Bad Publicity Research Articles

35 years of research on business intelligence process: a synthesis of a fragmented literature

PurposeThe business intelligence (BI) research witnessed a proliferation of contributions during the past three decades, yet the knowledge about the interdependencies between the BI process and organizational context is scant. This has resulted in a proliferation of fragmented literature duplicating identical endeavors. Although such pluralism expands the understanding of the idiosyncrasies of BI conceptualizations, attributes and characteristics, it cannot cumulate existing contributions to better advance the BI body of knowledge. In response, this study aims to provide an integrative framework that integrates the interrelationships across the BI process and its organizational context and outlines the covered research areas and the underexplored ones.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews 120 articles spanning the course of 35 years of research on BI process, antecedents and outcomes published in top tier ABS ranked journals.FindingsBuilding on a process framework, this review identifies major patterns and contradictions across eight dimensions, namely, environmental antecedents; organizational antecedents; managerial and individual antecedents; BI process; strategic outcomes; firm performance outcomes; decision-making; and organizational intelligence. Finally, the review pinpoints to gaps in linkages across the BI process, its antecedents and outcomes for future researchers to build upon.Practical implicationsThis review carries some implications for practitioners and particularly the role they ought to play should they seek actionable intelligence as an outcome of the BI process. Across the studies this review examined, managerial reluctance to open their intelligence practices to close examination was omnipresent. Although their apathy is understandable, due to their frustration regarding the lack of measurability of intelligence constructs, managers manifestly share a significant amount of responsibility in turning out explorative and descriptive studies partly due to their defensive managerial participation. Interestingly, managers would rather keep an ineffective BI unit confidential than open it for assessment in fear of competition or bad publicity. Therefore, this review highlights the value open participation of managers in longitudinal studies could bring to the BI research and by extent the new open intelligence culture across their organizations where knowledge is overt, intelligence is participative, not selective and where double loop learning alongside scholars is continuous. Their commitment to open participation and longitudinal studies will help generate new research that better integrates the BI process within its context and fosters new measures for intelligence performance.Originality/valueThis study provides an integrative framework that integrates the interrelationships across the BI process and its organizational context and outlines the covered research areas and the underexplored ones. By so doing, the developed framework sets the ground for scholars to further develop insights within each dimension and across their interrelationships.

Honesty Is the Best Policy

Honesty Is the Best Policy

Risk and Benefit of Outsourcing in Southern Part of Ethiopia: A Case of MAA Garment and Textile Factory

The main objective of this study is to assess the perceived and existed benefits and problems of outsourcing on two outsourced functions of the organization. To select respondents for this study purposive sampling were used. The collected questionnaires were analyzed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) computer program. As result of the study indicated both outsourced functions brought many benefits to the organization. The most important benefits are focus on core activities, Cost and efficiency saving, continuity and risk management and operational control. Hence, the managers of the organization have gotten relief on following the routine problems which is related to noncore activities. On the contrary, the factory faces little challenges which can easily avoided, these are Loss of managerial control, Bad publicity and Tied to the financial well-being of other company.

Automatically Signaling Quality? A Study of the Fairness-Economic Tradeoffs in Reducing Bias through AI/ML on Digital Platforms

Digital platforms have a widely-documented issue with bias, which can impact their bottom line via missed opportunities, bad publicity, or even legal action. There is evidence that bias decreases when a platform conveys a signal of quality for underrepresented groups. This paper studies the practicalities of implementing a fair and equitable designation of quality for crowdfunding projects and the potential economic tradeoffs. In particular, we investigate Kickstarter.com’s Projects We Love (PWL) badge. We perform an observational and simulation study that leverages cutting-edge algorithmic fairness techniques to equitably distribute PWLs. We examine the distribution of PWLs across a sensitive attribute (race) and find that PWLs help underrepresented groups yet are distributed inequitably. We use cutting-edge algorithmic fairness techniques to identify projects with high PWL-propensity that would otherwise be overlooked. We find that distributing the PWL badge in an equitable way results in comparable performance on business objectives while decreasing disparities in both PWL designation and success for an underrepresented group. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to study the business implications of implementing algorithmic fairness recommendations on digital platforms and the potential economic tradeoffs therein.

Franz Liszt: Sprache und Theatralität des Virtuosen / Franz Liszt: Langage et mise en scène de la virtuosité ed. by Thomas Betzwieser and Sarah Mauksch

Reviewed by: Franz Liszt: Sprache und Theatralität des Virtuosen / Franz Liszt: Langage et mise en scène de la virtuosité ed. by Thomas Betzwieser and Sarah Mauksch Vincent Kling Thomas Betzwieser and Sarah Mauksch, eds., with the collaboration of Markus Schneider, Franz Liszt: Sprache und Theatralität des Virtuosen / Franz Liszt: Langage et mise en scène de la virtuosité. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019. 200 pp. The right lens can often bring dim realities into sharp focus, as this volume of studies on Franz Liszt clearly attests. Until fairly recently, the label of "virtuoso" largely consigned him to the status of circus performer or showbiz phenomenon purveying trash with flash on a staggering technical level to advance his cult of personality. Thanks to the emergence of media studies, though, the phenomenon of virtuosity has yielded important new insights into composition and performance in the last century and a half. In their title, the editors candidly link theatricality to the virtuosic, and while they do not argue that there's no such thing as bad publicity, their lively, fascinating collection reveals the extent to which media superstardom (think Liszt's contemporaries Paganini and Lord Byron) is not incompatible with artistic legitimacy. Heinz von Loesch poses the question as to why Alfred Brendel or Martha Argerich, Clara Schumann or Johann Nepomuk Hummel are not called virtuosi while Liszt and others are. That question leads to his fourfold definition of the term (13–16), starting with the simple designation of the "virtuoso" as the professional performer, not the composer, and expanding to include technical mastery aimed at brilliance ("Pomp, Macht-und Klangfülle, Akkord-und Oktaventechnik," 15), and, at its highest, a "Phänomen der Selbstdarstellung […] eine Haltung, bei der der ausübende Musiker nicht eine Funktion des 'Werkes' ist, sondern umgekehrt das Werk die Funktion der Selbstdarstellung" (15). It is this latter aspect that has made Liszt in particular [End Page 79] seem so cheesy, a view that Loesch's reproductions of hilarious caricatures by Wilhelm Busch (19, 21) only bolsters. As to caricatures, it seems impossible to this reviewer that anyone could read Cécile Raynaud's article "Les premières caricatures de Liszt parues dans la presse et la littérature satiriques en France" with its many illustrations (149–66) without laughing out loud. The flying hair, the hieratic poses, the erotic posturing, the need for adulation are all captured in an article that offers vital insights into nineteenth-century concepts of art. However maliciously these caricatures may have been meant (though most have too much humorous good will to be nasty), they show from our present perspective that being lampooned is a form of triumph in itself. Reynaud has combed museums, archives, and journals from the time to give a lively picture (literally) of the extent to which Liszt as personality occupied public awareness. The scholar of literature will also be fascinated not only by writers' reactions to the Liszt phenomenon but also by the often reciprocal exercises in virtuosity that some writers evoked in Liszt. Francis Claudon's "Liszt et Hugo: romantisme et virtuosité" (45–54) provides examples of Victor Hugo's astonishing effects in language, citing "Les djinns" from Les orientales and then Les contemplations and Les voix intérieures for their highly effect-laden, masterful, dazzling complexity in rhythm and rhyme. "Mazeppa" from Les orientales (the poem inspired in turn by Lord Byron) is the basis of Liszt's staggering showpiece of the same title, the fourth of the Douze études d'execution transcendentales—that étude was then dedicated to Victor Hugo. One of the subtitles of Michelle Biget-Mainfroy's article "Quelques opinions sur la virtuosité da la fin du XVIIIe siècle aux années 1860" (25–43) suggests that virtuosi could be equated with performing monkeys ("un tour de singe savant?"); her question is validated by the extremes of linguistic excess Alkan indulges in his performance directions (29), for example, while Marie-Hélène Rybicki, in "Comment l'entendez-vous? Stylistique de la critique de la virtuosité, á l'exemple de Paganini et Liszt" (77–92) cites passages from Théophile Gautier and others (that section is subtitled "Fleurs de...

Reputational Risks: A Practical Perspective

This article discusses reputational risk from the perspective of what companies actually experience reputationally. As well, the concept of what is reputational risk is canvassed – is it risk to stock price, risk of lower profits, or merely risk of bad publicity that affects neither. When does reputational risk affect profits or stock price. The article also differentiates between reputational risk arising from defective products which directly affect the consumer, or perceived financial risk to the company which may result in their inability to complete a project, which directly affects the customer, and risks that are not direct to the customer or consumers. Thus, reputational risks resulting from human rights issues in the supply chain, or from the opprobrium of engaging in corruption (not the potential financial penalties that may be imposed on the company for corruption) Similarly, reputational risk as it relates to investors is analyzed, differentiating between financial risks which may materialize that will reduce profits (eg fines for corruption) in the same way that a drop in sales will reduce profits, and risks to the company which do not have an immediate or short term financial risk.

Governance and management challenges in establishing Robben Island as a National Museum and a World Heritage Institution in post-apartheid South Africa

This article focuses on the governance and management challenges in establishing Robben Island as a world class National Museum and a World Heritage Site. The first democratically elected government of South Africa identified it to be established as a National Museum and World Heritage site. Robben Island conjures in the minds of South Africans, images of the hardship and suffering brought about by the apartheid system of the previous regime. Over the past twenty-seven years, RIM had been beset with governance and management challenges and received continual bad publicity. The article provides an understanding of what the major governance and managerial challenges were and makes recommendations to improve the management of the museum, based on the findings that emanated from the study.

Brands, ‘weightless’ firms and global value chains: the organisational impact of trade mark law

AbstractThe Rana Plaza disaster of April 2013 was the most prominent of several incidents that have highlighted poor standards of business behaviour in the supply chains of well-known brands. Analysis of these incidents has attributed these poor standards to an institutional structure in which lead firms with strategic power outsource production into global value chains and pursue business models that involve rapid product upgrading and require low costs and fast turnarounds in production such as the garment industry's ‘fast fashion’ business model. This paper aims to complement that analysis by showing how trade marks, as the main legal anchors of brands, have reinforced the strategic power of lead firms, enabled them to outsource production and encouraged them to adopt business models of this kind. The paper will also evaluate the claim that brands mitigate their harmful effects by transmitting countervailing pressure back onto their owners because they provide salient targets for bad publicity and blame, as coverage of the Rana Plaza disaster showed, which can threaten their owners with reputational damage. It will be argued that this countervailing pressure has a limited effect and cannot be relied on without more to address the issues that the Rana Plaza disaster revealed.

No such thing as bad publicity? A quantitative content analysis of print media representations of primary care out-of-hours services

ObjectiveTo explore how out-of-hours primary healthcare services (OOHS) are represented in UK national newspapers, focusing on content and tone of reporting and the use of personal narratives to frame stories.DesignA...

Such a thing as bad publicity?

In The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World, Jennifer E Rothman takes the reader on a fascinating journey from the inception of the publicity right in the USA, through its development and expansion, concluding by contextualizing it against copyright and free speech. She explores in depth the origins of publicity in privacy, and the fraught relationship between them over 200-odd years, all the while maintaining a taught critique by of publicity. Her clear, direct style and the odd, deft use of dry humour to underscore her thesis make this an enjoyable and informative read. The right of publicity is a distinctly American legal issue, which makes this a distinctly American book. While the publicity right may not have a counterpart in UK law,1 the related concepts of privacy, endorsement and control over the use of a person’s own identity are pertinent issues for policy and society. (Moreover, Rothman reveals just how rapidly the publicity right developed out of virtually nowhere through impressive historical research and out-of-this-world metaphors, so it is as well to be on our guard about it.) Rothman’s fresh and principled approach to the publicity right makes the subject matter accessible even where it is not directly applicable in court.

Does late 10K filing impact companies’ financial reporting strategy? Evidence from discretionary accruals and real transaction management

AbstractThe study investigates how late 10K filers adapt their financial reporting strategy in the post‐late filing period in their response to bad publicity, negative market sentiment, and higher stakeholders’ scrutiny resulting from reporting delays. Both the level and change regressions show that late 10K filers significantly reduce the use of discretionary accruals from pre‐ to post‐late filing year. However, they simultaneously increase real transaction management over the same time period. The trade‐offs between the two earnings management techniques are more prominent when the late filers have a strong incentive to meet or beat earnings benchmarks. Our primary results are robust when late filings are caused by accounting, auditing, and internal control issues, and when the late filers cited no meaningful reason for late 10K filings. It is further evident that late filers with material internal control weaknesses and late filers that subsequently restate their financial statements make relatively higher trade‐offs than the matched non‐late filers. Finally, the trade‐offs between reduced accruals and increased real transaction management are stronger for the accelerated filers, and for the late filers audited by Big 4 auditors.

Fake Research Detection using Weighting Algorithm in Netspam Framework

Now a day’s our life has become more dependent on social media. Social has opened many opportunity for business so, whenever customer wants to buy new product they will look for other people’s opinion. Social media has also have major drawback for business strategies which is spammers. Spammers create spam surveys about various products which mislead a consumer. This online opinion plays important role in business strategies, while positive opinion gives good publicity and market on the other side negative opinion gives bad publicity and market which affects the service providers. To avoid this spammers there have been many research but very have work on user and review related feature. In this investigation we propose a classification system using heterogeneous information network NetSpam framework. This system will classify spam and non-spam reviews using NetSpam algorithm and naïve bayes classifier for sentiment analysis which will provide positive and negative value of the product review. And furthermore if wants to search top product, user can use search query, in addition to that it will display recommendation product on the basis of user’s point of interest.

Corporate Apology After Bad Publicity: A Dual-Process Model of CSR Fit and CSR History on Purchase Intention and Negative Word of Mouth

This article proposes and tests a dual-process model of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication. Building on the framing theory and associative network theory, the authors examine how including statements about a company’s CSR fit and CSR history in apology statements can affect purchase intention and negative word of mouth (NWOM). Perceived integrity, attitude toward the apology statement, and attitude toward the company are sequential mediators that will subsequently affect purchase intention and NWOM. The results show that CSR fit will positively affect purchase intention and negatively affect NWOM through increased perceived integrity and attitude toward the apology statement, which will positively affect their attitude toward the company. The findings also show that CSR history will positively affect purchase intention and negatively affect NWOM through increased perceived integrity and attitude toward the apology statement, which will positively affect their attitude toward the company.

Restitution versus Populism: Revisiting the Dominant Tropes of the Land Question in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s land revolution at the turn of the millennia cast the country on the international spotlight for a myriad of reasons, ranging from laudatory admiration to negative criticism and bad publicity. Narratives and doomsday predictions of economic disaster, social upheaval and ultimately internal implosion were awash and not off the mark given the manner in which the political economic status quo was shaken and restructured. The Fast Track Land Reform (FTLRP) was hailed in some quarters as the long overdue corrective measure against historical injustices while other sections castigated it as chauvinistic and fascist machinations of a capricious regime battling for political survival. These ensuing contestations around land expropriation are not an aberration in that they form part of a repertoire of the languages of life and/or the teleology in the history and transition of post colonies with settler heritage. Land reform continues to gain policy traction in much of the developing South with a colonial history where the economic logic of settlerism was the dominant mode of exploitation, expropriation and accumulation. Widening inequality in much of the developing South particularly in post settler economies in southern Africa has heightened demands for greater access to land and other productive sectors putting land as another new frontier of conflict. Therefore the question remains, is land reform being driven by a genuine desire for restitution and a progressive redress of colonial wrongs or whether it is just another pretext for populist demagoguery and patronage politics? This paper posits that these two dominant tropes are deeply interwoven within Zimbabwe’s political economics fabric within its transition as a post colony and the matter is much more complex and cannot be reduced to such binary terms of reference. The paper therefore traces the trajectory of land reform in Zimbabwe since independence until the turn of the millennia and the attendant policy contradictions, constraints and rationalities that undergird land expropriation and redistribution.

Sustainability in Supply Chain Management: The Role of Partner Collaboration and Power

Sustainability issues in supply chain management have been at the front of research and practice owing to concerns about natural resources exhaustion, pollution levels etc. emanating from business activities. Pressures from external entities like government agencies, consumer movements, and NGOs, are driving firms to implement sustainable practices internally and across their supply chains. This study sought to assess how sustainability performance in supply chains can be enhanced through collaboration and power. A total of 104 construction and Manufacturing firms drawn from the Ashanti and Greater Accra regions of Ghana were used in the study. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from top management members in the respondent organizations. Regression models were employed to test the relationship among the variables. The findings reveal that the quest to avoid sanctions from regulatory bodies, bad publicity in the media and conflict with local communities are the main drivers of sustainability among the firms in the study population. Other external pressures such as NGOs and consumer movements were found to have little effect on the firms in the study. Also, external pressures have significant effect on collaboration and sustainability performance, and that collaboration mediates the relationship between external pressures and sustainability performance. The author calls for a rise in consumer movements to increase the pressure on firms to adopt sustainable practices. Also, regulators must adopt a supply chain approach to enforcing environmental and social laws on firms by charging the powerful, visible firms to take charge of their supply chains.

Bridging Departmental Communication Gaps in Quasi-Institutions: A Case Study of ZESCO Limited

Communication is seen as the key factor in the success of any organization but when it comes to effective communication, there are certain barriers that every organization faces. Large organisations have deficiencies in their decentralized departments especially when dealing with large volume of clientele whose needs are divided amongst their personal and organizational obligations. Hence communication gaps leading to conflicts and information breakdown among employees in the organization. The ramifications of these conflicts and broken information flow has been poor performance of team members, negative impact on general productivity, inefficiencies in responding to clients’ demands, bad publicity for the company and lose of million in service delay. It is against this background that the aim of this study was to identify the major factors leading to intra and inter departmental communication gaps in Quasi-Institutions and come up with a model in order to address these communication gaps. The study used a quantitative study approach based on a sample space of 150 self-administered survey questionnaires with 83% response from Quasi-Government Institutions. Quantitative data was analysed using Chi-square and P-value statistical analysis with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software tool. The study found that there are existing communication gaps due to conflicts within and between departments. This was validated by the results from chi-square test which yielded a chi-square value of 4.419 and the p-value of 0.036. The difference was statistically significant at 4.419, because p-value (0.036) was less than alpha level (α = 0.05). Hence, the results suggested that respondents deal with conflict at their place of work. Further results revealed that, personal conflicts are not always sorted out quickly by supervisors and managers, poor inter-personal communication, and poor inter-departmental communications are the causes of the existing communication gaps. The study therefore recommended that management should provide conflict resolution training which gives employees more assurance in their capability to resolve both personal and professional conflicts.

Implementation of Strategies to Improve Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Coverage: A Provider Survey

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine coverage in the U.S. is persistently suboptimal, despite research describing barriers to vaccination and strategies to increase vaccination coverage. The objective was to assess providers' approach to the HPV vaccine and their implementation of strategies to increase HPV vaccination coverage. The hypothesis was that adoption of improvement measures to address underuse of the HPV vaccine has not occurred. Community pediatric providers from two Midwestern practice-based research networks completed self-administered electronic surveys. Data were collected over 6 months in 2015 and organized and analyzed in 2016. There were 100 providers that participated. Despite agreement with national recommendations, some providers delayed their recommendation until the adolescent was older and many reported missed vaccination opportunities. Many providers experienced parental concerns including safety of the HPV vaccine, belief their child was not at risk of HPV infection, and their child's resistance to receiving multiple shots. Providers identified the following as barriers to adherence to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guidelines: bad publicity of the HPV vaccine, information about the HPV vaccine on the web, and a lack of a follow-up system for those who delayed HPV vaccine initiation. Approximately half of the participants had implemented strategies to address these barriers beyond offering immunization-only appointments. Participants were aware of barriers to HPV vaccine use, but many had not adopted a systematic approach to increase vaccine coverage. A better understanding of the challenges facing providers to adopting improvement measures and a strategy to address barriers to implementation are needed to improve HPV coverage.

Conflicts of interest in infection prevention and control research: no smoke without fire. A narrative review.

Conflicts of interest (COIs) do occur in healthcare research, yet their impact on research in the field of infection prevention and control (IPC) is unknown. We conducted a narrative review aiming to identify examples of COIs in IPC research. In addition to well-known instances, we conducted PubMed and Google searches to identify and report case studies of COIs in IPC and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which were chosen arbitrarily following consensus meetings, to illustrate different types of COIs. We also searched the RetractionWatch database and blog to systematically identify retracted IPC and/or infectious disease-related papers. Our review highlights COIs in academic research linked to ties between industry and physicians, journal editors, peer-reviewed journals' choice for publication, and guideline committees participants and authors. It explores how COIs can affect research and could be managed. We also present several selected case studies that involve (1) the chlorhexidine industry and how it has used marketing trials and key opinion leaders to promote off-label use of its products; (2) the copper industry and how reporting of its trials in IPC have furthered their agenda; (3) the influence of a company developing "closed infusion systems" for catheters and how this affects networks in low- and middle-income countries and guideline development; (4) potential perverse incentives hospitals may have in reporting healthcare-associated infection or AMR rates and how government intervention may restrict AMR research for fear of bad publicity and subsequent negative economic consequences. Finally, the analysis of reasons for the retraction of previously published papers highlights the fact that misconduct in research may have other motivations than financial gain, the most visible form of COIs. COIs occur in the field of research in general, and IPC and AMR are no exceptions. Their effects pervade all aspects of the research and publication processes. We believe that, in addition to improvements in management strategies of COIs, increased public funding should be available to decrease researchers' dependency on industry ties. Further research is needed on COIs and their management.

Fortalezas y fragilidades en la implantación de la prueba rápida para VIH en un centro especializado en Brasil

To analyze how health professionals and health service users assess counseling on Rapid HIV test, as well as its implementation, which started in Brazil in 2010, focusing on positive aspects, barriers, and limitations, and analyzing possible meanings that are given to STD and HIV/AIDS. Qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive research. Semi-structured interviews were administered to 27 service users and 14 health care professionals; a thematic analysis of the interviews was performed. The study was carried out in one of the first Counseling and Testing Centers (CTC) designed to implement Rapid HIV tests in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Positive aspects of Rapid HIV testing implementation included a reduced waiting time for obtaining the test results, better assistance provision, an increase in the number of service hours, personalized pre- and post-tests, and better prepared health care professionals regarding health care during counseling. Limitations included beliefs about the effectiveness of Rapid HIV testing, physical structure, bad publicity on this technology, and poor health care capacity. Likewise, there are some who oppose this type of test, since they believe rapid tests may not be effective. Integrating the perspectives of health care professionals and users on this policy will favor future rapid test implementations in other CTCs, and increase health care access possibilities.

Beyond the Bifurcated Myth: The Medical Migration of Female Korean Nurses to West Germany in the 1970s.

This study investigates beyond the bifurcated myth of the medical migration of Korean women to Germany in the 1970s, which is known as the "German dispatchment" myth from the Korean perspective and the "development aid" discourse from that of the Germans, by focusing on the newly-released documents from the German Hospital Federation (Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft, DKG). The migration was essentially a transfer of labor from a weak to a strong state, and the disparity of state strength characterized the nature of the recruitment mechanism. Both Korea and Germany have romanticized the labor transfer and appropriated the collective experiences of migrants for their own political purposes. In this transnational business, the Korean Overseas Development Corporation (KODCO) and the DKG maintained exclusivity in the labor migration channel and were faithful to their own interests. The DKG, as a representative of the German healthcare industry, was concerned about being criticized for destroying the healthcare system of developing countries by stealing their skilled workforce. They, therefore, tried to influence publicity in Korea and Germany to persuade the people that the recruitment benefited both countries. However, the DKG was aware of the deceitfulness of its "development aid" discourse. The Korean government, which advanced the labor export for the sake of obtaining foreign currency, romanticized it as patriotism and used the term "German dispatchment." However, the incapacity and corruption of KODCO as an agency from the Korean perspective resulted in criticism regarding its recruitment program. The DKG complained that the selection of incapable personnel coupled with corruption was causing unforeseen financial damage to its member hospitals. Nevertheless, it officially defended its partner for the sake of its own interests, such as avoiding bad publicity and securing the sustainability of the recruitment program. The conflicts regarding nursing tasks and working conditions between Korean nurses and their German colleagues and employers captured in the documents of the DKG trace the origin of the issues in relation to cultural misunderstanding and pervasive racism. The disparity of state strength between the two countries resulted in the subaltern position of Korean female healthcare workers in the global labor market, and they tried to bring forth the best possible outcome while working in a foreign country in unfamiliar circumstances. However, the difficulties with female guest workers from Asia were generally credited to their inability to adhere to the German working style. This study contributes to the existing scholarship on this topic by filling the gaps. Historical research on the medical migration of Korean nurses and nurse-aides to West Germany has relied on limited historical sources. In 2013, the National Archives of Korea transferred official documents regarding these workers that were produced and archived by the DKG, which represented the interests of German healthcare institutions. Its documents on Korean nursing personnel provide supplementary information and display findings in different perspectives. They do not bring forth completely new findings that have never been researched before but are still valuable for delivering concrete evidence on the circumstances of that time, which were previously merely inferred.