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- Learning mechanisms in process improvement initiatives
- Creator
- Hanson, John David
- Date
- 2006
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- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Examining the relationship between research and development resource flows and knowledge-based capabilities : integrating resource-based and organizational learning theory
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- Wasserman, Michael Eric
- Date
- 2000
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Strategies for creating a more learning-centered organization : a community college perspective
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- Teahen, Roberta C., Bostick
- Date
- 2000
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Organizational learning from goal performance and aspirations : the impact on firm international strategies and national innovation policies
- Creator
- Hui, Ngan Cheung
- Date
- 2016
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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In this three-essay dissertation, I seek to advance the aspiration level learning theory in a variety of organizational decisions in which international business audiences may be interested. In essay 1, I argue that multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) aspirations for parent performance may be important for both learning from self-performance and learning from competitors’ performance, which in turn influence the likelihood of internalizing and quitting their international joint ventures. The...
Show moreIn this three-essay dissertation, I seek to advance the aspiration level learning theory in a variety of organizational decisions in which international business audiences may be interested. In essay 1, I argue that multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) aspirations for parent performance may be important for both learning from self-performance and learning from competitors’ performance, which in turn influence the likelihood of internalizing and quitting their international joint ventures. The extension of the aspiration level learning theory to inter-organizational learning can be considered a novel theoretical attempt and I find some support in a sample of Japanese MNEs. In the remaining two essays, I focus on organizational learning from multiple goals’ performance and propose a mechanism of attending to causally related goals that is different from the well-established sequential-attention rule in the literature. I examine the proposed mechanism in MNEs’ decisions on divesting foreign subsidiaries in essay 2 and in national governments’ decisions on innovation policies in essay 3. I find strong support for the proposed attention mechanism in a sample of Japanese MNEs and a sample of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries respectively. Overall, this dissertation makes a number of novel theoretical contributions to the literature on organizational learning. It also broadens our knowledge about when and why MNEs change the ownership position of their foreign subsidiaries and national governments change their innovation policies.
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- The journey into community : the professional learning community in one community college
- Creator
- Sam, David Anthony
- Date
- 2002
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Enhancing marketing innovation through marketing knowledge transfer : an investigation of strategic alliances
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- Hanvanich, Sangphet
- Date
- 2002
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Organizations, individuals, and learning : a case study of a new organization and its leaders
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- Zawacki, Camilla J.
- Date
- 1997
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Enterprise social media-enabled transactive memory encoding
- Creator
- Nelson, Michael E. (Graduate of Michigan State University)
- Date
- 2018
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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Transactive memory theory and empirical studies of enterprise social media suggest that virtual work-groups on enterprise social media develop transactive memory. To explore how the development of transactive memory might be operationalized in the context of enterprise social media, transactive memory was studied through counts of posts of four types of knowledge: domain knowledge, metaknowledge, non-work-related knowledge, and question. Counts of posts were observed using human coders and...
Show moreTransactive memory theory and empirical studies of enterprise social media suggest that virtual work-groups on enterprise social media develop transactive memory. To explore how the development of transactive memory might be operationalized in the context of enterprise social media, transactive memory was studied through counts of posts of four types of knowledge: domain knowledge, metaknowledge, non-work-related knowledge, and question. Counts of posts were observed using human coders and machine learning. Following exploratory analysis and the validation of assumptions, generalized linear modeling was used to quantify the effects of each of several different variables on counts of each of four different post knowledge types.
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- Two essays on top- and bottom-line effects of team use in new product development
- Creator
- Durmusoglu, Serdar Salih
- Date
- 2007
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Developing a Scale for Culturally Responsive Practice : Validation, Relationship with School Organizational Factors, and Application
- Creator
- Han, Jae-Bum
- Date
- 2017
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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The primary goal of this dissertation is to develop and provide preliminary validation for a new measure of culturally responsive practice. This instrument, which is called the Culturally Responsive Practice Scale (CRPS), include items that reflect ways that teachers teach multicultural students in their classrooms. To accomplish the goal, three studies are presented in this dissertation. In chapter 1, the study sought to develop the initial instrument to measure the construct of culturally...
Show moreThe primary goal of this dissertation is to develop and provide preliminary validation for a new measure of culturally responsive practice. This instrument, which is called the Culturally Responsive Practice Scale (CRPS), include items that reflect ways that teachers teach multicultural students in their classrooms. To accomplish the goal, three studies are presented in this dissertation. In chapter 1, the study sought to develop the initial instrument to measure the construct of culturally responsive practice among teachers in secondary schools in South Korea. Based on the results of analyzing the literatures about culture-oriented pedagogy and of review of the initial items by professionals, the face and content validity has been demonstrated. In addition, the statistical analysis results provided evidence of reliability of the scale of CRP with strong Cronbach values ranging from .93 to .95. The multidimensional factor structure of the CRP scale received support from the results of EFA and CFA, which yielded the construct validity for the measurement. Finally, the study suggested that the multidimensional construct of CRP has four distinct components: (a) Recognizing student diversity; (b) Acknowledging family background; (c) Teacher efficacy; and (d) Teaching application. Throughout the process of developing the scale, CRP has evidences supporting its validity, especially in face and content validity and construct validity.In the chapter 2, the study aimed to examine the structural relationships among leadership, organizational learning, and culturally responsive practice and to test the mediating effect of organizational learning between leadership and culturally responsive practice. This process also sought evidence for criterion-related validity of the CRP scale. By using structural equation modeling (SEM), confirmatory factor analysis was run to test whether the proposed factor structure and the scales represent the reality. After confirming the measurement model, the causal relationship among organizational learning, transformational leadership, shared instructional leadership, and culturally responsive practice were tested by using SEM, and confirmed by good values of model fit indices (/df = 2.19, NFI = .976 , TLI = .954, CFI = .972, RMSEA = .057, p < .001). Finally, the mediating role of organizational learning between principal leadership and culturally responsive practice was tested by decomposing the effects among the four latent variables. The results from the relationship of CRP with school variables offer evidences for criterion-related validity of the CRP scale.The chapter 3 examined not only how the constructs of organizational learning, principal leadership, and culturally responsive practice are related to student achievement in schools, but explored the evidence of predictive validity for CRP. The results show that all school level variables except transformational leadership are statistically significant correlated to student achievement. In addition, the result that mathematics and English as foreign language are correlated to CRP offer tentative evidence for predictive validity of the CRP scale.
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- Balancing exploration and exploitation in bottom-up organizational learning contexts
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- Walker, Ross Ian
- Date
- 2018
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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In order to keep pace with a rapidly changing environment, organizations must navigate a fundamental tension between exploration and exploitation. Over time, organizations often drift toward exploitation of known strengths and established resources, but this tendency can be harmful in a dynamic and competitive landscape. A classic simulation by James March (1991) demonstrated the importance of maintaining some degree of belief heterogeneity in an organization for the sake of long-term...
Show moreIn order to keep pace with a rapidly changing environment, organizations must navigate a fundamental tension between exploration and exploitation. Over time, organizations often drift toward exploitation of known strengths and established resources, but this tendency can be harmful in a dynamic and competitive landscape. A classic simulation by James March (1991) demonstrated the importance of maintaining some degree of belief heterogeneity in an organization for the sake of long-term learning. In March’s lineage, this thesis examines the effects of various exploratory strategies (i.e., individual experimentation, codification frequency, structural modularity, and employee turnover) on organizational learning in a bottom-up, networked, interpersonal learning context. Results demonstrate the complex interdependency of these variables in the exploration/exploitation tradeoff. Exploratory analyses suggest that a small degree of random individual experimentation has a favorable reward-to-risk ratio and that it is preferable to turnover as an exploratory strategy.
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- The influence of experience on organizational search, knowledge creation, and performance
- Creator
- Mannor, Michael, J.
- Date
- 2008
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The impacts of agile development methodology use on project success : a contingency view
- Creator
- Tripp, John F.
- Date
- 2012
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Agile Information Systems Development Methods have emerged in the past decade as an alternative manner of managing the work and delivery of information systems development teams, with a large number of organizations reporting the adoption & use of agile methods. The practitioners of these methods make broad claims as to the benefits of their use. However, to date, only a few of these claims have been tested in the research literature.Agile methods, including Extreme Programming, Scrum, and...
Show moreAgile Information Systems Development Methods have emerged in the past decade as an alternative manner of managing the work and delivery of information systems development teams, with a large number of organizations reporting the adoption & use of agile methods. The practitioners of these methods make broad claims as to the benefits of their use. However, to date, only a few of these claims have been tested in the research literature.Agile methods, including Extreme Programming, Scrum, and others, prescribe very different practices, some of which are contradictory. Additionally, the use of the practices of agile methods is not restricted to agile development projects, and has been observed in non-agile methods environments. Even so, the previous research literature has usually focused on practices prescribed by a particular agile method. So what is different about agile methods, and what is the appropriate lens through which to study them?This dissertation finds that the most distinctive element of agile methods is their strong emphasis on obtaining and processing feedback from the environment. This dissertation evaluates the impacts of agile methods as indicated by the use of these feedback processes.In this study, the theoretical lenses of team adaptation, organizational learning, and the prior literature on new product development are used to explain the importance of a team's ability to process repeated and continuous feedback from the environment. We motivate hypotheses regarding the positive impact of agile methodology use on a multi-dimensional construct representing project success. This construct encompasses the quality of the delivered product, the benefits of the project to the organization, and impacts on project management outcomes. In addition, the nature of moderating influences of uncertainty on project success is discussed.The research design for the study utilized a survey that collected responses from 83 agile development teams. Generalized linear modeling was used to test four hypotheses regarding the impact of the extent of agile methodology use on project success, and the moderating influences of uncertainty. It was found that agile methodology use positively impacts project success, while structural complexity negatively moderates the impact of agile use. It was also found that environmental dynamism positively moderated the impacts of agile methods on project success. Discussion of the results is provided.
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- Organizational characteristics that can create an environment for individual learning in the workplace
- Creator
- Abbey, Susan R.
- Date
- 1999
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations