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Full-Text Articles in Business
Improving Small Business Viability Through The Strategic Longevity And Health Maintenance Evaluation, Michael Rolleri, Abbas Nadim, Robert N. Lussier
Improving Small Business Viability Through The Strategic Longevity And Health Maintenance Evaluation, Michael Rolleri, Abbas Nadim, Robert N. Lussier
Management Faculty Publications
Most adults are urged to go through an annual health checkup. We recommend that most mature small businesses perform an annual strategic longevity and health maintenance evaluation as well to ensure their viability. To this end, we provide strategic areas of critical importance to a small business viability and longevity and offer guidelines for small business owners, managers, consultants, and small business/entrepreneurship educators use to help improve performance. We add to the body of literature on small business success and failure factors by emphasizing the need for a closer look at the open systems nature of these businesses and the …
Business Leadership Education: A Virtual Storytellers Exercise, Maria Mendez, Yue Cai Hillon, Khadija Al Arkoubi
Business Leadership Education: A Virtual Storytellers Exercise, Maria Mendez, Yue Cai Hillon, Khadija Al Arkoubi
Management Faculty Publications
Online courses are becoming popular in business education and require creative strategies to maintain students’ engagement and facilitate contextual and complex understanding of class concepts and theories. In this paper, we are proposing an exercise for online undergraduate Organizational Behavior courses to motivate students and enhance their understanding of class concepts through the use of storytelling. In this exercise, students work in teams to narrate stories that describe with rich detail different concepts and theories pertaining to team management in general and virtual team management in particular. The results suggest that students develop a higher level of critical thinking in …
Building Sustainable Organizational Capital: The Global Leadership Challenge, Khadija Al Arkoubi, Elizabeth Davis
Building Sustainable Organizational Capital: The Global Leadership Challenge, Khadija Al Arkoubi, Elizabeth Davis
Management Faculty Publications
Building social capital (SC) is increasingly recognized as essential for organizational and social growth. However, there is a scant amount of literature on how leaders are expected to develop SC as an individual and organizational competence. While this article develops new frameworks for both SC and global leadership (GL), it offers practical suggestions to practitioners in human resource development and management on how they can set up strategies for developing both GL and SC.
Sustainability As A Small Business Competitive Strategy, Abbas Nadim, Robert N. Lussier
Sustainability As A Small Business Competitive Strategy, Abbas Nadim, Robert N. Lussier
Management Faculty Publications
In our global village, sustainability has been an important topic for all countries, and small businesses can create a competitive advantage through developing sustainability strategies. This conceptual article extends the current literature by presenting the case for small businesses to become integrated in the surrounding community and to make sustainability a strategic long-term competitive advantage and a critical co-producer of its long-term success. Implications and the need for further research are discussed.
The Chief Of Bioethics: Why The Fact That Bioethics Is Difficult To Explain Is A Positive Development, Glenn Edwards Mcgee
The Chief Of Bioethics: Why The Fact That Bioethics Is Difficult To Explain Is A Positive Development, Glenn Edwards Mcgee
Management Faculty Publications
The field of bioethics is evolving, incorporating many disciplines and varying definitions. Bioethicists are having a great impact on science and medical policy.
Third Cybernetic Revolution: Beyond Open To Dialogic System Theories, Khadija Al Arkoubi
Third Cybernetic Revolution: Beyond Open To Dialogic System Theories, Khadija Al Arkoubi
Management Faculty Publications
We question Systems Theory by adopting a Bakhtinian dialogism approach. We argue that a dialogism approach gets us beyond first order cybernetic (control) and second order (open) system thinking to a third order cybernetics (multi- dialogisms). We believe third order cybernetic theory is an extension of Bakhtin's work. We explore how dialogue is not equivalent to polyphonic dialogism; the later does not assume being in same time and space, as in some meeting. Further, we look at three other dialogisms (stylistic, chronotopic, & architectonic). Multi- dialogisms raise questions for dialog, learning, and appreciative inquiry approaches. We conclude with insights on …