Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2023-11-20
Abstract： Performing explorative and exploitative behaviors simultaneously is a key means for teams to quickly adapt to environmental and task changes. How to improve team ambidexterity is an important topic of concern in theoretical and management practice. Although scholars have conducted preliminary analyses on the antecedents of team ambidexterity, conclusions at the between-team level can only be used to identify ambidextrous teams but not to answer the question of how to cultivate team ambidexterity. Based on the "differentiation-integration" framework, this study argues that the realization of team ambidexterity requires team members to obtain and process different types of information. Open collective reflexivity activities provide a rich source of information for teams. However, reflexivity activities are highly complex and resource-consuming, and companies need to use reflexivity interventions (e.g., team reflexivity training) to guide teams to engage in reflexivity activities on their own initiative. The team information processing model states that teams enhance team effectiveness and adaptability through two paths of information sharing and integration. Based on the above deduction, this study suggests that meta-knowledge sharing and perspective picking are the key cognitive mechanisms through which team reflexivity training positively influences team ambidexterity development.
We test our theoretical propositions in an experimental study and a quasiexperimental study. In Study 1, we conducted a course experiment with students and seven wave measurement waves over 4 months, resulting in 630 observations from 90 teams. We invited 360 undergraduates majoring in economics or management from a university in southern China. We randomly and equally assigned 360 college students into 90 teams and then divided the teams into experimental and control groups. We gave the experimental group team reflexivity training and assisted them with reflexivity activities in subsequent sessions, while the control group was given team building training to avoid a placebo effect. We measured team ambidexterity at all seven measurement waves and team reflexivity after and before intervention using established scales and items. Conditional latent growth modeling was applied to test the slope difference of the team ambidexterity trend between the experimental and control groups. To investigate the theoretical hypotheses in Study 2, we further conducted a quasiexperimental study, which took one year and involved three measurement waves; the study resulted in 222 observations from 74 teams. We invited a total of 656 employees from R&D teams in 26 companies engaged in high-tech industries related to information technology, precision instruments, and biopharmaceuticals in a southern Chinese province in this study. Seventy-four R&D teams were randomly and equally divided into experimental and control groups. We gave the experimental group team reflexivity training in the first month and required them to conduct a formal reflexivity activity at a regular time each week (or two weeks) thereafter. We measured team ambidexterity in the first and second measurement waves and meta-knowledge sharing and perspective taking in the second and third measurement waves. To account for the mediating effect of meta-knowledge sharing and perspective taking between team reflexivity training and team ambidexterity development, latent change score modeling was applied.
The statistical analyses supported our hypotheses. The results of Study 1 showed that teams that did not participate in team reflexivity training showed a nonsignificant downward trend in team duality; in contrast, teams that participated in reflexivity training showed a significant upward trend in team ambidexterity. Based on this, for Study 2, we further analyzed the mediating role of meta-knowledge sharing and perspective taking and improved the external validity of the Study 1 finding with a quasiexperimental research design. It was found that teams' meta-knowledge sharing and perspective taking improved after participating in reflexivity training, which led to an increase in team ambidexterity.
By increasing our understanding of how to improve team ambidexterity and the key information cognitive mechanisms of it, our study contributes to the literature in three ways. First, this study provides rich empirical evidence for ambidexterity research by confirming the role of team reflexivity training in sustainably enhancing team ambidexterity. The findings support the consistent view of team reflexivity training research that it is effective in enhancing team adaptability as a management intervention. At the same time, this study bridges the gap regarding how to help teams build the capacity to perform ambidextrous behaviors, responding to the call for research on "exploring how to guide paradoxical coping into a beneficial developmental process”. Second, based on the "differentiation-integration" framework and the team information processing model, this study infers and confirms that team meta-knowledge sharing and perspective taking are important cognitive processes that influence the development of team ambidexterity through team reflexivity training. The findings are not only consistent with the view that "information exchange and adoption among team members is necessary for team ambidexterity" but also expand ambidexterity research from a cognitive perspective. Meanwhile, the findings enrich the narrow research on the team information processing model in enhancing team adaptability and flexibility and reaffirm the fundamental role of efficient information processing in determining team effectiveness. Third, this study introduces the element of time in the empirical study of team ambidexterity for the first time, deepening the understanding of the nature of ambidexterity dynamics. The results found that team ambidexterity was unable to show positive trends over time, which is consistent with the expected negative self-reinforcing effect. This suggests that our team members are not willing to consistently adopt complex behavioral patterns such as ambidexterity for work but instead prefer specific activities due to behavioral inertia.
Our findings also offer empirical evidence that companies need to provide reflexivity courses for their teams to help members acquire and develop good work rethinking habits. At the same time, supervisors can activate and optimize the team information processing process by developing corresponding systems (e.g., a set time and frequency), providing necessary support (e.g., venue and accompanying guidance), and building a good team climate to continuously improve team ambidexterity.
Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Information Science submitted time 2023-07-20
Abstract： [Purpose/Significance] The study aims to explore the construction of a social group information behavior and public opinion topic graph during significant emergencies. This research helps to better understand the evolution of public opinion during such events and identify sensitive public opinion topics. By doing so, it enables positive public opinion guidance, which plays a crucial role in emergency response and maintaining social stability. [Method/Process] This paper utilizes Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to construct a graph for the clustering and evolution of public opinion topics related to social group information behavior. Additionally, it builds a graph depicting the evolution of public opinion topic popularity based on temporal characteristics. Lastly, it constructs a graph illustrating the evolution of public opinion topic paths based on similarity. Furthermore, a process model for constructing the social group information behavior and public opinion topic graph during significant emergencies is presented. [Result/Conclusion] The research results indicate that the proposed analysis model for public opinion topics during significant emergencies effectively analyzes the characteristics of public opinion topics related to social group information behavior on social media. It also identifies factors influencing the popularity of these topics and identifies optimal paths for topic diffusion. This study provides a new theoretical framework and analysis methods for analyzing social group information behavior and public opinion during significant emergencies. It also offers valuable insights for guiding online public opinion and public opinion governance during such events.
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Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Library Science submitted time 2023-04-10
Abstract：目的/意义 立足政务部门视角，厘清其在跨部门政务数据共享中面临的参与困境及其形成机理，有助推动政务数据跨界流动。 方法/过程 本文在阐析跨部门政务数据共享理论内涵的基础上，结合案例调研结果，构建了一个以解释参与困境成因为目的的理论框架。 结果/结论 跨部门政务数据共享的本质是各政务部门在不破坏行政边界前提下，共同配置政务数据权属并共创数据资产价值的过程。不支持共享的部门间协作制度和共享数据特征，是参与困境形成的主要动因，破解困境应从部门间统筹管理、共享过程协调和数据权属界定等多方聚力。
Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Philology submitted time 2023-03-24
Abstract： [Purpose/Significance] The members of the imperial clan in the Qing Dynasty were a group with blood relationship with the emperor, which constituted the core of the power of the Qing Dynasty. This study analyzed the rank and path iteration of the imperial clan titles, in order to enrich the research results of the imperial clan titles in the Qing Dynasty, and provide reference for subsequent scholars to further analyze the titles system and conduct other related research. [Methods/Process] This study used quantitative analysis methods to mark and statistically analyze the title roll of Examples of the Imperial Qing Festival, and based on the "Imperial Titles List" in the 13th year of Qianlong's reign, an iterative analysis of the path of the descendants of the imperial clan was carried out. [Results/Conclusion] The research found that the number of content items in the title roll of the Examples of the Imperial Qing Festival showed a decreasing trend from "title rank" to "title". The temporary regulations were mainly concentrated in the Qianlong Dynasty and before, while the specific events were mainly distributed in the Qianlong Dynasty and after. The iterative analysis of the path greatly reflects the importance of the status of descendants in the Qing clan. At the same time, the strict ranking of titles, together with the way of descending and examination, and the way of inheriting titles by generations and specific times, avoid the superfluous titles of the imperial family to some extent which helped maintain the social stability of the Qing Dynasty.
Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Library Science submitted time 2023-02-16
Abstract： Purpose/significance The government-citizen interaction data is of great value to improve social governance. Based on the perspective of distributed cognition, this paper applies the idea of interactive narrative to the analysis of government-citizen interaction data, and provides ideas and method guidance for the efficient transmission of the value of government-citizen interaction data. Method/process Drawing on the distributed cognitive theory of psychology and the idea of interactive narrative in storytelling engineering, the interdisciplinary research method is used to analyse the cognitive subject, the cognitive object and the cognitive environment of the interactive narrative of government-citizen interaction data. On this basis, the model of interactive narrative is proposed from the perspective of the cognitive object, and the realization path of interactive narrative is explored from the perspective of the cognitive environment. Result/conclusion Compared with the traditional static narrative, interactive narrative is more flexible, and the distributed cognitive theory provides a systematic theoretical framework for the realization of interactive narrative of government-citizen interactive data, which has an important guiding significance for giving play to the decision-making enabling value of government-citizen interactive data.
Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Library Science submitted time 2022-11-28
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Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2022-09-21
Abstract：
Does significant new venture progress always encourage nascent entrepreneurs to dedicate more effort to new venture creation? Although previous entrepreneurship research has demonstrated that new venture progress influences entrepreneurs’ subsequent behavior (i.e., entrepreneurial effort), it has yet to come to a consistent conclusion on the positive or negative impact of significant new venture progress. Drawing on motivational self-regulation frame, we offered competing hypotheses with respect to the association between new venture progress and subsequent entrepreneurial effort. Furthermore, entrepreneurial self-efficacy played an important mediating role in these relationships. More specifically, consistent with prior findings of the self-regulation view on expanding the differences, we argue that the more progress entrepreneurs achieve, the more entrepreneurial self-efficacy they perceive, and the more effort they devote. However, the self-regulation view on narrowing the differences suggests that entrepreneurs gain vast progress at work, which boosts their entrepreneurial self-efficacy but subsequently leads them to reduce their efforts, possibly because of overconfidence. Therefore, we propose a novel, longitudinal mediated model of new venture progress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial effort. In addition, research on self-regulation has suggested that regulatory foci have always been a boundary condition in the self-regulation process. By integrating motivational self-regulation frame and regulation focus theory, we propose that regulation foci moderate these longitudinal mediated relationships.We test our theoretical propositions in two field surveys with nascent entrepreneurs. In Study 1, we conducted a field survey with three measurement waves over 6 months, resulting in 345 observations from 115 participants. We invited nascent entrepreneurs whose new ventures were still alive yet less than six months from the incubators of Jilin, Shandong, Guangdong, and Sichuan provinces. We measured new venture progress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial effort at all three measurement waves using established scales and items. We conducted the RI-CLPM approach to analyze the relationships between new venture progress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial effort. To investigate the theoretical hypotheses in Study 2, we further conducted another field survey, which took 15 months and six measurement waves, resulting in 420 observations from 70 participants. New venture progress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial effort were collected at six measurement waves, and regulatory foci were collected at the first measurement wave. To account for the moderating effect of a between-person variable (i.e., regulatory foci) on the within-person relationships (i.e., the abovementioned relationships between new venture progress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial effort), random coefficient growth modeling was applied.The statistical analyses mostly supported our hypotheses. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy mediated the effect of new venture progress on entrepreneurial effort. Furthermore, the results showed that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is responsible for the negative effect of new venture progress on subsequent entrepreneurial effort. In other words, prior significant new venture progress would lead to high perceptions in one’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy, which may result in less subsequent entrepreneurial effort, possibly because of the overconfidence due to the high entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Additionally, our results showed that entrepreneurs’ promotion focus/prevention focus strengthened/attenuated the direct negative relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy (Tn) and entrepreneurial effort (Tn+1) and also strengthened the indirect negative relationship between new venture progress (Tn–1) and entrepreneurial effort (Tn+1). However, the negative relation between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial efforts became nonsignificant when the prevention focus was high.By increasing our understanding of the complex relationship between new venture progress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial effort, our study contributes to the literature in three ways. First, drawing on the self-regulation views on expanding and narrowing the differences, we contribute to the emerging yet still underresearched field concerning the role of entrepreneurs’ self-regulation. Previous research has complex and ambiguous, even contradicted conclusions regarding the relationship between new venture progress and subsequent entrepreneurial effort. However, by considering self-regulation views, our findings showed that the more progress the entrepreneurs made, the more self-efficacy they perceived, and the less effort they would subsequently devote. By clarifying it, our study offers a different yet comprehensive paradigm for understanding the dynamic nature of entrepreneurship under the self-regulation views. Second, by investigating the role of regulatory focus in modifying entrepreneurs’ self-regulation process, we further uncover the boundary condition of the abovementioned relationships and, more importantly, confirm the possible negative effect of promotion focus in the entrepreneurial process. In particular, our findings offer empirical evidence that entrepreneurs with high promotion focus dampen the development of negative effects stemming from high entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Since entrepreneurs’ states, behaviors, and situations fluctuate regularly and the result of the negative effect may be generally detrimental for nascent entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with a high promotion focus should pay attention to their entrepreneurial self-efficacy to avoid a negative impact. Third, in revealing the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we further uncovered the time-varying and progressive aspects of new venture creation. The conventional, time-invariant perspective fails to capture complex and dynamic states and only shows the positive aspects of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. However, in our study, drawing on motivational self-regulation frame, we uncover the negative aspects of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and confirm the progressive nature of the entrepreneurial process. By doing so, we offer a means to facilitate future entrepreneurship research to emphasize the constructs and their relationships with one another that may not be possible with a time-invariant, interindividual perspective.
Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Information Science submitted time 2022-09-01
Abstract： ［Purpose /significance］Briefings are an important intelligence product. Unesco publishes a large amount of high-value specialized literature, and in order to meet the needs of users for international expertise, it is necessary to quickly develop information briefings and improve intelligence services. Method /Process Based on the “Selective Attention Decay Theory” in Cognitive Science, this paper investigates the Generation of Information Briefings as an analog process of human cognitive information processing, and investigates the method of Automatic Cross-Linguistic Summary Generation. Based on the “ Decay Model” of Selective Attention, an integrated design was developed using the Cognitive Load Capacity at three levels: topics, topic sentences, and briefings. Then, the KeyBERT and Transformer algorithms were used to extract topic words and generate abstracts for the scientific and technical reports published by Unesco, and the information briefings were generated quickly and evaluated using Information Entropy and ROUGE Values. Result/conclusion The experiments show that the method has advantages in Information Entropy and ROUGE-2 and ROUGE-L Values, indicating that the Selective Attention Decay Model can improve the summary effect and cover the core information of the text. The study further finds that the close integration of Cognitive Science and Computational Models has a significant effect on improving the interpretability and scientific quality of information briefings, resulting in a computable and interpretable model for Information Briefing Generation and knowledge services.
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Subjects: Management Science >> Management Engineering submitted time 2022-07-03
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[Purpose/significance]The development of Internet communication has brought more fierce competition for the promotion and marketing of mobile app products, and the induced advertising marketing model has gradually been respected by app manufacturers. Exploring the impact of the design of APP induced advertising elements on users' willingness to use app will help app manufacturers choose an appropriate product marketing model and expand downloads and usage. [Method/process]Based on the technology acceptance model and perceived risk theory, a prototype of simulated app induced advertising web page was developed by experimental method to reproduce the whole process from Click to download, embedded in the questionnaire to collect data, and analyzed the data by structural equation model method. [Results/Conclusion]Four design factors of APP induced advertising are defined through coding and clustering: necessary reminder, clarity of reminder, installation options and consistency between advertising and app. The study found that users' perceived risk of APP induced advertising will reduce app use intention, and users' satisfaction with app induced advertising will improve users' app use intention; Four app induced advertising design factors will improve users' willingness to use app to varying degrees.
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