) components, thus accounting for its multidimensional nature. Data show that both components have a significant impact in Western Europe after 1945. However, while the socio-structural element is still nowadays a substantial predictor of left electoral mobilization, the impact of the organizational element has decreased over time and has become irrelevant in the last twenty-five years. Therefore, the class cleavage is not entirely lost in translation, but left electoral mobilization is no longer dependent upon the organizational features of trade unions and political parties that originally emerged to represent working-class interests.

A Study Of Certified Diabetes Educators: A Descriptive Exploration Of The Delivery Of Diabetes Self Management Support In Community Based Settings In Ontartio

There has been a recent shift in diabetes care from hospitals to community settings. This exploratory descriptive study used a convenience sample (n=33) recruited from the Canadian Diabetes Association Educator Sections, in Ontario, to examine the extent to which certified diabetes educators (CDEs) perceive the delivery of diabetes self management support (DSMS), in community settings and the supports and barriers that influence DSMS delivery. Overall, CDEs reported delivering DSMS at a level that reflected consistent implementation at the team level, but lacked system wide consistency. The patient support element most consistently delivered was patient involvement in decisions; the organizational element most frequently endorsed was multidisciplinary teams. Patient related factors were the most frequently reported barriers; the most frequently reported support was a multidisciplinary team approach. This is the first study to examine DSMS delivery in community settings, thus these findings serve as a baseline for future comparison.

A Study Of Certified Diabetes Educators: A Descriptive Exploration Of The Delivery Of Diabetes Self Management Support In Community Based Settings In Ontartio

There has been a recent shift in diabetes care from hospitals to community settings. This exploratory descriptive study used a convenience sample (n=33) recruited from the Canadian Diabetes Association Educator Sections, in Ontario, to examine the extent to which certified diabetes educators (CDEs) perceive the delivery of diabetes self management support (DSMS), in community settings and the supports and barriers that influence DSMS delivery. Overall, CDEs reported delivering DSMS at a level that reflected consistent implementation at the team level, but lacked system wide consistency. The patient support element most consistently delivered was patient involvement in decisions; the organizational element most frequently endorsed was multidisciplinary teams. Patient related factors were the most frequently reported barriers; the most frequently reported support was a multidisciplinary team approach. This is the first study to examine DSMS delivery in community settings, thus these findings serve as a baseline for future comparison.

A Structural Equation Modelling Evaluation of Antecedents and Interconnections of Call Centre Agents’ Intention to Quit

Call centers play a significant role in the operational dynamics of different types of businesses. This is especially the case because a call center agent’s demeanor can impair or engender customer satisfaction, which has ramifications for business patronage. Unfortunately, the pressures associated with the role of the call center agent have made staff attrition a norm in the industry. While this does not augur well for the call center or the organizations that they serve, the role of possible antecedents in the equation of staff attrition in South African call centers remains largely unexplored. Using a structural equation modeling approach, this study examined the interconnections between customer orientation, knowledge management, job satisfaction, and employees’ intention to quit. Additionally, the mediating influence of job satisfaction on the association between customer orientation and knowledge management of the intention to quit is examined. This study found significant relationships between knowledge management, customer orientation, and job satisfaction and the dependent variable (intention to quit). In addition, this study establishes that the extent to which job satisfaction may mediate the influence on the intention to quit hinges on the organizational element considered. Two factors limit the extent to which the findings from this study can be generalized. First, this study focused on the call center setting in South Africa. Second, convenience sampling was used in this study. This study points to critical operational practices that call center managers can embrace toward enhancing job satisfaction and reducing intention to quit propensity. Using structural equation analysis, we contend that call centers in the South African setting would effectively address staff attrition if appropriate organizational practices are endorsed toward ensuring employee job satisfaction.

DESIGNING OF MODULAR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAMME IN COMPETENCE-BASED MODEL

Competence based education is widely discussed for the development of vocational and professional schools. The main goal of professional training is to prepare students for successful integration in professional and social life. Competence approach is considered to have a good potential to transform and improve professional study process. The aim of this paper is to study designing of competence based professional curriculum in regard to making cuuriculum structure, models and principles. Theoretical study of the competence based approach in education, planning and creating of modular and result -oriented course programmes was made. The aims, strategies, factors, and stages for contemporary learning programme are investigated. Then the concepts and structures are analysed. The results of the research show that designing competence-based curriculum is complicated, creative and innovative process. There are a lot of factors which should be taken into consideration,such as a competence as an organizational element of the curriculum.National education and professional standards make the basis to define the aims and variety of competences. Constructural, human and holistic education theories determine main principles and content of the curriculum.

Suburban growth in Adelaide, South Australia, 1850–1930: speculation and economic opportunity

ABSTRACTSuburbs are significant to any understanding of Australian urbanization as they have been the dominant organizational element in the morphology of metropolitan areas. A case-study of suburban growth in Adelaide, South Australia, in the period from 1850 to 1930 suggests that dominant accounts of Australian suburbs of the era, as places of tranquillity, leisure, home and family, whose growth was driven by aspiration and social mobility, are largely illusory. Suburban growth was instead driven by speculation and economic opportunity. Accounts of commercial, recreational and industrial activity in Adelaide's suburban municipalities of the time suggests economically and socially diverse communities. Whereas the desire for the quarter or half acre block in the suburbs was most often due to its productive potential rather than bourgeois aspirations for seclusion and semi-rural tranquillity.

(A282) Comparison of Safety Index in Iranian Hospitals

IntroductionHospitals are highly complex facilities that play a key role in the medical response to disasters. However, they are susceptible to the impact of disasters with respect to their structural, non-structural and functional elements. Many hospitals have collapsed or been damaged and rendered nonfunctional as a consequence of disasters. The resilience of a hospital along with the capability of effective medical response to disasters is a key part of a community based disaster plan.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to evaluate and compare hospitals in Iran with respect to safety.MethodsThis study was performed as a survey in four hospitals in Iran. The Hospital Safety Index package from WHO was used as an evaluation tool. The evaluation team consisted of: a PhD in structural engineering, an architect with a Master's degree, a specialist in electrical and mechanical maintenance, a medical doctor, a specialist in disaster management, and an expert in health care planning. The hospitals were evaluated in three elements; structural, non-structural, and organizational. The hospital safety calculator was used.ResultsThe most important hazard for these hospitals was earthquakes. The structural safety at three hospitals was inadequate or at risk; and consequently needs intervention in a near future. Also, the administrative and organizational element of these hospitals was inadequate or at risk. All hospitals need intervention in the near future due to non-structural safety being inadequate. The overall safety index at one hospital was A (functional); in two hospitals B (at risk); and in one hospital C (inadequate).ConclusionsThe Iranian hospitals which had been assessed were on the whole unsafe. Also, these hospitals do not have a disaster management plan. Implementing a comprehensive disaster plan, including mitigation and a preparedness plan, would most likely enhance the safety of these hospitals.

TECNOLOGIA PRODUTIVA E PRÁXIS DE MERCADO: RESSIGNIFICAÇÕES A PARTIR DE UM CAMPO EMPÍRICODOI: 10.5773/rgsa.v4i1.221

Neste artigo, examinamos em práticas discursivas da ruralidade contemporânea como se dá o enfrentamento dos problemas decorrentes do atual padrão de produção-consumo e seus impactos sobre a concepção de propostas de desenvolvimento. Por meio da discussão articulada ao campo empírico de duas organizações sociais pernambucanas engajadas no desenvolvimento rural, é possível percebermos como a tecnologia produtiva perde seu caráter neutro ou inerentemente progressista e é posta em uma matriz de relações sociais. Evidencia-se uma nova racionalidade que tem a sustentabilidade como elemento reorganizador, de acordo com uma ótica multidimensional e subordinando a técnica aos sujeitos sociais. E problematiza-se, também, o poder de ser consciente numa práxis de mercado ao se estabelecer uma racionalidade distinta na relação produtor-consumidor. A subjetividade política envolvida na incorporação da dimensão ideológica ao âmbito produtivo e de consumo contribui na busca de um marco em que possam ser consideradas conjuntamente as atividades de produção e consumo que configuram uma dimensão da cidadania. Palavras-chave: produção, consumo, sustentabilidade, desenvolvimento, Teoria do Discurso. Abstract In this paper, we examine in discursive practices of contemporary rurality how problems related to current production-consumption patterns are confronted, and their impacts on the conception of development proposals. Through a discussion articulated to the empirical field of two social organizations in Pernambuco (Brazil), concerned with rural development, we can perceive how productive technology looses its neutral and inherently progressive character and is placed in a social relations matrix. A new rationality is evidenced, which has sustainability as its re-organizational element in a multidimensional outlook and subordinating technique to the social subjects. We can still problematize the power of being conscious in market praxis as we establish a distinct rationality in producer-consumer relationship. The political subjectivity involved within the incorporation of ideological dimension to production-consumption scope contributes to the search of a frontier where activities of production and consumption configured through a citizenship dimension can be considered conjunctively. Keywords:production, consumption, sustainability, development, Discourse Theory