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Publication date: 3 October 2016

Kimberly K. Whitehead, Zach G. Zacharia and Edmund L. Prater

The purpose of this paper is to disentangle the role of the source and recipient of knowledge in supply chain collaboration by providing evidence that the distributive…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to disentangle the role of the source and recipient of knowledge in supply chain collaboration by providing evidence that the distributive capabilities of a source, working in conjunction with the absorptive capacity (AC) of a recipient, have direct and significant effects on levels of collaborative engagement between supply chain partners and indirect and significant effects on collaborative operational outcomes.

Design/methodology/approach

This study utilises 310 surveys and structural equations modelling to provide empirical evidence to support the significance of the source of knowledge in collaborative activities.

Findings

The study provides evidence for source-based knowledge transfer constructs (distributive capabilities) in supply chain collaboration. Further, this research supports these capabilities working in conjunction with recipient AC both as necessary but insufficient requirements for successful knowledge transfer.

Practical implications

Firm interdependence within supply chains continues to grow. In today’s environment of outsourcing and increasing levels of inter-firm activities, this research provides a parsimonious model of collaboration that allows firms to understand knowledge transfer better and how to more aptly manage these types of activities and complex relationships.

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Earlier research in this domain has focussed on the abilities of a recipient firm to absorb knowledge in order to understand successful collaborative knowledge transfer. By solely focussing on the recipient firm, the role of the source of knowledge has been largely overlooked in this stream of research.

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 36 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-3577

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Publication date: 12 July 2017

Katy Gordon, Juliette Wilson, Andrea Tonner and Eleanor Shaw

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of social enterprise on individual and community health and well-being. It focusses on community food initiatives, their impact…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of social enterprise on individual and community health and well-being. It focusses on community food initiatives, their impact on the social determinants of health and the influence of structure on their outcomes.

Design/methodology/approach

Using an interpretive qualitative approach through case studies focussed on two community food social enterprises, the research team conducted observations, interviews and ad hoc conversations.

Findings

Researchers found that social enterprises impacted all layers of the social determinants of health model but that there was greater impact on individual lifestyle factors and social and community networks. Impact at the higher socio-economic, cultural and environmental layer was more constrained. There was also evidence of the structural factors both enabling and constraining impact at all levels.

Practical implications

This study helps to facilitate understanding on the role of social enterprises as a key way for individuals and communities to work together to build their capabilities and resilience when facing health inequalities. Building upon previous work, it provides insight into the practices, limitations and challenges of those engaged in encouraging and supporting behavioural changes.

Originality/value

The paper contributes to a deeper insight of the use, motivation and understanding of social enterprise as an operating model by community food initiatives. It provides evidence of the impact of such social enterprises on the social determinants of health and uses structuration theory (Giddens, 1984) to explore how structure both influences and constrains the impact of these enterprises.

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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, vol. 24 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2554

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Publication date: 2 May 2024

Amanuel Elias

Anti-racism has been practiced in various ways, with varying degrees of effectiveness. This chapter engages with the body of scholarship that focuses on approaches aimed at…

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Anti-racism has been practiced in various ways, with varying degrees of effectiveness. This chapter engages with the body of scholarship that focuses on approaches aimed at promoting anti-racist actions, policies and social change. It discusses some of the main anti-racism strategies that have been deployed across different countries and examines anti-racism practices in interpersonal, intergroup and community settings. These approaches encompass civil rights campaigns, legislative and policy interventions, affirmative action, diversity and inclusion training, prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, organisational development and holistic anti-racism approaches. Some anti-racism practices and policies, such as awareness campaigns, social marketing and diversity training, also extend to digital platforms, with social media and multimedia networks deployed to broaden the reach and impact of anti-racist endeavours. This chapter specifically engages with local anti-racism movements and draws principles for broader implementation of anti-racism policy and practice. It concludes with a brief discussion of the effectiveness of contemporary anti-racism approaches.

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Racism and Anti-Racism Today
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83753-512-5

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Publication date: 1 April 1977

A.K. Whitehead

Education is a process which produces or develops skills and abilities of various kinds. These attributes are then capable of being utilised when following different types of…

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Education is a process which produces or develops skills and abilities of various kinds. These attributes are then capable of being utilised when following different types of employment. Since most people depend on their employment for securing an adequate standard of living, their real welfare is determined by their education.

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Education + Training, vol. 19 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 February 1974

A.K. Whitehead

In recent years economists have been developing the concept of investment in human capital, despite misgivings in some quarters about the unhealthy overtones of the concept…

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In recent years economists have been developing the concept of investment in human capital, despite misgivings in some quarters about the unhealthy overtones of the concept itself. A spin‐off from work of Professors Becker and Mincer has been the analysis of training and the distribution between general and specific training. But it is preferable to begin by talking about education and then to see occupational training as a special form of education. It is then possible to look at the implications of this distinction upon the school leaving age.

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Education + Training, vol. 16 no. 2/3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 March 1977

A.K. Whitehead

It is unfortunate that the term comprehensive education has become a synonym in Britain for a particular type of secondary system. Depending on one's evaluation of conflicting…

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It is unfortunate that the term comprehensive education has become a synonym in Britain for a particular type of secondary system. Depending on one's evaluation of conflicting reports and evidence, pupils under this system are either reduced to the lowest common denominator, or allowed to rise to otherwise unattainable standards. Hence the system is viewed as producing either educational morons or academically liberated individualists. The truth of the situation probably lies somewhere between these two extremes.

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Education + Training, vol. 19 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 September 1974

A.K. Whitehead

Education, as a description and process, has come to be associated with an extremely narrow range of activity: namely that of formal classroom teaching. This has implications not…

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Education, as a description and process, has come to be associated with an extremely narrow range of activity: namely that of formal classroom teaching. This has implications not only for the short‐term development of the individual, but also for the long‐term development of society. In both these respects it is necessary to see education in a considerably broader context than hitherto; especially if, as we claim from time to time, we are really concerned with lifetime education. Within the context of a dynamic economy, the different sectors of which change at differential rates as between each other and individually over time, this has several important implications. This article attempts to outline some of these implications and to suggest a possible method for dealing with them.

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Education + Training, vol. 16 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 27 May 2014

Kay Whitehead

In Australia as elsewhere, kindergarten or pre-school teachers’ work has almost escaped historians’ attention. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lives and work of…

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Purpose

In Australia as elsewhere, kindergarten or pre-school teachers’ work has almost escaped historians’ attention. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lives and work of approximately 60 women who graduated from the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College (KTC) between 1908 and 1917, which is during the leadership of its foundation principal, Lillian de Lissa.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is a feminist analysis and uses conventional archival sources.

Findings

The KTC was a site of higher education that offered middle class women an intellectual as well as practical education, focusing on liberal arts, progressive pedagogies and social reform. More than half of the graduates initially worked as teachers, their destinations reflecting the fragmented field of early childhood education. Whether married or single, many remained connected with progressive education and social reform, exercising their pedagogical and administrative skills in their workplaces, homes and civic activities. In so doing, they were not only leaders of children but also makers of society.

Originality/value

The paper highlights the links between the kindergarten movement and reforms in girls’ secondary and higher education, and repositions the KTC as site of intellectual education for women. In turn, KTC graduates committed to progressive education and social reform in the interwar years.

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History of Education Review, vol. 43 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0819-8691

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Publication date: 1 June 2015

Kay Whitehead

The purpose of this paper is to explore Australian educators’ work with “other people’s children” (OPCs) (Delpit, 2006) from the informal education market of the 1840s to the mass…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore Australian educators’ work with “other people’s children” (OPCs) (Delpit, 2006) from the informal education market of the 1840s to the mass education market in contemporary times.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is structured as a narrative about the expansion of the educational state and the concomitant development of technologies of inclusion and exclusion. Snapshots of various educators’ work with “OPCs” are woven into the narrative.

Findings

Notwithstanding contemporary efforts to “confront educational disadvantage” and an ever increasing array of technologies with which to differentiate students, OPCs remain on the margins of Australian education.

Originality/value

This paper is a unique look at Australian educators’ work with “OPCs” over the past 175 years.

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History of Education Review, vol. 44 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0819-8691

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Publication date: 28 March 2019

Tommy Foy, Rocky J. Dwyer, Roy Nafarrete, Mohamad Saleh Saleh Hammoud and Pat Rockett

Workplace stress costs £3.7bn per annum in the UK and in excess of $300bn per annum in the USA. The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence, strength and direction of…

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Workplace stress costs £3.7bn per annum in the UK and in excess of $300bn per annum in the USA. The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence, strength and direction of relationships between perceptions of social support, work–life conflict, job performance and workplace stress in an Irish higher education institution.

Design/methodology/approach

The selected theoretical framework consisted of a combination of reward imbalance theory, expectancy theory and equity theory. An organizational stress screening survey instrument was used to survey the staff (n = 1,420) of an academic institution. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationships between the independent variables (social support, work–life conflict, job performance), the covariates (staff category, direct reports, age, gender), and the dependent variable (workplace stress).

Findings

The results showed a negative correlation between social support and workplace stress, a positive correlation between work–life conflict and workplace stress, and a negative correlation between job performance and workplace stress (p < 0.05). The results also revealed significant relationships between the covariates direct reports and gender and the dependent variable workplace stress.

Practical implications

The findings from this research can trigger an organizational approach where educational leaders can enable workplace change by developing and implementing social support and work–life strategies, and potential pathways to reduce levels of workplace stress and improve quality of life for employees and enhance performance.

Originality/value

The examination and establishment of particular relationships between social support, work–life conflict and job performance with workplace stress is significant for managers.

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International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, vol. 68 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1741-0401

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