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To identify the property research priorities in the UK, a major survey of Investment Property Forum members was conducted in February 2003. Over 40 property research areas were assessed, including both general and specific property research priorities. UK property research priorities were seen to be different from an earlier USA property research priorities survey (2000) and more closely aligned to a more recent Australian property research priorities survey (2001).

The main research attempts guiding questions about management research agendas had been relevance questions versus rigor questions. Researchers have also attempted to set management research agendas in particular sectors. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no research, however, has addressed the infrastructural and foundational questions of what moral priorities and ethical principles should guide the future development of management research. Because the Islamic theological approach is a “transcendental values integration” approach, it presents a potentially viable source of reference particularly for scholars interested in ethical philosophical paradigmatic approaches. Islamic literature has presented guiding principles as to how to balance priorities through the Jurisprudence of Priorities (Fiqh Al-Awlawiyyat). The purpose of this exploratory conceptual paper is to synchronize the Islamic background literature on the jurisprudence of priorities with management research development and agendas. The research is exploratory in nature.

The paper is conceptual, merging Islamic literature with management research for the development of a framework to potentially guide management researchers in prioritizing their research agendas.

The research resulted in the conceptualization of a framework aiding researchers in the prioritization of their research agendas.

The research has implications for management scholars who are interested to prioritize their research projects and agendas. The research presents a schematic diagram and guiding framework through which scholars can reflect on their choice of research topics.

The research is also relevant to funding agencies as they devise the funding priorities in the management field.

This paper addresses the unique and foundational question of what moral priorities and ethical principles should guide the future development of management research. The authors build on a religious-philosophical approach, drawing on the Islamic jurisprudence of priorities as a literature base. The authors, therefore, address the key principles of responsible research regarding how it can be relevant on the infrastructural level to society and how the benefit to key stakeholders should be tackled. To the authors’ knowledge, this was not done in previous literature.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which International Standardization Organization (ISO) 9000 implementation is associated with better alignment of supply chain activities.

This research hypothesized the moderation effect of ISO 9000 over the alignment between customer priorities from one side and supplier selection criteria priorities from the other side. Collected survey data were analyzed using cluster analysis. Then, moderated regression analysis using ordinary least squares was employed to test the study hypotheses.

Advanced ISO 9000 implementation moderates the relation between customer priorities and the prioritization of supplier selection criteria with respect to priorities of cost management, total cost of ownership and product flexibility. While, there was no sufficient evidence to the same effect with respect to priorities of logistical flexibility and delivery.

This research presents a new perspective for researchers to study the extended benefits of ISO 9000 implementation and its moderating effect over supply chain relations. However, the small sample size might limit the ability to generalize the research findings. Further research is required to confirm the research findings using wider sample.

This research provides practitioners with a path to acknowledge the role of ISO 9000 as a business practice that helps organizations to align their supply chain activities.

This paper contributes to knowledge by proposing the moderation effect of ISO 9000 implementation on the alignment between customer priorities from one side and the emphasis that organization place on the same priorities while selecting suppliers from the other side.

Current conditions have intensified the need for health systems to engage in the difficult task of priority setting. As the search for a “magic bullet” is replaced by an appreciation for the interplay between evidence, interests, culture, and outcomes, progress in relation to these dimensions requires assessment of achievements to date and identification of areas where knowledge and practice require attention most urgently. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

An international survey was administered to experts in the area of priority setting. The survey consisted of open-ended questions focusing on notable achievements, policy and practice challenges, and areas for future research in the discipline of priority setting. It was administered online between February and March of 2015.

“Decision-making frameworks” and “Engagement” were the two most frequently mentioned notable achievements. “Priority setting in practice” and “Awareness and education” were the two most frequently mentioned policy and practical challenges. “Priority setting in practice” and “Engagement” were the two most frequently mentioned areas in need of future research.

Sampling bias toward more developed countries. Future study could use findings to create a more concise version to distribute more broadly.

Globally, these findings could be used as a platform for discussion and decision making related to policy, practice, and research in this area.

Whilst this study reaffirmed the continued importance of many longstanding themes in the priority setting literature, it is possible to also discern clear shifts in emphasis as the discipline progresses in response to new challenges.

Given that prisoners have significant health needs across most areas, the paucity of prisoner health research, and the difficulties involved in the conduct of research in this setting, there is a need to develop research priorities that align with key stakeholder groups. One such group are those responsible for health service provision in prisons – prison health service directors. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Prison health service directors in each Australian state and territory were invited to participate in a national (deliberative) roundtable where the consensus building nominal group technique was utilized. This involved the identification of research priorities and organizational issues in conducting research with prisoners, and ranking research priorities. A thematic analysis was conducted on organizational issues.

In total, 13 participants attended the roundtable. Participants identified 28 research priorities and 12 organizational issues. Top ranked research priorities were mental health, cognitive and intellectual disability, post-release health maintenance, ageing prisoners, chronic health conditions and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Themes identified from the organizational issues included prisoner access to research participation, health and research literacy of custodial staff, and institutional protectionism in response to research that may discover negative information about the custodial setting.

These findings should inform future efforts to improve research infrastructures to undertake research to improve the health of people in Australian prisons, and help to align researchers’ efforts with those of a key organizational stakeholder.

This is the first paper to determine the research priorities and organizational issues in conducting research in prisons of prison health service directors.

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the perceptions of research priorities as expressed by people with spinal cord injury (SCI).

A descriptive study based on feedback from patients, rehabilitated following SCI was conducted in order to explore their felt needs for further research. A questionnaire was sent to 225 people who were rehabilitated following SCI. They were asked to indicate three priorities for further research on disability related issues. The questionnaire had a list of issues on different facets of disability following SCI. In total, 62 patients responded to the questionnaire.

Research on urinary incontinence was stated to have the highest priority among these different groups according to their age, marital status, duration of disability, and employment status. Rehabilitated patients of all age groups, irrespective of marital or employment status or duration of disability, indicated that further research is to be done on urinary incontinence.

A similar study among groups in a larger population would add further information.

Practitioners should address these expressed needs of the persons with SCI in the community.

These expressed needs will increase awareness among the team involved in the management of SCI in the community thus fill the gap between research and practice.

Research focussing on various problems associated with spinal cord injury have been carried out globally. On most of the occasions, the perceptions of the affected people regarding research areas are seldom obtained. This research would guide future directions of rehabilitation research in the field of spinal cord injury.

New technologies are posing new challenges to social science. Their very novelty also challenges the established methods that social research institutions have used to define their priorities. The UK’s Economic and Social research Council (ESRC) confronted these challenges, in part, by commissioning a futures study. It engaged the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), to develop quickly a process for informing the choice of social science research priorities related to genomics. Four major reports were developed as background inputs to a scenario workshop process. As well as outlining a set of scenarios for the development of the genomics field, reports covered genomic applications, forecasts for drivers shaping genomics, and how the ESRC’s “thematic priorities” might relate to developments in genomics in the coming years. With this input and using advanced “groupware”, the scenario workshop identified five priority areas focused on how research should be conducted and 11 priority topics for what research is needed.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on the article by Chadd et al. The commentary sets out the key principles of good support and considers how the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists research priorities impact on the practice of a team of Speech and Language Therapists who support people with learning disabilities, including autistic people and those with complex needs who display behaviour described as challenging. The commentary considers how the research priorities fit within current policies and frameworks and reflects on areas that could be considered further.

This commentary provides a narrative account of the reflections of a team of Speech and Language Therapists on the impact that the research priorities have had on their work.

The Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) team are all keen to be involved in research but identify barriers to this relating to time within their current roles and challenges in meaningfully involving people they support. The research priorities have provided a broad framework for them to use to consider areas for research, and the focus on measuring outcomes is welcome. The research priorities largely fit within the frameworks that support current social care practice; however, they are not written in a way that is accessible for most people with a learning disability, and some do not fully reflect the social model of disability. The wider involvement of people with lived experience may have led to different research priorities identified.

The commentary provides an account of the impact that the research priorities have had on a team of Speech and Language Therapists working within a social care setting. It encourages readers to consider the wider context for people with learning disabilities and the role SLT plays within the social model of support for improving quality of life.

Support for environmental research has a long tradition at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. A new funding priority establishes a new substantive priority area – sustainable management. The purpose is to develop strategies and solutions for sustainable management and test them in real life through cooperation between research institutions, industry and consumers. The results of 18 collaborative projects should help to exploit the potential for sustainable management in the private sectors, set new priorities in research on business management and initiate standardisation processes towards sustainable management. A support process has to pass the results of the projects as well as their implications for sustainable management on to potential users. The research projects altogether cover four priority areas; namely, information technology instruments, controlling instruments, planning instruments and communication instruments.

To update the research priorities, this study aims to propose a roadmap to researchers who are interested in the marketing/entrepreneurship interface (MEI) and stimulate research by providing an agenda through a synthesis of the collective wisdom of the scholars in the field.

A-multi-stage data collection using questionnaires and interviews is used in this study. Multiple rounds of interviews spanning three Global Research Conferences on Marketing and Entrepreneurship (GRCME), followed by a survey seeking input from the attendees of these events and the members of the Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG of the American Marketing Association, were used in developing the proposed research priorities.

A comprehensive list of research priorities was developed categorizing them in terms of importance and level of interest. The list is a product of the collective wisdom of the field, distilled from several rounds of interviews and from a thorough analysis of the participants’ input to a comprehensive survey.

The current research provides scholars with MEI research priorities for 2023–2026.