The behavioural determinants of corporate sustainability: Towards a comprehensive model of legitimate climate change communication

Today's world faces severe climate challenges, and there is a pressing need for genuine environmental advocacy within organizations and policymaking. This dissertation investigates the complex decision-making processes in the workforce and environmental communication and behaviour in organizations. The goal is to provide insights on stimulating environmental advocacy and enabling better-targeted behavioural change interventions. The thesis encompasses four independent but related papers that cover interdisciplinary research on environmental advocacy, examining the social backdrop of contemporary corporate sustainability, environmental communication, and strategies to encourage workplace environmentalism. The studies draw primarily from signalling and legitimacy theory while extending understanding of identity theory, power, and knowledge spillover. Overall, this dissertation contributes to a greater understanding of corporate sustainability by emphasizing the role of legitimacy in environmental leadership and sustainability communication. It fosters a more integrated, systematic, and comprehensive understanding of climate change communication in organisations, likely increasing the saliency of behavioural research in the mitigation debate and supporting evidence-based public policy

Third-Party Logistics\u27 Hiring Manager Strategies to Recruit Supply-Chain Professionals

Leaders of third-party logistics companies face a critical talent shortage because of the global deficiency of supply-chain professionals. The lack of trained supply-chain professionals negatively affects business and market performance. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies used by third-party logistics hiring managers to recruit supply-chain talent to meet industry demands. The resource-based view theory was used as a lens for this study. Data were collected from 5 Pennsylvania third-party logistics hiring managers from interviews, organizational documents, and company websites. Member checking occurred after transcription and summarization of the interview data. Data analysis occurred using Yin\u27s 5-step process of compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding data. Four themes emerged from the data: (a) strategies for recruitment resourcing, (b) strategies to address market drivers, (c) interview method strategies, and (d) strategies for determining skill requirements. The findings and recommendations resulting from this study might be valuable to senior management, human resource leaders, and hiring managers for creating strategic plans to address recruitment to alleviate supply-chain talent shortages. The implications for positive social change include the potential for business leaders to decrease unemployment, produce greater local economic stability, and improve the standard of living of community residents

Partnership functioning and sustainability in nursing academic partnerships: the mediating role of partnership synergy

The United States is presently challenged with numerous high profile issues in health care. The nursing profession is composed of the greatest number of healthcare providers in the system and has the opportunity to effect extensive change. Creating and sustaining academic practice partnerships is a method to meet these profound challenges more efficiently; however, nursing partnerships have not been studied. The purpose of this cross-sectional, descriptive research study is to enhance knowledge about the process by which nursing academic practice partnerships (APP) generate partnership synergy and sustainability. The research sample included participants that are involved in established nursing APP in the United States. The relationships between partnership functioning, synergy and sustainability are illustrated and the mediation of synergy among partnership functioning and sustainability is examined. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and path analysis were utilized to address the research questions. The research participants describe themselves, their institutions, and their partnerships similar to what is related in the literature. The short version of the Partnership Self-Assessment Tool (PSAT-S) revealed high Cronbach’s α scores representing good reliability for the tool. All variables revealed statistically significant relationships amongst the variables (p \u3c.05 or p\u3c.01), except the relationship between non-financial resources and sustainability. Partnership synergy was revealed to partially mediate partnership functioning and sustainability; however, efficiency was the only partnership functioning concept that revealed to be a statistically significant negative predicator of partnership synergy. This study serves as foundational research in the area of academic practice partnerships. The association between the partnership functioning, synergy, and sustainability model and the guiding principles and strategies of academic practice partnerships in relation to the Institute of Medication Future of Nursing recommendations are explicated. The need for further research is explored

Faculty Publication Productivity and Collaboration in Pakistan: Using Mixed Methods to Compare Foreign and Domestic Doctoral Degree Holders

In higher education research, publication productivity and collaboration of foreign doctoral degree holders have been thoroughly examined in developed countries. However, they have been given less attention in developing countries such as Pakistan, despite their growing visibility and significance in HEIs. The purpose of this study was to examine faculty publication productivity and collaboration differences between foreign and domestic doctoral degree holders. The theoretical premise of the study was based on knowledge recombination theory and mobility approaches, and the study used a convergent parallel mixed methods design. The empirical data consist of 232 faculty members and 17 semi-structured interviews with university administrators collected from 14 public universities. The findings of the study revealed that foreign doctoral degree holders had not produced a greater total of refereed journal articles than their domestic doctoral holder colleagues. Qualitative findings also supported the quantitative findings of the study, as well as made a theoretical contribution to knowledge recombination theory and mobility approaches. Our findings suggested that mobility helps knowledge flows and knowledge gained from distant sources is significantly more creative when compared to domestic knowledge. Additionally, analysis demonstrated that certain foreign doctoral holders are particularly productive and could have benefited from unique knowledge not accessible to their domestic doctoral colleagues. The findings also recognized that those who move internationally and opt for foreign study could be beneficial for home countries and undoubtedly help institutions achieve their research excellence goals. Further discussion and implications are provided

Australian tertiary learning and teaching scholarship and research 2007-2012

Research into Higher Education is strongly supported in Australia by journals and conferences. Teaching and learning awards, projects and programmes in Australia have gained a significantly larger profile over the last five years thanks, in part, to an imaginative and supportive environment fostered by the federal government through the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) and now the Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT)

Relationship Between Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Teacher Age, and Years of Experience of Teachers of Languages Other Than English and Their Perceived Leadership

The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine a relationship between self-efficacy beliefs, age, and years of experience of educators of language other than English and teacher leadership. Language teachers constitute a unique subculture that exhibits varied levels of perceived importance and influence on the local, state, and national levels. The complexity of the academic context of second language acquisition contributed to the persistent shortage of educators nationwide between 1990 and 2017. In addition, the gap in ethnic representativeness of formal school leaders combined with the increased ethnic diversity of students communicates the need to invest in leadership development of teachers of languages other than English. The convenience sampling method was used to draw a representative sample of 64 language educators from school districts in the northeastern region of Texas. Two online surveys and a demographic questionnaire were employed to collect primary data. The Teachers’ Efficacy Beliefs System-Self (TEBS-Self) allowed to measure domain-specific teacher self-efficacy beliefs. The Teacher Leadership Inventory (TLI) revealed the scores on perceived teacher leadership. The results of a multiple linear regression analysis indicated that there were no statistically significant predictive relationships between the linear combination of self-efficacy scores, age, and years of experiences and the overall score of teacher leadership subscales. Limitations and implications of the findings and recommendations for future research were discussed

Ethics and taxation : a cross-national comparison of UK and Turkish firms

This paper investigates responses to tax related ethical issues facing busines

Chemistry PhD Supervisors in Australia: A Study of the Relationship between their Conceptions of Doctoral Purpose and their Reported Educational Practices

Over the past 30 years, the literature on doctoral education has raised a number of debates about the research doctorate. This has included debates over its purpose and whether its graduates are well prepared to address the diverse and complex problems of today’s workforce. However, scholarly literature on doctoral education in the academic discipline of chemistry is mostly non-existent. To address this research gap, I draw upon key concepts arising from the doctoral education literature such as doctoral purpose, practice, and evaluation to provide the necessary framing for this study. Based on this, I ask the following question: ‘What are the Positions of Chemistry PhD Supervisors in Australia in Relation to Contemporary Debates and Practices in Doctoral Education?’ This study adopts a qualitative research methodology in which 31 chemistry PhD supervisors in Australia were interviewed using the semi-structured interview method. Data were analysed thematically using both deductive analysis for pre-existing themes from the literature, and inductive analysis for emergent themes from the data. Three main themes characterised the analysis: supervisors’ conceptions of doctoral purpose; their reported educational practices; and their reported methods of self-evaluation of supervisory success and graduate follow-up. It was found that the reported practices for two groups of supervisors in the sample did not align with their conceptions of purpose. Instead, they showed a strong tendency to socialise their students into becoming custodians or ‘stewards’ of the discipline, despite interviewees expressing conceptions of doctoral purpose that aligned with the development of graduates as knowledge workers equipped with the knowledge and skills for wider employment. For the other group, their conceptions of doctoral purpose did align with their reported educational practices of preparing ‘stewards’ of the discipline, with their reported practices also tending towards setting up their students to become stewards. These issues were further compounded by supervisors not adequately following up with their graduates in terms of their career outcomes, despite them indicating that they considered graduate employment as one measure of supervisory success. The main scholarly contribution this thesis makes is in initiating the scholarly debates and discussions about contemporary doctoral education within the discipline of chemistry. These debates and discussions are needed in order to not only critically reflect on the role and influence chemistry PhD supervisors have in the education of future chemistry PhD candidates, but also to critically contemplate the purpose and contribution of the chemistry doctorate in relation to the labour market and broader society. Practical implications arising will also be discussed