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The Complexity In The Discrepancy: A Holistic View Of The Electricity Supply And Demand Discrepancy In Nigeria, Olufunso O. Olulafe
The Complexity In The Discrepancy: A Holistic View Of The Electricity Supply And Demand Discrepancy In Nigeria, Olufunso O. Olulafe
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The gap between electricity supply and demand, in Nigeria, is not decreasing. To gain more insight into the phenomenon, we sought to take a holistic approach at analysis and learn about the relationship between dimensions of investment, policy, entrepreneurial orientation innovation, and the electricity situation in Nigeria. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 30 individuals, who have experience in Nigeria. The interviewees also have sound perspectives on key stakeholders in the electricity ecosystem. Building on this foundation, we make the case that the dimension of national character, and its second order constructs has a relationship with the previous dimensions, in …
Emergence And Growth Of The Medical Device Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Minnesota, Brian Abraham
Emergence And Growth Of The Medical Device Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Minnesota, Brian Abraham
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Different geographic regions in the United States have experienced varying degrees of entrepreneurial activity that give rise, maturity and in many cases declines in regional industry vertical strengths. We investigated the medical device industry in Minnesota to explain how entrepreneurial or new venture communities emerge, operate and perform. Absorptive capacity, social network theory, agent-network theory and technology diffusion are clearly evident phenomena observed. We used a qualitative, grounded theory methodology to interview 20 experts with knowledge of the ecosystem studied. We found significant development impediments created with the emergence of policy that has slowed technology commercialization as the regional medical …
Beyond The Grade: Bonding Faculty Behaviors Predicting Community College Student Commitment To Learning, Lucia D. Heddleson
Beyond The Grade: Bonding Faculty Behaviors Predicting Community College Student Commitment To Learning, Lucia D. Heddleson
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This study investigated factors influencing community college student academic retention\, specifically a student’s commitment to learn. Data was obtained from two local community colleges\, and the study’s proposed model was evaluated using structural equation modelling. Student Identity Capital and Relational Climate functioned as mediating factors influencing academic retention as they relate to supportive faculty behaviors. Direct effects of supportive bonding faculty behaviors on academic retention were also considered. Results supported mediation from student identity capital to academic retention\, and relational climate was found to be insignificant. Finally\, supportive faculty behaviors proved to be a significant factor overall in the evaluation …
Factors Influencing The Case Selection Of Irs Special Agents, Robert A. Warren
Factors Influencing The Case Selection Of Irs Special Agents, Robert A. Warren
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This study examines how Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (CI) Special Agents select cases to investigate during a period of stagnant budgets and significant personnel attrition. Semi-structured interviews (N=30) of current and retired agents and supervisors, along with information gleaned from published reports and through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, suggests that special agents did not believe that the 13% reduction of IRS-CI's appropriated funding from 2010 to 2016 impeded their ability to select and investigate the best tax and money laundering cases, even though the funding gap resulted in a 19% reduction in special agents. However, the data also …
Food Deserts: What Are The Decisions To Achieving A Healthy Life And Well-Being In Low Income €“ Low Access Neighborhoods?, Roxanne Jimenez
Food Deserts: What Are The Decisions To Achieving A Healthy Life And Well-Being In Low Income €“ Low Access Neighborhoods?, Roxanne Jimenez
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There has been a great deal of academic material and public policy published on food deserts, however, there still are significant gaps of understanding in regard to the lived experience of those individuals residing within those geographical locations. This study employed a qualitative methodology to elicit the lived experiences of 20 people who are living within a food desert. The findings from this research suggest those residing in food deserts, do not plan their purchases and travel to markets outside of their immediate neighborhoods in search of food products that have quality, variety and lower price points. It was also …
Building Globally Accepted Local Brands And Locally Authentic Global Brands, Ellen Schmidt-Devlin
Building Globally Accepted Local Brands And Locally Authentic Global Brands, Ellen Schmidt-Devlin
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In academic literature, brands have been categorized as either global or local, driven primarily by the distance their businesses reach beyond their national borders. This difference is evaporating with the advent of digital marketing and ecommerce. Academics clearly recognize this changing landscape and have researched the impacts to consumer perceptions and identities, but literature has provided less strategic direction for global and local brand leaders as they compete head-to-head in the fast-paced global marketplace. This qualitative study of fifty executives in the global/local sports product industry reveals distinctly different paths taken by global brands toward local authenticity and local brands …
Building Globally Accepted Local Brands And Locally Authentic Global Brands, Ellen Schmidt-Devlin
Building Globally Accepted Local Brands And Locally Authentic Global Brands, Ellen Schmidt-Devlin
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In academic literature, brands have been categorized as either global or local, driven primarily by the distance their businesses reach beyond their national borders. This difference is evaporating with the advent of digital marketing and ecommerce. Academics clearly recognize this changing landscape and have researched the impacts to consumer perceptions and identities, but literature has provided less strategic direction for global and local brand leaders as they compete head-to-head in the fast-paced global marketplace. This qualitative study of fifty executives in the global/local sports product industry reveals distinctly different paths taken by global brands toward local authenticity and local brands …
Success Towards Sustainable Development In Lagging Us Cities? A Grounded Study, Larry Clay Jr.
Success Towards Sustainable Development In Lagging Us Cities? A Grounded Study, Larry Clay Jr.
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By 2030, it is projected that 7 out of 10 people will be urban dwellers. However, as more people migrate to cities in search of a better life and urban populations grow, housing, food, water, air, transportation, energy, and human well-being issues intensify. Issues of climate change, energy use, agricultural land and watershed protection, and transportation, among others, already stretch beyond the budget frames, municipal geography, and election cycles of most local government managers. Pressures from non-governmental organizations and society as whole are forcing the local business community as well as government officials to work together in solving some the …
Delivering Service-Based New Product Development: Stewardship Cabability Differentiates Success From Failure In Back-End Innovation, Nancy Y. Nee
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Previous research and literature highlight the factors that influence the success and failure of delivering new product development (NPD) to achieve back-end innovation. In particular, previous research identifies the key importance of executive sponsorship/championship on the success of back-end innovation by delivering NPD. Despite this key finding, NPD delivery continues to fail even with executive sponsorship/championship engagement. Stewardship is a construct that executive sponsors/champions use to ensure that the NPD delivery is aligned with the best interests of the organization and its stakeholders. The aim of this study is to provide an understanding of how stewardship affects the sponsorship/championship role …
Teams Building A Shared Reality To Create Project Success, Susan Johnson
Teams Building A Shared Reality To Create Project Success, Susan Johnson
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A qualitative study on team member interactions on projects suggests that successful teams are actively engaging in continuously constructing and maintaining a shared reality with one another through the process of making accounts. As a result of this study we propose extending the management definition of accountability to encompass the process of making accounts in the construction of a shared reality. This study found that the accountability process requires an environment of communication promotion, adequate time to develop a shared reality and a willingness by team members to continuously adapt their shared reality in response to new knowledge. This study …
Sports Leaders, Sensemaking, And Self-Preservation: Uncovering The Real Crisis In Sport, Daryl L. Jones
Sports Leaders, Sensemaking, And Self-Preservation: Uncovering The Real Crisis In Sport, Daryl L. Jones
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The sports industry often experiences critical, high-risk situations related to crisis management decisions. Devastating consequences often occur because of the methods used by sports leaders in processing information associated with crisis. As chaotic as these crisis-based events may be; often times the true antecedents of crisis result from practices and processes that exist within, not outside of, sports organizations. Despite the global economic impact and increasing significance of sports, there is a shortage of empirical research to help us understand key influences on industry leaders, specifically related to times of crisis. The factors that impact the formation of perspectives and …
Cultivating Relationships From A Common Cor*: What Teachers Do To Relate To Othered Students, Lucia Desantis-Heddleson
Cultivating Relationships From A Common Cor*: What Teachers Do To Relate To Othered Students, Lucia Desantis-Heddleson
Student Scholarship
This research is focused on the teacher's perspective of the dyadic relationship between teachers and othered students--students who are traditionally disregarded and/or are considered outside of the norm (Borrero et al., 2012). The study at hand is limited to this dyad, but is crucial for the understanding of what behaviors, social and emotional intelligence competencies, and practices make a teacher good at reaching othered students beyond the mere academics of doing school. The role of a teacher within the confines of schooling is changing because schools have become institutions involved in socialization, motivation, and adapting to change (i.e., preparing students …
Senior Leaders Create It: A Supportive Environment, The Missing Link To Effective Leadership Development, Dartanian Warr
Senior Leaders Create It: A Supportive Environment, The Missing Link To Effective Leadership Development, Dartanian Warr
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Senior leaders from the C-suite to directors are looking for the next generation of leaders ready to lead their organizations into the 21st century. They invest billions in the professional development of this next generation only to lament in board meetings about the dearth of talent. There is research that leadership competencies can be taught but what is learned is soon forgotten once the class or experience has ended (Day, 2001). Human resource professional put policies and procedures in place, yet the learning still seems to ebb. So, what is going on? Some have suggested that the missing element is …
Senseshaping: The Dynamics Of Sensemaking And Sensegiving In High Velocity Product Innovation, Varun Nagaraj
Senseshaping: The Dynamics Of Sensemaking And Sensegiving In High Velocity Product Innovation, Varun Nagaraj
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Managers and other professionals operating in high velocity environments engage in frequent, simultaneous, iterative and interleaved acts of sensemaking and sensegiving within a network of stakeholders as they confront a stream of potentially significant signals or events. How is collective meaning and action shaped as a result of such interactions? To understand the dynamics of meaning-making in high velocity settings, we conducted a grounded theory analysis of concurrent sensemaking and sensegiving during 83 product innovation projects in the information technology sector as reported by 26 product managers. The innovation projects involved both hardware and software products, and included developing wholly …
Motivating The African American Patient: What Can Healthcare Leaders Learn About Motivating Type 2 Diabetic Patients To Adhere To Their Treatment Plan?, Yolonda Freeman-Hildreth
Motivating The African American Patient: What Can Healthcare Leaders Learn About Motivating Type 2 Diabetic Patients To Adhere To Their Treatment Plan?, Yolonda Freeman-Hildreth
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The purpose of this research is to understand the gap between recommended diabetic treatment adherence and what motivates African American patients to adhere to long-term behavioral change. We examine the literature and existing approaches to understanding motivation and treatment adherence, and then present our proposition for increasing the accuracy of the motivational factors related to treatment adherence, followed by our contribution through findings and implications for research. We conducted a qualitative study to understand the factors that motivate African American diabetic patients to adhere to their recommended treatment plan. Our sample was 30 African Americans over the age of 18 …
How U.S. Executive Expatriates Work In Environments Of Pervasive Corruption, Carl H. Greppin
How U.S. Executive Expatriates Work In Environments Of Pervasive Corruption, Carl H. Greppin
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How do U.S. expatriate executives who live and work in countries with pervasive corruption make choices about the degree to which they participate in corruption? To answer this question, I interviewed 30 U.S. executives who worked in such countries. Some refused to participate in corrupt practices, others chose to reluctantly succumb to extortion, while others willingly participated in corruption. I illustrate costs the executives incur from making the decisions and reasons for why they make the decisions. I found that social norms played a significant role in their decisions. There are four social norms - personal norms (individuals' standards for …
What Always-On Connected Consumers Can Teach Retailers About Marketing Relevancy And Segmentation, Donna M. Iucolano
What Always-On Connected Consumers Can Teach Retailers About Marketing Relevancy And Segmentation, Donna M. Iucolano
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Nearly 50% of the U.S. population is described as always on, always present, and always connected, with the label always-on connected consumers (AOCCs) emerging as one of the most popular in practice. This consumer group is a powerful and influential part of the U.S. economy that will continue to grow and influence retailing even more than it does today. To better understand the shopping behavior of this group, we interviewed 40 hyper-digital men and women age 18 and 65 and collected more than 200 stories about their positive and negative shopping experiences. The findings describe who these consumers are and …
Breaking Barriers: Saudi Women In Non Traditional Careers, Suad Dukhaykh
Breaking Barriers: Saudi Women In Non Traditional Careers, Suad Dukhaykh
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Women occupy only 15.8 percent of the private and public positions occupied by Saudi nationals, according to statistics from the Central Department of Statistics and Information 2015. The Saudi government has highlighted the need to support women's higher education and combat sociopolitical barriers to their employment. Despite facing substantial challenges to entering the labor market, females have made gains in Saudi society; these include higher literacy rates, greater employment, and moderate rates of entry into both positions of leadership and nontraditional careers. Qualitative research was based on semi-structured interviews with 30 women, 18 of whom had nontraditional careers and 12 …
Breaking Barriers: Saudi Women In Non Traditional Careers, Suad Dukhaykh
Breaking Barriers: Saudi Women In Non Traditional Careers, Suad Dukhaykh
Student Scholarship
Women occupy only 15.8 percent of the private and public positions occupied by Saudi nationals, according to statistics from the Central Department of Statistics and Information 2015. The Saudi government has highlighted the need to support women's higher education and combat sociopolitical barriers to their employment. Despite facing substantial challenges to entering the labor market, females have made gains in Saudi society; these include higher literacy rates, greater employment, and moderate rates of entry into both positions of leadership and nontraditional careers. Qualitative research was based on semi-structured interviews with 30 women, 18 of whom had nontraditional careers and 12 …
Understanding The Concept Of "Inspiring Professors" In Mexico, Ivone Juárez Barco
Understanding The Concept Of "Inspiring Professors" In Mexico, Ivone Juárez Barco
Student Scholarship
There is only 14% of graduates that have had professors who cared for them as persons, made them excited about learning and encouraged them to pursue their dreams, reported a study from Gallup and Purdue University (2015). The purpose of this qualitative research was to generate a grounded theory to comprehend the concept of “inspiring professor” in Mexico. The question to be answered which originated this research was “what are the characteristics of professors who inspire students?”. Thirty- nine professors were interviewed, 19 of them were identified as “truly inspiring” by students. The findings that distinguish inspiring professors are: they …
End-User Innovation Within Information Systems--A Post Deployment Impact Of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, Amos Allie
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The focus of this study concentrates on understanding the antecedents that explain post implementation interaction of End-User Analysts (EUA) within unique environments of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems deployment. Although contemporary literature on ERP Systems explain the relevance of End-User Analysts (EUA) at various spheres of post implementation space, we are yet to understand first, what explains End-User outcomes on Post Implementation Processes within ERP Systems. Also how and to what extent do End-Users involvement transform Post Implementation deployment outcomes. In minimizing perceptible projections in post implementation environments, we posit that End-User Analysts are strategically structured within post implementation environments to …
Leading Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises In A Difficult Period: What Differentiates Success From Failure, Emmanuel Quansah
Leading Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises In A Difficult Period: What Differentiates Success From Failure, Emmanuel Quansah
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the largest engines of job creation and innovation in the U.S. and many parts of the world--yet most of them fail within the first five years of being opened. While the factors that contribute to their failures have been well studied, there is little empirical research about how they survive difficult economic periods. How can SMEs compete and grow in the face of today's complex, turbulent, and fiercely competitive business environment? The aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of how leaders of successful SMEs enable their businesses to survive and …
Local And International Entrepreneurial Relationship Experiences Of Black Business Leaders, Shola Ajiboye
Local And International Entrepreneurial Relationship Experiences Of Black Business Leaders, Shola Ajiboye
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There has been an absence of research in the academic and practice literature on entrepreneurial relationship experiences of Black business leaders. This qualitative study attempted to fill this gap. Twenty-nine top business leaders were interviewed, representing different sectors of the economy, including 15 Africans in Nigeria, West Africa and 14 African Americans in the U.S., to examine and compare their local and international business relationship experiences. The results showed 20 identified differences. The study also revealed three broad areas of similarity that provide a potential basis for future partnerships and one common barrier that provides a basis for future advocacy.
Nonprofit Ceo Sustainability: Maintaining Personal Wellbeing And Effective Organizational Leadership Over The Long Haul, Jeffrey D. Frey
Nonprofit Ceo Sustainability: Maintaining Personal Wellbeing And Effective Organizational Leadership Over The Long Haul, Jeffrey D. Frey
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Leadership sustainability ultimately rests in the hands of the leader. Critical incident interviews were conducted with twenty "sustainable" and ten "unsustainable" Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of diverse nonprofit organizations, as identified by trusted third party raters. Interviews were also conducted with fifteen spouses from this group of thirty. In addition, the CEOs’ organizations’ IRS Form 990 data was analyzed. A true focus on the organization’s mission, mastery over their relationships, and self-care significantly differentiated the sustainable CEOs from the unsustainable. With no significant differences in demographics, or personal and organizational pressures, the CEO’s perspective and actions directly impacted their capability …
Are We Having Fun Yet? What Is The Relationship Between Fun At Work, Manager Job Satisfaction, And Employee Job Satisfaction?, Anthony Scardillo
Are We Having Fun Yet? What Is The Relationship Between Fun At Work, Manager Job Satisfaction, And Employee Job Satisfaction?, Anthony Scardillo
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Purpose: This paper aims to critically examine the relationship between Fun at Work, Manager Job Satisfaction, and Employee Job Satisfaction and their Independent variables Role Model, Selflessness, Personal Fulfillment and Joy of Training. Approach: This paper is based on quantitative research into Fun at Work. A total of 338 Managers and Employees of advertising, marketing and sales professionals in the Albany, NY/Capital Region Market was used in this sample. The study was separated into two parts: Managers and Employees, and examined the role of Mentoring, with particular attention to such factors as Selflessness, Manager as a Role Model, Fulfilling Work …
Business Buddies, Markila Hall
Business Buddies, Markila Hall
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There was two parts to this group project. Although we had five people, the second part consisted of us dividing our group into sections. We had to interview one another so we could get the feel of both roles; the person being interviewed and the manger. The first part of the assignment consisted of myself and four other girls working with each other to create a paper. It was a single spaced two page paper that talked about our backgrounds and why we choose a business major. My major is mainly finance, but there was no option to just choose …
Consciousness Of Connectedness, Greater Purpose And Positive Business, Social And Environmental Outcomes, Joseph Leah
Consciousness Of Connectedness, Greater Purpose And Positive Business, Social And Environmental Outcomes, Joseph Leah
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Do leaders who define their business in terms of achieving a greater purpose as well as financial profit attain more favorable outcomes in terms of both profit and social or environmental outcomes? When those leaders approach their business with a sense of connectedness (or what we call a "consciousness of connectedness"), do they create an environment in their organizations with higher levels of shared vision, greater compassion and collaboration, and does this in turn lead to positive social and environmental outcomes as well as better economic outcomes? This exploratory research is aimed at investigating how a consciousness of connectedness within …
Does A Physician's Decision Making Process Effect Patient Participation In The Treatment Choices Of Primary Immunodeficiency?, Chris Lamb
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Increased patient participation in the treatment of chronic diseases is thought to result in improved patient health. Increased participation should lead to earlier diagnosis and better treatment. However, the role of the physician in facilitating patient participation has not been extensively studied. Dual process theory and shared decision making theory were used to create a predictive model. Then a quantitative study was then performed on 330 physicians in the US treating a chronic disorder: Primary Immunodeficiency. The results suggest that a physician's decision making style (rational vs. heuristic) and orientation (patient-centric) has an effect on the level of patient participation. …
Developmental Factors Influencing Effective Leaders: A Lifestory View Of Executive Leadership Development, Jennifer A. Nash
Developmental Factors Influencing Effective Leaders: A Lifestory View Of Executive Leadership Development, Jennifer A. Nash
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This research investigates developmental experiences of executive leaders that result in effective capabilities over time. We conduct a qualitative study by interviewing 31 C-Suite and Director/V.P.-level executives within four organizations in three distinct industries (Healthcare, Manufacturing, Professional Services). We compare outstanding and average leaders to compare and contrast developmental experiences to better understand the demonstrated competencies which enable and differentiate outstanding leaders. We use an emotional and social competency index (ESCI-U) to code for existing competencies as well as thematic analysis to discover new themes. Eight of the competencies from the ESCI-U and three new themes, Lifelong Learning, Environmental Aesthetic, …
Internal Controls For Reputational Threats: Organizational Governance Intelligence, Jesus Rodolfo Jimenez-Andrade
Internal Controls For Reputational Threats: Organizational Governance Intelligence, Jesus Rodolfo Jimenez-Andrade
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Companies are exposed to reputational scandals derived from both their actions and the behavior of other parties. Even seemingly routine business interactions have the potential to generate scandals and threaten the reputations of major companies. This research addresses the question, “What is the experience of managerial officers attending to and mitigating reputational threats, whether attributable to themselves or to external parties which may or may not be affiliated with the organization?†The methodological approach used is grounded theory based on semi-structured interviews with managers of 27 major publicly traded organizations. Their responses document that not all reputational threats become scandals, …