This study aims to explore the role of Turkish school administrators' sensemaking skills in shaping school learning climate and teacher commitment. Utilizing a cross-sectional survey design and Structural Equation Modeling, data were collected from a sample of 706 teachers. Findings showed that school administrators' sensemaking skills have a…

Efficient and profitable business operations today rely on the use of advanced technologies. This is particularly evident in managing family farms in the competitive broiler chicken industry. Farmers raising broiler chickens from chick to optimum weight in five weeks require investments in and use of smart farming technologies employing the…

This book provides practical and theoretical guidance on how to conduct educational research into aspects of Catholic education or in Catholic schools, and opens up ways of completing education research in a Catholic setting. This book is divided into four sections. The first seeks to orientate researchers in Catholic education within the range of…

Universities have a pivotal role to play in addressing the climate crisis, not only educating an increasingly large proportion of the global population, but also through scientific breakthroughs, technological innovation and raising public awareness. Higher education is particularly important given the roots of ecological and social breakdown in…

Research managers and administrators (RMAs) face several challenges due to the various tasks and roles required in university research management. One of the challenges is their workplace environment, including job satisfaction. However, little empirical research has statistically analyzed the relationships between job satisfaction and its factors…

Implementing and sustaining high-quality early intervention practices depends on access to an evidence-based professional development (PD) model that fits the unique features of the system, providers, and families served. This paper describes and evaluates a 10-month PD sequence for EI providers on Family Guided Routines Based Intervention (FGRBI)…

John Widdowson CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) is principal and chief executive of New College Durham. He chairs the Mixed Economy Group (a working group of 40 colleges that offer higher education courses in addition to their FE provision) and was a member of the HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for…

The authors examined the publications and impact of highly productive business and management education (BME) scholars across the business disciplines of accounting, economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing, and operations management. Results from a hierarchical cluster analysis revealed five clusters of scholars: leading BME…

Organizational identification has gained popularity in the organizational sciences and has important implications for the experiences of new undergraduate business students. Researchers have focused largely on how characteristics of organizations influence organizational identification, but limited work has explored how characteristics of the…

In order to identify the main skills required by the labor market and to relate these skills to those developed by institutions accredited by AACSB, we conducted a qualitative study by triangulating information from the literature, World Economic Forum and interviews with accreditation experts, faculty, and students, to argue that accredited…

The paper investigates the value of AACSB accreditation for business schools. The status of an accredited school decreases the asymmetry of information and the study aims to fill the gap if this market signal has a value beyond enhancing the quality itself. It is based on the international panel data of the AACSB Business Schools Questionnaire and…

Intentionally provocative, this article identifies weaknesses in mainstream educational leadership scholarship, and draws upon 'new wave' critical leadership studies to propose a new, potentially paradigm-shifting, direction for the field. The central argument is that educational leadership researchers, in focusing predominantly on how…

Understanding the expectations of employers contributes to the relevancy of business and professional communication (BPC) courses. Studies that bridge the gap between course content and workplace expectations support this process. This article presents findings from a scale development procedure to analyze BPC skills using a multimodal…

Purpose: In the rational model of the democratic governing chain, intervening spaces at all levels are neglected in relation to the policy process. An intervening space is a group of persons with the power and responsibility to interpret policy at their level in an organization. The research question is as follows: How are democratic policy ideas…

Purpose: The paper makes an endeavour to explore the efficacy of service learning (SL) pedagogy in inculcating the value of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) with a focus on management education in India. Design/methodology/approach: The research methodology comprises a systematic survey of select relevant literature on SL and applying a novel…