105 research outputs found
Developing Absorptive Capacity Theory for Public Service Organizations:Emerging UK Empirical Evidence
A strong public policy focus on high performance means that utilizing management knowledge effectively is at a premium for UK public service organizations. This study empirically examined two English public agencies to explore the inter-sectoral transfer of a strategic management model originally developed in the private sector â absorptive capacity â which is one way of conceptualizing an organizational competence in such knowledge mobilization. Two theoretical contributions are made. First, a new absorptive capacity framework for public service organizations is developed which recognizes the participation of public agency project teams during an innovation process proceeding over time with phases of co-creation, testing, metamorphosis and diffusion. Second, our novel framework modifies an early influential model of absorptive capacity. Counter to this model, we argue that realized absorptive capacity requires agency from skilled and embedded actors to turn âcurbing routinesâ into âenabling routinesâ in all four stages. Project (middle) managers have flexibility in their roles to seize episodic moments of opportunity to innovate and achieve service delivery goals, and to build absorptive capacity capability. Absorptive capacity capability develops organically over time. Future research directions are discussed
An Examination of Celtic Craft and the Creative Consciousness as a Contribution to Marketing Creativity
Examination of the Celtic craft sector identifies a creative form of marketing which has its foundations in imagination, intuition and innovation, rather than the linear prescriptions of formal marketing frameworks and language which still dominate contemporary marketing management texts. The creative marketing competencies identified in the sector are also grounded within a wider creative marketing paradigm where experimental forms of marketing are encouraged, postmodern ideals are embraced and artistic philosophy and practice encouraged. The controlled Saxon influenced Marketing Establishment is challenged by the freer, more creative fringe of Celtic marketing as the avant garde
A liquid profession: An ecological approach to the theory and knowledge that underpin the practice of public relations
This is a conceptual essay that explores the concept of knowledge as it relates to PR. It suggests an ecological knowledge architecture as a lens through which to understand the theories and concepts that support practice. It does so by drawing on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and his reflections on liquid modernity to inform and shape thinking and uses it as a thread to help synthesise scholarship from PR literature, knowledge and career scholarship and debates around professionalisation. It argues that by sub-dividing knowledge into explanatory, interventionist and practice principles greater clarity can be given to the know-how (functional skills) and know-that (theoretical knowledge) of PR. Additionally, by overlaying a postmodernist and liquid concept to this tripartite division of knowledge PR can be well placed to take advantage of the change in careers and capabilities necessary for work in the twenty-first century
The impact of work-related values and work control on the career satisfaction of female freelancers
Using the job demands-resources theory incorporating a job-crafting perspective to develop a set of hypotheses, this study contributes to the self-employment and freelancing literature by examining whether female freelancers use their agency to mobilize their personal resources (i.e. work-related values) to craft their work resources (i.e. workâcontrol indicators: work autonomy and time-spatial flexibility) to achieve more career satisfaction. Our structural partial least squares model (Nâ=â203) shows that the work-related value âintrinsically rewarding workâ prompts two motivational processes that affect career satisfaction: one running directly to âcareer satisfactionâ and one through âwork autonomyâ. Although the value âworkâlife balanceâ is positively associated with greater âtime-spatial flexibilityâ, this does not affect career satisfaction. Moreover, we find negative associations between the value âfinancial securityâ, on the one hand, and the two work resources, on the other hand. Hence, the value financial security is negatively related to work autonomy towards career satisfaction. We conclude that female freelancersâ multiple, oftentimes blended values compete with one another, implying that achieving meaningful work, workâlife balance and financial independence simultaneously is difficult in female freelancersâ careers. We discuss the studyâs implications for future research and advocate labourâmarket stakeholders (e.g. freelancers, freelancersâ networks, career coaches, temporary work agencies, unions, local and national governments, educational institutions and public and private organizations) to partner in developing value-based career strategies and policies that account for less linear career paths in increasingly flexible and individualized markets and truly support (female) workers developing portfolios that better match with their multiple work-related values on a long-term basis
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Contrasting assigned expatriates and self-initiated expatriates: a review of extant research and a future research agenda
The effects of having more than one good reputation on distributor investments in the film industry
Reputations of organizations and its individual members are valuable resources that help new organizations to get access to investment capital. Reputations, however, can have different dimensions. In this paper, we argue that an individualâs reputation along a particular dimension will have a positive effect on the behavior of investors when it is role congruent. In addition, we argue that also scoring favorably on the role-incongruent dimension at the same timeâor, in other words, engaging in reputational category spanningâwill weaken the positive effect of the role-congruent reputation. Our empirical setting is the film industry where we study the effect of the two main dimensions of reputation in cultural industries, artistic and commercial, of both directors and producers on the size of the investment by distributors. In this study, artistic reputation is based on professional criticsâ reviews and commercial reputation on box office performance of the films in which individuals were involved in the past. We find that the commercial reputation of a film producer based on past box office performance has a positive effect on the size of the investment by film distributors. In addition, we find that directors who at the same time combine both a favorable commercial as well as an artistic reputation actually receive a lower investment from film distributors
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Why do they go? Individual and corporate perspectives on the factors influencing the decision to accept an international assignment
This article explores the motives of individuals to accept international
assignments. It uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research
methods to further our understanding of how important a variety of items are in
the decision to work abroad. Employing a mutual dependency perspective it
contrasts individual motives and organizational perspectives. Organizations
significantly underestimate the importance of career, work/life balance and
development considerations and overestimate the financial imperative and some
family motives. The analysis showed that for individuals some of these factors
significantly relate to outcome variables in terms of the perceived career
capital accrued from assignments. The study presents a more nuanced picture of
influence factors on the decision to go and advocates the use of context-
sensitive, multiple perspectives. Practical implications for multinational
organizations are discussed
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