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Creating the library experience
Authors: Howard Kieserman Robert 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore the elements of a library’s daily operations that contribute to the overall experience visitors to the library hopefully enjoy. Beyond the much discussed element of customer service, there are many other factors that either enhance the experience or detract from it.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper used the author’s personal experience as an observer of library organizations from his perspective of a consultant and a workshop presenter.

Findings
– This paper focuses on the importance of ensuring that every aspect of the library operation functions properly to guarantee pleasant experiences for all visitors.

Originality/value
– The paper helps the library director, the department manager and the staff librarian to better appreciate the importance of being aware of how the visitor perceives the library experience.
To E or not to E …
Authors: McMullen Anthony 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide insights and commentary into issues encountered in maintaining library technologies and electronic resources on a limited budget and with limited personnel.

Design/methodology/approach
– Uses real-world experiences and data to report on collection development decisions as they relate to e-books, specifically demand-driven acquisition (DDA) models, in an era of shrinking budgets and changing user expectations.

Findings
– Efficient and ubiquitous access to information has altered user expectations and needs. Many libraries have greatly expanded their holdings of e-books in an effort to address these changes. Some have investigated DDA models to place more control in the hands of the library users, despite an aversion on the part of some librarians.

Originality/value
– This paper examines the changing nature of study habits among college students and intimates that some of the decreases in average time spent studying outside of the classroom can be attributed to increased efficiencies in locating and acquiring information and knowledge. The paper suggests DDA as a logical next step in the continued evolution of the modern library.
Is more always better? Risk trade-offs among internationalizing new ventures
Authors: A. Fernhaber Stephanie , P. McDougall-Covin Patricia 
Published: August 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how ventures manage the negative returns associated with higher levels of internationalization. Many new ventures are internationalizing to fully exploit new innovations and/or gain access to larger markets. Yet at some point the rising costs associated with internationalization outweigh any benefits, resulting in an inverted U-shaped relationship between internationalization and performance.Design/methodology/approach– New ventures are theorized to better manage high levels of internationalization by limiting exposure to other sources of risk. This can be achieved by leveraging greater size and/or limiting simultaneous diversification efforts on product innovation. To test the hypotheses, a regression using Heckman selection was run using a sample of 210 US-based, publicly held ventures in high-technology industries.Findings– The results confirm that when higher levels of internationalization are coupled with either a low emphasis on product innovation or larger size, the negative returns are mitigated and actually become positive.Research limitations/implications– A key implication lies in recognizing the role of risk management for internationalizing ventures. Future research could benefit by testing for generalizability in other countries as well as among privately held ventures.Practical implications– To manage the trade-offs associated at higher levels of internationalization, ventures need to maintain a low emphasis on product innovation or meet a threshold in terms of size.Originality/value– The value of this research lies in better understanding how ventures are able to overcome rising costs at higher levels of internationalization.
Consumer behavior on Facebook
Authors: Ho Ching-Wei 
Published: August 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate consumers’ voluntary behaviors on Facebook through exploring how members’ community participation affects consumer citizenship behaviors toward the brand. The study also provided further insight into the mediating effect by considering brand trust and community identification.Design/methodology/approach– This research begins by developing a framework to describe and examine the relationship among Facebook participants, brand trust, community identification, and consumer citizenship behaviors. Furthermore, it tests the mediating effects of brand trust and community identification on the relationship between Facebook participation and consumer citizenship behaviors. The model and hypotheses in this study employ structural equation modeling with survey data.Findings– First, this study reveals consumers’ community participation on Facebook has directly positive and significant effects on brand trust and community identification. Second, this research confirms that brand trust has directly positive and significant effects on community identification. Third, this study found that brand trust and community identification play a mediating role between Facebook participation and consumer citizenship behaviors.Research limitations/implications– The sample comprised primarily young adults, which may not be completely generalizable to the population at large. This study examined a specific form of virtual community, Facebook, so the results cannot be ascribed to other formats of brand community.Originality/value– The issue of consumer’ voluntary behavior on social networking sites has become more and more important. This study proposed an exclusive model of the process by which the paper can consider consumers’ voluntary behaviors on Facebook from participation to consumer citizenship behavior toward the brand. This finding can be viewed as pioneering, setting a benchmark for further research.
The tourism life cycle: an overview of Langkawi Island, Malaysia
Authors: Irwana Omar Shida , Ghapar Othman Abdul , Mohamed Badaruddin 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the tourism life cycle of Langkawi Island, Malaysia. The paper seeks to investigate the stages of life cycle that the island has passed through and at what stage the island is in today.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper adopts Butler’s Tourism Area Life Cycle model as the research framework to describe the characteristics of each stage of the island’s tourism life cycle and determine the time scale of the stages. The evidence presented in the stages is derived from secondary sources dating from 1642 to present.

Findings
– The findings indicate that the tourism life cycle in Langkawi Island has undergone four stages of development and that it is currently in the consolidation stage. Numerous characteristics suggested by Butler’s model for each stage are clearly discernible in the island’s tourism growth. The government serves as the major player and catalyst for tourism expansion in the island from one stage to the next.

Practical implications
– It is hoped that the paper will contribute to a better understanding of how tourism and its market have evolved in Langkawi Island. The paper also provides insights on how future planning should be directed in more sustainable and responsible ways to position the island.

Originality/value
– The paper delivers a comprehensive understanding on the tourism developmental process of Langkawi Island, besides facilitating the understanding of major fundamental causes and conditions and the accompanying transition in the stages. The paper also bridges the gaps in knowledge addressed in similar previous studies.
RestoringPhronesisand practice: marketing’s forgotten P’s
Authors: Kavanagh Donncha 
Published: August 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of marketing’s philosophical conversation over the past 120 years, focusing on the emergent meaning of the notion that marketing should become more “scientific”.Design/methodology/approach– This paper focuses on the US academic marketing literature, primarily journal articles and books published in the first half of the 20th century.Findings– The Aristotelian distinction betweentechné,episteméandphronesisprovides a rich basis for framing philosophical discussion in marketing, and should supplant the art-science debate and Anderson’s distinction between science1and science2. Prior to 1959, the marketing journals provided a forum forphronesis, though this diminished as the academic marketing community largely abandoned the inductive, contextual approach in favour of a deductive, “scientific” methodology. The Ford Foundation played an important role in effecting this change.Practical implications– The paper highlights the importance of forums where practitioners can reflect on the ethical and social implications of their practices and then work to enhance these practices for the greater social good.Social implications– Questions the value of distinctions between marketing theorists and practitioners and the consequential focus of marketing journals.Originality/value– Advances the concept of phronesis in the marketing literature and distinguishes it fromepistemé, which has dominated academic marketing discourse over the past 60 years.
The Marketing Institution by Ralph F. Breyer (1934)
Authors: Shaw Eric 
Published: August 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this review is to examine an early marketing textbook for its insights into concepts and theory that may have relevance today.

Design/methodology/approach
– To examine the book in light of the commentary provided by numerous scholars over the decades since its publication.

Findings
– The latter half of the book, about the marketing implications of the “New Deal” response to the “Great Recession” of the 1930s, is out of date; however, the first half offers an insightful analysis of the marketing system and the rudiments of a general theory of marketing.

Research limitations/implications
– Providing a rationale for marketing systems and core concepts for building a general theory of marketing, the book therefore has much to recommend it to students of marketing thought and theory.

Originality/value
– This book was first reviewed some 80 years ago. With a longer time horizon, and the additional comments by numerous scholars in the historical literature, a more meaningful appraisal of the influence of this work can now be made.
Food fight! Immigrant Street Vendors, Gourmet Food Trucks and the Differential Valuation of Creative Producers inChicago
Authors: Martin Nina 
Published: August 2014

AbstractImmigrant street vendors inChicago have fought for decades without success to change the restrictive and punitive city ordinance governing their work. The failure of the immigrant street vendors stands in marked contrast to the successful efforts of gourmet food truck entrepreneurs, who within only two years convinced theChicagoCityCouncil to pass an ordinance permitting their work. The differential regulation of street vending reveals how local politicians use the rhetoric of the ‘creative’ city to justify building a city that appeals to young urban professionals, while simultaneously marginalizing the possibilities of working‐class immigrants to shape the city to their desires. This article aims to add to the literature on the politics of the creative class by demonstrating how discourses of creativity and entrepreneurialism get mobilized by competing interests, and how racial‐ethnic attitudes become integral to these discourses. The contrasting experiences of the vendors force us to ask: Why is the creativity of food truck entrepreneurs valued over the creativity of street vendors when, according to Richard Florida, creative class cities are supposed to be tolerant and immigrant‐friendly? Whose ‘creativity’ gets to be part of the ‘creative’ city? I draw on interviews with street vendors and a discourse analysis of media coverage of vending debates.
Reconstructing Urban Politics with a Bourdieusian Framework: The Case of Local Low‐Income Housing Policy
Authors: Shin Yongjun 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThis research aimed to reconstruct a local urban politics and develop a meso–micro‐level model of urban politics through a case study, drawing on a Bourdieusian relational framework. To this end, it investigated the case of local low‐income housing policy — inclusionary zoning — in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. It historicized the path of the local low‐income policy issue through document analysis and qualitative media content analysis. Through multiple analyses, the study revealed that urban politics consists of complex interlinkages among stakeholders with shared values or interests from different social domains, created in order to dominate the policy issue. The study further investigated, on the basis of Bourdieu's concepts of capital and habitus, what elicited different political strategies from key community leaders.
African Agricultural Development: Lessons and Challenges
Authors: Wiggins Steve 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThis paper reviews what has been learned from experiences of African agriculture and hence what policy lessons may be. Views of African agriculture over the last 130 years have changed from optimism to pessimism and at least halfway back again as the performance of the sector has fluctuated. Fortunately it seems the deep pessimism about agricultural prospects expressed in the 1980s and 1990s has receded. The performance of African agriculture since 1990 suggests that neither those who doubt that any significant advances are taking place, nor those who see advances in some remarkable but perhaps isolated cases of rapid transformation of farming and agricultural supply chains, have sufficient evidence – either from national data or small‐scale studies – to support their positions. Hence policy has to rely largely on general principles and historic lessons, rather than more clearly proven propositions. Policy debates over African agricultural development may sharply divide on some topics, but there is little debate over the importance of basic conditions for agricultural development of an enabling investment climate and the provision of rural public goods. Beyond these basics, the challenge is to remedy the failings of markets that deny most smallholders access to inputs, financial services and insurance. Here opinion divides between whether to return to public provision, as with fertiliser subsidies, or whether private and collective institutional innovations will be sufficient. Recent initiatives to test and scale up the latter look promising, but most have yet to be evaluated. If agricultural development is first and foremost about establishing the basic conditions for growth, then most countries in Africa may be better placed than they have been in the past. Given the many examples that show African smallholders investing and innovating when they have the chance, then there are reasons to hope that the modest growth of production and productivity seen in the last two decades may accelerate in the future – thereby allowing African countries to make the transition from agrarian to urban economies.
Monitoring a population of translocatedGrandCayman blue iguanas: assessing the accuracy and precision of distance sampling and repeated counts
Authors: Burton F. J. , Rivera‐Milán F. F. 
Published: August 2014

AbstractIn wildlife translocations, it is important to identify reliable monitoring methods that can provide accurate population estimates for post‐release management. We compared density and abundance estimates of distance sampling and repeated counts with complete counts (census data) to determine accuracy (percentage relative bias) and precision (coefficient of variation) for monitoring populations of blue iguanas restored to protected areas onGrandCayman. We conducted incomplete counts (survey data) of blue iguanas at 12 transects of unequal length (range = 322.1 to 431.7 m) visited 36 times per year, yielding 405 detections inMarch 2010 and 443 detections inMarch 2013. Distance sampling and repeated counts provided accurate (range of percentage relative bias = −9.52% to 0.00%) and precise (range of coefficient of variation = 0.10 to 0.15) estimates of iguana density and abundance, and yielded an estimate of the proportion of individuals that were available for detection in the study area during the surveys (,se = 0.03). The use of distance sampling and repeated count methods, in carefully designed surveys with representative coverage and adequate replication, can lead to more reliable monitoring of extant wild and translocated rock iguana populations on otherCaribbean islands, where individual marking may not be practical, and the proportion of individuals that is available for detection is unknown.
Timely access to specialist medical oncology services closer to home for rural patients: Experience from the Townsville Teleoncology Model
Authors: Sabesan Sabe , Roberts Lynden J. , Aiken Peter , Joshi Abhishek , Larkins Sarah 
Published: August 2014

AbstractProblemPrior to 2009, the teleoncology model of the Townsville Cancer Centre (TCC) did not achieve its aims of equal waiting times for rural and urban patients and the provision of reliable, local acute cancer care. From 2007–2009, 60 new patients from Mt Isa travelled to TCC for their first consultation and their first dose of chemotherapy. Six of these patients required inter‐hospital transfers and eight required urgent flights to attend outpatient clinics. Only 50% these rural patients (n = 30) were reviewed within one week of their referral, compared with 90% of Townsville patients.DesignA descriptive study.SettingTCC provides teleoncology services to 21 rural towns; the largest is Mt Isa, Qld.Key measures for improvementSpecialist review of 90% of urgent cases within 24 hours, and 90% of non‐urgent cases within one week of referral via videoconferencing. A 50% reduction in inpatient inter‐hospital transfers from Mt Isa to Townsville.Strategies for changeEmployment of a half‐time medical officer and a half‐time cancer care coordinator, and implementation of new policies.Effects of changeBetween 2009 and 2011, TCC provided cancer care to 70 new patients from Mt Isa. Of these new patients, 93% (65/70) were seen within one week of referral. All 17 patients requiring urgent reviews were seen within 24 hours of referral and managed locally thus eliminating the need for inpatient inter‐hospital transfers.Lessons learntProvision of timely acute cancer care closer to home requires an increase in the rural case complexity and human resources.
Scripting and monitoring meet each other: Aligning learning analytics and learning design to support teachers in orchestrating CSCL situations
Authors: Rodríguez‐Triana María Jesús , Martínez‐Monés Alejandra , Asensio‐Pérez Juan I. , Dimitriadis Yannis 
Published: August 2014

AbstractFrom the conceptualization to the evaluation of computer‐supported collaborative learning (CSCL) scenarios, teachers address multiple tasks, sometimes being overwhelmed on account of the required time and associated burden. To support teachers in this endeavor, we propose to connect the pedagogical decisions made at design time with the analysis of the participants' interactions. Thus, teachers would be provided with relevant and coarse‐grained information that could help them manage their CSCL scenarios. This paper synthesizes the main contributions obtained from a 3‐year design‐based research process, and presents the findings obtained from the evaluation of the current proposal in two authentic CSCL scenarios. The participant teachers valued the proposal positively and stated that it was helpful for their orchestration of CSCL scenarios.
The Effects of the EU Equal‐Treatment Directive for Fixed‐Term Workers: Evidence From the UK
Authors: Salvatori Andrea 
Published: August 2014

AbstractIn 2002, the UK implemented the EU Directive mandating equal treatment of fixed‐term and permanent workers. This article uses 11 years of data from the Labour Force Survey to assess whether the new legislation has led to a decrease in the average wage gap between fixed‐term and permanent workers. For women, there is no evidence of that. For men, the wage gap appears to have closed after 2002. However, this gap was falling even before 2002, and some evidence of changes in the selection of workers after the implementation of the Directive casts doubts on the extent to which the closing of the gap can be ascribed to the new legislation.
Anticancer Activity and DNA‐Binding Investigations of the Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes with Coumarin Derivative
Authors: Zhu Taofeng , Wang Yuan , Ding Weiliang , Xu Jun , Chen Ruhua , Xie Jing , Zhu Wenjiao , Jia Lei , Ma Tieliang 
Published: August 2014

Two new copper(II) (2) and nickel(II) (3) complexes with a new coumarin derivative have been synthesized and structurally characterized. The DNA‐binding activities of the two complexes have been investigated by spectrometric titrations, ethidium bromide displacement experiments, CD (circular dichroism) spectral analysis, and viscosity measurements. The results indicate that the two complexes, especially the complex 2, can strongly bind to calf‐thymus DNA (CT‐–DNA). The intrinsic binding constants Kb of the complexes with CT‐DNA are 2.99 × 105 and 0.61 × 105 for 2 and 3, respectively. Comparative cytotoxic activities of the two complexes are also determined by MTT assay. The results show that the drugs designed here have significant cytotoxic activity against the human hepatic (HepG2), human promyelocytic leukemia (HL60), and human prostate (PC3) cell lines. Cell apoptosis was detected by Annexin V/PI flow cytometry, and the results show that the two copper complexes can induce apoptosis of the three human tumor cells. In conclusions, the two complexes show considerable cytotoxic activity against the three human cancer and induce apoptosis of the threes.