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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Manager’s Creativity?

Dul, Jan; Ceylan, Ceylan, C.; Aytac, Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This paper explores whether the manager’s physical office work environment can stimulate the manager’s creativity. A total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential and physical elements of office environments shown in 25...

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Necessary Condition Hypotheses in Operations Management

Dul, Jan; Hak, Hak, A.; Goertz, Goertz, G.; Voss, Voss, C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Purpose – To show that necessary condition hypotheses are important in operations management, and to present a consistent methodology for building and testing them. Necessary condition hypotheses (“X is necessary for Y”) express conditions that must be present in order to have a desired...

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Theory-Testing With Cases

Dul, Jan; Hak, Hak, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Theory-testing with cases is ascertaining whether the empirical evidence in a case or in a sample of cases either supports or does not support the theory. There are two methodologies for theory-testing with cases, (a) testing in a single case (‘theory-testing single case study’), and (b)...

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Human Factors: Spanning the Gap between OM & HRM

Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

-being and operations system performance. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted using a general and two specialist … included quality, productivity, implementation performance of new technologies, and also more ‘intangible’ effects in terms of …-term impact on operational performance. Practical implications: The application of HF in operations system design can support …

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Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies

Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of … control cycles in organizations to ensure business performance, and 2) the desired situation in which ergonomics is an …

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Pattern matching

Dul, Jan; Hak, Hak, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Pattern matching is comparing two patterns in order to determine whether they match (i.e., that they are the same) or do not match (i.e., that they differ). Pattern matching is the core procedure of theory-testing with cases. Testing consists of matching an “observed pattern” (a pattern of...

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Theory-Building With Cases

Dul, Jan; Hak, Hak, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Theory-building with cases is (a) formulating new propositions that emerge from the empirical evidence in a sample of cases and (b) testing them in the same sample. The main difference with most other forms of generating new propositions (such as analyzing the theoretical literature,...

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Replication

Dul, Jan; Hak, Hak, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Replication is conducting a study in another case (or population) in order to assess whether a research finding from previous studies can be confirmed. The aim of replication is to assess the generalizability of a theoretical claim and the “research finding” that is (or is not) confirmed in...

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