A preliminary study of social interaction in the classroom

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Sociology, 1930

Biblical Worldview Development While Learning Origins Science

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenology was to understand the lived experience of how homeschooled high school students integrate origins science into a biblical worldview. For this study, biblical worldview development is the process of faith development in either form or content through an individual’s understanding and application of the Bible. The theoretical framework guiding this study is Fowler’s faith development theory as it relates an individual’s physical, mental, and moral growth to the development of their worldview. This study sought to answer the following research question: how do homeschooled high school students integrate origins science into a biblical worldview? Participants were selected from homeschooled families from across the United States. Data collection included free word association documents, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group. The result of this study is a model for biblical worldview development that explains the lived experience of homeschoolers integrating origins science into a biblical worldview through the components of preparation, education, determination, and reflection. Parents significantly influence the components of the resulting model, causing participants to develop their worldview according to that of their parents. The resulting model for biblical worldview development aligns with the faith stages of Fowler’s faith development theory and supports the latter’s use as a worldview development theory

Reframing Opportunism in Strategic Alliances

Literature suggests that opportunism in strategic alliances reduces performance by limiting collaborative opportunities, inciting retaliation, and causing reputational damage. While acknowledging that this is likely when opportunistic behavior is egregious, we suggest that modest instances of opportunism may not follow the same pattern. Building from in-depth interviews with alliance managers, we underscore how opportunism can occur at varying levels of intensity that may generate different performance outcomes. We argue that mildly opportunistic behavior can enhance performance through superior private benefits in addition to common benefits; while preserving or increasing future performance. By illustrating how opportunism can be beneficial, we demonstrate that it is a more complex behavior than extant strategic alliance research may impl

Coopetition: Value Creation Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Firms

Firm’s pursuing entrepreneurial rents often face challenges such as risk, uncertainty, and limited resources. Our paper lays out insights from three theoretical perspectives, the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities, and game theory, to illustrate how coopetition can be a significant source of value creation in this context. We suggest that the types of resources most relevant for value creation are often held by competitors, who are servicing similar customers and confronting similar challenges. This facilitates access to complementary resources where internal development is time-consuming or costly. In addition, competitors can use each other’s knowledge and resource flow to extend and upgrade resources in dynamic environments. This enables positive-sum outcomes that exceed the sum-total of value creation efforts if pursued independently. Our paper illuminates underpinning value creating mechanisms in coopetition, demonstrates unique benefits that may be exclusively available to entrepreneurial firms, and underscores the value creating potential of coopetition

Reframing Opportunism in Strategic Alliances

Literature suggests that opportunism in strategic alliances reduces performance by limiting collaborative opportunities, inciting retaliation, and causing reputational damage. While acknowledging that this is likely when opportunistic behavior is egregious, we suggest that modest instances of opportunism may not follow the same pattern. Building from in-depth interviews with alliance managers, we underscore how opportunism can occur at varying levels of intensity that may generate different performance outcomes. We argue that mildly opportunistic behavior can enhance performance through superior private benefits in addition to common benefits; while preserving or increasing future performance. By illustrating how opportunism can be beneficial, we demonstrate that it is a more complex behavior than extant strategic alliance research may impl

Coopetition: Value Creation Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Firms

Firm’s pursuing entrepreneurial rents often face challenges such as risk, uncertainty, and limited resources. Our paper lays out insights from three theoretical perspectives, the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities, and game theory, to illustrate how coopetition can be a significant source of value creation in this context. We suggest that the types of resources most relevant for value creation are often held by competitors, who are servicing similar customers and confronting similar challenges. This facilitates access to complementary resources where internal development is time-consuming or costly. In addition, competitors can use each other’s knowledge and resource flow to extend and upgrade resources in dynamic environments. This enables positive-sum outcomes that exceed the sum-total of value creation efforts if pursued independently. Our paper illuminates underpinning value creating mechanisms in coopetition, demonstrates unique benefits that may be exclusively available to entrepreneurial firms, and underscores the value creating potential of coopetition

Female Barrenness, Bodily Access and Aromatic Treatments in Seventeenth-Century England

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.Scholars examining medical practice in early modern England have often remarked upon the complexities of the relationship between male physicians and female patients. It has been noted that ideas of female modesty and concern about the potential erotic nature of contact between patients and practitioners could affect the treatment of certain disorders. This paper contributes to this on-going discussion by examining the use of pungent substances to diagnose and treat female barrenness. Diagnostic tests included in medical treatises could rely upon the woman’s ability to perceive a particular substance. These tests thus put women at the centre of the diagnosis of their disorders and allowed them to negotiate access to their reproductive bodies. Similarly medical practitioners included a range of treatments for infertility that involved the fumes of certain substances entering the womb or surrounding the body. These treatments may have allowed women, and perhaps their medical practitioners, to choose a method of remedy that did not involve the application of external lotions to the genitalia. Thus by considering the multi-sensory nature of medical treatment this paper will highlight that the diversity of remedies advocated in early modern medical texts would perhaps have allowed women to restrict access to their reproductive bodies, while still obtaining diagnosis and treatment.Peer reviewe