Ethics and international business research:Considerations and best practices

Research integrity matters. It enables researchers to trust each other and their findings, and provides a basis for society’s trust in our research. We explore research integrity using the lens of international business (IB) research, focusing on IB research methods. We narrow the topic further by focusing on ethical issues associated with a single project by a single author. We examine the methodological challenges involved in conducting research in the complex IB environment and propose best practices for both quantitative and qualitative IB research methods. In some ways, this is a “back to basics” message; in other ways, we draw attention to the heightened complexity of the IB environment and the need to invest in rigorous methods and ethical practices in our unending pursuit of truth

Preventing school exclusions of black children in England – a critical review of prevention strategies and interventions

This paper explores the literature on the prevention of exclusions of Black children in English schools which has remained an entrenched problem and persistent concern for many decades. It examines grey literature from projects, as well as tested approaches, and the impact of preventative strategies, identifying patterns of when and where Black pupils are most excluded. This review begins by exploring the combination of systemic and policy changes that may have contributed to increased exclusion levels and triangulates evidence from reviews and academic analysis from experts in the field. The paper then explores projects that have responded to increases in the exclusion of Black girls and presents evidence of the experiences of intersecting identities and discrimination, such as adultification, and how this has been found to contribute to growing disproportionate numbers of exclusions for girls. Qualitative data from multiple Ofsted and DfE reports are reviewed and the effects of using role models, as well as the roles that teachers and leaders play in reducing exclusions as key systemic apparatus. The paper ends with research on different types of interventions to prevent school exclusion and their varied successes

CSR violations among domestic and foreign firms: a study of environmental misconduct in the United States

The present study develops a theoretical framework to examine local media coverage of CSR violations by domestic and foreign firms. Specifically, we draw upon expectancy violation theory and the ingroup-outgroup literature to examine how foreignness influences the likelihood of local media coverage following environmental misconduct and whether foreignness moderates the effect of CSR reputation on local media coverage. Using firm-level data on environmental violations in the United States, we find support for our hypotheses, thus contributing to the corporate social responsibility and liability of foreignness literatures and providing new insights for the liability of good reputation literature

Nutritional and Phytochemical Content of High-Protein Crops

The authors acknowledge support from the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS) via their strategic research and partnership programs.Peer reviewedPostprin

Teacher culture & teacher change: Insights from a meta-theoretical perspective

One of the challenges and opportunities for university academics working in teacher education programs in the current global/glocal context is to work in close partnership with schools and systems to enable new and experienced teachers and principals to manage change, to work with new pedagogies, new curriculum initiatives for learning in dynamic creative learning spaces. This study develops a meta-theorectical framework drawing on the work of Kardos et al (2001) which articulates three distinct teacher cultures which are referred to as veteran oriented professional cultures, novice-oriented professional cultures and integrated professional cultures. This is synthesised with the work of Robertson (2000) who claims that there are three levels of experience into which teacher change can be classified. These are 'the world of events' , conjuctural time' and the 'longue duree' (p7) and all are interpreted within glocalised and cosmopolitan world...

The Scottish economy [December 1995]

This section presents short and long term forecasts for the quarterly growth rates of Scottish manufacturing (Division D of the 1992 SIC) output

The Scottish economy [September 1995]

This section presents short and long term forecasts for the quarterly growth rates of Scottish manufacturing (Division D of the 1992 SIC) output

The Scottish economy [December 1995]

This section presents short and long term forecasts for the quarterly growth rates of Scottish manufacturing (Division D of the 1992 SIC) output

The Scottish economy [March 1995]

This section presents short-term and long-term forecasts for the quarterly growth rates of Scottish manufacturing (Division D of the 1992 SIC) output