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Executive Overview Nonmarket strategy is now well established as a legitimate field of research. In this paper, we review the dominant paradigms in contemporary nonmarket research and report on the key insights and findings from those perspectives. We use this review to suggest that the integration of institutional and strategic perspectives provides a logical path for the continued development of nonmarket strategy research going forward. Looking ahead, our premise is that institutional perspectives will have an increased relevance to nonmarket scholarship, particularly with the increasing importance of emergent economies to international business. As companies are required to invest more in nonmarket practices, and adapt those practices to unique country contexts, we anticipate that research will increasingly draw from multiple conceptual paradigms and perspectives.

Professional and popular media have recently given welcome attention to gender equity and education. For example, national news programs and newspapers across America featured The AAUW Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls (American Association of University Women, 1992), a review of over 1,100 research studies from the last 20 years documenting gender gaps in educational persistence and achievement, especially in mathematics and science. For over two decades, researchers and program developers have produced a steady output of work on gender equity in education. The Women's Educational Equity Act Publishing Center publishes a 25-page catalog listing hundreds of gender equity materials, nearly all I intended for K-12. A 52-page bibliography lists hundreds more gender equity resources in mathematics, science, and technology (MST) for classroom teachers, most of which were developed for the K-12 level. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) report How Schools Shortchange Girls (1992) contains reviews of numerous studies and articles on gender equity in education in Grades K-12. Gender equity in teacher education has received much less attention. Sadker and Sadker (1980), in their analysis of common teacher education texts, found that one third contained no mention of sexism; none included materials on nonsexist teaching. In a study of education foundations textbooks reviewed for attention to gender equity, Titus (1993) concluded, I found little discussion of gender equity, suggesting low interest in this area by educators (p. 38). Several authors have included general recommendations to teacher educators on incorporating gender equity, described the need and suggestions of how to include equity in professional preparation of educational administrators, and offered a description of a course they developed for preservice students on gender equity (Eckart & Tracy, 1992; Rose & Dunne, 1989; Shakeshaft, 1990). The National Science Foundation funds few projects dealing with gender equity in teacher education; a notable exception is the Teacher Education Equity Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and AT&T from 1993 to 1996. Authors of the AAUW (1991) report, Stalled Agenda: Gender Equity and the Training of Educators, concluded that gender equity in teacher education amounted to a stalled agenda. Some professional groups are devoting attention to gender equity in teacher education. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has a study group on gender equity, a standing committee on women's issues, and a program for leadership development for aspiring female leaders. AACTE was an early participant in the Sadkers' projects and included results of their research in annual meetings a dozen years ago. The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) has a commission on gender equity in education. The 23 teacher education institutions of the Renaissance Group have an affinity group for sex equity. Professional associations directly concerned with gender equity have given attention to teacher preparation as well. The National Coalition for Sex Equity in Education has a task force on teacher preparation, and Research on Women in Education, a special interest group of the American Educational Research Association, devotes sessions to gender equity at its annual meetings. However, teacher preparation is not a primary focus for either group. The conjunction of teacher education and gender equity is relatively sparse. Omission of gender equity at the preservice level means that new teachers may enter the classroom not realizing how their behavior and the educational materials they use may inadvertently harm girls' performance and aspirations. If classroom teachers encounter in-depth, high-quality K-12 gender equity projects during their careers, such as Lawrence Hall of Science's EQUALS (Kreinberg, 1989), they may unlearn harmful patterns and learn beneficial ones. …

Acknowledgements The Women's Empowerment Principles The Six Principles of PRME Introduction: Identifying the key issues underlying genderinequality in management education and ways to reduce gender gaps Kathryn Haynes, Patricia M. Flynn, Maureen Kilgour Part 1: Trends and challenges in management education 1. Gender inequality in management education: Past, present and future Maureen Kilgour 2. Gender equality in business schools Patricia M. Flynn, Kevin V. Cavanagh and Diana Bilimoria 3. Sustainability as a lens to explore gender equality: A missed opportunity for responsible management Kathryn Haynes, Alan Murray 4. Cleaning our houses: Gender equity in business Amy Klemm Verbos, Deanna Kennedy Part 2: Disciplinary perspectives 5. Defining the terrain for responsible management education: Gender, gender equality and the case of marketing Wendy Hein 6. Business education for nurse leaders: A case study of leadership development in a vital, highly gendered industry Teresa J. Rothausen, Dawn M. Bazarko 7. Legal education and gender equality Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio 8. Are we still telling female students they can't lead? A content analysis of leadership writings and representations in organizational behaviour texts Rhonda L. Dever, Albert J. Mills Part 3: Institutional perspectives 9. It can be done! Organizational interventions that can reduce the influence of gender prejudice on perceptions, performance and aspirations Mary Godwyn and Nan S. Langowitz 10. From theory to practice: A university promoting gender equality in business Susan M. Adams 11. Gender and diversity in management education at Europe's largest university of economics and business: An evaluation of 12 years of teaching diversity management Regine Bendl, Helga Eberherr, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Anett Hermann, Thomas Kollen, Gloria Kutscher, Heike Mensi-Klarbach, Gloria Warmuth 12. Integrating gender and diversity in management education: Finding the right balance between integration and marginalization Julia C. Nentwich, Gudrun Sander Part 4: International 13. Gender equality in MBA programs in Latin America Sandra Idrovo Carlier 14. Persistent labour market inequalities: What do the French management schools do for their female students? Krista Finstad-Milion and Christine Morin-Esteves 15. Still too soon to forget women? Making the case for the importance of gender diversity in management education: a study of India and the United States Lynda Moore, Ujvala Rajadhyaksha and Stacy Blake-Beard 16. The role of business school education for Japanese and non-Japanese women in Japan Mari Kondo Part 5: Pedagogical Approaches 17. The gender equality index and reflective role-plays: Introducing gender in management education Anna Wahl 18. Gender and pedagogy: A business school case study Julie Hall and Jo Peat 19. Integrating gender equality into management education: An MBA course on women in organizations Diana Bilimoria 20. Teaching gender issues in management education: The role of experiential approaches Kara A. Arnold, Dale Foster 21. From teaching ethics to ethical teaching: Feminist interventions in management education Michelle Ann Kweder, Banu Ozkazanc-Pan 22. The Eighth Summit: Women's ascent of organizations Dianne Lynne Bevelander, Michael John Page Concluding comments: Going forward Maureen Kilgour, Patricia M. Flynn and Kathryn Haynes About the contributors

The manufacturing industry is the focus of this study, in which the proportion of its contribution to economic growth is experiencing a decreasing trend recently. Does it involve factors such as the input of capital, health, or workers that give significant impacts on labor productivity in the Malaysian manufacturing industry? This paper discovered the relationship between capital, health, and workers that consist of foreign and local labor with the labor productivity in the Malaysian manufacturing industry from 1986 to 2020. The Cobb-Douglas production function was used to derive the model specification in this study. The results showed that all variables are significant, in which capital and health have a positive relationship, whilst the factor of labor including local and foreign labor has a negative relationship with labor productivity. These findings may provide some insights into the improvement of manufacturing industries’ performance in Malaysia. It would be useful in determining which input factors significantly affected the productivity of manufacturing labor.

This study examines the impact of Taylor Swift’s celebrity feminism on her fan community on Twitter, with a focus on how she uses her celebrity status to em-power her fans. By analyzing Taylor’s direct media presentation and interactive activities with fans on Twitter, we reveal Swift’s role in promoting gender equality and shaping community identity. Based on Erving Goffman’s (1959) on-stage and off-stage theory, this report of-fers a pioneering understanding of how celebrity feminism empowers fans. It conceptualizes Twitter as a social media platform that serves both as an off-stage supplement to music and stage performances—enhancing fan engage-ment, bridging the gap between Taylor Swift and her audience, and shaping her public image as a “feminist representative”—and as an on-stage representation of a celebrity woman's public persona and personal life. This duality highlights the commercial nature of social platforms in empowering fans while recognizing that celebrity feminism often functions as a trend rather than genuine activism, thereby raising questions about its authenticity. Existing research on Taylor Swift’s empowerment of fan communities typically focuses on a singular per-spective. In contrast, this study incorporates Goffman’s theory and creatively interprets it as a two-level framework, effectively addressing the issue of insuf-ficient depth in previous analyses. The report uses content analysis as the main method, combined with specific case study, digital ethnography and literature review. Content analysis allows us to understand the impact of content about gender equality and women's em-powerment on fans when specifically analyzing the themes and emotions of fan posts. Specific case studies allow us to dig deep into some important events or posts to explore their direct impact on the fan community. Digital ethnography provides us with qualitative insights into the way fans interact on Twitter, helping us understand how they participate in empowerment activities. The use of Goffman's theory and mixed methods provides us with a deep perspective on how Taylor Swift's celebrity feminism shapes the identity of the fan community on Twitter and empowers fans.

This article examines the development of regulation in the European Union (EU) of sex equality in social protection. It applies research methodologies suggested by ‘new institutionalist’ and ‘historical institutionalist’ perspectives on European integration. It does not aim to replace existing accounts, but simply to add an additional perspective to the analysis. The article suggests that new insights can be gained by observing the impact of the question of ‘division of competence’ on the issue of regulation of sex equality in social protection by the EU. The focus on division of competence illuminates relationships between institutions involved in the process of policy formation and implementation, especially the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. It may also illuminate policy outcomes and the directions in which the EU‘s sex equality law (and possibly social law more generally) has developed and may develop in the future.

The new religious movement with a progressive spirit of da’wah is increasing nowadays. They using various social media and website as da’wah channels to reach audiences easily and to campaign their agenda to the public. One of the account of the movement is thisisgender.com belonging to the Center of Gender Studies or CGS. This research examines how the discourse built by CGS as a scientific study group based on the Islamic perspective towards feminism. This research analyzes one of their article “Kesetaraan Gender dan Kebebasan Perspektif Islam” which tend to breaks down gender equality which is considered problematic because the equality between men and women based on social roles in society is considered contrary to the provision of Allah. The text was examined using critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough to find out the meaning of the text. Based on the text analysis, the practice of discourse, and social practice, researcher found that the discourse built by the CGS was that Islam was contrary to feminism and gender equality. Through the discourse, the proposition that is are built is that Islamic values and western thought are placed in binary positions.

Using multiple lenses of strategic choice theories (diffusion of innovation, organizational innovativeness) and institutional theory as the basis and reflecting data from semi-structured interviews and news reports, the study develops an integrative conceptual RFID adoption model and presents testable hypotheses at the construct and rationale levels. The model incorporates different rationales for adoption and integration of interorganizational systems (IOS) namely the strategic choice perspective where adoption is voluntary with a view to improve organizational efficiency and performance and the institutional perspective where adoption is more a result of conforming to pressures from organizations within an organization's field of operation. Two technological factors (perceived benefit and perceived costs), three organizational readiness factors (top management support, financial readiness, IS infrastructure and capabilities) and three external environmental factors (perceived standards convergence, perceived consumer privacy and perceived stakeholder privacy) have been suggested as adoption and integration drivers from a strategic choice perspective while the three inter-organizational pressure factors (coercive, mimetic and normative pressures) have been proposed as predictors of adoption intent and expected integration from the institutional perspective . The study allows for a comparison of the relative influence of each rationale on the adoption and post adoption integration decisions by a firm

What are the drivers of collective bargaining to achieve gender equality in companies? Although much research has been done on this question, answers tend to focus exclusively on the institutional perspective and to neglect the social and power relations at work. We address this deficiency in this article by taking a micro-political perspective. We trace the trajectory of a collectively bargained gender equality policy in a French company over 14 years and examine how management and unions contribute to the process. Our results show that the construction of a coalition between management and unions around gender equality, as well as the form taken by the bargained policy, are closely linked to the capabilities that these actors possess and mobilise. This study contributes to the understanding of gender equality bargaining and, more generally, to the micro-politics of collective bargaining. In doing so, it aims to connect organisation studies and industrial relations.

Facing internal and external crises, the European Union and the African Union have revitalized their interregional cooperation. This article theorizes interregional norm dynamics and explores how, in times of crises, gender equality norms are shaped in interregional relations between the African Union and the European Union. The question is all the more relevant because gender equality is shaped very differently in the European Union and the African Union policies. The African Union has adopted a rather holistic understanding of gender equality, while the European Union approach is constrained by a market-making logic. Also, since the 2008 economic crisis, gender equality policies within the European Union seem to stagnate while they seem to expand in the African Union. Our analysis of core texts shows that at interregional level attention to gender equality is fragmented. Even though in some respects the African Union gender equality norms are more encompassing, and gendered effects of crises in the European Union would merit renewed attention to gender equality, the European Union norms and interests dominate the agenda. Showing how power asymmetries between and disjointed logics of regional organizations impact interregional gender equality norms, the article contributes to the scarce literature on interregional norm dynamics.

Corporate sexual orientation equality policies and the cost of equity capital

Gender equity is a priority objective worldwide, essential for enhancing the economic growth and development of nations. To date, progress toward gender equity in the business sector has been slow and precarious. One of the reasons for the slow progress is that companies have implemented gender equity practices more out of regulatory compliance than genuine commitment or business strategy. Therefore, this study aims to provide empirical evidence from a literature review to support the argument that gender equity impacts business performance. The literature review reveals a growing interest in this topic worldwide and indicates that a considerable number of studies present arguments in favor of the impact of gender equity on business performance. However, there is limited empirical evidence on this matter. Studies providing evidence based on data and facts mainly focus on establishing correlation measures between the number of women on boards of directors and financial performance, particularly the operating return on assets (ROAs). This study suggests the need for further research in this area and proposes that analyses based on labor productivity could be a viable approach to achieve this goal.

Gender equality continues to be important because it strengthens society. One of the efforts to promote gender equality in Indonesia is gender equality education. For Catholics in Indonesia, the existence of the 2013 Curriculum Ethics and Catholic Education (PAK Kurtilas) had a strategic role in mainstreaming gender equality education. This research used library sources to research these textbooks with adequate ethical and multicultural analysis. Here, information was conveyed through a qualitative approach through annotations and descriptive data on the texts studied. According to this study, the curriculum offers instructional materials on the value of gender equality in intercultural education, which used the critical discourse analysis (CDA) technique. The textbook analysis also recommended using gender-responsive learning approaches and methods so that students could comprehensively understand the material on gender equality.Contribution: This article uses a textual analysis with a religious socio-ethical viewpoint. This study could help to solve social problems through theological education.

This study explores how adolescents in Ambon construct self-identity through the internalization of Korean popular culture (K-Pop) while maintaining ties to their local social context. Employing a qualitative approach—including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and digital ethnography—this research investigates how global aspirations, manifested through K-Pop fandom, changes in appearance, and participation in fan communities, are transformed into meaningful emotional and social expressions in everyday life. The findings reveal that youth identity performance is not passive imitation but a conscious negotiation of global cultural values with local religious, communal, and social norms. The study’s novelty lies in its geographic focus on Eastern Indonesia—an underrepresented site in popular culture studies—and its integration of affective sociology and youth cultural agency to frame glocalization as both an emotional and performative process. This research offers a significant contribution to cultural and emotional sociology by illuminating the active role of youth in reshaping identity through global media flows, while also providing conceptual grounding for more inclusive educational and cultural policy that reflects the complex dynamics of youth expression in a globalized era.

The presence of women at “doing science” in the contemporary modernity is a well known fact recognized by a wide range of studies. As a counterpart, it was not observed an equivalent correspondence in the positions of leadership, prestige and power occupied in the scientific technologic production system (Cole 1987, Zuckerman et al. 1991; Rossiter 1993, Leta 2003, Fox 2005, European Commission 2006, Mello 2006). The qualification/disqualification of this well known presence has been evaluated based on the intellectual productivity criteria of the contemporaneous scientific main stream. One indicator of emphasis in the evaluation metrics is the number of articles published in international circulation periodicals, which access is restrained by regulative and “objective” filters such as blind peer review and the presence of a referee’s body of recognized academic excellence. As final mensuration, the intellectual production of women presents lower quantitative indicators than men’s. The usual attempts of explanation aim to establish casual connections between the fact pointed and characteristics such as marital status and maternity. The results revealed weak to dare to establish any affirmative strongly conclusive. But this did not prevent that such uncertainty was appropriate to the rhetoric of apologetic reasoning of the science neutrality and the meritocratic power as a fundament of its structure. This line of argument is questioned by an institutionalist perspective, that recognizes the “doing science” as an activity placed in an institutional context and not a natural human ability. Science belongs to the world of human communication Bianca Antunes Cortes Escola Politecnica de Saude Joaquim Venâncio-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil bcortes@fiocruz.br