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How to cope with mobility expectations in academia?:individual travel strategies of tenured academics at Ghent University, Flanders
- Source :
- RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT, University of Bristol-PURE
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- The production and exchange of knowledge are inextricably linked to different compulsions to corporeal proximity and therefore travel. As primary producers and transferors of knowledge, academics are no exception to this rule, and their compulsions seem to be further propelled by institutional discourses regarding the alleged virtues of “internationalization.” Tenured academics, moreover, have a high degree of independence and can therefore easily choose how to cope with compulsions and constraints to internationalize. However, the business-travel literature has paid scant attention to academics and their individual contexts. In an effort to rectify this situation, this paper explores a travel dataset of tenure-track academics (N=870) working at Ghent University. The insights emerging from this analysis are then contextualized by complementing them with in-depth interviews of tenured academics (N=23) at the same institution. This paper argues, first, that varying compulsions and constraints at home and abroad lead to distinct non-travel and travel-intensive academic roles. And second, that academics who have difficulties coping, try to rationalize their corporeal travel behaviour and their mobility behaviour to meet the needs and expectations to internationalize. These strategies give an indication of how travel-related working practices can become more efficient and sustainable in the future.
- Subjects :
- Coping (psychology)
Virtual travel
business.industry
Strategy and Management
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Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
General Decision Sciences
Business travel
Social Sciences
Transportation
Management Science and Operations Research
Public relations
Independence
Internationalization of Higher Education
Travel behavior
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Institution
Sociology
Business and International Management
business
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22105395
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT, University of Bristol-PURE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d2704a01c7a0132d3050b33566c4b870