81 research outputs found

    Women and leadership: the case of women managers in Lebanon

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    La present tesi doctoral pretén examinar alguns dels reptes que continuen dificultant l'avanç de les dones cap a rols de lideratge, per què algunes dones no accepten tenir una cap dona i si les subordinades dones sempre donen suport a la seva cap. Així, aquesta tesi consta de tres articles de recerca empirica i un article de revisió bibliomètrica, que poden proporcionar un conjunt de treballs coherents relacionats amb les dones gestores libaneses. La revisió bibliompetrica investiga l'estat de la diversitat de gènere a les organitzacions i les seves implicacions en el rendiment dels subordinats. Amb aquesta finalitat, hem analitzat nombrosos treballs de recerca i hem identificat les barreres que poden impedir la inclusió de dones en els consells d'administració de les empreses, així com els impulsors que podrien millorar la representació de les dones als consells d'administració. També vam examinar alguns dels factors que influeixen en la satisfacció dels subordinats, com ara la satisfacció amb el seu lider, el rendiment del seu lifer i el seu propi rendiment. Pel que fa als tres articles de recerca empírica, el seu objectiu era examinar alguns dels reptes que continuen dificultant l'avenç de les dones libaneses a rols de lideratge, explorar algunes estratègies de vida laboral i personal que poden implementar els homes i les dones liders libaneses per equilibrar el seu treball i les activitats de treball i promoure els seus rols com a liders, així com investigar els reptes i les oportunitats de les empresàries libaneses.La presente tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo examinar algunos de los desafios que continúan obstaculizando el avance de las mujeres a roles de liderazgo, por qué algunas mujeres no aceptan tener una jefa y si las subordinadas siempre apoyan a su jefa. Por lo tanto, esta tesis consta de tres artículos de investigación empírica y un artículo de revisión bibliométrica, que pueden proporcionar un cuerpo de trabajo coherente relacionado con las mujeres directivas libanesas. La revisión bibliométrica investiga el estado de la diversidad de género en las organizaciones y sus implicaciones en el desempeño de los subordinados. Con este propósito, analizamos numerosos trabajos de investigación e identificamos las barreras que pueden impedir la inclusión de mujeres en los directorios corporativos, así como los impulsores que podrían mejorar la representación de las mujeres en los directorios. También examinamos algunos de los factores que influyen en la satisfacción de los subordinados, incluida la satisfacción con su líder, el desempeño del líder y su propio desempeño. En cuanto a los tres artículos de investigación empíricos, su objetivo era examinar algunos de los desafios que continúan obstaculizando el avance de las mujeres libanesas a roles de liderazgo, explorar algunas estrategias de trabajo y vida que pueden implementar los líderes libaneses hombres y mujeres para equilibrar su trabajo y las actividades laborales y promover sus roles como líderes, así como investigar los desafios y oportunidades de las mujeres empresarias libanesas.The present PhD thesis aims to examine some of the challenges that continue to hinder women advancement to leadership roles, why some women do not accept having a female boss and whether female subordinates are always supportive of their female boss. Thus, this thesis consists of three empirical research articles and one bibliometric review article, which can provide a coherent body of work related to Lebanese female managers. The bibliometric review investigates the status of gender diversity in organizations and its implications to subordinates' performance. With this purpose, we analyzed numerous research papers and identified the barriers that can impede the inclusion of women on corporate boards of directors, as well as the drivers that might improve females' representation on boards. We also examined some of the factors that influence subordinates' satisfaction including satisfaction with their leader, their leader's performance, and their own performance. As for the three empirical research articles, their aim was to examine some of the challenges that continue to hinder Lebanese women advancement to leadership roles, explore some work-life strategies that can be implemented by Lebanese men and women leaders to balance their work and non-work activities and promote their roles as leaders, as well as investigate Lebanese female entrepreneurs' challenges and opportunities

    Sustainable Value Co-Creation in Welfare Service Ecosystems : Transforming temporary collaboration projects into permanent resource integration

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    The aim of this paper is to discuss the unexploited forces of user-orientation and shared responsibility to promote sustainable value co-creation during service innovation projects in welfare service ecosystems. The framework is based on the theoretical field of public service logic (PSL) and our thesis is that service innovation seriously requires a user-oriented approach, and that such an approach enables resource integration based on the service-user’s needs and lifeworld. In our findings, we identify prerequisites and opportunities of collaborative service innovation projects in order to transform these projects into sustainable resource integration once they have ended

    XVII международная конференция "Российские регионы в фокусе перемен" : сборник докладов

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    В сборник вошли материалы докладов, представленных на тематических секциях в рамках цикла специальных мероприятий XVII Международной конференции «Российские регионы в фокусе перемен», которая состоялась в Екатеринбурге 17 - 19 ноября 2022 г. Организаторы конференции: Институт экономики и управления УрФУ, Уральский федеральный университет совместно с Аналитический центром «Эксперт» и журналом «Эксперт-Урал». Сборник подготовлен Институтом экономики и управления Уральского федерального университета имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина. Адресован исследователям, студентам, магистрантам и аспирантам

    Regional integration and economic growth: implications of regional integration for the economic development in Eurasia

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    This study advances the knowledge on regional integration and the role of integration in countries’ economic performance and development. It introduces a framework for conceptualizing the integration-growth nexus and discusses the welfare and development effects of integration. Unlike prior research, this study addresses the complex nature of regional integration and applies a multidimensional approach to measuring its growth and developmentrelated implications. Application of the concept of the depth and breadth of integration enables the analysis of the dynamic nature of regional cooperation. This thesis also introduces a special framework that enables a better understanding of integration effects on growth and development. In particular, it analyses the effects of regional integration together with the effects of alternative trade liberalization strategies. In other words, the impact of integration is tested against the effects that could result from the application of a unilateral tariff reduction. The research also considers the potential implications of combining the two liberalization strategies and explores the resulting complementarity effects. Such an approach allows the identification of the most and the least beneficial growth and development regional strategies and to design evidence-based policy recommendations. Evaluating the integration-growth nexus on the example of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the study suggests that to target a better economic performance, the EAEU countries should further develop regional cooperation and increase the convergence across policy areas. Without deepening regional integration across sectors, the EAEU members would not be able to fully benefit from regional cooperation as, in its current form, it remains a purely tradefacilitating instrument. The research also highlights that a combination of two trade liberalization strategies (regional integration and unilateral trade liberalization) could create a complementary effect for the EAEU countries and mitigate the shortcomings of regional integration. When it comes to the development effects, the study suggests that current regional arrangements have a very limited impact on the welfare level of the EAEU countries. To implement the robustness check of the research findings based the EAEU data, the study applies a panel data analysis to other integration initiatives with a comparable integration level. This approach improves the validity of the research outcomes and helps to develop both general and region-specific conclusions

    Microservice security: a systematic literature review

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    International audienceMicroservices is an emerging paradigm for developing distributed systems. With their widespread adoption, more and more work investigated the relation between microservices and security. Alas, the literature on this subject does not form a well-defined corpus : it is spread over many venues and composed of contributions mainly addressing specific scenarios or needs. In this work, we conduct a systematic review of the field, gathering 290 relevant publications—at the time of writing, the largest curated dataset on the topic. We analyse our dataset along two lines: (a) quantitatively, through publication metadata, which allows us to chart publication outlets, communities, approaches, and tackled issues; (b) qualitatively, through 20 research questions used to provide an aggregated overview of the literature and to spot gaps left open. We summarise our analyses in the conclusion in the form of a call for action to address the main open challenges

    The extent of Kuwaiti Islamic banks restrict the use of Islamic financing tools in their financial operations: a field study

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    This research aims to identify the extent to of Kuwaiti Islamic banks adhere to the use of Islamic financing tools in their financial operations. The study population consists of all (5) banks listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. As for the study sample, (100) respondents were selected from Financial managers, accountants, and workers in finance and investment departments work in these banks. The questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting primary data. The results showed that Kuwaiti Islamic banks adhere to the use of Islamic financing tools represented in Murabaha, Musharaka and Mudaraba in their financial operations to a high degree. The study recommended that Kuwaiti Islamic banks should be encouraged to play a more role in Murabaha operations and find appropriate solutions to technical obstacles and culture-related procedures that prevent the provision of Islamic financing through Murabaha

    A critical examination of theorising in the study of the behavioural and social aspects of HIV and AIDS in South Africa

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    Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2022.Despite its widespread influence on the social and health sciences, Psychology is marked by debates surrounding its relevance, usefulness and status as a scientific discipline. While various corrective measures have been proposed, most notably the application of more rigorous methodological and empirical practices, the value of paying closer attention to theorising and the meta-theoretical structure of psychological science are often overlooked. When theory, research and practice exist in a synergistic relationship, theory can serve various generative functions. However, theorising that occurs in isolation from research and practice, and theory use which is unreflective and uncritical, produces adverse consequences which may ultimately lead to the stagnation of a scientific discipline. The lack of explicit and consistent theory use has been found to be a common problem in the social sciences, including in Social and Health Psychology. Since the outbreak of HIV in 1981, psychological theories have played an important role in the social and behavioural study of the disease. While great strides have been made in developing a robust and practically useful social and behavioural study of HIV and AIDS, the disease still poses unique and challenging questions to social scientists. Moreover, there is frustration with the limited success of HIV prevention programmes. Given the insufficient attention to theorising, this study explores the conceptual development of the socio-behavioural study of HIV and the paradigms that have played a role in how social scientists understand HIV and AIDS in South Africa. It was guided by three aims: a.) To describe the historical development of research focus areas in the socio-behavioural study of HIV and AIDS; b.) To identify and describe the use and visibility of theory in the academic literature; c.) To conduct a meta-theoretical analysis of the most prominent paradigms in the literature. Critical Realism was used as the study’s theoretical point of departure. The study comprised four phases. The first phase entailed the systematic search for peer-reviewed articles that pertained to the social and behavioural study of HIV in South Africa from 1982 to 2020. Phase two involved the thematic analysis of research themes. Phase three entailed the analysis of theory visibility, the extent to which theory testing and building occurred, and the identification of theories and paradigms in the literature. Phase four involved the meta-theoretical analysis of the three most prominent paradigms in the literature: Socio-Behaviourism, Critical Theory and the Socio-Ecological and Systems paradigm. A total of 3848 relevant papers were identified and thematically analysed to gain a contextual and historical understanding of the trends in research themes over time. Research on HIV prevention was the most common; however, research on living with HIV and testing and treatment started to increase in visibility from the late 2000s. A total of 1899 papers (49.9%) demonstrated the explicit or implicit use of theory. Theory visibility remained relatively stable over time. Articles about HIV testing and treatment demonstrated particularly low theory visibility. Theory building, and in particular theory testing, were found to be low. Articles which demonstrated the explicit use and direct naming of theories tended to make greater theoretical contributions. The misapplication of theory was evident, including the vague naming, oversimplified use of theories, and the meta-theoretically unreflective use of theoretical concepts. The study demonstrates the competition of opposing ideas and perspectives in the socio-behavioural study of HIV. The field developed from being primarily a psychological (specifically, Socio-Behavioural) research programme to increasingly becoming more socio-ecological and critical. Critical Theory and the Socio-Ecological and Systems paradigm became more prominent in the literature from the early 2000s, eventually overtaking Socio-Behaviourism by the late 2010s. The meta-theoretical analysis of Socio-Behaviourism, Critical Theory and the Socio-Ecological and Systems paradigm yielded important insights for the study of HIV and social and health psychology in general. Most notably, the analysis revealed important shortcomings in each paradigm and the degenerative consequences of meta-theoretically unreflective theory use. Several recommendations for research and practice are made, most notably that theories should be referred to explicitly and should be used in a way that corresponds with what they truly propose and in line with the proposed research topic, question and methodology. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to engage with theories sceptically and expand their knowledge of the theories that might be appropriate to their disciplines.PsychologyPhD (Psychology)Unrestricte

    Reportes de sostenibilidad en latino américa: una exploración a través del análisis de redes

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    La información social y ambiental se ha transformado en una práctica generalizada entre las grandes organizaciones a nivel internacional. Desde la perspectiva empresarial, se ha evidenciado diversas estrategias de inclusión de los aspectos sociales y/o ambientales. Algunas se orientan a desarrollar una participación activa con sus principales stakeholders, otras persiguen el objetivo de contribuir con la reducción de los contaminantes o maximizar la eco-eficiencia; mientras otras entidades desean participar activamente en el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible planteados por las Naciones Unidas. En general, los aspectos ambientales han sido, habitualmente, más atendidos que los relacionados con la dimensión social de la sostenibilidad. Bajo este marco, el objetivo de la tesis es profundizar en el conocimiento sobre información social y ambiental a través de la exploración de la evolución del campo de investigación en reportes de sostenibilidad, del uso de los marcos elaborados por la Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) y de la práctica evidenciada por organizaciones de Latino América. En este sentido, la tesis se estructura en cuatro capítulos: El primero analiza, para el periodo 2000-2019, la evolución del campo de investigación en reportes de sostenibilidad con la intención de identificar los principales actores, los temas sobre los que se han centrado los análisis, así como examinar tendencias, relaciones e inconsistencias. Por su parte, el segundo capítulo evalúa, desde la perspectiva de la teoría institucional, si las Guías GRI se han configurado en un mecanismo de isomorfismo normativo entre los países que disponen de industrias con organizaciones que emiten reportes de sostenibilidad. El tercer capítulo explora el nivel de comparabilidad de los aspectos ambientales que son de preocupación para las organizaciones de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Perú mediante la identificación de redes ambientales isomórficas. Por último, el cuarto capítulo examina los elementos relacionados con la dimensión social incorporados en los reportes de sostenibilidad de organizaciones de Argentina, Chile y Perú.<br /

    (In)formal perceptions and arguments on tourism governance multifaceted concept

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    A brief exploratory approach to (in)formal perceptions and arguments on tourism governance multifaceted concep
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