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Who Could Best Complement A Team Of Family Business Researchers—Scholars Down The Hall Or In Another Building?, Alex Stewart
Who Could Best Complement A Team Of Family Business Researchers—Scholars Down The Hall Or In Another Building?, Alex Stewart
Management Faculty Research and Publications
This study explores which fields might potentially collaborate in family business research. It compares 14 research fields for their structure of topical attention. The most convenient collaborations, such as those between entrepreneurship, family business, and strategy researchers, prove to be the most appropriate for some research purposes. However, less common collaborations, particularly with scholars from law, history, and anthropology, appear to be the most appropriate for other projects. Family and marital therapy prove to be a less promising collaborator than one might expect because of their strong skewing to familial rather than commercial topics. Correspondingly, entrepreneurship also proves to be …
A Multiple Server Location–Allocation Model For Service System Design, Siddhartha Syam
A Multiple Server Location–Allocation Model For Service System Design, Siddhartha Syam
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Service systems are endemic in a service economy, and effective system design is fundamental to the competitiveness of service organizations such as retailers, distributors, and healthcare providers. This is because system design may significantly facilitate (or hinder) the attainment of important organizational objectives such as minimizing system cost and maximizing service level. This paper develops and solves a comprehensive nonlinear location–allocation model for service system design that incorporates several relevant costs and considerations. These include, for instance, transportation, facility, and waiting costs, queuing considerations, multiple servers, multiple order priority levels, multiple service sites, and service distance limits. The model is …
Psychological Climate And Work Attitudes: The Importance Of Telling The Right Story, Bonnie S. O'Neill, Lucy A. Arendt
Psychological Climate And Work Attitudes: The Importance Of Telling The Right Story, Bonnie S. O'Neill, Lucy A. Arendt
Management Faculty Research and Publications
In this field study, the authors explore how choosing one context over another influences both research results and implications. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, the authors examine context from both an organizational and a business-unit perspective by studying relationships between five psychological climate variables and outcomes of job satisfaction, affective commitment, and intent to leave. Results show different contextual influences between the organization and two business units, suggesting that different bundles of psychological climate variables yield similar outcomes depending on the context studied. These results bolster the contention that researchers need to identify the right context in field research.
Performance Implications Of Firm Resource Interactions In The Acquisition Of R&D-Intensive Firms, David R. King, Rebecca J. Slotegraaf, Idalene Kesner
Performance Implications Of Firm Resource Interactions In The Acquisition Of R&D-Intensive Firms, David R. King, Rebecca J. Slotegraaf, Idalene Kesner
Management Faculty Research and Publications
We explore the role of resource interactions in explaining firm performance in the context of acquisitions. Although we confirm that acquisitions do not lead to higher performance on average, we do find that complementary resource profiles in target and acquiring firms are associated with abnormal returns. Specifically, we find that acquiring firm marketing resources and target firm technology resources positively reinforce (complement) each other; meanwhile, acquiring and target firm technology resources negatively reinforce (substitute) one another. Implications for management theory and practice are identified.
Project Quality Of Offshore Virtual Teams Engaged In Software Requirements Analysis: An Exploratory Comparative Study, Dhruv Nath, Varadharajan Sridhar, Monica Adya, Amit Malik
Project Quality Of Offshore Virtual Teams Engaged In Software Requirements Analysis: An Exploratory Comparative Study, Dhruv Nath, Varadharajan Sridhar, Monica Adya, Amit Malik
Management Faculty Research and Publications
The off-shore software development companies in countries such as India use a global delivery model in which initial requirement analysis phase of software projects get executed at client locations to leverage frequent and deep interaction between user and developer teams. Subsequent phases such as design, coding and testing are completed at off-shore locations. Emerging trends indicate an increasing interest in off-shoring even requirements analysis phase using computer mediated communication. We conducted an exploratory research study involving students from Management Development Institute (MDI), India and Marquette University (MU), USA to determine quality of such off-shored requirements analysis projects. Our findings suggest …
The “Name Game”: Affective And Hiring Reactions To First Names, John Cotton, Bonnie S. O'Neill, Andrea Griffin
The “Name Game”: Affective And Hiring Reactions To First Names, John Cotton, Bonnie S. O'Neill, Andrea Griffin
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Purpose – The paper seeks to examine how the uniqueness and ethnicity of first names influence affective reactions to those names and their potential for hire. Design/methodology/approach – In study 1, respondents evaluated 48 names in terms of uniqueness and likeability, allowing us to select names viewed consistently as Common, Russian, African-American, and Unusual. In Study 2 respondents assessed the uniqueness and likeability of the names, and whether they would hire someone with the name. Findings – Results indicated that Common names were seen as least unique, best liked, and most likely to be hired. Unusual names were seen as …
Work Alienation Among It Workers: A Cross-Cultural Gender Comparison, Monica Adya
Work Alienation Among It Workers: A Cross-Cultural Gender Comparison, Monica Adya
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Information Technology (IT) has experienced a worrisome decline in female participation over two decades, much of which can be attributed to fewer women choosing IT careers. However, women IT professionals also demonstrate mid-career turnover for reasons such as work-life balance, work exhaustion, role ambiguity, role conflict, and growth needs. This study explores alienation among women IT professionals and examines factors that lead to work alienation and abandonment of IT careers. Such alienation appears to be less prevalent in Asian countries where women perceive IT careers to be more conducive to female participation. A comparison among women from American and Asian …
Artisans, Athletes, Entrepreneurs, And Other Skilled Exemplars Of The Way, Alex Stewart, Felissa Lee, Gregory N.P. Konz, S.J.
Artisans, Athletes, Entrepreneurs, And Other Skilled Exemplars Of The Way, Alex Stewart, Felissa Lee, Gregory N.P. Konz, S.J.
Management Faculty Research and Publications
We introduce management and spirituality scholars to the “knack” passages from the c. 4th century B.C.E. text, the Zhuangzi. The knack passages are parables about low status figures, such as wheelwrights, furniture makers and cooks, whose actions offer insights into the spirituality of ordinary work and, we argue, of entrepreneurship. Such non-corporate settings are lesser-studied domains for spirituality. Ancient Chinese writings have been noticed by spirituality and management writers but we call for deeper scholarly textual attention. We seek also to model more attention to the renaissance in scholarship on classical China. More ambitiously, we hope to show that these …
Reducing Causal Ambiguity In Acquisition Integration: Intermediate Goals As Mediators Of Integration Decisions And Acquisition Performance, Margaret Cording, Petra Christman, David R. King
Reducing Causal Ambiguity In Acquisition Integration: Intermediate Goals As Mediators Of Integration Decisions And Acquisition Performance, Margaret Cording, Petra Christman, David R. King
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Integration is a difficult process, but one that is vital to acquisition performance. One reason acquirers encounter difficulties is that the integration process exhibits high levels of intrafirm linkage ambiguity – a lack of clarity of the causal link between integration decisions and their performance outcomes. We introduce the construct of intermediate goals as a mechanism that reduces intrafirm linkage ambiguity. Our structural model results, based on a sample of 129 horizontal acquisitions, indicate that the achievement of two intermediate goals (internal reorganization and market expansion) fully mediates the relationships between four integration decisions and acquisition performance.
Bringing Global Sourcing Into The Classroom: Experiential Learning Via Software Development Project, Monica Adya, Dhruv Nath, Varadharajan Sridhar, Amit Malik
Bringing Global Sourcing Into The Classroom: Experiential Learning Via Software Development Project, Monica Adya, Dhruv Nath, Varadharajan Sridhar, Amit Malik
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Global sourcing of software development has imposed new skill requirements on Information Technology (IT) personnel. In the U.S., this has resulted in a paradigm shift from technical to softer skills such as communications and virtual team management. Higher education institutions must, consequently, initiate innovative curriculum transformations to better prepare students for these emerging workforce needs. This paper describes one such venture between Marquette University (MU), U.S.A. and Management Development Institute (MDI), India, wherein IT students at MU collaborated with Management Information Systems (MIS) students at MDI on an offshore software development project. The class environment replicated an offshore client/vendor relationship …