Underdeveloped Theme Research Articles

Past, Present, and Future of Learning Agility: A Bibliometric and Content Analysis

Given the unpredictability and complexity of the business environment -due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and augmented by the COVID-19 pandemic-, employees are required to continually learn new skills and ways of working. Even though 20 years have passed since the coining of the learning agility (LA) construct, only one literature review has explored it qualitatively. Through a co-word bibliometric analysis, complemented by a content analysis, this paper aims to identify the intellectual structure of the LA. Results show that the scientific production by research areas, journals, and studies that have contributed most to the field. Career variety was found as a central and underdeveloped theme while Talent Management was identified as potential emergent one. The important themes for structuring the field on LA were mostly examined from an individual level, as a process or as an outcome. Future research within the Human Resource Development field is suggested.

The Scope of Second Language Teacher Education Research from 1980 to 2020: A Systematic Review

This paper presents a comprehensive and rigorous systematic review of the trajectories and challenges in Research Articles (RAs) of Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) from 1980 to 2020. The RAs were carefully retrieved from two sources: (1) a pool of 100 top-tier journals based on SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) in Linguistics and Language category and (2) seven well-known electronic databases. This study used thematic analysis. After conducting full-text screening and data extraction, each study was systematically coded for publication contents, themes, theories, and variable levels. Each study was further coded for methodological features, including research design, analyses, and sampling. The findings indicate a rapid and consistent growth in SLTE research with a notable emphasis on Teacher Professional Development Programs (TPDP), research in teacher education, psychology in teacher education, culture, knowledge-based teacher education, and CALL. In addition, analysis of the data revealed several trajectories, including fewer publications in teacher education journals compared to other journals, lack of adherence to a clear theoretical framework in 27% of the studies, limited use of software in qualitative studies, and underdeveloped themes that received little attention. This review sheds light on the most significant and emerging areas of research in the field, and the article concludes with implications for SLTE scholars, researchers, and practitioners.

A Conversation on Social Imaginaries: Culture, Power, Action, World

Abstract The conversation begins with reflections on social imaginaries as a crossroads concept, capable of integrating insights from multiple sources; this point is developed through references to the works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, and followed by comments on Charles Taylor’s hermeneutical realism, as well as on the task of rethinking psychoanalysis. Marcel Gauchet’s approach is noted as the most promising perspective on the latter field. Further discussion deals with the concept of imaginary significations as a key to the theory of culture, and then moves on to two foreshadowed but notably underdeveloped themes in Castoriadis’s work: the symbolic and the problems of theorizing action. Both of them are linked to the phenomenological notion of the world. The final section raises the question of power and emphasizes the affinity of social imaginaries with a relational understanding of power.

Lazer e Participação Social na Percepção da Pessoa com Deficiência Visual

O presente estudo teve como objetivo compreender a percepção de indivíduos com deficiência visual sobre o lazer e a participação social. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, transversal e exploratório que foi realizado com 11 indivíduos com deficiência visual, moradores e ex-moradores de uma associação em Ribeirão Preto (SP). Para a coleta de dados usou-se entrevista semiestruturada, sendo interpretada segundo análise de conteúdo temática. Foram consideradas quatro categorias pré-definidas para análise: O que é lazer?; Oportunidades de lazer para a pessoa com deficiência visual; Inclusão Social; e A percepção quanto à participação social. Ás percepções dos sujeitos entrevistados permitiu concluir que o lazer e a participação social são temas pouco desenvolvidos, e seria importante investir em intervenções que beneficiem essa população bem como na ampliação dos estudos desses temas.

Methodologies of Travel: William James and the Ambulatory Pragmatism of Bruno Latour

ABSTRACTThis article argues for the methodological resonance shared by Bruno Latour and William James in order to understand Latour's affiliation with pragmatism. Unlike many readers of Latour, I suggest that his relation with pragmatism is primarily methodological rather than primarily ontological. To clarify this, I look to the resonances between James's methodological pragmatism and Latour's actor-network methodology. Latour's pragmatism resonates with James's as it incorporates a methodological focus on practices and objects, and as it furthers underdeveloped themes of motion in James's pragmatism. This methodological alliance, I argue, consists in a modification of the metaphoric of method from one of Cartesian construction to one of movement and travel.

A review of restaurant research in the last two decades: A bibliometric analysis

The present paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of published academic research dealing with restaurants in the fields of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism. In particular, it aims to identify the structure of relationships between previous and current themes, predict emerging trends and provide a longitudinal perspective on this research, covering the period 2000–2018. This approach provides an exhaustive analysis for the past two decades from over 700 papers. The findings show, for example, that customer satisfaction is the motor theme with the greatest impact and the study of emotions is an underdeveloped theme; interest in healthy eating is witnessing gradual growth; and brand equity, culture and innovation all constitute new research themes. The future of research dealing with restaurants will tend to focus on new emerging technologies, both in the restaurant sphere and in the context of research methodologies.

Stable motifs of olonkho: transformation in time

Якутский героический эпос развивается на общем сюжетообразующем фоне, у него в основном единый канон сюжета, образов, мотивов, языковых формул, типических мест. Однако эпос меняется во времени, он может иметь совокупность отличий, что связано с особенностями материальной и духовной потребностей каждого поколения. Сегодня в Якутии сказительством занимаются представители нового поколения олонхосутов, которые в отличие от олонхосутов раннего периода, владея грамотой, имеют возможность учиться сказительскому искусству по публикациям, аудио-, видеозаписям, они производят самозаписи текстов своих олонхо, издают их. Сравнительное изучение «текстовой материи» классических и современных эпических произведений, выявление признаков статичности и трансформации во времени подводит к выводу, что решение этих вопросов еще не нашло надлежащего места в сегодняшней эпосоведческой науке. В целях восполнения в некоторой мере этого пробела в данной статье освещаются результаты сравнительного анализа сюжетных мотивов в текстах олонхо якутских сказителей, принадлежащих к различным поколениям. Изучены традиционно устойчивые архаичные мотивы эпического времени, сотворения мира, родины богатыря, заселения Среднего мира племенами ураангхай саха; мотивы появления богатыря-защитника, похищения чудовищем девушки племени айыы, сражения между богатырями айыы и абаасы, победы богатыря айыы после всевозможных приключений, освобождения плененной женщины; мотивы женитьбы богатыря айыы и установления мира на Среднем мире. Автор приходит к выводу, что эпическая традиция меняется во времени, испытывает разнообразные его влияния и вбирает нечто новое, в итоге текст олонхо претерпевает трансформации. В текстах современных олонхо наблюдаются упрощение или упущение некоторых мотивов и тенденция к сокращению объемов текстов. Однако такие изменения не влияют на традиционную сюжетно-композиционную структуру олонхо.Результаты исследования могут быть использованы в научном изучении одной из малоразработанных тем якутской фольклористики – трансформация во времени устойчивых мотивов традиционного олонхо. The Yakut heroic epic develops on the general plot-forming background, it basically has a single canon of the plot, images, motifs, language formulas, typical places. However, the epic changes in time, it may have a set of differences, which is associated with the peculiarities of the material and spiritual needs of each generation. Today in Yakutia, representatives of the new generation of olonkhosuts are engaged in storytelling, who, unlike olonkhosuts of the early period, are educated, have the opportunity to learn the art of storytelling on publications, audio, video recordings, they produce self-recordings of their olonkho texts and publish them. A comparative study of the “textual matter” of classical and modern epic works, the identification of signs of static and transformation in time, leads to the conclusion that the solution of these questions has not yet found a proper place in today's epic studies. In order to closing the gap, this article highlights the results of a comparative analysis of plot motifs in the texts of the Yakut olonkho narrators belonging to different generations. The traditionally stable archaic motifs of the epic time, the creation of the world, the homeland of the hero, the settlement of the Middle World by the Uraangay Sakha tribes were studied; the motifs of the appearance of the warrior-defender, the abduction by the monster of the girl of the aiyy tribe, the battles between the warriors of aiyy and abaasy, the victories of the warrior of aiyy after divers adventures, the release of the captive woman; motifs for the marriage of the warrior aiyy and the establishment of peace in the Middle World. The author comes to the conclusion that the epic tradition changes over time, experiences its various influences and absorbs something new, as a result, the text of the olonkho undergoes transformations. In the texts of modern olonkho, simplification or omission of some motives and a tendency to reduce the volume of texts are observed. However, such changes do not affect the traditional plot and compositional structure of the olonkho.The results obtained in the study can be used in the scientific study of one of the underdeveloped themes of Yakut folkloristics – the transformation in time of the stable motifs of the traditional olonkho.

Do green jobs differ from non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital?

This paper elaborates an empirical analysis of labour force characteristics that emerge as a response to the growing importance of environmental sustainability. Using data on the United States we compare green and non-green occupations to detect differences in terms of skill content and of human capital. Our empirical profiling reveals that green jobs use more intensively high-level cognitive and interpersonal skills compared to non-green jobs. Green occupations also exhibit higher levels of standard dimensions of human capital such as formal education, work experience and on-the-job training. While preliminary, our exploratory exercise seeks to call attention to an underdeveloped theme, namely the labour market implications associated with the transition towards green growth.

Underdeveloped Themes in Qualitative Research: Relationship With Interviews and Analysis.

In this methodological article, the authors address the problem of underdeveloped themes in qualitative studies they have reviewed. Various possible reasons for underdeveloped themes are examined, and suggestions offered. Each problem area is explored, and literature support is provided. The suggestions that are offered are supported by the literature as well. The problem with underdeveloped themes in certain articles is related to 3 interconnected issues: (a) lack of clear relationship to the underlying research method, (b) an apparent lack of depth in interviewing techniques, and (c) lack of depth in the analysis. Underdeveloped themes in a qualitative study can lead to a lack of substantive findings that have meaningful implications for practice, research, and the nursing profession, as well as the rejection of articles for publication. Fully developed themes require knowledge about the paradigm of qualitative research, the methodology that is proposed, the effective techniques of interviewing that can produce rich data with examples and experiences, and analysis that goes beyond superficial reporting of what the participants have said. Analytic problem areas include premature closure, anxiety about how to analyze, and confusion about categories and themes. Effective qualitative research takes time and effort and is not as easy as is sometimes presumed. The usefulness of findings depends on researchers improving their research skills and practices. Increasingly researchers are using qualitative research to explore clinically important issues. As consumers of research or members of a research team, clinical nurse specialists need to understand the nature of this research that can provide in-depth insight and meaning.

Paul’s Priestly Ministry and the Offering of the Gentiles (Rom 15:16)

Proposals for interpreting Paul’s priestly ministry in the letter to the Romans range from his evocation of Isaianic servant passages, to his oversight of the collection for the Jerusalem poor, to the idea that he sees himself as a Levite in a reconfigured temple system. The phrase comes in a section dense with cultic language in which he explains that his priestly service in the gospel is in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been made holy by the holy spirit. The ambiguity of this genitive construction (the offering of the Gentiles) contributes to the interpretive problems; it is also the key to understanding Paul’s priesthood. The holiness of the Gentiles is an underdeveloped theme of the letter, but this focus enables us to narrow Paul’s priestly ministry down to the realm transfer of his Gentile converts from the profane to the holy. It will be suggested that, in an act reminiscent of Israel’s constitution, Paul’s priestly service relates to the consecration of a people.

Monetary organization and national identity: a review and considerations

ABSTRACTThis article develops a detailed overview of literature on the relationship between monetary organization, understood as currencies and central banks, and issues of national identity and nationalism. It demonstrates how the literature on this subject for the past 20 years has developed into a distinct research field and the article sketches a set of different methodological approaches as well as geographical and thematical variations within the field. In particular, the overview points to a recent shift in focus from a preoccupation with the identity-cultivating qualities of monetary organization to an emphasis on how collective identities legitimize monetary organization. Based on the literature review, the article points to two underdeveloped themes for future research to investigate: (1) further studies on the interrelation between the legitimacy of monetary organization and national identity, (2) an increased focus on central banks and monetary authorities, as well as the historical development in which monetary organization evolved in concert with ideas of the national identity and nationalism.

Vrede as ’n onontginde navorsingstema in die Nuwe-Testamentiese Wetenskap

Peace as research theme in New Testament studies. This research article investigates peace as an underdeveloped theme in New Testament studies. Its first part documents this situation by analysing the role of the Bible and biblical research in the extensive social, theological and ecclesiastical discourse on war, violence and peace. In following parts the article investigates some recent literature in New Testament studies on peace and evaluates its place in the discipline as representing a reversal of the limited attention to peace and as illustration of the need for more research. In a fourth part the reasons why peace as a theme is relatively underdeveloped, are spelled out, whilst a fifth section investigates the need for and challenges to exploring peace adequately within New Testament Studies.

Do Green Jobs Differ from Non-Green Jobs in Terms of Skills and Human Capital?

This paper elaborates an empirical analysis of labour force characteristics associated to environmental sustainability. Using data from the United States we compare green and non-green occupations to detect differences in terms of skill content and of human capital. The empirical profiling proposed here reveals that green jobs use non-routine (resp. routine) cognitive skills significantly more (resp. less) than non-green jobs. Green occupations also exhibit higher levels of formal education, work experience and on-the-job training. While preliminary, our exploratory exercise seeks to call attention to an underdeveloped theme, namely the labour market implications associated with the transition towards green growth.

Civilizational Analysis in International Relations: Mapping the Field and Advancing a “Civilizational Politics” Line of Research

This article maps and develops—theoretically and empirically—the field of civilizational analysis in international relations (IR). In particular, it teases out a more explicit “civilizational politics” line of research, which builds upon latent and underdeveloped themes in the civilizational turn in IR. “Civilizational politics” offers an avenue for theoretically inclined, empirically minded scholars to explore how social and political actors have come to understand, change, and construct world politics as if plural civilizations existed and their relations mattered. The article anchors “civilizational politics” research to a modernist-constructivist approach to IR and structures it around two key steps. The first step is to recover and interpret subjective and intersubjective meanings through participants' discourse. The article proposes an understanding of civilizations as “imagined communities” narrated by political and intellectual elites: as essentialized or non-essentialized entities; and as clashing/conflicting or dialoguing/engaging with each other. The second step outlines three causal pathways that explain how narrated civilizational imaginaries affect world politics and turn civilizations into social facts: by guiding and structuring social action; by shaping and becoming embedded in formal institutions and patterned practices; and by bestowing recognition and socially empowering actors claiming to speak for civilizations. The empirical import of a “civilizational politics” line of research is demonstrated through a re-reading of Turan Kayaoglu's article “Constructing the Dialogue of Civilizations in World Politics: A Case of Global Islamic Activism.”

Response to Aaron Schneider's review ofCapital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States

This dialogue might strike some readers as more amicable than critical, as the two books concur on core assumptions about the comparative politics of taxation and state building. They both prefer a macrosocial analytical framework to explain political institutional outcomes, focus on elite motives and actions as the main causal factor, and provide a historically grounded analysis. Also, both books advance recent scholarship on a neofiscal sociology in comparative state-building theory. Aaron Schneider's review, however, does note two underdeveloped themes in my study of postcommunist tax states, which rightly deserve response.

Rebooting for Whom?

We share Kazdin and Blase’s (2011) sense of urgency about finding better ways to reduce the burden of mental illness. Although effective psychosocial treatments exist, they do not often reach the patients who need them most. Kazdin and Blase’s portfolio approach aims to cast a wider net through increased use of technology, media, self-help, nonprofessional providers, and collaborations with other disciplines. It is unclear, however, whether reaching more people would suffice to reduce the burden of mental illness, much less offset the small effect sizes of simplified, scaled-down interventions such a portfolio approach would likely entail. We focus here on an underdeveloped theme in Kazdin and Blase’s essay—that bending the curve of mental illness will require better knowledge of for whom simplified intervention and prevention strategies will suffice and for whom more intensive intervention is necessary. Such “for whom” questions deserve a central place on the national research agenda as we move toward individualized or personalized health care. In the absence of such knowledge, we risk treatment decisions guided by accessibility to resources rather than patient needs—the very problem Kazdin and Blase aim to solve.

Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology

This article contributes to a growing literature in the anthropology of science, focusing on contemporary U.S. toxicology and the development of “toxicogenomics.” Toxicogenomics research aims to understand impacts of environmental stressors at the genetic level and to create a “systems toxicology” that combines different kinds of biological data for holistic understanding. Toxicologists are challenged to deal with greater and greater complexity while fulfilling their historic mission of producing results relevant to regulatory, legal, and clinical decision making. Although there is now a robust body of anthropological work on the sciences—in practice, as sites of cultural production, and as cultural and political‐economic forces in a variety of domains—a relatively underdeveloped theme is subject formation within the sciences. This article directs ethnographic attention toward understanding how scientific imaginaries take shape and interpolate technical, biomaterial, political‐economic, social, cultural, and ethical elements. We map such efforts in contemporary toxicogenomics as an instance of “civic science.”

Intelligence and the Cold War

J Bond symbolizes the popular appeal of any story related to the intelligence services. Yet, until recently, this interest had not been matched by academic publications. As Professor Richard J. Aldrich rightly asserts in his book, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and the Cold War Secret Intelligence, “only a minority of scholars has yet attempted to integrate secret service with international history.”1 By addressing this issue in the context of Anglo-American relations from June 1941 to the end of 1963, this brilliant book fills two major gaps of international relations historiography. Indeed, being one of the first serious and well-documented scholarly assessments of the impact of secret services on the Cold War, this study is also a major contribution to the history of the so-called “Special Relationship.” By shedding light on “the ‘Missing Dimension’2 of history,” Aldrich also focuses on an understudied theme of Anglo-American relations—the intelligence field. It therefore is no accident that Professor Aldrich’s book received the Donner Prize and was short listed for the Westminster Medal. The Anglo-American “Special Relationship” was characterized as an informal alliance establishing a privileged link between the two Anglo-Saxon powers. It did not rest on any specific treaty but more on an aggregation of agreements. Since World War II, three pillars symbolized this relationship: collaboration between the military forces, cooperation in the fields of nuclear weapons (except between 1946 and 1958), and collaboration in intelligence. However, so far, “there remains an alarming disparity in our understanding of [these] areas. The importance of intelligence is often commented on, but rarely subjected to sustained analysis.”3 In The Hidden Hand, Aldrich demonstrates that this underdeveloped theme is indeed a very important gap, which has distorted our understanding of the “Special Relationship.” In his introduction, Aldrich explains that he chose to emphasize conflict between the two allies rather than to depict an illusory collaborative image.4 He persuasively demonstrates that “many still held true the familiar dictum that ‘There are no friendly secret services, only secret services of friendly states’” and that “secret service in this turbulent period often seemed an anarchic struggle of ‘all against all.’”5 This was especially true in the context of