Effective knowledge sharing is vital to the success of international joint ventures. To ensure that organizational knowledge in a joint venture can be smoothly communicated and exchanged between its employees in a multiculture environment, the impact of culture on knowledge sharing needs to be well understood. This paper investigates the impact of culture on knowledge sharing in Chinese joint v...

Researching mindsets has become a topic of considerable interest in language learning. However, the majority studies tend to focus on learners and their mindsets, with very little research examining teachers, either in-service or pre-service. Yet, teachers' mindset beliefs about competences as educators are likely be fundamental willingness engage professional development how they cope challeng...

Purpose – Based on the cybernetic agency theory of part 1, the paper creates a parallel theory to Maruyama’s Mindscape theory called mindset theory, relying on the three-trait organisational value system of Sagiv and Schwartz that arises from extensive theoretical and empirical work on cultural values originally undertaken by Shalom Schwartz. The derived normative personality types are embedded...

Description: The report explains how to acquire, understand, and use real-time digitally generated data for new value creation opportunities through digital data stream generation and aggregation as well as services, efficiency, and analytics. Authors Gabe Piccoli and Federico Pigni also explore why a firm needs capabilities in datasets, toolsets, skillsets, and mindsets to exploit a digital da...

The effects of deliberative and implemental mindsets--cognitive and motivational states associated with predecisional and postdecisional frames of mind, respectively--were examined in the context of the self-regulation of behavior. Participants who had been induced to deliberate the merits of participating in a specified task formulated more pessimistic expectations about this task than did par...

Describes a new methodology “Outcomes-driven performance learning and development” (performance learning or PL) which addresses shortcomings often evident in the practice of action learning. These shortcomings include lack of systemic strategic framing, problem-structuring, problem-solving and learning processes founded narrowly on the scientific method without regard for readily accessible up-...