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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Learning Orientation"”.
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Instructors' message variables and students' learning orientation/grade orientation and affective learning
… instructors' message variables and students' learning orientation (LO), grade orientation (GO), and affective learning. Participants were 193 students (109 men, 83 women) enrolled in introductory communication courses at a large eastern university. Participants completed the Revised …
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Critical Indicators for Apparel SMEs Performance; Market Orientation, Learning Orientation, and Innovation
… was to generalize the findings about market orientation, learning orientation, innovation and performance to the textile and apparel context in South Korea, specifically to SMEs, and, in addition, to investigate the role of informal relationships in SMEs within the presence of these other …
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Enabling marketing and innovation capability in the digital economy.
… capabilities and firm performance. The market orientation and the resource-based view that underpin marketing capabilities have mainly treated marketing as internal capability of the firm. As firms are increasingly inter-connected and part of a business networks, a firm’s marketing capabilities …
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The Effect of Adoption of Commercial Business Practices on Social Enterprise Performance: An Empirical Study from the UK
… practices refers to the adoption of market orientation, learning orientation, market disruptiveness capability, new product development capability, and ‘trade vs. grant dependency’. The dissertation comprises three independent but interrelated empirical essays. The first essay (Chapter 2) …
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Influence of business strategy on firm's capability to innovate: investigation into employee perception of business strategy, market orientation, learning orientation and the favourability of the innovation implementation context on multiple hierarchical levels in a single multi-national organization in the FMCG industry
… integrates the conceptualization of Innovation Orientation with a processual perspective on innovation and the Dynamic Capabilities View to gain a holistic perspective on a firm’s innovation. Furthermore, it emphasizes the role of managers and strategy makers to determine the level and …
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Factors Affecting Cross-Cultural Adjustment Of Taiwanese Expatriates Assigned to Subsidiary Companies In Mainland China
… factors, job satisfaction, family support, learning orientation, organization socialization as well as cross-cultural training and cross-cultural adjustment of Taiwanese expatriates assigned to Mainland China. The empirical outcomes relevant to Taiwanese expatriates located in Mainland China …
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What mediates the effects of market orientation on performance?: the case of high technology companies in South Africa
Conventional market orientation philosophy holds that behavioural and philosophical cultural aspects of marketing are fundamental to an organisation. Prior research on strategic orientation in marketing research has focused on the construct of market orientation, which has been shown to have strong …
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An investigation into the individual antecedents that enable women leaders to adopt a paradox mindset to achieve leadership effectiveness
… to role models and exposure to organisational learning orientation. Data was gathered using an online questionnaire based on existing leadership scales. The research approach was quantitative and explanatory, and the method positivist and deductive. Regression analysis was used to test the six …
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What mediates the effects of market orientation on performance? : the case of high technology companies in South Africa
Conventional market orientation philosophy holds that behavioural and philosophical/cultural aspects of marketing are fundamental to an organisation. Prior research on strategic orientation in marketing research has focused on the construct of market orientation, which has been shown to have strong …
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Learning orientations and related instructional perspectives within educational programs for male spouse abusers
… from the perspective of the group instructor's learning orientation. In-depth interviewing and other qualitative methods were employed to examine how instructors viewed the various aspects of these programs. The study reported the espoused learning orientations of instructors and how their …
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Gamma, beta, and alpha change in individuals following a developmental assessment center
… center. In addition, the role of trait goal orientation was hypothesized as a potential correlate of change type. The results lend support to a tripartite conception of change, in that participants differentially exhibited gamma, beta, and alpha change in each of the six dimensions assessed …
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Business models: obstructer or driver of early-stage entrepreneurial businesses in the west-coast district municipality, south africa? a model for change.
… role of dynamic capabilities. Adaptability, a learning orientation, and resilient entrepreneurial mindsets play a crucial role in facilitating the innovation of business models and their alignment with challenging circumstances. The study contributes to the literature by positioning business …
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The Effects of Goal Orientation and Type of Feedback on Perceived Competence and Performance
The theory of goal orientation holds that persons will generally be motivated by one of three goal orientations in an achievement setting: a learning orientation, a performance-prove orientation, or a performance-avoid orientation. These goal orientations create the mental frameworks that an …
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What are the potential enablers and barriers to cultivating self-directed lifelong learning in the workplace in Sub-Saharan economies – a South African case study?
… inhibit the cultivation of selfdirected lifelong learning among adults within a working environment – which according to Illeris' interpretation is, “learning in the workplace that takes place in the encounter between the learning environments of the workplace and the employees' learning …
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Examining Online Delivered Orientation To Online Learning Association With Community College Student Success
… student completion of an online delivered orientation (OLO) to online learning and the student success factors of end of course grades and course completion. This study was conducted because course completion rates in online courses are unacceptably low. Educational institution …
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The Impact of Human Capital on Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
… by studying the relationship between learning orientation and entrepreneurial orientation. Using a meta-analysis methodology, this study finds a fairly high correlation of 0.44 between learning and entrepreneurial orientations. The findings indicate that these two orientations have a …
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Knowledge management orientation, organisational capabilities and performance: an empirical test of performance relationships using structural equation modeling
… of organisational capabilities, such as market orientation, organisational learning and innovation. The task of this research is to provide empirical evidence and test these theoretical propositions. More explicitly, the main objective of this research is to identify the relationships between …
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An investigation of antecedents of knowledge management among hospitality employees, with the focus on human factors, related to leaders and subordinates.
… knowledge oriented leadership (KOL), supervisory orientations, and Leader Member Exchange (LMX), as antecedents of KM. This thesis also examines the mediating effect of employee work attitudes, i.e. affective commitment, creative self-efficacy, and employee work engagement in the relationship of …
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Market Foresight Capability: Determinants And New Product Outcomes
… added]. Although Day asserted that market orientation captures the essence of a market sensing capability, researchers have suggested that market orientation, by itself, does not provide the requisite ability to develop competitive advantage because of its focus on detecting rather than …
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