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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE CURRICULUM OF LEADING US BUSINESS SCHOOLS

open access: yesОсвітній вимір, 2010
The importance of considering the US business schools experience when building and improving the native system of business education is substantiated Goals and objectives of business education are clarified.
V.Yu. Ilina
doaj  

Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A University Business School as an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Hub

open access: yesTechnology Innovation Management Review, 2019
This article assesses the progress of a business school toward achieving the status of an entrepreneurial ecosystem hub with emphasis on the components related to entrepreneurial universities, entrepreneurship education, university business incubators ...
Haven Allahar, Ron Sookram
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF‐RI) Program: Interval Selections With Uniform Premium Subsidy Rates

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines interval selection in the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF‐RI) program and evaluates how uniform premium subsidy rates affect optimal interval selections. Using South Dakota as a case study, we show a trend of increasing selection of nonproduction intervals from 2013 to 2024, raising concerns about program
Whoi Cho, Matthew Diersen
wiley   +1 more source

A comparative model analysis of managerial competence of business school educated managers [PDF]

open access: yesProblems and Perspectives in Management, 2017
This article compares an existing model to measure competence of managers educated within the business school environment to a similar model at another business school setting.
Ahmed Shaikh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Business School Partnerships for Globalization [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Teaching in International Business, 2013
International partnerships are an essential tool to enable business schools to internationalize their activities. They can lead to improved research, better more internationally relevant teaching, provide staff with an international perspective, and help prepare students for careers in global business.
Dixon, R., Slanickova, D., Warwick, P.
openaire   +3 more sources

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

First-Year Students’ Initial Motivational Beliefs at University: Predicted by Motivational Beliefs Derived from Within and Out-of-School Experience and Malleable Regardless of the Extent of Students’ Out-of-School Experience

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
The present study tested how academic self-concept of ability (ASC) and intrinsic task value (ITV) transpose onto novel university programs that depart from traditional subject areas within the framework of expectancy-value theory.
Julia Gorges
doaj   +1 more source

Businessing Around Comprehensive Schooling

open access: yes, 2023
AbstractThe idea of education as a commodity, particularly as a field of export, has gradually taken hold in Finland creating a base for government collaboration with edu-business. In that logic comprehensive schooling for citizens in a small nation like Finland is positioned as a tool for a platform economy and to make profit within a sector of ...
Kiesi Iida-Leena   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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