{"id":6802,"date":"2010-10-27T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T15:22:15","slug":"contextual-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2010\/10\/contextual-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextual Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2018\/06\/esrc-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6808 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2018\/06\/esrc-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Funding Agency:<\/strong> ESRC<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2010-2012<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Principal Investigator: <\/strong>Professor Ebrahim Soltani<\/h4>\n<p>This research project is a response to previous calls for a more comprehensive treatment of the nature and peculiarities of managing service organisations and the widespread perceptions of declining quality of service offerings as the direct outcome of the \u2018incompetence\u2019 and &#8216;irresponsibility&#8217; of the upper echelon management team.<\/p>\n<p>Building upon the stream of work referred to as \u2018contextual forces\u2019, and \u2018bounded rationality\u2019, the project adopts an inductive mode of longitudinal qualitative case studies of international banking institutions and elucidates several internal and external contextual forces that shape management\u2019s support or otherwise of a change programme. Contingent upon the identified internal (e.g. organisational culture, individual characteristics of managers, power position, structural source of power) and external (e.g. industry characteristics, regulatory governance, level of economic prosperity, national culture) contextual factors managers could not act completely rationally in their orientations and follow-up decisions and actions. More specifically, three types of managerial orientations are identified: forwarding-looking, backward-looking, and present-focused (status-quo) orientations. The report delineates the potential of the research findings for the wider community of financial institutions and banking regulatory authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding Agency: ESRC Date: 2010-2012 Principal Investigator: Professor Ebrahim Soltani This research project is a response to previous calls for a more comprehensive treatment of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2010\/10\/contextual-forces\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54944,"featured_media":6905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,125],"tags":[57671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions\/6810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}