Organizational Ties Research Articles

How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness

ABSTRACT Advancing a network concept of disaster communication ecology, the current study explores how key properties of one’s disaster communication network—which consists of interpersonal, media, and organizational ties—influence various kinds of support-seeking processes during a natural disaster, the 2021 Texas Winter Storm. Specifically, the study investigates how the sizes, heterogeneity, and localness of individuals’ disaster communication networks predict the frequencies of seeking emotional, informational, and physical support during the disaster, using survey data collected from a multiethnic community. Results indicate that different network properties of disaster communication ecologies are related to different types of support seeking levels. Furthermore, the localness and heterogeneity of interpersonal ties, as well as the heterogeneity of media ties, significantly vary across major ethnic groups.

Organizational Climate Management, Rewards, Emotional Intelligence, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Insurance Agent in The Jabodetabek Region

Insurance agents are the front-line people who win premiums for insurance companies. Therefore, its presence must be promoted and maintained in order to have a high degree of organizational ties with the company/organization. Agent development and maintenance efforts can be driven by a variety of variables that are directly or indirectly influenced, including organizational climate, achievement, emotional intelligence, and job satisfaction. This study uses descriptive and explanatory methods; the sample used is the 10 life insurance companies with the largest market share in Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek). Data analysis using bin and path analysis. Regional interval analysis results show that organizational climate is favorable; rewards, emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment are at high levels. Additionally, the results of the path analysis show 1) organizational climate and emotional intelligence, which, in turn, partially or simultaneously affect life insurance agents, 2) organizational climate and job satisfaction, which, in turn, partially or simultaneously affect life insurance agents, 3) organizational climate and rewards, organizational life commitment Partially or simultaneously from insurance agents, 4) organizational climate and rewards affect organizational engagement through life insurance agents' emotional intelligence, 5) organizational climate and rewards affect organizational engagement through life insurance agents' job satisfaction, 6) emotional intelligence and Job satisfaction partly or simultaneously affects the organizational engagement of life insurance agents.

The shape of the Sangh: rethinking Hindu nationalist organisational ties

ABSTRACT The Indian Hindu nationalist movement is largely sustained by a network, hundreds of organisations strong, linked in greater or lesser degrees to a central organisational node: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. In this paper I propose a new, critical, definition of this network: That which is constituted by organisational sites through which a central executive may exert authority, (a) through existing institutionalised communication channels, and (b) without coercion. By reconfiguring the analytic focus on this network, which I refer to as the Sangh, from its organisational nodes, to the linkages through which power travels, I propose a new research agenda on this Hindu nationalist organisational network that I argue more clearly identifies the spread, intentions and weaknesses of the far-right in India.

Causality in transcription and genome folding: Insights from X inactivation.

The spatial organization of genomes is becoming increasingly understood. In mammals, where it is most investigated, this organization ties in with transcription, so an important research objective is to understand whether gene activity is a cause or a consequence of genome folding in space. In this regard, the phenomena of X-chromosome inactivation and reactivation open a unique window of investigation because of the singularities of the inactive X chromosome. Here we focus on the cause-consequence nexus between genome conformation and transcription and explain how recent results about the structural changes associated with inactivation and reactivation of the X chromosome shed light on this problem.

Meaning of work, organizational ties, and engagement: proposing an integrated theoretical model

Resumo O objetivo deste artigo consiste em avançar nas possibilidades de teorização sobre sentidos do trabalho, vínculos organizacionais - comprometimento, entrincheiramento e consentimento - e engajamento com base na articulação desses construtos num modelo integrativo. Para tanto, parte-se do pressuposto de que os sentidos atribuídos ao trabalho é uma variável antecedente a comprometimento, entrincheiramento, consentimento e engajamento no trabalho. Essa proposição é considerada oportuna e contributiva no campo teórico, uma vez que permite identificar possíveis associações entre os construtos, o que ajuda a compreender determinados comportamentos no trabalho. Após a análise das relações entre os conceitos, apresenta-se uma proposta de modelo integrada, ainda não testada empiricamente. Por fim, sugere-se uma agenda de pesquisas.

Gaining legitimacy and host market acceptance: a CRM analysis for foreign subsidiaries in China

PurposeBuilding on the scant literature on how foreign subsidiaries strategize Cause-Related-Marketing (CRM) to gain legitimacy and acceptance in host markets, this paper investigated the impact of two CRM components (post-crisis recovery, CSR activities) on subsidiary performance and future opportunities in China, a country whose institutional development lags behind its economic achievements. The study also investigated the moderating effects of strategic mindset and subsidiary empowerment on CRM effects, issues highly relevant to MNCs and their subsidiaries.Design/methodology/approachTo minimize common method variance, the study adopted a multi-informant firm executive survey design that included responses from a director and a manager from 230 foreign subsidiaries operating in China. The director-level respondents assessed Firm Competences, Organizational Ties, Subsidiary Performance and Future Opportunities. The manager-level respondents assessed CSR activities (Legal, Ethical and Philanthropic CSR) and other operational measures.FindingsThe two CRM components affected Subsidiary Performance (sales, shares and profit) and Future Opportunities in different ways as postulated by legitimacy theory. While Post-crisis Recovery enhanced Subsidiary Performance (sales), it could not enhance Future Opportunities by itself unless the subsidiary received headquarters empowerment. Interestingly, only Ethical and Philanthropic CSR activities with enhancement from Strategic Mindset mattered to Future Opportunities.Originality/valueThe research unfolded key elements in how foreign subsidiaries planned CRM strategies to gain legitimacy and acceptance in a host market with less-developed institutions, thereby addressing a gap in the literature. It also showed how firms internalize CRM and became receptive to social sentiments of a significant host market.

News coverage of social protests in global society

This article links media and social movement studies with world society theory to explain cross-national variations in media attention to domestic social protests. We compile a novel large-scale dataset with over 1.2 million protest-related news articles from 12,644 web news sites across 140 countries/areas in 2015–2020. Our cross-national analysis shows that both media- and country-level characteristics explain news coverage of domestic social protests. Our findings show that web news outlets with high web traffic and a propensity to report conflictual events tend to cover more protests. In addition, web news sites in nations with vibrant civil society organizations report more protest events. We also find that there is a positive relationship between online censorship and news coverage in general. But this is driven by news media in democratic countries, and news sites in authoritarian regimes experiencing strong censorship cover fewer protest events. Finally, news media in authoritarian nations with more organizational ties to the international community cover more domestic protests.

Introducing the party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets

Few existing datasets on parties and interest groups include data from both sides and a wide variety of interest groups and parties. We contribute to filling this gap by making several interconnected new datasets publicly available. The Party-Interest Group Relationships in Contemporary Democracies (PAIRDEM) datasets include cross-national data from three different surveys of (1) central party organizations, (2) legislative party groups, and (3) interest groups. A fourth dataset based on coding of party statutes and party finance data was established together with the Political Party Database. The datasets contain novel indicators on party-group relationships in up to 21 mature democracies. In this research note, we first present the main content of the datasets and the research design. Second, we present descriptive statistics documenting the extent of organizational ties between parties and groups in contemporary democracies. Third, we illustrate more advanced usage through a simple application.

Responsibility of states for the obligations of legal entities exercising public authority in the order of delegation

The relevance of the research topic is due to the large-scale administrative reform in the Russian Federation, one of the trends of which was the delegation of public authority to legal entities. In such conditions, it is of particular importance to study the issues of civil liability of public authorities, the restorative nature of which can be used to increase the guarantees of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens and legal entities acting as a “subordinate” party in power relations.The paper criticizes the tendency to abandon the subsidiary liability of public legal entities for the obligations of created legal entities. The existence of such responsibility, according to the authors, is due to the preservation of organizational and functional ties between the subjects under consideration. The necessity of expanding the scope of Article 1069 of the Civil Code by extending it to persons exercising public authority in the order of delegation is argued; proposals are made for the use of the institute of liability insurance.

INNOVATIVE TOOLS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION STAKEHOLDERS

Ukraine takes part in many international programs for the implementation of regulations in the field of economics and environmental safety based on the principles of sustainable development. Implementation problems associated with the transformation of the environment should be solved through systemic transformations in production as the main tool of the modern post-industrial society, influencing all spheres of human life. The article discusses promising directions for optimizing structural and organizational ties in investment and construction systems, which have emerged as a result of taking into account the formation of managerial influences of economic and other types of cyclicality. The fundamentals of a new tool for analytical substantiation of decision-making in managing changes in construction stakeholders – resonance-compensatory management - are outlined.Key words: investment and construction systems, resonant compensation management, theory of economic cycles, engineering, adaptive development.

Anticipated Gains: Motherwork, Organizational Brokerage, and Daughter’s Occupational Development

ABSTRACT Research on mothers’ efforts to protect their families from scarcity tends to separate individual action and the organizational context. We propose an intergenerational approach focusing on the convergence between the two, and ask: how are resources, acquired by motherwork vis-à-vis organizations, transferred to daughters to advance their occupational development? Based on 30 interviews with economically marginalized mother-young adult daughter dyads, the findings reveal an intergenerational brokerage of organizational ties, creating a resource for the occupational development of young women. We argue that in the context of poverty, organizational ties are crucial for mothers striving to support their daughters’ occupational development.

Protagonists or consenters: radical right parties and attacks on trade unions

ABSTRACT Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) not only seek to influence public policies with (re-)distributive implications to attract voters; they also try to reshape economic governance to weaken their opponents. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that the institutional reform strategies of PRRPs depend in large part on the degree of Social democratic party–union ties. When organizational ties between centre-left parties and trade unions are strong, PRRPs are protagonists of attacks on institutional union power and unite with centre-right parties in alternating long-term power relationships. By contrast, when Social democratic party–union ties are weak, PRRPs turn into consenters to the centre-right’s institutional reform proposals and act in accordance with short-term electoral and coalitional concerns. We research our argument in two primary case studies of Austria and Denmark, and control for alternative explanations with reviews of the institutional reform agendas pursued by radical right parties in Sweden and Germany.

A Flying Threat Coming to Sahel and East Africa? A Brief Review

Non-state actors have been experimenting with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for two decades. This has become widely known over the 5 years, as both ISIS and the Houthis have adapted weaponized UAVs into their repertoires. As the Sahel and East Africa regions experience a rise in violence from non-state actors, and given that groups here are affiliated with groups in the Middle East, this paper seeks to explore the possibility and likelihood of weaponized UAVs being used on the battlefield in these regions. By utilizing both scholarly work and other reporting from these regions, this paper finds that there is a low risk of weaponized UAVs being adapted in these regions through organizational ties to groups in the Middle East. However, as UAVs are commercially available all over the world, groups with bomb-making experience and technical know-how in general may themselves develop local variations and adaptions of what Jihadist groups have done in the Middle East over the last decade.

From Applied Research to Participatory Action, Part II: Y Ahora, ¿que? Community Dialogues and Rediscovering Our Communities

Abstract In this article, we relay our collaboration as part of a community-based, participatory action project involving Spanish-speaking community leaders, an anthropologist, and university students in San José, California. Building from earlier collaborations to support community-based leadership, we employed focus group methods in a collaborative project to facilitate community dialogues to identify salient issues for community and leader attention. By recognizing community members as agents (rather than targets) of change and interventions, we wanted to respect and reinforce local adaptive and creative capacities. We therefore endeavored to support participants as they activated their social networks and organizational ties to initiate dialogues and build actionable agendas.

Change in Service Provision Networks: The Case of Animal Welfare Services

This research focuses on change within informal service provision networks, specifically examining the impact that changes within a key organization can have on the larger network. Employing a before and after survey design with a treatment at the midpoint and participant observation, it asks: What is the impact of a major change within one organization on the larger external network? What is the nature of the organizational ties? and, How do political factors exogenous to the network impact the network evolution process? The findings suggest that internal change within a focal actor can have ripple effects throughout the network increasing density. Public service provision at the local level can be enhanced through an increase in partnerships between the public and nonprofit sectors. However, network evolution can be limited by the larger political environment and lack of a coordinating role on the part of local government.

Determination of features of development of modern theories of management

The object of research is the processes of development of modern management theories. One of the next problematic aspects is the identification of the peculiarities of the development of modern management theory in the period of digitalization and pandemic, which means a significant impact on the economy. In the process of work general scientific methods were used: induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, comparison, systematization. The analysis of scientific approaches to the definition of management is carried out; the main essential features of modern enterprises and management theories, respectively, are determined. It is determined that the theory of management at the present level undergoes significant transformations. In modern theories more and more attention is paid to: the intangible component and the peculiarities of its management; there is an active transition to digital technologies and digitalization of business; there is a need to use new management methods; organizational structures and corporate cultures are changing. This in turn contributes to the purposeful formation and development of such institutions within the organization as: – trust and creative atmosphere of productive group work; – development of organizational ties within the organization and outside it; – development of innovative ability of the company’s staff; – use of experience of other organizations. Based on the analysis, the following features of modern management theories are identified: – in modern theories more and more attention is paid to the intangible component and the peculiarities of its management; – active transition to digital technologies and digitalization of business; – change in the subject of work in most employees, in particular, the transition to advanced information and communication technologies; – the need to use new management methods; – transformation of organizational structures and corporate cultures. This provides the possibility of effective modern management by planning the activities of the firm in the short, medium and long term, as well as obtaining the maximum possible profit with minimal costs in a rapidly changing environment.

РОЗВИТОК МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНИХ ПІДХОДІВ ТА ІНСТРУМЕНТАЛЬНИХ ЗАСОБІВ УПРАВЛІННЯ ЗМІНАМИ БУДІВЕЛЬНИХ СТЕЙКХОЛДЕРІВ

Despite the fact that Ukraine has been taking part in many international programs for the implementation of international regulations in the field of economics, law and security in the context of sustainable development for a long time, there are problems in the country, as in the rest of the world, associated with the manufacturing sector. The transformation of the environment required for this, first of all, should begin with systemic transformative processes in production, as in the main tool of the modern post-industrial society, influencing all spheres of human life. The article discusses promising directions for optimizing structural and organizational ties in investment and construction systems, which have emerged as a result of taking into account the formation of managerial influences of economic and other types of cyclicality. The foundations of a new tool for analytical substantiation of decision-making in the management of changes in construction stakeholders – resonant compensation management. The work visually presents the nature of enterprise development as a system of interrelated economic and technological indicators in accordance with the classical theories of economic cycles. The hypothesis of mutual absorption (or partial leveling) of the antagonistic characteristics of the enterprise's activities, given in a single coordinate system, makes it possible to assert a compensatory effect when unfavorable conditions of the external and internal environment are imposed. And vice versa, the proposed system of irregular development cycles makes it possible to achieve the phenomenon of resonance of positive economic indicators when favorable conditions are imposed. Attention is focused on the threat of maintaining a state of equilibrium only under the condition of constant administrative influence. The concept of «moderate resonant management» is proposed, which will minimize, in particular, the time spent on changing the qualitative state of the organization, due to a personalized set of various methods of influence and achieve a new quasi-stable state of the organization's existence.

Organizational couplings: a literature review

The loosely coupled systems (LCS) perspective emerged as a new way to understand the organizational structure from the field of Organization Studies. The purpose of this article is to pres­ent the main features of previous research studies that have addressed the perspective of loosely coupled systems. This article is based on a systematic literature review of 76 papers published dur­ing a 36-year period (1983-2019). The findings indicate that the main concepts studied around this perspective have been loose coupling, tight coupling, decoupling, degree of coupling, and coupling mechanisms, which are analyzed considering the dialectical relationship between distinctiveness and responsiveness. Likewise, the study of organizational couplings has been extensively devel­oped through qualitative methodology with case studies, interviews and documentary reviews. In particular, there are two theoretical frameworks broadly used along with this perspective, the sociological new institutionalism and the theory of normal accidents, which give rise to future research on topics such as decoupling and the normality of accidents, among others. This article contributes to the discussion of organizational ties by highlighting the contemporary relevance of the LCS perspective, its usefulness for understanding current and future organizational issues in the field of Organization Studies, and encouraging greater adoption of LCS analysis in Latin America. Additionally, this paper provides conceptual clarity on the main categories of organizational cou­plings and its operationalization.

How pandemic has influenced the game between interest groups and politics. A theoretical Model

When parties and interest groups interact, they can do so in several ways which could be on an informal level, lobbying for a party candidate, or group representatives approach party leaders in the parliament to lobby them on an issue. There is a plethora of studies on the extent to which major political parties and major interests have related in the past and continue to relate or interact at the organizational level. Researchers have investigated to what extent parties and groups had formal organizational ties, cooperated in elections, or worked in concert on developing and implementing policies. Factors that for decades have determined the relationship between political parties and interest groups in liberal democracies are political system and subsystem development, political culture and political ideology, centralization of government and policymaking, nature of the party system, political party dependence on interest groups, encompassing characteristics of the interest group system, interest group development, ideology and leadership. However, the pandemic has influenced to a great extend the relationship between interest groups and politics. While Covid-19 crisis has consolidated power within governments, leaving opposition parties in a bind, on the other hand it has galvanized interest groups and businesses to mobilize. The pandemic has opened up the lobbying playing field to many new players. The paper aims to investigate to what extend the pandemic has influenced the relationship between political parties, government and interest groups and what strategies have these last ones used to get heard in a time when social distancing has reduced the opportunities for face-to-face lobbying.

FEATURES OF FORMATION OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF THE SERVICE ENTERPRISE IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

The high level of the development of information and telecommunication technologies has led to the acceleration of the processes of introduction and dissemination, copying by competitors of new knowledge-intensive technologies and other scientific developments. In these conditions, the enterprise's competitive advantages are determined by its uniqueness in a competitive environment and are formed on the basis of internal hard-to-imitate intangible resources and key areas of competence, which becomes a source of sustainable competitive advantages of the enterprise.The features of the formation of competitive advantages of an enterprise in the service sector in the context of the transition to a knowledge economy – from general approaches of strategic management, resource theory – to a competency-based approach are investigated. The key postulates of the competence-based approach to the formation of competitive advantages of a service sector enterprise in the transition to a knowledge economy are identified.It has been substantiated that the competitive advantages of an enterprise in the service sector are based on the enterprise's key areas of competence, which are a unique set of assets of knowledge, experience and organizational ties, which, in combination with resources and technologies, are embodied in the creation of new processes, products and services with new consumer properties. Key areas of competence are knowledge assets and are formed on the basis of a combination of knowledge and organizational ties that is unique for each enterprise, which leads to the need to identify such assets, order them and evaluate them in order to determine the uniqueness of the key areas of competence of the enterprise. For this purpose, the general scheme for identifying knowledge resources that form the competitive advantages of a service sector enterprise have been proposed in the article.