Women’s scarcity in academic governance. Gendered identity or gendered processes?

This article contributes to the empirical evidence for women’s scarcity in academic governance. The study evaluates to what extend women lean towards non-management careers and dismiss opportunities to attain executive roles in Colombian public universities, as well as the support received when they break the paradigm. The purpose was to determine whether gendered practices are ingrained in the designation process or whether women’s scarcity is the outcome of individual attributes/choices and collective perceptions of inadequacy. Data was collected from universities’ proceedings, opinion polls of rectors’ designations, and candidates’ curricula. Findings show low female candidacy rate but high public support for female candidates to the rector’s seat among all universities examined. Also, curricula’s in-depth analyses display women’s preference for male-dominated careers and analogous academic/administrative experience to that of male candidates. Hence, the results challenge explanations presented by human capital and congruity prejudice theories, while leaning towards gendered processes and identities.

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Does the effective labor income tax rate impact on the supply of human capital in China?—Based on the empirical evidence of provincial panel data

Biotechnology, Agriculture, Environment and Energy ◽

10.1201/b17720-38 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 177-182

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Panel Data ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Income Tax ◽

Labor Income ◽

Tax Rate

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Framing, resonance and war: Foregrounds and backgrounds of cultural congruence

European Journal of International Relations ◽

10.1177/1354066117741675 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 61-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Markus Kornprobst

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Empirical Analysis ◽

Public Support ◽

Cultural Congruence ◽

Culturally Congruent ◽

Different Dimensions ◽

Communicative Processes

This article addresses the communicative processes through which leaders succeed or fail to generate public support for going to war. In order to answer this question, I rely on the framing literature’s insight that cultural congruence helps make frames resonate with an audience. Yet, my argument examines this phenomenon in greater depth. There is more to cultural congruence than selecting commonplaces such as analogies and metaphors from a repertoire that the audience widely shares. Culturally congruent framing also features a genre and more general themes that are taken out of such a repertoire. My empirical analysis of Tony Blair’s communicative moves to sway the British public to fight over Kosovo and Iraq provides empirical evidence for this framework. This study makes two important contributions. First, it highlights that public contestations about going to war criss-cross the overly neat categories proposed by most scholars interested in this phenomenon. Second, in identifying different dimensions of framing, this article deepens our understandings of cultural congruence.

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Do Human Capital and Export Diversification Decline or Augment CO2 Emissions? Empirical Evidence from the MINT Countries

Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management ◽

10.5890/jeam.2021.06.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 111-125

Author(s):

Foday Joof ◽

Aliya Zhakanova Isiksal

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Export Diversification

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M&A vs. Greenfield

Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) and Opportunities for Developing Economies in the World Market - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3026-8.ch009 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 169-185

Author(s):

Sana Moid

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Human Capital ◽

Mergers And Acquisitions ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

International Market ◽

Time Effect ◽

Entry Modes ◽

Host Countries ◽

Bidirectional Relationship ◽

The Right

The chapter has raised two critically important questions. First, is the M&A boom a one-time effect of privatization, or is it likely to be followed by a rise in Greenfield investment? Second, do these two types of FDI mode have different macroeconomic consequences in terms of aggregate investment and growth? The main purpose of this chapter is to analyze the two entry modes, mergers and acquisitions and Greenfield investment, specifically, and to present a comparative view of the same and how it leads to the economic growth of a nation. It is concluded that one should choose the right mode according to the different situation about the firms in the international market. The present chapter also concludes that Greenfields and M&As do have a positive homogenous effect on growth. Additionally, the enhancement of human capital is an important condition for the host countries to derive the maximum benefits from Greenfields and M&As. Also, there is empirical evidence of a two-way linkage between FDI and growth. However, the bidirectional relationship exists only for the M&A's growth nexus.

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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Foundations of Migration Economics ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198788072.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 241-266

Author(s):

George J. Borjas ◽

Barry R. Chiswick

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Ethnic Group ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Capital Accumulation ◽

Intergenerational Mobility ◽

Human Capital Accumulation ◽

Accumulation Process ◽

Next Generation ◽

Ethnic Capital

Assuming that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process, this chapter analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic environment in which parents make their investments, or “ethnic capital.” The empirical evidence reveals that the skills of today's generation depend not only on the skills of their parents, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parents’ generation.

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Is Share Ownership a Condition for the Voluntary Revelation of Human Capital?

International Journal of Corporate Finance and Accounting ◽

10.4018/ijcfa.2020070102 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 21-36

Author(s):

Ruth Leticia Hidalgo ◽

Amada Hidalgo ◽

Miguel Ángel Oropeza ◽

Eleazar Villegas ◽

Sofía Elizabeth Ávila

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Intellectual Capital ◽

Career Advancement ◽

Training And Development ◽

Annual Reports ◽

Listed Firms ◽

Quality Life ◽

The Family

Previous studies affirm the importance of intellectual capital (IC) for organizations, since they acquire value and make them more competitive in the market. In this context, the empirical evidence shows that the key ingredient classification of IC is human capital (HC). The purpose of this study is to know what kind of Mexican companies listed are those that voluntarily disclose the HC, as to date there is no evidence of this information. That is why the authors consider a sample of 875 annual reports, corresponding to 85 Mexican listed firms during the period 2005-2015. These samples reveal that the largest companies in terms of number of employees, belonging to the construction and textile sectors, and shares are held by the family, and they are most likely to disclose aspects of HC. Thus, the authors determine that items occupying the top positions relate to the experiences as managers and employees as well as training and development, just as the information unless disclosed refers to the opportunity for career advancement and quality life at work.

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Intellectual capital and knowledge generation: an empirical study from Colombian public universities

Journal of Intellectual Capital ◽

10.1108/jic-09-2019-0223 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (6) ◽

pp. 1053-1084

Author(s):

John Salinas-Ávila ◽

René Abreu-Ledón ◽

Johnny Tamayo-Arias

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Intellectual Capital ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Online Survey ◽

Public Universities ◽

Knowledge Generation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Relational Capital ◽

Content Type ◽

Structural Capital

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the relationships between the dimensions of intellectual capital (IC) and the generation of knowledge in public universities.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was developed and administered in Colombia. A total of 209 researchers participated in the study. Data were collected through IC measurements concerning the research mission of the universities. Scientific publications from the respondents and the citations received were taken as proxies for the generation of knowledge. To test the hypotheses, structural equation modeling was used.FindingsHypotheses proposing a positive association between the dimensions of IC, namely, human capital, structural capital, and relational capital, and the generation of knowledge were tested. The findings highlight that human capital is indirectly and positively related to the generation of knowledge through relational capital, as well as through the path of structural capital-relational capital.Practical implicationsThe study suggests that directors of research at universities could improve the results of this activity by analyzing and understanding the dimensions of IC that contribute to the development of scientific capacities and the generation of knowledge.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies that has examined the interrelationships between the dimensions of IC at universities and the generation of knowledge.

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