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The relationship between college grades and internship participation for Black business majors at HBCUs was examined in this study. Participants were 376 Black business majors (65% female, 26% non-traditional age, 66% first-generation) at 40 HBCUs across the nation who responded to the 2016-2017 national administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement. Group mean difference and hierarchical linear regression analysis revealed no statistically significant differences by internship status, although several personal and academic factors predicted Black business majors' grades controlling for confounding factors. Though statistically insignificant, the key finding holds practical significance for business educators and others at HBCUs. Key implications of policy, practice, and future research are delineated for business educators and related fields., Author(s): Terrell L. Strayhorn [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.267902.8, 0000 0000 9911 8201, Center for the Study of HBCUs, Evelyn Reid Syphax School of Education, Virginia Union University, , 1500 [...]

The introduction to teaching is critical for novice teachers. Near the end of their master's program, students of Business Education and Development in Austria spend one semester at an assigned school. They are introduced to teaching, while being assisted by peer students, mentoring teachers, and a companion course. Mentors receive special training and preparation in advance, thus contributing to a high quality mentoring program. The program is organized threefold: (1) providing feedback, (2) opportunities for reflection and (3) career orientation. The purpose of this paper is to assess key elements of successful mentoring programs and to question which competences of mentors contribute most to the success of those programs. Between 2012 and 2015, 188 persons (student teachers and their mentors) responded to an online survey at the end of their mentoring program. Additionally, data from a study (1,245 questionnaires) regarding the student teachers' perception of their own competence was utilized, allowing for a comparison of student teacher confidence in their abilities before and after the mentoring program. The present results provide insight into the key elements of successful mentoring programs; both from a student teacher's and mentor's perspective. During the semester, students showed an increase regarding their self-perception of their professional competences. It was found that students and mentoring teachers valued feedback after each lesson more than feedback in regular meetings. Opportunities for reflection (e.g. exchange with peer students, learning diaries) were considered helpful. The mentoring program helped students to decide whether to become a teacher or not. Keywords Key elements of mentoring, student teaching, competence development, reflection, Business Education and Development, Introduction Mentoring activities and opportunities for collaboration with peers are important for the career orientation of novice teachers (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004). This paper assesses the key elements of a [...]

Entrepreneurship education continues to be a high growth area at universities throughout the world. Utilizing institutional theory, this article examines 27 years of data based on job opportunities and candidates in the field of entrepreneurship. During 2015/16, there were 466 entrepreneurship positions (both tenure track and non-tenure track) for faculty in Schools of Business and Management. The number of candidates was 144 for a ratio of 3.24 jobs per candidate during 2015/16. This ratio is favorable to candidates seeking employment, however it must be noted that these positions included full-time tenure track, visiting professorships, instructors, adjuncts or part-time positions. During the past academic year there were 142 tenure track candidates and 204 tenure track AACSB positions for a ratio of 1.44 tenure track AACSB jobs per tenure track candidate. This was also a very strong ratio for candidates. Overall, the findings of this study show that this is a sellers' market for candidates. The article closes with an in-depth discussion on recommendations to administrators, faculty, and executives., INTRODUCTION This article provides information on the current trends that are occurring within the field of entrepreneurship. Specifically, this article looks at the current market trends in regards to job [...]

21st century skills such as complex problem-solving, creative and innovative thinking, and teamwork and collaboration can be developed in the classroom via entrepreneurship education. However, entrepreneurship educators face a particular challenge--how to encourage students to use innovation and creativity to engage in ideation/opportunity identification/recognition and then find a way to bring these opportunities to market. One practical barrier that sometimes needs to be overcome is the belief on the part of many students that they are 'not creative '. Effectuation, or starting with what you've got and trying to create something new, being open to the surprises that emerge in the process of just doing something, is proposed as a useful pedagogical model. After an overview of key concepts, suggestions are given for how to design entrepreneurial exercises or activities, using an effectual approach, to unleash creativity by 'breaking the frame ', imposing constraints, offering rewards based on goals with clear and fair rules, and requiring students to work in teams. It is proposed that incorporating these suggestions might inspire students to apply these concepts, to identify opportunities and act entrepreneurially, everywhere, all the time., INTRODUCTION In the 21st century, certain universal skills can lead to success. Most of these skills are not new: leadership experience, communication and problem solving skills, ability to work in [...]

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00883.x Byline: Lilie Chouliaraki (1), Norman Fairclough (2) Abstract: abstract We engage with Leitch and Palmer's (2010) analysis of Critical Discourse Analytical (CDA) scholarship in organizational and management studies, in order to argue that, whereas they rightly point to the need for further reflexivity in the field, their recommendation for a strict methodological protocol in CDA studies may be reproducing some of the problems they identify in their analysis. We put forward an alternative, relational-dialectic conception of discourse that defends an integrationist orientation to research methodology, privileging trans-disciplinarity over rigour. Author Affiliation: (1)London School of Economics; (2)Lancaster University Article note: Lilie Chouliaraki, Dept of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK (l.chouliaraki@lse.ac.uk).

The general equilibrium approach in orthodox economics largely abstracted from the passing of time. In a timeless world, strategy and deception are difficult to define. The mainstream analysis of the second half of the twentieth century was mostly about establishing the limits within which price ratios might profitably vary in a world where people keep promises and are honest. Curiously, another group of milestones (some of which date back to the 1920s and 1930s) exist that, when taken together, may spark a renewed interest in the economics of fraud and deception.

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.025 Byline: Jose Rui Figueira (a)(c), Salvatore Greco (b), Bernard Roy (c) Keywords: Multicriteria analysis; Outranking methods; Interaction between criteria; Choquet integral Abstract: This paper presents an extension of the comprehensive (overall) concordance index of ELECTRE methods, which takes the interaction between criteria into account. In real-world decision-aiding situations, it is reasonable to consider only the interaction between a small number of criterion pairs. Three types of interaction have been considered: mutual strengthening, mutual weakening, and antagonistic. The new concordance index correctly takes into account such types of interactions, by imposing such conditions as boundary, monotonicity, and continuity. We demonstrate that the generalized index is able to take the three types of interaction, or dependencies, between criteria into account satisfactorily, first using quasi-criteria and then using pseudo-criteria. We also examine the links between the new concordance index and the Choquet integral. Author Affiliation: (a) CEG-IST, Center for Management Studies, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon, TagusPark, Av. Cavaco Silva, 2780-990 Porto Salvo, Portugal (b) Faculty of Economics, The University of Catania, Corso Italia, 55, 95 129 Catania, Italy (c) LAMSADE, Universite Paris-Dauphine, Place du Marechal De Lattre de Tassigny, 75 775 Paris Cedex 16, France Article History: Received 29 November 2006; Accepted 18 November 2008

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2008.02.006 Byline: Jose Rui Figueira (a), Salvatore Greco (b), Roman SAowiAski (c)(d) Keywords: Multiple criteria decision analysis; Preference model; Value function; Ordinal regression; Intensity of preference Abstract: We present a method called Generalized Regression with Intensities of Preference (GRIP) for ranking a finite set of actions evaluated on multiple criteria. GRIP builds a set of additive value functions compatible with preference information composed of a partial preorder and required intensities of preference on a subset of actions, called reference actions. It constructs not only the preference relation in the considered set of actions, but it also gives information about intensities of preference for pairs of actions from this set for a given decision maker (DM). Distinguishing necessary and possible consequences of preference information on the considered set of actions, GRIP answers questions of robustness analysis. The proposed methodology can be seen as an extension of the UTA method based on ordinal regression. GRIP can also be compared to the AHP method, which requires pairwise comparison of all actions and criteria, and yields a priority ranking of actions. As for the preference information being used, GRIP can be compared, moreover, to the MACBETH method which also takes into account a preference order of actions and intensity of preference for pairs of actions. The preference information used in GRIP does not need, however, to be complete: the DM is asked to provide comparisons of only those pairs of reference actions on particular criteria for which his/her judgment is sufficiently certain. This is an important advantage comparing to methods which, instead, require comparison of all possible pairs of actions on all the considered criteria. Moreover, GRIP works with a set of general additive value functions compatible with the preference information, while other methods use a single and less general value function, such as the weighted-sum. Author Affiliation: (a) CEG-IST, Center for Management Studies, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Tagus Park, Av. Cavaco Silva, 2780-990 Porto Salvo, Portugal (b) Faculty of Economics, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95 129 Catania, Italy (c) Institute of Computing Science, PoznaA University of Technology, Street Piotrowo 2, 60-965 PoznaA, Poland (d) Institute for Systems Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-447 Warsaw, Poland Article History: Received 2 March 2007; Accepted 5 February 2008

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.12.016 Byline: Rudolf Vetschera Keywords: Group decisions and negotiations; Learning; Incomplete information; Domain criterion Abstract: To create an integrative solution in a bargaining problem, negotiators need to have information about each other's preferences. Empirical negotiation research therefore requires methods to measure the extent to which information about preferences is available during a negotiation. We propose such a method based on Starr's domain criterion, which was originally developed for sensitivity analysis in decision making. Our method provides indices for the amount of preference information that can be inferred both in negotiations reaching an agreement and negotiations where an agreement was not (yet) reached. To test the external validity of our proposed measures, we conduct an empirical study which shows that the proposed measures exhibit positive relationships to the success of negotiations as well as to the efficiency of outcomes that would be expected according to negotiation theory. Author Affiliation: Department of Business Studies, University of Vienna, Bruenner Strasse 72, A-1210 Vienna, Austria Article History: Received 30 May 2006; Accepted 11 December 2007 Article Note: (footnote) [star] This research is part of the eNegotiation project supported by the Social Sciences and Human Resource Council, Canada.

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.09.008 Byline: Tommi Tervonen (a)(b), Jose Rui Figueira (a), Risto Lahdelma (b), Juscelino Almeida Dias (a), Pekka Salminen (c) Keywords: MCDA; ELECTRE TRI; Robustness analysis; Monte Carlo simulation; Risk assessment Abstract: ELECTRE TRI is a multiple criteria decision aiding sorting method with a history of successful real-life applications. In ELECTRE TRI, values for certain parameters have to be provided. We propose a new method, SMAA-TRI, that is based on stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA), for analyzing the stability of such parameters. The stability analysis can be used for deriving robust conclusions. SMAA-TRI allows ELECTRE TRI to be used with uncertain, arbitrarily distributed values for weights, the lambda cutting level, and profiles. The method consists of analyzing finite spaces of arbitrarily distributed parameter values. Monte Carlo simulation is applied in this in order to describe for each alternative the share of parameter values that have it assigned to different categories. We show the real-life applicability by re-analyzing a case study in the field of risk assessment. Author Affiliation: (a) Centre for Management Studies, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon, 2780-990 Porto Salvo, Portugal (b) Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland (c) School of Business and Economics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland Article History: Received 9 February 2006; Accepted 6 September 2007

Drawing from the entrepreneurship and business education literature, this article reviews the extent to which group work in entrepreneurship courses reflects the processes involved in real world venture teamwork. Limitations in the classroom processes of group work are discussed and recommendations suggested for making the classroom experiences of more use to later venture creation., Introduction One of the several areas of controversy in entrepreneurship is the extent to which the entrepreneurial process involves individual, as opposed to team, effort. While some writers portray the [...]

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