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Selected AbstractsShifting Imperatives: An Integrative View of Resource Scarcity and Agency Reasons for FranchisingENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, Issue 1 2006Gary J. Castrogiovanni Alternative explanations of franchising offer contrasting predictions as to how the proportion of franchised outlets changes as franchisors age. We propose that two dominant views,resource-scarcity and agency theory,can be integrated by delineating when each is most relevant. Data from 102 franchisors over a 21-year period suggest that resource-scarcity considerations take precedence when franchisors are young, but that agency considerations prevail as franchisors age. Thus, the proportion franchised exhibits a cubic pattern as franchisors age,increasing rapidly at first, decreasing, and then increasing again. Future researchers and practitioners alike can benefit from understanding how the relative influences of resource and agency considerations shift over time. [source] Eldercare and job productivity: An accommodation analysisJOURNAL OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES, Issue 4 2008Kenneth C. Sherman Over the next decade, the number of working adults relegated to the role of caregiver for one or more elderly family members will rapidly surge. The emotional, physical, and financial stress of caregiving has already begun to impact the productivity of the employee elder caregiver in the workplace, with estimates placing the annual costs around $30 billion. We can expect costs to grow as workers and their elderly parents continue to age. This particular study addresses the fundamental research question of what affects the job performance of employee elder caregivers. The results support the conclusion that the relationship among caregiving, personal support, organizational accommodation, and job productivity is multidimensional. Organizations attuned to the demands of elder caregiving can work with affected employees to reduce or eliminate declines in job productivity. Future researchers and practitioners can reconsider their research protocols and interventions along a wide continuum of interactions in the employee's home and workplace environments. [source] Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom and Interpreting Political Development: Bringing the State and Temporal Analysis Back InGOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 3 2010Jonathan Bradbury This article addresses the relative neglect of Territory and Power in informing the study of general state political development, both as a theoretical approach and in its application to the UK. It locates Territory and Power as a distinct contribution to two major schools of comparative research. The first section argues that Territory and Power provided an approach that was part of the intellectual turn during the 1980s to bring the state back into the analysis of politics. The second part argues that Territory and Power should be seen also as a contribution to the intellectual turn since the 1980s towards temporal analysis of political development. On these bases future researchers may find Territory and Power more accessible as a work that they can incorporate in their own research. [source] Development and initial validation of an instrument measuring managerial coaching skillHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2005Gary N. McLean This article reports on two studies that used three different samples (N = 644) to construct and validate a multidimensional measure of managerial coaching skill. The four dimensions of coaching skill measured were Open Communication, Team Approach, Value People, and Accept Ambiguity. The two studies assessed the context adequacy, dimensionality, reliability, factor structure, and construct validity of the scale. Preliminary reliability and validity evidence of the scale was determined. Consequently, the coaching scale provides future researchers with a valuable tool to measure coaching skill in organizational studies, and it offers human resource development professionals a valid instrument to develop effective managers. [source] The effects of PTSD symptomatology on laboratory-based aggressionJOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS, Issue 4 2009Aaron J. Kivisto The present study sought to examine the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and aggression using a highly controlled, quasi-experimental laboratory-based aggression paradigm among a sample of 85 undergraduate students not help-seeking for current PTSD phenomena. Congruent with theory and past research, results showed that PTSD symptomatology was positively associated with aggression. In demonstrating this effect using a laboratory-based methodology, the present study provides a heuristic for future researchers to explore potential mediators and moderators of the PTSD-aggression relationship. [source] Enhancing nutritional research within an aged care facilityNUTRITION & DIETETICS, Issue 2 2008Caryl NOWSON Abstract Aim:, The present study examined the barriers to the implementation of a nutritional intervention project and sought ways to enhance future projects. Methods:, The study, utilising a qualitative approach, included participants from key areas involved in the project and who were employed by either the university or regional aged care facility. Results:, Through analysis the themes ,successes', ,stumbling blocks' and ,solutions' emerged. Within these themes descriptive stories of what worked, what did not work and suggestions for future projects are depicted. Conclusions:, Communication was the connecting element of each theme, suggesting effective verbal and written communication that ensures ownership by all involved is essential for successful clinical research projects. Strategies to enhance this process have been included to assist future researchers. [source] Parental attitude to participating in long-term follow-up studies of their children's health after in utero diagnosis of abnormalitiesPRENATAL DIAGNOSIS, Issue 3 2009Lauren Ramsay Abstract Objective To determine whether parents might be distressed if approached to take part in long-term follow-up of their children's health and development. Methods A short, closed format anonymous questionnaire seeking parental opinion on being asked about their child's health was offered to attendees for obstetric ultrasound and parents of children attending paediatric cardiology clinics. Results In total, 70% of the 266 respondents were attending for ultrasound and ,30% paediatric cardiology clinics. In total, 66 respondents had children with long-term health problems, 28 with learning difficulties and 61 had previously had an abnormal obstetric ultrasound scan. Greater than 90% of parents were happy to be contacted and asked questions about their children's health and development, regardless of their child's health or their experiences during prenatal ultrasonography. Conclusions Our results provide reassurance to future researchers and ethics committees that studies of children's later health after in utero diagnosis of anomalies are unlikely to prove unacceptable to many parents. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Study Designs and Evaluation Models for Emergency Department Public Health ResearchACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 11 2009Kerry B. Broderick MD Abstract Public health research requires sound design and thoughtful consideration of potential biases that may influence the validity of results. It also requires careful implementation of protocols and procedures that are likely to translate from the research environment to actual clinical practice. This article is the product of a breakout session from the 2009 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference entitled "Public Health in the ED: Screening, Surveillance, and Intervention" and serves to describe in detail aspects of performing emergency department (ED)-based public health research, while serving as a resource for current and future researchers. In doing so, the authors describe methodologic features of study design, participant selection and retention, and measurements and analyses pertinent to public health research. In addition, a number of recommendations related to research methods and future investigations related to public health work in the ED are provided. Public health investigators are poised to make substantial contributions to this important area of research, but this will only be accomplished by employing sound research methodology in the context of rigorous program evaluation. [source] Fieldwork among the Dong national minority in Guizhou, China: Practicalities, obstacles and challengesASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT, Issue 2 2010Candice CornetArticle first published online: 28 JUL 2010 Abstract The People's Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly open to foreigners undertaking social science fieldwork; yet obstacles remain. Working with ethnic minorities adds further complexities because of the sensitive topics such research may raise. Based on recent fieldwork among the Dong in southeast Guizhou, as the first foreign researcher to ask for and gain official permission to work in the region, this article exposes some of the challenges, both practical and methodological, of conducting research in the PRC. Gaining access to my field site was a long trek through the hierarchic maze of Chinese administration. While reflecting upon this process, I detail my negotiations with local authorities. I then examine how I found reliable statistical data, was able to access the voices of peasants, acted to protect the anonymity of dissident informants, and negotiated working with local research assistants once in the field. These aspects, in turn, highlighted the importance of considering positionality in the field. Although each person's experiences and routes to fieldwork are unique, there are recurrent issues that shape the research process in the PRC. I reflect upon a number of these here, in the hope that this can smooth the way for future researchers. [source] | ||||||||||||||||