The next step in the strategy–as–practice evolution: A comparative typology matrix

Computable general equilibrium models (CGE) are used to estimate the ex-ante quantitative impact of a change in economic policy. There is a bulk of research in the field of sustainable development applying it for testing implementation of carbon taxation, analyzing reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG), or addressing agricultural issues to work the land efficiently. The main objective of this review is to provide an exhaustive analysis of the literature about these models and their evolution over the last 50years. The search was conducted in the main academic databases (Scopus and Web of Science), where 1353 articles were found from 1966 to 2019 related to the topic. The results of the descriptives, relational, and content analyses carried out show the current state of the-art, trends, subfields of research, and future gaps to fulfill. This article contributes to the literature that uses CGE models providing an overview of its different applications in the field of sustainability. It gives useful insights to academics who want to further research the field.

PurposeThis review aims to explore the history, research hotspots, and emerging trends of drug-eluting stents(DES)in the last two decades from the perspective of structural and temporal dynamics.MethodsPublications on DES were retrieved from WoSCC. The bibliometric tools including CiteSpace and HistCite were used to identify the historical features, the evolution of active topics, and emerging trends on the DES field.ResultsIn the last 20 years, the field of DES is still in the hot phase and there is a wide range of extensive scientific collaborations. In addition, active topics emerge in different periods, as evidenced by a total of 41 disciplines, 511 keywords, and 1377 papers with citation bursts. Keyword clustering anchored five emerging research subfields, namely #0 dual antiplatelet therapy, #3 drug-coated balloon, #4 bifurcation, 5# rotational atherectomy, and 6# quantitative flow ratio. The keyword alluvial map shows that the most persistent research concepts in this field are thrombosis, restenosis, etc., and the emerging keywords are paclitaxel eluting balloon, coated balloon, drug-eluting balloon, etc. There are 7 recent research subfields anchored by reference clustering, namely #2 dual antiplatelet therapy, #4 drug-coated balloon, #5 peripheral artery disease, #8 fractional flow reserve, #10 bioresorbable vascular scaffold, # 13 intravascular ultrasound, #14 biodegradable polymer.ConclusionThe findings based on the bibliometric studies provide the current status and trends in DES research and may help researchers to identify hot topics and explore new research directions in this field.

There is little research that addresses methodological issues in the context of e-service quality. This study content analyzed e-service quality articles published between 2003 and 2013 to assess methodological issues in this field. Sampling methods (probability vs. nonprobability), use of undergraduates (UGs) in research, service context, geographic location, demographic information, research strategy, and justification for the use of UGs were identified as key variables. In addition, the authors argued for the need to conduct replications in research on e-service quality. A total of 72 research articles on e-service and e-service quality were content analyzed. All articles focused primarily on e-service quality in the context of B2C e-retailing. On the basis of the findings the present study provides several suggestions that should receive close attention from e-service quality researchers.

▪ Abstract Over the past two decades in the United States, research on women's movements has proliferated in women's studies, in sociology, and, to a much lesser extent, in political science. Focusing specifically on women's movements, this review considers current research within this emerging subfield of political science, particularly because political science and the subfield of women's movements research share a focus on the state and on comparative politics. This review assesses the contribution that scholarship of women's movements has made to empirical political science and to political movement theory. It concludes with a discussion of gender and political movements and suggests areas for future research.

Considering the globalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR), China has become an important and distinctive market for CSR practice and research. Communication, as a fast-growing subfield of CSR research, has made substantial contributions to the theorization of CSR yet has been dominated by Western contexts. To provide a contextualized view of CSR communication, this study systematically examined the 88 articles of CSR communication research published in peer-reviewed journals with a focus on the Chinese context. Findings revealed the unique characteristics of Chinese CSR and the status of Chinese CSR communication literature in terms of publication trend, authorship/institution, RQ/Hypothesis, research topics, research context, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches. In addition, this study identified gaps in the current Chinese CSR communication research. It offered directions for future development regarding strengthening conceptual development, innovating methodological approaches, and expanding research topics and scopes.

Tracking Error and Portfolio Diversification Using Mutual Funds and ETFs

Classical approaches to strategy are built around two dominant pillars to explain firm performance: industry structure and firm strategy and capabilities. Firm performance is typically seen as a result of a “fit,” or complementarity, between industry structure and firm strategic choices. We supplement the classical model of strategy with a third pillar, that of the institutional envelope. We argue that the institutional envelope, as its name suggests, is a pervasive influence on the strategy-performance relationship. Both firm strategy and industry structure are simultaneously shaped by, and shape, the institutional envelope, which is both a primitive to and product of firm strategy and industry structure. It also moderates the relationship between firm strategy and industry structure. Institutional considerations are therefore not simply a subfield of strategy research. The institutional envelope is a critical component of any consideration of strategy. Theories of industry structure and strategic choice are insufficient without a fully formed model of the institutional envelope at their very foundation. All strategies, market or non-market, are consciously or unconsciously related to their institutional envelope—being tailored to conform to the institutional envelope or tailoring the institutional envelope to suit them. We see this institutional project that we are advancing as nothing less than the third great wave of strategy research, building off the previous waves emphasizing industry structure and firm choice and resources. It is in the context of this institutions-based strategy model that we preview the papers in the special issue.

Sedimentary organic matter preservation: an assessment and speculative synthesis

Female coital orgasm may be an adaptation for preferentially retaining the sperm of males with "good genes." One indicator of good genes may be physical attractiveness. Accordingly, R. Thornhill, S. W. Gangestad, and R. Comer (1995) found that women mated to more attractive men reported an orgasm during a greater proportion of copulations than did women mated to less attractive men. The current research replicates this finding, with several design variations. We collected self-report data from 388 women residing in the United States or in Germany. Results support the hypothesis that women mated to more attractive men are more likely to report an orgasm at the most recent copulation than are women mated to less attractive men, after statistically controlling for several key variables. Discussion addresses (a) the inability of the present research to specify the causal link between female orgasm and male attractiveness and (b) the proactive nature of female sexuality documented in recent research guided by an evolutionary perspective.

Current research suggests that knowledge co-production processes offer an alternate and enduring approach to addressing urban sustainability challenges. This chapter explores the potential of such alternative approaches to knowledge production for informing urban management and tackling the different sustainability challenges that cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face. The aim of this chapter is to extract the main lessons learned from how knowledge co-production approaches were established to engage with urban sustainability challenges in SSA cities and eventually unfolded. We draw on three applied and transdisciplinary urban research projects conducted at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town, spanning the neighbourhood, city and national urban policy scales. We identify some of the key aspects of these urban knowledge partnerships related to the quality of the knowledge collaborations and their influence on outcomes. We adopt an analytical framework based on the criteria of legitimacy, credibility and salience to explore these relationships between collaboration and outcomes. The findings show that context and history are key variables in shaping each knowledge co-production partnership. Whilst urban policy change is often slow, the data and outputs generated through these knowledge collaboration and co-production processes can serve to increase the confidence and commitment of urban stakeholders in addressing urban sustainability challenges in SSA.

This chapter aims to assess the impact of governmental interventions that focus on enabling transparency in the management of the extractive industries and how such interventions impact on the process of human development in Cote d’Ivoire. It employs a phenomenological approach that entails both survey and structural analyses. The study’s participants include administrators, the inhabitants of selected mining locations and active non-governmental organisations within the study areas. Simple random sampling was used in selecting the study’s participants and the content analysis employed in data analysis. The study maintains that the level of governmental intervention in regulating the operations of the extractive sub-sector in Cote d’Ivoire and its human development outcomes have been largely dependent on four key variables: accountability; transparency; participation; and corruption.

The content analysis is regarded as an important technique of obtaining facts which is used for the purpose of studying political, Social, economical & business problems. Content analysis is a versatile and inexpensive research method. It is useful for documenting change over time, and comparing media from different sources and locations. It is easy to establish reliability. The present study analyzed 76 articles publish at 5 volumes during 2009-2013 in the International Journal of Information Science & Management (IJISM).This study maid an attempt on examine the year-wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern, Reference, geographical distribution of articles etc. Content analysis is a method that may be used with either qualitative or quantitative data and in an inductive or deductive way. Qualitative content analysis is commonly used in nursing studies but little has been published on the analysis process and many research books generally only provide a short description of this method. Content analysis is a research method for making replicable and valid inferences from data to their context, with the purpose of providing knowledge, new insights, a representation of facts and a practical guide to action. The aim is to attain a condensed and broad description of the phenomenon, and the outcome of the analysis is concepts or categories describing the phenomenon. The use of content analysis in the social sciences-today its method & its sciences -today its method & its problems of interpretation has been affected both by related developments in other fields & by historical demands for certain practical application. 2. Definitional Analysis:

هدف اصلی این پژوهش تبیین دیدگاه‌های مختلف فیلسوفان مسلمان نسبت به آموزش عقلانی و فلسفی به کودکان، در راستای تربیت دینی بایسته می‌باشد. برای دستیابی به این هدف از روش پژوهش تحلیل محتوا و نیز روش تحلیل و استنتاج منطقی بهره گرفته شد. بنابر یافته‌های به‌دست‌آمده، رویکرد تربیت دینی مبتنی بر عقلانیت به دو شکل همگانی و نخبه پرور از یکدیگر متمایز هستند. پاره ای از آثار و اندیشه‌های ابن طفیل، سهروردی، اخوان‌الصفا، ابوریحان، مولانا، ابو علی سینا و شهید مطهری به زبانی ساده، قابل فهم و گاهی حکایت‌گو نه است که فهم آن برای همه امکان پذیر می‌باشد. این رویکرد را می توان تربیت دینی عقلانی از نوع همگانی یا توجه فیلسوفان مسلمان به فلسفه برای همگان دانست که همپوشانی زیادی با «فلسفه برای کودکان» دارد. در مقابل، رویکرد تربیت عقلانی نخبه پرور را می توان در آثار و اندیشه‌های ابن-مسکویه، غزالی، خواجه نصیر و ابن خلدون یافت که به‌طورکلی در گفتگوها و شیوه‌های آموزش فلسفی خود از مضمون‌های عقلانی و انتزاعی پیچیده برای کسانی که به درجه‌های بالاتری از فلسفه رسیده اند، بهره برده اند. این گروه چون ورود کودکان را در وادی فلسفه جایز نمی دانند، برای عوام نیز چنین اجازه‌ای را روا نمی‌دارند. بر این اساس، با پذیرش تربیت عقلانی همگانی و نیز با تقویت این رویکرد با استناد به میراث حکیمان مسلمان در طول تاریخ اندیشه اسلامی می‌توان از موضعی استوارتر به موضوع فلسفه برای کودکان در جامعه اسلامی نگاه کرد و زمینه فلسفیدن برای همه (حتی کودکان) را از طریق آموزش فرایند فلسفیدن، طرح مسائل فلسفی به شکل داستانی و ساده‌سازی مضمون های فلسفی دنبال نمود.

PurposeDynamic planning and scheduling forms a widely adopted smart strategy for solving real-world problems in diverse business systems. This paper uses deductive content analysis to explore secondary data from previous studies in dynamic planning and scheduling to draw conclusions on its current status, forward action and research needs in construction management.Design/methodology/approachThe authors searched academic databases using planning and scheduling keywords without a periodic setting. This research collected secondary data from the database to draw an objective comparison of categories and conclusions about how the data relates to planning and scheduling to avoid the subjective responses from questionnaires and interviews. Then, applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, we selected one hundred and four articles. Finally, the study used a seven-step deductive content analysis to develop the categorisation matrix and sub-themes for describing the dynamic planning and scheduling categories. The authors used deductive analysis because of the secondary data and categories comparison. Using the event types represented in a quadrant mapping, authors delve into where, when, application and benefits of the classes.FindingsThe content analysis showed that all the accounts and descriptions of dynamic planning and scheduling are identifiable in an extensive research database. The content analysis reveals the need for multi-hybrid (4D BIM-Agent based-discrete event-discrete rate-system dynamics) simulation modelling and optimisation method for proffering solutions to scheduling and planning problems, its current status, tools and obstacles.Originality/valueThis research reveals the deductive content analysis talent in construction research. It also draws direction, focuses and raises a question on dynamic planning and scheduling research concerning the five-integrated model, an opportunity for their integration, models combined attributes and insight into its solution viability in construction.

The study aimed at investigating: syntactic errors, 2) spelling mistaks, and the causal relationship factor. This study is qualitative in nature with content analysis method. The data of the study comprises form of words, phrases, and clauses from an outward letter issued in October 2017. A-three stages content analysis as an analysis technique tool was used. Firstly, data reduction stage, the data was reduced and the researchers recorded the errors of the data and interviewed the participants of the study. Secondly, presentation of the data stage, the researchers presented the results of the errors and the results of the interview. Thirdly, drawing conclusion stage, the researchers compared the results of errors in the formal outward letter and the results of the interview. More importantly, the validity of the findings was checked by using data source triangulation method. The results of the study show that: 1) syntactic errors were found in ”implementation” and “implementation” words usage; 2) the spelling mistakes occurred in the use of di-, capital letters, and academic titles; 3) the weaknesses of Indonesian grammatical usage; b) no training in writing official letters, c) the letters made by several people.