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The Performance Implications of Fit Among Environment, Strategy, Structure, Control System and Social Performance
Purpose â The paper examined concept of corporate performance. The paper seeks to examine
the impact of corporate social performance on the relationship among business environment,
strategy, organization, and control system and corporate performance.
Design/methodology/approach â The paper is based on a synthesis of the existing literatures in
strategic management and accounting filed.
Findings â The paper finds that corporate social performance defined as stakeholder relationship
become one important dimension of the strategic behaviors that an organization can set to
improve corporate performance.
Research implication â the contextual variables as discussed in strategic management and
accounting domain will be contingent upon strategic behaviors, which are behaviors of members
in an organization.
Originality/value â The paper integrates the contextual variables including business
environment, strategy, organization structure, and control system with corporate performance by
using corporate social performance as moderating variable by means of a recent literatures study
from strategic management and accounting field.
Keywords Contextual variable, strategic behavior, corporate social performance, corporate
performanc
An Integrative Framework for Contextual Factors Affecting Information Technology Implementation
While previous research has provided a great deal of information on individual factors that play a role in IT implementation success, a gap in the research exists when it comes to formulating a holistic view of overall environmental factors. This paper conducts a literature review and expands Weillâs conversion effectiveness model to develop a framework integrating the various enterprise-level contextual factors affecting IT implementation. It also discusses relationships among contextual factors and cross-border issues in the global outsourcing environment. This holistic interpretation of individual factors is an initial step toward understanding the complexities of corporate environments and their effects on IT implementation success. The framework can provide companies with a useful tool to evaluate their current environment, determine its strengths and weaknesses, and assess how these will affect IT implementation
The Determinants of the Relationship of Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance: Conceptual Framework
The objective of this paper is to investigate relationship between CSP and CFP using
contingency perspective derived from the strategic management domain. The investigation
will be done using lens of slack resource and good management theory. This study is
expected to provide a new insight on the link between corporate social performance and
corporate financial performance using contingency perspective as suggested in the strategic
management and accounting literature, an area has not been examined in the prior studies.
The result of this study can resolve the existing conflict in the literatures by developing an
integrated model of the link between CSP and CFP and the notion of corporate performance
which, in strategic management, is highly affected by four factors: business environment,
strategy, organization structure, and control system. The model will explain in what
condition the relationship of CSP and CFP is valid
Keywords:
Corporate social performance, corporate financial performance, slack resource theory, good
management theory, contingency theory, and moderating effect
Contextual analysis of health care at discharge in leprosy: an integrative review
Objective: To analyze contextual relations of health care in the discharge of leprosy.
Method: An analytical, reflexive study based on the theoretical framework of context analysis, elaborated through an integrative review of literature in the databases SCOPUS, PUBMED, LILACS, SCIELO and BDENF, with uncontrolled descriptors
Leprosy and Patient Discharge, obtaining 14 publications.
Results: The immediate context addresses health care at discharge in leprosy; the
specific context treats leprosy as a public health problem; the symbolic conceptions and marks involving leprosy are encompassed by the general context; and in the metacontext are described the health programs and policies that subsidize the care of
leprosy patients.
Conclusion: The contextual elements emphasize the need to guarantee universal coverage of cases of leprosy, from diagnosis to the post-discharge, reinforcing leprosy
as a public health problem. Despitehe limitations of the bibliographic studies, these have relevance for the health area
Achieving change in primary careâcauses of the evidence to practice gap : systematic reviews of reviews
Acknowledgements The Evidence to Practice Project (SPCR FR4 project number: 122) is funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR). KD is part-funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Research and Care West Midlands and by a Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship (KMRF-2014-03-002) from the NIHR. This paper presents independent research funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. Funding This study is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Are CLIL students more motivated?: an analysis of affective factors and their relation to language attainment
This paper addresses the purported belief that Content and Language Integrat-
ed Learning positively infuences studentsâ affective stance. It compares the motivation of
CLIL and non-CLIL learners in seven state schools and one charter school in the province
of Seville, both at Primary (n=194) and Compulsory Secondary Education (n=158) level.
Affective aspects pertaining to motivation and anxiety are grouped around four clusters of
factors: (i) desire to work and self-esteem (containing 10 items); (ii) anxiety in the face of
exams (with a negative-inhibitory content and made up of 9 elements); (iii) lack of interest
in studying (comprising 9 items); and (iv) realistic personal self-demand (consisting of 7 el-
ements). The interaction of motivation and language attainment (considering use of English,
vocabulary, listening, speaking, and reading) is also measured in order to confrm or refute
prior fndings which tend to assign higher levels of motivation to CLIL strands.
Keywords: CLIL, motivation and language attainment.Este artĂculo aborda la creencia de que el Aprendizaje Integrado de Conteni-
dos y Lengua tiene una infuencia positiva sobre la situaciĂłn afectiva del alumnado. En este
trabajo se compara la motivaciĂłn de estudiantes que cursan programas bilingĂŒes âAICLEâ
frente a los que no. La muestra pertenece a siete colegios pĂșblicos de la provincia de Sevilla
en niveles de EducaciĂłn Primaria (n=194) y Secundaria Obligatoria (n=158). Los factores
afectivos relacionados con la motivaciĂłn y la ansiedad se han agrupado en cuatro apartados:
(i) el deseo de trabajar y la autoestima (con 10 Ătems); (ii) la ansiedad frente a los exĂĄmenes
(con un efecto negativo sobre el aprendizaje de contenido y que cuenta con 9 Ătems); (iii)
falta de interĂ©s por el estudio (con 9 Ătems); y (iv) auto-exigencia personal (con 7 Ătems).
También se ha analizado la interacción entre la motivación y los resultados de aprendizaje
lingĂŒĂstico (considerando uso del inglĂ©s, vocabulario, destrezas de comprensiĂłn y expresiĂłn
oral y lectura) con el objetivo de confrmar o refutar resultados de investigaciones previas
que parecen asignar niveles altos de motivaciĂłn asociados al AICLE
Synthesizing diverse evidence: the use of primary qualitative data analysis methods and logic models in public health reviews
Objectives: The nature of public health evidence presents challenges for conventional systematic review processes, with increasing recognition of the need to include a broader range of work including observational studies and qualitative research, yet with methods to combine diverse sources remaining underdeveloped. The objective of this paper is to report the application of a new approach for review of evidence in the public health sphere. The method enables a diverse range of evidence types to be synthesized in order to examine potential relationships between a public health environment and outcomes.
Study design: The study drew on previous work by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on conceptual frameworks. It applied and further extended this work to the synthesis of evidence relating to one particular public health area: the enhancement of employee mental well-being in the workplace.
Methods: The approach utilized thematic analysis techniques from primary research, together with conceptual modelling, to explore potential relationships between factors and outcomes.
Results: The method enabled a logic framework to be built from a diverse document set that illustrates how elements and associations between elements may impact on the well-being of employees.
Conclusions: Whilst recognizing potential criticisms of the approach, it is suggested that logic models can be a useful way of examining the complexity of relationships between factors and outcomes in public health, and of highlighting potential areas for interventions and further research. The use of techniques from primary qualitative research may also be helpful in synthesizing diverse document types. (C) 2010 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Science for Place-based Socioecological Management: Lessons from the Maya Forest (Chiapas and Petén)
The role humans should play in conservation is a pervasive issue of debate in environmental thinking. Two long-established poles of this debate can be identified on a preservation-sustainable use continuum. At one extreme are use bans and natural science-based, top-down management for preservation. At the other extreme is community-based, multidisciplinary management for sustainable resource use and livelihoods. In this paper, we discuss and illustrate how these two strategies have competed and conflicted in conservation initiatives in the Maya forest (MF) of the Middle Usumacinta River watershed (Guatemala and Mexico). We further argue that both extremes have produced unconvincing results in terms of the regionâs sustainability. An alternative consists of sustainability initiatives based on place-based and integrated-knowledge approaches. These approaches imply a flexible combination of disciplines and types of knowledge in the context of nature-human interactions occurring in a place. They can be operationalized within the framework of sustainability science in three steps: 1) characterize the contextual circumstances that are most relevant for sustainability in a place; 2) identify the disciplines and knowledge(s) that need to be combined to appropriately address these contextual circumstances; and 3) decide how these disciplines and knowledge can be effectively combined and integrated. Epistemological flexibility in the design of analytic and implementation frameworks is key. Place-based and integrative-knowledge approaches strive to deal with local context and complexity, including that of human individuals and cultures. The success of any sustainability initiative will ultimately depend on its structural coupling with the context in which it is applied
Policies to promote sustainable consumption: framework for a future-oriented evaluation
Governments are today developing policies to promote sustainable consumption, yet policy makers face many uncertainties about policy impacts. These include uncertainties about how policy instruments influence consumption patterns and about the impact of changes in consumption patterns on ecological, social and economic sustainability. An assessment of such impacts must account for the fact that consumer action is interlinked with the dynamic activities of other market players and the path-creating effects of technologies and systems of consumption and provision
The Role of Corporate HR Functions In Multinational Corporations: The Interplay Between Corporate, Regional/National And Plant Level
The HR literature has been abundant in providing typologies of the roles of HR professionals in their organisation. These typologies are largely related to the changing nature of HRM over time, and the context in which empirical work was carried out. In this paper we focus on the context of the increasing internationalisation of firms and how this has an effect upon modern-day typologies of HR roles. We explore these roles by focusing on the way in which HRM practices come about. Especially in a MNC setting of increasing internationalisation of firms the issues of coordination, shared learning and standardisation versus leeway for adapting to the local context (customisation) are prominent. These issues present themselves both at the corporate and regional level and at the national and local (plant) level. On all these levels HR practitioners are active and find themselves amidst the interplay of both (de-)centralisation and standardisation versus customisation processes. This paper thus explores the way in which HR practices come into being and how they are implemented and coordinated. These insights help us understand further the roles of international corporate HR functions that are being identified. Our data is based on 65 interviews, which were held (as part of larger study of HR-function excellence) with HR managers, line managers and senior executives of six multinational companies in eight countries from September to December 2004. This data reveals new classifications of processes by which HR activities are developed, implemented and coordinated, both in terms of who is involved and how these processes are carried out
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