{"title":"The influence of temporary time offs from work on employer attractive-ness – An experimental study","authors":"Sarah Altmann, Stefan Suess","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-4-282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-4-282","url":null,"abstract":"By offering temporary time off programs, companies aim at increasing their employer attractiveness. However, little is known about whether temporary time off programs increase the attractiveness of employers and to what extent this effect is shaped by how temporary time off programs are designed. Using signaling theory, we propose that potential employees receive signals from temporary time off programs that influ-ence the employer attractiveness and that this influence is moderated by risk aversion. Against this background, our article presents an experimental investigation of the in-fluence of temporary time off programs on employer attractiveness. It was shown that only paid temporary time off programs have a positive effect on employer attractive-ness, and that risk-averse individuals perceive companies that offer paid temporary time off programs as more attractive. The results indicate that the design of temporary time off programs and the level to which potential employees are risk-averse have a general effect on employer attractiveness.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122906980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unpacking performance benefits of innovation ambidexterity: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry","authors":"Osamu Suzuki","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-4-328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-4-328","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars argue that there is a positive relationship between organizational performance and simultaneous pursuit of exploitation and exploration, or organizational ambidexterity. However, prior work on performance benefits enabled by organizational ambidexterity does not separately examine two distinct mechanisms underlying this positive relationship. Our manuscript advances the literature on organizational ambidexterity by explicating the difference across alternative complementary relationships between exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation, namely a mutually compensatory relationship and a mutually enabling relationship. Our empirical analysis of 50 pharmaceutical firms’ degree of innovation ambidexterity and subsequent firm performance supports the argument. Our findings provide us a more detailed anatomy of mechanisms in which ambidexterity enables favorable organizational performance.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122985037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Success factors in Balanced Scorecard implementations – A literature review","authors":"R. Lueg, Louisa Vu","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-4-306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-4-306","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses Buchanan et al.’s (2005) framework of change to systematically synthesize the empirical literature on the implementation processes of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). We specifically examine which critical success factors (CSFs) have been neglected so far, but may play a substantial role in improving BSC implementations. While some CSFs are intuitive (such as top management support), others seem to be overrated by the conceptual literature (e.g., the speed of the implementation). Most importantly, the BSC literature has some blind spots that relate to cost-benefit analyses of the BSC, the impacts of management skills and leadership, power and politics, organizational culture, and public discourse.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129437288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time to teach: Revisiting teaching time in German higher education","authors":"Alexander Mitterle, R. Block, Carsten Wuermann","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-203","url":null,"abstract":"An important question in the study of academic work is how much time academics spend on teaching. Large-scale workload-measurements point to the fact that in nearly all cases academics spend more hours per week on teaching than they ought to. Yet in qualitative interviews academics struggle to estimate weekly worktime counts considerably. In this article we investigate the way teaching time is constructed in German universities. We argue that weekly clock-time measurements do not provide an adequate picture of teaching time compared to how it is structured and experienced by academics. Teaching time rather evolves from the time classification of the weekly contact hour (SWS) and produces different time frames depending on how courses are allocated, coordinated, conceptualized, prepared, conducted and how students are supervised or examined. By following the trajectory of the SWS through the activities of teaching we propose to concentrate less on how much time academics work but rather why time de- and inflates and how this affects teaching experience.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128482879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between work and non-work: Institutional settings of boundary management in case of German self-employed lawyers","authors":"I. Rybnikova, Joseph L. Krueger","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-253","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the boundary theory (Nippert-Eng, 1996a) and the concept of institutional framework according to Piszczek and Berg (2014), we explore in this paper the link between institutional settings and boundary management practices in the case of self-employed German lawyers. Qualitative empirical results on the basis of 12 interviews reveal that the institutional context in case of self-employed lawyers combine “discretionary”, “bureaucratic” and “greedy” (Nippert-Eng, 1996a) elements which consist of legal requirements, expectations of clients and family-related demands. Ways of dealing with institutional requirements (complying, resisting, and negotiating) in terms of boundary management of self-employed lawyers are discussed.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124196756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working time arrangements and family time of fathers: How work organization(s) shape fathers’ opportunities to engage in childcare","authors":"Thordis Reimer","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-227","url":null,"abstract":"This analysis takes the diagnosis of a gap between German fathers’ attitudes and practices as starting point to analyze the influence of the work organization on a father’s time with his children. With qualitative interview data and quantitative diary data, the fathers´ ideals and their practices are confronted systematically. It is found that fathers´ work time arrangements may influence the availability of time they have for their children. Here, not only the amount of time is crucial but also the possibilities for the flexible organization of work. However, work organizations influence childcare practices mainly through the work culture which shapes the employed fathers´ anticipated options.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129600143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemporary calendar management: Exploring the intersections of groupware and personal calendars","authors":"Sharon McKechnie, J. Beatty","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-3-185","url":null,"abstract":"Individuals create spatial, temporal, and psychological boundaries to maintain personal role preferences. We analyze semi-structured interviews with 22 working professionals to study how employees manage their electronic calendars to achieve their boundary management preferences. We explore the patterns and tensions in calendar practices, including the processes people use to manage their boundaries and the factors that influence how employees use groupware calendars. The results show that in addition to the classic boundary management preferences for segmentation and integration, individuals also have preferences for keeping group calendar information public or private. We also find that personal boundary management preferences are constrained by organizational systems and norms about calendar use. Key factors in individuals’ calendar structures are the technological affordances of visuality, synchronization, and proactivity. Boundary breaches highlight problems with the use of taken-for-granted technologies and spur individuals to develop new processes to work around organizational policies or expectations that do not fit with individual preferences. The study expands boundary management theories by introducing the concept of public and private information.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131762766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs: Implications for growth and performance","authors":"Anna M. Kunttu, Lasse Torkkeli","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-2-83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-2-83","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the relationship between the management of innovations and internationalization among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The literature has yielded mixed results on how innovation impacts internationalization and performance of SMEs, while simultaneously neglecting the role of service innovations (SI), in particular. Thus, using a sample of 104 Finnish SMEs, we examine how engaging in SI impacts their growth, international performance and international expansion. We find that engaging in SI has a positive relationship with international performance, but not with the growth or degree of internationalization (DOI) among the companies. We then discuss the implications on innovation management and corporate strategy.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122536126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Success factors of virtual research teams – Does distance still matter?","authors":"A. Hanebuth","doi":"10.5771/0935-9915-2015-2-161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2015-2-161","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose of the exploratory study in this paper is to provide a first test of the transferability of success factors known from virtual teams to an innovative virtual research team. Investigating a real R&D cooperation with two virtual (regional & national) and one local research groups permits a comparative analysis of the influence of geographical distance. Though success factors seem to be somehow transferable, the geographical distance is still an influencing factor on the perception in virtual research teams. Based on results of this case study and 18 interviews, a ranking of success factors is provided which may help research managers in understanding where to place emphasis situationally on in order to successfully manage a virtual research team.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131375206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of HRM and their effect on dimensions of innovative work behaviour: Evidence from a manufacturing firm","authors":"A. Veenendaal, T. Bondarouk","doi":"10.1688/MREV-2015-02-VEENENDAAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1688/MREV-2015-02-VEENENDAAL","url":null,"abstract":"Research has shown that employees’ innovative work behaviour is important for the competitive advantage of organizations. However, the question of how this innovative work behaviour can be stimulated remains unanswered. The purpose of this paper is to test empirically the effect of perceptions of four high-commitment HR practices on three dimensions of innovative work behaviour by production workers. Disentangling three dimensions of innovative work behaviour makes it conceptually possible to determine how perceived HRM can stimulate three different behavioural types linked to idea generation, idea championing, and idea application. The results of a survey among 328 workers in a Dutch manufacturing company show that four perceived HR practices (supportive supervision, training and development, information sharing, and compensation) have an effect on all three dimensions of innovative work behaviour. Overall, positively perceived supportive supervision was found to be the most beneficial practice for innovative work behaviour.","PeriodicalId":422075,"journal":{"name":"management revue. Socio-economic Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121494922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}