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Full-Text Articles in Business

Feedback: Baby Boomer Manager Offends Millennial Trainee, Nanette C. Clinch, A Osland Jan 2011

Feedback: Baby Boomer Manager Offends Millennial Trainee, Nanette C. Clinch, A Osland

Nanette C. Clinch

Hana Tan, a recently employed college graduate was in the midst of her training program when her manager's manager, a fellow named Eric, humiliated her, in her view, in front of her training group by criticizing her use of a ponytail. She wondered, "Should I quit? Do I have to take this stuff to get ahead? Should I report him?" We discuss the incident in the context of phenomenology, Snyder's self monitoring, Goffman's presentation of self, embeddedness and the role of frank feedback.

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Legitimizing Radical New Medical Services, Nanette C. Clinch, A Osland, C Wang Jan 2011

Legitimizing Radical New Medical Services, Nanette C. Clinch, A Osland, C Wang

Nanette C. Clinch

Physicians enjoy considerable liberty in the creation of entrepreneurial ventures in the new frontiers of medicine. Professional societies may opine about a new procedure but professionals may feel free to ignore their counsel as well. Two case studies are used to discuss this method of new venture creation; the cases are trait selection through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and female cosmetic genital surgery (FCGS), both controversial practices. We discuss the ethics and legitimacy of both and how one can use theory to analyze whether or not these are legitimate businesses and how to develop them.

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Adaptive Appointment Systems With Patient Preferences, Wen-Ya Wang, D. Gupta Jan 2011

Adaptive Appointment Systems With Patient Preferences, Wen-Ya Wang, D. Gupta

Wen-Ya Wang

Patients' satisfaction with an appointment system when they attempt to book a nonurgent appointment is affected by their ability to book with a doctor of choice and to book an appointment at a convenient time of day. For medical conditions requiring urgent attention, patients want quick access to a familiar physician. For such instances, it is important for clinics to have open slots that allow same-day (urgent) access. A major challenge when designing outpatient appointment systems is the difficulty of matching randomly arriving patients' booking requests with physicians' available slots in a manner that maximizes patients' satisfaction as well as …

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Absorptive Capacity At The Individual Level: Linking Creativity To Innovation In Academia, Ashley R. Davis, N. Da Silva Jan 2011

Absorptive Capacity At The Individual Level: Linking Creativity To Innovation In Academia, Ashley R. Davis, N. Da Silva

Ashley R. Davis

The absorptive capacity construct has been examined across various country, interorganization, and organizational level phenomena. This paper presents a framework that adopts the absorptive capacity framework to explain the relationship between creative and innovative performance at the individual level. The framework is illustrated by predicting research scholarship among university faculty.

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