bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Assessing brand personality associations of top-of-mind wine brands
Authors: Brochado Ana , Vinhas da Silva Rui , LaPlaca Peter
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to examine brand knowledge of wines produced in a selected Portuguese viticulture area. More specifically, we intend to understand how consumers organise brands that have the highest awareness in their memory in terms of perceived personality traits.

Design/methodology/approach

– A survey was developed to assess brand awareness of Portuguese green wine brands and brand personality using Aaker’s brand personality framework. Multiple correspondence analysis was used in this study to present the relative positioning of the top-of-mind green wine brands.

Findings

– Despite the large number of green wine brands available on the market, six brands dominate in terms of brand awareness. Top-of-mind green wine brands are marked with clear and distinctive brand personality, and a small subset of brand personality attributes serve as significant criteria for brand positioning.

Practical implications

– The results of the present study could be beneficial for academics and practitioners, as it reveals that the top-of-mind brands within a specific viticulture area could exhibit a clear positioning based on personality traits. Therefore, brand personality traits might provide a mechanism for wine managers to distinguish or differentiate their wines.

Originality/value

– This work contributes to the findings of previous studies held to study brand personality perceptions. From a theoretical point of view, this paper reflects the usage of one the most popular instruments for brand personality measurement in a wine market context.
Knowledge effects on the exploratory acquisition of wine
Authors: Vigar-Ellis Debbie , Pitt Leyland , Caruana Albert
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– This paper aims to determine whether exploratory wine purchasing behaviour is affected by consumers’ objective and subjective wine knowledge.

Design/methodology/approach

– A questionnaire was developed using recognised scales for exploratory consumer tendencies, objective and subjective wine knowledge. The survey was administered using the MTurk platform. A factor analysis was first used to test the psychometric properties of the measures of the three constructs. Once the robustness of the measures was ascertained, cross-tabulations and testing via ANOVA’s of the demographics of age, gender, weekly wine consumption and education on the constructs was undertaken. In addition the causal relationship of subjective and objective wine knowledge on exploratory purchase behaviour was investigated via the use of multiple regression analysis.

Findings

– The results show that consumers with more real (objective) knowledge of wines are more likely to participate in exploratory wine purchasing. Objective wine knowledge is greatest amongst older consumers and those who consume more wine.

Research limitations/implications

– While attempts were made to limit biases due to the research approach, the results may lack generalisability because a US sample only, was used. Recommendations for future research extending the sample population as well as for changes to the question formats are suggested.

Practical implications

– The findings of this study have implications for wine marketers in that marketing strategies and activities (labelling, distribution, media, etc.) may need to be adapted depending on the exploratory purchasing behaviour and wine knowledge of their target customers.

Originality/value

– Exploratory wine acquisition behaviour is important to wine marketers. This behaviour encourages trial but, at the same time, impacts brand loyalty. This paper identifies the characteristics of consumers in terms of wine knowledge, consumption and demographics most likely to exhibit this behaviour and provides support for the need for marketers to identify these consumers and adapt their marketing activities targeting them.
A study of women in top business roles: the case of the wine industry
Authors: Galbreath Jeremy
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore the extent to which women are advancing in the wine industry, and whether there are conditions which help facilitate their advancement. There is a perception that women are making great strides in the wine industry. However, this perception is largely anecdotal.

Design/methodology/approach

– All wineries in Australia are examined in each year for the years 2007 to 2013. By relying on a leading wine industry database, women in CEO, winemaker, viticulturist and marketing roles are examined.

Findings

– With the exception of the marketing role, women are under-represented relative to predicted representation rates. Regarding regional differences, there is no consistent pattern with respect to where women representation in the roles is higher. The findings also suggest that where there is a woman CEO, women are more likely to be represented in winemaker, viticulturist and marketing roles.

Research limitations/implications

– The study represents Australian wine regions and should not be taken as a general population sample. The representation rates of women in top roles in other wine firms around the world may vary, which could lead to results different than those found in this study.

Practical implications

– For firms and policy makers interested in increasing the representation rates of women in the wine industry, the results of this study offer some insight into where current rates stand, and what might be underlying these representation rates. This is expected to facilitate debate around the means and mechanisms through which to increase the representation of women in the wine industry.

Originality/value

– This is the first known large-scale study to examine the representation rates of women in top roles in the wine industry; therefore, it offers both new insights and avenues for future research.
Tribological behaviour of mineral and rapeseed oils containing iron particles
Authors: Maliar Tatjana , Achanta Satish , Cesiulis Henrikas , Drees Dirk
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the tribological behaviour of commercially available SAE 10 mineral and rapeseed oils containing Fe particles synthesized directly in the oil phase.

Design/methodology/approach

– Sub-micron Fe particles (50-340 nm) were synthesized by wet chemical reduction reaction of FeSO4 by sodium borohydride in the rapeseed and mineral oils in the presence of surfactant: block copolymer (ENB 90R4) or oxyethylated alcohol (OS-20). A four-ball wear tribometer was used to investigate the tribological properties of mineral and rapeseed oil: coefficient of friction (COF), wear scar diameter and wear loss. Viscosity measurements of oil solutions and determination of synthesized Fe particles size were performed as well.

Findings

– The presence of Fe particles (0.1 weight per cent) in the rapeseed and mineral oils caused the little change in the COF but resulted in marked improvement of anti-wear property. The oils containing Fe particles with slightly higher viscosity are giving more friction due to viscous drag. The anti-wear enhancement is attributed to the formation of tribofilm and superior load-bearing capability of the modified oil. Both rapeseed and mineral oils irrespective of used surfactant in the presence of 0.1 weight per cent Fe particles (50-140 nm) show sufficiently improved anti-wear properties.

Originality/value

– The data collection about tribological behaviour of oils containing Fe particles and various additives in lubricants has a practical interest. The findings could be helpful to increase the knowledge of the behaviour of real tribological systems, where the metallic debris are generated during friction and contaminate the lubricating oil.
The investigation of the temperature of high speed and heavy haul tilting pad journal bearing
Authors: Li Pengju , Zhu Yongsheng , Zhang Youyun , Yue Pengfei
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– This paper aims to present the theoretical and experimental investigation of the temperature of high speed and heavy haul tilting pad journal bearing.

Design/methodology/approach

– The bearing is 152.15 mm in diameter with three slenderness ratios (L/D) and three clearance ratios. The equations that govern the flow and energy transport are solved by the finite difference method, and the experimental tests are conducted in a test rig of high speed and heavy haul tilting pad journal bearing. The shaft speed ranges from 3,000 to 16,500 r/min (the highest linear-velocity equals 131.4 m/s), and the three static loads are 10, 20 and 30 KN.

Findings

– The comparisons between numerical results and experimental results show better correlations. It is shown in the theoretical and experimental results that the temperature increases with static load and shaft speed and decreases with clearance ratio and L/D.

Originality/value

– The theoretical models presented in this paper can be used to predict the temperature of tilting pad journal bearing when the shaft’s linear velocity is up to 130 m/s.
Biodegradable lubricating greases containing used frying oil as additives
Authors: Buczek Bronislaw , Zajezierska Anna
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The aim of this paper was to investigate the possibility of reusing frying oil, obtained during thermal treatment of food in fast-food restaurants for production of plastic greases.

Design/methodology/approach

– In accordance with the proposed research concept, the used frying oil was to be the base oil of biodegradable plastic greases thickened with calcium 12-hydroxystearate and lithium 12-hydroxystearate. These studies included the determination of the effect of variable amounts of used oil component in the base oil on the properties of the resultant plastic greases.

Findings

– It was found that the optimum amount of the component in the base oil is 10-15 per cent. Calcium and lithium greases prepared in such a way possess a quality to that of greases prepared with fresh rapeseed oil.

Research limitations/implications

– Higher concentrations of used frying oil in the base oil adversely affect the degree of thickening, thixotropic properties and dropping point of the grease, as well as, creating technological problems.

Practical implications

– The investigations, beside their research goals have also a practical character – recycling waste material in place of its present method of disposal.

Originality/value

– One of the least expensive material, and most commonly used to produce biodegradable lubricants are vegetable oils. In recent years, besides introducing biodegradable lubricating oils, increasing interest is observed in the use of plastic greases of high biodegradability. Now, it is possible to obtain such greases with additive of used frying oils. Biodegradable greases are used as lubrication of open gear, food production equipment, central lubrication system in cars and railway engineering.
Effect of heat treatment on tribological behavior of zinc aluminum alloy reinforced with graphite and SIC particles for journal bearing
Authors: Kiran TS , Prasannakumar M , Basavarajappa S , Viswanatha BM
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of the paper is to study the dry sliding wear behavior of as-cast and heat-treated zinc-aluminum (ZA-27) alloy, reinforced with silicon carbide and graphite particles.

Design/methodology/approach

– The alloy and composite samples were prepared with stir casting technique. Heat treatment was carried out for samples at a temperature of 370°C followed by quenching in water at room temperature. Subsequently, the heat-treated samples were aged at 180°C and quenched in water at room temperature. The wear tests were carried using pin-on-disc apparatus at room temperature at different applied loads, sliding speed and sliding distance.

Findings

– The wear volume loss of as-cast samples was more compared with heat treated samples. Composites exhibited improved wear resistance than base alloy.

Originality/value

– Hybrid metal matrix composites with heat treatment has exhibited superior wear behavior in dry sliding conditions.
Effects of misalignment on the structure characteristics of bump-type foil bearings: a comparison between experimental and theoretical results
Authors: Feng Kai , Zhao Xueyuan
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of misalignment on the static and dynamics characteristics of bump-type foil bearings (BFBs). High-speed and high-temperature oil-free turbomachinery can be realized with the use of gas foil bearings (GFBs). GFBs have a flexible supporting structure; thus, they can tolerate a higher degree of misalignment compared with rolling element bearings.

Design/methodology/approach

– A test rig for GFBs has been developed to measure the effects of misalignment on the structure characteristics of bump-type foil bearings. The link-spring model, which is the foil structure model presented previously by the authors, is used as a basis in the present study to predict the static and dynamic performances of the foil structure. In general, predictions of the dynamic characteristics exhibit good agreement with the measurements acquired from the dynamic load tests.

Findings

– Results from the static tests show that GFBs develop high stiffness when the misalignment angle increases. Moreover, the dynamic characteristics of GFBs are identified by considering the test bearing supported by a non-rotating shaft as a one-degree-of-freedom system. The results indicate that the dynamic characteristics of GFBs strongly depend on excitation frequency and excitation amplitude because of the variation in the dynamic friction force within the foil structure. The structural stiffness and equivalent viscous damping increase with an increase in the misalignment angle.

Originality/value

– The present study focuses on the misalignment of GFBs and investigates experimentally the effects of misalignment on the structure characteristics of GFBs.
Developing ASEAN India partnership for fostering technology development
Authors: Sahadev Sunil , Hoontrakul Pongsak
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– This conceptual paper aims to discuss issues relevant to fostering cooperation between India and countries in the ASEAN region in the area of technological innovation.

Design/methodology/approach

– This is a conceptual paper, based on insights from the existing body of literature and secondary data.

Findings

– The study looks at the competitiveness of different countries in the ASEAN region and considers their technological competitiveness vis-à-vis India. Broad policy issues related to fostering technological innovation as well as the main advantages of such collaboration are discussed.

Research limitations/implications

– This is a conceptual paper mainly intended for discussion.

Practical implications

– The paper provides guidelines for fostering technological innovation and could, therefore, help policy development.

Originality/value

– Although the Indo-ASEAN free-trade agreement is helping trade flow between the countries in the region, the potential for technological collaborations still lies unutilised. This paper looks at the possibilities for such collaborations and is one of the few papers that consider this line of thinking.
Assessing asset monitoring levels for maintenance operations
Authors: Alabdulkarim Abdullah A , Ball Peter , Tiwari Ashutosh
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– Asset management has recently gained significance due to emerging business models such as Product Service Systems where the sale of asset use, rather than the sale of the asset itself, is applied. This leaves the responsibility of the maintenance tasks to fall on the shoulders of the manufacturer/supplier to provide high asset availability. The use of asset monitoring assists in providing high availability but the level of monitoring and maintenance needs to be assessed for cost effectiveness. There is a lack of available tools and understanding of their value in assessing monitoring levels. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

– This research aims to develop a dynamic modelling approach using Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to assess such maintenance systems in order to provide a better understanding of the behaviour of complex maintenance operations. Interviews were conducted and literature was analysed to gather modelling requirements. Generic models were created, followed by simulation models, to examine how maintenance operation systems behave regarding different levels of asset monitoring.

Findings

– This research indicates that DES discerns varying levels of complexity of maintenance operations but that more sophisticated asset monitoring levels will not necessarily result in a higher asset performance. The paper shows that it is possible to assess the impact of monitoring levels as well as make other changes to system operation that may be more or less effective.

Practical implications

– The proposed tool supports the maintenance operations decision makers to select the appropriate asset monitoring level that suits their operational needs.

Originality/value

– A novel DES approach was developed to assess asset monitoring levels for maintenance operations. In applying this quantitative approach, it was demonstrated that higher asset monitoring levels do not necessarily result in higher asset availability. The work provides a means of evaluating the constraints in the system that an asset is part of rather than focusing on the asset in isolation.
Achieving a competitive supply chain network for a manufacturer
Authors: Jin Yan , Edmunds Paulette
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– Collaboration in supply chain networks (SCN) becomes extremely important for manufacturers seeking a sustainable competitive advantage. Such competitiveness depends on the SCN resources a manufacturing firm can allocate, the capabilities to identify and deploy these network resources effectively, and practices and applications the firm arranges for these resources. The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that investigates the relationships between these network constructs and their influences on firm performance.

Design/methodology/approach

– An extensive literature review of supply chain management was conducted to explicate why some manufacturers outperform others. A resource-based view, dynamic capability theory, and extended resource-based view were employed to develop a conceptual model that investigates relationships between the resources, capabilities, and practices of a SCN. The relationships were then examined to analyze their influences on firm performance. Several cases and practical examples were included in the study to give a better understanding of the conceptual research model. Various keywords were used in searching literature for the constructs of the research model. For example, “knowledge” and “supply chain network” were used to search the literature regarding the SCN intangible resources.

Findings

– This study uses a conceptual model to identify SCN resources that are dispersed in the internal territory among different network members, SCN capabilities that are developed based on these network resources and lead to the firm’s competitive performance, and SCN practices used to acquire network resources and build network capabilities.

Research limitations/implications

– The conceptual model of SCN resources, capabilities, and practices needs further empirical validation.

Practical implications

– The conceptual model provides a framework for managers to identify the critical resources, capabilities, and practices of a SCN that help a firm achieve sustainable competitive performance.

Originality/value

– This research builds a comprehensive picture of relationships between a manufacturing firm’s strategic resources, capabilities, and practices in a SCN. It also provides a theoretical foundation for future research on developing instruments for resources, practices, and capabilities of a SCN and empirically testing the relationships among the appropriate constructs.
E-maintenance research: a multifaceted perspective
Authors: Aboelmaged Mohamed Gamal Shehata
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to develop a multifaceted perspective on e-maintenance research and practice over 12 years from 2002 to 2013.

Design/methodology/approach

– A qualitative research approach is conducted through analysing e-maintenance literature published in peer-review journals from 2002 to 2013 in operations management, information systems, computer science and engineering disciplines.

Findings

– A multifaceted perspective that reflects evolutionary, managerial, and technological domains of e-maintenance research has been emerged and explained. In addition, stages of e-maintenance process (i.e. integration, aggregation, and prediction) tend to synchronize with organizational levels (i.e. strategic, tactical, and operational) and stimulate the value of e-maintenance practices across the enterprise. However, there are many managerial and technological challenges that inhibit successful implementation of e-maintenance system.

Practical implications

– The present research offers managers and vendors a frame of reference that facilitates e-maintenance adoption and implementation. In addition, there is a need for theoretical as well as empirical research in the future to validate the multifaceted perspective in the present study and to obtain more insight into the nature of e-maintenance issues in various settings.

Originality/value

– The present paper is one of the first attempts to bridge the gaps in a currently cluttered field of e-maintenance research. It also provides both academics and practitioners with a useful framework that sustains rigorous e-maintenance research and practice.
Performance implications of industry appropriability for manufacturing SMEs
Authors: Batra Safal , Sharma Sunil , Dixit Mukund R , Vohra Neharika , Gupta Vishal K
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– Industry appropriability – the degree to which firms in an industry can appropriate benefits from their innovations – is a crucial dimension of industry environment. Small and medium manufacturing enterprises (manufacturing SMEs), because of their limited resource base, tend to be especially sensitive to the appropriability conditions in their industry. The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of industry appropriability on firm outcomes (innovativeness and performance), and posits technology orientation as a dynamic capability that helps firms overcome appropriability barriers in their industry.

Design/methodology/approach

– Data were collected from 162 manufacturing SMEs in India. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to test the proposed hypotheses.

Findings

– This study reveals that the perceived level of appropriability of manufacturing SMEs impacts their innovativeness. Further, findings also support technology orientation as a crucial firm-specific characteristic which enables firms to overcome unfavorable appropriability conditions. Technology orientation plays a significant role in mitigating the negative impact of lower appropriability conditions. Even when the patent regime is unfavorable, technology-oriented firms are able to innovate and perform better.

Practical implications

– The findings suggest technology orientation as a strategic mechanism for manufacturing SMEs to respond to conditions of unfavorable appropriability regime.

Originality/value

– This study elaborates the benefits of integrating industry-level and firm-level characteristics. Specifically, an attempt was made to extend the existing research on industry appropriability by bringing in the contingent effect of technology orientation. The context of manufacturing SMEs yielded several interesting insights.
Strategy implementation and organizational levels: resourcing for innovation as a case
Authors: Engberg Robert , Hörte Sven-Åke , Lundbäck Magnus
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of the link between human capital and strategy across hierarchies.

Design/methodology/approach

– Using data on personality traits as a proxy for strategy implementation success, empirical data included 1,738 Operational Personality Questionnaire personality traits assessments in one large multinational firm. Respondents spanned from top-management to white-collar employees. Besides personality traits, measures include employment level and employment status. In addition, a total of 43 interviews were performed on the employee-level, with middle managers, with senior managers, and with executive-level managers.

Findings

– After a strategic shift, successful implementation of a human resource management (HRM) strategy decreased down through the hierachies. This has implications for a firm trying to realign its resources to a new strategy. If the strategic shift is large, this will pose a great problem as human capital further down in the hierarchy will not be aligned to the new strategy, but rather be aligned to the old strategy.

Research limitations/implications

– The findings are discussed using the concept of the strategic centre of gravity. The authors elaborate on the concept in terms of the origin, mass, and inertia of the strategic centre of gravity.

Practical implications

– A successful strategic shift in this sense will to a great extent depend on how successful the implementation is at lower levels of hierarchy, thus pointing to the importance to considering this when designing and pursuing strategic change.

Originality/value

– The research contributes to the HRM literature by furthering the understanding of aligning human capital on different organizational levels to strategy and by developing the concept of the strategic centre of gravity.
Part time work, productivity and institutional policies
Authors: Ierodiakonou Christiana , Stavrou Eleni
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically test a multilevel framework for examining the links between part time work, productivity and institutional context. The authors emphasize the importance of integrating different theoretical perspectives to enrich the understanding of nonstandard work arrangements such as part time and organizational effectiveness such as productivity.

Design/methodology/approach

– The authors used data from 2,839 businesses in 21 OECD countries. At the firm level, primary data were collected from the 2008 to 2010 survey of the Cranet research network. At the national level, the authors used information from OECD and Boteroet al.(2004). The authors analysed the data using hierarchical linear modelling.

Findings

– Firm use of part time work relates negatively to employment legislation but positively to gender empowerment. The relationship between part time work and productivity at firm level is moderated by employment legislation.

Research limitations/implications

– This study provides a basis for research in nonstandard work, firm outcomes and institutional policies to further advance.

Practical implications

– Results indicate how managers should consider the relevant institutional context when deciding whether to promote the use of part time work. Results also show that policy-makers should be careful since employment policies may have adverse effects on use of part time in specific contexts.

Originality/value

– The authors make theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of nonstandard arrangements by introducing a framework that better captures the complex interrelations between use of part time work, productivity and institutional context. Theoretically, the authors combine the resource based view with institutional theory into a multilevel framework that challenges the conventional model of the flexible firm.
A RDF-based approach to metadata crosswalk for semantic interoperability at the data element level
Authors: Chen Ya-Ning
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a Resource Description Framework (RDF)-based approach to transform metadata crosswalking from equivalent lexical element mapping into semantic mapping with various contextual relationships. RDF is used as a crosswalk model to represent the contextual relationships implicitly embedded between described objects and their elements, including semantic, hierarchical, granular, syntactic and multiple object relationships to achieve semantic metadata interoperability at the data element level.

Design/methodology/approach

– This paper uses RDF to translate metadata elements and their relationships into semantic expressions, and also as a data model to define the syntax for element mapping. The feasibility of the proposed approach for semantic metadata crosswalking is examined based on two use cases – the Archives of Navy Ships Project and the Digital Artifacts Project of National Palace Museum in Taipei – both from the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program.

Findings

– As the model developed is based on RDF-based expressions, unsolved issues related to crosswalking, such as sets of shared terms, and contextual relationships embedded between described objects and their metadata elements could be manifested into a semantic representation. Corresponding element mapping and mapping rules can be specified without ambiguity to achieve semantic metadata interoperability.

Research limitations/implications

– Five steps were developed to clarify the details of the RDF-based crosswalk. The RDF-based expressions can also serve as a basis from which to develop linked data and Semantic Web applications. More use cases including biodiversity artifacts of natural history museums and literary works of libraries, and conditions, constraints and cardinality of metadata data elements will be required to make revisions to fine tune the proposed RDF-based metadata crosswalk.

Originality/value

– In addition to reviving contextual relationships embedded between described objects and their metadata elements, nine types of mapping rules were developed to achieve a semantic metadata crosswalk which will facilitate the design of related mapping software. Furthermore, the proposed approach complements existing crosswalking documents provided by authoritative organizations, and enriches mapping language developed by the CIDOC community.
Digital disaster management in libraries in India
Authors: Zaveri Parul
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– Disaster management is an issue that has received relatively little attention in libraries, particularly in India. With the growth in digital resources in libraries, it is necessary for librarians to understand and apply the ways of protecting digital data and the related equipment from disaster. The purpose of this paper is to address the issues related to digital data protection in libraries in India. It aims to investigate the perceptions of librarians about the probability of digital disasters happening in their libraries, and to assess the level of digital disaster preparedness among libraries.

Design/methodology/approach

– A questionnaire based survey of 276 libraries in the Western region of India was conducted to find out the digital data protection measures taken by them. The paper provides an overview and analysis of the general trends in digital data protection in these libraries.

Findings

– The research results indicate that due to lack of knowledge about handling of digital data, and inadequate digital infrastructure setup in organizations, the chances of loss of digital data are high. However, common measures like taking backup of data manually are mostly followed by all libraries. The paper has identified the trends in protection of digital data, as well as the lacunae, in Indian libraries. Basic guidelines on digital data preservation are also presented in the paper.

Practical implications

– The guidelines provided in the paper will be useful to any libraries to take measures for protection of the digital data. The libraries will be able to prepare their digital data protection plan and train the staff accordingly.

Originality/value

– This paper is the first to address the issue of digital disaster management in libraries in India. It provides a detailed analysis of digital data protection measures taken by Indian libraries currently.
An analysis of file format control in institutional repositories
Authors: Termens Miquel , Ribera Mireia , Locher Anita
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the file formats of the digital objects stored in two of the largest open-access repositories in Spain, DDUB and TDX, and determines the implications of these formats for long-term preservation, focussing in particular on the different versions of PDF.

Design/methodology/approach

– To be able to study the two repositories, the authors harvested all the files corresponding to every digital object and some of their associated metadata using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) protocols. The file formats were analyzed with DROID software and some additional tools.

Findings

– The results show that there is no alignment between the preservation policies declared by institutions, the technical tools available, and the actual stored files.

Originality/value

– The results show that file controls currently applied to institutional repositories do not suffice to grant their stated mission of long-term preservation of scientific literature.
A semi-automatic indexing system based on embedded information in HTML documents
Authors: Vállez Mari , Pedraza-Jiménez Rafael , Codina Lluís , Blanco Saúl , Rovira Cristòfol
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the tool DigiDoc MetaEdit which allows the semi-automatic indexing of HTML documents. The tool works by identifying and suggesting keywords from a thesaurus according to the embedded information in HTML documents. This enables the parameterization of keyword assignment based on how frequently the terms appear in the document, the relevance of their position, and the combination of both.

Design/methodology/approach

– In order to evaluate the efficiency of the indexing tool, the descriptors/keywords suggested by the indexing tool are compared to the keywords which have been indexed manually by human experts. To make this comparison a corpus of HTML documents are randomly selected from a journal devoted to Library and Information Science.

Findings

– The results of the evaluation show that there: first, is close to a 50 per cent match or overlap between the two indexing systems, however, if you take into consideration the related terms and the narrow terms the matches can reach 73 per cent; and second, the first terms identified by the tool are the most relevant.

Originality/value

– The tool presented identifies the most important keywords in an HTML document based on the embedded information in HTML documents. Nowadays, representing the contents of documents with keywords is an essential practice in areas such as information retrieval and e-commerce.
Academic library leadership in the digital age
Authors: Le Binh P.
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to focus on academic library leadership in the digital age. Primarily, the goals are to identify: first, the top five major challenges facing academic library leadership; second, the top five most important leadership skills required for effective academic library leadership; and finally, the top five best ways to develop these academic library leadership skills.

Design/methodology/approach

– A survey was conducted to elicit responses from individuals who hold senior library leadership positions in American academic libraries throughout the USA. The participants were identified through several means: the web sites of the ALA and its divisions; the web sites of American universities; referrals; and the author’s professional contacts. To simplify the survey research process, e-mails including the survey research questions were sent to potential participants. In all, 38 invitations (n=38) were sent out to large and medium-size academic libraries throughout the USA. Over 36.8 percent (n=14) of the participants returned the survey. The participants represent a wide spectrum of libraries.

Findings

– The top five major challenges are how to: demonstrate the library values to the university community, operate the library under fiscal uncertainty, retrofit outdated library facilities to accommodate new services, strike a balance between digital and print materials, and keep the library staff trained and current. The top five essential academic library leadership attributes are: vision, integrity, management skills, collaboration skills, and communication skills. The top five best ways to acquire these skills include the need to have mentors, to attend leadership development programs, to gain practical library leadership experience, to seek leadership roles, and to know oneself.

Originality/value

– Research in this area is rather limited. As a result, this study will contribute to the academic library leadership literature and help current and aspiring academic library leaders worldwide with insightful leadership lessons needed to lead academic libraries successfully in this transformational era.
To seize the emerging historical opportunity of the networked knowledge
Authors: Lu Kai , Shen Beijun , Ju Dehua
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to explore a new way for knowledge services of the digital library which can transform knowledge resources into real social value.

Design/methodology/approach

– The “Internet of Knowledge” approach was proposed for the first time as an intentional means to organize “Too Big” and scattered knowledge resources into high-efficiency fuels for driving purposeful knowledge works.

Findings

– It is a new methodology and insight proposed for building digital libraries which stresses on active and diligent services with linked and shared resources rather than resource ownership.

Research limitations/implications

– The proposed knowledge organization is based on domain-specific body of knowledge. The engagement of domain experts is the key success factor.

Practical implications

– The whole design framework has been adopted in constructing the new Zhoushan Ocean Digital Library to support sustainable development of marine economy.

Originality/value

– The proposed knowledge cloud services will be pave a knowledge superhighway to help millions Chinese professionals stepping toward the technology peak.
Policy framework on social welfare information management and services for Nigerian public libraries
Authors: Abdullahi Jamilu
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– Looking at the present Nigeria’s quest to become one of the top 20 economies of the world by the year 2020, the purpose of this paper is to propose that Nigerian public libraries, as key players in community development, should provide resources and services for the promotion of social welfare sector of the country by introducing relevant key information management and service policies. These strategic policies should include identification of various user groups, deployment of specialized information professionals, provision of adequate financial resources, social welfare information resource development planning, effective information service delivery system, partnership arrangements and adaptation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Design/methodology/approach

– Essential to this paper is to take into account the importance and relevancy of policies, strategies and procedures of information management and services to Nigerian public libraries.

Findings

– There is continuous rising concerns about the current situation of the country’s socio-economic problems and challenges. However, despite the problem of poor and inadequate ICT facilities in Nigerian public libraries, the ICT infrastructure including the internet will significantly enhance the social welfare information service process in these libraries, if fully adopted. Also very important here is that, the libraries should support community awareness programs on local radio stations or local television channels to compliment the collection of materials in the library.

Originality/value

– Nigerian public libraries should be seen as places for all; and participants in community activities must therefore provide relevant data and information to social welfare workers for effective policy/decision making. It is also important that the libraries should help in the identification of areas of welfare that require urgent attention or thorough investigation, examination and analysis.
Library as knowledge ecosystem
Authors: Ju Dehua , Shen Beijun
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to develop a network-based approach for doing active knowledge services in the coming networked knowledge era.

Design/methodology/approach

– A novel solution so-called “Internet of Knowledge (IoK)” is proposed in this paper, which can be used to organize scattered resources into a value-added knowledge asset for serving any specific objective through internet connection.

Findings

– It enables the public library to be an attractive habitat for both knowledge consumers and contributors to share and co-create knowledge works. It will be an ideal ecosystem for supporting the growth of knowledge-intensive industries.

Research limitations/implications

– A pilot system has being developed to promote the development of marine economy.

Practical implications

– The IoK-based approach is expected to be applied to more domains in the next China’s five-year plan.

Originality/value

– The main contribution is to integrate many great ideas from world gurus into a single solution framework, in other words, an integration innovation.
Challenges in the digital information era
Authors: Tran Hoan Anh Thi
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to reveal a practical situation at a public library as General Sciences Library (GSL).

Design/methodology/approach

– The effects of the digital information environment to activities of public library how to deal with this challenging based on the situation of the GSL of HoChiMinh City. The process of changing from traditional services to modern services the difficulties that GSL has experienced and lesson-learns.

Findings

– The difficulties during the period of changing the library is just the challenges to help GSL improves our position in the community of users.

Originality/value

– This is a conceptual paper which is presented at the Shanghai International Library Forum on July 2014.
Promotion and tenure: Carnegie reclassification triggers a revision
Authors: Shropshire Sandra , Semenza Jenny Lynne , Kearns Karen
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of promotion and tenure for librarians in light of increased scrutiny and expectations by the administration of Idaho State University (ISU). This increased rigour was prompted by a move up in the Carnegie Classification System.

Design/methodology/approach

– A literature review was performed using library databases, as well as assessing peer institution promotion and tenure documents. Additionally ongoing feedback from University administrators was solicited. The process took for the creation of a new promotion and tenure document for ISU library took two years from the beginning of the project to the final approved document.

Findings

– The study found a dearth of performance benchmarks in both literature and peer institution policies and required the authors, along with other library faculty, to create evidence based benchmarks for ISU aligned with traditional standards of teaching, research and service.

Originality/value

– This paper is an inclusive assessment of the literature on faculty promotion and tenure, the policies of ISU’s peer institutions, and the change of Carnegie Classification’s impact on the ISU policies.
Managing library innovation using the lean startup method
Authors: Bieraugel Mark
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to argue the case that libraries should use the lean startup method for developing, managing and launching radically innovative services or products.

Design/methodology/approach

– Libraries need to innovate but do not have the management structure to handle the extreme uncertainty in implementing radical innovations. This paper examines the lean startup method for managing innovation, explores how it differs from traditional management tools, outlines the reasons for and barriers to innovation in libraries and highlights the new tools required to manage innovation. This paper also discusses the culture of innovation in libraries and how libraries innovate. The lean startup method is examined through the lens of a variety of innovation models.

Findings

– The lean startup method for managing radical innovations is shown to be a sound alternative to traditional library management methods.

Originality/value

– This paper is one of the few to examine a practical method for librarians to manage radical innovations in academic libraries.
Debt seniority and mergers
Authors: Sverdlove Ronald
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to show how corporate policy with respect to the seniority structure of debt changes after a merger.

Design/methodology/approach

– The author uses data on the seniority and other properties of outstanding bonds of acquiring and target firms before mergers and of the combined firm after the merger. The author tests whether a combined firm that has acquired junior debt in the merger attempts to move toward the senior-only structure of the acquiring firm before the merger.

Findings

– The author finds that acquiring firms do not rapidly move back toward that structure after acquiring senior debt.

Research limitations/implications

– The results of this study are consistent with those of many recent studies on capital structure, which find that changes in capital structure tend to persist, and that firms are slow to revert to previous structures aftershocks, such as those that may result from mergers.

Practical implications

– The paper suggests that there may be an advantage for firms to sell off acquired junior debt after a merger.

Originality/value

– This paper extends previous studies of capital structure to the more detailed level of debt seniority structure.
An assessment of the risk and return of residential real estate
Authors: Domian Dale , Wolf Rob , Yang Hsiao-Fen
Published: June 2015

Purpose

– The home is a substantial investment for most individual investors but the assessment of risk and return of residential real estate has not been well explored yet. The existing real estate pricing literature using a CAPM-based model generally suggests very low risk and unexplained excess returns. However, many academics suggest the residential real estate market is unique and standard asset pricing models may not fully capture the risk associated with the housing market. The purpose of this paper is to extend the asset pricing literature on residential real estate by providing improved CAPM estimates of risk and required return.

Design/methodology/approach

– The improvements include the use of a levered β which captures the leverage risk and Lin and Vandell (2007) Time on Market risk premium which captures the additional liquidity risk of residential real estate.

Findings

– In addition to presenting palatable risk and return estimates for a national real estate index, the results of this paper suggest the risk and return characteristics of multiple cities tracked by the Case Shiller Home Price Index are distinct.

Originality/value

– The results show higher estimates of risk and required return levels than previous research, which is more consistent with the academic expectation that housing performs between stocks and bonds. In contrast to most previous studies, the authors find residential real estate underperforms based on risk, using standard financial models.