Combining the perspectives of upper echelon theory and institutional theory, we investigate how top managers’ sport experience exploits corporate environmental proactivity in China embed this question into state ownership. With sample Chinese listing enterprises from 2008 to 2018, find that both ownership positively promote proactivity, while crowds out promotion experience. Further analyses sh...

My research is on proactiveness in robots. By the term proactive I understand a robot that is able to generate and select among its own goals and pursue activities towards their achievement. Consider the following example: Anna, who owns a personal robot, has instructions from her physician to take pills daily at meal times. Not taking the pills can result in Anna being unwell. Throughout the d...

This article adds several conceptual and theoretical reflections to the “Career proactivity: A bibliometric literature review a future research agenda” by Jiang et al. The authors conducted timely relevant study analyzing integrating on career proactivity from domains of organizational vocational behavior. Prior has clearly demonstrated that these areas are still largely operating as separate “...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this pilot study was to examine our hypothesis that enriching workplace emotional intelligence through resident coaches could improve third-year medical students' adaptability and proactivity on the Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship. METHODS An observational pilot study was conducted in a teaching hospital. Fourteen 3rd year medical students from two cohorts of cler...

Innovative and widely distributed applications are enabled by infrastructure layers that allow distributed resources and services to be pooled and managed as though they were locally available. Advances in communication technologies and the proliferation of computing devices have made this possible; two such types of infrastructures are pervasive computing environments and computational grids. ...

In a study, we carried out a validation of the Proactive Personality Scale (PPS; Seibert, Crant, & Kraimer, 1999), that measures the inclination to take action and change the environment to realize one’s goals. Participants were 139 employees, working in two companies. The majority of participants were blue-collar workers. The instrument used was a questionnaire. A 7-item version of the scale w...

Abstract With the growing interest in joint effects of individual and contextual factors predicting team member proactivity, this paper examines why when pursuing one's career calling can lead to proactivity. Drawing on Work as a Calling Theory, we propose that “living out calling” explains employees' perceived positively relates proactivity especially employee receives high levels mentoring su...