Exploring Linkages Between Business Strategy and Patent Strategy: A Proposed Typology

This paper is an attempt to develop a typology which would theoretically represent the relationship between a patent strategy and a business strategy in a given organization. Such a relationship follows from previous work in related fields which theories a linkage between business strategy and functional strategy that can have a positive impact on organizational performance. An underling assumption is made that intellectual capital represents a functional area for today\u27s high tech firm. In creating the proposed typology, use is made of the Miles and Snow typology of business strategies

Emerson and the Environment: The Beginnings of American Nationalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson has been known as a transcendentalist and idealist, but he left no shortage of footprints on the landscape and also thought and wrote extensively about the natural world. Michael Popejoy examines Emerson’s “unified philosophy of nature.

Effects of Right-To-Work Laws: Can They Include Higher Levels of Satisfaction For Union Workers?

This paper reviews theories and evidence on the effect of “right-to-work” laws on union members’ satisfaction with their unions. With the increase of right-to-work activity at the state level, and with federal right-to-work legislation pending in Congress, this has returned as an important political issue. Following a brief review of how the hypotheses of “taste,” “free-rider,” and “bargaining power” can influence various effects of right-to-work laws, the idea of utility maximization paired with measures of union satisfaction is explored to show theoretical evidence that greater levels of union satisfaction could exist in right-to-work states than exist in non-right-to-work states. Arguments for both positive and negative effects are compared. The author proposes that, as a future area of research, empirical tests be performed that combine the concept of simultaneous equations with recently developed measures of union satisfaction

Utilizing the AHRQ care coordination atlas as a framework: an integrative review of transitional care models : [poster]

PosterReferences and poster presented at the 2020 Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual Research Conferenc

Using the Enneagram to Facilitate the Supervision Relationship: A Qualitative Study

A phenomenological study was conducted to gain knowledge of the lived experience of three master’s level counseling supervisees, with a doctoral student supervisor, utilizing the Enneagram, an ancient personality classification system of nine core personality types, throughout 15 weeks of supervision. This study explored the use of the Enneagram and its impact on the supervisory relationship. Emergent themes included: (a) self-awareness; (b) other awareness; (c) relationship and rapport; and (d) professional identity and role induction. The use of the Enneagram within supervision during early stages of counselor development appeared to be helpful to these students in fostering growth and learning

A Phenomenological Study of Teachers and Mental Health Paraprofessionals Implementing the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Program

This study examined the lived experience of teachers and mental health paraprofessionals implementing the Jesse Lewis Choose Love curriculum in an alternative school setting. Social emotional learning curriculum implementation within the unique structure of alternative schools is important to investigate in order to better understand the unique needs of those providing services to students in this setting. This study utilized open-ended written prompts and two focus groups with teachers and mental health paraprofessionals for 10 weeks of implementation of this social emotional learning program. Participants reported changes in students and themselves and an increase in group cohesion. Five identified themes included change in students, change in staff, group cohesion, awareness of student needs, and existing stability; all of which have implications for future social emotional learning curricula. Suggestions for best practices for SEL implementation are included