The study sets out to assess the link between land leasing behavior and productivity differentials between male and female headed households. A non-cooperative game model with double-moral hazard allowed us to show that landlord’s tenure insecurity leads to sub-optimal level of effort on tenant’s part. The landlord’s enforcement ability is also shown to increase the optimal level of effort. The...

This year’s political attacks on tenure in the US have revived a discussion about pros and cons of this academic tradition. Although freedom job security it promises are invaluable to professors, some academia say system can be abused that universities should consider alternative forms tenure. Adrianne Rosales, an assistant professor chemical engineering at University Texas Austin, is up for pr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to examine the relationships among age, tenure, and the length of disability following a work-related injury/illness. METHODS This study utilized 361,754 administrative workers' compensation claims. The relationships between age, tenure, and disability duration was estimated with random-effects models. RESULTS The age-disability duration relationship was s...

BACKGROUND Assessment of job satisfaction of the faculty members and its underlying factors may increase career fulfillment and raise the educational and research productivity, leading to higher quality of dental services at the community level, ultimately improving public oral health status. AIM This study assessed job satisfaction and its influential factors in dental academic members in Te...

PURPOSE This study examined the factors that predict employees' perceptions of procedural justice in university settings. The paper also reviews the ethical aspects of justice and psychological contracts within employment relationships. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The study examined the predictors of perceived procedural justice in a two-wave longitudinal sample of 945 employees from 13 unive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a global ranking of knowledge management and intellectual capital academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – An online questionnaire was completed by 233 active knowledge management and intellectual capital researchers from 41 countries. Two different approaches: journal rank-order and journal scoring method were utilized and produced simi...

Massive degradation of natural resources, including forests, pastureland, and cropland, has been taking place in agriculturally unfavorable or marginal land areas of Asia and other parts of the Third World (Bhattari and Hamming 2001; Cropper and Griffiths 1994; Koop and Tole 1999; Rudel and Roper 1997). The growing rural population has increased demand for land, trees, and other natural resourc...

Following the success and subsequent notoriety of Eliot Ness as a Prohibition agent in Chicago, Cleveland Mayor Harold Burton appointed Ness Director of Public Safety in December 1935. During this era, the Cleveland Department of Public Safety, particularly the police division, was considered to be one of the most corrupt in America. Burton, elected on a law-and-order platform, had sworn to rid...

This article provides a broad overview of widely available measures of academic productivity and impact using publication data and highlights uses of these metrics for various purposes. Metrics based on publication data include measures such as number of publications, number of citations, the journal impact factor score, and the h-index, as well as emerging metrics based on document-level metri...