scholarly journals The King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Pandemic Framework: A Methodological Approach to Leverage Social Media for the Sustainable Management of Higher Education in Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Obaid AI-Youbi ◽  
Abdulmonem Al-Hayani ◽  
Hisham J. Bardesi ◽  
Mohammed Basheri ◽  
Miltiadis D. Lytras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

The recent pandemic has raised significant challenges worldwide. In higher education, the necessity to adopt efficient strategies to sustain education during the crisis is mobilizing diverse, complementary, and integrative action in response. In this research article, we rise to the challenge of designing and implementing a transparent strategy for social media awareness at King Abdulaziz University (KAU). We introduce a framework for social media impact, termed the KAU Pandemic Framework. This includes the factors with the most important role in enhancing the deployment of social media in crisis in order to minimize the negative impact on education’s sustainability. We used a mixed-methods approach, integrating quantitative statistical analyses of social media data and online surveys and qualitative interviews in such a way as to construct a comprehensive framework. The results show that a methodological framework can be justified and that Twitter contributes significantly to six areas: administrative resilience; education sustainability; community responsibility; positive sentiment; community bonds; and delivery of promised value. The components of our proposed methodological framework integrate five pillars of the strategic adoption of social media: social media governance; social media resilience; social media utilization; decision-making capability; and institutional strategy. Finally, we show that the KAU Pandemic Framework can be used as strategic decision-making tool for the analysis of the gaps and inefficiencies in any social media plan that is deployed and the management challenges arising from the pandemic.

The Influence of Corporate Social Media on Firm Level Strategic Decision Making

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Venkataraman ◽  
Ranjan Das
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
Social Media Engagement ◽  
Extended Value ◽  
Corporate Social

Social media engagement by business firms has been steadily on the rise, with its application extending to a range of corporate functions, beyond marketing and customer engagement, many of which can be construed as strategic. However, the potential influence of social media on strategy process or strategic decision making has scarcely been explored in strategic management literature. In addressing this gap, this paper conceptually explores the likely influence of social media on issue of strategic decision making and the mechanism of such influence, and also uses an assortment of anecdotes from practice for illustrative purposes. The authors suggest a plausible model whereby corporate social media engagement is seen to exert its influence through the three key dimensions of strategy process - environmental factors, strategists characteristics and decision issue characteristics. In particular social media engagement is conceived as ingraining knowledge creation and integration through socialization within an extended value network.

A new method for strategic decision-making in higher education

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Kadoić ◽  
Nina Begičević Ređep ◽  
Blaženka Divjak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
New Method ◽  
Strategic Decision Making

scholarly journals Using Media for Voting Decision among First-time Voter College Students in West Java, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
Drina Intyaswati ◽  
Eni Maryani ◽  
Dadang Sugiana ◽  
Anter Venus
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
West Java ◽  
Voting Decisions ◽  
First Time

This study aims to highlights the interactive effect between two different media in making voting decisions. Interaction between traditional and social media as the primary knowledge outlets adopted by students in decision making becomes the focus of the research. The study was conducted with the social context of the 2019 Indonesian General Election. The survey method used data from 1066 first-time voter college students at six public colleges in West Java, Indonesia. The results showed that social media that interact with television, radio, and newspapers significantly influenced voting decisions. The growing trend in online political talks significantly influenced the voting decision. It is worth noticing that the influence of the interaction used between social media and newspapers on voting decisions had a negative impact, thereby signifying that there was a decrease in the opportunity to vote using social media. This study shows the importance of interaction between social media as the primary political information source and traditional media to complement students' decision-making.   Received: 28 October 2020 / Accepted: 11 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021

Social Media

2016 ◽  
pp. 94-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Bowen ◽  
Deidre Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Feedback ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
Decision Making Tool

Social media is seen very much as a marketing tool and there is little in the literature that considers its use as a strategic decision making tool. This conceptual paper is an attempt to redress the balance. Social media user-generated content from blogs or consumer feedback are methods that social media can support effective strategic decision making. However, the business and organisational environments are influential on the effective of the data collected and ultimately its analysis. The decision making approach – single or multistage are significant influencers on the quality of the decisions. Multistage decision making is supportive of controversial decision making, which leads to better utilisation of the information and consequently, better decision making. Ultimately, robust decision making is underpinned by the effectiveness of the decision making process.

Selection and Evaluation of 3PL Providers

2012 ◽  
pp. 1650-1665
Author(s):  
Christos Keramydas ◽  
Naoum Tsolakis ◽  
Anastasios Xanthopoulos ◽  
Dimitrios Aidonis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Third Party Logistics ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Evaluation Problem ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

As supply chains continue to globalize, the need for robust Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider qualification, selection, and evaluation programs becomes increasingly critical. In this context, this chapter aims to present a methodological approach for the optimization of this specific type of outsourcing operations in today’s globalized supply chains. More specifically, the authors first present an analytical literature review of the criteria and the methods that are employed in this field of decision-making, and then propose a generic methodological framework for the 3PL partner selection and evaluation problem. This framework is constituted by a nine-phased conceptual decision-making methodology that outlines the whole life cycle of the 3PL provider selection and continuous evaluation processes.

Decision-making as performative struggle

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander Merkus ◽  
Jaap De Heer ◽  
Marcel Veenswijk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of performative struggle through the use of an interpretative case story focussed on a strategic decision-making process concerning infrastructural development. Performativity is about “world-making” (Carter et al., 2010), based on the assumption that conceptual schemes are not only prescriptions of the world, for the practices flowing from these abstract ideas bring into being the world they are describing. The focus on agency and multiplicity in the academic debate on performativity in organizational settings are combined, resulting in the conceptualization of a multitude of performative agents struggling to make the world. Design/methodology/approach – The methodological approach of this paper is based on an interpretative analysis of contrasting narratives that are told by political-executives in a strategic decision-making process. These narratives are based on in-depth interviews and participant observation. The interpretative case story, exhibiting the strategic decision-making practices of Aldermen, Delegates and Ministers – focusses on the moments of performative struggle based on strategic narrative practices. Findings – The interpretative case story will exhibit the way in which a multiplicity of agents reflects on the performative dimension of the decision-making process, anticipates on its performative effects and attempts to manipulate the strategic vision that is actualized into reality. Moreover, the agents are not primarily concerned with the actualization of a specific infrastructural project; they are more concerned with the consequences of decision making for their more comprehensive strategic visions on reality. Research limitations/implications – The notion of performative struggle has not yet been explicitly studied by scholars focussing on performativity. However, the concept can be used as an appropriate lens for studying meaning making within ethnographic studies on organizational processes such as for instance culture change intervention and strategy formation. The concept of performative struggle is especially useful for understanding the political dimension of meaning making when studying an organizational life-world through the use of ethnographic research. Originality/value – The originality of this paper lies in the innovative conceptualization of struggle between a multiplicity of reflexive agents in the debate on performative world-making. Moreover, the incorporation of the perspective of performative struggle within organizational ethnographic research is valuable for the development of organizational ethnographic methodology.

scholarly journals Predecessors’ Attitude toward Conflict Predictor of Family Business Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Linda Salim ◽  
Mohd. Noor Shariff ◽  
Darwina Ahmad Arshad
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Talent Pool ◽  
The Future

<p>Using qualitative interviews to understand the mindset of family business leaders in succession, this study proposes that attitude toward conflict is an important decision making element. A collective case studies uncover how attitude toward conflict predicts decision making during succession and influence optimism on the future of the firms. Findings of the study suggest that predecessors who welcome conflicts as a part of family firms take a more relaxed attitude toward succession, with a wider talent pool. This group are also more egalitarian in strategic decision making and optimistic toward the future of the firms. Predecessors who avoid conflict have smaller talent pool, making decisions to nominate few for the position. They is cautious, making decisions for the successors, and are pessimistic about the future of the firms. Contributions from this study are threefold. First, we introduce the use of attitude toward conflict to measure predecessors' behaviors during succession. Second, through identification of attitude toward conflict, we contribute to the literature by predicting predecessors' optimisms toward the future of the firms in the hands of the next generations. Third, this study contributes another dimension to reciprocal nepotism through discovery that family businesses upholding reciprocal nepotism behave differently.</p>

scholarly journals COGNITIVE CONFLICT IN STRATEGIC DECISION OF MANAGEMENT TEAMS IN SMALL ENTERPRISES

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
TATIANE S. T. MAIA ◽  
EDMILSON LIMA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Cognitive Conflict ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Management Teams ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Multicase Study

ABSTRACT Purpose: The objective of this article is to explain how cognitive conflict happens and what are its contributions to the decision-making processes of management teams in small enterprises (SE). Originality/value: Although SEs are important and numerous, the cognitive conflict in their management team and the strategic decision making of this team are understudied. This article helps to feel this gap with contributions and implications which are helpful for research and practice related to those themes. Design/methodology/approach: The descriptive methodological approach was adopted based on qualitative methods and multicase study (Eisenhardt, 1989). Data were collected with interviews and analyzed within and cross-case procedures, according to Miles and Huberman’s (1994) recommendations. Four cases of SE were studied. Findings: The strategic decision processes were considerably determined by cognitive conflicts. Such conflicts questioned decision possibilities and highlighted aspects related to intuition and improvisation, both normally useful and present in the strategic decision processes of SE. Cognitive conflict inhibits improvisation because its occurrence creates useful questionings in decision making preparation. Those questionings generated deepness in discussion and analysis for decision making in the studied SEs.

From adversity to university - the transformational power of a bespoke bridging module to support those affected by homelessness into higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-122
Author(s):  
Becky Edwards ◽  
Sandra Lyndon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Listening Guide ◽  
Academic Confidence ◽  
Mental Health Support

This paper reports the findings of a small-scale project which examines how a bespoke bridging module supported those affected by homelessness into higher education. The module was developed on the premise that a successful widening participation project needs to base learning on the lived experience of the individuals. It aimed to support individuals by valuing their personal experiences and developing academic confidence through shared ownership of learning. The findings draw on qualitative interviews with six participants who took part in the bridging module. All had been affected by homelessness and many were recovering from alcohol and/or drug addiction. A narrative methodological approach was used, drawing on Brown and Gilligan's Listening Guide (1991), to explore how participants changed throughout the course of the module. Out of the six who took part, five were accepted onto higher education courses. In addition, all experienced multiple personal benefits, including increased confidence, raised aspirations, improvements in mental health, support with recovery from alcohol/and or drug addiction, and new and renewed relationships. It is concluded that a bespoke bridging module can be both powerful and transformational for those who have been affected by homelessness.

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