As the Walls of Academia are Tumbling Down

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Looking inside the spiky bits : a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems

The authors wish to thank the Organisational for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for funding their original research on entrepreneurial ecosystems.The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has quickly established itself as one of the latest ‘fads’ in entrepreneurship research. At face value, this kind of systemic approach to entrepreneurship offers a new and distinctive path for scholars and policy makers to help understand and foster growth-oriented entrepreneurship. However, its lack of specification and conceptual limitations has undoubtedly hindered our understanding of these complex organisms. Indeed, the rapid adoption of the concept has tended to overlook the heterogeneous nature of ecosystems. This paper provides a critical review and conceptualisation of the ecosystems concept: it unpacks the dynamics of the concept; outlines its theoretical limitations; measurement approaches and use in policy-making. It sets out a preliminary taxonomy of different archetypal ecosystems. The paper concludes that entrepreneurial ecosystems are a highly variegated, multi-actor and multi-scalar phenomenon, requiring bespoke policy interventions.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

A typology of personal and environmental sexual harassment: Research and policy implications for the 1990s

Most of the research conducted on sexual harassment over the last decade and a half has used categories that are neither mutually exclusive nor exhaustive. This has created problems for researchers: it is difficult to compare results from one study to another, harassment types that have scholarly and legal-policy relevance are omitted, and the ability of researchers to inform legal and policy decisions is diminished as a result of these problems. A comprehensive categorization of harassment types that addresses these methodological problems is presented. Specifically, 11 specific types of harassment—4 types of Verbal Requests, 3 Verbal Remarks, and 4 Nonverbal Displays—are presented with examples from research and legal literatures. Recommendations for reconceptualizing research definitions of harassment as well as for diversifying the methodological approaches to the topic are made.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45598/1/11199_2004_Article_BF00289868.pd

The Social and Economic Imperatives Driving the Need to Scale Access to Education and Training Across the Lifespan

Chapter of the following book: Moving Horizontally: The New Dimensions of At-Scale Learning at the Time of COVID-19, edited by Yakut Gazi and Nelson BakerThis chapter "sets the stage" for the substantive chapters in this book. It describes the meta forces shaping the who, what and how higher education institutions can continue to be relevant and responsive in a rapidly changing world. Demographic shifts, accelerating technological change and the forces of globalization are creating significant pressures on higher education institutions to provide accessible and inclusive education across the lifespan. The essays in this volume provide clues to how institutions of higher learning can engage these new imperatives

Women in Nontraditional and Traditional Blue Collar Occupations, 1975-1978

This three-year longitudinal study examined the experiences of women working in nontraditional and traditional blue collar jobs. Nontraditional jobs included occupations such as plumbers, electricians, cable splicers, and forklift operators. Participants were selected from a cross-section of training and employment settings from the three metropolitan areas of California: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. They all were in a training or on-the-job program in a skilled or semiskilled occupation in the fall of 1975. A control group of women in more traditional service occupations such as cosmetology was interviewed during the first year. In the winter and spring of 1975 and 1976, 117 women participated in a two to three hour interview (86 involved in nontraditional blue collar work, and 31 involved in traditional, female-dominated, skilled and semi-skilled jobs). The interview focused on the following areas: childhood experiences and family background; general work history and how respondent became involved in blue collar work; work roles and family roles; current work and training experiences; and relationships with people on the job. In the spring of 1977, 61 of the original respondents were reinterviewed (51 nontraditional, and 10 traditional). This interview focused on the following areas: satisfactions and dissatisfactions with current employment; skills and training necessary for the job; support networks; and work and family roles. In the spring of 1978, telephone interviews were conducted with 54 of the original 86 women involved in nontraditional blue collar employment. This interview focused on the following areas: current employment; changes in job type, classification or salary, and/or employer; respondent's reasons for staying with/changing jobs; and future employment prospects. The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study (interview transcripts from the three waves of data ). If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data