Concept Of Stickiness Research Articles

The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest

AbstractPrior research has examined the consequences of one's police contact, but the consequences of vicarious police contact are not as well known. This study expands on labeling theory and the concept of “stickiness” by assessing whether a friend's arrest increases the likelihood of one's police contact. Using a sample of rural youth (N = 13,170), I find that a friend's arrest is associated with an increase in the likelihood of one's first arrest the next year after accounting for other predictors of police contact. Based on my theoretical framework, I interpret this finding as “guilt by association.” In addition, ending relationships with friends who have been arrested does not significantly impact this relationship. This study concludes that police contact may be harmful for a youth's social network and builds on the concept of stickiness by suggesting that stigma not only sticks from one individual to another but may also stay despite efforts to end one's association with the arrested individual. The study expands on preexisting research on the consequences of adolescent police contact by introducing a friend's police contact as a way in which an individual may be more likely to become involved in the justice system.

Move or perish? Sticky mobilities in the Swiss academic context

This article uses a context of increasing institutional demand to be geographically mobile to examine how early-career researchers move across borders. I explore the case of Swiss academia, a particularly competitive and attractive environment with the highest levels of inbound and outbound mobility in Europe. In line with the aims of the European Research Area, an EU programme created in 2000 to foster a pan-European academic labour market, Switzerland funds scientific mobility and promotes extended research trips abroad as tools to boost collaboration and research excellence. Therefore, Swiss institutions have valued mobility for professional and personal development. In the meantime, they have raised concerns about female academics not being mobile and the potential consequences of their local family ties on career inequalities. In this study, I explore how early-career researchers experience mobility and how their personal accounts challenge institutional definitions of being mobile or immobile. I draw on a qualitative analysis of 65 semi-structured interviews conducted for two EU research projects on early-career academics from various backgrounds. I show how empirical data question the traditional—and often gendered—mobile/immobile dichotomy. I also highlight how mobility practices are normalised by the interviewees. Moreover, using the concept of stickiness, I describe a subtle range of sticky-to-stretchy mobility experiences influenced by both structural and individual factors. Finally, through the figure of the geoccasional worker, I question romanticised visions of mobility and stress the need to reconsider mobility as a (gendered) precarity issue rather than as a female problem.

Stickiness in academic career (im)mobilities of STEM early career researchers: an insight from Greece

Academic and policy discourse has idealised academic mobility despite studies showing that it can have adverse effects on individuals’ experiences and contribute towards exacerbating existing inequalities. This article focuses on career (im)mobility stories of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) early career researchers that are variously sticky with emotion and affect. It places emphasis on the challenges, frictions and emotional tensions for early career researchers as part of this decision-making, irrespective of whether they decide to move or not. To do this, it deploys the concept of stickiness, which allows investigating the intersection and co-construction of embodied experiences of early career academics with the internationalisation discourse of academic excellence which are not often brought together. Focused on a largely under-examined population and context, it is based on a qualitative analysis of 15 in-depth interviews with a subsample of survey respondents, as part of a mixed methods study of Greek researchers in STEM. This article compares two groups of early career researchers who are seemingly at odds but have a lot in common: those with a highly international outlook moving to build an international profile and those who decide to stay and pursue research aspirations within a national context. Stickiness is demonstrated in two ways: stickiness to establishing an international profile and an academic career dictated by the internationalisation discourse; stickiness to affective considerations which are temporal, fluid and often understated. The main difference is how early career researchers address this stickiness: through the normative international mobility or participation in collaborative funding programmes. This article shows academic mobility is not only associated with benefits but can entail negative implications for individuals. It also provides empirical insights into hidden STEM early career researchers and elaborates a concept of stickiness in academic (im)mobility with discursive and affective layers, highlighting the importance of considering affect in career development scholarship.

Guest Editor's Introduction

This introduction provides an analytical back ground for the notion of vulnerability as it is currently perceived mainly in social sciences, ethics, philosophy, queer studies and governmentality. Used both as descriptive and normative term, vulnerability, along with resilience and policy management, has acquired political dimensions, which are distant from those given by the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas. In present day social and political discussions vulnerability has gained enormous popularity and seems to be a genuine 'sticky concept', an adhesive cluster of heterogeneous conceptual elements.
 
 Keywords: vulnerability, resilience, governmentality, intersectionality, racism, queer, vulnerable agency, sticky concept

Research on e-commerce customer repeat purchase behavior and purchase stickiness

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the regularity of the e-commerce customer repeat purchase behavior, and provide new ideas and methods for e-commerce vendor’s e-commerce customer management.Design/methodology/approachThrough analysis of the priority in activity mechanism and new customers’ dynamic growth in customer’s purchase behavior, this paper builds a model of the customer’s purchase frequency, which can be verified by the empirical data gathered from www.taobao.com, www.jd.com, www.yhd.com and www.amazon.com.FindingsThis paper discovers the regularity that the customer’s purchase frequency obeys power law distribution. Empirical data show that this model can represent the real repeat purchase process well. At the same time, it provides the theoretical basis for the vendor regional management by introducing the concept of stickiness and the corresponding methods of calculation.Research/limitations/implicationsThis study only focuses on the basic model of e-commerce customer’s repeat purchase and lack of study on influence factors about the characteristics of different vendors and it needs to make extensions considering fluctuation of new customers, or customer aging and loss.Practical/implicationsThis study provides a theoretical basis for vendor to take different marketing strategies through classifying customers based on the characteristic of purchase stickiness.Originality/valueThe definition and calculation method of purchase stickiness is put forward for the first time, and the value of purchase stickiness changes with the number of purchase. It provides the theoretical basis for the vendor regional management, and will be good for further studying the e-commerce market about customer’s purchase behavior.

Stickiness is an empirical pursuit: the case for reframing child mental health.

Everyone wants his or her issue to be sticky these days-to be talked about, get into the news, get in front of influential people, and so forth. However, the concept of stickiness, as put forward by scholars Chip and Dan Heath, is more than a fancy new term for salience. Rather, stickiness is defined in a way that recognizes the last several decades of research in the cognitive and social sciences on how people think about complex social issues. In this article, we argue that stickiness is an empirical pursuit, one that requires an accretion of methods from across the cognitive and social sciences but which, if pursued systematically, can contribute significantly to public understanding. Drawing from the FrameWorks Institute's development of Strategic Frame Analysis, we demonstrate how our methods can be used to pursue stickiness and with what effects. Applying this approach to the issue of child mental health, we demonstrate why approaches that posit resonance or salience are likely to prove ineffective in helping the public to prioritize prevention and treatment for child mental illness or promotion of child mental health.

Emotions and normativity in assessments of children at risk

This article explores the linkage between emotions and social norms, based on gender, nationality/culture, class and (dis)ability, in 14 hospital social workers assessments about parents, in their narratives about children at risk. In various ways, a range of emotions are shown to be linked to normativity. When the feeling of blame was present, other emotions such as worry became stuck to unprivileged groups of parents in a ‘logical’ way in assessments and shaped certain orientations for actions against the parents. By using the concept of stickiness, an understanding of how emotions and normativity works in assessments is developed.

Measuring the job stickiness of community nurses in Ontario (2004–2010): Implications for policy and practice

ObjectiveUtilize the concept of stickiness to examine the retention of community nurses across time and draw comparisons by subsector, nurse group and work status. MethodsSecondary analysis of College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) registration database (2004–2010). Nurses’ yearly registration records were linked to create a longitudinal database of nursing employment which was used to generate year-to-year stickiness figures. Analysis was carried out by sector/subsector of employment, nurse group and work status. ResultsAnalysis revealed an active movement of nurses between the hospital and community sectors during the period of analysis, with a positive balance of 3002 nurses toward the latter. A wide variation in the stickiness of community subsectors of employment was noted, with those subsectors involving direct patient care and community visitation displaying relatively lower stickiness figures. Subsector stickiness increased with the offering of full-time jobs and the employment of Registered Nurses. ConclusionExamining the working conditions and human resources management practices in the subsectors with lower stickiness, especially those involving patient care at home, and enhancing career stability of Registered Practical Nurses are priority issues. Decision-makers should support the offering of full-time jobs focusing attention on subsectors offering direct patient care in the community.

Why is PSA velocity such a sticky concept?

Unequivocal randomized trial data show that PSA velocity does not benefit decision making in localized prostate cancer. A recent paper suggests that the literature is wrong and that PSA velocity does predict aggressive disease; however, the study design is flawed and the key claim seems to be based on a typographical error.

Knowledge transfer barriers between research and development and marketing groups within Taiwanese small‐ and medium‐sized enterprise high‐technology new product development teams

AbstractThis article reports on efforts to explore barriers to the transfer of knowledge from provider to seeker and the role of knowledge management strategies during the new product development (NPD) period. The study used the cultural‐historical activity theory (CHAT) framework from Hasan and Gould (2001) to examine the cross‐functional knowledge creation process and details surrounding the concept of stickiness (Szulanski, 1996). Strategies we observed can be categorized as being classical or processual oriented (Whittington, 1993). We describe how NPD teams can reduce barriers by aligning strategies in the four knowledge‐creation steps: socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization. This CHAT framework was verified on the basis of samples from 107 Taiwanese NPD teams. Results show that the barriers differed among stages within the NPD period. During the transfer process, the processual strategy reduced barriers to knowledge transfer during the planning, developing, and commercialization stages of the NPD period. In contrast, the classical strategy was shown only to have a positive effect during the marketing stage. Survey results also showed that the highly formalized communication model and periodic meetings advocated by Song and colleagues (Song, Sabrina, & Zhao, 1996; Song, van der Bji, & Weggeman, 2005) and Ingelgard, Roth, Shani, and Styhre (2002) were gradually replaced by bounded transfer and a less formalized approach. These preliminary results suggest that if team leaders can use classical and processual strategies in real time, the barriers to the transfer of knowledge from provider to seeker in the four steps of the NPD period can be effectively reduced. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Cyclic Exchanges and Level of Coupling between Environmental Media: Intermedia Feedback in Multimedia Fate Models

The importance of cyclic transport of chemicals between media in the environment can be expressed in terms of the Feedback correction factor--a multiplier that accounts for the fraction of an emission that returns to the medium of release after transfer to other media. This factor is calculated analytically by explicitly solving the appropriate system of mass balance equations or using matrix techniques. It generalizes the concept of stickiness, the ratio between the net and the overall deposition rate constants, to multipathway feedback, while providing a clearer view of the level of coupling between media and analyzing the importance of coupling. This paper first shows the usefulness of the total removal rate coefficient in each media (sum of degradation rate and all intermedia transfer rates) as a baseline to determine the chemical mass in different media, the characteristic travel distance and to understand the cyclic behavior, rather than starting from the degradation lifetimes or the overall persistence in the environment. Starting from this baseline, the importance of feedback is limited for most organic chemicals. The predicted media concentrations are influenced by less than 10% due to the cyclic nature of the intermedia transport for more than 90% of the 317 tested chemicals in a 4-compartment, steady-state, closed-system multimedia model. The Feedback correction factor is always less than a factor of 5 with the greatest values when transfer fractions are important in both directions for adjacent media. This corresponds to a restricted range in the K(AW) and K(OA) space with long chemical lifetimes in both adjacent media. This analysis of the importance of the Feedback correction factor, in conjunction with resultant criteria for when cyclic exchanges between media are likely to be significant, facilitates a more transparent understanding of how substance masses are distributed in the modeled system. It is one of the important criteria to determine to what extent media can be independently modeled.