An empirical investigation of a theoretical model for mathematical creativity

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Øystein Haavold
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Mathematical Creativity

scholarly journals The True or the Idealized Self: How CEOs Build Their Personal Brands?

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Anna M. Górska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
True Self ◽  
Personal Brand ◽  
The Media ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Branding

Purpose: This study aims to empirically present the process of personal branding of CEOs. Building on the theoretical model proposed by Wojtaszczyk and Maszewski (2014), the study illustrates how CEOs build their personal brands. Methodology: The study is based on twelve semi-structured interviews with the CEOs of Poland’s strongest brands. Results were coded and analyzed with the use of MAXQDA software. Results: The research allowed us to understand the process of creating a personal brand by CEOs. Moreover, interviews revealed that the personal brand reflects the true self of CEOs. However, it is also adjusted to the target audience; consequently, CEOs show diverse identities to the outside world. Implications: Through the empirical investigation of the branding process, the findings fill a certain research gap. Insights gained in the process may prove useful for practitioners. Originality/value: The article explores the subject of the personal brand, which continues to be the focus of many researchers, particularly in the CEE region. This research gave voice to CEOs, who explained how they build their personal brand and shared detailed information whose scope greatly exceeds what they present in the media.

scholarly journals Uses of symbolic resources in youth: Moving from qualitative to quantitative approach

Psihologija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Stankovic ◽  
Aleksandar Baucal ◽  
Tania Zittoun
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Young People ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Semiotic Mediation ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Symbolic Resources

Youth is a period of intense changes during which young people engage in various transitions resulting in theirs acquisition of a longer time perspective and a system of orientation, enabling to set priorities and values, and to guide their actions accordingly. In a socio-cultural theoretical background, both the establishment of values and the ability to think time require some psychological distancing from the here and now, distancing which is foremost enabled by semiotic mediation. In our former studies on youth transitions, we observed that young people may use songs, movies, arts, or novels as symbolic resources, that is, as external mediators that seem to support these developmental processes. Through an abductive process linking qualitative, ideographic data and theoretical elaboration, we proposed a theoretical 7 dimensional model for analyzing people's uses of symbolic resources. This model was then turned to a first, provisional questionnaire aiming at testing the model, whose items were extracted from the first empirical investigation. In this paper, we attempted to tests this questionnaire on a population of young people in Serbia. The symbolic resources questionnaire was tested on a sample of young people (N=475). A SEM analysis was used to test the model. At large, the theoretical model is verified. However, an unexpected, very strong correlation between the dimensions had to be explained. We finally propose a further adaptation to the questionnaire.

Face and cultural conceptualizations in German-Brazilian business exchanges

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Milene Mendes de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
First Order ◽  
Business People ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
Business Negotiations ◽  
Image Schema ◽  
E Mail

Abstract Following up on recent calls for studies dealing with first-order understandings of face (Arundale 2013; Haugh 2013), this paper presents arguments in favor of an empirical investigation of cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2011) underlying these first-order (or emic) models. The arguments are based on the findings of a study on business communication in international contexts (Mendes de Oliveira 2020). The study comprises the analysis of (a) interviews with business people from different sectors and (b) a compilation of e-mails exchanged by Brazilian and German employees of a healthcare company. I focus specifically on conceptualizations of ‘respect in business negotiations’ (Mendes de Oliveira 2017) as well as on their pragmatic instantiations in e-mails. For instance, the recurrent image schema vertical splitting in the Brazilian interview excerpts on the topic of respect in business negotiations is shown to be pragmatically instantiated in terms of how participants acknowledge ‘hierarchy’ in their construals of face in e-mail interactions. The image schema horizontal splitting is shown to be related to how German participants construe ‘face’ as a transactional phenomenon in the e-mail exchanges. I conclude that cultural conceptualizations play an important role in the Brazilian and German emic models of face. Future studies can take the reflections presented in this paper into consideration in order to strengthen the arguments that favor the inclusion of culturally-based views on face into an overarching theoretical model of face (Arundale 2013).

scholarly journals A Theoretical Model for the Development of Mathematical Talent through Mathematical Creativity

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Zeidy M. Barraza-García ◽  
Avenilde Romo-Vázquez ◽  
Solange Roa-Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Mathematical Creativity ◽  
Mathematical Activity ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Mathematical Talent ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Anthropological Theory Of Didactics

This study was conducted from a perspective that adopts a broad vision of mathematical talent, defined as the potential that a subject manifests when confronting certain types of tasks, in a successful way, that generate creative mathematical activity. To analyse this, our study proposes a Praxeological Model of Mathematical Talent based on the Anthropological Theory of Didactics and the notion of mathematical creativity, which defines four technological functions: (1) producing new techniques; (2) optimizing those techniques (3); considering tasks from diverse angles; and (4) adapting techniques. Using this model, this study analyses the creative mathematical activity of students aged 10–12 years displayed as they sought to solve a series of infinite succession tasks proposed to encourage the construction of generalization processes. The setting is a Mathematics Club (a talent-promoting institution). The evaluation of results shows that the Praxeological Model of Mathematical Talent allows the emergence and analysis of mathematical creativity and, therefore, encourages the development of mathematical talent.

scholarly journals Was Piketty right? Empirics of CCC model: corporate power, consumption, debt and inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-464
Author(s):  
Franci Porenta
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Private Consumption ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Corporate Power

This paper provides an empirical investigation into the empirics of cumulative and circular causation (CCC) model. Relying on their corporate power, corporations have stimulated the rising consumerism, which has increased both private consumption and debt. On the other hand, increasing debt has enhanced the process of rising inequality due to the lack of funding to invest in education or create savings. Rising inequality has further increased the bargaining power of capital and closed the CCC model. This paper tests the proposed theoretical model on a sample of OECD countries in the period between 1990 and 2013. We show that the growing corporate power causes increased consumption, growing household and public debt, as well as higher inequality. The paper makes several original contributions to the existing literature. First, it is the first empirical investigation of the CCC relationship. Second, it extends the knowledge about the trends of rising corporate power and consumerism at macro level.

Some experimental evidence for sound–emotion interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Gafni ◽  
Reuven Tsur
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Phonetic Symbolism ◽  
Structural Account ◽  
Conflicting Evidence ◽  
Geometrical Shapes

Abstract This paper describes a structural account of phonetic symbolism and submits it to empirical investigation. To enable testing for possible iconic sound–emotion relations, participants compared pairs of syllables (e.g., ma – ba) as well as pairs of emotional states (e.g., joyful – sad) on various perceptual scales (e.g., softness). In addition, we replicated the classic ‘bouba/kiki’ experiment to investigate sound-shape symbolism. In accordance with the theoretical model, the results of the experimental tasks suggest that participants can detect abstract similarities between speech sounds and emotions as well as geometrical shapes. We discuss the theoretical model and the experimental results in relation to previous empirical findings and conflicting evidence from the study of affective iconicity in poetry.

scholarly journals Lending behavior of multinational bank affiliates

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Derviz ◽  
Jiří Podpiera
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Parent Influence ◽  
Multinational Banks ◽  
Lending Decisions ◽  
Lending Behavior

We study the parent influence on lending by affiliates of a multinational bank. In the proposed theoretical model, local lending is influenced by shareholder-affiliate manager delegation and precautionary motives. The outcome is either contagion (the loan volume in the affiliate follows the direction of the parent bank country shock) or performance-based reallocation of funds (substitution), depending on the degree of manager delegation in the affiliate and the liquidity-sensitivity in the parent bank. Empirical investigation, deliberately conducted on a sample not covering the latest financial crisis, shows that also in “normal” times, multinational banks that are likely to delegate lending decisions or be more liquidity-sensitive are more inclined towards contagionist behavior.

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