Configuration Research in Strategic Management: Key Issues and Suggestions

Dess, Gregory G.; Newport, Stephanie; Rasheed, Abdul M. A.

doi:10.1177/014920639301900403

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“…Dess, Newport and Rasheed (1993) consider that the typologies must refer only to a system of conceptual classification from a theoretical perspective. For this reason, the researcher traces a conceptual framework developed "a priori," and once designed, it would be empirically tested (Cousté, 1997).…”

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Determining factors of women's careers in management: A typology proposal

Cachón

2018

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Versión en español AbstractPurpose: The objective of this paper is to identify a typology of the factors that determine the professional career of women in managerial positions, based on the different contributions made to the literature.Design/methodology: A systematic literature review has been carried out, using Google Academic portal searches and ABI, SCOPUS and WOS databases, allowing the analysis of several articles. Findings:The professional career of women in managerial positions is determined by several factors that motivate or limit their professional development. These factors are commonly listed and described in the literature. However, there is no generally accepted classification of these factors. Therefore, as a result of this work, a typology is proposed that allows the classification of determining factors affecting the professional careers of women directors. Practical implications:This work has important future implications for researchers who intend to empirically contrast the proposed classification and analyze the factors in depth. It also has implications for business executives whose objective is to promote the role of women in positions of responsibility within organizations. Originality/value: This paper highlights the identification of the typologies that are necessary for the development of theories and research in the social sciences. It is important to categorize and describe factor classifications in order to understand them better, so as to be able to extrapolate a common theory for other research and to propose solutions in the business environment that allow breaking with the glass ceiling in senior management positions.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determining factors of women's careers in management: A typology proposal

Cachón

2018

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“…Configurations are a means of achieving parsimony while presenting rich, complex descriptions." [18] Configurations normally relate attributes from multiple domains. An important characteristic of a configuration is its internal consistency: its "internal logic, integrity, and evolutionary momentum" [44].…”

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Improving software management: the industry model, the knowledge model, the network model

Rose

2014

Innovations Syst Softw Eng

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Thinking about improving the management of software development in software firms has been dominated by one approach: the capability maturity model (CMM) devised and administered at Carnegie Mellon University. Although widely known and used, there are a number of wellunderstood difficulties and limitations with this approach. This article examines, through the lens of modern management theory, the governing assumptions about management and organizational improvement behind the CMM approach. It characterizes this assumption set as the industry model of software management improvement. We take a dialectic approach to propose antithetical assumptions and a configuration approach to weave these different assumptions into alternative assumption platforms: the knowledge model and the network model. These two models, we suggest, might be better foundations for some types of software managements in a world responding to globalization and rapid technology change. If these assumption platforms were used to underpin improvements in software management, we ask, what kinds of approaches would they lead to?

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“…The test relied on expert assessment of senior researchers and professionals. The study espoused the views of Dess et al (1993) that, "when a construct or a set of dimensions exhibits a strong content validity, there is a tendency among researchers to accept them without rigorous testing of other components of validity such as convergent, discriminant or nomological validity" (p. 785). Reliability test for equivalence was undertaken through questionnaire pretesting by a pilot study of 20 randomly selected universities within the population.…”

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Linkage Strategies, Resource Conditions and University Performance

Ngala

Awino²

2017

IJBM

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This study sought to contribute to knowledge by assessing the moderating effect of resource conditions on the relationship between linkage strategies and performance of universities in Kenya. Resource based view was used as the main theory anchoring the study. Cross-Sectional survey was adopted as the research design. The population of the study consists of sixty five (65) public and private universities incorporated in Kenya. Out of this, a sample of forty seven (47) universities which had undergone at least one graduation cycle was taken. Primary and secondary data was collected using semi-structured questionnaires and review of existing university documents and regulatory bodies' websites respectively. Correlation and regression analyses were carried out to analyse data and to test hypotheses. Although it was not possible to include all the determinants of institutional performance, balanced score card was appropriately used to represent financial and non-financial aspects that constitute performance indicators. It was established that resource conditions have enhancing moderating effect on the relationship between linkage strategies and university performance in Kenya. The significance of firm resources and linkage components in strategy formulation and implementation cannot be overlooked. The key recommendation that the study offers as insights to theory, university authorities and policy makers, is the need to consider firm resource conditions as critical determinants during strategy formulation and implementation process in order to enhance university performance. The main limitation of this study is that primary data was collected from only one respondent per university but common methods bias was mitigated through the use of additional secondary data to validate primary data.

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Configuration Research in Strategic Management: Key Issues and Suggestions

Cited by 168 publications

References 90 publications

Determining factors of women's careers in management: A typology proposal

Determining factors of women's careers in management: A typology proposal

Improving software management: the industry model, the knowledge model, the network model

Linkage Strategies, Resource Conditions and University Performance

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