Consultant Relationship Research Articles

Help, I need somebody! Business and technology advisors in emerging science-based ventures at American universities

AbstractEarly-stage science-based ventures (SBVs) require a wide range of intellectual resources and practical know-how to successfully commercialize their technologies. Often SBV founders actively gain this knowledge through advisory relationships providing business and technology guidance. We explore the effects of both business and technology advisors in combination with the founder’s entrepreneurial and technology experience. We measure early-stage success in an SBV using application readiness, a novel concept that encompasses progress in both technology discovery and validation as well as market identification and application. Using hand-collected longitudinal data from 112 emerging science-based ventures associated with American universities, we find that business advisors have a positive impact on application readiness, while technology advisors delay it; and these effects are moderated by the founder’s experience. Remarkably, a small number of advisors can have the same impact as decades of experience. Our article unpacks underexplored mechanisms through which advisors—an often-used policy tool supporting entrepreneurship—are implemented in emerging science-based ventures and makes academic contributions to the literatures on technology commercialization, advisors and human capital.

The multifaceted nature of trust in the uptake of advice: policy advice utilization in ministerial cabinets

ABSTRACT What makes policy advice circulate more easily towards the apex of governments and shape the opinions of its users along the way? This article investigates the utilization of policy advice in ministerial cabinets, by focusing on the individuals appointed to work as closest aides of ministers: ministerial advisers. While we know quite a lot about the operation of policy advisory systems at the macro and meso levels, the micro-dispositions affecting the circulation and utilization of policy advice are under-researched topics. Building on recent research waves on policy advice and policy advisory systems, we expect that trust between ministerial advisers and their advice-suppliers is a pivotal driver of policy advice utilization. Based on an original survey conducted in the ministerial cabinets of French-speaking Belgium, this article provides evidence that ministerial advisers’ overall propensity to trust advice-suppliers tends to boost policy advice utilization. Yet, we show that the characteristics of advice suppliers also come into play in advisory relationships and that ministerial advisers have various needs in that regard, depending on them being high or low trust individuals. Our findings speak to the importance of paying attention to relational dynamics and informality in policy advising.

A RESET of dairy farmer animal health planning behaviour: symbiotic advisory relationships and knowledge brokering in HerdAdvance

ABSTRACT Purpose: To evaluate the success of behavioural interventions designed to improve preventative animal health planning by dairy farmers in Wales. Methods: Interviews of farmers, veterinarians; focus group with extension officers; post-hoc written reflections from project managers; survey of farmers and veterinarians; farmer dropout analysis. Findings: The combination of interventions inspired by the RESET model of behavioural change helped farmers to implement new animal health planning behaviours. Crucial to the success of the project was the brokering role of extension agents and curation of AKIS relationships by project managers. This led to the establishment of symbiotic relationships which helped to deliver successful behavioural interventions. Practical implications: Illustrates the need for strong project and AKIS management to deliver combined behavioural interventions to farmers. It also demonstrates the danger of narrow evaluation methods which fail to delve deeper into the symbiotic relationships needed to deliver interventions in practice. Theoretical implications: Adds empirical evidence to an integrated behavioural change model (RESET) and explicitly connects the concepts of knowledge brokering and social capital with successful delivery of behavioural change. Originality: (1) Contributes novel empirical evidence on how to effect farmer behaviour change based on a large-scale national project. (2) explicitly highlights knowledge brokering, social capital, and good project management as crucial to delivering behavioural change projects, (3) reflects on the value of mixed method evaluations of behavioural change projects.

The agronomist to trust as my advisor: a Greek case study

ABSTRACT Purpose Given the absence of (structured) advisory services in Greece and the CAP requirements, we aim at exploring which would be the characteristics of agronomists whom farmers might trust as advisors. Design/Methodology/Approach The field research addressed professional farmers who are in contact with agronomist(s)-as-advisors. Based on an aide memoire, 51 farmers were interviewed following a snowball technique in each of the 5 municipalities of Ioannina Prefecture, North-Western Greece, which comprised our research area. Findings The antecedents of trust (ability, benevolence and integrity) were systematically addressed and analysed thus leading to the identifications of the characteristics of an agronomist-as-advisor that shape the farmer’s determination to trust him/her. Additionally, mediators related to the antecedents were identified. Practical Implications This piece of work allows for a better understanding of the degree farmers trust various actors-as-advisors and thus of their role(s) in farmers’ micro-AKIS. Theoretical Implications This piece of work is a contribution towards as well as an effort to trigger a more systematic and nuanced approach on the topic of trust in advisory relationships through farmer-centric research. Originality/Value Τhe paper points to the characteristic of actors, notably agronomists, with whom farmers would prefer to build advisory relationships.

Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax

IntroductionSugar taxes threaten the business models and profits of the food and beverage industry (F&BI), which has sought to avert, delay or influence the content of health taxes globally. Mexico...

Satisfaction, research productivity, and socialization in doctoral students: Do teaching assistantship, research assistantship and the advisory relationship play a role?

Funding to doctoral students in the form of research and teaching assistantships help students become independent scholars and complete their programs. Insufficient funding, unforeseen financial obligations, and debt can discourage students from completing their programs in a timely fashion. However, supervisors may play an influential role in supporting doctoral student socialization and growth towards research autonomy. Girves and Wemmerus's (1988) doctoral student degree progress theoretical model claimed that financial assistance and students' perceptions of faculty support are key predictors of doctoral students' progress. They also proposed that students' satisfaction with their department, sense of isolation, and engagement in their programs may explain (or mediate) these associations. The aim of this study was to investigate how supervisor support and financial assistance influence doctoral students' satisfaction with their programs as well as their academic and social engagement. Using data from the Canadian Graduate and Professional Student Survey (n = 18,822 doctoral students), we evaluated a model of doctoral student productivity (i.e., publications and conference presentations) with teaching and research assistantships as key predictors and student satisfaction as mediators. We also examined how supervisor support and financial assistance relate to students' academic and social life. The results showed that teaching assistantships are negatively associated with general satisfaction and program satisfaction but positively associated with social involvement. Moreover, research assistantships were significantly and positively associated with social involvement and progress. Supervisor support was positively associated with doctoral students' general satisfaction, program satisfaction, and social involvement. The findings support Girves and Wemmerus's theory and highlight the importance of faculty support for doctoral student success. (258/300).

The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History by Austin Jersild

<i>The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History</i> by Austin Jersild

A Content Analysis of Self-Reported Financial Relationships in Biomedical Research

Introduction Financial conflicts of interest (fCOI) present well documented risks to the integrity of biomedical research. However, few studies differentiate among fCOI types in their analyses, and those that do tend to use preexisting taxonomies for fCOI identification. Research on fCOI would benefit from an empirically-derived taxonomy of self-reported fCOI and data on fCOI type and payor prevalence. Methods We conducted a content analysis of 6,165 individual self-reported relationships from COI statements distributed across 378 articles indexed with PubMed. Two coders used an iterative coding process to identify and classify individual fCOI types and payors. Inter-rater reliability was κ = 0.935 for fCOI type and κ = 0.884 for payor identification. Results Our analysis identified 21 fCOI types, 9 of which occurred at prevalences greater than 1%. These included research funding (24.8%), speaking fees (20.8%), consulting fees (18.8%), advisory relationships (11%), industry employment (7.6%), unspecified fees (4.8%), travel fees (3.2%), stock holdings (3.1%), and patent ownership (1%). Reported fCOI were held with 1,077 unique payors, 22 of which were present in more than 1% of financial relationships. The ten most common payors included Pfizer (4%), Novartis (3.9%), MSD (3.8%), Bristol Myers Squibb (3.2%), AstraZeneca (3.1%), GSK (3%), Boehringer Ingelheim (2.9%), Roche (2.8%), Eli LIlly (2.5%), and AbbVie (2.4%). Conclusions These results provide novel multi-domain prevalence data on self-reported fCOI and payors in biomedical research. As such, they have the potential to catalyze future research that can assess the differential effects of various types of fCOI. Specifically, the data suggest that comparative analyses of the effects of different fCOI types are needed and that special attention should be paid to the diversity of payor types for research relationships.

DIAPHRAGM NEUROSTIMULATION RESULTS IN LOWER TRANSPULMONARY DRIVING PRESSURE AND HIPPOCAMPAL APOPTOSIS, WITH MODERATE CORRELATION, IN A MODERATE-ARDS PRECLINICAL MODEL

DIAPHRAGM NEUROSTIMULATION RESULTS IN LOWER TRANSPULMONARY DRIVING PRESSURE AND HIPPOCAMPAL APOPTOSIS, WITH MODERATE CORRELATION, IN A MODERATE-ARDS PRECLINICAL MODEL

TUMOR FEATURES BEYOND TUMOR SIZE: A POPULATION-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF PATIENTS WITH SURGICALLY RESECTED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) IN THE SEER MEDICARE DATABASE

TUMOR FEATURES BEYOND TUMOR SIZE: A POPULATION-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF PATIENTS WITH SURGICALLY RESECTED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) IN THE SEER MEDICARE DATABASE

PULMONARY VEIN STENOSIS: A SERIOUS AND UNDERDIAGNOSED COMPLICATION OF PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION THERAPY

PULMONARY VEIN STENOSIS: A SERIOUS AND UNDERDIAGNOSED COMPLICATION OF PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION THERAPY

CLOT IN TRANSIT: THE ROLE OF POINT-OF-CARE ULTRASOUND IN EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND IMPROVED OUTCOMES

CLOT IN TRANSIT: THE ROLE OF POINT-OF-CARE ULTRASOUND IN EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND IMPROVED OUTCOMES

PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA OR ATOPIC DERMATITIS TAKING BIOLOGIC THERAPIES HAVE REDUCED SARS-COV-2 VACCINE RESPONSE AT SIX MONTHS

PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA OR ATOPIC DERMATITIS TAKING BIOLOGIC THERAPIES HAVE REDUCED SARS-COV-2 VACCINE RESPONSE AT SIX MONTHS

NO CLOT, NO PROBLEM? NOT EXACTLY

NO CLOT, NO PROBLEM? NOT EXACTLY

INITIAL EXPERIENCE WITH INTRAPROCEDURAL ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR EVALUATING REGIONAL VENTILATION CHANGES DURING BRONCHOSCOPIC LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION

INITIAL EXPERIENCE WITH INTRAPROCEDURAL ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR EVALUATING REGIONAL VENTILATION CHANGES DURING BRONCHOSCOPIC LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION

ABDOMINAL EFFORT AS A MARKER FOR EFFICIENT EXPIRATORY MANEUVER IN THE ASSESSMENT OF AIRWAY COLLAPSE

ABDOMINAL EFFORT AS A MARKER FOR EFFICIENT EXPIRATORY MANEUVER IN THE ASSESSMENT OF AIRWAY COLLAPSE

INDWELLING PLEURAL CATHETERS FOR TREATMENT OF RECURRENT PLEURAL EFFUSION DUE TO CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE

INDWELLING PLEURAL CATHETERS FOR TREATMENT OF RECURRENT PLEURAL EFFUSION DUE TO CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE

PULMONARY LEUKEMIC INFILTRATES CAUSING RESPIRATORY FAILURE IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

PULMONARY LEUKEMIC INFILTRATES CAUSING RESPIRATORY FAILURE IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

OPTIMIZING THE RESECTION PATHWAY: CAN MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS AND SURGERY (MIDAS) GUIDE PATIENT SELECTION?

OPTIMIZING THE RESECTION PATHWAY: CAN MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS AND SURGERY (MIDAS) GUIDE PATIENT SELECTION?

EFFICACY OF AN IMPLANTABLE VALVE FOR TREATMENT OF ALVEOLOPLEURAL FISTULAS WITH PROLONGED AIR LEAKS

EFFICACY OF AN IMPLANTABLE VALVE FOR TREATMENT OF ALVEOLOPLEURAL FISTULAS WITH PROLONGED AIR LEAKS