A model of management academics' intentions to influence values

Business schools face increased criticism for failing in the teaching of management studies to nurture their students’ values. Assuming that individual academics play an important role in shaping the value-related influence of business schools, I model management academics’ intentions to influence values. The suggested model encompasses academics’ economic and social values as internal variables, as well as perceived support for attempting to influence values and academic tenure as social and structural variables. A test with empirical data from 1,254 management academics worldwide reveals that perceived external support is most relevant for explaining intentions. Moreover, academics’ social values, but not their economic ones, contribute to an explanation of their intentions to influence values. The results reveal how important it is for academics to believe that their colleagues, higher education institutions, and other stakeholders support their value-related behavioral intentions

Value-framing abortion in the United States: An application of media system depency theory

ABSTRACT This paper is in the tradition of social analysis aimed at creating frameworks to join mass media and public opinion processes (e.g. COMPONENTS OF MEDIA SYSTEM DEPENDENCY THEORY MSD theory is a theory in progress. It has macro, middle range, and micro levels of discourse and analysis. 1 That MSD theory is most well developed at the micro level is a point that has been missed, for example, by Rubin and Windahl (1986)