University hiring, promotion and tenure decisions make researchers’ publication productivity an important issue. This study reports on data about publication productivity of information systems (IS) researchers from 1999 to 2003. W e collected information about IS papers published in twelve IS journals during this period. After classification, the most productive individuals and institutions fo...

Gary W. Brester Associate Professor Dramatic changes in productivity, product developments, and meat product promotion have influenced consumer demand for meat. Although the beef industry has experienced increases in production efficiency, primary competing sectors (i.e., pork and poultry) have experienced even larger productivity gains. In addition, the pork sector appears well positioned for ...

To clarify the relationship between software development productivity and the attributes of a software project, such as business area, programming language and team size, this paper analyzed 211 enterprise application development projects in Japan using a software engineering data repository established by the Software Engineering Center (SEC), Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. In...

This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate gender differences in salaries and promotion for academics in the humanities. Differences in employment outcomes by gender are evaluated using three methods: the Oaxaca decomposition is used to examine salary differentials, and binary choice models and duration analysis are used to estimate the probability of promotion to ...

Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a tenure track job, promotion to tenure, and promotion to full professor explain these facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions in science, but the gende...

Work-life balance has a major impact not only on business productivity but also on the economy as a whole, (Hughes 2007) and Wolf (2008) maintain that implications for the workplace are enormous as mental disease goes hand in hand with significant productivity losses. According to Janssen et al., (2003), the occurrence and causes of sickness absence are affected by several factors, many of whic...