Browsing by Author "Bryant, Scott E."

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Citizen Participation in City Governance: Experiences From Vietnam
(2015-02) Nguyen, Thang V.; Le, Cahn Q.; Tran, Bich T.; Bryant, Scott E.
The radical political and economic reforms sweeping through former socialist countries during the last several decades have facilitated economic growth and urbanization. During this period of market reform and urbanization, citizen participation is greatly needed yet easily lost to other priorities. We employ stakeholder theory to examine whether citizen participation differs between large and small cities and between the poor and non-poor people in Vietnam. Using data from a sample of citizens in five centrally managed cities, we found that citizens in large cities and citizens that belong to “unofficially poor” groups participate less. For policy makers, this implies that citizen participation should be of central importance in the management of current cities' expansions. In addition, the categorization of “poor households” needs to be closely monitored to minimize the risk of de facto poor households being excluded from the group.
Does Emotional Intelligence – as Measured by the EQI – Influence Transformational Leadership And/or Desirable Outcomes?
(2006) Brown, William F.; Bryant, Scott E.; Reilly, Michelle D.
Purpose – This study aims to examine the possibility of relationships between and among emotional intelligence (EI), leadership, and desirable outcomes in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of 2,411 manufacturing workers, engineers, and professional staff, the study empirically examined the impact of EI, as measured by Bar‐On's Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQI), on organizational outcomes; the well documented ability of transformational leadership to predict those outcomes, and the relationship between EI and transformational leadership. Findings – The results confirm previous studies of the extraordinary effectiveness power of transformational leadership in predicting organizational outcomes. However, in this study no support was found for hypothesized relationships between EI and desirable outcomes or a significant relationship between EI and transformational leadership. Originality/value – EI may be a useful concept in understanding leadership and social influence; however, unlike previous studies no indication was found that EI as operationalized and measured by the EQI is of particular value in that exploration.
An Empirical Study of Emotional Intelligence and Stress in College Students
(2015) Bryant, Scott E.; Malone, T.
A growing body of research indicates that emotional intelligence is an important factor for student success. In this paper, we examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and stress. Consistent with our hypothesis, we found a significant relationship between one dimension of emotional intelligence (use of emotions) and stress. We also found that age and gender impacted emotional intelligence and stress. Findings from this study have implications for students and universities.
Gravity Payments, Inc.: Setting the World or Itself on Fire?
(2018-12-01) Bryant, Scott E.; Wong, Kenman L.
Dan Price, the founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, Inc., decided to give his employees raises—big raises. He announced that all employees would make a minimum of $70,000 (phased in over a three-year period). Some were only making $35,000 at the time, and the change would effectively double their salaries. The employees were ecstatic and Price made national news. In addition, Price decided to reduce his nearly million-dollar salary to just $70,000 and use a significant portion of the company’s anticipated $2.2 million profit per year to pay for the raises. The case poses questions about pay equity, equality and justice, employee motivation and the impact of internal company decisions on stakeholders.
The Impact of Peer Mentoring on Organizational Knowledge Creation and Sharing: An Empirical Study in a Software Firm.
(2005-06) Bryant, Scott E.
Managing organizational knowledge creation and sharing effectively has become an important source of competitive advantage for firms. Peer mentoring is becoming increasingly common and may be an effective way to facilitate knowledge creation and sharing. This article provides an empirical test of the relationship between peer mentoring and knowledge creation and sharing in a high-tech software firm. Results suggested that a peer mentor training course increased perceived levels of peer mentor knowledge and skills. Results also indicated that higher perceived levels of peer mentoring were related to higher perceived levels of knowledge creation and sharing.
The Role of Transformational and Transactional Leadership in Creating, Sharing and Exploiting Organizational Knowledge
(2003) Bryant, Scott E.
Strategy scholars have argued that managing knowledge effectively can provide firms with sustainable competitive advantages. Leaders are central to the process of managing knowledge effectively. Managing knowledge includes three key processes: creating, sharing, and exploiting knowledge. Leaders are central to each of these processes at multiple levels of the firm. Examining the role of leadership in converting knowledge into competitive advantages is important to our understanding of leaders and organizations. Transformational leadership may be more effective at creating and sharing knowledge at the individual and group levels, while transactional leadership is more effective at exploiting knowledge at the organizational level. This paper begins to integrate the transformational leadership literature with the organizational knowledge literature.
Sub-National Institutions, Firm Strategies, and Firm Performance: A Multilevel Study of Private Manufacturing Firms in Vietnam
(2013-01) Nguyen, Thang V.; Le, Ngoc T.B.; Bryant, Scott E.
Some private small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies have actively internationalized. This decision needs to accommodate institutional conditions that vary, not only between countries, but also within an individual country. Our paper examines the relationship between export strategy and firm performance, and the extent that sub-national institutional factors moderate this relationship. Using multilevel data analysis techniques with a sample of private manufacturing firms in Vietnam, we find institutional factors moderate export strategy and firm performance's relationship.
What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Vietnam
(2020-02) Nguyen, Thang; Nguyen, Lan; Bryant, Scott E.; Nguyen, Hieu
Studies of scientist entrepreneurship have recognized a diverse range of proself motivations but have largely ignored the role of prosocial motivation. As technology inventions often bring in high positive externality, we argue that prosocial motivation is important for scientist entrepreneurship and sustainable development. Drawing from motivated information processing theory we develop a model linking proself and prosocial motivation with scientist entrepreneurship. The hypotheses were tested based on survey data from a sample of Vietnamese scientists. The results show that both proself and prosocial motivation are positively associated with scientist entrepreneurship. However, the positive association between prosocial motivation and scientist entrepreneurship is lessened by proself motivation. This study calls for more attention to prosocial motivation in theory and policy development on scientist entrepreneurship.