Research in EE and ESD in Portuguese public universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Francisco Borges ◽  
Javier Benayas
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Extensive Review ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Content Analyses

Purpose This paper aims to outline the scientific production in Portuguese universities in environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). It takes doctoral theses presented in public universities as reference, assuming that, in Higher Education, the production of doctoral theses is a key beacon of the scientific development in academic fields of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The theses selected were subject to documentary and content analyses. Findings The results allow the identification of research trends and the recognition of detached aspects, such as the influence of the UN Decade of ESD in the research themes and the clear preponderance of a qualitative-led research tradition. Originality/value This paper provides an original and extensive review of PhD studies on EE and ESD in Portuguese public universities.

Expanding knowledge frontiers in entrepreneurship: examining bricolage and effectuation

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1043-1065
Author(s):  
Vanessa Vasconcelos Scazziota ◽  
Tales Andreassi ◽  
Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra ◽  
Luiz Guerrazzi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Bibliographic Coupling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Methodological Feature ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Opportunity Creation

PurposeOur purpose is to evaluate effectuation and bricolage through their unique and shared references to understand possible overlaps and conceptual complementarities between these theoretical approaches.Design/methodology/approachThe use of bibliometric techniques to examining simultaneously both theoretical approaches is one of the distinctions of this work. Another important methodological feature is the use of co-citation and bibliographic coupling and their interaction, to verify 179 published documents relating to their references.FindingsThe study reveals the intellectual structures underlying the approaches and differences originating from their knowledge bases, as well as the research trends.Originality/valueBy identifying the differences in the decision process and behaviors that culminate in opportunity creation in each, it offers a complementary vision of previous works. The evidence stresses it is interesting to explore their integration, considering the complementarity of their unique aspects.

Content analyses of alcohol-related images during television broadcasts of major sports events in New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Gee ◽  
Michael P. Sam ◽  
Steve J. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Alcohol Advertising ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Daytime Television ◽  
Nature Frequency

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature, frequency, and duration of alcohol-related promotions and crowd alcohol consumption during major sports events broadcasted on the SKY Sport network between September 2011 and February 2012. Design/methodology/approach Content analyses for various categories of alcohol-related images were conducted, including a novel inclusion of analysing crowd alcohol consumption. Findings The results provide empirical evidence that sponsorship and activation-related activities of alcohol brands subvert national regulations that ban alcohol advertising during daytime television programming. Originality/value The results serve to sensitise researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and regulators to the prevalence of incidental alcohol promotional material within the overall televised alcohol advertising mix and the broader societal exposure to such images. This research also informs readers that alcohol companies and media outlets produce alcohol-related marketing that may not be in-line with the meaning and/or intent of laws.

Factors influencing touristic consumer behaviour

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasco Santos ◽  
Paulo Ramos ◽  
Bruno Sousa ◽  
Nuno Almeida ◽  
Marco Valeri
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Tourist Behaviour

PurposeThis paper aims to present a content analysis of two major constructs among tourism settings, namely involvement and emotions, strictly related to tourist behaviour, due to the fact that there are still some critical gaps in the knowledge about tourists' emotions and involvement.Design/methodology/approachAn in-depth content analysis of involvement and emotions was adopted as the methodological approach. This methodology addressed an amalgam of different definitions, frameworks, mixed theoretical and practical applications and approaches, results, comparisons as well as a blend of a set of scales of involvement and emotions by confrontating of authors.FindingsThe major findings state that emotions and involvement demonstrate greater progress and scientific development to the level of tourism, marketing and consumer behaviour, representing an important issue for the integrated tourism experiences.Originality/valueThis study presents a critical reflection on the importance of emotions and involvement in specific contexts of leisure and tourism.

scholarly journals Airline passengers’ perceptions of service quality: themes in online reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 855-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Brochado ◽  
Paulo Rita ◽  
Cristina Oliveira ◽  
Fernando Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Airline Passengers ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Post Purchase

PurposeThis paper aims to identify the main themes shared in online reviews by airline travellers, as well as which of these themes were linked with higher and lower value for money ratings.Design/methodology/approachThe research used mixed content analyses (i.e. quantitative and qualitative) to examine 1,200 reviews of six airline companies shared by airline travellers in a social media platform.FindingsThe analyses revealed nine themes in descriptions of airline travel experiences. These are the core services during “flights”, “airport” operations, crew and ground “staff”, ticket “classes”, “seats”, inflight “services”, “entertainment”, overall experiences of “airlines” and post-purchase recommendations of with which companies to “fly”. Low value for money ratings are linked with the “airport” and “flights” themes.Originality/valueThe results offer useful insights into airline travellers’ overall experiences based on social media information and facilitate the identification of the main themes linked with different value for money ratings.

Changing agents of change in neoliberally framed organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheeba Asirvatham ◽  
Maria Humphries
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Career Experiences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Career Strategies

PurposeThis paper aims to invite reflection and action among scholars of gender in management to the shaping and meeting of commitments to universal justice.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 12 women employed as senior scholars in public universities in Aotearoa New Zealand were invited to discuss their career experiences. An observed disjuncture between radical feminist analyses of their career experiences and their liberal feminist responses to issues arising for them prompted reflection on a wider disjuncture in the shaping of justice wherever neoliberal directives prevail, generating this paper’s activist call to integrity between analyses and practice among scholars as agents of change.FindingsImplications drawn from the conversations with participants vindicated earlier critiques of diversity management under the conditions of neoliberalism when accommodating damaging social outcomes and systemic compliance is morally compromising.Originality/valueExploring accommodation of system preserving career strategies of scholars claiming commitment to justice is an evocative and original call to scholarly activism.

scholarly journals Bibliometric analysis of scientific production on sharing economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Lima ◽  
Francisco de Assis Carlos Filho
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Citation Networks ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
New Consumer

Purpose In recent years, much has been discussed about new consumer practices based on the sharing economy. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to map out the international scientific production on sharing economy. Design/methodology/approach The research adopted a descriptive qualitative approach. Based on a sample of 95 documents collected in the Scopus database, analyses of bibliometric and sociometric indicators were carried out, as well as content analyses were conducted to identify the main thematic categories in the field. Findings The results show that sharing economy is an emerging topic, and of late, the research in this field has grown rapidly. The study provides a mapping of top journals and authors, works of greatest impact and of co-authorship, co-citation and bibliographic coupling networks, which evidence the low intensity of researcher’s interactions and scientific production dispersion in the field. The main subjects found in the sharing economy literature are determinants, motivations and barriers, sharing economy impacts, regulation, models and frameworks, critical approach and entrepreneurship and sharing-based new businesses. Research limitations/implications The analyses did not take into account the timing perspective. Further research could undertake a timeline-based approach in order to present direct citation networks and to relate works according to the year when they were published. Originality/value The study innovates by identifying the main subjects in the sharing economy literature, as well as by presenting network analysis for some bibliometric indicators, complementing previous research in the field.

Affirmative action quotas in Brazilian higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyusyena Kirakosyan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Low Income ◽  
White Students ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Socioeconomic Inequality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disadvantaged Populations ◽  
Brazilian Case

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to address its drastic socioeconomic inequality and to compel its higher education institutions to diversify significantly while democratizing access to those schools. Brazil recently passed a sweeping affirmative action law requiring its public universities to reserve half of their available spots for low-income and non-White students. This article examines the underlying assumptions and implications of Brazil’s adoption of affirmative-action quotas for higher education. Design/methodology/approach – The article offers comparative analysis of Brazil’s efforts with the experiences with quota and diversity policies in higher education in other countries. Findings – It can be contended that, while the recent quota law in Brazil represents an important step in addressing socioeconomic and political inequalities, the measure is too limited in scope to empower historically disadvantaged populations and diminish future inequalities confronting these populations. This article concludes by underscoring the importance of efforts to develop a more comprehensive framing of affirmative action and diversity policies in Brazil’s higher education, along with a simultaneous reform of public secondary education in the nation. Originality/value – The article considers experiences with educational quotas in other countries and draws some useful comparisons and parallels to the Brazilian case.

All in, one-at-a-time or somewhere in the middle? Leveraging the composition and size of the negotiating package

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uta Herbst ◽  
Birte Kemmerling ◽  
Margaret Ann Neale
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Cognitive Capacity ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Integrative Negotiation ◽  
The Impact

Purpose While industrial marketers have long bundled their products and services to sell them as packages, to what extent should negotiators also rely on packaging their offers? Clearly, negotiating at a package level can tax the cognitive capacity of the involved parties at some point. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the impact of the number and type of issues that should be negotiated simultaneously to leverage the package strategy efficiently and effectively in multi-issue buyer-seller negotiations. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted and analyzed negotiation simulations with 676 students from 2 public universities. Findings The authors’ results suggest that negotiating three out of six issues simultaneously is the least efficient but most effective strategy in multi-issue buyer-seller negotiations. Moreover, they found that bundling distributive and integrative issues is more efficient and effective than only bundling distributive or integrative negotiation issues in a package offer. Originality/value Past research has examined the impact of negotiating a package as compared to each issue separately; however, little empirical attention has been directed toward understanding how to apply a package strategy in complex multi-issue negotiations.

The effect of cues on service quality expectations and service selection in a restaurant setting

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Sweeney ◽  
Robert W. Armstrong ◽  
Lester W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Service Evaluation ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
The Status

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revisit our original paper published over 20 years ago and reflect on its purpose, contribution and what we can glean that might have implications for future research. Design/methodology/approach A Google Scholar search showed that the article was cited 74 times. We discuss some of the contexts in which it was cited and identify two research themes that have emanated from this paper and hold promise for future research. Findings We discuss two of the several contexts in which our research is discussed. These include the differential ways in which cues are used in a services context, including the ways in which different cues are used to evaluate services and how cues are used to develop consumer expectations. Originality/value The study, which was cited 74 times according to Google Scholar, was formative in terms of discussion of, for example, how a variety of cues influence customer expectations and service evaluation, and how categories of cues, such as marketer controlled versus non-marketer controlled and personal versus non-personal, impact outcomes. The retrospective analysis was helpful in both reflecting on the status quo on some of these issues and suggesting directions for future research.

A discussion on Brazil-focused publications

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-206
Author(s):  
Nathália de Fátima Joaquim ◽  
Ana Carolina Guerra ◽  
Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
The North ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose – The aim of this article is to carry out a critical analysis of the view that core countries’ knowledge holds sway over that of the periphery and to offer a reassessment of Lahiri’s Anglo-Eurocentric point of view and the implications this has for scientific discussion in the field of management. To do this the authors made use of both Lahiri’s (2011) comments as a representative of mainstream thought and the existing literature on this issue. Design/methodology/approach – In this research, the authors used the methodology proposed by Lahiri (2011), but with some adjustments that they thought were necessary. They also analysed scientific production on management in the most important Brazilian journals to put the field of organizational studies in Brazil in context and to situate the reader as regarding their criticism of the North-centric viewpoint. This is because the authors consider organizational studies as a synonym for management studies. Findings – The results presented in Lahiri’s (2011) article “Brazil-focused publications in leading business journals” are invalid because the sample on which the article is based is limited to 14 academic journals, of which 7 are American, 6 are British and 1 is German. It can be questioned whether this particular selection of journals accurately represents the corpus of publications that deal with Brazil, given that Lahiri does not include any articles published in Brazil and thus reinforces his North-centric standpoint. Moreover, the article emphasizes authors with ties to English institutions and concludes that the most relevant academic contributions on Brazil have been produced at non-Brazilian institutions. Moreover, the authors also discovered a contradiction in the sample that is important for the thesis presented in this article because, in fact, the scholars selected for the sample emphasized in that work have ties to both a foreign and a Brazilian institution. Originality/value – The originality of this article lies in the fact that it proposes to discuss the production and consumption of knowledge in the area of administration in such a way as to reassess North-centric hegemony in this field.

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