The Oxford Review Blog: Evidence-based practice research briefings

New study finds the difference between successful and less successful entrepreneurs…

What makes the difference between successful and less successful entrepreneurs? A brilliant study has just been published of 198 SME’s to find out the the basis of the difference between successful and unsuccessful companies and in particular the entrepreneurs that drive them. Our research briefing explains the study and the findings for you. Interestingly they […]

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Emotional Competence and passionate restraint – new research

In the Oxford Review this month our members get a research briefing about a brand new study looking at emotional competence and the concept of passionate restraint. Among other fascinating findings this study found differences in how people perceived women and men displaying both emotional competence and passionate restraint. We explore the implications for organisations. §§§ This is […]

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Why most business strategies fail – eventually

A paper just published by colleagues at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford argues that business planning by organisations needs to involve ‘scenario research’. Scenario research involves looking at how the business would benefit or fail from a range situations. Turbulent times One of the exciting things about business is that it […]

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How organisations deal with dilemmas and emergencies – Press & Balance

This is the final part of 3 articles about how organisations deal with dilemmas and emergencies: Part 1: ‘New research: Organisational responses to dilemmas and emergencies’ Part 2: 6 ways organisations deal with dilemmas In this post we have a look at the conclusions of this research… Press and balance The researchers found that there are two […]

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6 ways organisations deal with dilemmas

Following on from the previous post ‘New research: Organisational responses to dilemmas and emergencies’ in this post I will look at what the research says about the 6 ways organisations deal with dilemmas. It has previously been found that there are six main ways organisations deal with these secondary order tensions, paradoxes and dilemmas: Denial. The organisation just […]

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This weeks research from the Oxford Review

This week our members got the following research briefings: A fascinating study that looked at teams from a game theory perspective and sheds some interesting light about the difference between teams and groups. I have already used this paper to spark a very useful conversation about team work in a community of practice I run. […]

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New research: Organisational responses to dilemmas and emergencies

In this the first of a three part posting I will look at an interesting and useful large-scale research study examining how the emergency services cope with difficult incidents in Europe. The paper has just been published by researchers from Central Michigan University and the University of Illinois. Part 1 (this part) The dilemmas organisations […]

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Making evidence-based practice work. Part 2 – solutions

This post follows on from the previous post Making evidence-based practice work: The 3 key challenges In this post I will look at what the research findings are: evidence-based solutions Solutions The researchers discovered that there are two primary pre-requisites for successful implementation of evidence-based practice: evidence-based solutions. Primary pre-requisites for successful implementation of evidence-based practice Management involvement […]

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Making evidence-based practice work: The 3 key challenges

In this two part posting I will look at some new research that looks at how to make and embed evidence based practice in your organisation. Part 1 The key challenges of evidence based practice (This Post) What is Evidence based practice New research The 3 key challenges Part 2 Solutions Many professions have moved […]

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This week’s research round up

This week our members got research briefings about A fascinating study that looks at the importance we tend to place on seeing others we feel similar to or aspire to engage with something. In this case it’s shopping but there is a fair amount of evidence to show that these findings aren’t limited to retail […]

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