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Gender, discipline, and scientific productivity: the case of Israeli doctoral students
Authors: Yair Gad 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study gender differentials in scientific productivity while looking at academic discipline and advisor practices. The natural sciences and the liberal arts are shown to constitute two organisational cultures which affect the ability of women to attain excellence on a par with men.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical study is based on a sample of 660 doctoral students in two universities in Israel. Regression procedures were employed to predict productivity.FindingsThere is a slight gender gap in scientific productivity, but only in single‐authored papers. This suggests that publishing together with an advisor – which is the common practice in the natural sciences – is more conducive to gender parity. Students' reports suggest that their advisors evince little differential treatment of men versus women, thereby ruling out the possibility of overt advisor bias against women. Overall, the natural sciences appear to be more supportive of students' success while the liberal arts seem to challenge students to struggle on their own, putting women in greater jeopardy of suffering family‐work tensions.Practical implicationsUniversities need to appreciate the disciplinary differences within them and help students to get greater support in the “natural selection” mechanisms that are often unconsciously employed in higher education.Originality/valueThis paper adds an important angle in appreciating currently dominant approaches to work‐family balances while focusing on unintended exclusionary mechanisms embedded in the standards and culture of different scientific disciplines.
Gender and attitudes to enterprise
Authors: Zalevski Anna , Swiszczowski Laura 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThere are few female‐led enterprises in the male‐dominated occupations of science, engineering and technology (SET) and very little research is devoted to this area. The purpose of this paper is to report on a study that investigated differences and similarities in career aspirations, attitudes to enterprise, and experiences/opinions regarding setting up a business, among PhD students in SET disciplines.Design/methodology/approachA confidential online survey was distributed via e‐mail to all doctorate students in SET departments in the Yorkshire and Humber region, with an 8.6 per cent return rate.FindingsThe results show that all respondents had a preference for work in academia, but men were also more likely to indicate a preference for work in industry and women for work in the public sector. Gender differences were further pronounced in students' attitudes to and knowledge of enterprise. Women provided more potential advantages of owning a business than men; however, they also reported having less business training and/or experience, being less aware of entrepreneurial possibilities, and being less likely to believe that their business ideas could have commercial potential or to discuss enterprise with their supervisor. The results indicate a lack of information and lack of encouragement by academic staff for female students' potential progression from PhD study into enterprise.Originality/valueThis paper provides an insight into the aspirations of SET doctorate students from a gender perspective. The results of this study should help academic staff and higher education practitioners to improve their strategies for promoting entrepreneurial possibilities to female students.
Women's academic careers in technology: a comparative European perspective
Authors: Godfroy‐Genin Anne‐Sophie 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present some outcomes of the PROMETEA research project funded by the European Union under FP6 from 2005 to 2007 (seewww.prometea.info). PROMETEA is a strongly multidisciplinary and collaborative project involving 17 research teams from 13 different countries.Design/methodology/approachThe paper combines existing knowledge with new in‐depth pilot studies on women academics in engineering and technology, linked to qualitative research work on the experiences of both women and men working in this field, using cross‐comparison as a research strategy.FindingsThe paper identifies different issues for further investigations on women researchers in engineering and technology.Originality/valueThe paper focuses on comparative perspectives between countries, disciplines or research topics, age groups, academic and industrial research career paths, etc. The similarity and diversity of academic settings are discussed with an emphasis on the impact of the changing environment of research, the balance between research, teaching and administrative workload with its influence on career choices and patterns, the interactions between industry and academia, work‐life balance, the proportion of women academics in the field, gender awareness, and so on.
A changing world: new opportunities for women engineers and scientists
Authors: Kugele Kordula 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThis conference review aims to address major issues regarding the position of women in science and technology as well as key technical topics in the debate of globalisation with a specific focus on chances and new opportunities for women in a changing world.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on a report on the 14th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists that was hosted by the Conceil National des Ingénieurs et des Scientifiques de France (CNISF). Organised by an international committee, the conference was held at the Polytech University in Lille, France, 15‐18 July 2008.Research limitations/implicationsThe exchanges generated by such an international gathering of (mostly) women experts and scholars from diverse scientific fields were a rich source of learning and inspiration. In view of the fact that the lectures not only addressed the current situation but focused also on the development of an international vision and new opportunities for women in a globalised world, the conference will influence science policies and measures for equal opportunities.Originality/valueThe conference brought together over 500 participants from 60 countries.
MINT: the German national initiative for more women in SET
Authors: Blättel‐Mink Birgit 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an interview with Barbara Schwarze, Coordinator of MINT.Design/methodology/approachPresents an overview of MINT: the German national initiative for women in SET.FindingsThe building of a strong national network is crucial but it is also important to establish connections to comparable initiatives in other countries.Originality/valueThe paper offers insights into MINT as an innovative process.
Critiquing the language of strategic management
Authors: French Steven 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the semantics of the language of management in order to seek clarification of the terminology and how it is used and misused in the strategy literature.Design/methodology/approachAn extensive review of the literature was undertaken.FindingsManagerial language has been used to obfuscate and politicise the managerial process, especially the strategic process. In order to develop the ideas of the strategy specialty the use and misuse of the words in the strategy lexicon must be understood. The problem that the lack of consistency creates is, that in trying to assess the strategic process in the literature and in practice, it is often impossible to know exactly what strategic methodology is being expressed.Practical implicationsRather than concentrate on definitions of strategy it is necessary to seek to understand how the terminology is applied and then allocate the meaning of the terms to the school of strategic ideas that the writer/scholar espouses in each relevant paper that is published.Originality/valueIt is necessary to recognise how the words in the strategy literature have subtle, different meanings and the way to understand the usage is to apply the terminology to a school of thought.
Cogito ergo sum: exploring epistemological options for strategic management
Authors: French Steven 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that the epistemology of the strategic literature is dominated by a Modernist (scientific) and Cybernetic system approach and that other epistemological options especially critical management studies and complex self‐adapting systems, might provide greater insight for strategic thinking.Design/methodology/approachAn extensive review of the literature was undertaken.FindingsThe current dominant way of thinking about management is based on closed system notions of causality in which good enough long‐term prediction is possible. The process PLOC depends totally on this foundation. If a system's long‐term behaviour is unpredictable, then using the PLOC model is questionable. In the current turbulent business environment long‐term prediction may not be possible.Practical implicationsThe life expectancy of a firm is only 40 years. Using closed system concepts to drive businesses to the equilibrium of a business plan may be killing the business, because a complex self‐adapting system in equilibrium is dead.Originality/valueVery little work, especially in strategy has been done outside the Modernist paradigm. This paper explores the possibility of incorporating open system ideas into a strategic methodology.
Exploring the house built on sand!
Authors: French Steven 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the strategy literature in order to identify scholars who have developed specific models of strategy.Design/methodology/approachAn extensive review of the literature was undertaken.FindingsThe paper reveals Modernist ideas of several scholars who have developed methods or concepts for delineating the ideas of strategy. A body of economic theory is mentioned but is beyond the scope of this paper.Practical implicationsThe paper suggests that a move away from the eighteenth century economic concepts must happen, especially the equilibrium assumption, if the strategy discipline is to be developed.Originality/valueVery little work, especially in strategy has been done outside the Modernist paradigm. This paper explores the possibility of incorporating open system ideas into a strategic methodology.
Re‐thinking the foundations of the strategic business process
Authors: French Steven 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a coherent model of several schools of strategic ideas while utilising and building on the models extant in the literature, but also considering a change of epistemological and systemic paradigms.Design/methodology/approachAn extensive review of the literature was undertaken.FindingsThe result of the analysis of the literature is that a seven‐school model is postulated. The seven schools being grouped within three categories. The first category is labelled the Classical Schools and includes the Design School, the Planning School and the Positioning School. The second category is labelled the Neo‐classical Schools and includes the Contingency School and the Resource School. The third category is labelled the Post‐Classical Schools and includes the Learning School and the Emergence School.Practical implicationsThe concept of strategic emergence, a characteristic of a complex self‐adapting system, is developed.Originality/valueVery little work, especially in strategy has been done outside the Modernist paradigm. This paper explores the possibility of incorporating open system ideas into a strategic methodology.
Post‐occupancy evaluation: purpose, benefits and barriers
Authors: Hadjri Karim , Crozier Carl 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThis paper explores the historical development of POE in order to provide a contextual backdrop to current discussions.Design/methodology/approachThis paper attempts to establish what POE is and does, and explores POE methodologies.FindingsThis paper concludes that the fact that this topic is extensively discussed highlights a growing frustration with the lack of progress toward POE becoming a mainstream activity in the process of building procurement. Other findings include POE's exclusion from professional curricula; who pays for POE? And issues with professional liability and its contribution to this lack of use.Practical implicationsThe paper presents the benefits accrued by stakeholders in the building procurement process, and the barriers to the adoption of POE that need to be addressed.Originality/valueThis literature review suggests that despite the trials and tribulations, POE has progressed from a one dimensional feedback process to a multidimensional process that, as an integrated element, can help drive the building procurement process forward. The paper presents an objective overview of literary discourse around POE, its potential and limitations.
The missing link which was already there
Authors: Aune Margrethe , Berker Thomas , Bye Robert 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThis paper analyses the daily activities of building operators and how they mediate between end‐users and technological systems in order to make “their” buildings energy efficient.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical data consists of four selected cases of non‐residential buildings of different sizes.FindingsThe paper argues that building operators have the possibility of improving energy efficiency with or without extensive user involvement and with or without advanced technological systems.Originality/valueStarting from the practitioners' point of view a new perspective on the link between facilities management and energy efficiency emerges, which calls into question approaches which focus on either the behavioral or the technical side of a building's energy consumption.
The characteristics of refurbishment projects in Malaysia
Authors: Shah Ali Azlan , Nizam Kamaruzzaman Syahrul , Salleh Hafez 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe main objectives of this paper are to identify general characteristics of refurbishment projects and problems arise in Malaysian context.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative and qualitative approaches using postal questionnaire survey and semi‐structured interviews were used in data collection. A total of 1,552 questionnaire sets sent to professional architects.FindingsThe results show that the majority of refurbishment projects in Malaysia involved residential and office types of building with contract value less than RM500,000.00 (USD 150,000.00). Some of major problem in refurbishment projects are inconsistence in client's needs, refurbishment projects exceed targeted costs and times.Research limitations/implicationsThe literature search and survey results showed that systematic studies into the refurbishment were relatively sparse. Therefore, more detail study gear towards refurbishment area is needed for Malaysian construction industry in the future. The findings provide general overview of refurbishment projects in Malaysia, which could help intrested researchers to have indications on the refurbishment activities.Originality/valueSurvey results provided important information about the general profiles of refurbishment projects in Malaysia. This will helps other researchers who are interested to identify focus area that needs further investigation in refurbishment works.
The world wide web in modern marketing's contribution to organisational performance
Authors: Adam Stewart , Vocino Andrea , Bednall David 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the antecedents of organisational performance (OP), both financial and marketing, and the influence of holding a strategic market orientation (MO) where customer‐base volatility is taken into account.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 167 marketing organisations in Australia was surveyed to test the hypothesised model. Structural equation modelling was employed in the data analysis.FindingsUse of the world wide web (Web) reported by organisations in this study indicates that there is still separate use of the Web and that it has yet to be fully integrated into the marketing strategy of many organisations. The study finds that traditional marketing effort mediates the relationship between holding a MO and OP in terms of financial indicators.Research limitations/implicationsA major limitation of this study is that it surveys organisations from many industries rather than selected industries. This tends to mask some of the possible outcomes.Practical implicationsThe findings in this study suggest that traditional and online elements of marketing effort each mediate the influence of holding a MO on OP, but differently. Innovation culture is found to influence both marketing practice and marketing performance, directly. A single measure of environmental turbulence – customer‐base turbulence or churn – negatively affects marketing performance, and ultimately financial performance.Originality/valueA major contribution of this study is the examination of use of the Web in marketing effort and how this usage influences financial and marketing performance.
Engaging the purchase motivations to charm shoppers
Authors: Miranda Mario J. 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to give retailers an insight into consumers' capacity for feeling pleasure associated with specific purchase motivations across different product categories.Design/methodology/approachA hedonic regression model was estimated from data collected from shoppers in shopping malls that enabled the generation of implicit prices of each constituent purchasing motive.FindingsHedonic values of consumer motivations vary for different products categories. Convenience items, like bread, allow little scope for self‐congruence, whereas shampoo offers significant scope for pleasurable emotive appeals to boost consumers' status enhancement and social image. This study identified opportunities to create good feelings for the purchase of both bread and shampoos, by engaging shoppers' attention on themes relating to social referents and family values. Shopping items like apparel and specialty items like cosmetics offer prospects of titillating consumer motives of status and self‐image enhancement, respectively, by engaging them with reputable merchandise in reputable settings.Research limitations/implicationsNo insight was sought on the hedonic value of consumers' buying motivations of impulse purchases.Practical implicationsProducts that are used in public (apparel) or whose consumption outcome is manifest in public (shampoos and cosmetics), have purchase motivations that are susceptible to hedonic appeals. On the other hand, only a few purchase motivations for products like bread, with limited “public face”, have some hedonic value. The results of this study inform retailers on choice of purchase motivations to direct engagement appeals in order to generate emotional excitement. Getting consumers to fantasize on themes relating to relevant purchasing motives could facilitate their purchase choice.Originality/valueTargeting consumers' preferred urges is an efficient way to stimulate buying intentions.
Assessing relationship quality in four business‐to‐business markets
Authors: Ashnai Bahar , Smirnova Maria , Kouchtch Sergei , Yu Qionglei , Barnes Bradley R. , Naudé Peter 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of what constitutes relationship quality in four different countries. The paper shows which attributes are important in assessing relationship quality and how they vary in importance among countries.Design/methodology/approachConjoint analysis was used to derive how managers trade‐off different attributes of relationship quality. These attributes were: the levels of trust in the relationship, the understanding of each others' needs, the integration of systems between the two companies, the use or abuse of power, and the profit resulting from the interactions. Cluster analysis was used to classify the respondents in order to check if the overall results were indicative of a general consensus among the managers concerned, or alternatively if there were different perspectives on what constituted good quality relationship.FindingsWhilst the routes to develop relationships may vary between different countries, the attributes which make up relationships are also likely to be valued differently in various places around the world.Research limitations/implicationsConjoint analysis questions are difficult to answer; making it difficult to have large sample sizes. However, further studies should try to consider increasing the sample size.Practical implicationsThe paper shows that there are indeed differences between what it is that managers seek from the relationships that they have to manage: but while noting certain national traits that seem to dominate within particular cultures, there is still variance in the individual datasets, pointing to the fact that managers have to manage their portfolio of relationships in an individual way.Originality/valueThis is the first study that compares the importance of relationship quality within and between four counties.
CRM literature: conceptual and functional insights by keyword analysis
Authors: Kevork Eleni K. , Vrechopoulos Adam P. 
Published: January 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the literature on customer relationship management (CRM) to obtain a comprehensive framework of mutually exclusive CRM research areas and sub‐areas free of all potentially disruptive factors (plethora of CRM definitions, personal judgments, etc.).Design/methodology/approachThe keywords reported in 396 CRM articles published during the period 2000‐2006 are used to uncover first a great number of detailed keyword sub‐groups and, by subject summation, the CRM‐related research areas. This classification scheme is considered unbiased, in contrast with any direct classification of articles alone among CRM research areas fixed in advance.FindingsAn up‐to‐date conceptual and functional CRM framework emerges, consisting of a total of nine distinct research areas having their own weights, importance and popularity among the research community. Newly emerging CRM research areas are self‐identified as attracting the interest of the researchers and managers.Originality/valueKeywords are activated, for a first time, as an added value characteristic reflecting genuinely the authors' beliefs about the subject content fields of their articles, important enough to reveal a self‐supported and self‐weighted unbiased and exhaustive CRM framework, useful to researchers and marketing practitioners. The paper offers strong evidence that e‐CRM is too complex to be comprehensively classified by mere procedures and simple criteria alone.