An Integrative Conceptual Framework for Friendship Research

An Integrative Conceptual Framework for Friendship Research

In light of the increase in the number and rigor of studies on adult friendship and the tendency of kin and neighbor relationships to have become more structurally similar to friendship, this is a crucial juncture at which to pause and assess what we know and do not know about adult friendship, to begin a needed theoretical synthesis, to identify gaps in the literature and to produce guidelines...

Organizational learning and capabilities : An integrative conceptual framework

Organizational learning (Bontis, Crossan and Hulland, 2002) and capabilities (Barney, 1991) have been argued to increase performance. Recently, connections have been established between organizational learning and capabilities. On the one hand, learning has been considered as a capability (Hult and Ketchen, 2001; Goh, 2003; Henri, 2006), leading to the idea of “learning capability”. On the othe...

An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social–ecological research

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org O the past 50 years, ecosystems have been altered by humans more than at any other time in recorded history (Vitousek et al. 1997; Chapin et al. 2010), and those changes have resulted in reciprocal effects on human wellbeing (MA 2005). Although health and wealth have, on average, improved, in part as a consequence of these ecosystem...

An Extended Conceptual Framework for Transformative Service Research

AIRFrame: Astrobiology Integrative Research Framework

Introduction: Astrobiology is by nature a system-level science , meaning that it is concerned with complex, multidisciplinary, multiphenomena behaviors of large physical and biological systems. Due to the breadth of the undertakings in astrobiolog-ical inquiry, researchers in the field must rely heavily on information technology to consolidate and represent knowledge and data from across many d...