Cyberbullying Among Adults: A Qualitative Content Analysis of the Legal Responses to a Complex Social Problem

Cyberbullying is a major issue that is regrettably on the rise. The growth and rapid proliferation of the Internet, social media, and smart mobile devices have widened the audiences, increased anonymity and interactions to further heightened the potential for cyberbullying. While there is a substantial body of literature on cyberbullying there exists two dominant gaps: a lack of studies on adult cyberbullying and novel empirical approaches to understanding cyberbullying. Using information obtained from 75 cyberbullying court cases, this study provides preliminary evidence to better understand cyberbullying amongst adults. Therein, we identify, how cyberbullying occurs in relation to four key entities: the \u27offender,\u27 the \u27technology,\u27 the \u27victim\u27 and the \u27guardianship\u27. We also identify key themes and their relationships that emerged from the court cases that must be further investigated in order to better understand cyberbullying in future work

Exploring Spiral of Silence in Digital Social Networking Spaces

Deep within social media’s chaotic deluge of information overloads, hyperactive global masses and voluminous interactions (Mandviwalla and Watson 2014) lie unique social networking spaces where silence trumps noise. Activity in these digital social networking spaces is restrained, anonymity is perceived as good and lesser said is better. Through a longitudinal perspective, this study explores passive participatory behaviors in these spaces through the theoretical lens of \u27Spiral of Silence.\u27 Preliminary findings through a single case confer to the theoretical tenets of Spiral of Silence demonstrating that users of these spaces become less participative, less opinionated and less vocal with increasing familiarity and awareness of deterring social and organizational factors. Our data also predicts potential new Spirals of Silence making a sound theoretical contribution

A Survey of Kansas Physicians' Perceptions of Physician Assistant Education and Qualifications

BACKGROUND: Effective physician-physician assistant (PA) teams improve patient access and satisfaction, and increase productivity and revenue while reducing physician workload. This survey assessed perceptions of Kansas primary care physicians regarding educational requirements and qualifications of PAs, professional and legal regulations, and the most important skills and competencies for PAs to possess. Understanding these perceptions may lead to improved communication and refined expectations of physician-physician assistant teams, thereby increasing their utilization and effectiveness. METHODS: A 20-question survey was emailed to all 1,551 primary care physicians registered with the Kansas Board of Healing Arts in 2012. Descriptive data were reported as frequencies; comparisons between groups were analyzed using Chi-square. RESULTS: The response rate was 9.2% (n = 143). Physicians were highly accurate regarding the program’s generalist/primary care educational model and moderately accurate regarding the degree awarded, average pre-program grade point average, lock-step full-time curriculum, weeks of clinical rotations, recertification and continuing medical education hours, and Medicare PA fee schedule. Physicians had low accuracy regarding program and pharmacology credit hours, strict dismissal policy, pre-program healthcare experience, and co-signatory regulations. Physicians with PA supervisory experience had higher knowledge than those without (p = 0.001). Physicians most commonly selected history taking and performing physical exam as the most important skill (49%) and providing patient care that is patient-centered, efficient, and equitable as the most important competency (42%). CONCLUSIONS: Physicians often underestimated the average PA applicant qualifications, program rigor and intensity, professional regulatory standards, and co-signatory requirements. Correcting misperceptions and improving understanding of which PA skills and competencies are most valued by physicians may optimize PAs as part of the healthcare team

Do we put all eggs in one basket? A polynomial regression study of digital technology configuration strategies

Digital technologies like social media, mobile, analytics, cloud computing and internet-of-things seem to provide organizations with a plethora of options to construct and configure their technology portfolios for enhancing firm performance. Due to seemingly low-cost, subscription-based, easy-to-adopt, easy-to-use nature of digital technologies, organizations are tempted to diversify their technology portfolios to thrive in the hyper-competitive dynamic markets. Using data gathered from chief information officers representing 177 organizations, this research investigates the effect of four digital technology portfolio configuration strategies that leads to firm performance

A Framework to Understand the Emergence of SQB: Observations Through a New Lens

Although change initiatives are a frequent and critical need in contemporary organizations, an individual’s propensity to resist change is frequently reported. Resistance is the consequence of the cognitive and behavioral responses of people affected by the change. This phenomenon has the potential to change the current status quo of many individual and group-level theories, particularly those addressing the why and how of resistance to change. This study uses an interpretive research approach with the use of the grounded theory method and adopts the SQB theory to observe the resistance to change in response to SQB emergence. This study employs four focus group discussions that yield a framework to understand the emergence of SQB. The study identifies an inter-play among SQB emergence framework constructs: actor, entity and time. This study assists in identifying new frameworks and paradigms for the SQB perspective that can be used in changing conditions. Keywords Change, SQB, resistance to change, framework

Understanding the Theoretical Foundations of Digital Transformation Literature: A Systematic Review

The burgeoning adoption of digital technologies has allowed contemporary business organizations to endure groundbreaking transformations. As a result, academics have made considerable effort to infuse clarity and better understand the notion of digital transformation. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of a consolidated custom of digital transformation research and an overarching framework endorsed by theoretical foundations in extant literature. This study provides a state-of-art synthesis of the extant literature by systematically reviewing 183 peer-reviewed journal articles published in over thirty leading academic outlets and a comprehensive nomological net of digital transformation by paying close attention to salient theoretical foundations apparent in the extant literature, which will be useful for prospective academic studies

Turning Dust to Gold: How to increase inimitability of Enterprise Systems

There is an on-going debate over the long-term value propositions of enterprise systems (ES) for competitive advantage, with many arguing that ES have lost their potential to contribute to competitive advantage in the contemporary hyper-competitive markets. While acknowledging that an ES is a valuable, rare and non-substitutable resource that is common to all competitors, it is further questionable how ES contribute to competitive advantage. Using the fourth characteristic of the resource-based view, we investigate how inimitability of ES can contribute to competitiveness. Using qualitative evidence from nine case studies this study derives three conditions that facilitate ES to be inimitable