Akie Iriyama, Jason W. Park, Franky Supriyadi and Haibin Yang
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) typically accelerate target top management team (TMT) executive departures. Market discipline and Relative Standing are two major and competing…
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) typically accelerate target top management team (TMT) executive departures. Market discipline and Relative Standing are two major and competing economic and sociological explanations for this phenomenon which lack a satisfactory theoretical integration. To fill this gap in the literature, we model the M&A market as a complex adaptive system composed of TMTs which rid themselves of executives via self-organized critical processes, generating M&A market-level properties that are emergent, or not easily explained with reference to the individual TMTs. The observation of an emergent power law distribution in target TMT executive retention rates for M&A activities in the United States supports our interpretation.
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Alisa K. Lincoln and Wallis E. Adams
To understand how people using community public mental health services conceptualize community and their place within it within the post-deinstitutionalization era.
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Purpose
To understand how people using community public mental health services conceptualize community and their place within it within the post-deinstitutionalization era.
Methodology/approach
Two hundred ninety-four service users completed structured interviews in two urban, outpatient, public, and community mental health facilities in the Northeast. Quantitative and qualitative responses to the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status, Community Ladder version, were analyzed to understand perspectives on community.
Findings
Mean subjective community status ladder score among participants was five (SD = 2.56). Participants identified four broad categories of definitions of community: geographic community; community related to social definitions; contributing to society; and mental health service-user communities. Explanations for the location of their placement on the ladder (subjective community status) include comparisons to self and others, contributions to community, and social relationships. There was also a set of explanations that spoke to the intersection of multiple marginalizations and structural constraints. Finally, we explore relationships among understandings of community and perceptions of place within community.
Originality/value
Community integration is a critical concept for community public mental health services, but little research has explored how mental health service users conceptualize their communities and their roles within them. Understandings of community are crucial to appropriately support peoples’ needs within their communities. Furthermore, participants identify mechanisms that facilitate their personal community standing, and these are areas for potential intervention.
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MANY who realise the implications of White's book on The Organisation Man have probably closed it with the self‐satisfied reflection that ‘it can't happen here.’ That is the…
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MANY who realise the implications of White's book on The Organisation Man have probably closed it with the self‐satisfied reflection that ‘it can't happen here.’ That is the anodyne we generally swallow to protect us from disagreeable fears.
The 26th International Aerospace Show at Le Bourget will undoubtedly be the largest that has ever been held. Inevitably, at a time when the European industries are attempting to…
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The 26th International Aerospace Show at Le Bourget will undoubtedly be the largest that has ever been held. Inevitably, at a time when the European industries are attempting to consolidate their positions and the United States industry is pushing hard to improve its own sales and technical standing throughout the world, there will be a highly competitive air about the whole Exhibition. At the same time, many companies will be emphasizing their international links—in terms of collaborative developments, licence production or sales. Organized by the French equivalent of the S.B.A.C. in Britain—the Union Syndicate des Industries Aeronautiques et Spatiales—this year's Salon will follow traditional lines in that each day of the Show will be devoted to a particular facet of aerospace activities thus: June 10 Press Preview; June 11 Official Inauguration by President de Gaulle; June 12 Philately; June 13 Light, Executive and Commercial Aviation; June 14 Space Activities; June 15 Electronics; June 16 Systems and Equipment; June 17 Rotor craft; June 18 French and Foreign Missions; June 19 International Air Display; and June 20 International Flying Display. The Russians will send a number of space exhibits as well as a selection of civil aircraft—including the world's largest helicopter. The British industry will be represented by approximately fifty companies as well as Ministry of Aviation, Ministry of Defence and S.B.A.C. presentations. This preview of the show is concerned solely with the British exhibits, beginning with the major airframe and engine industries.
Thiago Matheus De Paula and Verónica Peñaloza
This paper aims to evaluate the influence of relative social standing, society’s level of restrictions and consumption adequacy on life satisfaction as well as to examine the…
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Purpose
This paper aims to evaluate the influence of relative social standing, society’s level of restrictions and consumption adequacy on life satisfaction as well as to examine the moderating effect that an environment of social deprivations can cause in this relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
The analysis uses data from 23,152 individuals distributed in 272 regions of 18 developing countries collected from the World Values Survey (WVS). Given the hierarchical structure nature of the data in a cross-country setting, the paper utilizes a multilevel linear mixed-effects model with cross-level interaction.
Findings
The results show that social deprivation, perception of inadequate consumption and lower social standing negatively affect life satisfaction. Likewise, social comparison and consumption adequacy are moderated by the level of social deprivation, showing that the effect of these variables on life satisfaction is more pronounced for individuals living in regions with a higher level of deprivation than for those living in more affluent societies.
Originality/value
This study enhances the comprehension of well-being within contexts characterized by elevated levels of social deprivation. Furthermore, it provides evidence that objective and subjective deprivations are not independent and antithetical concepts but act mutually in reducing individual well-being.
Peer review
The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-08-2023-0623
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Normalair‐Garrett Ltd., (Stand No. N31) part of the Westland plc Group of Yeovil, Somerset, is exhibiting a wide range of products which demonstrate the company's diverse…
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Normalair‐Garrett Ltd., (Stand No. N31) part of the Westland plc Group of Yeovil, Somerset, is exhibiting a wide range of products which demonstrate the company's diverse capabilities in control systems and precision components for the aerospace industry.
Recent changes in the UK political landscape have brought about cuts in public sector spending. Local authorities, in common with other public sector agencies, are required to…
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Recent changes in the UK political landscape have brought about cuts in public sector spending. Local authorities, in common with other public sector agencies, are required to make significant cost savings over the coming years. Procurement is an area of public sector administration characterised by considerable costs and inefficiency where the adoption of innovative technologies, such as e‐markets, can be deployed to effect significant costs savings. However, there are many barriers to the adoption of such technologies. The purpose of this paper is to explore and expound the factors that impede local authorities from adopting e‐markets and to present a learning opportunity for procurement managers and other stakeholders involved in technology adoption in local government and the wider public sector.
Design/methodology/approach
A case study based on in depth interviews with 17 senior level executives in e‐markets and local authorities on barriers to e‐market adoption in the local government sector is presented. The interviews were transcribed and subsequently coded and analysed using the qualitative data analysis software QSR N6.
Findings
A number of factors (risk perception, knowledge deficits, trust, firm size, and organisational readiness) pertaining to Johnson's framework of e‐market adoption barriers were found to affect e‐market adoption and use in the local government sector. Importantly, the study also found factors that are idiosyncratic to the sector that impinged on e‐market adoption.
Research limitations/implications
The scope of the study is limited to examining such barriers from a buy‐side local authority perspective, the findings of which may have implications for the adoption of e‐markets and other e‐procurement technologies in the wider public sector and beyond. The paper also makes a contribution to the literature on e‐market adoption by adding to the body of knowledge relating to institutional theory.
Practical implications
The case study can help local authority and other public sector procurement managers, academic researchers, practitioners, consultants and other professionals involved in technology adoption better understand, and find practical ways to offset, the barriers that impinge on the adoption of e‐markets and other innovative technologies that can reduce costs within public sector organisations.
Originality/value
E‐market adoption has the potential to realise a number of significant cost saving benefits within and between organisations. However, such benefits cannot be realised if there are barriers to their adoption and full utilisation. To date, research on the dynamics of e‐market adoption has largely focused on private sector enterprises with few studies examining this phenomenon in public sector environments. Therefore, e‐market adoption in the public sector has received limited attention in the literature over the past decade. This study examines, and provides empirical evidence of, barriers to e‐market uptake and usage in the local government sector in order to act as a starting point to creating better understanding of such barriers among academic and practitioner audiences.
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The British countryman is a well‐known figure; his rugged, obstinate nature, unyielding and tough; his part in the development of the nation, its history, not confined to the…
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The British countryman is a well‐known figure; his rugged, obstinate nature, unyielding and tough; his part in the development of the nation, its history, not confined to the valley meadows and pastures and uplands, but nobly played in battles and campaigns of long ago. His “better half”—a term as true of yeoman stock as of any other—is less well known. She is as important a part of country life as her spouse; in some fields, her contribution has been even greater. He may grow the food, but she is the provider of meals, dishes, specialties, the innovating genius to whom most if not all British food products, mostly with regional names and now well‐placed in the advertising armentarium of massive food manufacturers, are due. A few of them are centuries old. Nor does she lack the business acumen of her man; hens, ducks, geese, their eggs, cut flowers, the produce of the kitchen garden, she may do a brisk trade in these at the gate or back door. The recent astronomical price of potatoes brought her a handsome bonus. If the basic needs of the French national dietary are due to the genius of the chef de cuisine, much of the British diet is due to that of the countrywoman.
The author presents the author’s experiences of the body in hatha yoga practice using Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological concepts and perspective to understand the feelings…
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The author presents the author’s experiences of the body in hatha yoga practice using Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological concepts and perspective to understand the feelings about the body, thoughts, and emotions. The author interprets the corporeality and intersubjectivity of hatha yoga practice in light of the author’s theory. The author gives some examples of embodied perception from the author’s practice. The examples the author’s give are based on the author’s experience in yoga practice and self-observations that the author have done during the research project on experiencing hatha yoga practice and knowledge transfer.