From Hypothesis Testing Towards Inference to Best Explanation: A PEEBI Testimonial Structure for Abductive Studies in Strategy
Though scholars employ abduction, there is no agreed-upon structure to reporting their findings. Moreover, the traditional hypo-deductive reasoning structure does not align with the epistemology of abduction.
An Unattainable Emotional Advantage? Supervisors' Perceptual Biases in the Relationship Between Emotional Understanding Ability and Performance Ratings for Female Employees
Empathy is increasingly valued at workplaces as it facilitates interpersonal relationships, collaboration, and team functioning. Accordingly, organizations increasingly observe and recognize employees' emotional understanding (EU) ability—a key foundation of empathy—as an important dimension of individual merit in performance evaluations. We note that, however, supervisors' gender stereotypes may constrain whether EU ability is recognized properly, particularly for female employees.
The Relative Effects of Design Thinking Versus After-Action Review on Team Performance: An Experiential/Episodic Team Learning Perspective
Learning is key to teamwork success. In a field experiment, a design thinking intervention was shown to promote effective team learning, leading to greater team performance and financial savings. Adopting a learning orientation -- emphasizing hypothesis development and testing foir improving work efficiency - was shown to be is key to teamwork success.
If We Build It, We Will Come: Strategies for Developing Academic Institutions and the Evolution of Career Choices by Top Talent During Japan’s Industrialization
Modern day economies rely on academia—with its focus on generating new knowledge and training future work forces—as a critical complement to industry in contributing to endogenous growth. How well academia performs this role, however, depends on its ability to recruit and retain talented faculty who have lucrative alternative options in industry; moreover, such allocation of talent in academia vs. industry is conditioned by path-dependencies in the evolution of these sectors.