College Mission Statements

Innovation, mission statements and learning

In the current study, we surveyed 339 firms to detemline the linkages among firm innovativeness, company mission, employee commitment and selected organisational learning practices. Our results demonstrated that significant relationships do indeed exist between the variables studied. The results suggest especially the kinds of practices that company executives need to follow if they are serious...

Organizational Sacralization and Discursive Use of Corporate Mission Statements

The religious origin of organizational behavior is not easy to recognize, nor are the implications of the Christian heritage of concepts and ideas as applied to organizations. This paper seeks to remedy this by investigating the theological roots of the mission concept. Our central argument is that corporate mission statements are sometimes used as manipulative communicative tools which seek or...

Mission Statements: A Thematic Analysis of Rhetoric Across International Type

Copyright The Ohio State University. Reprint from Journal of Higher Education, Volume 77, Issue 3, May/June 2006, pages 456-471. This material is posted here with permission of Ohio State University Press. Content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv or website without the copyright holder's written permission. However, users may print, download, or email artic...

The social mission in medical school mission statements: associations with graduate outcomes.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Mission statements of medical schools vary considerably. These statements reflect institutional values and may also be reflected in the outputs of their institutions. The authors explored the relationship between US medical school mission statement content and outcomes in terms of graduate location and specialty choices. METHODS A panel of stakeholders (medical schoo...

American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Consensus Statements