Review of Practical Implications in Authentic Leadership Studies

Copyright © 2016 The Author(s). Having good leader(s) is a real asset for organizations to sustain a competitive advantage and so be one step further from their competitors. Therefore, contemporary leadership studies are hot topic for academicians as well as practitioners. Emphasizing strategic importance of human resources, this study tries to analyze recent leadership studies in terms of leaders’ behavior in particular authentic leaders’ behavior. Authors aim to evaluate effects of authentic leaders’ behavior on employees’ and organizations’ performance as well as relationship between leaders and followers. In this respect, authors investigate leadership studies in five high ranking organizational behavior journals and categorize these studies according to their subjects. Accordingly, the practical implications of studies that are related with authentic leadership are investigated in order to excerpt a common idea

Investigating Factors Impacting on Remote Workers’ Job Satisfaction in Marketing

Bu yazının amacı çeşitli destekleyici faktörler ile uzaktan çalışanların iş tatmini arasındaki ilişkilerin incelemektir. Literatürün gözden geçirilmesi, uzaktan çalışanların iş memnuniyetini doğrudan etkileyen çeşitli faktörlerin varlığını ortaya koymaktadır. Ancak bu iddianın objektif olarak Türk uzaktan çalışanları üzerinde henüz test edilmediği görülmüştür. Bu sebeple, Türkiye'nin en büyük ilaç firmalarından birinde uzaktan işgören 86 adet çalışan örnek olarak seçilmiş, araştırılmış ve korelasyon analizleri kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Test edilen tüm faktörlerin uzaktan çalışanların iş tatmini üzerinde etkiye sahip olduğu bulunmuştur. Katılımcıların iş tatmin seviyeleri ile ilgili en güçlü öncü faktörün şeflerinin desteği olduğu saptanmıştır. Şeflerinin desteğini, Çalışma arkadaşlarının desteği, Öz yeterlilik ve Teknik destek , sırasıyla azalan fakat hala anlamlı bir korelasyon katsayısıyla takip ettiği görülmüştür

Measurement of an individual entrepreneur's social capital: a multidimensional model

The aim of this paper is twofold. First of all, we participate in the open discussion on the nature of social capital and we show that the one-dimensional approach is not enough to capture the complex nature of social capital. Second, we present, implement and validate a specific three-dimensional measurement tool that can be used to analyze the role of social capital in further entrepreneurship research. The measurement tool is implemented through a Structural Equation Model, which is estimated and validated from a database including information from 282 Argentinean entrepreneurs who answered a questionnaire specifically designed for this research. Our measurement model considers the dimensions proposed by Koka and Prescott (Strategic Management Journal, 23:795-816, 2002), i.e. relational, resources and structural.Fil: Fornoni, Mariel. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Arribas, Iván. Universitat de València; España.Fil: Vila, José E. Universitat de València; España

Multidimensional social capital in new ventures

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Innovation, progress, entrepreneurship and cultural aspects

In the case of economic progress, some of the literature has considered economic growth and economic progress to be the same thing. However, there is a relevant difference between the two concepts. As Holcombe states, economic growth considers the quantity of products and economic progress the quality of products. Innovation has been considered as a key factor to promote economic progress. A culture would have a direct and an indirect effect on innovation through entrepreneurship. The goal of this paper is to analyze the relationship between culture and innovation. To carry out this study, an empirical estimation has been developed for the case of 11 countries. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC