Patricia J Holahan

• PhD
• Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology

We explore the role of stakeholders' citizenship behaviors in building megaproject resilience to unexpected events. Our case study is of a mega construction project in Europe. We analyze rich data from semi-structured interviews to build a grounded theory. We find internal and external stakeholders engaging in project citizenship behaviors as a res...

Objective: To aid the implementation of a medication reconciliation process within a hybrid primary-specialty care setting by using qualitative techniques to describe the climate of implementation and provide guidance for future projects. Methods: Guided by McMullen et al's Rapid Assessment Process1, we performed semi-structured interviews prior to...

The prolonged debate on the effect of monetary reward on creative performance is still ongoing. Research has shown monetary rewards to have both positive and negative effects on creative performance. We contend that a person's motivational orientation moderates the effect of monetary rewards on creative performance. An experiment was conducted show...

To develop and test a parsimonious and actionable model of effective technology use (ETU). Cross-sectional survey of primary care providers (n = 53) in a large integrated health care organization that recently implemented new medication reconciliation technology. Surveys assessed 5 technology-related perceptions (compatibility with work values, imp...

Although universally recognized as an important consideration in building product development (PD) competency, the effect of a firm's ability to vary its PD practices to develop winning products has been given scant attention in large-scale, multiorganizational, quantitative studies. This research explores differences in formal new PD practices amo...

Past research has provided evidence that teams who are able to gain the benefits of the task conflict but avoid the pitfalls of relationship conflict should perform better than they would if they let relationship conflict occur. The problem is that task conflict has a tendency to trigger relationship conflict, making it difficult for teams to gain...

With the link between fossil fuel use and climate change now almost universally accepted, tackling greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) has become a subject of great social urgency and technological challenge. A variety of models exist, or are under development, for analyzing the role of more sustainable systems, such as renewable energy technologies, in...

Although medication reconciliation (MR) can reduce medication discrepancies, it is challenging to operationalise. Consequently, we developed a health information technology (HIT) to collect a patient medication history and make it available to the primary care (PC) provider. We deployed a self-service kiosk in a PC clinic that permits patients to i...

IntroductionPolitical Behavior in Product DevelopmentStrategic Contingencies Model of Political BehaviorInfluencing OthersSummaryReferences

Research has sought to explain the multi-dimensionality of conflict and its paradoxical effects on decision making (Amason, 1996; DeDreu and Weingart, 2003; Jehn, 1995). The primary prescription to emerge from this work has been for teams to seek the benefits of cognitive (task) conflict while simultaneously avoiding the costs of affective (emotion...

Researchers have argued that what may be sound management practice for the development of incremental innovations may well be detrimental to the development of radical innovations. Accordingly, researchers have sought to document differences in development practices for these two classes of innovations. Much of the research that has looked at devel...

In an empirical test and extension of Klein and Sorra’s [Acad. Manag. Rev. 21 (1996) 1055] model, the organization’s receptivity toward change, climate for implementation, and innovation-values fit are tested as determinants of implementation effectiveness. The model suggests that collective human perceptions have an impact on successful implementa...

This study explores whether disconfirmation theory can explain satisfaction formation processes in library users. Both library users' needs and expectations are investigated as disconfirmation standards. Overall library user satisfaction is predicted to be a function of two independent sources—satisfaction with the information product received and...

In an empirical test and extension of Klein and Sorra’s [Acad. Manag. Rev. 21 (1996) 1055] model, the organization’s receptivity toward change, climate for implementation, and innovation-values fit are tested as determinants of implementation effectiveness. The model suggests that collective human perceptions have an impact on successful implementa...

In an empirical test and extension of Klein and Sorra’s [Acad. Manag. Rev. 21 (1996) 1055] model, the organization’s receptivity toward change, climate for implementation, and innovation-values fit are tested as determinants of implementation effectiveness. The model suggests that collective human perceptions have an impact on successful implementa...

Thirty-nine middle- and high-school mathematics teachers, located in 33 different New Jersey schools in 14 districts, were trained in the effective use of computer-based technologies for teaching mathematics. These 39 teachers were also trained and supported as mentor teachers who worked with 212 mentee teachers during Year 3 of the project. Thus,...

Research on escalation behavior has proposed that choice of an initial course of action, responsibility for decision outcomes, and negative decision consequences are necessary conditions for the escalation effect to occur. This proposition was tested in a sample of 257 undergraduates. Results show that although responsibility and negative decision...

This paper reviews the literature on structural model evaluation. It discusses the use of fit indices, the influential work of James, Mulaik, and Brett (1982), with emphasis on their prescriptions for model assessment, and recent developments in model evaluation presented since James et al. It then analyzes current modeling practices to determine h...

A frequently used type of model in applications of covariance structure analysis is one referred to as a multiple‐indicator regression model. This study takes a simulation approach to investigate seven parsimony‐based indices used to evaluate this type of model. Four representative theoretical models were examined, and the number of indicators used...