Decoding digital transformational outsourcing: The role of service providers’ capabilities

The business process outsourcing industry has got disrupted, first by the significant shift in value creation activities from the clients to the service providers, and second by pervasive digital penetration, resulting in the emergence of Digital Transformational Outsourcing (DTO). Service providers now play a more significant role, making their capabilities important. In the new context, service providers require a uniquely different set of dynamic capabilities to handle end-to-end business functions on behalf of their clients while delivering digital value propositions.We study 26 of the largest global business process outsourcing providers to conceptualise and identify six dynamic capabilities of service providers salient in the new context, i.e., consultative, orchestration, insights, network management, knowledge access, and standardisation. Interviews conducted with industry experts provided evidence in support of the identified dynamic capabilities. A novel firm capability dataset was created using secondary data, and using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), we identify configurations for high and low performance and find them to vary by the firm's broad/narrow scope.     

职业决策研究的新进展——PIC模型

职业决策研究是国内外职业心理学研究的难点。PIC模型是由以色列职业心理学家Gaff提出的一种系统的职业决策方法，其构建兼顾理论验证与实践运用。详析这一模型提出的理论基础及操作阶段，对团体和个人职业决策有重要帮助。     

论体育教学中对大学生个性与能力的培养

学校体育的主要任务是培养身心健康。全面发展的高素质专门人才，以运动技术传授为中心的体育教育理论，已经不能满足学生的生理、心理的需求以及未来社会时人才的需求。要引导学生积极、正确、科学地锻炼身体，增强体质，发展个性，培养体育能力，加强终身体育意识的培养。     

警惕当今图书馆职业的“劣币驱逐良币”现象

文章在对图书馆职业进行实证研究的基础上,首次明确提出在当今图书馆职业中存在着"劣币驱逐良币"的现象,即优秀人才进入图书馆职业后很难长期留下,长此以往,必将影响整个图书馆职业的活力.遗憾的是,这种状况还有继续发展和蔓延之势.文章就其表现、危害和认定角度进行了分析.     

论图书馆员职业生涯的中期管理

图书馆员的职业生涯中期,大约为28-45岁左右,这一时期,馆员已经选定今后的职业发展方向,通过观察职业生涯中期的事业特征、心理分析,馆员的各种问题和矛盾比较集中,要求图书馆通过实施有效的管理措施,加强馆员职业生涯中期的管理,保证馆员职业生涯的顺利发展.     

天津地区高校图书馆员职业生涯管理研究项目报告

报告深入分析了天津地区高校图书馆员职业生涯管理的调查数据，进而对高校图书馆员职业生涯管理中存在的优势和不足进行分析，并提出了一些建议与对策。     

高校图书馆员职业定位研究

文章运用现代职业生涯管理中的“职业锚”理论，分析了天津地区高校图书馆员职业选择的特征和由此反映出的职业生涯管理现状，进而为高校图书馆员自身的职业发展和组织的职业生涯管理，提供了参考性意见。     

Disciplined freedom,branded authenticity,and dependable independence: how tensions enact flexibility in lifestyle blogging careers

Analyzing 219 blog posts from 52 self-employed women lifestyle bloggers in North America, this study shows how these digital professionals navigate tensions and communicatively constitute work flexibility. In their narratives, women bloggers employed tension management approaches such as reframing, continual connections, and reflective practice in response to tensions in enacting temporal–spatial, identity, and financial flexibility. Specifically, women followed oxymoronic constructions – disciplined freedom, branded authenticity, and dependable independence – to embrace and transform competing poles of fluidity?structure, authenticity?marketability, and independence?interconnection. Expanding work–life research to the self-employed digital labor context, this study responds to recent calls to uncover more-than tension management strategies in empirical settings and contributes to a tension-centered, contextual, and processual analysis of workplace flexibility construction.     

They’re good blogs,Brent: (Mostly) painless branding for information professionals

ABSTRACT

Social media is a powerful tool for building an online presence, but it asks a lot. While it affords plentiful opportunities for professional development and networking, building a professional brand in an online space is not without its drawbacks and risks. By working from a set of actionable principles and benchmarks, users can minimize frustrations and setbacks to build a useful professional presence, all while imbuing the web with the tenets of good information stewardship.     

Business Intelligence Capabilities and Firm Performance: A Study in China

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology expands the boundary of business practice, inducing the emergence and application of business intelligence (BI) that has promoted the transformation of information techniques to optimize business decision and operation. However, there is a lack of theoretical consensus and measurement of the technology embedded in BI at present. This study exploratively develops the Sense-Transform-Drive (STD) conceptual model of BI based on dynamic capabilities theory and organizational evolutionary theory to explain the core BI capabilities. By using factoring analysis and structural equation modeling analysis, we extract the latent constructs and empirically verify the validity of the STD model and further examine the correlation and mode of interaction of the three core BI capabilities and the impact of BI application on firm performance in the real economy with a sample contextual to Chinese business practices. The study results show that there are direct and high-intensity cumulative positive effects among the structural components of the STD conceptual model and BI-related dynamic capabilities can enhance operating efficiency and firm performance.