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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Women and white-collar crime - A convenience theory perspective
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Benefits Fraud by Norwegian Politicians in Parliament: Convenience Theory Perspectives
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Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís Dögg & Dysvik, Anders
(2023)
Career success through horizontal career transitions: an example from a Norwegian organization
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
The National Authority in Norway is No Serious Economic Crime Office Anymore? An Empirical Study of Press Releases
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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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Furnham, Adrian & Horne, George
(2023)
The perceived usefulness of a degree as a function of discipline
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Carlsen, Arne & Kvalnes, Øyvind
(2023)
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry
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Rønningstad, Chris Andre; Alm Andreassen, Tone, Breit, Eric & Minas, Renate
(2023)
Reform pathways for integrating employment assistance to marginalized groups
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Bashirpour Bonab, Aysan; Bellini, Francesco & Rudko, Ihor
(2023)
Theoretical and analytical assessment of smart green cities
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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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Ding, Haien & Kuvaas, Bård
(2023)
Using necessary condition analysis in managerial psychology research: introduction, empirical demonstration and methodological discussion
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Purpose
In this paper, the authors aim to present a novel methodological tool – necessary condition analysis (NCA) to aid managerial psychology researchers in properly testing necessity statements.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors employ NCA to analyze whether three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness are necessary for work engagement.
Findings
The authors illustrate the value and application of NCA by revealing that basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness are necessary for work engagement, as proposed by self-determination theory (SDT).
Originality/value
The authors illustrate the importance of the sufficiency-necessity distinction and the relevance of a necessity logic in managerial psychology. They also discuss NCA's methodological implications for managerial psychology research, theory and practice.
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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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Ryu, Young-Ju; Olcaysoy Okten, Irmak, Gollwitzer, Anton & Oettingen, Gabriele
(2023)
Intellectual humility predicts COVID-19 preventive practices through greater adoption of data-driven information and feelings of responsibility
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Sumanth, John; 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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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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Dries, Nicky & Kaše, Robert
(2023)
Do employees find inclusive talent management fairer? It depends. Contrasting self-interest and principle
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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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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).
Doi:
10.3390/ijerph20054589
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Grossmann, Igor; Mandel, David R., Tybur, Joshua M., Raes, Louis, Tay, Louis, Vie, Aymeric, Wagner, Lisa, Adamkovic, Matus, Arami, Arash, Arriaga, Patrícia, Bandara, Kasun, Baník, Gabriel, Rotella, Amanda, Bartoš, František, Baskin, Ernest, Bergmeir, Christoph, Białek, Michał, Børsting, Caroline K., Browne, Dillon T., Caruso, Eugene M., Chen, Rong, Chie, Bin-Tzong, Chopik, William J., Hutcherson, Cendri A., Collins, Robert N., Cong, Chin Wen, Conway, Lucian G., Davis, Matthew, Day, Martin V., Dhaliwal, Nathan A., Durham, Justin D., Dziekan, Martyna, Elbaek, Christian T., Shuman, Eric, Sharpinskyi, Konstantyn, Fabrykant, Marharyta, Firat, Mustafa, Fong, Geoffrey T., Frimer, Jeremy A., Gallegos, Jonathan M., Goldberg, Simon B., Gollwitzer, Anton, Goyal, Julia, Graf-Vlachy, Lorenz, Gronlund, Scott D., Varnum, Michael E. W., Hafenbrädl, Sebastian, Hartanto, Andree, Hirshberg, Matthew J., Hornsey, Matthew J., Howe, Piers D. L., Izadi, Anoosha, Jaeger, Bastian, Kačmár, Pavol, Kim, Yeun Joon, Krenzler, Ruslan, Achter, Sebastian, Lannin, Daniel G., Lin, Hung-Wen, Lou, Nigel Mantou, Lua, Verity Y. Q., Lukaszewski, Aaron W., Ly, Albert L., Madan, Christopher R., Maier, Maximilian, Majeed, Nadyanna M., March, David S., Dhami, Mandeep K., Marsh, Abigail A., Misiak, Michal, Myrseth, Kristian Ove R., Napan, Jaime M., Nicholas, Jonathan, Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos, O, Jiaqing, Otterbring, Tobias, Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola, Pauer, Shiva, Guo, Xinqi Evie, Protzko, John, Raffaelli, Quentin, Ropovik, Ivan, Ross, Robert M., Roth, Yefim, Røysamb, Espen, Schnabel, Landon, Schütz, Astrid, Seifert, Matthias, Sevincer, A.T., Kara-Yakoubian, Mane, Sherman, Garrick T., Simonsson, Otto, Sung, Ming-Chien, Tai, Chung-Ching, Talhelm, Thomas, Teachman, Bethany A., Tetlock, Philip E., Thomakos, Dimitrios, Tse, Dwight C. K. & Twardus, Oliver J.
(2023)
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change
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Furnham, Adrian & Sherman, Ryne A.
(2023)
Beliefs about personal change
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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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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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Cuppello, Stephen; Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Personality and management level: Traits that get you to the top
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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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Furnham, Adrian & Robinson, Charlotte
(2023)
Correlates of Self-Assessed Optimism
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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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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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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.
Doi:
10.1111/joop.12426
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Lai, Linda
(2023)
The effects of social vs. personal power on universal dimensions of social perception
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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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Sadarić, Antonio & Skerlavaj, Miha
(2023)
Giving Sense to Change Leadership: Towards a Narrative-Based Process Model
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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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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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Eitan, Avri; Fishhendler, Itay & van Marrewijk, Alfons
(2023)
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
White-Collar Crime
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Kamaei, Maryam & Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Understanding business offending: Survey research in Iran
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Karlsen, Jan Terje; Gjøby, Ingeborg & Rismyhr, Ingeborg
(2023)
A Study of Knowledge Transfer and Organizational Culture in Two Project-Intensive IT Organizations
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Daouk-Öyry, Lina
(2023)
Call of duty: When scholars organize in extreme contexts
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Violations of the social license to operate: Evidence from fraud investigation reports
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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
Work & Stress.
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Daniel, Carole; Hülsheger, Ute R., Kudesia, Ravi S., Sankaran, Shankar & Wang, Linzhuo
(2023)
Mindfulness in projects
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Kamaei, Maryam; Abolhasani, Salameh, Farhood, Naghmeh & Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Women and white-collar crime - A comparative study of Iranian and Norwegian offenders
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 14(4), p. 1-18.
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Olsen, Olav Kjellevold; Ågotnes, Kari Wik, Hetland, Jørn, Espevik, Roar & Ravnanger, 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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Dearden, Thomas & Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Convenience Theory and Cybercrime Opportunity: An Analysis of
Online Cyber Offending
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Mayiwar, Lewend & Hærem, Thorvald
(2023)
Open-Office Noise and Information Processing
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Purpose: We draw on arousal-based models to develop and test a model of open-office noise and information processing. Specifically, we examined whether open-office noise changes how people process information and whether such a change has consequences for task performance.
Design/Methodology/Approach: In a laboratory experiment, we randomly assigned participants (107 students at a business school) to either a silent condition or a condition that exposed them to open-office noise (irrelevant speech) while completing a task that requires cognitive flexibility. We measured participants’ physiological arousal and the extent to which they processed information intuitively and analytically during the task.
Findings: Open-office noise increased urgent processing and decreased analytical processing, which led to a respective decrease and increase in task performance. In line with a neuroscientific account of cognitive processing, an increase in arousal (subjective and physiological) drove the detrimental effect of open-office noise on task performance.
Practical Implications: Understanding the information-processing consequences of open-office noise can help managers make more informed decisions about workplace environments that facilitate performance.
Originality: Our study is one of the first to examine the indirect effects of open-office noise on task performance through intuitive and analytical processing, while simultaneously testing and providing support for the accompanying physiological mechanism.
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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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Rønningstad, Chris; Andreassen, Tone Alm, Breit, Eric & Minas, Renate
(2023)
Reform Pathways for Integrating Employment Assistance to Marginalised Groups
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Villanova, Ana Luisa; Pina e Cunha, Miguel & Carlsen, Arne
(2023)
How Crisis May Generate and Sustain Creative Cycles: The Role of Problem Persistence
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Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Dille, Therese & Hernes, Tor
(2023)
Temporality
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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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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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Furnham, Adrian & Robinson, Charlotte
(2023)
Correlates of beliefs about, and solutions to, the problem of evil
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Bashirpour Bonab, Aysan; 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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Biersteker, Erwin & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2023)
Integrating knowledge in infrastructure projects: the interplay between formal and informal knowledge governance mechanisms
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Furnham, Adrian & Cuppello, Stephen
(2023)
Exploring the relationship between personalityand 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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Furnham, Adrian & Cuppello, Stephen
(2023)
Maladaptive (dark-side) and adaptive (bright-side) personality traits and defense styles
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This study explores the relationship between bright- and dark-side personality traits and four major styles of
defense mechanisms (DMs) as this relationship remains unexplored and important in understanding the DMs. In
all, 435 adult working participants (241 men; 194 women; Mean age 46.06 yrs) mainly in middle management
jobs, completed a 78-item, six-trait measure of bright-side personality (HPTI: High Potential Type Indicator), a
25-item five-trait measure of the dark-side personality (PID-5;BF: DSM-5—Brief Form) and 88-item, four-styles
measure of defense mechanisms (Defense Style Questionnaire). The aim was to examine demographic (sex,
age, education), ideological and personality trait correlates of the DMs. It was hypothesized that the dark-side
traits, particularly Detachment would be most strongly related to the DMs. Thereafter, a hierarchical linear
regression was performed with each DM factor as criterion and predictors being demography, ideology, selfesteem as well as bright- and dark-side personality traits. Detachment was associated with all DMs, particularly Maladaptive (r = 0.68) and Image Distorting Style (r = 0.38) while Conscientiousness was associated with
none. One implication concerns the assessment of DMs by standard tests. Limitations are acknowledged and
include method invariance and sample homogeneity.
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Boustani, Lynn; Furnham, Adrian & Grover, Simmy
(2023)
Openness to Experience, Fluid Intelligence and Secondary Psychopathology
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Swami, Viren; Tran, Ulrich S., Stieger, Stefan, Aavik, Toivo, Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour, Adebayo, Sulaiman Olanrewaju, Afhami, Reza, Ahmed, Oli & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age
Body image, 46, p. 449-466.
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The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset – with data collected between 2020 and 2022 – to assess measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis indicated that full scalar invariance was upheld across all nations, languages, gender identities, and age groups, suggesting that the unidimensional BAS-2 model has widespread applicability. There were large differences across nations and languages in latent body appreciation, while differences across gender identities and age groups were negligible-to-small. Additionally, greater body appreciation was significantly associated with higher life satisfaction, being single (versus being married or in a committed relationship), and greater rurality (versus urbanicity). Across a subset of nations where nation-level data were available, greater body appreciation was also significantly associated with greater cultural distance from the United States and greater relative income inequality. These findings suggest that the BAS-2 likely captures a near-universal conceptualisation of the body appreciation construct, which should facilitate further cross-cultural research.
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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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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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Bashirpour Bonab, Aysan; Fedele, Maria, Formisano, Vincenzo & Rudko, Ihor
(2023)
In complexity we trust: A systematic literature review of urban quantum technologies
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Jevnaker, Birgit Helene & Olaisen, Johan Leif
(2023)
Reimagining Power and Micro Politics in Project Organizations
Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, 24(1), p. 591-598.
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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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Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Danielsen, Anne G, Urke, Helga Bjørnøy, Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes & Aanes, Mette
(2023)
The positive feedback loop between academic self-efficacy, academic initiative, and grade point average: a parallel process latent growth curve model
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Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Personality and wealth
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Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Life is not Fair: Get Used to It! A Personal Perspective on Contemporary Social Justice Research
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Cuppello, Stephen; Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Intelligence, Personality and Tolerance of Ambiguity
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Solli-Sæther, Hans; Karlsen, Jan Terje & Slyngstad, Andrea Blindheim
(2023)
Manufacturing backsourcing: a case study of a company's process framework
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Mayiwar, Lewend; Hærem, Thorvald & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Individual differences in fear and self-distancing predict information processing via problem construal
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In two preregistered online studies (NTotal = 984; Prolific), we examined how individual differences in fear and self-distancing predict information processing in decision-making involving risk in a business scenario. Dispositional fear was positively related to urgent and affective intuitive processing and negatively related to analytical processing. Self-distancing was positively related to analytical processing. These relations occurred indirectly via problem construal. Dispositional fear predicted less concrete problem construal, which in turn predicted more urgent intuitive processing and less analytical processing. In contrast, habitual self-distancing predicted more concrete problem construal, which in turn predicted more analytical processing and less urgent intuitive processing. Surprisingly, dispositional fear had a negative indirect relation with affective intuitive processing via more abstract problem construal, and habitual self-distancing had a positive indirect relation with affective processing via more concrete problem construal. Overall, these findings suggest that, in contrast to emotionally regulated decision-makers, fearful decision-makers’ tendency to construe problems less concretely (i.e., more abstractly) might hinder their ability to concretize and analyze problems involving risk.
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Johansen, Rino Bandlitz & Arnulf, Jan Ketil
(2023)
Introduksjon: Forsvarets utvikling av ledere og ledelse- en nødvendig del av profesjonen eller et lappverk for spesielt interesserte?
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Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Johansen, Rino Bandlitz
(2023)
Hvor går veien videre?
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Jevnaker, Birgit Helene & Olaisen, Johan Leif
(2023)
Reimagining Power and Micropolitics in Project Organizations
Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, 24(1), p. 591-598.
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Olaisen, Johan Leif & Jevnaker, Birgit Helene
(2023)
A Comparative Study of ECKM Papers 2017-2022
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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 2020 and 2021. In 2022, the conference was arranged in Naples as a digital conference. 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 five 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 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 2021 and 2022 conferences represent a turning point for critical sustainability and digitalization papers that clarify subjectivity through action-based research. The 2021 and 2022 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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Karlsen, Jan Terje; Balsvik, Erika & Rønnevik, Marie
(2023)
A study of employees’ utilization of microlearning platforms in organizations
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Sainati, Tristano; Locatelli, Giorgio & Mignacca, Benito
(2023)
Social sustainability of energy infrastructures: The role of the programme governance framework