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Unintended Consequences of Scaling Social Impact Through Ecosystem Growth Strategy in Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Scaling social impact is regarded as the main currency in social enterprise and social entrepreneurship. Many social enterprises scale their social impact through ecosystem growth strategy, under which they indirectly ... -
Towards an Integrative Definition of Scaling Social Impact in Social Enterprises
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Scaling social impact is a key concept in the social enterprise literature. While central, the wide range of meanings and the lack of conceptual uniformity detract from its usefulness. To tackle this issue, this paper ... -
Reclaiming the Social in Socialization: A Practice-based Understanding of Newcomer Adjustment
(2020)The socialization of an employee into a new role provides an opportunity for both the newcomer and the organization to maintain or improve current practices. In this paper, integrating ideas from a practice-based perspective ... -
Investigation of Dynamic Incentive of Supply Chain Under Information Asymmetry for Screening
(Hindawi Limited, 2019)More and more high-end brand companies are exploring new markets by extending low-end product lines. When selecting agents in new markets, a principal often faces the problem of identifying the promotional ability of agents. ... -
How Does Knowledge Sharing Across Generations Impact Innovation?
(World Scientific Publishing, 2019)We explore how knowledge sharing impacts innovation across generations of a family firm. We argue that each generation contributes to the knowledge pool differently, and there can be different levels of hostility towards ... -
Giving Science Innovation Systems a 'Nudge'
(Carleton University, 2019)In this article we consider the role that contextual factors play in science innovation systems - that is, the choice architecture, that influences the orientation and outcomes of publicly-funded research. More specifically, ... -
Developing Endogenous Innovations: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Effectuation
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019)We empirically explore the process of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) through the conceptual lens of effectuation, a theory describing how entrepreneurs innovate. In particular, we investigate how endogenous innovations ... -
The Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Stock-commodity Correlations and Its Implications on Optimal Hedging
(Elsevier BV, 2019)Motivated by previous studies documenting significant return and volatility effects of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the stock market, this study examines whether EPU has an effect on the dynamic conditional ... -
Service Sector Employee Insights Into the Future of Work and Technological Disruption
(ER Publishing Ltd., 2019)Recently there has been significant attention given to the fourth industrial revolution and its impact on employment. The present study aims to provide employee insights into their perceptions of the future of work, ... -
The (Un)suitability of Fair Value Accounting in Emerging Economies: The Case of Vietnam
(Emerald, 2019)Purpose This study aims to explore the suitability and challenges of implementing fair value accounting (FVA) in Vietnam, an emerging/transitioning economy. While such implementation would enable convergence with ... -
The Value of Care: Understanding the Impact of the 2017 Pay Equity Settlement on the Residential Aged Care, Home and Community Care and Disability Support Sectors
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Business Models and the Managerial Sensemaking Process
(Wiley, 2019)This study examines the managerial sensemaking process around business models. Drawing on fieldwork, this study introduces a model to describe how managerial sensemaking occurs around business model development and use. ... -
Research on Supply Chain Coordination Based on Block Chain Technology and Customer Random Demand
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2019)Based on disruptive innovation and Stackelberg noncooperative game theory, the paper focuses on supply chain coordination under the combined effects of block chain technology and random demand. Firstly, both a decentralized ... -
An Employee’s Living Wage and Their Quality of Work Life: How Important Are Household Size and Household Income?
(Hapres, 2019)Living Wage (LW) campaigns normally assume a prototype household configuration in setting their LW rate, comprised of number of dependent householders and the number of incomes. This information is used to calculate the ... -
Impact of Job Demands and Resources on Nurses’ Burnout and Occupational Turnover Intention Towards an Age-moderated Mediation Model for the Nursing Profession
(MDPI AG, 2019)This longitudinal study among Registered Nurses has four purposes: (1) to investigate whether emotional, quantitative and physical demands, and family-work conflict have a negative impact on nurses’ perceived effort; (2) ... -
Assessing Constructive Supervisor Behavior: Development and Evaluation of a Brief Follower-rated Scale
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2019)Followers are thought to be keenly attuned to supervisor behaviors because these can affect their learning, well-being, and performance at work. However, a practical and empirically tested measure of constructive supervisor ... -
New Zealand Building Project Cost and Its Influential Factors: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
(Hindawi, 2019)Construction industry significantly contributes to New Zealand's economic development. However, the delivery of construction projects is usually plagued by cost overruns, which turn potentially successful projects into ... -
South Auckland Sikhs and Punjab Issues: Justice, Identity Work and Development
(Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development (IPAID), 2018)In South Auckland, New Zealand, we surveyed under three hundred Sikhs on how they used their internet-connected mobile phones to gather and share news on the 2019 Punjab elections. Survey participants identified “Punjab ... -
Woke Washing: What Happens When Marketing Communications Don't Match Corporate Practice
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Race and Tax Policy: The Case of the Chinese Poll Tax
(The Journal of Australian Taxation (JAT), 2018)The Chinese poll tax was introduced in English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, during the nineteenth century. Though this tax was justified on social and economic grounds, ...