Reasoning about trust, entrepreneurial services, and the virtual team

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dc.contributor.advisorDoyle, Eleanoren
dc.contributor.advisorFanning, Connellen
dc.contributor.authorHeffernan, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-17T15:00:17Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.submitted2013
dc.description.abstractThis Portfolio of Exploration (PoE) tracks a transformative learning developmental journey that is directed at changing meaning making structures and mental models within an innovation practice. The explicit purpose of the Portfolio is to develop new and different perspectives that enable the handling of new and more complex phenomena through self transformation and increased emotional intelligence development. The Portfolio provides a response to the question: ‘What are the key determinants that enable a Virtual Team (VT) to flourish where flourishing means developing and delivering on the firm’s innovative imperatives?’ Furthermore, the PoE is structured as an investigation into how higher order meaning making promotes ‘entrepreneurial services’ within an intra-firm virtual team, with a secondary aim to identify how reasoning about trust influence KGPs to exchange knowledge. I have developed a framework which specifically focuses on the effectiveness of any firms’ Virtual Team (VT) through transforming the meaning making of the VT participants. I hypothesized it is the way KGPs make meaning (reasoning about trust) which differentiates the firm as a growing firm in the sense of Penrosean resources: ‘inducement to expand and a limit of expansion’ (1959). Reasoning about trust is used as a higher order meaning-making concept in line with Kegan’s (1994) conception of complex meaning making, which is the combining of ideas and data in ways that transform meaning and implicates participants to find new ways of knowledge generation. Simply, it is the VT participants who develop higher order meaning making that hold the capabilities to transform the firm from within, providing a unique competitive advantage that enables the firm to grow.en
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dc.identifier.citationHeffernan, R. 2013. Reasoning about trust, entrepreneurial services, and the virtual team. DBA Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage157
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1193
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2012, RICHARD HEFFERNANen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectVirtual teamen
dc.subjectAdaptive learningen
dc.subjectBehavioural changeen
dc.subjectPersonal developmenten
dc.subjectTrusten
dc.subjectEntrepreneurial servicesen
dc.subject.lcshEmotional intelligenceen
dc.subject.lcshVirtual work teamsen
dc.subject.lcshInterpersonal relationsen
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dc.titleReasoning about trust, entrepreneurial services, and the virtual teamen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelPractitioner Doctorateen
dc.type.qualificationnameDBA (Business Economics)en
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