Organizational Sciences Research Articles

Active Learning Impact in Lecture Delivery in The Software Patterns Course

This paper provides an analysis of the process of lecture delivery in the Software Patterns course at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. The content of the course and the manner of knowledge transfer to students are described in detail. In order to improve the process of delivering lectures at this course, three types of research were conducted among students. At the end of the paper, the results and conclusions of the research are presented.

Contributions of Africa to management and organization science

ABSTRACT Given the increasing globalization of management and organization science (MOS), it has been suggested that scholarly communities examine the contributions of their contexts to the discipline. Accordingly, the contributions from Africa to MOS across the pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras are examined using generative theory. Evidence from historical, philosophical, anthropological, and sociological sources demonstrates that significant contributions to MOS have originated from Africa. Even so, those contributions have not been acknowledged, especially in the post-modern era, due to the “writing out” of Africa. Several implications for research and pedagogy concerning MOS and Africa are considered given the current trend of decolonization.

Unpacking the differing understandings of "alcohol industry" in public health research.

Use of the term 'alcohol industry' plays an important role in discussions of alcohol and public health. In this paper, we examine how the term is currently used and explore the merits of alternative conceptualisations. We start by examining current ways of referring to 'alcohol industry' in public health and then explore the potential for organisational theory, political science, and sociology to provide alcohol research with more inclusive and nuanced conceptualizations. We identify, and critique, three conceptualisations based on purely economic understandings of industry: literal, market, and supply-chain understandings. We then examine three alternative conceptualizations based on systemic understandings of industry: organizational, social-network, and common-interest understandings. In examining these alternatives, we also identify the extent to which they open up new ways of approaching the levels at which industry influence is understood to operate in alcohol and public health research and policy. Each of the six understandings of 'industry' can play a role in research but their utility depends on the question being asked and the breadth and depth of the analysis being undertaken. However, for those intending to engage with a broader disciplinary base, approaches grounded in the systemic understandings of 'industry' are better positioned to study the complex nexus of relationships that contribute to alcohol industry influence.

Exploring artificial intelligence and big data scholarship in information systems: A citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-word analysis

This research explores extant research on artificial intelligence (AI) and big data published in the premier Information Systems (IS) journals over a period of 26 years (1997–2022), and it uses the techniques of citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and co-word analysis. Citation analysis results reveal IS as the most cited reference discipline, followed by general business, organization science, and marketing. Two major topical clusters have been identified — problem domain-specific AI (e.g., predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and text mining) and organizational-specific AI (e.g., big data capabilities, firm performance, agility, and strategy). Co-word analysis revealed a gradual shift of scholarly interest from problem-domain-specific AI toward organizational-specific AI. Using the citation data, the most influential (cited) authors, (cited) articles, journals, institutions, and countries are identified. Gaps in extant research and future research paths are discussed.

Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science

Word embedding models are a powerful approach for representing the multidimensional conceptual spaces within which communicated concepts relate, combine, and compete with one another. This class of models represent a recent advance in machine learning allowing scholars to efficiently encode complex systems of meaning with minimal semantic distortion based on local and global word co-occurrences from large-scale text data. Although their use has the potential to broaden theoretical possibilities within organization science, embeddings are largely unknown to organizational scholars, where known they have only been mobilized for a narrow set of uses, and they remain unlinked to a theoretical scaffolding that can enable cumulative theory building within the organizations community. Our goal is to demonstrate the promise embedding models hold for organization science by providing a practical roadmap for users to mobilize the methodology in their research and a theoretical guide for consumers of that research to evaluate and conceptually link embedded representations with theoretical significance and potential. We begin by explicitly defining the notions of concept and conceptual space before proceeding to show how these can be represented and measured with word embedding models, noting strengths and weaknesses of the approach. We then provide a set of embedding measurements along with their theoretical interpretation and flexible extension. Our aim is to extract the operational and conceptual significance from technical treatments of word embeddings and place them within a practical, theoretical framework to accelerate research committed to understanding how individuals, teams, and broader collectives represent, communicate, and deploy meaning in organizational life. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1686 .

Turning the tide: Addressing threats to pharmacist well‐being through work redesign

AbstractThe Great Resignation marked a dramatic return to the steady, rising rate of job turnover that began over a decade ago, and recent reports suggest the profession of pharmacy is no exception. Rising concerns about pharmacist turnover follow a wave of articles about the prevalence of burnout in nearly every corner of the profession. However, this should come as no surprise, as burnout and turnover are often progressively worsening symptoms of the same disease: a toxic work environment. This review suggests that many current efforts to improve burnout in pharmacy will have limited impact because they place too much emphasis on individuals and not enough of it on the environments in which they work. Scientific frameworks for understanding burnout as a problem originating from work are discussed, distinguishing burnout from other dimensions of health and well‐being. These frameworks are then followed by an integration of empiric evidence from the organizational sciences and illustrative examples from pharmacy practice to explain how burnout emerges from an imbalance of job demands (e.g., workload, time pressure, work‐life conflict) and job resources (e.g., autonomy, rewards, social support). The review concludes with a proposed course correction—one that positions organizational leaders as the people who are best equipped to address burnout at its source through a structured process known as work redesign. By doing so, leaders can create work environments that not only reduce the risk of burnout among pharmacists but also enhance their ability to thrive.

Gone Fishin’: Addressing Completeness, Accuracy, and Representativeness in the Search and Coding Processes of Meta-Analyses in the Organizational Sciences

Gone Fishin’: Addressing Completeness, Accuracy, and Representativeness in the Search and Coding Processes of Meta-Analyses in the Organizational Sciences

Monday Mourning: A Call for the Study of Bereavement in the Workplace

Bereavement, the reaction to the loss of someone significant through death, is a challenging life event. Despite its prevalence, it is an understudied aspect of organizational life. The goal of this article is to encourage research on bereavement in the workplace. After providing a brief overview and definitions of key terms, I highlight themes of what we know about bereavement from work in the organizational sciences. I then suggest several generative directions for future work. Such research may alleviate some of the bereavement burden for employees by better addressing their needs and by developing more humane organizational policies and practices.

Does Digitalization Affects Work-Life Flexibility? A Perspective of MNCs in Malaysian Working Environment

MNCs advances in digitalization have changed the way one work and the way they live their lives. The long-term goal of this study is to better understands, organize and restructure each MNCs digitalized knowledge system parallel to their employees’ work-life flexibility. This chapter aims to investigate the impact of digitalization and knowledge absorptive capacity and employees’ work-life flexibility in MNCs industry. Previous research has primarily relied on organizational science that have explored digital innovation in specific industry and the did not treat work-life flexibility as pre-requisite in order for an employee to achieve wellbeing or performance. Besides that, this study treats digitalization as an example of external disruptive technology that influences knowledge transfer from MNCs subsidiaries to contract manufacturing in a post-Covid environment where it has changed the way instructions, methods, and ideas transferred across these organizations and its effects to employee’s work-life flexibility. Previous research fails to fully recognize the unique and distinct characteristics of digitalization and their formative and transformative effects in terms of MNCs operational logics and to achieve work-life flexibility. Therefore, this study is investigating the relationship of digitalized knowledge transfer between MNCs’ subsidiaries and contract manufacturers and employee work-life flexibility in the context of learning intent on the effectiveness and efficiency of knowledge transfer among the technical team across organizations.

Migration and Global Network Formation: Evidence from Female Scientists in Developing Countries

As agents who have the opportunity to develop connections in multiple geographic locations and networks, migrants are uniquely suited to play brokerage roles in science, innovation, and entrepreneurship. But can they succeed in connecting others in their home and host environments? We investigate this question in the context of women in science in the developing world. We hypothesize that the extent to which such scholars facilitate connections will depend upon the extent to which their home and host country institutional environments support them in this brokerage role. Specifically, we propose that the effectiveness of female migrants as brokers is mitigated by national level gender parity, which we expect influences their level of legitimacy and opportunity for brokerage. Our analysis finds that female migrants in science are more likely to share international connections with non-migrants at home if their home countries and host countries have high levels of gender parity. We interpret these findings as providing evidence that institutional support is critical for migrant brokerage and the globalization of knowledge production. History: This paper has been accepted for the Organization Science Special Issue on Migration & Organizations. Funding: This work was supported by the National Bureau of Economics Research Science of Science Funding program (Science of Science Funding program) J. L. Furman gratefully acknowledges financial support from NSF SciSIP grant, SES-1564368. Supplemental Material: The e-companion is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1683 .

Heterogeneity in Meta-Analytic Effect Sizes: An Assessment of the Current State of the Literature

Heterogeneity refers to the variability in effect sizes across different samples and is one of the major criteria to judge the importance and advancement of a scientific area. To determine how studies in the organizational sciences address heterogeneity, we conduct two studies. In study 1, we examine how meta-analytic studies conduct heterogeneity assessments and report and interpret the obtained results. To do so, we coded heterogeneity-related information from meta-analytic studies published in five leading journals. We found that most meta-analytic studies report several heterogeneity statistics. At the same time, however, there tends to be a lack of detail and thoroughness in the interpretation of these statistics. In study 2, we review how primary studies report heterogeneity-related results and conclusions from meta-analyses. We found that the quality of the reporting of heterogeneity-related information in primary studies tends to be poor and unrelated to the detail and thoroughness with which meta-analytic studies report and interpret the statistics. Based on our findings, we discuss implications for practice and provide recommendations for how heterogeneity assessments should be conducted and communicated in future research.

Diversity and inclusion management in sport organizations: an integrative literature review

ABSTRACT Research question Diversity and inclusion management (DIM) is central to organizational science and studies of sport’s contribution to diversity and inclusion in society are plentiful, e.g. through the “sport for development” field. But what is the status of existing research about DIM within sport organizations? Research methods This paper draws upon an integrative literature review of DIM in sport organizations (n = 124). Data consist of articles gathered from Web of Science and the databases of Human Kinetics, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and SAGE. Results and Findings The analysis generated five categories of findings: a lack of focus on the management part of DIM; the use of “organizational culture” as an all-embracing concept; an instrumental approach to “diversity” in particular; the key role of education in improving future DIM practices in sport; and an Anglo-Saxon bias. Implications This article advances the idea of a relational management of “diversity” and “inclusion” in sport organizations for integrative purposes. It is proposed to examine this relational management through a social-scientific approach to three research gaps, which are key to future empirical research on DIM challenges in sport organizations.

Example of Integration of Java GUI Desktop Technologies Using the Abstract Factory Pattern for Education Purposes

The integration of Java GUI desktop technologies (Swing and JavaFX), using the Abstract Factory pattern, is explained in this paper. An overview of the basic features of Swing and JavaFX technologies is given, as well as the design pattern concept with an emphasis on the Abstract Factory pattern. In our study example, we have shown how to integrate the existing software system based on the Abstract Factory Pattern and Swing GUI technology with JavaFX GUI technology in a relatively simple way. The integration aims to explain to the students of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON), University of Belgrade, in the course Software Patterns, the application of software patterns in connecting different GUI technologies.

Comment on “Breaking outside the box: Use of escape rooms in pharmacy residency interviews”

JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACYVolume 6, Issue 5 p. 555-556 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Comment on “Breaking outside the box: Use of escape rooms in pharmacy residency interviews” Brent N. Reed Pharm.D., M.S., FCCP, Corresponding Author Brent N. Reed Pharm.D., M.S., FCCP [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-3867-070X Organizational Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Correspondence Brent N. Reed, Organizational Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Brent N. Reed Pharm.D., M.S., FCCP, Corresponding Author Brent N. Reed Pharm.D., M.S., FCCP [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-3867-070X Organizational Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Correspondence Brent N. Reed, Organizational Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 07 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/jac5.1791Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume6, Issue5May 2023Pages 555-556 RelatedInformation

«Сознательно-товарищеские» начала организационно-управленческой модели А. Богданова

The publication is devoted to the consideration of theoretical foundations in the field of system socio-economic space, which is reflected in the works of Russian philosopher and encyclopedist Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov. Based on the concept of socially-organized experience, reflecting the basic principles about the laws of organization, acting in technology (organization of things), economy (organization of people), politics (organization of ideas), the article substantiates the idea of the special role of space and time, first proposed by A. Bogdanov in relation to economic systems in the context of the system economic theory. In this conceptual context the processes of search of new approaches and rethinking of theoretical capital Тs purpose of transformation of economic systems in the direction of increase of their efficiency are considered. One of such sources of national intellectual heritage are the works of Russian philosopher and encyclopedist Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov, which outlined the concept of socially organized experience, reflecting basic principles about the laws of organization, operating in technology (organization of things), economy (organization of people), politics (organization of ideas) and the need for their systemic study. Concept A. A. Bogdanov is the first scientific concept, which integrates ideas of cybernetics, general systems theory and synergetic. The author pays attention to A. A. Bogdanov’s attempt to generalize universal organizational laws, controlling the behavior and structure of fundamentally new complex systems, which is described as “general organizational science”. A. Bogdanov was outstanding – both for his time and contemporaneity - attempt of generalization of universal organizational laws, governing the behavior and structure of principally new complex systems. In the article the idea of the special role of space and time, which was first proposed by A. A. Bogdanov, is developed and developed in the article as applied to economic systems in the context of system economic theory, and the conceptual model of qualitative equilibrium interaction of basic economic subsystems is built. On the basis of the presented information model of economic system on the basis of A. A. Bogdanov’s doctrine leads to conclusions that this doctrine in combination with modern systematic economic theory might become the theoretical base of general economic analysis. The arguments in favor of revival of interest to understanding of A. A. Bogdanov’s ideas and, in particular, to understanding of “economy space” and to the concept of “conscious cooperation”, which can supplement or oppose the concept of competition. His basic ideas about society based on consciously comradely principles, which are of scientific interest in the context of regulation of bona fide and non-bona fide behavior of economic subjects, are also noted. The article allows us to approach the estimation of variety of Bogdanov’s ideas from different positions, leaving the possibility for each scientist to form his own view and approach to this process of rethinking of his many theses and instruments. This article on the pages of the journal opens a discussion platform for discussion and the search for scientific and scientific-applied ideas aimed at improving the efficiency of economic systems, the formation of modern concepts and organizational and management principles and mechanisms to improve and develop both economic entities and the economy as a whole.

Human Resource Management (HRM) Functions in Organizational Development and Sustainability in Nigeria

Human Resource Management (HRM) Functions in Organizational Development and Sustainability in Nigeria

Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy

Following Oliver Williamson’s passing in 2020, associations and journals in institutional and organizational economics have undertaken various initiatives in recognition of his contribution. The organization research field, though, has remained quite silent, and I wish to not only raise a voice, but also reclaim a legacy. The article offers an organizational re-reading of what is often (mis)classified as an ‘economics of organization’, highlighting how organization as a discipline contributed to shaping that Nobel-prized vision of ‘a science of organization’ integrating the basic social sciences (most notably economics and law, but also, as retrieved here, sociology) with organization theory; and the methodological lessons for interdisciplinary research that can be drawn from it. The analysis then pushes the boundaries further, extracting from the ‘market and hierarchy’ perspective a ‘court of justice’ notion of hierarchy, and arguing that such type of hierarchy is consistent with, and even complementary to, the forms of horizontal organization and polycentric governance of our times, as well as the ‘thirdness’ of institutions prescribed by modern law.

Measuring organizational happiness in higher education - a data-driven approach

The measurement of organizational satisfaction is a popular topic in organizational science; however, less attention is given to organizational happiness. There are very few measuring tools designed to evaluate organizational happiness. While the value-mediating role of higher education is indisputable, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to address organizational happiness in the context of higher education. In addition, this study proposes new data-driven approaches to analyze patterns of answers (i.e. regarding individual happiness); therefore, the relationships among individuals, groups, and organizational happiness can be better analyzed. This study is based on survey data; nevertheless, in addition to measuring organizational happiness in Hungarian higher education, this paper proposes using infrequently used data-driven approaches to determine who feels happy/unhappy in what areas.

Presenteeism Is Reloaded and Ready for Further Research – A Commentary on Priebe, J. and Hägerbäumer, M. (2023)

Presenteeism Is Reloaded and Ready for Further Research – A Commentary on Priebe, J. and Hägerbäumer, M. (2023)

Stuart (Stu) Oskamp (1930-2022).

This article memorializes Stuart (Stu) Oskamp (1930-2022). Professor Oskamp, an eminent social psychologist, made enduring contributions by applying social psychological knowledge to real-world problems, especially to the sustainability of the earth. Stu taught at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) from 1960 to 2000. While there he served as chair of the psychology department, chair of the entire graduate faculty, acting director of the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, and became professor emeritus and received the CGU President's Medal in 2000. Highlights of Stu's career and professional contributions are noted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).