Update 9/29

I am still “tying up loose ends” (taking care of business ) from Georgetown, Guyana. I am in contact with CVS Pharmacy about my medication. When I was in the US, the CVS on Annapolis Road in New Carrollton was “my” CVS. Maybe the medication could be transferred to a pharmacy in Georgetown.

I will work to complete two unfinished papers and submit for publishing. One of those papers is the paper on knowledge sharing. Did you know that the knowledge sharing paper was an extension of my “original” organizational structure paper? I included some of this detail in the Method section shown below.

Next Paper

Now that I am finished with the organizational structure (behavior) paper, I am moving on to another paper from the Business Environment course. The first paper for the course (the week 1 paper) was on ethics/fraud. I could modify/extend the paper and then submit it to a journal for publishing. It would be my first submission to an ethics journal. The presentation on leadership theories would also make a good paper. Of course, I need to work on publishing the signature assignment for that course - the paper on IKEA. IKEA is in the furniture market. I learned a lot about the furniture market in my ECommerce course at UMBC - that was good background. I "carried over" a lot of the topics from UMBC.

A lot from papers (a course) I completed when stranded in New York.
(Link to course: https://fmoorephdbus7110.blogspot.com)

Org Paper Submitted

I submitted the org structure paper to a journal.

Org Paper Status

The Venn diagram is interesting. It could be more complex since other relationships could be included/shown in the diagram. I am thinking of the options.

 

 

 

 

Update Dec14

Enjoying peanuts…a little at a time until gone. I will complete the organizational structure paper soon. 

Update Dec12

I am hard at work....

I just re-submitted my manuscript to Information Systems Research. The journal notified me that I needed to make a correction to my selected reviewers.

I am currently editing the paper on organizational structure. I will use a Venn diagram to show inter-relationships - similar to the Venn diagram shown here: https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2022/06/writing-online-reviews.html

Org Structure paper Fahmeena Odetta Moore

Responses From Journals

I received feedback from a few journals/publishers.

I received a courteous ("nice") letter from Health Technology Journal. The team there will discuss my submission and get back to me.

I received a rejection letter from another journal. It provided good feedback.
I think the editor was expecting a more extensive or thorough literature review. That organizational structure paper is based on only three articles not 20 or 30 articles like other papers. I think I need to identify/raise an issue or think of a way to make a more substantial contribution to the literature.

I am still working on the marketing paper. I am reviewing market research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Papers For Publishing

I submitted the organizational structure paper to another journal.

I am thinking of submitting the paper I prepared on Website Design and Customer Complaints for publication. It falls under the topic Usability and User/Customer Experience. I may need to make it longer.

Article Publication Status

I received another publishing failure letter yesterday. I will submit to other journals.

Death In Family, Stranded In New York, And Another Example Of Ambidexterity

A great aunt of mine died recently. She was the mom of Sonia who also died recently. I have fond memories of that great aunt, Aunt Magnel. She gave me lots of food. I ate a lot of her cassava balls (we called puff), her dhal puri, her pholourie, and her icicles - all stuff she made to sell to school children. She was an excellent cook. RIP Aunt Magnel.

Aunt Magnel makes me think of those childhood days when I ate a lot (my tummy was full) and I was happy. I have since seen other days - days or times of want. This makes me think of New York.

When I was stranded in New York, I had no money. I could not buy food. I was hungry a lot. I even joined the bread line at a church organization (for the homeless) to get free food. It is the sort of thing you don't want to talk about, but I think I should. Being stranded in New York was very difficult.

Even though it was difficult, I managed to get to places that could assist. I found creative ways to get food and complete assignments. I was lucky a few times. For example, I happened to see the Queen's Library while riding a bus (it was at the end of the line). That library turned out to be an excellent resource.

I recall a bathroom incident in NY. I had an accident when the janitor would not allow me to use the bathroom because she was cleaning it. It turns out that I had a medical issue. I had surgery later that solved the problem.

Thankfully, the nightmare ended when my father managed to get in contact with me in NY. I got a new phone. I was on a flight to Guyana a few days later.

I am not complaining about the NY experience. It made me a lot stronger. It made me realize I can deal with difficult, very stressful situations that could easily drive a person crazy.

Moving on to other topics.....

I realize that I worked at another company that adopted the structural differentiation approach I wrote about in my paper yesterday - ICF/Lockheed Martin. I was a member of a team formed to work on a new, innovative solution that would replace the legacy application. The other team worked on maintaining the legacy application. It was a case of ambidexterity.

I was lucky be somehow involved in (a part of) ambidexterity to achieve exploration/innovation. It just worked out that way.

Organizational Structure Paper

I made a lot of progress on the organizational structure paper. I decided to include two examples of how companies are structured to compare to the theory. The findings are interesting. I think the paper will be accepted for publishing.

Still Working On Paper For Publishing

After reviewing one of my old blogs, I now understand why I selected the three articles included in the paper mentioned yesterday.  In the paper prepared the previous week (during the course), I noticed that the selected company - Google - was known for:

 "an innovation-oriented and change-prone top management and board;
an innovation-oriented and change-prone culture;
competent and committed individuals with a passion to innovate;
leaders that empower, coach and remove obstacles for innovation;
a semi-structured and ambidextrous organisation;
innovation-oriented performance and incentive systems;
continuous learning; and open innovation."
(From Steiber and Alange (2013))

I selected papers that included innovation and ambidextrous-ness.
Maybe I should include the Google example in the paper I am editing.

I read the descriptions expressing all the difficulties I was experiencing.
In the post on 09/10/2018 (https://fmoorephdbus7110.blogspot.com/2018/09/paper-finally-submittedreceived.html), I wrote:
"I like the course. I am learning a lot But everything feels rushed & I feel pressured all the time. This is because of the resource constraints I am dealing with right now (issues with my laptop - need to use library resources, need to read an entire book for the assignment, and so on). I hope it gets better. I am working on solutions."

I was reading the books and articles on the go.
The post on 09/12/2018 (https://fmoorephdbus7110.blogspot.com/2018/09/week-4-assignmentjournal-articles.html), shows that I checked out the book on Organization Behavior from the library. I read that book hurriedly and was not able to sit comfortably to read it. The included Facebook post shows me holding the book (with my face).

In the post on 09/14/2018 (https://fmoorephdbus7110.blogspot.com/2018/09/reading-articles.html),
the notes I scribbled on the printout of one of the journal articles is shown.

I guess I can handle a lot.

More Work For Publishing

I am currently working on modifying a paper I prepared for one of my PhD courses many years ago. The assignment was designed to teach the student how to prepare a paper for publishing and how to select the journal to submit the paper to. I prepared the paper in New York and it was done hurriedly. I will make some changes plus add more details (to make the paper longer). I will submit it to a journal when it is complete.

A section of the original paper: 

 

 

 

 

A section of the modified paper: