scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship between Polish and British Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-107
Author(s):  
Michał Chmielecki ◽  
Robert Seliga
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Relevant Field ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Management Students

Abstract Background Entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum as a significant and relevant field of research. Policy makers in the rush to stimulate entrepreneurship in various countries, often rely on the success stories and prescriptions documented in the entrepreneurship literature in which most studies are set in the United States. Research aims The article present exploratory study addresses the subject of cross-cultural differences in attitudes towards entrepreneurship by focusing attention on two particular types of cultures of entrepreneurship British and Polish. Method The quantitative research (survey) was conducted in May 2014 among 153 Polish and 94 British graduate and postgraduate management students. Key findings The findings have some distinctive implications for government, policy makers and educators through determining the attitudes towards entrepreneurship among students.

On a Few of Ann and Rud Turnbull's Many Contributions as Public Intellectuals

Inclusion ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. S. Singer ◽  
Mian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impact On Family ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract This article reflects on a few of the major intellectual contributions Ann and Rud Turnbull and their colleagues at the Beach Center on Family and Disability have made to their academic fields and to the wider society. The focus is on some of their key ideas that have been particularly innovative and important in changing the way scholars, policy makers, practitioners, and parents understand families of children with disabilities. The state of affairs in 1960 for a family of a newborn with an intellectual disability is compared to present conditions in order to highlight the extent of the historic shift in how the United States addresses the needs of families of children with disabilities. Four key intellectual contributions by the Turnbulls are discussed, with attention given to the social context in which they were developed and their subsequent impact on family research, policy, and professional practices. The importance of the development of new measurement instruments is emphasized and their value is discussed in both redirecting research and bridging the gap between academic audiences and the families who are meant to benefit from this work.

Using index numbers for deflation in environmental accounting

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Z. Muller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Index Numbers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Dynamic Price ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Price Measurement

AbstractSystematic trends in the general price level of goods and services are the subject of extensive measurement and significant interest among researchers, policy makers and the general public. Dynamic price measurement is also important in environmental accounting in that real measures of augmented output are required to draw inferences on sustainability. This paper computes price indices for emissions of five air pollutants in the United States. Using marginal damages, the paper computes Paasche, Laspeyres, Fisher and Tornquist index numbers for five air pollutants spanning the period 1999–2008 for use in computing real environmental accounts. Evidence of time series heterogeneity in the marginal damages is detected: marginal damages for nitrogen oxides increase by a factor of two and marginal damages for NH3 decrease by one-half. The analysis finds that nominal gross damages from air pollution in the United States decrease by 40 per cent between 1999 and 2008.

The New Roman Empire: European Envisionings and American Premillennialists

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIDI HERMAN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
World News ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Area Of Study

A unified Europe – the economic and political powerhouse of the world – looms just over the horizon. All that is lacking is a strong personality to galvanise and unify the various factions on the continent. And that person is coming!Charles Dyer, World News and Bible Prophecy (1993, 206)The subject of Europe, its history, politics, and integration, is an important area of study across a range of academic disciplines and professional spheres. Theorists and policy-makers alike have made European developments, particularly the elements of union, a key area of inquiry. This article seeks to explore a somewhat neglected field of analysis – the influence of religion in shaping understandings of Europe. In contrast to much work on Europe, my focus here is on the European perspective of a particular group of outsiders: conservative, premillennial Protestants in the United States.

End-of-Life Care around the World: Achievements to Date and Challenges Remaining

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Clark
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Model Of Practice

From the moment her interest in terminal care was awakened, Cicely Saunders was alert to the international dimensions of the subject. Her first patient in the late 1940s was an émigré Polish Jew dying alone and in isolation in a busy London hospital. Her letters from the 1950s onwards show an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge and a span of contacts and communications that was global in its reach. By the early 1960s, she was making fact-finding visits to the United States and Europe. Even before it opened to patients, St Christopher's Hospice was a beacon of inspiration to like-minded colleagues from many countries, eager to see how the model of practice was being operationalized and—more important still—how it could be adapted and modified in other settings. In the later years of her life, Cicely Saunders remained in contact with colleagues all over the world. She wrote introductions to numerous textbooks and collections; recorded interviews that were broadcast at international conferences; harnessed her name and energies to major efforts to promote palliative care globally; and, to the very end, served as a source of inspiration to palliative care activists, policy makers, educators, and researchers. As this special issue of the journal demonstrates so eloquently, that legacy lives on.

scholarly journals Comprometimento Organizacional: um estudo bibliométrico na base de dados Web of Science entre os anos de 2008 a 2018

Revista Foco ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Schlindwein ◽  
Alex Eckert ◽  
Pelayo Munhoz Olea
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Interest In Research ◽  
Over Time

O interesse pelo tema do comprometimento organizacional pode ocorrer por várias razões. No meio empresarial, essa temática apresenta relevância na medida em que um colaborador comprometido é mais propenso a permanecer na empresa no intuito de alcançar suas metas. No meio acadêmico, o interesse por pesquisas sobre o assunto deve-se ao objetivo de ampliar a compreensão acerca das dimensões comportamentais dos colaboradores, a fim de facilitar o entendimento do que esse fator pode gerar para as empresas. Diante disso, a proposta deste estudo consiste em analisar a evolução da produção científica sobre comprometimento organizacional nos anos de 2008 até 2018, na base de dados Web of Science. Para tal, foi feita uma pesquisa descritiva quantitativa a partir de procedimento metodológico do tipo bibliométrico. Os resultados indicaram um aumento na pesquisa na área durante o passar do tempo, havendo, porém, oscilação na quantidade de produções em cada ano analisado. Identificou-se, ainda, que os Estados Unidos da América, com 72 publicações, são o país com mais documentos acerca do assunto e que os dois artigos mais citados no período são oriundos de uma revista norte-americana. Interest in the topic of organizational commitment can occur for several reasons. In the business environment, this theme is relevant as a committed employee is more likely to stay with the company in order to achieve its goals. In academia, the interest in research on the subject is due to the objective of broadening the understanding of the behavioral dimensions of employees, in order to facilitate the understanding of what this factor can generate for companies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the evolution of scientific production on organizational commitment from 2008 to 2018, in the Web of Science database. For such, a descriptive quantitative research was made from methodological procedure of bibliometric type. The results indicated an increase in research in the area over time, but there is fluctuation in the amount of productions in each year analyzed. It was also identified that the United States of America, with 72 publications, is the country with the most documents on the subject and that the two most cited articles in the period come from an American journal.

scholarly journals The role of foreign languages in hospitality management

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEKTARIA TZIORA ◽  
NIKOLAOS GIOVANIS ◽  
CHARALABOS PAPACHARALABOUS
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Hospitality Management ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Luxury Hotels ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Management Students

<p><em>The paper addresses the subject of foreign languages in hospitality management under the scope of their significance for the Greek hospitality industry and their role in the hospitality management education. </em></p><p><em>Multilingualism offers a competitive advantage to both companies operating in the global hospitality market as well as people who pursue a career in it. The data presented herewith derives from a quantitative research that targeted managers of luxury hotels operating in Greece and hospitality management students. </em></p><p><em>The key findings indicate a contradiction between theoretical acknowledgement of the importance of foreign languages in hospitality management and its practical promotion, particularly in regard to fluency in foreign languages, in service training initiatives and level of offered training courses. The paper aims to bridge the gap by showcasing up to date studies and presenting the special features of the Greek reality to promote further investigation of the field and to encourage specific action.  </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p class="Abstract"> </p>

Managing Service Quality, Food Quality, Price Fairness and Customer Retention: A Holistic Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ammar Ahmed ◽  
Rafat Naseer ◽  
Muhammad Asadullah ◽  
Hadia Khan
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Customer Retention ◽  
Price Fairness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Restaurant Management ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Propositions ◽  
The Impact

In this competitive environment, organizations strive to satisfy their customer by providing best quality service at affordable and fair prices with a view to enhance their revenues. To achieve the objective of revenue maximization, organizations strive to identify the factors that help them in retaining their customers. Drawing from the signalling theory of marketing, the current study proposes a novel conceptual model representing the impact of service quality with food quality and price fairness on customer retention in restaurant sector of Pakistan. The paper underlines an important arena of knowledge for academicians as well as organizational scientists on the subject. On the basis of literature available on the variables understudy, the present study forwards eight research propositions worthy of urgent scholarly attention. The conceptualized model of the present article can also be viewed significant in unleashing further avenues for the restaurant management entities, policy makers and future researchers in the domain of managing in the service sector businesses.

A Systematic Literature Review of the EFQM Excellence Model from 1991 to 2019

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yousaf ◽  
Petr Bris
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
European Foundation ◽  
The Subject

A systematic literature review (SLR) from 1991 to 2019 is carried out about EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) excellence model in this paper. The aim of the paper is to present state of the art in quantitative research on the EFQM excellence model that will guide future research lines in this field. The articles were searched with the help of six strings and these six strings were executed in three popular databases i.e. Scopus, Web of Science, and Science Direct. Around 584 peer-reviewed articles examined, which are directly linked with the subject of quantitative research on the EFQM excellence model. About 108 papers were chosen finally, then the purpose, data collection, conclusion, contributions, and type of quantitative of the selected papers are discussed and analyzed briefly in this study. Thus, this study identifies the focus areas of the researchers and knowledge gaps in empirical quantitative literature on the EFQM excellence model. This article also presents the lines of future research.

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