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Can Authors’ Emails (Personal vs. Work Emails) Be a Part of the Criteria in Evaluating Scholarly Journal Articles?

Can Authors’ Emails (Personal vs. Work Emails) Be a Part of the Criteria in Evaluating Scholarly Journal Articles?

The Role of Non-governmental Organizations in Empowering Women Political Representation in Nigeria

The need for greater women political representation in government through collaborative efforts of non-governmental organizations in Nigeria is long overdue. Non-governmental organizations have a paramount role in ensuring greater political representation of women, especially in developing countries and in Nigeria in particular. Thus, this paper aims to assess the role of non-governmental organizations in empowering greater women political representation in Nigeria and the setback faced by these NGOs. Content analysis technique was employed in this study by using scholarly journals articles. The paper used about twenty scholarly journal articles retrieved from Google Scholar, Web of Science, Sage and other scholar search engine were sourced and used. The findings indicate that increasing women's political representation is achievable through the inclusion of critical stakeholders such as NGOs in the entire electioneering process. The findings also indicate the NGOs in their quest to empower women politically. They are often faced with setbacks such as the absence of political interest amongst the women and the lack of commitment of the critical stakeholders. Thus, the paper recommends the mass orientation and awareness creation of women in and around the country.

Economic perspectives on the future of academic publishing: Introduction to the special issue

Economic perspectives on the future of academic publishing: Introduction to the special issue

5 - Nigeria’s Foreign and Defence Policies During Babangida's Regime: An Assessment


 
 
 This article investigates the changes to and achievements of Nigeria’s foreign and defence policies from 1985 to 1993. It also examines the economic, political, and sociocultural implications of these policies on the nation. The article argues that despite some identified failures of Ibrahim Babangida’s regime, certain innovations and actions, especially the foreign and defence policies that were introduced and carried out by his government, were signif icant in nature. The article also addresses the interlocking relationship between defence and foreign policy execution and concludes with recommendations on how this can be managed to promote the effectiveness of Nigeria’s external relations. The article depended largely on archival materials from the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, supported by scholarly journal articles, books and newspaper materials.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dele Jemirade, Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Email: delej@yorku.ca
 
 

Aspects of Women’s Leadership in the Organisation: Systematic Literature Review

In most organisations, women are underrepresented in top positions. Many aspects of Women’s Leadership are studied in the literature for underrepresentation of women leaders. This study aims to analyse and consolidate the insights about those aspects of Women’s Leadership, which gives them a stable and secure position in the organisation, beyond the unseen walls of gender discrimination. These aspects are barriers, enablers, strengths and weaknesses of Women’s Leadership. The research method used for the study is a systematic literature review method. Peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles and book references between 1990 and 2021 identified from the Scopus and Web of Sciences databases are considered for the study. The result showed much uniformity in the ‘Women’s Leadership’ phenomenon, globally. This research found that Women’s Leadership studies are mostly conducted in areas such as social sciences, business and management, medicine, education, etc. It also found that most women-leadership-related studies are conducted in developed countries where the percentage of women leaders is comparatively higher than in other industries. Still, women leaders in both developed and developing countries face similar barriers during their careers. The gender gap and the glass ceiling they have to break are some of the issues experienced by women in any organisation. Organisational bias, lack of assertiveness and poor networking also pose barriers to Women’s Leadership. Yet, there are some enablers for Women’s Leadership, such as mentoring, good training programmes and workplace culture. However, maintaining a work–life balance, working under pressure and excluding informal communication are considered as limitations for Women’s Leadership. Strengths, such as high emotional intelligence, empathy, democratic leadership style, sincerity and ability to make decisions under critical circumstances benefit the organisation. This study will help to get an integrated and consolidated theoretical review of different aspects of Women’s Leadership in the organisation. Moreover, the study can help to implement various organisational policies to increase the percentage of women in leadership roles.

English and Arabic Vowels: Ferreting Out the Similarity for Bridging Pronunciation Accuracy

<p><em>This study aimed at exploring the similarity between Arabic and English vowel sounds that may benefit Indonesians to pronounce some English vowels. This investigation approached whether their Arabic acquisition could facilitate their learning target language, which is English. To come up with the sought-after similarities, requiring an in-depth study on the existing literatures discussing the phonetic features of those two languages was the step to take. Accordingly, an archival study was selected and employed as a qualitative research design supported by the secondary data analysis method. Several kinds of literatures as the data sources were comprising scholarly journal articles, theory books of Arabic and English phonology, and proceedings. All of the data were available online and were readily accessed through several search-engine platforms; one of which was Google Scholar. The data collection process involved identifying the data set, evaluating the data set, tabulating, and synthesizing the data. The findings have articulated that English and Arabic languages have lax/short and tensed/long vowels. The short vowels comprised /ʌ/; /ɪ/; and /ʊ/. Meanwhile, the long vowels encompassed /a:/, /i:/, and /u:/. This sort of similarity has conveyed the notion of linguistic proximity, which contributes to language transfers upon acquiring the target language.</em><em></em></p>

انتشار خلاصه ایده ها، مقالات علمی پژوهشی چاپ شده در حیطه سلامت عمومی به زبان ساده: یادآوری، تفسیر و توصیه ها

انتشار خلاصه ایده ها، مقالات علمی پژوهشی چاپ شده در حیطه سلامت عمومی به زبان ساده: یادآوری، تفسیر و توصیه ها

An Exploration of Human Rights and Social Work Education in the United States.

Social work, with its commitment to social justice, knowledge about cultural diversity, and respect for the dignity and worth of the individual, has much to contribute to the modern-day human rights debate. Many international social work scholars have articulated the view of social work as a human rights profession. The profession’s presence in this arena, however, has not always been apparent. Amid increasing global tensions and domestic challenges, equipping social work students with human rights knowledge and skills is critical. The limited attention given to human rights in social work education, particularly in the United States, provides a unique opportunity to explore the human rights discourse occurring in academic circles. This paper presents a review of scholarly journal articles that explore the human rights discourse related to social work education in the United States. Upon reviewing the literature, the following categories emerged: (1) general articles on integrating human rights into social work education; (2) pedagogical frameworks, models, and examples of incorporating human rights into social work education; and (3) measures and perceptions related to assessing the integration of human rights in social work education. Findings indicate that the inclusion of human rights into social work education in the United States is in its infancy. It is recommended that social work programs in the United States be more intentional about integrating human rights content into the curricula to train culturally competent and globally minded social workers.

Content Analysis as a Research Method: A Content Analysis of Content Analyses in Sport Communication

Content analysis is a popular method in communication and media research. However, to what extent and in which contexts it is used in sport communication research has hardly been investigated. In order to provide empirically grounded insight, the authors conducted a quantitative content analysis of scholarly journal articles using content analysis as a research method, focusing on three major international sport communication journals during the 10 years between 2010 and 2019 (N = 267). Results indicate that qualitative and quantitative methods are used equally while combinations with other methods are comparatively rare. The studies cover a broad portfolio of different topics. Social media as communication channels becomes an increasingly central issue of scientific exploration. Although the studies deal with 31 different sports in total, most of them focus on popular team sports such as football, basketball, soccer, baseball, and ice hockey.

Inspirations from abroad: the impact of PISA on countries’ choice of reference societies in education

ABSTRACT The Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) has instigated domestic policy debate aimed at improving education systems’ quality and efficiency. Its high performers are often described as knowledge-based legitimation tools that have become reference societies. This article analyses if and the extent to which PISA affects the choice of reference societies used in education policy. We conducted a systematic literature review of scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles. We identify two ways in which PISA affects the reference societies chosen: it builds but also triggers the collapse of the reference societies used in domestic education policy. However, there are also cases in which PISA has little influence on which countries or regions are used as references. The domestic processes of choosing the reference societies used in education policy emerge as more nuanced than first expected. This article provides a firm basis for a much-needed understanding of the topic.

Frank Lewis Clarke (1933–2020): An International Journey in Quest of a More Serviceable Accounting

SYNOPSIS Frank Lewis Clarke (1933–2020), a member of the Sydney School of Accounting, was a keen observer of business practices, successes, and failures, an international journeyman for better accounting standards, an influential accounting academic, and a master teacher. This memorial considers Clarke's early childhood, education, and his contribution to accounting scholarship. During a career spanning several decades, Clarke published over 50 articles in scholarly journals, a dozen books, smaller pieces in professional outlets and popular press, and many submissions to professional and governmental inquiries. Ideas were exposed in presentations at conferences nearly every year. His prodigious output addressed, generally, how to improve the usefulness of accounting data in respect to the uses ordinarily made of them. Much of his research examined accounting anomalies revealed in analyses of corporate financial dilemmas and unexpected corporate collapses. He leaves behind a legacy that highlights the need for a more serviceable accounting. JEL Classifications: M41; M42; M48.

The shift towards democratic governance: System change versus regime change analysis in The Gambia 2017-2019

Democratic governance has been seen as a catalyst for inclusive growth and meaningful development in many countries. Shifting from authoritarian rule to more democratic rule has also been seen as essential for many governments worldwide. Democratic governance is often a problem for developing countries, including most African countries and particularly The Gambia. This paper analyses the shift towards a more democratic governance style that is heated debated in The Gambia. The debate started when one of the coalition government members asserted that they could achieve regime change; however, a democratic system change remains lacking. This paper has sought to analyze whether the shift toward a more democratic leadership style in The Gambia is one of system change or regime change and ascertain what has democratically changed and bad governance in the new government. This article’s main objective is to create political awareness and enlighten the readers on the change’s misconceptions towards democratic governance. The discussion focuses on democratic governance and the collective action theory of governance to explain the democratic process in New Gambia. This study adopts qualitative case study research methods; the research employed a systematic review of the existing scholarly journal articles, books, newspapers, and television interview recordings. The observation used to identify, understand, and interpret the democratic governance situation in The Gambia from 2017 to 2019. The findings show that the coalition government has succeeded in achieving a democratic regime change; however, the democratic system change itself is too slow, or it is not happening. For the first time in The Gambia’s history, a seating president defeat through the ballot box. In conclusion, the democratic governance system change is far-fetched. It is vital to state that there is little or no difference between Jammeh’s regime and the current regime under President Barrow’s leadership. The same problems continue to persist. Finally, the transparency and accountability mechanisms must be enhanced to address the endemic problem of corruption.

Does he ever sleep? Contributions to science and scientific administration

Bill Yost's contributions to organizations, institutions, and academic endeavors are myriad. Let us begin with his participation in the Acoustical Society of America—clearly the academic and professional home for most of us in this room. He has served this society in leadership roles for nearly fifty years, including stints as President and other positions in the ASA administration. His honors from the ASA are the most significant we offer – winning the Silver Medal for Psychological and Physiological Acoustics in 2006 and the Gold Medal in 2018. His contributions include hundreds of articles and books published in JASA and elsewhere, and he is an active participant in the national meetings of the Society. His academic career also includes important leadership roles in academic administrations at two major universities, serving, among other roles, as Dean, Research Administrator, and Department Chair. And all of this, while teaching courses, and writing and editing scholarly books and journal articles. As a leading auditory scientist, Yost enjoys multiple active collaborations world-wide, and has a compelling history of national grant funding. He is a legend and an aspirational example for his students and colleagues. But when does he sleep?

The Baltic States’ Relations with Russia

The states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) have had cold relations with Russia since they were under the control of tsarist Russia. After about only 20 years of independence, the states were involuntary absorbed into the Soviet Union. This paper examines the history behind the relationship between the states and the Soviet Union throughout the twentieth century and how the relationship grew colder in the post-Soviet era by examining a combination of scholarly journal articles and informative web articles that detail recent facts and events pertaining to the states and Russia. One of the primary causes of tensions is the fact that the states sought integration with Western Europe, rather than pursue closer ties to Russia and the former Soviet states. Today, the result of the negative relationship between the Baltics and Russia are demonstrated by discriminatory policies towards ethnic Russians residing in the Baltics and a series of territorial disputes and hostilities. The goal of the discriminatory policies is to promote a sense of Baltic unity, or nationalism among ethnic Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, while discouraging practicing Russian language and culture. The territorial disputes primarily pertain to Estonia for several reasons: Estonia lost a piece of land to Russia in the Soviet era; and the invasion of Crimea had a significant impact on Estonian concerns about their own national security. Ethnic politics and territorial disputes continue to concern the states about future Russian aggression.

Transgender Migrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and the Mexico–US Border in the Time of COVID-19

Research Article| October 01 2020 Transgender Migrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and the Mexico–US Border in the Time of COVID-19 Leandra Hinojosa Hernández; Leandra Hinojosa Hernández Leandra Hinojosa Hernández (PhD, Texas A&M University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University. She is the coauthor of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, Power, & Struggles for Rights (Lexington Books, 2019) and coeditor of the following books: This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis (Lexington Books, 2019), Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty (Lexington Books, 2019), and Latina/o/x Communication Studies: Theories, Methods, and Practice (Lexington Books, 2019). Leandra has published peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles in outlets such as Women’s Studies in Communication, Communication Research, Women & Language, Frontiers in Communication, Journal of Media and Religion, and Health Communication. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sarah De Los Santos Upton Sarah De Los Santos Upton Sarah De Los Santos Upton (PhD, University of New Mexico) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research and teaching explore nepantla identity, borderland pedagogy, and reproductive justice. She is the coauthor of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights and coeditor of Latino/a/x Communication Studies: Theories, Methods, and Practice. Her research is published in the journals Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Women’s Studies in Communication, Development in Practice, Action Research, and Frontiers in Communication as well as various edited volumes. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2020) 7 (3): 142–150. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.7.3.0142 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Sarah De Los Santos Upton; Transgender Migrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and the Mexico–US Border in the Time of COVID-19. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1 October 2020; 7 (3): 142–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.7.3.0142 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2020 Michigan State University2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Utilization of Scholarly Journal Articles in the Teaching and Learning of Teacher Education Courses

Utilization of Scholarly Journal Articles in the Teaching and Learning of Teacher Education Courses

A concept analysis of power

Using Walker and Avant's theory construction strategy, a concept analysis of power was conducted. Within the nursing literature, there exists a dialectic between types of power: power to vs. power over. This dialectic covers a wide range between goal attainment and powerlessness. The aim of this concept analysis was to examine power to for its potential fit with the phenomenon of nurses' lack of participation in professional organizations and on governing boards. The assumptions of this concept analysis are that power to is good, and that as humans with cognitive abilities, nurses have sufficient power to, whether they engage it or not. The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite, Google Scholar, ABI/INFORM Complete, Education Research Complete, Historical Abstracts, and PsychINFO were searched using the keywords power, nursing, and group. Peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles from 1957 to 2019 were considered. The derived definition of power to is largely unchanged from its 17th century definition: the knowledge, freedom, and intention to do or to effect something. Self-assessing and nurturing knowledge, freedom, and intention, and identifying risk-preference among nurses may yield potential candidates for participation in professional nursing organizations and on governing boards.

Capturing Digital News Innovation Research in Organizations, 1990–2018

ABSTRACT Journalism scholars have acknowledged the importance of innovation in journalism. A common finding is that journalism has difficulty adapting to change and uses multiple coping mechanisms, including making excuses for not innovating by relying on their professional norms and practices. However, such research does not more broadly show how journalism studies research has shaped what scholars have learned about innovation practices. The goal of this study is to provide a systematic literature review of news innovation research since the 1990s. This article deploys a qualitative content analysis of peer-reviewed journal articles about news innovation in media and journalism studies. It shows that journalism and media scholars discuss news innovation as normative, participative, and experimentative. Journalism studies scholarship has also focused on innovation as a process, integrating elements of audience engagement, structure, system, and network. The goal of this study is twofold. First, it discusses the methodological and conceptual/theoretical approaches taken in scholarly journal articles about news innovation. Second, it outlines limitations of such approaches and draws conclusions to conceptualize knowledge in this subfield of research. It argues that it is important to take into account those limitations, as they pose problems for the cumulative nature of news innovation research knowledge.

Understanding interorganizational network evolution

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the available insights regarding interorganizational network evolution. The research questions being addressed are as follows: What is the nature of interorganizational network evolution? And what causes interorganizational network evolution? The review hence focuses on the nature of interorganizational network evolution (at the ego-network level and whole-network level) and the causes of interorganizational network evolution (firm-related causes and environmental causes). This paper highlights relevant gaps in the existing literature on interorganizational network evolution while outlining a research agenda by identifying key research questions and issues requiring further scholarly contributions to stimulate research in this field.Design/methodology/approachAn extensive review of scholarly peer-reviewed English language journal articles was conducted in the subject areas of economics, sociology, business and management (including entrepreneurship) while excluding articles in the domain areas of computer science that dealt with computer networks and the health field that addressed neural networks to obtain articles on interorganizational network evolution for the period 1970-2019. Various journal databases such as EBSCO, ScienceDirect (Elsevier), Emerald, JSTOR and ABI/INFORM and Ebook Central on ProQuest were used to extract relevant articles using specific keywords.FindingsTo better understand this phenomenon of interorganizational network evolution, there is a need for future studies to focus on the less researched areas such as the “nature of evolution” of EINR1, EINR3 and EINR4 and the “causes of evolution” of FRC3, FRC5, FRC7 and FRC8. Further, over the years, in comparison to the evolution of interorganizational network relationships (EINR), fewer works have considered the evolution of overall interorganizational network structure (EINS). The research studies on environmental causes (EC) have been less in number in comparison to firm related causes (FRC), and this could be an area for further research. Also, studies on interorganizational network evolution have not examined the impact of FRC1 on EINR 3 and only a few studies have examined the impact of FRC1 on EINR1 and EINR4. Less attention has been given to the impact of FRC2 on EINR1, EINR3, EINR4 and EINS. Additionally, the impact of FRC3 on EINR1, EINR3 and EINS needs more in-depth examination. The impact of FRC4 on EINR4; FRC5 on EINR1, EINR2 and EINR4; FRC6 on EINR1 and EINS; and FRC7 and FRC8 on all forms of “nature of interorganizational network evolution” requires more research work. Finally, the impact of EC on EINR3 and EINR4 is also a less researched stream in the literature needing more scholarly contribution to better understand the phenomenon under consideration in this study. Some of the least explored theoretical lenses and relevant questions that can be addressed using these lenses to advance research on network evolution have also been discussed.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this paper is that it provides a comprehensive literature review, collating the dispersed knowledge on interorganizational network evolution – nature of evolution and causes of evolution, identifying areas that require further research attention for the development of this domain.

Significance of Scholarly Journal Articles and Academic Historians: Discussion, and a Necessary Tension?

History journal articles constitute a large and diverse body of scholarly literature in history. This discussion frames the relative importance of articles as a communication ecology within the professionalization of historians and to the body of historical knowledge. Their discrete nature is examined and their particular characteristics are tied to the complex position they occupy in the dissemination of research and value to academic historians vis-a-vis promotion and tenure. The status of the article, its perceived purpose and value in relation to the importance of the monograph to academic historians, further frames this tension, characterising the political economy of academic historical scholarship. Examples of journals and specialization are discussed within academic history’s publishing ecosystem.