Academic Events: An Empirically Grounded Typology and Their Academic Impact

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Trøst Hansen ◽  
David Budtz Pedersen ◽  
Carmel Foley
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Impact ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Academic Events ◽  
Business Events ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Analytical Frameworks ◽  
Academic Sector

The meetings industry, government bodies, and scholars within tourism studies have identified the need to understand the broader impact of business events. To succeed in this endeavor, we consider it necessary to develop analytical frameworks that are sensitive to the particularities of the analyzed event, sector, and stakeholder group. In this article we focus on the academic sector and offer two connected analyses. First is an empirically grounded typology of academic events. We identify four differentiating dimensions of academic events: size, academic focus, participants, and tradition, and based on these dimensions we develop a typology of academic events that includes: congress, specialty conference, symposium, and practitioners' meeting. Secondly, we outline the academic impact of attending these four types of events. For this purpose, the concept of credibility cycles is used as an analytical framework for examining academic impact. We suggest that academic events should be conceptualized and evaluated as open marketplaces that facilitate conversion of credibility. Data were obtained from interviews with 22 researchers at three Danish universities. The study concludes that there are significant differences between the events in terms of their academic impact. Moreover, the outcome for the individual scholar depends on the investment being made. Finally, the study calls for a future research agenda on beyond tourism benefits based on interdisciplinary collaborations.

scholarly journals Citizen participation: towards a framework for policy assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ares Kalandides
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Participatory Policy ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Initial Reading

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the academic debate on participatory urban development in two ways: first, by proposing a methodological framework though which urban policies can be assessed; and second, through a case study that applies the framework, delivering an analysis of the policy intentions of the current Berlin administration.Design/methodology/approachThe first section of this paper introduces the case study, placing it in the political context in Berlin and suggesting an initial reading of the relevant documents that frame policy in participatory urban development today. The second section includes an attempt at disambiguation, a conceptual and an analytical framework, followed by a preliminary assessment of the Berlin participatory policy. The final part of this paper draws conclusions and sets a possible future research agenda.FindingsParticipation is present in several passages of the Contract and refers to different possible readings of the term: participation as institutional framework, participation as rights, participation in the public sphere and participation as practice.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the disambiguation of the concept of “citizen participation”, proposes a framework through which to assess policy and offers an initial analysis of the policy intentions of the current Berlin administration.

scholarly journals Color Psychology in Marketing

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
DR.SAJID REHMAN KHATTAK ◽  
HAIDER ALI ◽  
YASIR KHAN ◽  
MUKHARIF SHAH
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Marketing Managers ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Color Psychology ◽  
Number Of Customers

The purpose of this research was to review the psychology of colors in marketing. People make their minds about product or people within 90 seconds. About 62 to 90 % of a product or people assessment is based on colors alone. Thus, a color is not only using to differentiate your product from your competitors, but it also affects the moods and feelings of the individual buyers, thus colors make attitude towards a certain product. Human feelings and moods are changeable overtime; thus, every marketing managers should know the importance of colors and make their products or packaging accordingly. This study evaluates the literature linking to color psychology. The study found that colors play an important role in marketing. Managers should give immense attention to their brands and products colors in order to attract a large number of customers. Limitations and future research agenda are presented.

Firm Level Competitiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Analytical Framework Based on Pillars of Competitiveness Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Krishantha Wisenthige ◽  
Cheng Guoping
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Framework Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

The research on competitiveness has been increasing in popularity amongst scholars, there is a lack of studies focusing on the firm level competitiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). The objective of this paper is to develop a framework model, which can be used to analyze the competitiveness of the SME at the firm level. In this paper, we propose a framework of  six pillars of competitiveness, which constitute the physical and human resources, innovation, networking, management processes as well as  customers (demand conditions) and  competitors (supply conditions). The methodology is unique in the sense that it incorporates the unique analytical framework called the bottlenecks over the pillars of competitiveness, which calculate the individual level competitiveness points for each SME and competition points that can collate significantly with the selected measures of competitiveness. This comprehensive framework needs to be tested empirically with the data in future research.

scholarly journals Group Positive Affect and Beyond: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7499
Author(s):  
Jonathan Peñalver ◽  
Marisa Salanova ◽  
Isabel M. Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Similarity Group ◽  
Working Together ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Individual

Group positive affect is defined as homogeneous positive affect among group members that emerges when working together. Considering that previous research has shown a significant relationship between group positive affect and a wide variety of group outcomes (e.g., behaviors, wellbeing, and performance), it is crucial to boost our knowledge about this construct in the work context. The main purpose is to review empirical research, to synthesize the findings and to provide research agenda about group positive affect, in order to better understand this construct. Through the PsycNET and Proquest Central databases, an integrative review was conducted to identify articles about group positive affect published between January 1990 and March 2019. A total of 44 articles were included and analyzed. Finding suggests that scholars have been more interested in understanding the outcomes of group positive affect and how to improve the productivity of groups than in knowing what the antecedents are. A summary conclusion is that group positive affect is related to leadership, job demands, job resources, diversity/similarity, group processes, and contextual factors, all of which influence the development of several outcomes and different types of wellbeing at the individual and group levels. However, with specific combinations of other conditions (e.g., group trust, negative affect, and interaction), high levels of group positive affect could cause harmful results. Conclusions shed light on group positive affect research and practice and might help Human Resources professionals to initiate empirically-based strategies related to recruitment, group design and leadership training.

Global City and Migration: A Critical Review for Sydney, Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 1450006
Author(s):  
Richard HU ◽  
William McCLURE
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Global City ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Analysis ◽  
Analytical Frameworks ◽  
Sydney Australia

Addressing the critique that the global city discourse should tackle the important issue of migration, this article utilizes Sydney as a case study to substantiate and advance the debates. It is a comprehensive literature review on the global Sydney discourse and migration in global Sydney. Concerning global Sydney, it addresses Sydney's rise as a global city and the economic, social, and spatial transformations. Concerning migration, it addresses its increased scale and complexity, spatial settlement and movement, and social polarization and spatial inequality. The article identifies two gaps in the literature: Missing migration in the global Sydney discourse, and failure to address the interplay between global Sydney and migration. Based upon the thematic patterns of the literature, and the identified gaps, some critical reflections are made to suggest a future research agenda — utilizing global Sydney as a meaningful spatial scale for contemporary migration analysis, and developing the analytical frameworks and methodologies that integrate both global Sydney and migration research.

scholarly journals The territoriality paradigm in cultural tourism

Turyzm ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Jansen-Verbeke
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The One ◽  
Spatial Flows ◽  
Crucial Condition

A typical geographers' approach to tourism is to emphasise the analysis of spatial flows and space uses and the synthesis of territorial coherence between people, place and product. The renewed interest in the territorial aspects of tourism can be seen as a response to globalisation on the one hand and the search for unique, authentic and grass-rooted experience on the other. In recent tourism studies the focus and methods shift from a description of patterns to the analysis of processes of change that are induced by tourism (touristification). Understanding the forces that are transforming cultural landscapes (urban and rural) into tourismscapes is a crucial condition for visionary planning and responsible management of regions and places. Some reflections on the future research agenda in geo-tourism will be included.

Occurrence of Validating Clinical Findings in the Hospital Record for Appendectomy, Cholecystectomy and Intervertebral Disc Excision Patients: Comparisons among Hospitals and among Surgeons

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
R. C. Bradbury ◽  
J. H. Golec ◽  
P. M. Steen
Keyword(s):  
Intervertebral Disc ◽  
Health Maintenance Organization ◽  
Severity Of Illness ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Hospital Record ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Organization Membership

This study examines the variation among 36 Pennsylvania hospitals, and the individual surgeons practicing in them, in the proportion of appendectomy, cholecystectomy and intervertebral disc excision patients with clinical findings in the hospital record that validate the need for surgery. Using admissions from January 1990 through June 1991, we performed logistic regressions on the probability of validating clinical findings controlling for patient age, sex, admission severity of illness, and Medicaid and Health Maintenance Organization membership. Our results show that hospitals, and surgeons, vary significantly in their validation rates for cholecystectomy and disc surgery and, to a lesser extent, appendectomy. We also found that increased procedure-specific volume at both the hospital and surgeon levels is not related to the odds of validating clinical findings. We define a future research agenda to investigate the reasons for the observed differences among hospitals and among surgeons.

Chairs of academic events: The investments and academic impact

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-332
Author(s):  
Thomas Trøst Hansen ◽  
Carina Ren
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Impact ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Academic Events ◽  
Hotel Booking ◽  
The Chairs ◽  
Gain Access ◽  
Do So

Abstract Every year, tens of thousands of academics engage in unfamiliar tasks related to catering, hotel booking, and transportation. They do so as chairs of the academic event. We do not know much about these chairmanships; neither how the researchers engage nor whether it is worthwhile from an academic point of view. Based on interviews with twenty-three researchers at six Danish universities and an analytical framework informed by the concept of credibility cycles, we analyze the academic chairmanship and how it impacts the knowledge production process of the chair. The article argues that the chairmanship is a multifaceted investment, which includes a range of non-academic tasks. The investment is a source for the following forms of credibility network, buzz, and recognition and the chairs gain access to a range of other potential exchanges. The study concludes that chairmanships of academic events are surprisingly similar across disciplines and that they are potential science policy instruments.

scholarly journals ‘Oh no, the stick keeps falling!’: An analytical framework for conceptualising young children’s interactions during free play in a woodland setting

2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2098386
Author(s):  
Cheryl Ellis ◽  
Gary Beauchamp ◽  
Sian Sarwar ◽  
Jacky Tyrie ◽  
Dylan Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Current Form ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
The Impact

It is widely accepted that play and ‘free play’ in particular, is beneficial to young children’s holistic development. However, there is a lack of evidence of the role that the natural environment can have in relation to young children’s play. This study examined the elements of ‘free play’ of children aged 4–5 years within a woodland university campus setting. The children chose to wear camera glasses which recorded both the gaze and speech of the individual. This provided a valuable insight into the ‘free play’ of the children and provided a rich data set to enable the development of an analytical framework which maps out the interactions which took place during the ‘free play’ within the woodland environment. Results showed that the children engaged in six key interactions including interactions with the natural environment as part of their play, including the use of sticks, leaves and branches as tools and props ‘as is’ (i.e. in its current form) and ‘as if’ (in conjunction with children’s imaginations). The framework highlights key aspects of their play which tended to be autonomous, child led and imaginary. Recommendations for future research include the use of the framework in alternative environments to explore the impact of different physical environments on the interactions of children within their ‘free play’.

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