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Papers by Albert Teo

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2005

Abstract After the Asian financial crisis, companies are now contending with the current global e... more Abstract After the Asian financial crisis, companies are now contending with the current global economic slowdown. Whether it is at the national, industry or organizational levels, restructuring has gained currency as a strategic decision to realign internal structure with ...

11th Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, Jun 1, 2019

Research Paper Series (National University of Singapore. Faculty of Business Administration); 200... more Research Paper Series (National University of Singapore. Faculty of Business Administration); 2007-01

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2014

ABSTRACT Drawing upon relational contract (RC) theory and network embeddedness theory, this study... more ABSTRACT Drawing upon relational contract (RC) theory and network embeddedness theory, this study investigates how relational transactions (i.e.,RC norms and network strategies) affect relationship quality and outcomes of public construction projects. The results of a questionnaire survey of 104 public projects in Singapore show that relationship quality and relational transactions have a positive impact on public project outcomes (i.e.,time, cost, quality performance, and client satisfaction). The empirical results show that effective information sharing gives rise to better relationship quality, and good relationships further enhance time performance, quality performance, and client satisfaction. The findings show that adoption of these RC norms affects outcomes in the following ways: (1)propriety of means contributes significantly to cost performance, (2)flexibility and contractual solidarity have a significant impact on time performance, and (3)harmonization within the social matrix and propriety of means allow for a significantly higher level of satisfaction. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by empirically showing that good relationship quality can contribute to better outcomes in public construction projects. It also identifies RC norms that have a positive effect on public project outcomes and relationship quality. Recommendations of relational transaction practices that could improve public project outcomes are offered.

This study uses a network approach to examine the impact of strategic alliances on organizational... more This study uses a network approach to examine the impact of strategic alliances on organizational performance in the airline industry. The analyses are based on alliance and performance data drawn from the whole population of international airlines over the five-year period, 1998-2002. Results indicate that when an airline’s alliance network is excessively dense, its performance may be adversely affected. Also, excessively deep and intensive alliances may have a negative impact on the partner airlines ’ performance.

Singapore medical journal, 1999

This study examines the level of knowledge among youths in Singapore regarding HIV transmission a... more This study examines the level of knowledge among youths in Singapore regarding HIV transmission and their attitudes towards working with a HIV-infected person at the workplace. Respondents consist of 413 youths from three educational institutions in Singapore. The survey was administered to classes which were randomly selected by the liaison persons of these three educational institutions. Findings of this study suggest that youths in Singapore are generally clear that HIV can be transmitted through sexual contact, blood transfusion and from a woman to her unborn child. However, our data also suggest that a sizeable number of respondents still possess a number of misconceptions about how HIV can be transmitted. While available scientific data suggest that HIV cannot be transmitted through casual contact at the workplace, results of this study suggest that some elements of uncertainty and fear still prevail. This is an interesting finding as it suggests that while AIDS education and ...

Psychology Press, Apr 5, 2007

We argue that organizational scope and niche crowding increase the rate of technological innovati... more We argue that organizational scope and niche crowding increase the rate of technological innovation, particularly in the case of incremental innovation, while prior experience in another industry lowers the rate of both incremental and radical innovation. Further, we argue that while innovation itself may improve an organization's survival chances, its simultaneous occurrence with other organizational changes such as a change in market position is likely to lower its survival chances. Using data on all American automobile manufacturers from 1885-1981, we find substantial support for our predictions. Our results are consistent with the implications of a cascading model of organizational change with incremental innovations providing survival benefits and radical innovations lowering survival chances when they occur jointly with market position change.

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2015

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate relational contracting (RC) practices that ... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate relational contracting (RC) practices that give rise to higher quality interpersonal relations between these pairs of stakeholders at the end of public projects: clients and contractors; contractors and consultants; and clients and consultants. It developed models to predict the level of quality of interpersonal relations between the stakeholders at the completion of public projects. Design/methodology/approach – Using a set of questionnaire, data were collected from randomly selected construction industry practitioners who have had experience in public projects in Singapore. The data were analysed to identify association between the use of RC practices and quality of interpersonal relations between stakeholders. In-depth interviews with experts were conducted. Findings – It was found that when certain RC practices were adopted to a larger extent, public projects also have significantly higher quality of interpersonal relations b...

The act of making meaning affects well-being by facilitating coping with, and adaptation to, stre... more The act of making meaning affects well-being by facilitating coping with, and adaptation to, stressful situations (Park, 2008). Park’s (2010) meaning-making model states that when people perceive major discrepancies between how the world really is, and how they think it should be (belief violation; BV), or want it to be (goal violation; GV), they experience distress and lower levels of well-being; Finding meaning in the stressful experience (through the reconciliation of violations) would result in comparatively higher levels of well-being (Park & Gutierrez, 2013). While this model has been empirically validated (Lim, Park, & Slattery, 2012), no work has yet examined the impact of positive meaning-making (PMM) and its relationship with this model. Because attempts at making positive meaning from stressful situations have been associated with better coping responses (e.g., Bower et al., 2005), this study thus sought to investigate if PMM would fully mediate the relationship between a...

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004

This paper describes a dynamic analysis of technological advances among hard disk drive (HDD) man... more This paper describes a dynamic analysis of technological advances among hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers in the areal density of their products across the history of the industry. The study provides (additional) evidence supporting a view of technological racing with leap-frogging rather than with persistent leadership domination in the HDD context-like others, we find that technology leaders in one year are less likely to innovate in the next year than those firms right behind them in technology. We also uncover new evidence that technological laggards do not disappear as quickly as expected by technology racing metaphors where a winner-take-all outcome is expected. Our efforts to explain this pattern of persistent heterogeneity with the usual kind of strategic positioning stories and specifications were not notably successful. But we did find evidence that technological innovation in HDD follows a trajectory consistent with a proportionate random process (akin to a Gibrat process) that favors technology leaders but only stochastically. We demonstrate through simulation that evolution in a population with selection favoring a characteristic evolving as a proportionate random process generates increased variation. This contrasts with a common social science framework for viewing evolution that assumes a fixed characteristic and implies decreasing variation.

Asian Management Matters, 2000

Organization Science, 2006

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2014

AbstractRelational transactions, comprising relational contracts and network strategies, could co... more AbstractRelational transactions, comprising relational contracts and network strategies, could contribute to better outcomes for general construction projects. However, public projects seem to face more constraints when adopting relational transactions because of the fear that close relationships may be construed as corruption. The aim of this study is to identify drivers of and barriers to relational transaction practices in public projects. A questionnaire-based survey of public projects was administered to construction professionals in Singapore. It is found that the adoption of relational transactions in public projects is motivated by (1) increased value proposition, (2) improved business competitiveness, and (3) improved project time and cost performance. Meanwhile, contracting parties attempting to adopt relational transactions are restricted by (1) a lack of capabilities, (2) ethos of public service, (3) a lack of continuity, and (4) institutional constraints. The implication is that with a better...

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2000

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2001

This study examines the evolution of the hotel industry in Singapore from 1832 to 1997. Specifica... more This study examines the evolution of the hotel industry in Singapore from 1832 to 1997. Specifically, the methodology of organizational ecology is used to analyze the pattern of foundings (i.e., entries) in the industry. The analyses indicate that constitutive legitimation (taken-for-granted status) has a positive impact on the founding rate, whereas competition has a negative effect. There is also evidence that various processes of sociopolitical legitimation (governmental endorsement) encourage foundings. Additionally, mass (the aggregate number of hotel rooms) is observed to lower the founding rate; however, there is no evidence that visitor arrivals affect hotel foundings.

A social enterprise differs from a traditional business enterprise primarily because it operates ... more A social enterprise differs from a traditional business enterprise primarily because it operates with a social mission (Dacanay, 2004; Bornstein, 2004; Borzaga & Solari, 2001). Its social mission focuses on meeting the previously unmet economic and social needs of a marginalized community in society. Specifically, it provides employment opportunities to members of a particular marginalized community, thereby providing them with a sustained source of income, improving their quality of life, empowering them, and integrating/reintegrating them into the mainstream society. Its social mission implies that the social enterprise must contend with maintaining a double bottom line. Unlike the traditional business enterprise which focuses on a single bottom line—profitability, the social enterprise needs to balance the objective of financial sustainability with its social objective (as defined by its social mission). The goal of meeting a double bottom line creates immense challenges for the ...

The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1993

... This list of job attributes was based extensively on the items used by Gleuck (1974), Posner ... more ... This list of job attributes was based extensively on the items used by Gleuck (1974), Posner (1981) and Powell (1984). A list of nine job benefits made up the final selection of the questionnaire. ... Page 4. Irene KH Chew and Albert C. Y. Teo ...