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How being female impacts learning and career growth in advertising creative departments
Windels, Kasey; Mallia, Karen L. - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 1, pp. 122-140
Purpose – In the male-dominant creative industries, do men and women have access to the same resources for career learning and development? The purpose of this paper is to examine women’s perspectives of their career trajectories in advertising creative departments....
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The construction of gender and creativity in advertising creative departments
Windels, Kasey; Lee, Wei‐Na - In: Gender in Management: An International Journal 27 (2012) 8, pp. 502-519
and creativity are socially constructed, doing gender in the masculine creative department impeded progress and job … being a woman operating within a masculine paradigm might be especially difficult in creative fields. Because creativity is …
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Opportunity development: an exploratory study of ecopreneurs using a creativity perspective
Hansen, David J.; Monllor, Javier; McMurchie, Leslie - In: Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship 14 (2012) 1, pp. 27-39
the context of environmentally‐sustainable business. The “4P” creativity framework (person, process, press/situation, and …, a creativity perspective is useful for examining opportunities. Additionally, the findings suggest that future research … using a creativity perspective. Originality/value – This study provides one of the few accounts of the development of …
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Action learning in new creative ventures
Rae, David - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 18 (2012) 5, pp. 603-623
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore the integrated processes of action learning, entrepreneurial learning and new venture creation by students and graduates in the creative industries by addressing two questions: How do action learning and entrepreneurial learning connect with...
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Women leaders in the creative industries: a baseline study
Dodd, Fiona - In: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 4 (2012) 2, pp. 153-178
Purpose – The under‐representation of entrepreneurial women, or women leaders, in the higher levels of organisations is an increasingly debated issue. Comments in the media regarding the lack of women in senior management positions in the creative industries have attracted much attention,...
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Faith and entrepreneurship among the British African‐Caribbean
Nwankwo, Sonny; Gbadamosi, Ayantunji - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 20 (2013) 3, pp. 618-633
Purpose – This paper aims to explore how African‐Caribbean Pentecostals use the platform of their faith to reconstruct their entrepreneurial values and identities, improve entrepreneurial learning and exploit the cultural resources of faith‐based networks to promote and sustain their...
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Religion, spirituality and entrepreneurship
Nwankwo, Sonny; Gbadamosi, Ayantunji; Ojo, Sanya - In: Society and Business Review 7 (2012) 2, pp. 149-167
research participants. The sample was drawn from British Africans in London. Findings – African Pentecostal churches have …
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PR career progression – the gap between traditional research and the UK industry's perception
Wolf, Katharina - In: Journal of Communication Management 10 (2006) 2, pp. 174-190
Purpose – Public relations research into career advancement has been frequently criticised for its focus on gender discrimination and the prevailing dominance of American academics, while widely ignoring the perception of “industry insiders”. This paper aims to provide new insight into PR...
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The progress of female police officers?
Dick, Gavin; Metcalfe, Beverley - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 20 (2007) 2, pp. 81-100
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish empirically whether there is any foundation in the premise that female officers' lesser tenure and/or lower levels of commitment than men explain their lack of career progress. Although the number of women in UK police forces has grown...
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The Education, Training and Careers of Production Managers in British Industry
Oakland, John S.; Sohal, Amrik - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 9 (1989) 8, pp. 63-90
The results of a survey of production managers in the UK, carried out in 1986, on behalf of the British Institute of Managers (BIM). It compares these results with those from an earlier, similar survey carried out in 1977. The evidence shows that changes in production management have not kept...
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