A Theoretical Exploration of White Collar Organizing: Graduate Student Employees and the Future of Unions in Academia

Getting published in academic journals is increasingly important for research students in terms of gaining employment when they complete their studies and, in the future, for tenure and promotion applications once they have obtained an academic appointment. In this paper, I discuss some of the challenges that student (and early career) writers face when submitting articles to academic journals and, in particular, how they might better understand and respond to the reports they receive on their work.

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Justificatory Narratives: The Collapse of Greensill Capital

International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy ◽

10.5204/ijcjsd.2019 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Vincenzo Ruggiero

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Future Development ◽

White Collar ◽

Financial Crime ◽

Supply Chain Finance ◽

The Future ◽

The Uk ◽

A Company

The collapse of Greensill Capital, a company whose self-styled owner experimented with innovative supply-chain finance, led to parliamentary inquiries in the UK during the course of 2021. This paper tells the story of the collapse and analyses the justifications mobilised by the company’s owner, Lex Greensill, in defence of his acts. His exculpatory narratives contain classical components that characterise white-collar and financial crime, but also some innovative aspects that may prefigure the future development of these types of crimes.

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Do White-Collar Employee Incentives Improve Firm Profitability?

Journal of Management Accounting Research ◽

10.2308/jmar-51902 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 95-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Seppo Ikäheimo ◽

Juha-Pekka Kallunki ◽

Sinikka Moilanen ◽

Eduardo Schiehll

Keyword(s):

Financial Incentives ◽

Task Complexity ◽

White Collar ◽

Return On Equity ◽

White Collar Employee ◽

The Future ◽

Performance Effects ◽

Employee Incentives ◽

Future Return ◽

And Performance

ABSTRACT We use proprietary archival compensation panel data from Finnish white-collar employees (WCEs) over the period of 2002 to 2011 in order to examine the relationship between performance-based incentives for WCEs and the future profitability of the firm as well as to determine whether this association is moderated by task complexity. While many studies examine the determinants and performance effects of CEO compensation, virtually no evidence has been presented to indicate that explicit financial incentives for WCEs improve the profitability of the firm. Our empirical results show that performance-based incentives for WCEs are significantly positively related to the future return-on-assets, return-on-equity, and profit margin ratios of the firm. We also find that this effect comes from the performance-based incentives for low-level WCEs, corroborating the importance of implementing performance-based incentives also to low-task complexity jobs. JEL Classifications: M40.

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The 8th I. E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium: Forty-Five Years After Van der Plank, New Visions for the Future of Plant Disease Epidemiology

Plant Health Progress ◽

10.1094/php-2010-0526-01-sy ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

Forrest W. Nutter

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Annual Meeting ◽

Graduate Student ◽

Plant Disease ◽

American Phytopathological Society ◽

Research Results ◽

Disease Epidemiology ◽

Plant Disease Epidemiology ◽

The Future

One of the most prestigious events held during each Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) is the Irving E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium. This symposium features graduate students who are chosen, on a competitive basis, to present their thesis research results. Published 26 May 2010.

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