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On behalf of conference Chair and the Organizing Committee, it is a great pleasure and privilege to invite you and researchers from your university to take a part and present your state of the art knowledge paper of contemporary economic and business issues at 4th International Conference Contemporary Issues in Theory and Practice of Management CIT...

A call for papers for 'The Future of Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Vernon Lee Conference' 8-10 September 2023, organised by Sally Blackburn-Daniels (Teesside University, UK), Shafquat Towheed (The Open University, UK), Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino, and the International Vernon Lee Society.

Längst sind nutzerzentriertes Denken und die verschiedenen Disziplinen rund um die gezielte Gestaltung von Kunden- oder Anwender-Erlebnissen in Unternehmen angekommen. Aus einzelnen Mitarbeitern sind inzwischen Teams gewachsen. Nur: Was zeichnet einen erfolgreichen UX Leader aus? Welche Fähigkeiten, Kompetenzen und Instrumentarien muss er oder sie...

Design thinking is widely recognized as an alternative approach to innovation, but it can be challenging to implement, often conflicting with organizational structures, cultures, and processes. The practise of design thinking calls for a new mindset that moves past conventional approaches to innovation, and embraces ambiguity, risk-taking, and coll...

We are delighted to announce Sub-theme 53, "Organizing by and for the Commons: Alternative Values and Affective Intensities", that we are convening at EGOS 2023, in Cagliari. In this sub-theme, we explore everyday practices of commoning and the affective, embodied, social and political complexities of building, maintaining and reproducing the comm...

Strategic management and economics are jammed with thin accounts of the firm, where the inner workings of enterprises are left unexplained. This has been carried over to stakeholder scholarship, where sustainable enterprise behavior is a matter of ethical willpower rather than organizational mechanisms. This topic forum invites academics to contrib...

The purpose of the study is to identify the factors that motivate employees in the service and manufacturing firms in Bangladesh. In this study, 321 employees were surveyed and out of these, 256 were from the service while 65 were from the manufacturing organizations. The findings of the study indicate that job security and promotion are more influ...

تعد المناعة التنظيمية إحدي الأدوات الإستراتيجية التي تمكّن الشركات من الوصول إلى التميز والتفوق على المنافسين، ومن ثم تعزيز السمعة التنظيمية. ولقد استهدفت الدراسة الحالية التعرف على أثر المناعة التنظيمية بأبعادها الثلاثة المتمثلة في التعلم التنظيمي، والذاكرة التنظيمية والجينات التنظيمية على السمعة التنظيمية بشركات الطيران، كما هدفت الدراسة إلي تحدي...

The contribution describes a study on the organizational devices and the professional development programs carried out at the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) of the University of Siena and at the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) of the University of Macerata. The focus is on systemic actions capable to elicit innovation at an organizational level...

Godé, C., Lebraty J-F. et Barbaroux, P. (2023), “D’un système d’information résilient à un système d’information antifragile : illustrations à partir des organisations militaires », Les Cahiers Risques et Résilience.

Social Coding Platforms (SCPs) like GitHub have become central to modern software engineering thanks to their collaborative and version-control features. Like in mainstream Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, users of SCPs are subjected to privacy attacks and threats given the high amounts of personal and project-related data available...

The profound socioeconomic transformations implied by degrowth concern the way organisations create value. However, there are conceptual gaps regarding the forms and meanings of organisational value creation that are aligned with degrowth. Against this background, an integrative and systematic literature review of case studies of degrowth-oriented,...

Combining the results of two empirical studies, we investigate the role of alters’ motivation in explaining change in ego’s network position over time. People high in communal motives, who are prone to supportive and altruistic behavior in their interactions with others as a way to gain social acceptance, prefer to establish ties with co-workers oc...

Research in the "Sustainable HCI" community is shifting from individual to broader perspectives to enable more significant impacts from their insights for sustainable futures. A critical aspect of this shift is strengthening community engagement, where individuals come together to exchange ideas and practices around sustainability. In this study, w...

The Covid 19 pandemic has led to long-term disruption in the supply chain. Therefore, refocusing on the supplier selection process was a logical sequence. The new approach of viable suppliers appears as a solution to long-term disruption. This research aims to determine the importance of criteria in selecting suppliers within the Viable supplier fr...

The international conference 'Claiming the Land from Antiquity to Modern Times' will take place on 21 and 22 April 2023 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. It will be organised by the Münster School of Ancient Cultures.

Appel à Communication Entreprendre, agir et se singulariser dans un monde et une Afrique en mutations 25-27 Mai 2023 Brazzaville. Colloque international à l'occasion des trente ans de l'ESGAE. Formant depuis trente ans des cadres, futurs managers et entrepreneurs au Congo, l'ESGAE (Ecole Supérieure de Gestion et d'Administration des Entreprises) o...

Transaction platforms, such as Amazon and Uber, are emerging as central players in many segments of the global economy. Extant research has primarily focused on the impact of network effects on platform growth and rivalry, but not much is known about governance configurations in platforms and their impact on outcomes that are crucial to the long-te...

Metaverse is the buzzword of modern society. Practitioners and researchers have discussed metaverse platforms extensively, but the potential and meaning of the metaverse remain controversial. In this paper, we investigate and identify challenges that enable the potential of metaverse platforms. If these challenges are overcome, there will be value...

The research work is on the role and impact of knowledge management in promoting organizational growth. Research objectives were formulated as to ascertain if knowledge management is a practice in ESUT and if knowledge management contributes to effective learning in ESUT. Survey research were employed and ballot system of sampling was used to selec...

A study was conducted in 7 districts of Arunachal Pradesh, namely, Papumpare, Lower Subansiri, East Siang, West Siang, West Kameng, Namsai and Lohit. A total of 420 respondents were selected to determine the extent of participation of tribal farm women in diff erent fruit crop production activities along with the problems faced by them in diff eren...

Mithilfe des Workshop-Canvas werden Ideen und Potenziale für die digitale Transformation von den Mitarbeitenden entwickelt. Das Management der Firma nutzt so bewusst das kollektive Wissen der Organisation und stellt sicher, dass die Erfahrungen, Ideen und Verbesserungsvorschläge derjenigen Mitarbeitenden, die täglich im Ladengeschäft, in der Werkst...

This study investigates how sharing ventures address the paradox of doing good versus doing harm in their strategic decision-making. The doing good versus doing harm paradox refers to the difficulty of sharing ventures to balance the aim to benefit society and the environment while minimizing potential adverse effects. Understanding and addressing...

This article deals with the issues of managing organizational changes in Vietnamese enterprises after Covid-19 pandemic, also a remarkable moment of breakthrough change. The findings serve the needs of enhancing organizational capacity after change taking place in a comparison to that before the change taking place.

Organizational justice is known to help promote organizational sustainability. The literature has explained the impact of organizational justice relying heavily on the social exchange perspective, the idea that employees are motivated to show favorable attitudes in return for the fair rewards that organization has provided. To the contrary, little...

In a rapidly changing environment Nowadays, leadership has become a hot topic special interest. Organisational success requires the heads of organizations to Good at both management and leadership. The object of the event leaders are people, so a person Good leaders are those who have deep understanding human identity, from which it can attract and...

In the last decades, governments and international governmental organisations have been harshly criticised for their perceived failure to mitigate the environmental and social impacts of seafood production in a sustainable manner. In the 1990s, civil society stepped in, and public regulations were challenged by market-based initiatives. Since then,...

Make sure that your organisation's strategy is characterized by change, and that strategy guides change. Succeed in changing employee behaviour and realising the benefits changes are aimed at. The insights in this book are based on extensive practical experience and scientific research and offer unique knowledge to advance your change and strategy...

This article deals with the issues of managing cultural changes, and important issue of organizational changes in Vietnamese enterprises after Covid-19 pandemic, also a remarkable moment of breakthrough change. The findings serve the needs of enhancing organizational capacity and cultural sensitivity after change taking place in a comparison to tha...

Strategi är ett verb! Accelerera strategiarbetet och uppnå önskade resultat. Den här boken hjälper dig att förstå och påverka beteende i organisationer och är baserad i teori och praktik för strategi, beteendepsykologi, styrning och förändring. För att realisera strategi är vi helt beroende av medarbetares beteende. För att uppnå resultat behöver...

This study examines how MCSs may enable, constrain and embed the integrated reporting process within organisations. We analyse in-depth, semi-structured interview evidence using Tessier and Otley's MCS framework and institutional work. We find that organisational culture, clear responsibilities and ongoing stakeholder dialogue support the developme...

Human societies are organised on three main levels. On the ground level, we engage in person-to-person interactions and treat each other as having normative statuses: commitments and entitlements. On the second level, we treat each other as instantiating roles, like 'spouse', 'teacher', 'doctor', etc.; a practice that enables complex forms of labou...

This study aims to examine the influence of HRM practice on organizational performance, examine the influence of situational leadership on organizational performance, examine the influence of employee involvement on organizational performance, examine the influence of HRM practice on employee engagement, examine the influence of situational leaders...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between POS, JR, and Innovation, and to explore the role of job psychological empowerment as a mediator in this relationship. A structured questionnaire was distributed to 25 companies in the petrochemical industry. PLS-SEM 4 was used to analyze the data of 100 valid responses. These findings...

Death is an inevitable aspect of human existence. Human being has evolved the custom of honouring the deceased with organised burial arrangements. Each society, therefore, has different tradition for funeral arrangements and burial ceremonies. Among the Yoruba people, the deceased is honoured with elaborate funeral arrangements incurring huge expen...

The present study attributed to determining the influence of organizational structure on learners' achievement. For this purpose, a public and public-private partnership model adopted by schools was considered. A quantitative, descriptive approach was followed, and a survey technique was used. The study was delimited to Punjab province and also del...

─ This study aims to identify organizational and cultural challenges of eGovernment. This study involves two parts. In the first part of the study strategically important organizations, including all ministries and the pioneer public organizations that perform eGovernment projects are analyzed. In this research study, case study is used as a resear...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag geht von dem illustrativen Fallbericht einer islamischen Seelsorgerin in einem Krankenhaus aus. In einem zweiten Schritt wird die Empirie in einen größeren Zusammenhang gestellt: Es geht um das Rollenverständnis islamischer Seelsorgepersonen in einem interreligiösen Kontext, den Glauben muslimischer Patientinnen und Pati...

Purpose: This study analyzes the effects of organizational justice on the performance of tasks in the justice sector, divided by activity and position. Design/methodology/approach: We applied structural equations to a sample of 474 employees of the Public Prosecutor. Findings: A direct and positive effect of distributive justice and interactional j...

Quality assurance is the process of ensuring that products or services meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations. It is a set of activities that are designed to prevent defects, errors, and problems in products or services, and to ensure that they meet the desired quality standards. Quality assurance involves defining quality requiremen...

The ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ of modern education are overwhelmingly produced and tailored by the modern episteme, institutions, truths, and powers of the Global North. To find new ways of thinking and doing sociology, this paper will explore the outlines of a new Global Sociology of Education Imagination (GSEI) inspired by pre-modern epistemes se...

Sensemaking is a popular framework for studying the meaning-making dimensions of policy implementation, change initiatives, and practitioner action in education. While generative, it has traditionally offered less guidance on how certain organizational actors have formal and/or informal power to advance their version of events and how certain narra...

This study aims to investigate the effects of cultural differences on smartphone adoption by organizations in Canada and Turkey.Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized relationships based on the data collected by a survey of 141 Canadian and 213 Turkish organizations. Results indicate that cultural differences have a signific...

Online discourse covers a wide range of topics and many actors tailor their content to impact online discussions through carefully crafted messages and targeted campaigns. Yet the scale and diversity of online media content make it difficult to evaluate the impact of a particular message. In this paper, we present a new technique that leverages sem...

The young generation in rural South Sumatra has limitations in honing their confidence to appear in public. This condition made the Sriwijaya University FISIP Service team move to provide knowledge related to public speaking so that the young generation in rural South Sumatra, especially youth groups in Kandis Sub-district, could rise up and learn...

The article aims to show that reliable IT support was crucial for the survival and sustainability of organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article considers the negative effect of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the organisational sustainability of an organisation (i.e., organisational performance through employee job perfor...

Sedan början av 2000-talet har ett examensarbete varit en viktig del av grundlärarutbildningen. Tidigare forskning om examensarbeten har till största delen uppmärksammat skrivarprocessen, så som lärarstudenters och handledares erfarenheter av uppsatsskrivande eller så har frågan om examensarbetarnas kvalitet varit fokus för forskningen. Till skilln...

The modern economy affects the development of entrepreneurship in the field of Physical Culture and sports, the increase in the number of owners of physical education and sports organizations, the increase in the diversity of their organizational and legal forms, and the improvement of the quality of physical education and sports services. As in al...

The paper explores several models of culture such as Hofstede's, Schein's, De Vries', and Trompenaars & Hampden-Turner's, with an emphasis on Abdul Razack's Malay Model of Culture in looking at power, politics and business leadership among the Malay-Muslims in Malaysia. Following the exploration and comparative angles of the selected models of cult...

Organizational goals are assigned to individuals, and thus differ from goals that individuals voluntarily adopt. The Carnegie School has a significant research stream on how organizations are affected by goals, with a focus on how disappointing performance disrupts regular organizational behavior and triggers a search for alternative actions. We ha...

The phenomenon of population decline—with all its associated economic, environmental and social consequences—characterizes many small rural municipalities. This study aims to discuss the role that small rural municipalities can have in addressing this phenomenon by promoting rural regeneration and attracting newcomers. The framework of the analysis...

In Zeiten ständiger Veränderungen im Bildungsbereich sowie des Personalmangels erfährt Personalentwicklung an Schulen gesteigerte Aufmerksamkeit. Besonders wichtig wird es zukünftig sein, Berufseinsteiger*innen zu gewinnen und möglichst lange am Standort zu behalten. Die Gestaltung eines Onboarding-Prozesses erfordert durchdachte Maßnahmen. Beispie...

Public opinion on how “conservation should be done” can influence the design and success of conservation initiatives, but existing instruments for measuring conservation attitudes are inaccessible to non-expert audiences. This study develops a new psychometric survey instrument to measure conservation attitudes across key dimensions of “conservatio...

Zāwiya, as a polysemous term, refers to a Sufi institution, just as the concepts of khanqāh and ribāṭ (Sufi lodges). On the other hand, however, it also denotes more modest architectural and organizational institutions built in suburban areas. Nevertheless, the term zāwiya has also been employed in the Syro-Egyptian region for describing the instit...

In this chapter, firstly, the concept of emotion and the structures of emotions, which have an important effects in shaping human thoughts and behaviors, are tried to be explained. Then, the importance of emotions in organizational life is mentioned and it is focused on which possible results affect emotions in organizational life. Afterwards, the...

The need to foster resilience amongst young people with intellectual disabilities is increasingly recognised within policy. Critically, understanding of the actual means by which this aspiration might be most sensitively and effectively met is considered weak. This paper reports on an exploratory case-study of a social enterprise community café-The...

This introduces the reader to the Great Reset of management and organization theory. Concepts are discussed and six cases are presented, provoking thought, debate, and dialogue for or against a Great Reset of management and organization theory. We conclude that management and organisation theorists might rather study than advocate or co-perform res...

Introduction: The execution of upper endoscopy at the proper time is key to correctly managing patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB). Nonetheless, the definition of “time” for endoscopic examinations in UGIB patients is imprecise. The primary aim of this study was to verify whether the different definitions of “time” (i.e., the sympt...

Background: This study examines how organizations can achieve business model innovation under the pressing COVID-19 conditions by leveraging two complementary capabilities, i.e., improvisational and dynamic capabilities driven by enterprise architecture (EA). We argue that EA-driven improvisational and dynamic capabilities ensure the adaptiveness o...

In this book the focus is on graphic design. The practice of graphic design is as old as recorded history. The purpose of work with graphic design is to find a suitable presentation for the content with respect to the receiver, the subject matter, the medium, and the financial situation. Within a given area, such as a page in a book, a poster, a la...

Roadmap sales & marketing is a medium- to long-term solution sales & marketing conducted by teams. Compared to one off sales & marketing, the sales scale will be dozens of times. As a result, Company X changed its sales & marketing strategy from improving the efficiency of one-time sales to roadmap sales & marketing; however, the sales organization...

Objective of the study: In this paper, we will analyze the moderating effect of financial performance exerts on the interaction of absorptive capacity and organizational performance. Methodology / approach: A conceptual model was developed to assess the relationship between absorptive capacity, financial performance, and organizational performance...

The poor performance of local health workers in Indonesia has often been voiced in the regional health facility. This study investigates whether the bureaucratic behaviour, facilities and infrastructure, and organizational culture will increase local health workers' motivation and job performance. This study collects data from 22 local health facil...

The study aimed to investigate managers’ perceptions of telework in relation to the work environment and the performance of their organizations. It was grounded on interviews with 17 managers from public and private organizations in Sweden using a phenomenographic research approach. The managers had experience in leading employees who teleworked, a...

The basic purpose of this research study was to investigate the relationship of employees' perceived organizational support with their turnover intention and affective commitment in the life insurance industry of India. A sample of 400 employees was selected from seven insurance companies present in Bhubaneswar city, India. All the primary data wer...

Many published researches are rich with generic digital transformation (DT) maturity models and frameworks. However, there is little in the literature that address the DT development areas in emerging economic environments. To fill this gap, this paper proposes an integrative approach that includes specific development areas pertaining to the succe...

Organizational adoption of new technologies is a practically important research area. The present study aims to investigate the impact of perceived security on organizational adoption of mobile communication technologies, specifically smartphones. For this purpose, a research model is developed extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The r...

The preprint is a manuscript accepted to Perspectives in Psychiatric Care for publication and demonstrates the result of our study regarding caregiver experiences on caregiver burden and social support in an urban not-for-profit organisation. The study highlights the significance and feasibility of such support in any population.

The Defence Lines of Development (DLOD) used by the Ministry of Defence encompass all elements of military capability. Historical study of military capabilities does not use a similar or equivalent model. Richard Fisher describes how the current DLOD model can be used to analyse historical capabilities. He provides an objective approach to any comp...

Organizations transmit confidential data over networks and other devices during their activity and information security describes the discipline dedicated to the protection of such information and to the systems used to process or store them. This document proposes the study of computer security and its general description. It also offers numerous...

Responding to concerns raised by Michael Billig (2018) regarding the functions of humour in capitalist organisations, this essay strives to convey how humour and satire can have liberating and empowering affordances for subjects in organisational contexts as they can potentially intervene in the negotiation and exercise of power through fostering n...

Successful research environment requires joint effort by individual researchers, research groups and the organization. This chapter describes the basic principles and good research practices in the context of the research environment and serves as a guide to good, responsible research for research newcomers – researchers at the beginning of their s...

This speech act research is a qualitative research with descriptive analysis to describe the form of speech acts in the interaction between students when organizing. Data collection methods in this study include observation, note-taking techniques, recording, and interviews. The form of the data is the speech used by students who are involved in st...

Relying on the literature on tensions and contradictions and the theory of practice, coupled with the literature on creative industries, this study uncovers how creative entrepreneurs balance the tension between art and business and respond to other challenges of creative entrepreneurship. The multiple case studies method is adopted by examining fo...

Introduction: Identities that lie outside of exclusively male and female, such as non-binary and genderqueer, have become increasingly more prevalent and visible within recent years. However, to date, the role of terminology in the development of such gender identities has been under-researched. This study aims to: (1) Examine what role terminology...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between work stress, employee engagement, employee well-being, and employee and organizational resilience, in order to develop a model that can be used to investigate the effects of these variables on organization performance. A quantitative approach was used and structural equation...

Hanna Schimek lebt und arbeitet als Künstlerin in Wien, ab 1984 in Zusammenarbeit mit Gustav Deutsch. Die Schwerpunkte ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit liegen in folgenden Bereichen: Konzeption, Organisation und Realisation interdisziplinärer Kunstprojekte; Malerei, Foto- und Textarbeiten zu soziokulturellen Themenbereichen; künstlerische Forschungsarbe...

Organizational culture includes a large and complex set of elements, many that are difficult to identify, such as values, norms and cultural forms, and these elements can be found embedded across all organizational activities and practices (e.g., direction and control processes, reward systems, communication patterns etc.). The organizational found...

How does the increasingly dense network of overlapping institutions in global governance affect the design of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)? We argue that institutional overlap can unleash mimicking dynamics whereby states design new IGOs using the design of existing organizations that engage in similar issue areas and perform similar gove...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) initiated a uniform set of non-tariff measures in 1995, which are now considered as emerging barriers in world trade patterns. The non-tariff measures impede the export of WTO member states. The WTO has asked its members to limit tariff rates. Hence, members have left with only option to levy non-tariff barriers t...

Costs have, and always will be, at the centre of environmental decision-making, but until now, there hasn’t been a consistent way to estimate the resources needed to manage key biodiversity threats. Australia is a mega-biodiverse nation whose biodiversity faces significant threatening processes over vast landscapes, tenures and ecosystem types. Reg...

In Miguel de Cervantes masterpiece, chapter X of the first Book, Don Quixote de la Mancha speaks to Sancho Panza about a magical medicine, the balm of Fierabras, It is taken and people are spared from being afraid of dying or getting hurt. This fearlessness becomes a ritual that permeates the intrepid adventures of the ill-fated knight of the sad f...

Dünyada ve ülkemizde faaliyet gösteren bankaların büyük çoğunluğu kurdukları şube yapılanmaları ile müşterilerinin ürün ve hizmetlerini karşılamaktadırlar. Söz konusu yapılanmalar gerek şubelerin kendi aralarında gerekse şubeler ile genel müdürlük birimleri arasında bazı işlemlerin gerçekleştirilmesi gerekliliğini ortaya çıkarmaktadır. Bu tarz muha...

Legal Aid is a right owned by a suspect/defendant to assist the suspect/defendant at various stages of the ongoing trial process. Investigators at this stage of the investigation process are required to give suspects the right to be accompanied by legal advisers regardless of the economic status of the suspect so that during the investigation proce...

This research concerns the development of a parametric format for the semantic description of 3D city models. Following a brief review of the state of the art, the case study is introduced (an historical city block in Catania) whose geometries will be semantically organised through the VPL Grasshopper.

Background In recent years, the issue of suicide caused by the stress of a contradictory relationship between graduate students and academic supervisors has aroused heated discussion in society. Based on the interpersonal psychological theory of suicide, this study aims to examine the influence of the perceived abusive supervision on graduate stude...

The article presents examples of the use of portable bridge structures in civil engineering. Due to the possibility of combining elements of these structures into a variety of complex spatial arrangements, they could be widely used. Various technologies and principles of organisation of the construction of engineering structures of pre-fabricated b...

This study aims to analyze the implications of the organizational environmental sustainability business model in green technology innovation. It departs assuming that the implementation of green technology innovation in organizations must be supported by an environmentally sustainable business model. The method employed is the analytical reflection...

The study of success factors and constraints of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) helps in improving the functioning of FPOs by providing valuable policy insights. Therefore, a study was conducted with 120 members of an FPO in Kandhamal district of Odisha in 2021 to delineate the success factors and constraints. Data were analysed using TOPSIS m...

Purpose This paper aims to show the role of employees’ self-regulation in defining the effect of job demands on employees’ burnout. Moreover, the paper also highlights the importance of a high-performance work system (HPWS) on the relation between job demands and employee self-regulation. Design/methodology/approach Data has been collected from pu...