Organizational Field Research Articles

To Work or Not to Work Remotely? Work-to-family Interface Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This paper provides a brief, evidence-based reflection on the differences between 'old-normal' remote working and mandatory work-from-home during the Covid-19 pandemic. From the perspective of applied psychology in the field of work and organizations, we used self-report instruments to assess variations in work-family conflict and enrichment, frequency of information and communication technologies use, and recovery in two longitudinal studies. The first study involved 148 individuals from the technical-administrative staff of a large Italian University, during an experimentation of remote working (one day per week) in 2019. The second study, conducted during the first lockdown in 2020, involved 144 individuals (occasional sample, heterogeneous by profession). All participants completed a self-report online questionnaire two times six months apart. Although the two studies are not directly comparable, the results showed two different situations: in the condition of experimental remote working (one day per week), participants reported a decrease in work-family conflict and an improvement in recovery experiences, while in the emergency remote working condition, a deterioration in work-family enrichment was found. These findings highlighted that some differences exist between a planned remote working condition and a mandatory one in an emergency. We briefly discuss these aspects to inform future organizational decisions and actions for the 'new normal'.

How the Big Four maintain and defend logic equilibrium at concurrent performances

The Big Four’s organizational field is dominated by two conflicting institutional logics, the professional logic and the commercial logic, resulting in a fragile logic equilibrium. We conceptualize logic equilibrium as offering instrumental value to the Big Four, and therefore a resource worth maintaining and defending. The paper mobilizes Goffman’s dramaturgical framework to examine how the Big Four maintain logic equilibrium in recurrent performances (i.e., their annual reviews), and defend it against threats in contingent performances (i.e., their comment letter responses to a regulatory inquiry). The research uses meaning-oriented content analysis. The study finds that the Big Four maintain logic equilibrium via recurrent performances that ostensibly summon concepts evocative of the professional and commercial logics in equal measure, but in substance, mobilize professional-logic concepts to privilege client-centric concerns associated with the commercial logic. In defending logic equilibrium from threats, the Big Four’s contingent performances draw almost exclusively on concepts associated with the professional logic. However, these contingent performances also principally use the professional logic towards a commercial end, in this case, as a buffer against regulatory proposals. In foregrounding institutional work’s performative nature, we contend that the commercial logic has commandeered the professional logic, the latter becoming a performative sign-vehicle directed towards commercial ends.

MNEs Managing Uncertainty in EMs: Role of Organizational Field Positions in Agentic Possibilities

MNEs Managing Uncertainty in EMs: Role of Organizational Field Positions in Agentic Possibilities

The Emergence and Evolution of Organizational Fields: Toward a Theory of a Place Based Field

The Emergence and Evolution of Organizational Fields: Toward a Theory of a Place Based Field

Collective Identity in Social Enterprise Ecosystems: A Cross-Country Comparison

In response to the call for research on the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems for social entrepreneurship, we engaged the organisational field literature, particularly the issue field perspective, in understanding the institutional dynamics in the evolution of social enterprise ecosystems. We examine genetic and epigenetic factors—stakeholder networks and policy directives—in shaping social enterprise identity claims made by diverse groups of organisations in emerging social enterprise ecosystems. We conducted a cross-country comparative analysis of 549 organisations’ social enterprise identity claims and organisational practices in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. The results show that SoEE evolution is not typified by the emergence of a dominant phenotype—social enterprise model—but could also be a field of diverse organisations that claim a social enterprise identity.

The institutional logics perspective in management and organizational studies

The institutional logics perspective has been increasingly applied in the field of management and organization in recent decades. Although there are extant literature reviews concerning the institutional logics perspective, none of them provides a comprehensive understanding thereof in management and organization studies. To address this limitation, we provide an integrated research framework that synthesizes and evaluates works on the institutional logics perspective in the field of management and organization from 1991 to 2022 and identify opportunities for future research. First, we employ a bibliometric approach to identify the state and knowledge structure of institutional logics research in the field of management and organization. Second, we conduct a systematic literature review of 129 articles published in top journals to determine the key questions and insights within the three themes that form this knowledge framework. Finally, an agenda for future research is proposed to advance the institutional logics perspective in management and organizational studies.

A Study on Training Techniques Used by Different Industries-A Conceptual Framework

This report investigates the various training methods used by various industries and how they serve to boost a firm's production. It is a method of enhancing an employee's knowledge and skills for performing a specific job. It refers to training an employee in management principles and procedures, administration, organization, and other related fields. The purpose of this article is to try several forms of training programs in the particular industry, and the training programs were discussed.

Assessment of the effectiveness of legal activities of trade unions at the present stage

The article is devoted to the regulation of trade unions. It reflects their failure at the present time, the reduction of their role as an institute of labor law in modern Russia in comparison with the stage of their formation in the USSR. The authors briefly disclose the problems of their insignificant independence, independence from the employer and the state policy, as well as the way of formation of the legislative framework in the field of trade union organizations. As a legal mechanism, one of the main tools for protection of rights with the help of a strike is considered. Examples of strikes in the USSR and modern Russia are given. The conclusion about the need to reform legislation in the field of trade unions in order to increase their independence and autonomy from the employer and the state apparatus.

Decision support models and methods to analysis and development in the IT services and equipment repair organizational and production processes management field

Subject of research: is the models and decision support methods in the field of organizational management and IT services and equipment repair production processes.
 Purpose of research: is to analyze existing and create new models, algorithms and technologies for the implementation of a decision support system for the service platform in the field of IT and equipment repair.
 Methods and objects of research: include systems management theory, decision theory, automatic text processing methods, automatic control theory, information systems design theory, optimization theory and object-oriented programming.
 Main results of research: is a prototype aggregator platform, reflecting services in the IT and equipment repair, system architecture, development tools, interface.

How Can Managers Promote Employee Sustainability? A Study on the Impact of Servant Leadership on Emotional Labor

How managers can promote sustainability among their employees has become an important research issue in the field of organizations. Based on the theory of person–environment fit and social learning, the internal mechanism and the conditions of servant leadership on the two dimensions of emotional labor of the epidemic situation were studied through the analysis of the questionnaire data at two time points. The study revealed that the adoption of servant leadership by managers can have a positive impact on employee well-being and deep acting in the context of COVID-19, and this is critically important for the sustainable development of employees. Employee well-being is positively correlated with deep acting and negatively correlated with surface acting. Employee well-being plays a mediating role between servant leadership and the two dimensions of emotional labor. Perceived organizational support plays a moderating role between servant leadership and surface acting. The research findings can serve as a reference for enterprises to take measures in mitigating the adverse impact of COVID-19. Moreover, they provide new insights for managers to facilitate the sustainable development of their employees.

Actual issues of interaction between water police units and territorial bodies of the State Fisheries Agency during fish protection raids

The article analyzes current issues of interaction between water police units and territorial bodies of the State Fisheries Agency during fish protection raids. It was established that the interaction of water police units and territorial bodies of the State Fisheries Agency is an important component of the cooperation of these public administration entities. It has been proven that a strong legal basis has been formed for the cooperation of water police units and territorial bodies of the State Fisheries Agency in the field of fish protection raids, which includes both the organizational aspects of the interaction of the above-mentioned subjects and determines their jurisdictional powers in the field of fish protection. Areas of interaction between water police units and territorial bodies of the State Fisheries Agency are highlighted, which include: detection of fishing violations; protection of water resources; implementation of control over the fulfillment of license conditions for carrying out economic activities in the field of fishing; prevention of administrative and criminal offenses in the field of fish protection; emergency response; ensuring control over the import and export of fish and seafood across the state border of Ukraine, etc. It is emphasized that one of the key areas of cooperation between the units of the water police and the territorial bodies of the State Fisheries Agency is the monitoring of compliance with the legislation in the field of fish protection in the form of conducting fish protection raids. The legal regulation in the field of organization and implementation of law enforcement raids was analyzed and the need to improve the current administrative legislation in this field of public administration was substantiated by giving water police units jurisdictional powers in the field of fish protection. The expediency of carrying out a theoretical and legal analysis of the regulatory support of the powers of water police units in the field of fish protection has been determined, with the aim of developing proposals for the preparation of a draft departmental specialized regulatory act aimed at regulating the administrative and legal status of the specified units of the National Police of Ukraine.

Acquiesce, Compromise, or Avoid? Collaboration, Coordination, & Cooperation as Different Strategic Responses to Institutional Pressures

Collaboration is often touted as the ideal interorganizational relationship (IOR) to tackle many challenging social problems; however, collaboration is just one of many types of IORs that public managers can undertake. This article presents public managers’ decisions to cooperate, coordinate, or collaborate with program partners as strategic responses of avoiding, compromising, or acquiescing, respectively. We argue that perceptions of coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures influence the likelihood to undertake different IORs; specifically, as managers experience combined isomorphic pressures, they are more likely to acquiesce and collaborate with program partners. Findings from our qualitative study of federal and state preschool programs in Virginia, USA reveal that as managers perceive additional pressures they are more likely to pursue more involved IORs. Unexpectedly, we find that cooperators perceive few isomorphic pressures, and we also find that perceived deterrent isomorphic pressures distinguish coordinators from collaborators. These findings offer insight about how organizational field pressures can affect strategic IOR responses.

Institutional pressures and the adoption of responsible management education at universities and business schools in Central and Eastern Europe

AbstractBusiness schools, and universities providing business education, from across the globe have increasingly engaged in responsible management education (RME), that is in embedding social, environmental and ethical topics in their teaching and research. However, we still do not fully understand the institutional pressures that have led to the adoption of RME, in particular concerning under‐researched regions like Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Hence, we undertook what is to our knowledge the most comprehensive study into the adoption of RME in CEE to date (including 13 countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine). We find that, with regard to RME, isomorphic pressures seem to shape teaching and research in different ways, which suggests that the idea of a holistic approach to RME, promoted by, for example, the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), needs to be revisited; rather, different trajectories of organizational engagement may emerge for each principle. As a contribution to institutional theory, we discuss how a highly fragmented organizational field—like RME with its multiple dimensions—impacts on notions of actor centrality, where actors achieve centrality with regard to some dimensions of the field but fail to do so for others. In particular, we found that the European Union holds centrality in the area of RME teaching, but not in RME research. Our findings thus suggest that the concept of field centrality needs further clarification.

Managerial roles and their application in non-profit sports organisations

This article focuses on leadership and the role of managers in the field of non-profit sports organisations, knowing that this area of activity is still largely neglected by research. The main goal of this research was to find out what roles managers currently play in the management of non-profit organisations in the field of sports. The method of a quantitative questionnaire survey was applied and the respondents were 270 non-profit sports organisation managers. The research shows that the roles of managers of non-profit sports organisations have significantly affected interpersonal activities to fulfil the mission of these organisations more than to strengthen their economic performance. The overshadowing of some managerial roles creates an incentive to focus on the creation of educational offers aimed at strengthening leadership, management of subsidies from public sources, and the possibility of using marketing in the field of creating their own financial resources.

Features of the initial stage of digitalization of the executive authority of Ukraine: historical and legal overview

The article is devoted to the historical and legal analysis of the specifics of the process of primary digitization of the executive power in modernization in modern Ukraine (1993–2003), highlighting the main legal patterns of such a process. It is shown that the digitalization of the executive power has become a component of the only, in fact, process of digitalization of the public administration system in Ukraine, which covered all spheres, levels and segments of the functioning of state authorities and their interaction with citizens and society as a whole. Being a legal process, such digitization naturally required proper legal regulation both at the stage of introducing innovations regarding the use of ICT in the field of organization and activities of the executive power, and at the stage of implementing these innovations. The early stage of digitalization became the stage of informatization of the executive power in the context of the constitutional and legislative institutionalization of the executive power, when only the first legal steps regarding the initial digitalization in the context of the informatization of public administration were outlined. It is highlighted that this process continued within the stage of primary digitalization (1993–2003) without a clear conceptual vision of its political and legal essence, specificity and purpose of digitalization of the executive power, and its deployment in these conditions coincided in time with the unfinished institutionalization of the system of executive power bodies in Ukraine, which was determined first by the incompleteness of the constitutional process and the conceptual ambiguity of the constitutional model of the executive power system institutionalized in Ukraine (until 1996), and later by attempts to combine the digitalization of the executive power with attempts to reform it within the framework of the administrative reform paradigm (since 1998). It has been found that the key directions of digitalization of the executive power within this stage were the following: creation of the primary legal basis of digitalization; legitimization of informatization of state administration as one of the key functions of executive authorities; creation of the National Agency for Informatization under the President of Ukraine as an institutional center for the primary digitization of the executive power; legitimization of mandatory publication on the Internet of information about the activities of executive authorities; ensuring the functioning of websites of executive authorities of all levels on the basis of uniform standards, their unification and standardization; introduction of the Unified web portal of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, intended for the integration of official websites of executive authorities and placement of information resources in accordance with the needs of citizens; ensuring the coordination of work to ensure the functioning of the Unified web portal, its information content, technical support, support and establishment of regulations and standards for information exchange between its constituent parts; monitoring compliance with information protection requirements in information and telecommunication systems that ensure the content and functioning of official websites (web portals) of executive authorities and the Unified web portal; outline as a prospective task of the transition to a paperless (electronic) form of document circulation in the bodies of executive power.

Institutions and Their Social Construction: A Cross-Level Perspective

Defining institutions as taken-for-granted systems of roles and interactions, this paper presents a novel theoretical integration of hereto disparate micro and macro approaches to their social construction. Building on and modifying Berger and Luckmann (1967), I emphasize the social and cultural embeddedness of the phenomenological experience of institutions and their embodiment in organizations and organizing practices. The paper identifies mechanisms by which micro-institutions emerge at the intra-organizational level and how institutionalization is shaped across the multiple levels of organizations, geographic communities, organizational fields, societies, and the world system. It proposes that the locus of sedimentation, and hence institutionalization, occurs at multiple levels, which are culturally embedded within higher-level institutional orders of society and the world system. It further proposes that the generation of a committed network of role practitioners is a critical component of institutionalization.

Online Focus-Groups: Methodical Reflection

The digitalization process transforms ways of social reality research. Since the late nineties of the last century online methods have become popular, classical research methods have been digitized, the natively digital methods have emerged, for example, asynchronous online focus groups. The pandemic has led to a rapid increase of popularity of online-methods in Russia, in particular online focus groups have become in demand by the market. Despite the removal of COVID restrictions, online focus groups have remained popular. In this article we consider the changed social reality, analyze specifics in the organization and conduct of online focus groups on the example of Leningrad Region. We demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of this method, comprehend the factors that may lead to sample bias in organizing online focus groups, present our results in the field of organization and conduct of focus groups on the Internet. The presented arguments provide a more complex framework for researchers, and especially early career researchers, to make a reasoned and balanced decision when selecting between face-to-face and digital modes.

Age, Educational and Indicative Service Levels and Their Relationship to The level of Performance of Agricultural Extension Workers in Diyala governorate

The research aimed to identify the level of performance of workers in agricultural extension in Diyala Governorate in general, as well as to identify the level of performance of workers in agricultural extension in the fields of extension work, namely (organization, planning, implementation, evaluation and technology transfer) , As well as identifying the correlation between the performance of workers in agricultural extension the number of years of life, the levels of agricultural academic study, and the number of years of extension service .The research population included all agricultural extension workers in the Directorate of Agriculture and Agricultural People and the Extension Center if the number of its employees reached (460) employees .The research showed that the level of performance of agricultural employees in Diyala province is of the average category in general ,There was a contrast in the level of performance of employees in the fields extension work, as it was found that the level of performance of employees in the fields of organization, planning and implementation is average. In the fields of evaluation and technology transfer, performance was average and tended to decline ,The research showed that there is a significant correlation between the level of performance of the respondents, and the variable of the number of years life, the number of years of agricultural academic study, and the number of years of extension service. The researcher recommends the importance of determining the actual extension work of agricultural workers, and holding training courses for agricultural cadres working in the field of agricultural extension to raise the level of their performance, especially in the fields of evaluation and technology transfer , and the need to pay attention to independent variables that have a moral correlation when preparing for job courses.

La satisfacción laboral y su relación con la satisfacción del cliente: Estado del arte

This article mentions the state of the art of job satisfaction and its relationship with customer satisfaction, both dependent on the organizational climate, which is the set of feelings and impressions of a company's employees about the work environment. In job satisfaction, since the 1930s, studies have aroused great interest. Thus, from 2000-2010, the organizational field is more useful and then Job Satisfaction. In personal satisfaction with life (55%) job satisfaction has a positive impact (66.9%). If they perceive that their feelings about the organizational climate are good, job satisfaction is positive. If you attend work with problems, there is a negative relationship between job stress and job satisfaction in workers. Job satisfaction is the exchange given between the expectations of the organization and the perspectives of the worker. On the other hand, customer satisfaction is shown, among others, by observing delays in their attention. There is also a direct relationship between the management of human talent according to competencies and customer satisfaction. A continuous interest in the development of job satisfaction and its relationship with customer satisfaction is concluded.

МАГИСТРАТУРА В ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ ТРАЕКТОРИИ РУКОВОДИТЕЛЯ МЕДИЦИНСКОЙ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ

The article presents arguments about some discrepancy in the requirements for the competence of a specialist in the field of healthcare organization and public health in accordance with the professional standard and the acquired knowledge and skills of students in the relevant educational programs. So, in particular, there is a wider list of knowledge and skills required for the head of a medical organization, in comparison with the competencies that a graduate in the direction of training "Health Organization and Public Health" possesses. At the same time, not only the list of competencies is insufficient, but also the depth of knowledge, which may subsequently affect the level of qualification. At the same time, at the moment, educational programs in the direction of training Management (Health Management) are becoming increasingly popular. Such graduates have more fully formed competencies in managing organizations, strategic planning, designing development programs, etc. This level of education is not noted in any way in the required educational trajectories for heads of medical organizations, however, the list of competencies required for students in such educational programs completely closes this discrepancy and the lack of knowledge and skills that arises among representatives of the leadership in the field of health care after training in residency or at primary retraining in the organization of health care and public health. As a result, it is concluded that the direction of training 38.04.02 "Management" profile "Health Management" is exactly the educational program that fully meets the requirements of the Professional Standard, and the presence of a diploma of obtaining this education should be decisive when choosing candidates for positions heads of medical organizations.