Formal Resource Research Articles

Leveraging entrepreneurial ecosystems as human resource systems: A theory of meta-organizational human resource management

Entrepreneurs require human resources to establish and scale their ventures; however, constraints often prevent entrepreneurs from investing in formal human resource systems. How entrepreneurs overcome human resource challenges by leveraging their entrepreneurial ecosystems as informal inter-organizational talent management systems has been overlooked by scholars. We propose a model of entrepreneurial ecosystem human resource management, theorizing that ecosystem participants collectively perform the human resource management function for entrepreneurship communities. Drawing from economic rents theory, we explain how entrepreneurial ecosystems encourage a form of meta-organizational human resource management that allows ecosystem participants to coordinate talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management and rewards, and retention. Coordinated entrepreneurial ecosystems improve entrepreneurial performance by sourcing talent, onboarding selected members, enculturating ecosystem values, developing entrepreneurial skills, and retaining human resources, which in turn generates rents. We discuss how our theory catalyzes research at the HR and entrepreneurial ecosystems interface and reveals insights for practitioners.

The consequences of COVID-19 lockdown for formal and informal resource utilization among home-dwelling people with dementia: results from the prospective PAN.DEM study

BackgroundCOVID-19 isolated home-dwelling people with dementia (PwD) from home care services, respite care, and daytime activities. We aimed to investigate the consequences of these restrictions on informal (family, friends) and formal (homecare staff) resource utilization among co-residing (e.g., spouses) and visiting caregivers (e.g., children).Methods105 PwD (≥65 years old) and their caregivers were included in the prospective PANdemic in DEMentia (PAN.DEM) study, which was initiated when the ongoing stepped-wedge, cluster randomized LIVE@Home.Path trial (N = 438) was temporarily halted due to the pandemic. Primary outcome was change in resource utilization assessed by the Resource Utilization in Dementia Care (RUD) instrument in pre- (12 Dec. 2019 to 11 Mar. 2020) and during the lockdown periods (20 April 2020 to 15 May 2020). Degree of cognitive impairment was assessed by Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), and physical functioning and independent living skills by Physical Self-Maintenance Scale and Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale. Associations between informal and formal care utilization, socio-demographics, and clinical variables were assessed by descriptive statistics and Ordinary Least Squares models (OLS).ResultsMean age for PwD was 81.8 years; 61% were female; 45.6% lived alone, and the mean MMSE score was 20.8 (SD ± 3.7). PwD with co-residents (44%) were younger (78.4 years) than those who were living alone (84.5 years; P < 0.001). During the first 2 months of lockdown, PwD missed on average 20.5 h of formal care in a month (P < 0.001) leading to an approximately 100% increase in informal care, which was particularly pronounced in personal hygiene (6.9 vs. 11.4 days in a month, P < 0.001) and supervision (9.2 vs. 17.6 days in a month; P < 0.001). Visiting caregivers increased by 1.9 days (SD ± 11.5), but co-residing caregivers increased their number of days providing ADL by approximately 7 days per month (β = 6.9; CI, 0.39–13.1, P < 0.05) after adjusting for PwD and caregiver demographics and clinical variables. Decrease in home nursing care was particularly visible for PwD living alone (− 6.1 vs. -1.3 h per month, P = 0.005). Higher cognitive function (β = − 0.64, CI, − 1.26 – 0.02, P = 0.044) was associated with reduction in home nursing service during the lockdown.ConclusionThe care situation for PwD changed dramatically in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for those living alone who received less support from homecare services and visiting caregivers. For future crises and the forthcoming post-pandemic period, health authorities must plan better and identify and prioritize those in greatest need.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov; NCT04043364.

Hiring in Entrepreneurial Firms: Pre-Founding Affiliations &amp; the Origins of Organizational Diversity

New ventures typically have few resources and rarely have formal human resource processes, calling into question how these entrepreneurial firms find early employees critical to their success. Additionally, entrepreneurial hiring practices set the trajectory of how workforce composition is built in a growing organization. A common, informal tactic in young firms for finding workers is the use of incumbent workers’ prior affiliations (employment and educational), an expedient practice though one that may limit a new venture’s workforce diversity. Our study examines when young firms engage in such affiliation-based hiring and its implications for demographic diversity. Using a representative sample of new ventures drawn from Danish matched employer-employee data, we find that larger founding teams with greater internal social tie depth are more likely to hire from founders’ prior affiliations. Our results further suggest that affiliation-based hiring reinforces demographic homophily, contrasting with diversity imperatives as firms grow. Our work provides insights to hiring processes in entrepreneurial firms and the enigmatic origins of diversity differences between firms.

A resource theory of quantum measurements

Resource theories are broad frameworks that capture how useful objects are in performing specific tasks. In this paper we devise a formal resource theory quantum measurements, focusing on the ability of a measurement to acquire information. The objects of the theory are equivalence classes of positive operator-valued measures, and the free transformations are changes to a measurement device that can only deteriorate its ability to report information about a physical system. We show that catalysis and purification, protocols that are possible in other resource theories, are impossible in our resource theory for quantum measurements. Standard measures of information gain are shown to be resource monotones, and the resource theory is applied to the task of quantum state discrimination.

A toy model for the epidemic-driven collapse in a system with limited economic resource.

Based on a toy model for a trivial socioeconomic system, we demonstrate that the activation-type mechanism of the epidemic-resource coupling can lead to the collapsing effect opposite to thermal explosion. We exploit a SIS-like (susceptible-infected-susceptible) model coupled with the dynamics of average economic resource for a group of active economic agents. The recovery rate of infected individuals is supposed to obey the Arrhenius-like law, resulting in a mutual negative feedback between the number of active agents and resource acquisition. The economic resource is associated with the average amount of money or income per agent and formally corresponds to the effective market temperature of agents, with their income distribution obeying the Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics. A characteristic level of resource consumption is associated with activation energy. We show that the phase portrait of the system features a collapse phase, in addition to the well-known disease-free and endemic phases. The epidemic intensified by the increasing resource deficit can ultimately drive the system to a collapse at nonzero activation energy because of limited resource. We briefly discuss several collapse mitigation strategies involving either financial instruments like subsidies or social regulations like quarantine.Graphic abstract

Approaches and challenges of traditional institutions in conservation of biodiversity: Implications for sustainable management of natural resources in Nigeria

The study assessed indigenous practices and beliefs on the conservation of natural resources in Oju Local Government Area of Benue State. Purposeful and simple random sampling was applied to determine the study sample and thus a sample size of 118 was used for the study. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents were male (75.4%) while 24.6% were female. The indigenous and traditional beliefs in the protection of natural resources in the area is reflected in a variety of their practices which included sacred groves and sacred landscapes, construction of masquerades and other traditional artifacts, reflecting greatly the population of the forest resources. The most conserved fauna and flora species identified were; Smutsia gigantea, Elgaria coerulea, Ceyx erithaca, Milvus aegyptius, Centropus steerii and Ophiophagus hannah; Vitellaria paradoxa, Khaya grandifoliola and Abies balsamea. Major challenges identified were; lack of inclusion by governance institution with (98.7%), followed by adoption of other religious beliefs with (97.5%), poaching/illegal logging and population growth/urbanization (91.5%), perception of idolatry (88.9%), Bush fires (89.8%) while frequent use of herbs for traditional medicine (83.1%) had the least percentage. On the ways of improvement was awareness creation had the highest proportion (33.9%), followed by attitudinal change (30.5%), while resource allocation to traditional leaders and integration of traditional conservation in formal resource conservation had the least proportion of 17.8%. It was concluded that traditional practices and beliefs if well managed will enhanced proper conservation and management of natural resources. The study thus recommended that, institutions responsible for conservation of natural resources should be positioned for effective performance and service delivery. Government should have monitoring agents that will help in ensuring natural resource conservation.

‘Staying in the Nationalist Bubble’

‘Staying in the Nationalist Bubble’

Family firms are indeed better places to work than non-family firms! Socioemotional wealth and employees’ perceived organizational caring

We address an ongoing controversy over whether family firms are better or worse places to work than are non-family firms. Extending socioemotional wealth theory based on the behavioral agency model, we argue that family owners strive to protect and enhance their socioemotional endowments by fostering stronger perceptions of organizational caring among their employees compared to those working for non-family firms. We develop and validate an employee perceived organizational caring (EMPOCARE) scale across three studies and test our hypotheses in a fourth study. We test a cross-level model and find that—even after controlling for formal human resource management programs and benefits—employees report higher EMPOCARE in family than non-family firms and that EMPOCARE tends to be experienced more similarly across organizational hierarchy levels in family than non-family firms. We further posit and find that EMPOCARE improves firm-level labor productivity and individual-level thriving at work. Empirical support for our cross-level EMPOCARE model comes from survey and archival data from 54,000+ employees in 180 firms in Brazil. We discuss implications for theory and practice.

617. Physician Perspective: Utilization of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in the ID Workforce

BackgroundApplicants entering Infectious Disease (ID) fellowships are declining and shortages of ID physicians is a challenge recognized by the clinical workforce and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). There is increased awareness of more Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) being used within ID to expand and extend existing practices. However, little is known about APP utilization, APP clinical scope of practice, specific roles, and opportunities for education.MethodsTo evaluate physician perspectives on APP utilization in ID, we created an anonymous and voluntary survey using the REDCap data tool that was distributed by social media, key stakeholder emails, and IDSA online community forum between 12/1/2019-1/31/2020. In addition to collecting geographic information and the type of ID practice, participants were also surveyed about the use of APPs and any perceived barriers that may limit their use.Results218 practicing ID physicians responded to the survey (Figure 1). 155 (71%) physicians work with APPs in their current practice (Figure 2); specifically, 56 (27%) with 1 APP, 62 (30%) with 2-4 APPs, 28 (13%) with 5-9 APPs, and 11 (5%) with > 10 APPs. Of respondents, 104 (48%) practiced at University/Medical schools, 80 (37%) in hospitals/clinics, and 28 (13%) in private practice (Table 1); most work in adult inpatient/outpatient ID. The main reasons selected by respondents for not using APPs in their practice included concerns around a lack of formal ID training 22 (15%), lack of time/lack of ability to assist with APP training 29 (20%), practice is already sufficiently staffed 19 (13%), and concern for physician revenue loss 16 (11%) (Table 1).Figure 1. Physician Responses by Region, n = 218 Figure 2. Physicians Utilizing APPs in Practice, n = 210 (*no response, 8) Table 1. Physician ID Practice Type, Setting, and Concerns ConclusionResults suggest that while collaboration between ID physicians and APPs exists to meet current needs, a lack of ID training is a limiting factor. Our findings demonstrate there is an opportunity for formal ID education and resource development both to enhance APPs clinical skills and address perceived knowledge gaps. Inclusion of APPs in the ID workforce may allow physicians to expand ID care into more resource limited areas to continue to provide high quality patient care.Disclosures Steven A. Pergam, MD, MPH, Chimerix, Inc (Scientific Research Study Investigator)Global Life Technologies, Inc. (Research Grant or Support)Merck & Co. (Scientific Research Study Investigator)Sanofi-Aventis (Other Financial or Material Support, Participate in clinical trial sponsored by NIAID (U01-AI132004); vaccines for this trial are provided by Sanofi-Aventis)

A scoping review of market links between value chain actors and small-scale producers in developing regions

Sustainable Development Goal 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food and nutrition security and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. This requires that small-scale producers be included in, and benefit from, the rapid growth and transformation under way in food systems. Small-scale producers interact with various actors when they link with markets, including product traders, logistics firms, processors and retailers. The literature has explored primarily how large firms interact with farmers through formal contracts and resource provision arrangements. Although important, contracts constitute a very small share of smallholder market interactions. There has been little exploration of whether non-contract interactions between small farmers and both small- and large-scale value chain actors have affected small farmers’ livelihoods. This scoping review covers 202 studies on that topic. We find that non-contract interactions, de facto mostly with small and medium enterprises, benefit small-scale producers via similar mechanisms that the literature has previously credited to large firms. Small and medium enterprises, not just large enterprises, address idiosyncratic market failures and asset shortfalls of small-scale producers by providing them, through informal arrangements, with complementary services such as input provision, credit, information and logistics. Providing these services directly supports Sustainable Development Goal 2 by improving farmer welfare through technology adoption and greater productivity.

Getting the Goods in Little Dorrit

Kathleen Frederickson “Getting the Goods in Little Dorrit: Quarantine’s Queer Logistics” (pp. 159–183) Most queer readings of Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1857) have focused on Miss Wade as a figure of proto-sexological pathology. Flipping critical attention to Tattycoram instead allows us to reexamine sexuality and quarantine in economic terms. Dickens chooses quarantine over other possible spaces of touch and confinement because it flags Tattycoram’s entry into the plot around these economics of circulation—the ability to profit from the movement rather than the production of commodities. In the 1820s, when Little Dorrit is set, a vocal anti-quarantine lobby was stridently lamenting the financial losses occasioned by holding goods in quarantine as they came into Europe from the Levant—a lament that was especially loud when it came to the costs incurred by northern mill owners who were importing increasingly large quantities of cotton from plague-prone Egypt. Dickens invokes the quarantine as the origin point of the connection between Tattycoram and Miss Wade to route a set of Gothic thematics through a scanty but significant plot structure that relies on what I call “logistical aesthetics,” by which I mean logistics rendered as form and tone, even when emptied of substantial parts of its diegetic function. Little Dorrit mixes its interest in the circulation of capital with the economics of inheritance, figured most prominently in the movement of the iron box containing the details of Arthur Clennam’s parentage. Tattycoram’s couriering of this box borrows the logistical urgency of anti-quarantine critique seemingly in the service of narrative resolution, drawing on logistics as a formal resource that substitutes narrative value for an absented economic value that, the novel suggests, occupies the place of her queerness. This joint focus on delivery and inheritance, moreover, strongly shapes the politics of kinship, intimacy, and desire for Tattycoram and Miss Wade.

A Case Study of Organizational Performance and Improvement Suggestions Within the Nonprofit Religious Services Sector: A Human Resource Development Approach

This organizational performance analysis involves one religious organization in a large U.S. metropolitan area that has experienced diminished attendance numbers and employee morale over a period of several years. The study is to analyze current human resource policies and procedures to provide suggestions of improvement to employee morale and organizational performance. The qualitative research approach was based on personal observation of the organization's employees and weekly worship services. Casual and structured conversations were conducted with key personnel who provided valuable insight into the climate and culture of the human resources within the institution. It was discovered that the organization has little to no formal human resource managerial or developmental practices in place. Based on the findings, suggestions are made to promote a stronger work environment for existing employees, which in turn could promote the institution's revitalization.

Методы ресурсного моделирования организационных объектов

The development of resource methodology and soft computing in this paper is presented as a new direction of ontological design. The objects of air transport organizations are chosen as the applied area: a company, a social group, an individual. The existing understanding of re-sources is related to the concepts of consumption. The problem is that the category of re-sources is not identified and does not have a humanitarian study, primarily in logic, philosophy, and philology. The known classifications and types of resources are numerous, diverse, and mutually irreducible. A new understanding and logical elaboration of the "resource" category is proposed. The resource methodology offers its own bases and sources. The theoretical foundations are formed in the following content: principles, hypotheses, language, terms, conditions, and procedures. This content allows you to generate output of key definitions. Re-source design (modeling) is based on the concept of a resource model. Resource modeling can be defined as displaying object property parameters from a specified definition area to the area of indicator values. The proposed hypotheses of resource modeling consistency postulate that natural language tools: words, concepts, names, vocabulary, grammar, syntax, used in relations to describe objects, can be transformed into formal models that are suitable for subsequent calculations and automated management. Relations are displayed in the pseudo-physical logic of statements, which allows us to assign numbers to observable objects of non-numeric nature. Analogs of systemology are used to develop principles, conditions, and procedures for design and modeling. The basis of resource design is a formal resource model, on the basis of which elements are formed: complexes of contours, tuples of resources. Thus, the resource method al-lows us to assign numbers to the properties of objects in weak non-metric scales by shifting the assessment procedures to the area of strong metric scales, which establishes new combinations of applying qualitative and quantitative methods of research and development. A sample of practical resource design and modeling of objects in the subject area is presented on the example of the air transport complex.

Reunderstanding Cairo through urban metabolism: Formal versus informal districts resource flow performance in fast urbanizing cities

AbstractUrban expansion can be seen as the most pervasive human impact on the environment where its high resource use contributes negatively to climate change and resource scarcity crises. Many experts call for decoupling resource use, economic development, and related urban development especially within cities of the Global South. This paper focuses on investigating resource efficiency through the lens of urban metabolism. It investigates current resource flows, through material flow analysis, from source to sink, in two diverse districts in Cairo: a formal district and an informal one, regarding materials (waste) and mobility. Consequently, the paper discusses locally responsive interventions that address local priorities as opposing to citywide one‐size fits all solution. The paper relies on parcel audits, which are embedded in an Urban Metabolism Information System developed by the Ecocity Builders and their partners, through a joint project with Cairo University. The methodology couples crowd‐sourced data, parcel audits, and experts’ knowledge to better understand resource flows based on a bottom‐up approach, given the unavailability of governmental data on the local level. The paper further correlates the perceived quality of life with the actual resource flows. It utilizes fieldwork investigations to argue against the local misconceptions regarding the inefficiency of informal areas/systems versus the higher efficiency of planned areas/systems. The paper concludes by proposing integrated solutions that respond to local needs and resources. It highlights the challenges and lessons of this tailored bottom‐up approach and its applicability in other cities worldwide.

Emociónese en Grindr: tecnologías, afectos y subjetividades en Sudor, de Alberto Fuguet

Este trabajo propone un análisis de la novela Sudor (2016), del chileno Alberto Fuguet, atendiendo al diálogo que se establece entre sus estrategias narrativas, que incluyen la inserción de capturas textovisuales, y los nuevos modelos afectivos que determinan las relaciones en la era del capitalismo avanzado. La sociología de las emociones y las humanidades digitales sirven de sustento teórico para explorar la reinvención de las claves retóricas propias de la poética de Fuguet de acuerdo con la configuración de nuevas subjetividades en el siglo xxi. Se aplican, en esta dirección, las últimas teorías del afecto en el seno de la cultura digital y del “amor líquido” (Bauman) con el fin de demostrar que los ritmos del presente se manifiestan tanto en la propia construcción del discurso narrativo como en las nuevas velocidades afectivas que definen las relaciones entre los personajes. Así pues, se concluye que el empleo de la tecnología, en tanto recurso temático y formal, opera en Sudor como herramienta crítica para cuestionar los cambios que el paradigma digital ha generado en el desarrollo de las subjetividades.

Factors Influencing Formal and Informal Resource Utilization for Mental Distress Among Korean Americans in Southern California.

Despite the high prevalence of mental distress in the Korean American (KA) community, KAs continue to have significantly lower rates of professional mental health utilization than the general U.S. population, making it increasingly critical to study factors related to such utilization. A total of 243 surveys were collected at Korean churches of various denominations in the greater Los Angeles area. This cross sectional study examined KAs' resource utilization using Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use as a multi-level theoretical framework. Level of education and employment status significantly predicted professional health service utilization. Informal resource utilization was significantly influenced by gender, attitudes toward professional mental health services, acculturation, and views of God and religion. Future studies should further explore which types of interventions or resources would be most effective for KAs to decrease their high levels of mental distress based on their unique intersections and cultural realities.

Gender pay equity: Exploring the impact of formal, consistent and transparent human resource management practices and information

AbstractThis article explores the extent to which formalised HR practices can reduce gender bias in pay setting or whether, following Acker (2006), gender bias may still be embedded within formalised HR practices. Detailed investigation of a critical case study of a Chilean finance organisation with a strong commitment to formalised, consistent and transparent pay practices based on individuated information, revealed only a small negative gender effect on pay and no identifiable gender effects in starting salaries, merit pay or promotion. These findings provide some support for the proposition that HR practices focused on job‐related performance (Reskin, 2000) and limiting managerial discretion may facilitate gender pay equity. However, the case also reveals the limits of these policies. Women scored equally well on performance but formalised scores on future potential were higher for men and mattered more. A significant gender effect emerged in promotion to more senior posts. These mixed outcomes suggest that Acker's (2006) proposition still holds.

The Contextual Influences of Police and Social Service Providers on Formal Help-Seeking After Incidents of Intimate Partner Violence.

Police notification and social service acquisition are two forms of formal help-seeking linked to improved outcomes among survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), including better socio-emotional health, improved physical health, and, importantly, increased safety. The majority of research devoted to the study of formal help-seeking among survivors of IPV focuses on incident- and individual-level factors and their relationship with formal resource utilization. Much less is known about community-level factors. Using a nationally representative sample of incidents of IPV from the National Crime Victimization Survey (2006-2016), this work explores how law enforcement and social service resources in a community are related to police notification and survivor acquisition of a victim service after an incident of IPV, net of incident- and individual-level factors. Logistic regression models indicate that the number of law enforcement personnel per 1,000 residents in a county is positively associated with police notification after an incident of IPV, and it exerts an indirect effect on survivor service acquisition through police notification. Additional analyses reveal that the race/ethnicity of the survivor of IPV is a key demographic in the explanation of this relationship, as incidents of IPV involving White and Hispanic survivors of IPV are more likely to come to the attention of police as the number of law enforcement personnel increases. The reverse is true for incidents involving Black survivors of IPV. No differences across survivor sex emerged. Potential reasons to account for varying effects across race/ethnicity are discussed as well as the importance of additional funding for police and social service agencies to serve survivors of IPV and meet the dual goals of offender accountability and survivor safety and well-being.

Challenging the obsession with local level institutions in country ownership of climate change adaptation

Working with local level actors to enable country ownership is applauded within the multilateral climate finance landscape. However, are emerging adaptation interventions equitable by reflecting the priorities of local level vulnerable populations? This research sought to find out whether the engagement of local institutions in projects that seek to achieve country ownership enabled local level vulnerable groups to participate in and influence adaptation decision-making processes and outcomes, thereby enabling them to have a voice in local level adaptation. It used a case study of a Global Environmental Facility-managed coastal adaptation project in Tanzania, which sought to restore and protect mangroves to enable adaptation to sea level rise. Data was generated from 13 Focus Group Discussions and survey questionnaires administered to 629 individuals in three locations on the mainland of Tanzania and in Zanzibar. The findings indicate that community-based organizations were used to facilitate the implementation of project activities at the community level. However, participation spaces created in the project and facilitated by these local institutions were exclusionary and failed to enable vulnerable community groups to have a voice on mangrove restoration and protection. Use of these local institutions altered local level power relations and disempowered other pre-existing and (in)formal local resource management institutions. Community members questioned legitimacy of actions implemented by these local institutions. These findings suggest that working with local level stakeholders to generate country ownership does not automatically guarantee that actions will address the needs of local vulnerable groups. Multilateral climate finance institutions should acknowledge these risks and implement measures to address them.

Status and Analysis of Formal and Actual Human Resource Management, Financial and Policy Autonomy of State-Owned Enterprises in Pakistan

This paper studies the formal and actual human resource management (HRM) autonomy, financial autonomy and policy autonomy of the state owned enterprises (SOEs) of Pakistan and points out the differences that exist between them. It also identifies behind the lack of autonomy of SOEs and proposes multiple recommendations though which this gap can be bridged. Both quantitative and qualitative data was collected to carry out this study. Quantitative data was collected from 40 randomly selected SOEs using a close-ended questionnaire while 20 semi-structured interviews were carried out to collect qualitative data. Descriptive statistics was used to see the number of SOEs having different levels of HRM autonomy, financial autonomy and policy autonomy. It was found that a very less number of SOEs were completely autonomous in different aspects of HRM, financial management, policy formulation and its implementation. Excessive political intervention, dependence on government for resources, lack of power of Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and poor performance of SOEs along with numerous other reasons were identified as causes behind this lack of autonomy. Multiple recommendations have also been proposed to overcome this issue. Keywords: Autonomy, State Owned Enterprises, Human Resource Management Autonomy, Financial Autonomy, Policy Autonomy, Task Autonomy, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, Companies Ordinance 1984, Public Sector Companies (Corporate Governance) Rules 2013. DOI : 10.7176/PPAR/10-1-01 Publication date: January 31 st 2020