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Publication date: 1 June 1990

Mike Reed and Peter Anthony

During the 1980's there is some evidence to suggest that the British state began to take a rather more pro‐active role in sponsoring and supporting managerial education and…

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During the 1980's there is some evidence to suggest that the British state began to take a rather more pro‐active role in sponsoring and supporting managerial education and training with the longer‐term objective of producing a ‘professionalised’ occupational group or strata. A number of reports on the condition of management education and training in the UK (Mangham and Silver, 1986; Handy, 1987; Constable and McCormick, 1987) indicated that general provision in this area fell well below that provided by our major European competitors and, for the most part, was patchy, fragmented and poorly organised. The dire warnings of accelerated economic decline — due, at least in part, to the glaring intellectual and technical deficiencies of British management when compared to its various European counterparts — galvanised the state into undertaking a number of initiatives aimed at producing a more coherent, extensive and integrated system of management education and training (expansion of business/management schools in higher education sector; Charter Initiative; Enterprise Initiative; BIM support and involvement; positive response from ‘professional associations, such as IPM etc.). These initiatives — often taken in concert with a relatively small number of British owned and controlled multinational corporations (such as ICI) —were directed at transforming the culture and organisation of British management in the direction of a more ‘enterprising’ values system, combined with a more developed and integrated system of accreditation and training. The underlying ideological tensions — not to say contradictions ‐ between an enterprising or ‘entrepreneurial’ value system, on the one hand, and a professional or status— oriented value system on the other, were hardly recognised, much less debated. The organisational problems likely to accrue as a result of this underlying ideological conflict were also left unresolved. For the most part, they were sublimated within a pragmatically‐oriented drive “to do something” about the appallingly low level of management education and training in the UK as quickly as possible. The fact that some of the major actors or agencies charged with transforming the quality and standing of management education and training had rather different ideas as to how this objective was to be achieved (e.g. increasingly strained relations between Charter Group and BIM Universities) was also glossed over in the desperate rush to “get a slice of the action”. While initiatives of this kind — if not on the same scale that seemed to be envisaged — had been undertaken before in the 1960's and 1970's (Whitley et al, 1981), and certain developments had taken place in relation to particular technical specialisms within management as a whole (Armstrong, 1987), the 1980's witnessed a more concerted strategy of reform in which the rhetoric of ‘professionalisation’ played an important ideological and political role.

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Management Research News, vol. 13 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 1 December 1993

S.M. Gower, A.S. Sagoo and P.O. Olomolaiye

Reports a structured evaluation of organisational policies andprogrammes in context of whether or not co‐ordinated and coherentpolicies, strategies, and programmes are being…

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Reports a structured evaluation of organisational policies and programmes in context of whether or not co‐ordinated and coherent policies, strategies, and programmes are being adopted to maximise the opportunities of achieving successful long‐term regeneration. Suggest that recent changes to such policies have rendered apparent improvements in the way in which urban regeneration is organised and controlled. Concludes that problems associated primarily with bureaucracy and limited funds remain and must be overcome to achieve greater efficacy and effectiveness.

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Journal of Property Finance, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0958-868X

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Publication date: 1 March 1996

S.M. Gower, F.C. Harris and P.A. Cooper

Utilizing the findings of a survey of science park managers and directors, carried out in the latter half of 1994, examines the management of property developed within science…

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Utilizing the findings of a survey of science park managers and directors, carried out in the latter half of 1994, examines the management of property developed within science parks in the UK. Shows that, as a result of the complex motives for the development of science parks and the specialized sector they typically aim to accommodate, the management function may prove complex and consequently labour intensive and costly. Proposes that science park management, out of necessity, has to incorporate proactive and even interventionist techniques in developing an understanding of occupiers, a sophisticated understanding of whose needs are generally, and increasingly, perceived as a key determinant of successful property development and management. Concludes, however, that the increasing maturity and improving commercial profile, and hence viability, of science parks is altering the science park management role

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Property Management, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-7472

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Publication date: 26 October 2018

Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker

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Refugees in Higher Education
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-714-2

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Publication date: 30 May 2024

Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker

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Refugees in Higher Education
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ISBN: 978-1-83797-975-2

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Publication date: 1 September 1994

S.M. Gower and F.C. Harris

Examines the nature of science parks in Britain. Reviews the sources offunding and investment that have typically been utilized to support whatis, it is proposed, a specialized…

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Examines the nature of science parks in Britain. Reviews the sources of funding and investment that have typically been utilized to support what is, it is proposed, a specialized and distinct sector of property development. Draws attention to the diverse nature of and complex motives behind this form of development. Concludes that public sector patronage has to date been heavily relied on and as yet, despite apparent successes, private sector sources have remained reticent. Increasing commercialism on the part of British universities is recognized as having the potential to improve the performance and funding/investment profile of British science parks.

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Journal of Property Finance, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0958-868X

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Publication date: 15 May 2017

Maria Symeonaki and Celestine Filopoulou

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of gender in education, occupation and employment in Southern Europe and more specifically in Greece, Italy, Portugal and…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of gender in education, occupation and employment in Southern Europe and more specifically in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The goal is to provide measures that can trace gender differences with respect to their educational and employment features in these countries, explore whether these differences converge over time and compare the patterns observed in each country given their socio-economic similarities.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper uses raw data drawn from the European Social Survey (ESS) for the decade 2002-2012. It provides a method for quantifying gender differences in education, occupation and employment and their evolution over time based on distance measures.

Findings

The results reveal that gender distances in education have gradually subsided in these countries. However, occupational choices differ steadily over the years for all countries. The paper provides, therefore, solid evidence that equalizing the level of education between men and women during those years did not result in a decrease in the occupational distances between them. Moreover, based on the latest round the findings suggest that men and women are equally likely to having experienced unemployment within the last five years.

Research limitations/implications

Further research could be done to include results based on raw data from the seventh round of the ESS. This may provide valuable information for Spain and Portugal who did participate in this round.

Social implications

This research implies that more needs to be done to accelerate progress in order to achieve gender occupational equality in Southern Europe.

Originality/value

This paper draws attention to issues concerning gender differences in education, horizontal and vertical segregation and employment for which it provides distance measures and evidence of how they have evolved over time, based on raw data analysis from the ESS.

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 36 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2040-7149

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Publication date: 11 November 2014

Nicholas Theodorakopoulos, Nada K. Kakabadse and Carmel McGowan

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to provide a critical assessment of the literature on business incubation effectiveness and second, to submit a situated theoretical…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to provide a critical assessment of the literature on business incubation effectiveness and second, to submit a situated theoretical perspective on how business incubation management can provide an environment that supports the development of incubatee entrepreneurs and their businesses.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper provides a narrative critical assessment of the literature on business incubation effectiveness. Definitional issues, performance aspects and approaches to establishing critical success factors in business incubation are discussed. Business incubation management is identified as an overarching factor for theorising on business incubation effectiveness.

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The literature on business incubation effectiveness suffers from several deficiencies, including definitional incongruence, descriptive accounts, fragmentation and lack of strong conceptual grounding. Notwithstanding the growth of research on this domain, understanding of how entrepreneurs and their businesses develop within the business incubator environment remains limited. Given the importance of relational, intangible factors in business incubation and the critical role of business incubation management in orchestrating and optimising such factors, it is suggested that theorising efforts would benefit from a situated perspective.

Originality/value

The identification of specific shortcomings in the literature on business incubation highlights the need for more systematic efforts towards theory building. It is suggested that focusing on the role of business incubation management from a situated learning theory perspective can lend itself to a more profound understanding of the development process of incubatee entrepreneurs and their firms. Theoretical propositions are offered to this effect, as well as avenues for future research.

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Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, vol. 21 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1462-6004

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Publication date: 1 February 1993

ALAN THOMAS

This paper is based on the author's experience and comments on the daily life of fund managers and stockbrokers, along with the nature of the networks within which many operates…

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This paper is based on the author's experience and comments on the daily life of fund managers and stockbrokers, along with the nature of the networks within which many operates. The paper attempts to provide a guide to current market conditions and how regulators may respond to challenges to the self‐regulatory process.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 18 May 2012

Nicola North and Frances Hughes

Recent New Zealand reports have identified the nursing workforce for its potential to make a significant contribution to increased productivity in health services. The purpose of…

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Purpose

Recent New Zealand reports have identified the nursing workforce for its potential to make a significant contribution to increased productivity in health services. The purpose of this paper is to review critically the recent and current labour approaches to improve nursing productivity in New Zealand, in a context of international research and experience.

Design/methodology/approach

An examination of government documents regarding productivity, and a review of New Zealand and international literature and research on nursing productivity and its measurement form the basis of the paper.

Findings

It is found that productivity improvement strategies are influenced by theories of labour economics and scientific management that conceptualise a nurse as a labour unit and a cost to the organisation. Nursing productivity rose significantly with the health reforms of the 1990s that reduced nursing input costs but impacts on patient safety and nurses were negative. Current approaches to increasing nursing productivity, including the “productive ward” and reconfiguration of nursing teams, also draw on manufacturing innovations. Emerging thinking considers productivity in the context of the work environment and changing professional roles, and proposes reconceptualising the nurse as an intellectual asset to knowledge‐intensive health organisations.

Practical implications

Strategies that take a systems approach to nursing productivity, that view nursing as a capital asset, that focus on the interface between nurse and working environment and measure patient and nurse outcomes are advocated.

Originality/value

The paper shows that reframing nursing productivity brings into focus management strategies to raise productivity while protecting nursing and patient outcomes.

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Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 26 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1477-7266

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