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Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library
Show moreThis paper proposes a research initiative to investigate the factors that may inhibit women from entering their family’s business in a managerial or decision making capacity. Based on a review of the literature, very few women become successors in family firms. In 1994 only 2% of CEO’s in family businesses were female. Yet, despite the abundance of literature on succession in family businesses, few studies have examined the experience of daughters of family business owners. Some literature investigates the experience of daughters who have entered their family’s business, but research on daughters who have not entered their family’s business is negligible. Family businesses are known to be complex systems that generally do not survive past the first generation. Information from this study could reveal positive and negative practices that may ultimately contribute to the success or failure of the business. Basing our model on Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (1991) we examine the influences of behavior beliefs, subjective norm, self-efficacy, identity, and observational learning on the decision making process of offspring to enter, or not enter, the family-business.
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Show moreCorporate funding for executive education (EE) programs perceived as too academic and not sufficiently relevant has waned in recent years. Previous investigations conducted at the macro level point to a disconnect between science and practice in business schools, but no micro level studies have explored how faculty and managers of EE programs experience and cope with conflicting orientations that might influence the design and delivery of EE programs. Irrespective of EE program ranking, our findings reveal enduring tensions resulting from structural and social differences between the two. Both EE faculty and EE managers feel constrained by these tensions and exercise agency to overcome them in delivering EE programs. To the potential detriment of EE programs, however, their efforts relieve only some structural sources of tension, leaving social identity differences between the groups unchanged. This impedes the emergence of deep, authentic collaboration in developing custom EE programs that can reverse waning corporate loyalty.
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Show moreThe instrument for industrial pollution control in Nigeria is the “command and control” approach. It specifies the adoption of technology for a firm’s compliance with statutory permissible levels of wastewater effluent parameters. However, the industrial pollution laws are poorly enforced. Previous studies indicate there has been some adoption of cleaner technologies by some industries. However, it is uncertain whether the driver of the eco-innovation is the environmental policy or whether other factors are involved. The pulp and paper industry is a sector in which environmental developments will significantly affect future economic performance. This sector depends on forest resources and recycled paper for its raw materials. It is one of the most energy intensive of all industries; emits a wide range of toxic and conventional pollutants to air, water and land; and is one of the largest contributors to the solid waste stream. The purpose of this study is to investigating the drivers of environment-benign technologies in the pulp and paper industry in Nigeria. The study attempts to identify empirically the conditions under which cleaner technologies have been adopted, leading to competitiveness in the pulp and paper industry in Nigeria. This research will be conducted through a qualitative approach using individual structured interviews of conversation and narrative (phenomenological) with participants through the use of a natural flowing dialogue of questions and answers. Twenty five interviews will be conducted covering selected pulp and paper industries, relevant government ministries, selected national research institutes and professional associations within the pulp and paper industries. Data analysis will be carried out using open coding, axial coding and selected coding with a combination of intelligent qualitative analysis coding software, qualrus and manual coding. The findings from the study will document firm characteristics, ownership structure, and rate of adoption of eco-innovation technologies within the pulp and paper industry in Nigeria. The results of the study will also document the drivers of environment-benign technologies in the Nigerian small, medium and large scale pulp and paper industry. The study will also indicate the conditions under which cleaner technologies can drive competitiveness in each segment of the Nigerian pulp and paper industry.
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Show moreWe propose qualitative research to understand how majority and minority undergraduate college students construe meaningful intercultural experiences (MIEs), under what circumstances these experiences are likely to occur, and to what extent they lead to deep-level diversity in voluntary organizations. This research will facilitate greater understanding of the enabling and constraining factors that affect MIEs. The conceptual framework for this research focuses on individuals engaging in sustained interactions of favorable contact with diverse group members who are willing to move outside of their “comfort zones” and develop cross-cultural skills. The interview sample will focus on undergraduate student members and alumni of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service organization. The prevalence of homophilous groups acts to inhibit the formation of crosscultural networks and skills (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Cook, 2001), while heterogeneous groups have a broader range of knowledge, expertise, and perspectives and also produces higher-quality solutions to complex problems (Hoffman, 1959). Organizations with a superordinate mission who maintain Ely and Thomas’ (2001) “integration-and-learning” perspective may develop a culture of diversity that helps individuals learn from members’ diverse experiences and gain bridging social capital. Understanding the influence of MIEs on organizational diversity will provide insight into ways organizations can move beyond representative diversity to pluralistic diversity (Harrison, Price, and Bell, 1998).
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Show moreIn Israel, an innovative program called Entrepreneur/ Executive in Residency (EIR) was initiated by venture capital firms to increase the probability that ICT startup/seed ventures will be funded. EIR programs help VCs to maintain 6%-10% of their portfolio (measured in invested dollars per year) in ventures in the startup/seed stage. This research, based on qualitative interviews with Israeli VC executives and entrepreneurs who participate in EIR programs, promotes understanding about how EIR programs work to increase the perceived confidence coefficient of the VC partners until it overcomes the “equity gap” that exists in assessing startup/seed entrepreneurial deals. Variant types of trust (goodwill trust and competence trust) and the exercise of certain controls (most importantly, social control) are seen to influence perceived future transaction and monitoring costs that comprise the “equity gap.”
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Show moreTheories of technology product adoption and diffusion fail to adequately explain social contagion or viral growth. Additionally, the role of product design in users propensity to use and recommend products is both understudied and poorly understood. To address a vexing gap in knowledge about what explains viral growth, we conducted ethnographic interviews with technology executives and users of two social networking sites that have experienced dramatically different growth patterns. Our findings reveal that product co-production and user self identity- not product attributes fuel viral growth. Social networking products co-produced by users and providers, with meaning socially constructed by customers, permit users to more effectively establish and maintain their self-identities and are far more likely to result in social contagion than are engineering-centric products. User experiences with Facebook and Friendster and organizational responses to them demonstrate the role of self identity and in particular five specific selves on viral growth.
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