Entre universalisme et contextualité des pratiques managériales dans les pays européens : l’hybridation est souvent la règle Between the universality and the contextuality of managerial practises in European Countries : Hybridization is often the rule

Les multinationales laissent apparaître un phénomène dominant: le transfert courant des connaissances et des diverses pratiques managériales de la maison mère vers ses filiales. Néanmoins, un aspect moins connu des flux intra organisationnels représente une valeur ajoutée que pourrait apporter chaque contexte local. La présente communication propose un cadre d’analyse théorique afin de porter un regard sur les opportunités qu’offrent les unités installées dans les pays européens. Quels sont les facteurs qui limitent une diffusion globale des pratiques? Comment passer d’une logique de transfert unidirectionnel vers une exploitation des ressources locales?Telles sont les questions aux quelles cet article tente d'apporter des éléments de réponse. Cette analyse présente l’assise théorique d’une nouvelle tendance: l’hybridation des pratiques. Aux pratiques globales s’ajoutent celles développées localement pour permettre une meilleure compétitivité dans l’Europe Elargie. Abstract - A dominating trend appearing within multinational companies shows that knowledge and practices are transferred from headquarter towards subsidiaries. Nevertheless, a less known aspect of intra-organizational flows is that each local context could bring an added value. This paper proposes a theoretical analysis framework to study opportunities offered by subsidiaries installed in the European countries. Which are the factors limiting a total diffusion of the practices? How to move away from a uni-directional transfer towards an exploitation of local resources? Such are the questions discussed in this paper. This analysis presents the theoretical base of a new tendency: the hybridization of practices. Global practices are “mixed” with practices locally developed to allow a better competitiveness in the widened Europe.Keywords : Managerials practices, European countries, Multinational compagnies

Factors mediating social media-induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media fatigue: A comparative study among Instagram and Snapchat users

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Factors mediating social media-induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media fatigue : a comparative study among Instagram and Snapchat users

The proliferation of social media platforms has provided researchers with ample opportunities to explore the implications of these platforms' positive and negative use. Focusing on the latter, the literature has highlighted the severe implications of the fear of missing out (FoMO) and its associations with negative aspects of social media use, such as the problematic use of social media, phubbing, and reduced well-being. Our study investigates the association between FoMO and social media fatigue, which is mediated by information and communication overload, online subjective well-being (OSWB), and compulsive social media use (compulsive use). The proposed model is grounded strongly in self-determination theory (SDT), the theory of compensatory Internet use (TCIU), and the limited-capacity model of motivated mediated message processing (LC4MP). We tested the model using two independent cross-sectional data sets collected from Instagram and Snapchat users. Our findings, which align with TCIU, suggest that FoMO is positively associated with information overload and compulsive use for both Instagram and Snapchat users. For Snapchat users, FoMO is also positively associated with communication overload and OSWB. The overuse aspect associated with TCIU is explained in the strong positive associations between FoMO and compulsive use among both Instagram and Snapchat users. In addition, OSWB, information overload, and compulsive use are positively associated with social media fatigue for users of both platforms. In contrast, communication overload significantly predicts social media fatigue for Snapchat users only.https://www.elsevier.com/locate/techforehj2022Informatic

The Perceived Impact of COVID-19 on Student Well-Being and the Mediating Role of the University Support: Evidence From France, Germany, Russia, and the UK

The rapid and unplanned change to teaching and learning in the online format brought by COVID-19 has likely impacted many, if not all, aspects of university students' lives worldwide. To contribute to the investigation of this change, this study focuses on the impact of the pandemic on student well-being, which has been found to be as important to student lifelong success as their academic achievement. Student well-being has been linked to their engagement and performance in curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities, intrinsic motivation, satisfaction, meaning making, and mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine how student perceptions of their degree completion and future job prospects during the pandemic impact their well-being and what role university support plays in this relationship. We used the conservation of resources theory to frame our study and to develop five hypotheses that were later tested via structural equation modeling. Data were collected from 2,707 university students in France, Germany, Russia, and UK via an online survey. The results showed that university support provided by instructors and administration plays a mediating role in the relationship between the perceived impact of COVID-19 on degree completion and future job prospects and levels of student well-being. Student well-being is decreased by their concerns for their degree completion but not by their concerns for future job prospects. In turn, concerns for future job prospects affect student well-being over time. These results suggest that in a “new normal,” universities could increase student well-being by making support to student studies a priority, especially for undergraduates. Also, universities should be aware of the students' changing emotional responses to crisis and ensure visibility and accessibility of student support.Peer reviewe

The limits of top-down transfers within a multinational corporation: the need for knowledge hybridization

innovation, new practice, hybridization, knowledge transfer, multinational corporation