Framing the socialisation process of the DBA candidate : what can universities offer and what should candidates bring?

In Australia, the Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) remainsa popular program but considerable anguish persists within theuniversity sector over just what it is offering students. In thisarticle, we use the process of postgraduate socialisation tounderstand how candidates, supervisors and administratorsnavigate pathways to successful completion and offering of a DBAprogram. We identify four modes of knowledge applicable to theDBA and suggest that universities and candidates may draw onone another’s cultural capital to determine which mode(s) can beoffered. We also illustrate how candidates exercise agencythrough their cultural and social capital as they move through theprogram. We present a conceptual framework to help guidefuture research, and resource allocation on the DBA.

Using business intelligence to support the process of organizational sensemaking

Making sense of an organization overwhelmed with data becomes a problem for decision makers at all levels of business planning and operation. Although scholars have suggested several technological solutions such as business intelligence as being useful in helping busy executives to make decisions, we still know little about assisting business stakeholders in the process of understanding their organizational complexity before such decisions could even be formulated. In this paper, we investigate the opportunities in using BI technologies to make sense of a business environment. We analyze the views and opinions of developers, analysts, consultants, and users of business intelligence, who are experienced in using the technology beyond decision making to support organizational sensemaking. Our results highlight the need for creating and maintaining individual; and organizational identity and enacting this identity on the business and its environment.

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Using business intelligence to support the process of organizational sensemaking.

Morteza’s thesis investigated the opportunities in using BI technologies to make sense of a business environment. The results of his research highlighted the need for creating and maintaining an identity for Business Intelligence at both individual and organizational level and enacting this identity on the business and its environment.