scholarly journals The Employee as the Unknown Actor? A Discourse Analysis of the Employee Share Ownership Debate with Special Emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe

Organizacija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Olaf Kranz ◽  
Thomas Steger ◽  
Ronald Hartz
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Share Ownership ◽  
Privatisation Process ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Political Legitimation

Abstract Background and purpose: Although employee share ownership (ESO) deserves of a long tradition, we still know little about employees’ perspectives about ESO. The lack of knowledge about the employees’ attitudes towards ESO is discursively filled in the ESO debate. This paper challenges that deficit by carrying out a semantic analysis of the literature with the aim to identify the various actor constructions used implicitly in the ESO discourse. Design/Methodology/Approach: We conduct a semantic analysis of the ESO discourse. To unfold the order of this discourse we draw on the distinction between surface and underlying structure of communication in the sense of Michel Foucault. We interpret some semantic lead differences, a term coined by Niklas Luhmann, to constitute the underlying structure of communication. Results: We can identify six different streams on the ESO discourse’s surface level each defined by the ends pursued. The discourse’s underlying structure is made up of the distinctions production-consumption, capital-labour, and ownership-control that also determine the actor models implicitly in use. Conclusion: We can identify five different actor models implicit in the ESO discourse. While the CEE discourse differs on the surface level in as far as it is more concerned with questions of political legitimation of the privatisation process than with questions of economic efficiency, thus introducing political distinctions in the discourse rather missing in the west, it shares the underlying semantic lead differences with the Western discourse as well as the actor models anchored in those differences.

Entrepreneurship in the digital press: a semantic analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-431
Author(s):  
Myriam Martí-Sánchez ◽  
Desamparados Cervantes-Zacarés ◽  
Arturo Ortigosa-Blanch
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the media addresses entrepreneurship and to identify the attributes linked to this phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach The sample is defined in terms of a linguistic corpus comprised of content related to entrepreneurship drawn from the digital editions of the three most important Spanish economic newspapers for the period 2010–2017. Word association and co-occurrence analyses were carried out. Further, a non-supervised clustering process was used as the basis for a thematic analysis. Findings Correspondence between social and media patterns related to the entrepreneurship phenomenon is revealed by the results. It is shown how attributes such as “success”, “innovation”, “ecosystem” and “woman” appear as very relevant and are linked to different co-occurrence scenarios. Relevant thematic groups are also identified related to lexical associations such as innovation, digital economy and public policies linked to entrepreneurship. Research limitations/implications It is important to emphasise that this study has identified and explored relationships between words, but not their evolution. Furthermore, conclusions cannot be drawn concerning whether there are differences in how each newspaper has dealt with entrepreneurship because of the way the corpus was constructed. Originality/value The study provides empirical evidence that helps to identify the way media approaches entrepreneurship. The authors carried out the analysis on the media contents and not on the perception of the public on the phenomenon.

An analysis of papers published in the Journal of European Real Estate Research, 2008-2019

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hoesli
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Investment Portfolio ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Real Estate Research ◽  
Key Dimensions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze papers that have been published in the Journal of European Real Estate Research since its inception in 2008. Design/methodology/approach The author analyzes papers published from 2008 to 2019 in the Journal of European Real Estate Research by authors’ country of affiliation, by country of study and by theme. Findings The Journal of European Real Estate Research publishes papers from scholars from an increasing number of countries, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe. Papers that provide a comparative analysis of countries constitute the largest category of contributions. The three most popular themes remain housing, valuation and investment/portfolio management. However, the dynamics of the three categories differ notably. Originality/value This paper provides for a clearer understanding of key dimensions of real estate research in Europe.

Hoteliers’ service design for mobile-based value co-creation

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 4338-4356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sut Ieng Lei ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Rob Law
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
Hotel Managers ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Structure And Design

Purpose This study aims to investigate how hoteliers leverage mobile technologies to shape services that allow customers to create their own unique and personalized experiences. Design/methodology/approach Guided by service-dominant logic and sociomateriality, this study analyzes hoteliers’ reasoning behind the design of mobile-based services through qualitative research. Data were collected from interviews with hotel managers representing best-practice companies in the industry. Findings The findings provide a rich description of mobile-based value co-creation in the hotel context. They delineate hoteliers’ understanding of mobile technologies as a means to co-create value, their strategic considerations and the forms in which value is expected to be co-created. Research limitations/implications This study unearths the new roles of hoteliers, unique forms of value co-creation and their underlying structures in the specific context of mobile-based value co-creation. Practical implications based on industry best practices are provided for hospitality companies seeking to innovate by co-creating value with customers using mobile technologies. Originality/value This research paper contributes to the hospitality literature on IT-enabled service innovation and value co-creation by comprehensively explaining the underlying structure and design of co-created experiences facilitated by mobile-based services.

scholarly journals Measuring procurement performance in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Flynn
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Performance Measurement System ◽  
European Economic Area ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
Communist Countries

Purpose The European Commission has begun to measure procurement performance in countries belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA). Performance is understood in terms of practices designed to maximize value for money. The purpose of this paper is to report on the performance measurement system currently in use and what the European Commission’s own data tell us about contemporary procurement practices in EEA countries. Design/methodology/approach Secondary data released by the European Commission is used to examine procurement performance across 30 EEA countries. Findings The best performing countries are from Scandinavia and the Benelux, along with Ireland, UK and Malta. Average performing countries include France and Germany. Below average performers include Italy, Spain and the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Originality/value The paper highlights significant performance gaps in public procurement between EEA countries.

Initial coin offerings: an emergent research area

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Brochado ◽  
Michael Louis Troilo
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Initial Coin Offerings

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the main insights current literature offers regarding initial coin offerings (ICOs) and the avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach The approach consists of a systematic literature review of 130 papers from the SCOPUS database published in English between January 2018 and December 2020, with supplemental semantic analysis of the abstracts to obtain key themes and concepts. Findings Regulation and the determinants of ICO success are the main themes for current research and represent fruitful areas of continued scholarship. The research agenda in ICOs is just beginning and several topics and questions merit future inquiry: the behaviour of issuers and investors, the importance of human capital, the role of intermediaries and infomediaries and the use of signalling. Originality/value To the knowledge, this is one of the first systematic studies of current literature in ICOs. It provides a roadmap for future work on a phenomenon that will only grow in significance.

The public as projection

Kybernetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Morgner
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

Purpose To develop a new conceptualisation of the public particular emphasis is placed on later developments in the work of Niklas Luhmann using theoretical terms such as medium, form and observation. Design/methodology/approach Current theoretical approaches conceptualise the public domain as a sphere, field or system, and theorists disagree about the range of meanings of the term public. While acknowledging that diversity of meanings, this paper seeks to avoid the limitations imposed by figures such as sphere, field or system by invoking the sociological theory developed by Niklas Luhmann. Findings Building on Luhmann’s work, the public is conceived here as (connection) medium and projection. Originality/value The paper draws on a range of diverse phenomena to illustrate the wider scope of this conception and its potential application, including public interactions, the transformation of texts as publications, audience formation, the role of media communication and the concept of traffic. In so doing, the paper contributes to the development of system theory as well as to a wide-ranging theory of the public.

Resonanzfähigkeit: resonance capability in Luhmannian systems theory

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 2493-2507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlton Clark
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
System Complexity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moral Communication ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Google Books

Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the sociological literature on moral communication and disciplinary apparatuses in a functionally differentiated society. It combines Luhmannian and Foucauldian theories to further the understanding of social system complexity. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the work of Niklas Luhmann, Michel Foucault and others to explore resonance capability, disciplinary apparatuses and the complexity–sustainability trade-off. The argument is illustrated with a discussion of the late-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century anti-child labor movement. Findings The paper argues that organizations are better equipped than function systems to draw moral distinctions. Given the amorality of the function systems and the increasing secularization of modern society, a great deal of moral communication now occurs in non-religious organizations. These social systems increase their complexity in response to new problems, but the increased system complexity may become unsustainable. Research limitations/implications The paper contributes to the growing sociological literature that compares and sometimes attempts to synthesize the theories of Luhmann and Foucault. It also contributes to the literature on organizational theory. Originality/value The paper brings together the work of Luhmann, Foucault, Valentinov and others to advance the understanding of organizations and moral communication in a functionally differentiated society. It uses Google Books Ngrams, among other resources, to support the argument.

SMEs on the international stage

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Transitional Economies ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Compared to large organizations, most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) lack the resources to compete in overseas markets. The challenges are compounded for those originating in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe, where the business environment remains unpredictable. Such SMEs are reluctant to invest in the breakthrough technologies needed to succeed internationally. Commitment becomes likelier when the background of the firm’s CEO is in output functions like marketing and research and development (R&D). Having experience of the foreign market and personal networks there likewise helps enormously. The knowledge and trust enabled by the CEO’s human and social capital can make the company more confident about investing in technological innovations. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

From mass tourists to smart tourists: a perspective article

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Gajdošík ◽  
Vanda Maráková ◽  
Jana Kučerová
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past

Purpose This paper aims to review the research on tourists and outlines future scenarios for its development. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a critical and conceptual approach to this phenomenon and provides new perspectives for its future investigation. Findings This research on tourists might consider more aspects, such as the change from purely human-centred to a broader scope including non-human tourists, non-physical space and non-current time slots. This might provide the opportunity to engage more research disciplines into the research on tourists. Originality/value The past perspective includes the comparison of research on tourists in Western Europe and North America with an often-overlooked situation in Central and Eastern Europe. The future perspectives deal with challenges that might affect tourism research in the following years.

Research on Chinese school of modern GUANLI science

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren-huai Liu ◽  
Kai Sun ◽  
Dongchuan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Basic Term ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
China Model ◽  
Chinese School ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Right ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Purpose The purpose of this article is to put forward China’s Hanyu Pinyin word guanli as an academic basic term to the world. Design/methodology/approach GUANLI as an academic basic term, which holds multiple meanings of several English words, such as management, administration, governance, etc. As a basic term, GUANLI, derived several words, such as GUANLIOLOGY, GUANLIST/GUANLIER and GUANLIWORK/GUANLIJOB, to precisely and exactly convey the Chinese GUANLI ideas. It is the historical mission and opportunity for the authors to research and establish the Chinese School of Modern GUANLI Science (CSMGS). Findings It is inevitably necessary to build the combined Chinese–Western discourse system of GUANLI science (CCWDSGS). Some other research results of CSMGS are also presented in this paper. Research limitations/implications It is needless to say that there are still lots of problems in China, including in the GUANLI field. These problems will gradually be solved in China’s reform and development that takes place continuously. New problems will come up while old problems are being solved and settled; problems producing in a loop, problems solving in a loop, this is the dialectics. The authors have full confidence in solving problems, as well as in China’s development and future. Originality/value Practice comes first and then it is followed by theory. The authors first have the “China Model”, followed by the “Chinese School” consequently. The “China Model” has already been there, and the “Chinese School” relies on the author’s proactive research and innovation. It is just the right time for the authors to study and create the CSMGS. This is the historical mission and opportunity awaited by contemporary Chinese.

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