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Sankaran, Shankar; Müller, Ralf Josef & Drouin, Nathalie
(2024)
Sustainable project management and its governance in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Gottschalk, Petter & Hamerton, Christopher
(2024)
Categories of white-collar offenders based on the theory of convenience
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Andvik, Elisabeth & Schei, Vidar
(2024)
Escaping the Professional Identity “Straitjacket”: Towards a Model of Identity Plasticity
Academy of Management Proceedings.
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Müller, Ralf Josef
(2024)
The governance of projects
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Müller, Ralf Josef
(2024)
Balanced leadership
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Furnham, Adrian & Fenton-O'creevy, Mark
(2024)
MONEY ATTITUDES, BUDGETING AND HABITS
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Eikum, Rune Schanke & Carlsen, Arne
(2024)
Becoming greener: Connecting events and mobilizing artifacts in
individual sustainability journeys
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Eikum, Rune Schanke
(2024)
Unleashing the potential of regenerative leadership: A
practice approach
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Nordmo, Magnus; Sunde, Hans Fredrik, Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau, Nordmo, Morten, Caspi, Avshalom, Moffitt, Terrie E. & Torvik, Fartein Ask
(2024)
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males
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Jevnaker, Birgit Helene & Hill, Inge
(2024)
Heritage craft entrepreneuring in 'the wild': the role of entrepreneurial placemaking for rural development
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Investigating and Prosecuting White-Collar and Corporate Crime: Challenges and Barriers for National Police Agencies
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Deferred Prosecution Agreements as Miscarriage of Justice: An Exploratory Study of Corporate Convenience
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Deterrence effects despite lack of prosecution: Punishment outcomes of white-collar crime investigations in Norway
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Gollwitzer, Anton; Marshall, Julia, Lee, Young-eun, Deutchman, Paul, Warneken, Felix & McAuliffe, Katherine
(2024)
Parent and community political orientation predicts children's health behaviours
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Furnham, Adrian & Cheng, Helen
(2024)
Predicting job satisfaction: Findings from the British Cohort Study
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Furnham, Adrian & Cuppello, Stephen
(2024)
Correlates of the Dark Tetrad
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Løhre, Erik; Chandrashekar, Subramanya Prasad, Mayiwar, Lewend & Hærem, Thorvald
(2024)
Uncertainty, expertise, and persuasion: A replication and extension of Karmarkar and Tormala (2010)
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van Zelderen, Anand Prema Aschwin; Dries, Nicky & Menges, Jochen
(2024)
The curse of employee privilege: harnessing virtual reality technology to inhibit workplace envy
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Rudko, Ihor; Bashirpour Bonab, Aysan, Fedele, Maria & Formisano, Anna Vittoria
(2024)
New institutional theory and AI: toward rethinking of artificial intelligence in organizations
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van marrewijk, Alfons & van der Steen, Hans
(2024)
Organizational learning from construction fatalities: Balancing juridical, ethical, and operational processes
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Swami, Viren; Voracek, Martin, Todd, Jennifer, Furnham, Adrian, Horne, George & Tran, Ulrich S.
(2024)
Positive self-beliefs mediate the association between body appreciation and positive mental health
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Mayiwar, Lewend; Hærem, Thorvald & Løhre, Erik
(2024)
Self-Distancing Regulates the Effect of Incidental Anger (vs. Fear) on Affective Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
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Koppang, Haavard; Wenstøp, Søren Henrik & Pineda, Jaime A.
(2024)
Neural perspectives on morality due to beguiling mechanisms
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Müller, Ralf Josef; Locatelli, Giorgio, Holzmann, Vered, Nilsson, Marly & Sagay, Temisan
(2024)
Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: Empirical Overview, State of the Art, and Guidelines for Future Research
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Furnham, Adrian; Cuppello, Stephen & Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark
(2024)
Correlates of Stock Market Investment
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In this study, we were concerned with the correlates of stock market (SM) participation.
In all, 1,202 working adults indicated whether or not they invested in the stock market,
and which was split almost equally between those that did and did not. We were interested
in the extent to which their demography (age, sex, education), self-assessed wealth,
as well as personality traits predicted their participation. We used a six-factor robust
measure of work personality (High Potential Trait Indicator). Correlational analysis
indicated that the strongest correlation of stock market participation were wealth, sex,
age, and trait Risk Tolerance. We then did a binary logistic regression which indicated
that being male increased the odds of having invested in the stock market by 91%, and
an increase of 1 year in age increased the odds by 3%. Ambiguity Acceptance and
trait Competitiveness were among the High Potential Trait Indicator personality variables
that were significant predictors of stock market investment. Implications and limitations
are acknowledged.
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Müller, Ralf Josef & Wang, Linzhuo
(2024)
A Taxonomy of Project Management Offices and Their Organizational Project Management Landscapes
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm
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Andreassen, Tone Alm & Breit, Eric
(2024)
Professional responses to exogenous change: the social work profession and the jurisdictional domain opened up by the Norwegian welfare-to-work reform
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Eikelenboom, Manon & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2024)
Tied islands: The role of organizational members in knowledge transfer across strategic projects
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Conti, Emanuela; Jevnaker, Birgit Helene, Camillo, Furio & Musso, Fabio
(2024)
Traditional and environmentally friendly attributes in products of highly design-oriented firms: an exploratory study in the perception of Italian entrepreneurs
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Purpose:
The aim of this study was to empirically examine how much traditional attributes and green attributes characterize products within design-oriented firms. Further, we explored how these attributes relate to the perceived level of innovation of the firms.
Design/methodology/approach:
An exploratory research was carried out in 86 Italian manufacturing companies that are members of the Industrial Design Association. Using the questionnaire method, the entrepreneurs’ perceptions have been analyzed. Data have been treated with hierarchical cluster analysis.
Findings:
The analysis shows that environmental sustainability is the least important attribute of a design product and four clusters of highly design-oriented firms differ by design-product attributes. Further, the least green firms are also the least innovative in terms of incremental and general innovation.
Research limitations/implications:
The small size of the sample and the provenance of firms from a single country imply limited generalizability, and further research on the topic is recommended.
Practical implications:
Design-driven innovation based on traditional design attributes provides many competitive advantages to firms. However, given the growing concern about environmental challenges, investing in green attributes in design products allows for remaining competitive and more effective in innovation.
Originality/value:
This study, for the first time, reveals the heterogeneity among design-oriented firms, particularly regarding the presence and assortment of traditional design attributes, as well as the incorporation of environmentally friendly attributes in their products. Moreover, the study uncovers the relationship between varying levels of green attributes in the offerings and the perception of the firm’s innovativeness.
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Sunde, Erlend; Harris, Anette , Olsen, Olav Kjellevold & Pallesen, Ståle
(2024)
Moral decision-making at night and the impact of night work with blue-enriched white light or warm white light: a counterbalanced crossover study
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Background:
Cognitive function, including moral decision-making abilities, can be impaired bysleep loss. Blue-enriched light interventions have been shown to ameliorate cognitive impairmentduring night work. this study investigated whether the quality of moral decision-making during simulated night work differed for night work in blue-enriched white light, compared to warmwhite light.
Methods:
Using a counterbalanced crossover design, three consecutive night shifts wereperformed in blue-enriched white light (7000 K) and warm white light (2500 K) provided byceiling-mounted leD luminaires (photopic illuminance: ~200 lx). at 03:30 h on the second shift (i.e.twice) and at daytime (rested), the Defining issues test-2, assessing the activation of cognitiveschemas depicting different levels of cognitive moral development, was administered. Data from30 (10 males, average age 23.3 ± 2.9 years) participants were analysed using linear mixed-effectsmodels.
Results:
Activation of the post-conventional schema (P-score), that is, the most mature morallevel, was significantly lower for night work in warm white light (eMM; estimated marginal mean= 44.3, 95% ci = 38.9–49.6; pholm=.007), but not blue-enriched white light (eMM = 47.5, 95% ci =42.2–52.8), compared to daytime (eMM = 51.2, 95% ci = 45.9–56.5). also, the P-score was reducedfor night work overall (eMM = 45.9, 95% ci = 41.1–50.8; p=.008), that is, irrespective of lightcondition, compared to daytime. Neither activation of the maintaining norms schema (MN-score),that is, moderately developed moral level, nor activation of the personal interest schema (i.e. thelowest moral level) differed significantly between light conditions. the MN-score was howeverincreased for night work overall (eMM = 26.8, 95% ci = 23.1–30.5; p=.033) compared to daytime(eMM = 23.1, 95% ci = 18.9–27.2).Conclusion: the results indicate that moral decisions during simulated night work in warm whitelight, but not blue-enriched white light, become less mature and principle-oriented, and morerule-based compared to daytime, hence blue-enriched white light may function as a moderator. Further studies are needed, and the findings should be tentatively considered
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Wang, Linzhuo; Wang, Xinnan & Liu, Xuemei
(2024)
Project Governance and Governance of Interorganizational Project Networks: Toward Understanding Their Relationships and Future Research Agenda
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Koppang, Haavard; Hærem, Thorvald, Mayiwar, Lewend & Pineda, Jaime A
(2024)
Physical and social warmth
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van Zelderen, Anand P. A.; Dries, Nicky & Marescaux, Elise
(2024)
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect
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Andreassen, Tone Alm; Breit, Eric & Saltkjel, Therese
(2024)
Providing individualized services under complex conditions: A configurational analysis of street-level organizations
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Individualized services are provided under complex conditions, as a variety of factors can affect the ability of a street-level organization to adapt its services to individual needs and circumstances. Especially challenging are tensions between the means of control and standardization following new public management (NPM) and post-NPM ideas of holistic and coordinated services. Through a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of Norwegian sector-spanning street-level organizations, we show three different configurations that can promote individualized services. These consist of variations of structural circumstances (size, service variety); organizational responses (goal coherence, cross working); and manager capacity (professional background, managerial orientation). Service individualization is not an outcome of the interaction between street-level workers and clients alone, but an outcome of street-level organizations and their managers' use of measures and competencies across service sectors, and of their capacity to develop a shared perception of goals and an organization that handles institutional complexity.
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Bortne, Øystein; Bjørnestad, Jone Ravndal, Arnestad, Mads Nordmo , Tjora, Tore & Brønnick, Kolbjørn Kallesten
(2024)
The role of persuasion by significant others and engagement in bank-switching intention
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Economic crime in the courtroom - A case of defense lawyers' arguments against prosecution evidence
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Farstad, Christian Winther & Arnulf, Jan Ketil
(2024)
Individual characteristics in arts management careers: investigating the highly sensitive person scale on motivation to lead
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Abdullah, Azwan; Gottschalk, Petter, Gupta, Chander Mohan, Kamaei, Maryam, Stadler, William & Urzică, Andreea-Luciana
(2024)
Perceptions of offender motives, opportunities and willingness for financial crime: an empirical analysis of survey responses in six nations
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Swami, Viren; Aimé, Annie, Handelzalts, Jonathan E., Akel, Marwan, Al Halbusi, Hussam, Alexias, George, Ali, Khawla F., Alp-Dal, Nursel, Alsalhani, Anas B., Álvarez-Solas, Sara, Soares Amaral, Ana Carolina, Andrianto, Sonny, White, Mathew P., Aspden, Trefor, Argyrides, Marios, Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R., Atkin, Stephen, Ayandele, Olusola, Baceviciene, Migle, Bahbouh, Radvan, Ballesio, Andrea, Barron, David, Bellard, Ashleigh, Voracek, Martin, Bender, SóleySesselja, Beydaǧ, Kerime Derya, Birovljević, Gorana, Blackburn, Marie-Ève, Borja-Alvarez, Teresita, Borowiec, Joanna, Bozogáňová, Miroslava, Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid, Browning, MatthewH.E.M., Brytek-Matera, Anna, Tran, Ulrich S., Burakova, Marina, Çakır-Koçak, Yeliz, Camacho, Pablo, Camilleri, Vittorio Emanuele, Cazzato, Valentina, Cerea, Silvia, Chaiwutikornwanich, Apitchaya, Chaleeraktrakoon, Trawin, Chambers, Tim, Chen, Qing-Wei, Aavik, Toivo, Chen, Xin, Chien, Chin-Lung, Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit, Choompunuch, Bovornpot, Compte, Emilio J., Corrigan, Jennifer, Cosmas, Getrude, Cowden, Richard G., Czepczor-Bernat, Kamila, Czub, Marcin, Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour, Roberto da Silva, Wanderson, Dadfar, Mahboubeh, Dalley, Simon E., Dany, Lionel, Datu, Jesus Alfonso D., Berbert de Carvalho, Pedro Henrique, Lins de Holanda Coelho, Gabriel, De Jesus, Avila Odia S., Debbabi, Sonia Harzallah, Dhakal, Sandesh, Adebayo, Sulaiman Olanrewaju, Di Bernardo, Francesca, Dimitrova, Donka D., Dion, Jacinthe, Dixson, Barnaby, Donofrio, Stacey M., Drysch, Marius, Du, Hongfei, Dzhambov, Angel M., El-Jor, Claire, Enea, Violeta, Afhami, Reza, Eskin, Mehmet, Farbod, Farinaz, Farrugia, Lorleen, Fian, Leonie, Fisher, Maryanne L., Folwarczny, Michał, Frederick, David A., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew, Furnham, Adrian, García, Antonio Alías, Ahmed, Oli, Geller, Shulamit, Ghisi, Marta, Ghorbani, Alireza, Gomez Martinez, Maria Angeles, Gradidge, Sarah, Graf, Sylvie, Grano, Caterina, Gyene, Gyöngyvér, Hallit, Souheil & Hamdan, Motasem
(2024)
Exposure and connectedness to natural environments: An examination of the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups
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Jevnaker, Birgit Helene; Conti, Emanuela & Sorini, Laerte
(2024)
Exploring Eco-Design Strategies in Italian Design-Driven Firms
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Given the growing emergence of environmental challenges, firms must reduce environmental impacts and achieve business performance. Hence, we investigate how environmental sustainability approaches relate to design-driven innovation (DDI) in the context of new product development, focusing on active design-oriented firms in Italy's industrial sector. This paper, in particular, addresses to what extent eco approaches to design are adopted and connected to new product development in these innovation-driven firms, and how such approaches relate to innovation, customer value creation, and business performance. These relationships are examined through an empirical investigation of the Italian manufacturing companies associated with the Industrial Design Association (ADI, Associazione del Design Industriale), from the entrepreneurial perspective. The study reveals three different clusters of companies with varying levels of adoption of eco-design approaches and a combination of such approaches. One cluster reveals the highest level of adoption of all the types of approaches, the second a high level of adoption of three types of approaches (durability, reduction, recycling), and a low level of adoption of the other three types (reparability, disassembling, regeneration) and a third cluster performs a medium level of adoption of all the types of approaches. Further, we discovered that from the entrepreneur's perspective, firms adopting design for durability and design for recycling approaches positively and significantly impact innovation, customer value and business performance. By identifying diverse eco-design approaches in design-oriented enterprises, the study offers a significant contribution to understanding the relationship between design-driven innovation and environmental sustainability.
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Olaisen, Johan Leif & Jevnaker, Birgit Helene
(2024)
A Comparative Study of ECKM Academic Papers 2017-23
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of ECKM in 2017
(Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conferences in Coventry 2020 and 2021. In 2022, the conference was arranged in Naples, and 2023, in Lisbon, both as hybrid conferences. The study classifies the papers according to
methodology, analysis, discussion, and conclusion regarding their contribution to the four paradigmatic boxes. The approach uses the five philosophy of science framework and compares this to the content of the research papers. We will use the findings in four representations of knowledge, two typologies of concepts, four paradigmatic classifications, and the
concluding framework for knowledge management research. The seven conferences heavily emphasize knowledge-itis and
instrumental itis and much less on problem-itis. The papers are mostly centered around existing knowledge and accepted
methodology and are less related to new problems. The results indicate a conference based upon as-is knowledge and less
upon new and often unsolvable issues. The ECKM academic papers in 2017, 2018, and 2019 have relatively low complexity
and are presented in an empirical and materialistic paradigmatic framework through definitive concepts representing a form
of atomistic research. The papers in 2020, 2021, and especially 2022 and 2023 are delivered within a more robust, clarified subjectivity and action research-based framework through definitive and sensitizing concepts. What would ECKM have been with more complexity in action and subjective paradigmatic framework through sensitizing concepts representing holistic research? A more creative, engaged, and relevant conference. It will also be a more scientific conference discussing what is
acceptable or not acceptable and what is adequate. Studies concerning sustainability, digitalization, and globalization might require another research approach. The more critical and green papers in the 2020 and 2021 conferences are open to new perspectives on methodology, problems, and knowledge. The 2022 and 2023 conferences represent a turning point for
critical sustainability and digitalization papers that clarify subjectivity through action-based research. The 2022 and 2023 papers represent the turning point of ECKM into improved relevance through more critical and constructed studies based on the societal climate crisis and sustainable strategies and business models
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Arnestad, Mads Nordmo ; Glambek, Mats & Selart, Marcus
(2024)
With a little profitable help from my friends: the relational incongruence of benefiting financially from prosocially motivated favors
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Gollwitzer, Anton; Bao, Evelina & Oettingen, Gabriele
(2024)
Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual-based approach to belief revision
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Nordmo, Morten; Bang, Lasse, Øvergaard, Anders & Lang-Ree, Ole Christian
(2024)
Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Money laundering prevention: The challenge of insurance termination for outlaw biker gangs' club houses
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Gottschalk, Petter & Hamerton, Christopher
(2024)
Characteristics of Crime Convenience: The Case of Corporate
Offenders
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Marshall, Julia; Mermin-Bunnell, Kellen, Gollwitzer, Anton, Retelsdorf, Jan & Bloom, Paul
(2024)
Cross-cultural conceptions of third-party intervention across childhood
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 153(9), p. 2216-2229.
Doi:
10.1037/xge0001617
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Filstad, Cathrine; Karp, Tom & Rød, Anne
(2024)
What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Content analysis of press releases from the Norwegian serious fraud office: what do the messages say about focal concerns?
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Furnham, Adrian & Cuppello, Stephen
(2024)
Sex, Personality, and Mate Preferences
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In this study, we examined demographic, ideological, and personality difference correlates of ratings of 27 characteristics in a potential mate. In all, 288 mainly middle-aged adults completed two questionnaires: one assessing personality (high potential trait indicator) and one on mate preference (Mate Preferences Scale). Sex differences, where p< .001 and d > 0.40, revealed only one on personality (competitiveness) but five other factors (attractiveness, earnings, emotional stability, height, and sexiness) in line with previous studies. Correlations indicated that participant trait ambiguity tolerance and competitiveness (low agreeableness) were most closely related to mate choices and preferences for normality, good genes, and religious compatibility. A factor analysis of the ratings indicated five interpretable factors. Regressions, with the mate choice factors as criterion and demography, ideology, and the six traits as predictor variables demonstrated many of the traits related to mate preference ratings. Implications and limitations are noted.
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Malik, Muhammad Yousaf; Wang, Linzhuo & Zhu, Fangwei
(2024)
Understanding variations of governmentality and governance structures at the project level in project-based organizations
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Furnham, Adrian & Cheng, Helen
(2024)
Correlates of maternal Openness
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Alzoubi, Yazan; Locatelli, Giorgio & Sainati, Tristano
(2024)
Turning a Blind Eye: Ignoring Modern Slavery in the Race to Construction Project Completion
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Cuppello, Stephen; Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian
(2024)
INTELLIGENCE, PERSONALITY, AND MANAGEMENT LEVEL
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Standahl Johannessen, Seline & Karlsen, Jan Terje
(2024)
Agile transformation in the energy sector: empowering autonomous teams
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Zhou, Abby Jingzi; Jiang, Yangyang, Zhou, Steven Shijin, Lapointe, Emilie & Bai, Yuntao
(2024)
The development of a calling by hospitality employees during an extreme event
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Hagen, Ingunn & Hagen, Øivind
(2024)
The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences
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Campbell-Hewson, Cristina; Grover, Simmy, Furnham, Adrian & McClelland, Alastair
(2024)
To what extent do lay people and healthcare providers differ in the allocation of scarce medical resources in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Mayiwar, Lewend; Wan, Kai Hin, Løhre, Erik & Feldman, Gilad
(2024)
Revisiting representativeness heuristic classic paradigms: Replication and extensions of nine experiments in Kahneman and Tversky (1972)
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Espedal, Gry & Carlsen, Arne
(2024)
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations
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Leka, Jona & Furnham, Adrian
(2024)
Correlates of climate change skepticism
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Dogaru, Isabela; Furnham, Adrian & McClelland, Alastair
(2024)
Understanding how the presence of music in advertisements influences consumer behaviour
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Eikelenboom, Manon; Oosterlee, Mieke & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2024)
Demolishers or ‘material experts’? Project actors negotiating changing roles in sustainable projects
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Hasbi, Marie M. & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2024)
Navigating Tensions in the Organizational Change Process towards Hybrid Workspace
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Partners in crime - Convenience case study of Norwegian publishing cartel
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Urzică, Andreea-Luciana & Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Convenience propositions for white-collar offenders - Perceptions of seriousness in Romania
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Cheng, Helen & Furnham, Adrian
(2024)
Social, Demographic, and Psychological Factors Associated with Middle-Aged Mother’s Vocabulary: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
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Berkel, Rik van & Breit, Eric Martin Alexander
(2024)
Organizational Practices for the Inclusion of People with Disabilities. A Scoping Review
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Malik, Muhammad Yousaf; Wang, Linzhuo & Zhu, Fangwei
(2024)
Understanding variations of governmentality and governance structures at the project level in project-based organizations
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Wang, Linzhuo; Wang, Xinnan & Müller, Ralf Josef
(2024)
Breaking free from the invisible cage: Leveraging institutional logics to understand and facilitate organizational change projects
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Bahadorestani, Amir; Farimani, Nasser Motahari & Karlsen, Jan Terje
(2024)
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions
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Neto, Joana; Neto, Félix & Furnham, Adrian
(2024)
Correlates of money attitudes among Portuguese people
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Noreng, Øystein
(2024)
Petroleum Industry Structural Transition
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De Winne, Sophie; Marescaux, Elise, Raets, Emma & Dries, Nicky
(2024)
Co-workers’ reactions to (Mis)Alignment between supervisors’ intentions and Co-workers’ perceptions of I-deal secrecy: An uncertainty management perspective
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Mayiwar, Lewend; Erkin, Asutay, Gustav, Tinghög, Daniel, Västfjäll & Kinga, Barrafrem
(2024)
Determinants of digital well-being
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
The Extent of Perceived Exposure to Economic Crime in Public and Private Business: Survey Research in Norway
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Half of all finance and insurance firms in Norway report that they are exposed to economic crime, particularly fraud, every year. On the other hand, only eighteen percent in public administration and defense perceive similar exposure to economic crime. However, the estimated fraction of unreported, non-registered economic crime in the country is ninety-four percent. These numbers are some of the results from surveys conducted in Norway in 2005, 2010, and 2023. This article applies the main economic crime categories of fraud, theft, manipulation, and corruption as used by scholars to study the survey results. The corruption category shows the largest gap between perceived exposure and police statistics. Comparison to white-collar crime research indicates higher frequency of theft at the street level and higher frequency of manipulation at the upper echelon. Comparison to future surveys in other countries is encouraged.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Workplace Deviance Investigations: A Case Study of the Application of Maturity Model to a University Investigation
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This article presents a case study from Norway that supplements previous research in other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom regarding lack of justice when corporate investigators conduct internal examinations in client organizations. The case is concerned with a university researcher who was investigated after allegations of violating the national working environment act. Investigators applied likelihood of fifty percent rather than the criteria of incident beyond any reasonable doubt. There was no real contradiction offered, and many more deviance from a fair process occurred when compared to the public criminal justice system. The presented maturity model with four stages is applied to illustrate the low level of investigative performance in the case. This research does not in any way claim that the presented case is representative of work by corporate investigators conducting internal examinations in client organizations. Nevertheless, this research is important, as it illustrates the lack of justice that is caused by the absence of regulation of the private investigation industry as performed by law firms, audit firms, consulting firms, and others.
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Løhre, Erik & Teigen, Karl Halvor
(2023)
When leaders disclose uncertainty: Effects of expressing internal and external uncertainty about a decision
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It is generally assumed that decision-makers appear more competent and trustworthy when exuding confidence in their choices. However, many decisions are by their nature uncertain. Is it possible for a decision-maker to admit uncertainty and still be trusted? We propose that the communicated type of uncertainty may matter. Internal uncertainty, which signals lack of knowledge or a low degree of belief, may be viewed more negatively than external uncertainty, which is associated with randomness and complexity. The results of a series of experiments suggested that people viewed leaders as more competent when they expressed uncertainty about a decision in external (“It is uncertain”) rather than internal terms (“I am uncertain”), overall effect size d = 0.45 [0.16, 0.74]. Paradoxically, when asked directly, participants expressed that leaders should be open about uncertainty rather than exuding confidence and downplaying uncertainty. A final study suggested that decision makers were more willing to reveal uncertainty about a choice to others when they perceived the uncertainty as more external and less internal and expected more positive and fewer negative consequences from expressing external rather than internal uncertainty.
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Müller, Ralf Josef
(2023)
Exploring the future of research in project management
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Research in project management provides an understanding of working practices, organizational, technological, and other phenomena in the realm of projects. The present article addresses the expected development in research topics over the short to mid-range period. It starts with a look into recent predictions, then adds the currently proposed research topics of the leading academic journals in project management, and processes this into five potential streams of future research in project management. These streams cover research in the realm of Grand Challenges, the human side of project management, the general understanding of (megaprojects) project management, advanced tools and techniques (such as Artificial Intelligence), as well as anticipated new research methods and their implications for the relevance of research findings for practitioners. Practitioners will gain insight into potential topics they might be interested in and want to read more about in the future. At the same time, academics gain from various potential research topics and directions.
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Glambek, Mats; Arnestad, Mads Nordmo & Matthiesen, Stig Berge
(2023)
Perceived job insecurity climate in uncertain times: implications for work-related health among leaders versus non-leaders
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Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated that perceived job insecurity climate denotes an individual-level stressor. The present study reiterated this notion and investigated whether leadership responsibility moderated the association between perceived job insecurity climate and work-related strain about one year into the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: A sample of full-time workers (N = 1,399) in the USA was recruited, comprising 663 leaders and 763 non-leaders. Employing a cross-sectional design, the authors hypothesized that perceived job insecurity climate would be associated with work-related strain (i.e. burnout, absenteeism and presenteeism) and that these associations were stronger for employees with leadership responsibilities compared to non-leaders. Findings: Findings revealed main effects of perceived job insecurity climate on burnout but not on absenteeism or presenteeism. Furthermore, leadership responsibility moderated the associations between perceived job insecurity climate and two out of three burnout measures in the hypothesized direction. The findings also revealed interaction effects regarding absenteeism and presenteeism, indicating that these associations are only positive and significant for employees with leadership responsibilities. Practical implications: Perceptions of widespread job insecurity engender strain among leaders while simultaneously implying a heightened need for effective leadership. Organizations and practitioners should take the present findings into consideration when implementing preventive and restorative measures to address leaders' health and organizational competitiveness when job insecurity increases. Originality/value: This study found that, as an individual stressor, perceived job insecurity climate is more detrimental to employees with leadership responsibility than to non-leaders.
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Alzoubi, Yazan; Locatelli, Giorgio & Sainati, Tristano
(2023)
The ugly side of construction: modern slavery in the 2022 FIFA World Cup program
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Modern slavery is an illegal and unethical practice that is widespread across several sectors, including construction. This article investigates the mechanisms and motivations for employing modern slaves in construction projects and the role of “political will” in fighting it. To this end, using a cross-sectional single case study, the article examines the case of Qatar’s construction of the infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup—a large construction program in which modern slavery has been extensively documented. Our theoretical lens is the Fraud Triangle Theory (opportunity, pressure, and rationalization), which is rarely used in construction management but is useful for investigating illegal or unethical phenomena. The findings document the various factors contributing to modern slavery, including the kafala system, confiscated passports, debt bondage, contract substitution, salary abuse, program time constraints, cash flow shortage, and weak internal control systems. This article’s key novel theoretical contributions relate to identifying why modern slavery occurs in construction projects using the Fraud Triangle Theory and highlighting the importance of “political will” in fighting modern slavery worldwide.
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Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís Dögg; Sanders, Karin, Nordmo, Morten & Dysvik, Anders
(2023)
A cross-lagged study investigating the relationship between burnout and subjective career success from a lifespan developmental perspective
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Eikelenboom, Manon & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2023)
Creating points of opportunity in sustainability transitions: Reflective interventions in inter-organizational collaboration
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This paper addresses the lack of attention for the behaviours and agency of actors in organizations in the sustainability transitions literature by focussing on practices of inter-organizational collaboration in the transition to circular construction. Practices of inter-organizational collaboration can slow down this transition and are deeply embedded in the construction regime, creating critical points of intersection. This research therefore investigated how reflective interventions can enable project actors to change their practices and support the transformation of critical points of intersection into points of opportunity in circular construction. To answer this question, we adopted a case study approach with action research elements. The results of this study contribute to the sustainability transitions literature by showing how reflective interventions can assist in the transformation of critical points of intersection through five processes, including prioritising reflection on practices, critically evaluating practices, creating a breeding ground for new practices, implementing new practices and embedding new practices in partner organizations. Furthermore, we move away from the focus on policy interventions and offer more room for the agency of actors in projects, by showing how reflective interventions can create experimental environments close to the day-to-day activities of project actors enabling them to simultaneously unlearn obsolete practices and learn new practices.
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Biersteker, Erwin & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2023)
Integrating knowledge in infrastructure projects: the interplay between formal and informal knowledge governance mechanisms
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This study focuses upon knowledge governance mechanisms of integrating specialised knowledge on underground utilities in large infrastructure projects. The integration of knowledge is essential for the realisation of such projects. The study explores the formal and informal knowledge governance mechanisms in three large infrastructure projects and compares these mechanisms to reveal their effects on knowledge integration. The findings show that combining reward systems, project culture and trust are targeting the motivation of underground experts to share their knowledge and allocation of authority and project network are mechanisms aimed at the coordination between managers and underground experts to integrate knowledge. We contribute to studies on knowledge governance by enabling further empirical insight in the relationships between formal and informal mechanisms.
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Eitan, Avri; Fischhendler, Itay & van Marrewijk, Alfons
(2023)
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?
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The energy transition process nowadays is characterized by the replacement of fossil fuels-based means of production with renewable energy (RE). Alongside the diffusion of decentralized RE, this process is associated with the increased promotion of RE megaprojects. Such megaprojects, however, are often shaped by path-dependent lock-ins and thus continue to be promoted with limited changes despite the emergence of better alternatives along the way. This study explores the role of lock-ins in the irreversibility of RE megaprojects while highlighting the notion of regret cost. In particular, the study sheds light on the influence of lock-ins within megaprojects, specifically focusing on their execution stage. Using the establishment process of Ashalim, a giant thermal solar power station in southern Israel, as a case study, we demonstrate how various lock-ins increase regulators’ regret cost, thus escalating their commitment to the megaproject and causing them to neglect diverse “exit doors” during execution. We thus illuminate the irreversibility of RE megaprojects and question their capability to meet the growing need of energy markets for flexibility.
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Bonab, Aysan Bashirpour; Fedele, Maria, Formisano, Vincenzo & Rudko, Ihor
(2023)
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities
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Contemporary smart city solutions rely on standardized von Neumann architecture, in which single data units are coded as “0” or “1.” Conversely, urban quantum technologies rely on the fundamental principles of quantum physics, transcending the conventions of the current computational paradigm. On the one hand, urban quantum technologies hold managerial relevance for future smart cities. On the other hand, they are often overlooked by smart city researchers. Accordingly, their value as a breakthrough technological paradigm is still largely unexplored. In this article, we look at how quantum technologies may contribute to existing smart city solutions, including the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, ICT, smart transportation, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. First, through a semi-systematic review of eighty articles on quantum computing within the social science domain, we identify two relevant classes of urban quantum technologies: quantum communication and quantum computing. Second, we establish a comprehensive taxonomy of conventional smart city solutions based on the automated content analysis of 567 abstracts of articles on the technological aspects of smart cities. Third, we investigate potential associations between two classes of technologies (conventional smart city solutions and urban quantum technologies) by analyzing the semantic relationships between eighty articles on quantum technologies according to the frequency of keywords denoting different types of conventional smart city solutions. Finally, we triangulate our findings through a thematic analysis of potential uses of quantum technologies within identified categories of smart city solutions.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Rich but not Mighty: A Study of Non-Traditional Migration by Convenient Billionaire Refugees as Economic Emigrants
Journal of International Doctoral Research, 10(1), p. 29-53.
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In previous decades, one or two rich Norwegians moved to Switzerland. Suddenly, in
2022 there were 36 wealthy Norwegians moving to Switzerland. They were all
labeled tax refugees and economic emigrants in the media. This article applies the
theory of convenience to study the phenomenon of immigration. Based on extensive
media coverage as the source of information for this study, some convenience themes
seem to dominate. In the motive dimension of convenience theory, goal achievement
for business activity is visible in the sample. In the opportunity dimension,
Switzerland as a tax haven with financial secrecy is attractive. In the willingness
dimension, learning from others is visible in the sample. This article presents
important insights into a phenomenon that has not been investigated in traditional
migration research.
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Furnham, Adrian & Cuppello, Stephen
(2023)
Exploring the relationship between personality and money scripts while controlling for demography, ideology, and self-esteem
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Financial planners seek to learn more about their clients' personalities andmoney scripts due to the significant influence these factors have on financialbehavior and decision-making. This study surveyed 288 adults with a personal-ity assessment (HPTI: High Potential Trait Indicator), and their money scripts(KMSI-R: Klontz Money Script Inventory) while controlling for demography(sex, age, and education), ideology (religious, political beliefs, and optimism),and self-esteem (measurements of personal ratings on a variety of scales).The results indicated that each of the six traits measured by the HPTI(Conscientiousness, Adjustment, Curiosity, Risk Approach, Ambiguity Accep-tance, and Competitiveness) related to the four money scripts measured by theKMSI-R (avoidant, worship, status, and vigilance). More Adjustable individ-uals were less likely to have Money Avoidance scripts, whereas more Competi-tive people had higher Money Worship and Money Status scripts. The studyunderlined the role of personality variables in understanding money beliefs.
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Urzică, Andreea-Luciana & Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach
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This article presents survey research in Romania to identify support or lack of support for propositions in convenience theory as they relate to motive, opportunity, and willingness. The research is important, as convenience propositions that might find strong support among respondents indicate areas for reduction in convenience as a measure to prevent and detect white-collar crime. Convenience is a concept not only associated with savings in time and effort but also with avoidance of strain and pain. Respondents express most strongly support for the proposition that persons in top positions have the opportunity to conceal financial crime at work where there is lack of guardianship, oversight and control. An important factor in improving control is reliable whistleblowing that will reduce the convenience of crime by privileged individuals who intend to abuse their positions for personal or organizational gain.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Violations of the social license to operate: Evidence from fraud investigation reports
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Traditionally, white-collar and corporate crime research has focused on the role of the criminal justice system in prosecuting and punishing offenders and offenses. The frequent lack of prosecution and punishment has been explained by various theoretical perspectives that reflect the legal license to operate. However, the emerging perspective of the social license to operate illustrates punishment at violations that can cause termination of executives, market loss, and other serious harm to individuals and firms. This article presents three case studies where fraud examiners reviewed the legal license when the social license was ignored. There is an interesting avenue here for future white-collar and corporate crime research in distinguishing between punishment from violations of the legal license and punishment from violations of the social license to operate.
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Kost, Dominique; Kopperud, Karoline, Buch, Robert, Kuvaas, Bård & Olsson, Ulf Henning
(2023)
The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 96(2), p. 351-377.
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10.1111/joop.12426
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Psychological job control has typically been negatively related to work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Based on the job demand-resource model and boundary theory, we argue that psychological job control may indirectly be positively related to family-to-work conflict by both increasing supplemental work, that is, the rate of engagement in work outside of formal working hours without receiving compensation aided by mobile technology, and work-to-family conflict. We hypothesize that this proposed positive indirect relationship will be lower among employees who perceive a high segmentation norm at their workplace. Based on a two-wave study of 4518 employees, we obtained support for a serial moderated mediation model that suggests a dual effect of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict, such that psychological job control was positively associated with family-to-work conflict through supplemental work and work-to-family conflict at low levels of segmentation norms. By examining the dual effects of psychological job control, this study aims to further understand the mechanisms involved in determining whether and when psychological job control, together with supplemental work, encourages employees to uphold or cross boundaries between work and nonwork domains. Our findings imply that psychological job control can both be a resource and a demand depending on the levels of segmentation norms.
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Kennedy, Mari-Rose; Deans, Zuzana, Ampollini, Ilaria, Breit, Eric Martin Alexander, Bucchi, Massimiano, Seppel, Külliki, Vie, Knut Jørgen & Ter Meulen, Ruud
(2023)
“It is Very Difficult for us to Separate Ourselves from this System”: Views of European Researchers, Research Managers, Administrators and Governance Advisors on Structural and Institutional Influences on Research Integrity
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Research integrity is fundamental to the validity and reliability of scientific findings, and for ethical conduct of research. As part of PRINTEGER (Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research), this study explores the views of researchers, research managers, administrators, and governance advisors in Estonia, Italy, Norway and UK, focusing specifically on their understanding of institutional and organisational influences on research integrity.
A total of 16 focus groups were conducted. Thematic analysis of the data revealed that competition is pervasive and appeared in most themes relating to integrity. The structural frameworks for research such as funding, evaluation and publication were thought to both protect and, more commonly, undermine integrity. In addition, institutional systems, including workload and research governance, shaped participants’ day-to-day work environment, also affecting research integrity. Participants also provided ideas for promoting research integrity, including training, and creating conditions that would be supportive of research integrity.
These findings support a shift away from individual blame and towards the need for structural and institutional changes, including organisations in the wider research environment, for example funding bodies and publishing companies.
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Kamaei, Maryam; Abolhasani, Salameh, Farhood, Naghmeh & Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
The media concept of mafia business in Iran: A convenience theory approach
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 14(3), p. 79-99.
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Convenience exists in the financial motive, the organizational opportunity, and the personal willingness for deviant behavior. These three themes can result in 14 convenience propositions as presented.This article aims to discuss the role of convenience in Iranian mafia and how it affects the perpetration of financially motivated crime. For this purpose, we selected and discuss some of these fourteen propositions that can explain mafia operations in Iran.The media concept of mafia business in Iran is exemplified by the meat mafia, the sugar mafia, the tea mafia, and the steel mafia. The procedure used to collect data in this study is documentation, that is, the guidelines used in the form of notes or citations, the
search for legal literature, books and other sources related to the identification of
the problems of this study both offline like online.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Women and white-collar crime: A convenience theory perspective
Revista Científica do CPJM, 2, p. 16-39.
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Traditionally, research on the fraction of women in white-collar crime has focused on females’ lack of financial motive, organizational opportunity, and personal willingness for deviant behavior. This article applies the opposite perspective of traditional gender research on white-collar crime in terms of special female motive, opportunity, and willingness. Based on
the theory of convenience, this article identifies convenience themes that are gender-specific in favor of female offenders. In the motive dimension of convenience theory, there is concern for others and strain causing depression and anxiety (Brands and Mehra, 2019). In the opportunity dimension, there are fewer women than men that face suspicions of misconduct, wrongdoing,
and crime. In the willingness dimension, females as followers might justify their actions and neutralize their potential guilt feelings far better than males as leaders in crime by claiming loyalty to their leaders.
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Cuppello, Stephen; Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Personality and management level: Traits that get you to the top
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In this study we investigated whether personality traits differ among people at difference management levels,
controlling for demographic variables. In total, 10,836 people completed a personality test and provided information about their managerial level. Managerial level was positively associated most with traits Risk Aversion, Ambiguity Acceptance and Conscientiousness. Analysis of covariance and regressions indicated that
personality traits accounted for around 6.6 % of the variance above the demographic variables, particularly age.
Results are broadly in alignment with previous studies in this area, but suggested the importance of two traits
that are not explicitly assessed in the Big Five Factor Models: Ambiguity Acceptance and Attitude to Risk
(Courage). Implications and limitations are acknowledged.
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Furnham, Adrian & Horne, George
(2023)
Sex in the dark: Sex differences on three measures of dark side personality
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This study examined sex differences in the scores on three different measures of the personality disorders (PDs) all derived from on-line surveys. Two groups (total N = 871) completed the Coolidge Axis-II Inventory which assessed 14 PDs; two groups (total N = 732) completed the Short Dark Tetrad which assessed 4 PDs; four groups (total N = 1558) completed the Personality Inventory for DSM-5—Brief Form which assessed 5 PD dimensions. Cohen's d after ANOVAs, and binary regression analysis revealed consistent findings. In this study we calculated 63 d statistics of which 5 were d > 0.50 and 28 were d > 0.20. In two samples, each using two different instruments, men scored higher than women on Anti-Social, Narcissistic and Sadistic PD which is a consistent finding in the literature. Speculations are made about the origin of these differences. Limitations are acknowledged.
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Glambek, Mats; Einarsen, Ståle Valvatne, Gjerstad, Johannes & Nielsen, Morten Birkeland
(2023)
Last in, first out? Length of service as a moderator of the relationship between exposure to bullying behaviors and work-related outcomes
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In the present study, we proposed and tested a conceptual model of length of service in the organization as a moderator of the relationship between exposure to workplace bullying behaviors and turnover intention, as mediated through job dissatisfaction. Specifically, based on the conservation of resources theory and organizational socialization research, we hypothesized that bullying exposure would be more detrimental to employees relatively new to the organization, and less so to those with a long length of service. We employed a probability sample from the Norwegian workforce (N = 1003), with data collected at two time-points separated by six months. In line with previous research, we found that exposure to workplace bullying behaviors predicts increased levels of stability-adjusted turnover intentions, and, that job dissatisfaction mediates this association. Moreover, the mediation effect was dependent on length of service, such that it only was present at average (50th percentile; 8.5 years) and short employment length (16th percentile; 2.5 years), and was significantly stronger for the latter group. Additionally, a Johnson-Neyman test of significance regions revealed that the moderation effect became non-significant at the 69th percentile (14.6 years of length of service) in the present sample. This indicates that while short length of service represents a risk condition for work-related outcomes of bullying exposure, long length of service may represent a resource relating to individual resilience that accumulates over long time-spans.
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McCartney, Jacob; Franczak, Jennifer, Gonzalez, Katerina, Hall, Angela T., Hochwarter, Wayne A., Jordan, Samantha L., Wikhamn, Wajda, Khan, Abdul Karim & Babalola, Mayowa T.
(2023)
Supervisor off-work boundary infringements: Perspective-taking as a resource for after-hours intrusions
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Constant connectivity is prevalent in modern workplaces, aided bysmartphones and email. Supervisors may further pressure theirsubordinates to remain connected to work through their after-hours communications. We develop the concept ofsupervisor off-work boundary infringements (SBI)or supervisor intrusions duringsubordinates’nonwork hours, which are becoming widespreaddue to expectations of immediate accessibility. Through theconservation of resources theory lens, we explore whether theseunnecessary intrusions by supervisors increase subordinate strainoutcomes (i.e. job tension and depressed mood at work). We alsoexamine the role of perspective-taking, a cognitive resourcedeployed as a coping strategy that allows individuals tounderstand the viewpoint of others, which in turn facilitateschanges in one’s attitudes and behaviours. Specifically, wepropose that employee perspective-taking can lessen the adverseeffects of SBI. Across a four-study constructive replication, wefindevidence that SBI positively relates to job tension and adepressed mood at work. Heightened levels of perspective-takingattenuated this relationship. Our study presents evidence thatindividuals who engage in perspective-taking can protectthemselves by buffering the adverse effects of SBI. Importantly,we advocate for corporate policies and laws that protect workersfrom SBI and encourage supervisors to cease such infringementson their employees.
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Mayiwar, Lewend & Björklund, Fredrik
(2023)
Fear and anxiety differ in construal level and scope
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The fear-anxiety distinction has been extensively discussed and debated among emotion researchers. In this study, we tested this distinction from a social-cognitive perspective. Drawing on construal level theory and regulatory scope theory, we examined whether fear and anxiety differ in their underlying level of construal and scope. Results from a preregistered autobiographical recall study (N = 200) that concerned either a fear situation or an anxiety situation and a large dataset from Twitter (N = 104,949) indicated that anxiety was associated with a higher level of construal and a more expansive scope than fear. These findings support the notion that emotions serve as mental tools that deal with different challenges. While fear prompts people to seek immediate solutions to concrete threats in the here and now (contractive scope), anxiety prompts them to deal with distant and unknown threats that require more expansive and flexible solutions (expansive scope). Our study contributes to a growing literature on emotions and construal level and points to interesting avenues for further research.
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Furnham, Adrian & Robinson, Charlotte
(2023)
Correlates of Self-Assessed Optimism
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What are the bright- and dark-side personality trait, ideological belief, and mind-set correlates of self-assessed optimism? This paper reports on four studies, with a total N > 2000. In each, participants rated to what extent they were an optimist on an 8-point scale (high to low). We obtained demographic (age, sex) and ideological (political and religious beliefs) data in each study, as well as self-ratings on four variables (e.g., attractiveness, intelligence) which we aggregated and labelled self-esteem, which had alphas ranging from .70 to .80. We assessed personality, intelligence and other belief systems in different studies. Study 1 showed older, more religious, but less intelligent males with higher self-esteem and Belief in a Just World (BJW) were more optimistic. Study 2 showed older, more religious people, with higher self-esteem were more optimistic. Study 3 showed Open, Extraverted, Agreeable, Emotionally Stable, religious people with higher self-esteem and low on Negative Affectivity and Detachment, but high on Disinhibition, were most optimistic. Study 4 showed older, more religious people with higher self-esteem and lower Dweck fixed personality mindset beliefs were more optimistic. The concept and correlates of dispositional optimism and its measurement are discussed. Limitations and implications are noted.
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Furnham, Adrian & Cheng, Helen
(2023)
The stability and correlates of quality-of-life scores over five years: Findings from a British cohort
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This study explored a nationally representative longitudinal data set of 5273 adults, all born in 1958, examining the stability and change of quality-of-life (QoL) over five years. It also examined the associations between QoL and a set of socio-demographic, psychological and health variables in relation to QoL at both points in time. Results showed that self-report QoL scores were fairly stable over five years (r = 0.59), though there was a statistically significant increase in the total scores of QoL between age 50 to age 55 years. Correlational analysis showed parental social status indicators (measured at birth), childhood intelligence (measured at age 11 years), educational qualifications (measured at age 33 years), occupational levels, income and health, and the Big-Five personality factors (all measured at age 50 years) were all significantly associated with adult QoL. The strongest correlate of adult QoL was self-assessed health measured five years earlier, followed by the Big-Five personality factors, education and occupation, as well as parental social status. Gender was not significantly associated with QoL at either time points. Multiple linear regression analyses showed income, health and three of the Big-Five personality factors (Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness) were significant and independent predictors of QoL at age 55 years. After entering the initial QoL assessed five years earlier, health, traits Extraversion and Emotional Stability and initial QoL were significant predictors of the outcome variable. The implications and limitations of this study are discussed.
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Sadarić, Antonio & Skerlavaj, Miha
(2023)
Leader Idea Championing for Follower Readiness to Change or Not? A Moderated Mediation Perspective of Prosocial Sensegiving
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Change agents influence employee attitudes in order for organizations to change. In an effort to unravel this influence mechanism, we examined the change leader-recipient relationship. More specifically, how change leaders’ championing (independent variable) relates to recipients’ readiness to change (dependent variable). Our conceptual model of change leaders’ prosocial sensegiving is based on adult attachment theory operationalized through storytelling. To test our model, we surveyed 164 change recipients undergoing organizational change in various industries. Results confirm the first part of our model: psychological need satisfaction partially mediates the relation between change leaders’ championing and recipients’ readiness to change. In other words, prosocial change leaders act as attachment figures alleviating anxiety caused by ambiguity addressing change recipients’ proximity-seeking behaviour. Despite what has been described in scholarly works, change leaders’ methods of persuasion seem to be a more accurate indicator of recipients’ readiness for change. Part two of our hypothesized model could not be confirmed: moderation effects of leader influence and narrative intelligence could not be confirmed. We conclude that prosocial change leaders’ who demonstrate narrative intelligence use stories to elicit an emotional response from change recipients, effectively increasing their perceived psychological need satisfaction, ultimately affecting their readiness to change.
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Locatelli, Giorgio; Ika, Lavagnon, Drouin, Nathalie, Müller, Ralf Josef, Huemann, Martina, Söderlund, Jonas, Geraldi, Joana & Clegg, Stewart
(2023)
A Manifesto for project management research
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Project management research has evolved over the past five decades and is now amature disciplinary field investigating phenomena of interest to academics, practi-tioners and policymakers. Studies of projects and project management practicesare theoretically rich and scientifically rigorous. They are practically relevant andimpactful when addressing the pursuit of operational, tactical and strategicadvancements in the world of organisations. We want to broaden the conversa-tion between project management scholars and other scholars from cognate disci-plines, particularly business and management, in a true scholarship of integrationand cross-fertilisation. This Manifesto invites the latter scholars to join effortsproviding a foundation for further creative, theoretical and empirical contribu-tions, including but not limited to tackling grand challenges such as climatechange, pandemics, and global poverty. To this end, we identify five theses:
1. Projects are often‘agents of change’and hence fundamental to driving theinnovation and change required to tackle grand challenges.
2. Much project management research leverages and challenges theories acrossdisciplines, including business, organisation and management studies, con-tributing to developing new theories, including those specific to projects andtemporary organisations.
3.‘Projects’are useful units of analysis, project management research is idealfor scientific cross-fertilisation and project management scholars welcomeacademics from other communities to engage in fruitful conversations.
4. As in many other fields of knowledge, the project management research com-munity embraces diversity, welcoming researchers of different genders andvarious scientific and social backgrounds.
5. Historically rooted in‘problem-solving’and normative studies, project man-agement research has become open to interpretative and emancipatoryresearch, providing opportunities for other business, management and orga-nisational scholars to advance their knowledge communities.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
White-Collar Crime
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Gottschalk, Petter & Kamaei, Maryam
(2023)
Understanding business offending: Survey research in Iran
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which white-collar crime makes sense.
Understanding business offending reflects the degree of sensemaking among respondents in the current
survey research. Making sense implies a number of factors that influence understandability. An
understandable act is not necessarily acceptable or justifiable. At a university in Iran, criminal law and
criminology students answered a questionnaire regarding their extent of understanding of business offenders.
Design/methodology/approach – The research method is the use of experimental data using a
questionnaire in one of the units of the Islamic Azad University in Iran, where 300 students were invited to
respond to an online survey.
Findings – The respondents found it on average understandable that top executives and other privileged
individuals abuse their positions to commit financial crime when they have problems with their personal
finances, when the business struggles financially and faces the threat of bankruptcy, and when they offer
bribes in corrupt countries to obtain business contracts. The extent of understandability varies with a number
of propositions in the convenience theory.
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Daouk-Öyry, Lina
(2023)
Call of duty: When scholars organize in extreme contexts
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Lai, Linda
(2023)
The effects of social vs. personal power on universal dimensions of social perception
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The present study expands previous research on the effects of power on
stereotyping by investigating the impact of two types of power (social power
and personal power) on two universal dimensions of social perception; warmth
and competence. Results from an experiment (N = 377) in which participants
were randomly assigned to provide their impression of either (1) poor people
or (2) rich people, suggest that the two types of power produce different
effects on perceptions of warmth and competence. Personal power increased
stereotype consistent perceptions of warmth whereas social power increased
stereotype consistent perceptions of competence as well as agency, which
was identified as a separate dimension. The pattern of results is discussed
in view of previous work on power effects and stereotyping, and potential
explanations and suggestions for future research are outlined.
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Zahlquist, Lena Aadnevik; Hetland, Jørn, Notelaers, Guy Louis Alice, Rosander, Michael & Einarsen, Ståle Valvatne
(2023)
When the going gets tough and the environment Is rough: The role of departmental level hostile work climate in the relationships between job stressors and workplace bullying
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), 20(5), p. 1-18.
Doi:
10.3390/ijerph20054464
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Carlsen, Arne & Kvalnes, Øyvind
(2023)
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry
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Research has provided limited knowledge of how people in organizations experience growth of agency during circumstances that seem hopeless and stuck, and how such growth emerges. Drawing from the study of the turnaround processes at a nursing home and the Pragmatism of Dewey and Mead, we contribute with a theory of how agency is produced in social inquiry. We suggest that the puzzling accounts of lightness in the experiences of people at this nursing home help explain how a field of social inquiry may be charged with creative and agentic force. We show how agency emerged through a series of action sequences related to inviting people into inquiry through the opening of a troublesome situation, the resulting voicing of needs and ideas for improvement, as well as the subsequent experimenting and surfacing of tales of meaningful progress from such actions. Furthermore, our empirical observations suggest that the emergence of collective desire to meet the needs of the Generalized Other is a central, yet understated, part of agency produced through social inquiry. Lightness of agency may be accentuated, paradoxically, by the weight of a more generalized situation – in this case that of institutionalized care for elderly – that the local inquiry exemplifies and in which it resonates.
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Furnham, Adrian & Sherman, Ryne A.
(2023)
Beliefs about personal change
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In all, 510 Europeans completed an online questionnaire rating their beliefs about personal change, including the established Dweck Mindset measure. Their ratings of 27 characteristics from BMI to sexual preference factored into 5 interpretable factors labelled Personality, Beliefs and Habits, Health, Social Status and Physical. Correlation indicated beliefs about change were most related to religious beliefs but also sex and age. Dweck ratings of ability and personality growth were logically related to beliefs about change on the five factors and also to religious beliefs and self-rated optimism. Regressions indicated that being religious was the most consistent predictor about change, as well as age and education. Many beliefs about change were in direct contraction to the academic literature on the topic. Implications and limitations are acknowledged.
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Fæhn, Taran & Stoknes, Per Espen
(2023)
Involving stakeholders in scenario-building: Lessons from a case study of the global context of Norway’s climate policies
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This paper assesses the relevance and outcome of involving a transdisciplinary group of stakeholders in a scenario-building research project. The scenarios describe plausible external, long-term conditions with the aim to improve the knowledge basis of a national (Norwegian) government pursuing climate policy targets for 2030 and 2050 under uncertainty. The scenario process has two phases with quite different roles for the participants. In the first, the aim is to create broad engagement and participation in exploring narratives for how key external conditions might develop and form premises for the national climate strategies for Norway. The ambition in this phase is to deduce a handful of wide-ranging and distinctly different, qualitative scenarios. The second phase is devoted to translating the narratives into quantitative projections for the Norwegian economy and greenhouse gas emissions by means of linking global and national largescale models. We claim that research projects building and using scenarios have significant potential to benefit from involving a broad stakeholder group in developing qualitative narratives. The second phase involves complex quantitative simulations. In order to provide scientific rigor and credibility to the scenarios, this phase primarily calls for scholars with technical skills, knowledge on the research frontier and modelling experience. Nevertheless, later use of these scenarios in numerical policy studies can gain from resumed researcher-stakeholder interaction.
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Bonab, Aysan Bashirpour; Bellini, Francesco & Rudko, Ihor
(2023)
Theoretical and analytical assessment of smart green cities
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As a locus of technological innovation, a smart city (SC) is a prototypical city of the future. Moreover, according to scholars, a smart city is also sustainable city. Nonetheless, the environmental aspects of urban sustainability are often de-emphasized in favor of discourses around the technical characteristics of SC technologies. In order to integrate the two, the article introduces the notion of a smart green city (SGC) in which technological means and environmental outcomes are in sustainable balance. SGC is presented here as a unifying concept integrating smart city and green city concepts through the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework. To illustrate the positive synergy between a city's greenness and smartness, we derive operational definitions of both based on the online media's attention to the related technology and sustainability initiatives. After calculating the two indices for all the cities worldwide with over one million inhabitants (498 cities), regression analysis is performed to determine the strength and direction of the relationships between a city's greenness and smartness. We find that a city's greenness is positively related to its smartness. Principal component analysis reveals a potential relationship between a city's population and the two indices. In particular, a large city's population negatively affects its greenness but positively affects its smartness. A joint index of smartness and greenness is negatively related to a city's population. Hence, the containment of uncontrolled urban growth is critical for successfully implementing SGC initiatives. The analysis results are of use to policy-makers, city managers, and planners intending to integrate the ESG framework into their future urban development strategies. Moreover, to our knowledge, a joint evaluation of a city's greenness and smartness has never been performed before on the inter-regional level of analysis. Accordingly, such a holistic assessment can be of methodological interest to scholars of smart and sustainable cities.
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Swami, Viren; Voracek, Martin, Furnham, Adrian, Robinson, Charlotte & Tran, Ulrich S.
(2023)
Support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies: Modelling the role of attitudes toward poverty alongside weight stigma, causal attributions about weight, and prejudice
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In the present study, we sought to position support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies within a broader political and socioeconomic context. Specifically, we hypothesised that individualistic (rather than structural) anti-poverty attitudes would provide the basis for negative weight-related dispositions. To test this hypothesis, we asked 392 respondents from the United Kingdom to complete measures of support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies, attributions about the causes of being larger-bodied, and weight-related stigma and prejudice. Path analysis with robust maximum likelihood estimation indicated that greater individualistic anti-poverty attitudes were significantly and directly associated with lower support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies. This direct association was also significantly mediated by weight-related stigma and via a serial mediation involving both weight-related stigma and prejudice. Although greater individualistic anti-poverty attitudes were significantly associated with greater personal attributions for being larger-bodied, the latter did not emerge as a significant mediation pathway. The present findings highlight the importance of considering broader political and socioeconomic contextual factors that may provide a basis for the development, maintenance, and manifestation of negative weight-related dispositions.
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Dries, Nicky & Kaše, Robert
(2023)
Do employees find inclusive talent management fairer? It depends. Contrasting self-interest and principle
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In this paper, we critically examine the assumption that most employees, and especially those not identified as talents, find exclusive talent management less fair than inclusive talent management. Across two factorial survey studies—one of which manipulates talent status experimentally (N = 300), the other using field data on meta-perceived talent ratings (N = 209)—we examine the extent to which the perceived fairness of talent management is predicted by self-interest (i.e., the extent to which you yourself are seen as talented) versus principle (i.e., a dispositional preference for equality-vs. merit-based allocations). We found a clear effect of talent status, indicating that perceived fairness is at least partly determined by self-interest (i.e., whether one personally stands to gain or lose from exclusive talent management). We also found an effect for preferred allocation norm—implying that fairness perceptions are influenced by matters of principle, independently from self-interest—but only on the boundary condition that organizations provide a transparent justification for their chosen (inclusive or exclusive) talent philosophy. Two major gaps are addressed: the lack of data on how employees perceive and experience talent management practices, and the inability of common study designs to make causal claims.
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Horne, George & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Social Distancing and Shopping Behaviour: The Role of Anxiety, Attention, and Awareness on Safety Preferences while Queuing during the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), 20(5).
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10.3390/ijerph20054589
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic increased global anxiety, and many people shopped less frequently. This study quantifies customer preferences in where to shop while following social distancing regulations, specifically focusing on customers’ anxiety. Collecting data online from 450 UK participants, we measured trait anxiety, COVID-19 anxiety, queue awareness, and queue safety preferences. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to develop novel queue awareness and queue safety preference variables from new items. Path analyses tested the hypothesised relationships between them. Queue awareness and COVID-19 anxiety were positive predictors of queue safety preference, with queue awareness partially mediating the effect of COVID-19 anxiety. These results suggest that customers’ preferences for shopping at one business and not another may depend on safe queueing and waiting conditions, especially in those more anxious about COVID-19 transmission. Interventions that target highly aware customers are suggested. Limitations are acknowledged and areas for future development are outlined.
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Bonab, Aysan Bashirpour; Fedele, Maria, Formisano, Vincenzo & Rudko, Ihor
(2023)
In complexity we trust: A systematic literature review of urban quantum technologies
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Today's cities are facing increasingly complex challenges. The growing uncertainty and complexity—caused by the unremitted differentiation of social, environmental, and technological orders—call for novel ways of conceptualizing urban reality. Although technology-oriented solutions shape the most efficient strategies to manage complexity in contemporary cities, ensuring an effective transition toward a Quantum City paradigm can grant considerable advantages for city administrators and managers facing looming urban challenges. In this article, we introduce the Quantum City metaphor—grounded in fundamental notions of quantum mechanics—as a new conceptual lens for investigating urban complexity. We then build upon the metaphor, theorizing a set of assumptions grounded in three fundamental concepts of quantum theory: relativity, uncertainty, and duality/parallelism. Finally, we propose an empirical conceptualization of Quantum Cities based on the concrete adoption of quantum technologies to deal with urban complexity. This is achieved through a systematic literature review of scholarly records on quantum technologies in the context of social sciences, emphasizing related urban problematics and challenges. Principal component analysis and agglomerative hierarchical clustering reveal two types of quantum technologies most useful for city planners and managers: quantum communication and quantum computing. Accordingly, we perform a qualitative thematic synthesis of related scholarly records, emphasizing the negative and positive aspects of both types of urban quantum technologies.
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Sumanth, John J.; Černe, Matej, Hannah, Sean T. & Skerlavaj, Miha
(2023)
Fueling the Creative Spark: How Authentic Leadership and LMX Foster Employees’ Proactive Orientation and Creativity
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Creativity is a critical determinant of organizations’ abilities to compete and perform in rapidly changing and complex contexts. Though scholars have identified several contextual factors, such as leadership, that motivate employees’ creative performance, the psychological mechanisms and boundary conditions underpinning this relationship are relatively unknown. Drawing on social exchange theory, we propose that a proactive orientation, a psychological state rooted in the cognitive and behavioral process of setting a proactive goal and striving to achieve it, is a critical mechanism linking authentic leadership to employees’ creativity. Across two field studies of working professionals in Central Europe and the U.S., we show how authentic leadership fuels employees’ creative performance through a proactive orientation and introduce leader–member exchange (LMX) as an important moderator of this mediated relationship. In Study 1, using a sample of European manufacturing employees, we find support for the mediating role of a proactive orientation linking authentic leadership to creative performance, above, and beyond the effects of ethical leadership. In Study 2, using a sample of university staff, we replicate this finding and extend it by highlighting the moderating role of LMX on the authentic leadership-proactive orientation relationship.
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Ding, Haien
(2023)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Search Target, Reflection on the Top-Down Approach, and Introduction of the Bottom-Up Approach
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Based on the INUS theory of causality, the search target of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is to find all the minimally sufficient conditions for the outcome’s occurrence in a data set, where the condition’s sufficiency, the necessity of the condition’s components, and the completeness of the solution are three core requirements. However, QCA’s current top-down approach, which relies on a truth table and Boolean minimization, cannot meet the main objective of QCA. Conditions generated by the top-down approach can be insufficient for the outcome or contain unnecessary components that can be removed. We found evidence supporting our arguments by examining the correctness of top-down QCA in Study 1. Then, we show that QCA can also proceed with a “bottom-up” search strategy in sufficiency analysis, similar to coincidence analysis (CNA). We contrast solutions of the top-down and bottom-up QCA approaches by analyzing a simulated crisp-set data set in Study 2 and a real-world fuzzy-set data set in Study 3. Both results show that only the bottom-up approach can produce all the minimally sufficient conditions. We contribute to the ongoing debate pertain QCA solution types and QCA algorithms by critically evaluating the limitations of QCA’s top-down approach and introducing a bottom-up approach for QCA.
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Skerlavaj, Miha; Černe, Matej & Batistič, Saša
(2023)
Knowledge Hiding in Organizations: Meta-Analysis 10 Years Later
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A decade since the seminal paper on knowledge hiding in organizations (Connelly et al., 2012) emerged, this research area has witnessed rapid evolution, resulting in a fragmentation of the field and conceptual proliferation. Given the increasing interest in knowledge hiding, this study complements a set of recently published (systematic) literature reviews and proposes an organizing framework (nomological network) for antecedents and consequences of knowledge hiding, and tests it using meta-analytic procedures. Based on an effect analysis drawn from 131 studies and 147 samples, comprising 47,348 participants, the relationships between knowledge hiding and different antecedent and consequence categories are examined. The results generally support expected relationships across the vast majority of categories of knowledge-hiding antecedents, including job characteristics, leadership, attitudes and motivations, working context, personality, and individual differences. Knowledge hiding is related to outcomes, including creativity, task performance, incivility, deviance, and deterioration of workplace behavior. We also provide comprehensive empirical evidence to support the conceptual claim that knowledge hiding is not correlated with knowledge sharing. We have also tested mediations of the most salient antecedents of knowledge hiding. Through our meta-analytic review, we hope to solidify and redirect the trajectory of the growing and maturing knowledge-hiding domain after its first decade of existence.
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Furnham, Adrian & Horne, George
(2023)
The perceived usefulness of a degree as a function of discipline
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Over 500 British respondents rated the extent to which a degree in 35 different subjects/disciplines (Anthropology to Zoology) would lead to useful skills acquisition and thence a well-paid job. These ratings factored into five groups: Social/Applied Natural Sciences and Humanities; Professional and Applied STEM; Languages; People and Information Management; and Pure Science. These ratings were then related to eight individual difference variables (demography, ideology, self-evaluations) through correlational and regression analysis. Applied STEM and Pure Science factors were considered the most useful (with minimal disagreement), whereas there were a number of demographic correlates on the factors considered to be less useful. Speculations are made about the origin and validity of these beliefs. Implications of these results, and limitations are acknowledged.
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Olsen, Olav Kjellevold; Ågotnes, Kari Wik, Hetland, Jørn, Espevik, Roar & Ravnagner, Conrad Alexander
(2023)
Virtual team-cooperation from home-office: a quantitative diary study of the impact of daily transformational- and passive-avoidant leadership – and the moderating role of task interdependence
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, most of the workforce moved from office setting to home-office and virtual teamwork. Whereas the relationship between leadership and team cooperation in physical settings is well documented – less is known about how daily virtual team cooperation is influenced by daily constructive as well as destructive leadership, and how intervening mechanisms influence this relationship. In the present study, we test the direct effect of daily transformational- and passive avoidant leadership, respectively, on the daily quality of virtual team cooperation – and the moderating effect of task interdependence. Using virtual team cooperation as outcome, we hypothesized that (a) transformational leadership relates positively to virtual team cooperation, (b) passive-avoidant leadership relates negatively, and (c) moderated by task interdependence. Our hypotheses were tested in a 5-day quantitative diary study with 58 convenience sampled employees working from home in virtual teams. The results show that virtual team cooperation is a partially malleable process – with 28% variation in daily virtual team cooperation resulting from within team variation from day to day. Surprisingly, the results of multilevel modeling lend support only to the first hypothesis (a). Taken together, our findings suggest that in virtual settings, inspirational and development-oriented transformational leadership plays a key role in daily team cooperation, while passive-avoidance has little impact – independently of task interdependence. Hence, in virtual team settings, the study shows that “good is stronger than bad” – when comparing the negative effects of destructive leadership to the positive effect of constructive and inspirational leadership. We discuss the implications of these findings for further research and practice.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Reducing Financial Crime Convenience for Sustainable Finance: A Case Study of Danske Bank in Estonia
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Beham, Barbara; Cho, Eunae, da Silva, Bruna Coden, Dawkins, Sarah, Escribano, Pablo I., Gudeta, Konjit Hailu, Huang, Ting-pang, Jaga, Ameeta, Kost, Dominique, Kurowska, Anna, Leon, Emmanuelle, Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane, Lewis, Suzan, Lu, Chang-qin, Martin, Angela, Morandin, Gabriele, Noboa, Fabrizio, Offer, Shira, Ohu, Eugene, Peters, Pascale, Rajadhyaksha, Ujvala, Russo, Marcello, Allen, Tammy D., Sohn, Young Woo, Straub, Caroline, Tammelin, Mia, Triki, Leila, van Engen, Marloes L., Waismel-Manor, Ronit, Baierl, Andreas, Alexandrova, Matilda, Artiawati, T., Beauregard, T. Alexandra, Carvalho, Vania Sofia & Chambel, Maria José
(2023)
Humane Orientation, Work–Family Conflict, and Positive Spillover Across Cultures
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Although cross-national work–family research has made great strides in recent decades, knowledge accumulation on the impact of culture on the work–family interface has been hampered by a limited geographical and cultural scope that has excluded countries where cultural expectations regarding work,
family, and support may differ. We advance this literature by investigating work–family relationships in a broad range of cultures, including understudied regions of the world (i.e., Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia). We focus on humane orientation (HO), an overlooked cultural dimension that is however central to the
study of social support and higher in those regions. We explore its moderating effect on relationships between work and family social support, work–family conflict, and work–family positive spillover. Building on the congruence and compensation perspectives of fit theory, we test alternative hypotheses on a sample of 10,307 participants from 30 countries/territories. We find HO has mostly a compensatory role in the relationships between workplace support and work-to-family conflict. Specifically, supervisor and coworker supports were most strongly and negatively related to conflict in cultures in which support is most needed (i.e., lower HO cultures). Regarding positive spillover, HO has mostly an amplifying role. Coworker (but not supervisor) support was most strongly and positively related to work-to-family positive spillover in higher HO cultures, where providing social support at work is consistent with the societal practice of providing support to one another. Likewise, instrumental (but not emotional) family support was most strongly and positively related to family-to-work positive spillover in higher HO cultures.
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van Marrewijk, Alfons; Sankaran, Shankar, Drouin, Nathalie & Müller, Ralf Josef
(2023)
Climbing to the top: Personal life stories on becoming megaproject leaders
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This paper captures a better understanding of the career development of people leading megaprojects through the use of biographical research method. The characteristics of megaprojects cause serious and diverse challenges for their leaders, but programs where they are trained to overcome these challenges are not easily available around the world. We used a biographic research to gather sixteen life histories of megaproject leaders from ten different countries. This approach helps to explore megaproject leaders as people and how they have learned to become leaders. Findings show that leaders learned to manage megaprojects through a lifetime interaction of: (1) personal characteristics of leaders, (2) turning points in their lives, (3) value orientations stemming from their family, region or religion, (4) their relationship to the project team, and (5) their professionalization through a diversity of projects. These findings add to our knowledge on leaders’ career development that this not only depends on individual agency but also on contextual influences which span a lifetime. Furthermore, the findings contribute to the debate on narrative inquiry methods by demonstrating the full potential of biographical research method for understanding megaproject leadership. Finally, the findings contribute to the debate on megaprojects leaders with real accounts of how people have become leaders through self-development.
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Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Dille, Therese & Hernes, Tor
(2023)
Temporality
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This chapter attempts to broaden the understanding of the potential of temporality in project management research. First, we illuminate temporality with respect to the temporariness of projects, the project life-cycle, and the role of entrainment in projects. Then, we outline aspects of the ontology of temporality and how it can inform complex project organizing. The ontology of temporality considers projects as highly embedded in multiple temporal flows where past, present, and future are understood as mutually constitutive rather than sequentially ordered. Such a perspective allows for exploring the effects of projects being situated in time and emerging over time. As projects move through time actors weave past, present, and future together in a manner that changes the project over time.
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Fosse, Thomas Hol; Martinussen, Monica, Sørlie, Henrik, Skogstad, Anders, Martinsen, Øyvind L. & Einarsen, Ståle Valvatne
(2023)
Neuroticism as an antecedent of abusive supervision and laissez-faire leadership in emergent leaders: The role of facets and agreeableness as a moderator
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Academic interest in the relationship between leaders' personality and subordinates’ perception of destructive leadership behavior is increasing. However, results so far have been weak, contradictory, and inconsistent to theory. Here, we examine if using facets of neuroticism, rather than the broader trait, can be more informative and increases the predictive power. Next, we explore the interplay between personality dimensions by examining if the relationship between the facet angry hostility in neuroticism and destructive leadership behavior is moderated by the trait agreeableness. Four hundred and twenty emergent leaders were examined in a military selection context, combining the leaders' self-rated neuroticism (T1) with subordinates' subsequent perception of abusive supervision and laissez-faire leadership in a field exercise two weeks later (T2). The results indicated that using facets instead of the broad factor of neuroticism improved the prediction of examined outcomes. Only some of the facets of neuroticism were related to perceived leader behavior, with specific facets being identified for abusive supervision and laissez-faire leadership, respectively. Further, the relationship between angry hostility and both leadership styles was moderated by agreeableness.
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Sainati, Tristano; Locatelli, Giorgio & Mignacca, Benito
(2023)
Social sustainability of energy infrastructures: The role of the programme governance framework
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The energy infrastructure literature focuses on the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability, neglecting the social dimension. Particularly obscure is how the programme governance frameworks of energy projects and programmes shape their social performance. We address this gap in knowledge by leveraging a cross-case analysis of comparable energy infrastructures planned and delivered in contexts with different programme governance frameworks (i.e., Iran, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Saudi Arabia, and the USA). This article first clarifies how investigating social sustainability at the infrastructure/project level is inadequate, showing that the overarching programme governance framework - set at the country level - is a major driver for social sustainability. Second, this article identifies three perspectives to examine the link between the programme governance framework and social sustainability: 1) Types of contracts, 2) Leadership of the infrastructure programme, and 3) Maturity of the legal and regulatory framework. These perspectives are combined to provide a novel analytical framework, useful to both examine the present status and plan future energy infrastructures. Last, this article discusses the findings from a policy perspective deriving a research agenda.
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Jevnaker, Birgit Helene & Olaisen, Johan Leif
(2023)
Reimagining Power and Micro-politics in Project Organizations
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The empirically investigated problem of our paper is what impact do micropolitics and power have on project management in an organization? Informal power and micropolitics played a massive role in the projects, and personal and relational knowledge appeared in all projects to achieve the expected results. The project manager uses personal networks, personal relations, and mentor's network with cognitive, affective, and emotional influence as power and politics if needed to achieve expected results. Power and micropolitics were necessary skills and tools for a successful project manager. The findings relate to the manager's intentions. The informal power and micro-politics process are reused in every project because informal power and micropolitics are a part of project work. Power accumulation and wise handling are essential leadership tools for every manager. Employees work for managers who have power over those who do not. The former can get them what they want: visibility, upwards mobility, and resources. Micropolitics and power represent a unique competence (i.e., knowledge, experiences, and attitudes) and tool for handling any project. Power is significantly underrated as a tool to control and govern projects. Micropolitics is a part of that tool to get the decisions the project leader wants, maybe with future promises. A democratic and consensus-oriented decision process opens for power games and micropolitics rather than hedging them in more hierarchical organizations. A complex matrix organization involving employees in many projects is also open to micropolitics and power. Micropolitics and power might prolong and complicate decision-making processes in ordinary projects and improve processes in fast-track projects. Micropolitics and power both increase and reduce the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization. The higher complexity, the higher returns on using power and micro-politics to get the expected project results.
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Furnham, Adrian & Robinson, Charlotte
(2023)
Correlates of beliefs about, and solutions to, the problem of evil
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This study explored people’s attitudes towards various explanations for the theological Problem of Evil. Five hundred adults rated the importance of 16 possible solutions to the Problem of Evil. Participants also indicated their religious and political beliefs, their Belief in a Just World and their endorsement of Conspiracy Theories. Results showed that many differences in ratings were a function of religious beliefs and belief in the afterlife. The 16 solutions were subjected to a factor analysis which revealed three factors labelled Deistic, Luck and Chance, and Human Behaviour. Those who claimed to be more religious, and believed in an afterlife, were more likely to support Deistic solutions. These solutions were also supported by younger, less educated, and less intelligent people who believed in the Just World and Conspiracy theories. Just World beliefs were related to Luck/Chance explanations, whereas believing in Conspiracy theories related to Human Behaviour explanations.
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de Jong, Jeroen P.; Nikolova, Irina & Caniëls, Marjolein C. J.
(2023)
Same pond, different frogs: How collective change readiness level and diversity associates with team performance
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Despite the critical importance of teams in organizational change processes, we still know little about how collective change readiness (CR) in teams associates to team outcomes. In this study, we take a multilevel approach to CR and investigate how collective CR associates with team performance. Specifically, we examine (a) how ambivalence between emotional and collective cognitive CR associates with collective intentional CR and (b) how both the level and diversity of collective intentional CR associate to team performance. We test our team-level hypotheses using 59 teams and 366 individual team members. The results show that the levels of collective emotional and cognitive CR interact in their association with intentional CR. Collective intentional CR is the highest when both collective emotional and cognitive CR are high and the lowest under a condition of high collective cognitive CR and low collective emotional CR. Moreover, diversity in collective intentional CR negatively associates to leader-rated team performance. Implications for theory and suggestions for practice are discussed.
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Furnham, Adrian & Cheng, Helen
(2023)
The Big-Five personality factors, cognitive ability, health, and social-demographic indicators as independent predictors of self-efficacy: A longitudinal study
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This study set out to examine to what extent a set of psychological, health and socio-demographic factors are associated with self-efficacy (SE) in a large sample of over 12,000 participants over a two-year period. We were interested in the correlates of self-efficacy (criterion variable) with gender, age, education and occupation, the Big-Five personality factors and cognitive ability, as well as mental and physical health (predictor variables). Regression analyses showed that four of the Big-Five personality factors (extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness), cognitive ability, mental and physical health, gender, education and occupation were all significant and independent predictors of self-efficacy, accounting for 23% of the variance of the outcome variable. Personality variables, particularly Neuroticism and Conscientiousness, were the most powerful predictors of SE two years later. The implications for encouraging SE in individuals are discussed.