scholarly journals Macro Level Measuring of Organization Legitimacy: Its Implication for Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Adrián López-Balboa ◽  
Alicia Blanco-González ◽  
Francisco Díez-Martín ◽  
Camilo Prado-Román
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Organizational Legitimacy ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Mass Information

Although the field of organizational legitimacy is undergoing great advances, academics are still facing the challenge of its measurement. Currently, academics are focusing on improving and homogenizing legitimacy measurement systems at the micro level. However, measuring legitimacy at the macro level has not evolved according to the needs and possibilities provided by new technologies. This research aims to develop a new methodology to measure organizational legitimacy at the macro level, capable of processing large amounts of information. To this end, an analysis of the news content of the 50 companies that make up the EuroStoxx50 has been conducted for a full year. By doing so, we make three key contributions to managing organizational legitimacy. First, we provide a more complete and reliable measurement of organizational legitimacy thanks to mass information processing techniques, providing a technology-based solution to the obsolescence problem of legitimacy evaluation models at the macro level. Second, we provide empirical evidence of the relationship between legitimacy and organizational success based on the analysis of mass information. Third, we show evidence that a bias is introduced in the measurement of legitimacy due to the use of different sources for this purpose.

Oppression

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Garcia ◽  
Dorothy Van Soest
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Power Arrangements

A firm grasp of the nature of oppression, with its dynamics of power and its systemic character, is required so that social workers can avoid unintended collusion with pervasive oppressive systems if they are to be successful in promoting social and economic justice. Recognizing the relationship between macro-level and micro-level dynamics and their implications for practice is an substantive part of social work practice. This perspective includes attention to the ubiquitousness of privilege and oppression and the potential consequences of ignoring this reality as complicity in and normalizing exclusionary and marginalizing behaviors. This article discusses the concept of oppression, its dynamics and common elements, and anti-oppressive practices that can expose and dismantle oppressive relationships and systemic power arrangements.

Bridging Levels of Public Administration: How Macro Shapes Meso and Micro

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
American History ◽  
The State ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars in public administration now recognize three levels of analysis: macro, meso, and micro. But there is uncertainty about the relationship between levels and concern about a “schism” in research. However, linkages between levels can be demonstrated easily. At the macro-level, leaders develop an overall strategy for pursuing national priorities, which determines the broad architecture of the state. Institutions must be built, renovated, or managed to give effect to these strategies: This is the meso-level of public administration. Overall, strategies also shape the micro-level relationship between people who rule and people who are ruled. This is done by categorizing people—as subjects or citizens, for example—and by redefining categories. Macro-level strategies evolve, with consequences for the agenda at the meso- and micro-levels. Experience at lower levels also shapes strategy at the macro-level. The interaction among levels is illustrated by comparison of three eras in modern American history.

scholarly journals So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Scholar — Well You Need to Get an MBA

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Rob Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Record Industry ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Stax Records

Stax Records was a record label based in Memphis, Tennessee from the late 1950s through December 1975, when it was forced into involuntary bankruptcy. "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Scholar — Well You Need to Get an MBA" uses Stax Records as a case study to problematize what has often been a tendency within popular music scholarship to attempt to understand the political economy of the record industry primarily via the mechanical application of Marxist theory on a macro level. In looking in detail at the relationship between CBS Records and Stax from 1972 through 1975, the author concludes that to fully understand the nature of the distribution agreement between the two companies, its ramifications, and the consequent subsequent actions of the various principals involved, all of which eventually led to Stax's bankruptcy, one needs to take into account on a micro level the different modi operandi of independent and major labels, differences in the retail world of black and white America, and individual agency. Finally, all of the above needs to be considered very specifically within a temporal framework. The final conclusions prove to be significantly different from what would have resulted from solely from a Marxist analysis on a macro level.

Entrepreneurs' Social Skills and New Venture Performance: Mediating Mechanisms and Cultural Generality

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Baron ◽  
Jintong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Mediating Variables ◽  
Mediating Mechanisms ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Venture Performance

This research seeks to extend previous findings concerning the relationship between entrepreneurs' social skills and new venture performance. Two potential mediators of such effects (entrepreneurs' success in obtaining information and essential resources) were investigated, and data were collected in a culture not included in previous studies (China). Results indicate that several social skills (e.g., social perception, expressiveness) are significantly related to measures of new venture performance and that these effects are indeed mediated by the two proposed mediating variables. Implications of these findings for efforts to understand how micro-level variables influence macro-level measures of new venture performance are discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Managerial Cognitive Capabilities and Dynamic Managerial Capabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Elnivan Moreira de Souza ◽  
Sergio Henrique Arruda Cavalcante Forte
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Primary Motivation ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Managerial Capabilities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Micro Foundations

The micro-foundations research agenda's primary motivation in strategy is to dissect macro-level constructs in terms of actions and organizational members' interactions to the micro-level. This work seeks to evolve the understanding of these micro-foundations to explain the relationship between Managerial Cognitive Capabilities and Dynamic Managerial Capabilities. We conducted a laboratory experiment with a sample of 111 participants, divided into two groups, containing 57 and 54 participants, each one. The results revealed that Sensing Opportunity and Seizing Opportunity, components of the Dynamic Managerial Capability, and the Language and Communication, which are part of the Cognitive Managerial Capability, can be predictive of the ability to Reconfigure Tangible and Intangible Assets. Our research contributes by extending central literature on micro-foundations through an experiment. We empirically show that managerial and cognitive dynamic capabilities can be a preeminent field to improve the comprehension of dynamic capabilities' micro-foundations.

scholarly journals Routine Activity Theory and Farm Equipment Theft: A Macro-Level Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Dustin L. Osborne ◽  
Kristin Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Routine Activity Theory ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
United States Census ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Farm Equipment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theory Framework

Though a handful of studies have explored the relationship between farm characteristics and theft of farm equipment, all have been focused at the micro level. Put differently, they have sought to determine whether a relationship exists between likelihood of theft victimization and the characteristics (e.g., size, location) of individual farming operations. The current study builds upon this work by seeking to determine whether county-level factors (in line with the routine activity theory framework) serve to influence the incidence of farm equipment theft within counties. Data are derived from the National Incident-Based Reporting System, the Census of Agriculture and the United States Census of the Population.  Results are on the whole supportive of the theory's application to the problem and suggest that macro-level investigations constitute a worthwhile approach to better understanding agricultural victimization.

scholarly journals The Effect of Linguistic Cohesion on Prose Comprehension

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Westpbal Irwin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Free Recall ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Comprehension Process ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between the number of cohesive ties in a passage, as defined by Halliday and Hasan (1976), and free and prompted recall scores. Two versions of a passage on gibbons were developed, with one version containing about twice as many ties as the other. Sixty college students participated; each read one of the passage-versions and then, either immediately or after 20 minutes, recorded his/her free recall and answered the prompted-recall questions. Though there were no differences between the treatment groups in terms of the numbers of micro-level propositions recalled, there were significant differences between these groups in terms of the theoretical reading time/100-propositions-recalled ratios, the numbers of reported macro-level statements, and the numbers of prompted-recall questions answered correctly in the delayed condition. These results support theories stressing the importance of coherent links in the comprehension process and suggest a new “readability” variable.

scholarly journals Board diversity in the perspective of financial distress: Empirical evidence from the Netherlands

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Santen ◽  
Han Donker
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Executive Directors ◽  
Board Diversity ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyses the relationship between board diversity (in gender and in nationality) and financial distress. A summary of the theory behind board diversity precedes an overview of the empirical evidence on the relationship between diversity and company performance. The paper presents empirical research on the relationship between a negative performance measure, financial distress, and diversity on the board. The results show a positive relationship between the presence of foreign non-executive directors and financial distress. It is suggested that this is caused by negative communication and misunderstandings. No relationship is found between the gender of a director and financial distress. On a micro-level, the data do not show evidence for the glass cliff hypothesis.

scholarly journals “The Inevitability of Globalized International Higher Education”

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (Winter) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Ryan Deuel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Educational Studies ◽  
Policies And Practices

The relationship between the discourse of internationalization in higher education and the neoliberal discourse of globalization as a disciplining cultural and economic force in our society continues to be an important area of focus for educational studies. This study develops a genealogy of internationalization at three tiers of analysis: at the macro level, where ‘globalization’ operates as a governing discourse within policies and practices of national and transnational governmental organizations; at the mezzo level, where ‘internationalization’ operates as a governing discourse among HEIs and professional higher education associations; and, at the micro level, where the discourses of globalization and internationalization work in concert to govern the conduct of international students.

Is technological change a devourer of jobs?

2017 ◽  
pp. 111-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Technological Unemployment ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Task Sets ◽  
The Impact

The paper provides a critical analysis of the idea of technological unemployment. The overview of the existing literature on the employment effects of technological change shows that on the micro-level there exists strong and positive relationship between innovations and employment growth in firms; on the sectoral level this correlation becomes ambiguous; on the macro-level the impact of new technologies seems to be positive or neutral. This implies that fears of explosive growth of technological unemployment in the foreseeable future are exaggerated. Our analysis further suggests that new technologies affect mostly the structure of employment rather than its level. Additionally we argue that automation and digitalisation would change mostly task sets within particular occupations rather than distribution of workers by occupations.

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