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Primary Research Group Inc. has published: The International Survey of Business & Economics University Faculty: Perceptions of Discrimination in Hiring and Advancement, ISBN 978-157440-481-4

This study of business and economics faculty looks at perceptions of discrimination of various kinds -- age, gender, sexual orientation, class origins, ethnicity, religion and degree of religiosity, geographic origins, and race.  The report gives highly detailed data about the extent to which academics in MBA programs and other economics and business faculties from major English-speaking countries believe that their fields are impacted by these various kinds of discrimination.   The survey data is based on a survey of more than 180 scholars drawn from more than 100 major research universities and MBA programs in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. Data is broken out by various criteria, such as type of university, MBA program or Grad/Undergrad business or economics program, scholar’s country, gender, political views, academic subject specialty, academic title and other criteria.  The report also looks at the incidence of experience of sexual harassment.

 Just a few of the 81-page report’s many findings are that:

  • 11.05% of business/economics faculty surveyed say that they have experienced sexual harassment from their current employer.
  • The perception of bias on the basis of religion is strongest in Australia (11.76%) and the U.S. (4.96%), but not cited at all in Canada or the UK/Ireland. 
  • Younger individuals are more likely to perceive bias than older ones to perceive bias due to sexual orientation, with the highest perception levels among those under age 30 (10.00%).

A PDF version of the report is currently available for $114.00; a print version at the same price will be available on November 28 2017and can be ordered now; site licenses are also available. For a table of contents and an excerpt, or to place an order, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.  Orders can also be faxed to 212-412-9097 or emailed to jmoses@primaryresearch.com

Scholars from the following MBA programs and departments of business studies and economics/finance in the following higher education institutions participated in the survey:

Alliance Manchester Business School

Arizona State University

Australian National University

Baylor University

Boston University

Brigham Young University

Brown University

Cambridge Judge Business School

Carleton University

Carnegie Mellon University

Columbia Business School

Cornell University

Curtin University

DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Duke University

Emory University

Fox School of Business

Goizueta Business School

Griffith University

Henley Business School

Imperial College London

Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, IUPUI

Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Johns Hopkins University

Kelley School of Business

Le Moyne College

Leeds University Business School

Lehigh University

London Business School

Manchester Business School

Massey University

McMaster University

Merage School of Business, U of California Irvine

Michigan State University

Monash University

Northeastern University

Northwestern University

Ohio University

Pace University

Penn State Erie

Penn State University

Pennsylvania State University

Queen's University

Ross School of Business

Rotman School of Management

Rutgers Business School

Rutgers Business School--Newark and New Brunswick

Saïd Business School

San Francisco State University

Sander School of Business, University of British Columbia

SFSU

Simon Fraser University

Smith School of Business - Queen's University

Staffordshire University

Swinburne University

Syracuse University

Temple University

Tepper School of Business

Texas Christian University

The Ohio State University

The Pennsylvania State University

The University of Arizona

The University of Manchester

The University of Tennessee College of Law and ProMBA

University of Missouri

UC Santa Barbara

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Univ. of California Davis

University at Buffalo

University College Dublin

University of Alberta

University of Arizona

University of Birmingham

University of British Columbia

University of California Riverside

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

University of Connecticut

University of Florida

University of Houston

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

University of Kentucky

University of Manchester

University of Manitoba

University of Maryland

University of Miami

University of Michigan

University of Michigan Dearborn

University of Minnesota

University of Missouri-Columbia

University of Notre Dame

University of Oxford

University of Reading

University of San Diego

University of Strathclyde

University of Tasmania

University of Tennessee

University of Toronto

University of Utah

University of Victoria Peter B. Gustavson School of Business

Utah Valley University

UWA Business School

UW-Madison

Virginia Commonwealth University

Wake Forest University School of Business

Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School

Willamette University

Wisconsin School of Business - UW-Madison

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