Resource Dependence Theory Perspective Research Articles

Research on the innovation of the meta-universe vocational talent training model from the perspective of resource dependence theory

With the proposal of “accelerating digital development and building digital China”, China is doing its best to lay out the transformation and upgrading of education digitization and intelligence. The rapid development of frontier technology has promoted the change of industry-education integration in vocational education. Combining with the background of the meta-universe era, we introduce resource dependency theory to analyze the relationship between society, universities, and government in talent training mode. The frontier technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, big data, digital twin, etc. are used to explore the integration model and opportunities of vocational education industry-education integration, while innovative descriptions and creative imaginations are made for the future talent cultivation model of metaverse vocational education industry-education integration. Based on the resource dependency theory, the relationship between the metaverse and the integration of industry and education in vocational education is revealed based on “how to cultivate cross-border talents in the metaverse”. There are more possibilities for classroom teaching in vocational education supported by new equipment and cutting-edge technology, which is important for innovative ways of talent cultivation, exploring new modes of talent cultivation, and establishing strategic layouts of talent cultivation.

자원의존이론 관점에서 본 성균관대 캠퍼스타운사업 초기 창업자의 경험과 자원 전략

This study focuses on the Seoul Campus Town project, which utilizes the university's education and research-based resources to create a win-win situation between the university, the local community, and the youth. The study discusses the experiences of the support system needed by early-stage entrepreneurs from the resource dependence theory perspective. The Campus Town project participants, who were early-stage entrepreneurs, underwent face-to-face and non-face-to-face in-depth interviews as a qualitative study. The study results showed that, first, regarding the perception of Sungkyunkwan University's Campus Town business, early entrepreneurs perceived that it is easy to enter with a low threshold and that it is highly accessible because it is based at a university. In addition, regarding the experience of utilizing support, early entrepreneurs strongly perceived that they needed to secure a startup space to challenge startups, and they needed to obtain business funds to realize their startup items. Therefore, they agreed to secure various resources for the company's sustainability. Second, as a strategy for securing resources, the study sought to strengthen their resource dependence by participating in other startup support projects, strengthen their organizational capabilities to withstand similar companies, scale up for sustainability, and attract investment for the exit. We examined the perceptions and experiences of early-stage entrepreneurs regarding startup support programs, suggested resources that should be prioritized, and concluded these results. In addition, it was found that early-stage entrepreneurs are seeking various strategies to secure resources through dependence and independence for sustainable management. Finally, this study analyzed resource cooperation between universities and localities for entrepreneurship through case studies, discussed participants' perceptions and experiences, and made practical and qualitative recommendations for public-private partnership entrepreneurship programs.

Internal Quality Assurance Policies and Practices in Colleges of Education in Ghana: Resource Dependency Theory Perspective

The study examined internal quality assurance policies and practices in managing colleges of education in Ghana to meet the requirements of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission in the perspective of resource dependency theory. The population were staff of the colleges of education. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 2 Principals, 6 Quality Assurance Officers, and 12 Department Heads in the Colleges. Telephone interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The transcripts were imported into NVivo 11 for analysis. The study found that even though most of the Colleges are state-owned they have to depend on their internal structures to ensure processes meet government and regulatory body expectations. It was recommended that affiliate universities, in collaboration with the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, should support the Colleges of Education to build internal capacity for Quality Assurance.

Development of Ecosystem for Corporate Green Innovation: Resource Dependency Theory Perspective

Although research on green innovation has increased dramatically in recent years, little is known about the system mechanisms for the innovation. Grounded in the resource dependency theory (RDT) and national innovation system (NIS) literature, this study examines the ecosystem in promoting green innovation from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. This study constructs a Nash-Cournot equilibrium to address the effects of national green innovation systems on corporate green innovation. Using data of 2136 A-share listed enterprises, 31 provincial-level R&D data, and 329 prefectural-level government annual work reports in China, this study finds that corporate collaboration, government subsidies, regional university R&D intensity, long-term credit, and government attention enhance the number of green innovation patents and patent diversity. Government attention strengthens the positive effects of corporate R&D cooperation, government subsidies, R&D intensity of regional research institutions, and long-term credit on the number of green innovation patents.

Revenue Mode Innovations for Product-Service Systems: Overcoming the Service Paradox

Industrial manufacturers aim to increase competitiveness by innovating their business model and offer product-service systems (PSS). However, firms often fail to exploit sufficient profits from PSS business model innovation (BMI). The role of revenue models to create and capture val-ue from innovating revenue streams for PSS is often neglected in practice and theory. The innova-tion literature has a profound understanding of the PSS concept and its value proposition design. However, it lacks knowledge and insights on how revenue model innovation (RMI) impacts the success and competitiveness of a PSS business model. From a perspective of the resource-dependence theory (RDT), we assume that RMI is a source of competitive advantage by reducing uncertainty and increasing interdependencies between economic actors of a PSS. Our research ap-plied a qualitative multiple case study with semi-structured interviews of leading PSS providers. We identified three dimensions of RMI-enabled customer value creation and provider value capture, reducing customer uncertainty and increasing dependence according to the RDT. Our research im-plies from the RDT perspective that PSS providers create a joint competitive advantage from RMI by giving additional value to their customers, which supports the power balance between both par-ties by a positive increase in interdependence. Our study contributes to the theoretical understanding of the role of RMI for PSS business model success. The study results will extend the theoretical knowledge about successful servitization through PSS and address its problem of exploiting reve-nues from the service business – the service paradox.

A resource dependence theory perspective on low savings, cost of capital, leverage and bank valuation in South Africa

ABSTRACT South Africa has one of the lowest savings rates of the emerging economies. However, the minimum capital and liquidity coverage prudential requirements are consistently exceeded by local banks. This paper investigates whether low savings have any impact on bank’s cost of capital, leverage and valuation through the lens of the resource dependence theory. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag Bounds Test estimates of panel data from 2008 to 2018 suggest that low savings have a long-run relationship with cost of equity, leverage and bank’s value. Furthermore, bank’s value and cost of equity are negatively affected in the short run but positively in the long run, implying that South African banks benefit from their interactions with contractual savings institutions in the long run and transfer cost increases to customers. As for leverage, the impact is positive in the short and not significant in the long run. The policy implications of these findings are, at the banks’ level, to act on the financial determinants of savings and household over-indebtedness. Banks should promote financial literacy and trust, avoid predatory lending and cut back bank charges in order to attract households informal savings (called stokvels in South Africa) by offering, for example, fixed floor rate on deposits when repo rate decreases and no ceiling when repo rate increases. At a national level, competitive exchange rate as well as the protection of property rights as per the literature would drive individual and national savings through investment.

How can suppliers increase their buyers’ CSR engagement: the role of internal and relational factors

PurposeBuyer engagement proves important supports for suppliers' corporate social responsibility (CSR); however, little is known about whether and how buyer CSR engagement can be actively searched for by a supplier and what activities and policies of suppliers could enhance buyer CSR engagement. From the perspective of resource dependence theory, this study aims to explore how suppliers seek to achieve buyers' CSR engagement.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed model and hypotheses were tested by structural equation modeling methodology using survey data collected from 243 manufacturing and service firms in China.FindingsThe results show that instrumental CSR motives and internalization of CSR policies jointly improve buyers' dependence, which in turn increases buyers' CSR engagement. In addition, this study investigates the influence of suppliers' trust on the effect of buyers' dependence on buyers' CSR engagement and finds a negative moderating effect on the dependence–engagement relation.Practical implicationsThe findings show that suppliers can actively engage in CSR to strengthen their position and improve the buyer CSR engagement. In fact, proactive CSR policies and implementation do pay off in the long run for them.Originality/valueThis study offers a fresh perspective on the role of suppliers in improving CSR. In contrast to much of the literature that has considered buyer-initiated practices and policies, this is the first theoretical and empirical investigation into how suppliers can increase the buyer CSR engagement.

Creative Process Engagement Mediate the Relation Between Proactive Personality, Creativity Employee, and Innovation

This study aims to explore the influences of proactive personality toward creativity and innovation through the process of creativity involvement from the perspective of Resource Dependence Theory. This study was conducted on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Magelang area in the form of a survey. The sample selection method in this study used with purposive sampling technique. The criteria used in this study are SMEs that have high creativity, such as children's toys, batik, and souvenirs, and have a minimum number of 10 employees. The number of samples in this study was 287 respondents. The analytical tool to test the hypothesis in this study uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with WarpPLS 7 software. The results show that proactive personality influences employees’ creativity through the involvement of the creative process. Furthermore, creativity affects organizational innovation.

Value cocreation in new service development: a process-based view of resource dependency

PurposeThis study aims to examine value cocreation in terms of interfirm collaborations between service firms, their business customers and business partners at different stages of a new service development (NSD) process.Design/methodology/approachThe study develops and tests hypotheses that examine the roles played by business customers and partners in NSD, assuming resource dependency of the focal firm during three NSD stages (ideation, development and deployment). Empirical data were collected from 200 NSD projects and structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results show that business customer collaboration has a positive effect on ideation performance and development performance, whereas business partner collaboration has a positive effect on deployment performance. These finding support the notion that the value cocreating roles of business customers and partners vary across NSD stages.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research should focus on how business partners can be actively involved in the NSD process and how the interests of different parties can be safeguarded. The use of longitudinal data will allow a better examination of the process dynamics.Practical implicationsThe study provides managerial implications for service managers in terms of acquiring and allocating resources needed from business customers and partners during different NSD stages.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the growing literature on value cocreation in NSD by empirically demonstrating the respective performance contributions of business customers and partners during different stages of NSD. Moreover, the results also shed light on interfirm collaboration mechanisms from the perspective of resource dependence theory.

The effect of supplier globalization on firm innovation: a resource dependence theory perspective

PurposeEither buying or making is predicted by the existing literature for firms to reduce dependence. However, firms in the rapid globalization are found to adopt a pattern of buying and making. Specially, they critically rely on foreign firms for needed materials and goods, and invest in innovation against the uncertainty of potential supply disruptions simultaneously. Therefore, this paper seeks to investigate how the depth and width of supplier globalization shape firm innovation together. Moreover, the moderating effects of institutional distance and market competition are also examined in the paper.Design/methodology/approachGrounded on the resource dependence theory, this paper develops a theoretical framework and tests the proposed hypotheses by Poisson model using secondary data from 502 Chinese listed firms with foreign suppliers.FindingsThe depth of supplier globalization has a positive impact on firm innovation, while the width of supplier globalization weakens firm innovation. The depth and width of supplier globalization further interact negatively to influence firm innovation. Moreover, this relationship is enhanced when firms establish relationships with foreign firms with greater institutional distance and is weakened when firms face fiercer product competition.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the literature by evidencing that the existence of foreign suppliers results in firms' enhancement of innovation to secure their operations and showing that diversifying the country origins of foreign suppliers is an effective means to reduce firms' uncertainty about supply disruption. We also advance the understanding regarding the contextual factors in which firms are more likely or less likely to manage the uncertainty about supplier globalization.

The dark side of supply chain digitalisation: supplier-perceived digital capability asymmetry, buyer opportunism and governance

PurposeIn this paper, the authors seek to contribute to the supply chain digitalisation literature by investigating a potential dark side of supply chain digitalisation from the viewpoint of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) suppliers, namely digital capability asymmetry and the partner opportunism of more digitally capable large buyers against SME suppliers. The authors seek to contribute further to the governance literature by investigating the effectiveness of the governance mechanism (legal contracts and relational contracts) in suppressing partner opportunism of this nature.Design/methodology/approachUsing survey data collected from 125 Korean SMEs, the authors employed a hierarchical regression method to test a set of hypotheses focussing on the dark side of supply chain digitalisation and the effectiveness of the governance mechanism.FindingsThe study’s findings suggest that supplier-perceived digital capability asymmetry, wherein a buyer has a superior digital capability than its SME supplier, increases the SME supplier's dependence on the more digitally capable buyer, with the result that it is more exposed to buyer opportunism. Moreover, the results suggest that only relational governance is effective in protecting SME suppliers from buyer opportunism of this nature.Originality/valueSo far, the overwhelming majority of supply chain digitalisation research has debated its “bright side”. On the contrary, from the resource dependence theory perspective, this paper explains its dark side by providing empirical evidence on (1) the links between supplier-perceived digital capability asymmetry and a buyer's opportunism through an increased supplier's dependence and (2) the effectiveness of different types of governance in opportunism suppression.

Calibration of stakeholder influence in the UK higher education sector

ABSTRACT Over the last 20 years, the UK Higher Education sector has experienced a significant change to its funding base with a shift away from government funding, to operating within a highly competitive marketised environment. This shift has impacted the governance and management structures within the sector, with universities encouraged to adopt a more corporate and managerial style. Moreover, over this period, universities have evolved and adapted to social, economic, environmental and technological changes, necessitating a change in dialogue with the large number of internal and external stakeholders who influence Higher Education policy as well as university practices and operations. Adopting a Stakeholder and Resource Dependency Theory perspective, this paper seeks to calibrate the changing influence and importance of these stakeholders. The paper analyses a survey of 22 university secretaries (In the UK Higher Education setting, the university secretary is responsible for the effective governance of the university and for its professional services. In recent years, several UK universities have changed the title of this role from university secretary to Chief Operating Officer (COO), or to University Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, which is more common internationally.) conducted in mid-2020, and the results show that academic staff and students are seen as the most influential internal stakeholders as the quality of teaching and research is vital to the reputation and attractiveness of the university in a global market. Undergraduate home students are seen as the most influential student group due largely to the numbers enrolled, followed by international postgraduate taught students, an outcome consistent with resource dependency theory. UK and devolved governments (Devolution occurs when a central government delegates power to a region, providing it with autonomy to make legislation relevant to the area, whilst keeping it under national control. In the UK, devolved powers were granted to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the UK Westminster Government following referenda in each region in the late 1990s. The devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have control over a wide range of policy areas and have the authority to pass their own legislation in relation to them. One such devolved policy area is education. Other devolved policy areas include health services, law, and the environment.) are seen as the most influential external stakeholder reflecting their role in university funding and in setting Higher Education policy and regulation, an influence that has increased over the past two decades. The influence of financial stakeholders has also grown over the past two decades.

Logistics integration in the supply chain: a resource dependence theory perspective

Firms have strategically used cooperative linkages to establish competitiveness. In this study, we incorporated the resource dependency theory view to assess how trust, satisfaction, and commitment affect firms’ decisions on logistics integration. Also, we examined the link between logistics integration and supply chain performance. The study collected data from 250 South Korean manufacturers for analysis. The results revealed positive impacts of trust, satisfaction, and commitment on logistics integration between manufacturing firms and logistics service providers that enhances logistics service capabilities of the firms. Furthermore, our study showed that building a strategic relationship for logistics services helps the manufacturing firms improve their business and operations performances in their supply chain. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Resource Sharing: An Empirical Analysis of Firms’ Resilience Through Resource Dependence Theory

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), around 40% of small businesses never reopen following a disaster and around 90% of firms that do reopen, fail within a year unless they can resume operations within 5 days. Nonetheless, firms can hasten their recovery and increase their survival chances by implementing resilience actions or tactics after a disaster begins. Given that business interruption losses are usually not eligible for public assistance programs, the type of action to be implemented is a strategic decision and will likely depend on some particularities of each business and the market in which it operates. This paper examines one of these resilience tactics – resource sharing – from the perspective of Resource Dependence Theory. By using a unique dataset collected from responses of businesses affected by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Harvey and by specifying a sample selection model, this study provides novel conclusions indicating that there is unobserved heterogeneity that explains the strategic decision-making of firms in the post-disaster and that those firms that are more likely to resource share are also the ones that exhibit higher economic resilience. Implications of these findings, complications and future research are discussed.

Fleet modelling in strategic multi-criteria decision-making of approved training organization from capacity building and resource dependency theory perspective: risk taxonomy methodology

Fleet modelling in strategic multi-criteria decision-making of approved training organization from capacity building and resource dependency theory perspective: risk taxonomy methodology

Politics of the relationship between research institutes and city and provincial office of education: Gyeonggi Institute of Education

본 연구는 시도교육청 소속 연구기관의 자율성 확대 가능성을 자원의존론의 관점을 활용하여 탐색한 연구이다. 연구기관이 환경적 요인을 피동적으로 받아들이지 않고 적극적으로 대처하기도 한다는 조직의 전략적 선택에 의한 자원의 획득 노력을 탐색하였다. 경기도교육연구원의 사례를 중심으로 시도교육청 차원의 교육정책 발굴과 생산, 결과의 활용, 시도교육청과의 관계를 관련 연구보고서와 관련자 면담을 통해 연구기관의 자율성 확보 가능성을 (1)연구기관장의 리더십, (2)연구원의 연구역량, (3)연구의 질 관리, (4)시도교육청과의 상호작용, (5)연구결과의 활용 면에서의 정치적 영향력과 관계를 중심으로 분석하였다. 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 연구기관은 도교육청이 활용하고 있는 각종 자원에 대한 의존성에 변화를 추구하는 방식으로 제한적 자율성을 추구할 수 있다. 이 가능성은 연구기관에 대한 장기적 전망을 지닌 리더십이 필요하며, 협업문화 속에서 연구원의 연구경험과 역량이 축적되어야 한다. 둘째, 연구기관의 자율성과 도교육청의 책무성은 긴장관계와 조정관계 안에서 상호작용한다. 셋째, 연구기관과 도교육청은 특수하면서도 개별적인 교육현장의 요구를 최대한 반영해야 한다.This study explores the possibility of expanding autonomy of research institutes belonging to the Provincial Office of Education using the perspective of resource dependence theory. The research institutes have explored the efforts to acquire resources by strategic choice of the organization that they do not accept environmental factors passively and actively cope with them. Based on the case of Gyeonggi Institute of Education, the possibility of securing autonomy of research institutes through related research reports and interviews with related persons was analyzed focusing on (1) the leadership of research institutes, (2) the research capacity of researchers, (3) the quality management of research, (4) the interaction with the city and provincial office of education, (5) the political influence and relationship in the utilization of research results. The conclusions are as follows: First, the research institutes can pursue limited autonomy in a way that pursues changes in dependence on various resources used by the city and provincial office of education,. This possibility requires long-term prospect of leadership for research institutes and research experience and capacity of researchers should be accumulated in the collaborative culture. Second, autonomy of research institutes and responsibility of education office interact within tension and coordination relationship. Third, research institutes and education offices should reflect the needs of special and individual education sites as much as possible.

Considering Football Teams from a Resource Dependency Theory Perspective

Football is known to be one of the most popular and widely viewed sports around the world. This sport is a well-followed source of entertainment by people from all four corners of the world and its recognition is tremendously increasing. The aim of this study is to examine the actions and strategies football teams use/implement in other to reduce their resource dependency on other teams. The findings of our literature review indicate that football teams use mergers, hiring, executive succession and training as strategies in reducing their resource dependency on other teams. Despite few studies or non-looking at resource dependency theory in a football team perspective this research tried to look at the strategic decisions they can take (football teams) in a highly competitive environment to reduce their resource dependency on other teams. The limitations of our paper includes the lack of enough reference materials when it comes to football most specifically the strategies that football teams use in reducing their resource dependency on other teams as well as our examples being limited to only England and Spain which is not a total representation of all football teams. Key w ords Football, Football Teams, Resource Dependency Theory, Strategies DOI : 10.7176/JTHS/43-01 Publication date :September 30 th 2019

Capturing the benefits of industry 4.0: a business network perspective

This study uses a business network perspective to investigate the industry 4.0 context with the internet of things (IoT) as its enabling technology and product-use data as its core network resource. A three-stage qualitative methodology (interviews, focus group, Delphi-based inquiry) was used to examine the case of an emergent IoT-based business network in the UK road transport industry to examine: (i) how aspects of product use data influence the benefit opportunities the data provide to the different network actors; (ii) how capturing of the benefit opportunities in a network context is impacted by key barriers; and (iii) how network capabilities can overcome these barriers to capture benefits from product-use data. The study, thereby, contributes to an understanding of the industry 4.0 context from a resource dependency theory perspective and provides concrete recommendations for management operating in this context.

Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang’s Organizational Response In Facing The Implementation of Performance-Based Remuneration System (A Case Study on Public Service Institution within Resource Dependence Theory Perspective andNew Institutional Sociology)

This study is aimed at revealing the organizational response of Polkesma in facing pressure on the implementation of remuneration system and the way to continue the sustainability of remuneration system through Resource Dependence Theory and New Institutional Sociology perspective.This research uses post positive paradigm with qualitative approach and case study research strategy. The results showedthat the Organizational response which was initially shown in the form of <em>Acquiesce</em> met regulatory compliance (<em>coercive isomorphism</em>). In addition to the <em>Acquiesce</em>, the Polkesma showed a compromising response towards institutional pressure through the initiative to develop performance appraisal system by following the institution that had successfully applied (mimetic isomorphism) and used consultant service (normative isomorphism) to develop Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Efforts to continue the sustainability of Polkesma remuneration system were done by optimizing the escalation of main educational income, asset utilization, the principle of "smart" in the use of budget and the improvement of <em>Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi’s </em>quality. Polkesma had been successfully considered as the role model of remuneration implementation in the Ministry of Health.

Finance Directors in Institutional Transition

Extant research pays too much attention to structural components of corporate boards, yet ignores the board informal hierarchy among directors with different backgrounds. Finance directors have well-developed specialized expertise and market-based experience could play critical roles in corporate decision making, should be treated prestigiously, however, they are generally undervalued by boards of Chinses listed firms after controlling individual director’s characteristic variables. Based on the perspective of resource dependence theory, we examine this board informal hierarchy in boards of Chinese listed firms. As China is in transitional economy, the influence of government force and market force on allocation of resources coexist, the state of resource dependence determines directors’ status ranking within boards. How finance directors are ranked can be conceptualized as a valuation process of the extent of firms’ dependence on government resources and marketized resources. The empirical test using the...