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Publication date: 1 April 1996

Robert A. Duffy

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a World Wide Web site. On its face, this news may not strike you as particularly significant, especially if you're not a fan of the predominantly New…

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The Los Angeles Dodgers have a World Wide Web site. On its face, this news may not strike you as particularly significant, especially if you're not a fan of the predominantly New World (cum Asian‐Pacific) sport of baseball. But for this observer of the digital media universe, the recent debut of the Dodger Web space (http://www.dodgers.com) resonates with an unintended symbolism that has little to do with the sports scene per se. It's a most instructive site to visit, because it illustrates a spate of new influences from popular and commercial culture that, thanks to the Web, are poised to bluster in rather boisterously on the staid realms of online knowledge and information management.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 14 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 2 June 2022

Lindsey Lee, Sandra Sun-Ah Ponting, Ankita Ghosh and Hyounae (Kelly) Min

This study aims to provide important insights in advancing the hospitality workforce by exploring the dimensions of calling. By identifying significant calling dimensions among…

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Purpose

This study aims to provide important insights in advancing the hospitality workforce by exploring the dimensions of calling. By identifying significant calling dimensions among hospitality employees, the study is guided by work as calling theory by also examining the mediating role of employees’ professional identity on intention to leave the industry.

Design/methodology/approach

This study used an exploratory mixed-methods approach. Study 1 included an online qualitative survey to explore the significant dimensions of calling among hospitality employees. Study 2 measured the significance of hospitality calling dimensions on intention to leave the industry, mediated by professional identity.

Findings

Study 1 identified transcendent summons, passion and purposeful life as significant dimensions of hospitality calling. Study 2 examined calling as a second-order construct with the aforementioned dimensions and proposed calling increases professional identity and decreases intention to leave the industry. However, professional identity did not significantly influence the intention to leave the industry.

Originality/value

This study brings value to the calling literature by exploring the calling dimensions unique to the hospitality workforce. Findings also highlight that subjective professional identity alone cannot lower employees’ intention to leave the industry. Organizational and industry support focusing on transcendent summons, passion and purposeful life are recommended.

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International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 34 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0959-6119

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Publication date: 1 October 1999

Francis Duffy

Office design can be a powerful agent in achieving organisational and cultural change; however, far too often office design is relegated to the side lines by supply side‐thinking…

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Office design can be a powerful agent in achieving organisational and cultural change; however, far too often office design is relegated to the side lines by supply side‐thinking in the property and construction industries (including architecture), and by ignorance and over delegation on the part of businesses. A wide gap separates supply and demand. Case studies are used to demonstrate what design has done for a handful of organisations who have been prepared to think strategically about office space in the current turbulent business environment. These case studies demonstrate that, if office space is to be used successfully to achieve business purposes, four essential factors must be in place: visionary leadership; integration of the design of the use of information technology (IT), human resources (HR), and office space; large scale user involvement in the process of change, ie change management; and, finally, systematic data collection to measure the relation between buildings and organisational purpose. With all four factors in place the gap that has been identified can be closed and a powerful managerial resource can be put purposefully to work.

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Journal of Corporate Real Estate, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1463-001X

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Publication date: 5 April 2022

Khaled El-Shamandi Ahmed, Anupama Ambika and Russell Belk

This paper examines what the use of an augmented reality (AR) makeup mirror means to consumers, focusing on experiential consumption and the extended self.

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Purpose

This paper examines what the use of an augmented reality (AR) makeup mirror means to consumers, focusing on experiential consumption and the extended self.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors employed a multimethod approach involving netnography and semi-structured interviews with participants in India and the UK (n = 30).

Findings

Two main themes emerged from the data: (1) the importance of imagination and fantasy and (2) the (in)authenticity of the self and the surrounding “reality.”

Research limitations/implications

This research focuses on AR magic makeup mirror. The authors call for further research on different AR contexts.

Practical implications

The authors provide service managers with insights on addressing gaps between the perceived service (i.e. AR contexts and the makeup consumption journey) and the conceived service (i.e. fantasies and the extended self).

Originality/value

The authors examine the lived fantasy experiences of AR experiential consumption. In addition, the authors reveal a novel understanding of the extended self as temporarily re-envisioned through the AR mirror.

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Journal of Service Management, vol. 34 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1757-5818

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Publication date: 30 January 1995

Robert M. Coen and Bert G. Hickman

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Economics, Econometrics and the LINK: Essays in Honor of Lawrence R.Klein
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-44481-787-7

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Publication date: 13 November 2023

David C. Young, Robert E. White and Monica A. Williams

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Policy Matters
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80382-481-9

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Publication date: 22 August 2022

Byron A. Brown

The literature on non-traditional classroom environments claims that the changed emphasis in higher education teaching from the lecturer to students has intensified the global…

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The literature on non-traditional classroom environments claims that the changed emphasis in higher education teaching from the lecturer to students has intensified the global focus on student-centred learning, prompting colleges and universities globally to introspect, re-examine, and re-structure their pedagogical approaches in an attempt to align with national educational policies, and to position themselves favourably with potential students in an increasingly competitive higher education environment. This is an environment that now relies heavily on digital learning technologies, which has provoked scholars such as Heick (2012) to perceive the change to the virtual as one that makes higher education institutions accessible from anywhere – in the cloud, at home, in the workplace, or restaurant. The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the need for this flexibility. These forces have put universities and colleges under pressure to implement new teaching approaches in non-traditional classroom settings that are appropriate for, and responsive to, the COVID-19 crisis and students in terms of learning and social support. This chapter identified and appraised key teaching approaches. It is evident that there are three key teaching approaches that higher education institutions have adopted for delivering learning in an emergency and in a student-centred fashion. The three approaches, which include the time and place dispersion, transactional distance, and collaborative learning approaches, embrace social support because they are grounded in social constructivism. Academics need to be fully committed to the role of social support giving – that is, emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal support – in order to foster student wellbeing and cognitive development as students learn together but apart in non-traditional classrooms. The hurried manner in which teaching and learning practices in many higher education institutions have been moved to the online format has led academics to violate many key principles of the approaches they have adopted. And this situation is borne out in the case study discussed in Chapter 8 of this volume. A review of current remote teaching and learning practices is required if academics are to embrace the full principles of the approaches that are appropriate for teaching and learning in non-traditional classroom contexts.

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The Emerald Handbook of Higher Education in a Post-Covid World: New Approaches and Technologies for Teaching and Learning
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80382-193-1

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Publication date: 24 October 2008

Karen Staib Duffy

This paper aims to focus on an ontological approach to executive coaching and transformational learning.

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Purpose

This paper aims to focus on an ontological approach to executive coaching and transformational learning.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is largely drawn from the methodology for ontological coaching designed by Newfield Network. Concepts are applied in actual coaching examples.

Findings

The paper finds that through a transformational process of reflection and deliberate change, we can create a new coherence of self to meet and transcend challenging circumstances. This is consistent with double‐loop learning.

Originality/value

This work explains in concrete terms and examples how the ontological approach can be applied to expand knowledge and engage in transformational learning.

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VINE, vol. 38 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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Publication date: 11 April 2020

Ashleigh McFarlane and Emma Samsioe

This paper demonstrates how #50+ fashion Instagram influencers contribute to the social construction of cognitive age through their aesthetic digital labours.

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Purpose

This paper demonstrates how #50+ fashion Instagram influencers contribute to the social construction of cognitive age through their aesthetic digital labours.

Design/methodology/approach

Non-participative netnography was used in the form of visual and textual analysis of over 300 Instagram posts including images, captions and comments.

Findings

Findings reveal how outfit selection, background choices and bodily poses redefine expressions of look age through forms of aesthetic labour. Post-construction, hashtag and emoji usage illustrates how influencers refrain from directly posting about the fashion brands that they endorse. Instead, image and personality work visually attracts followers to politically charged posts which directly impact upon the social and cultural contexts where influencers are active. This ties into present-day wider societal discourses.

Practical implications

50+ fashion influencers have high spending power. Fashion brands should refrain from using #brand and collaborate in more subtle ways and concentrate on challenging the negativity of the old-age cliché.

Originality/value

The study advances theory on the social construction of age in fashion studies by combining cognitive age with aesthetic labour to identify the characteristics of the social phenomenon of the 50+ Instagram influencer. It applies principles from critical visual analysis to digital context, thereby advancing the qualitative netnographic toolkit.

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Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal, vol. 24 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1361-2026

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Publication date: 22 September 2022

Robert N. Eberhart, Stephen Barley and Andrew Nelson

We explore the acceptance of new contingent work relationships in the United States to reveal an emergent entrepreneurial ideology. Our argument is that these new work…

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We explore the acceptance of new contingent work relationships in the United States to reveal an emergent entrepreneurial ideology. Our argument is that these new work relationships represent a new social order not situated in the conglomerates and labor unions of the past, but on a confluence of neo-liberalism and individual action situated in the discourse of entrepreneurialism, employability, and free agency. This new employment relationship, which arose during the economic and social disruptions in the 1970s, defines who belongs inside an organization (and can take part in its benefits) and who must properly remain outside to fend for themselves. More generally, the fusing of entrepreneurship with neo-liberalism has altered not only how we work and where we work but also what we believe is appropriate work and what rewards should accompany it.

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Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80382-658-5

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