bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Macromarketing, controversy and economic development
Authors: Shapiro Stanley J. , Shultz Clifford J. 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to familiarize readers with the nature and scope of the current global economic crisis, its implications for economic development, and what macromarketing can contribute both to better understanding and solutions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a controversies‐based examination, including a selective, multi‐disciplinary literature review and personal observation with a focus on the past, the present and the likely future of economic development.FindingsThe paper reports on global trends in economic development, shares prognoses, and suggests the importance of macromarketing perspectives and practices to advance individual and societal well being.Originality/valueThis paper provides a fresh, multi‐disciplinary perspective on controversies vis‐à‐vis economic development, while reflecting on past perspectives and new directions for individual and societal well being. The prospects for economic development in light of the global economic crisis and macromarketing orientations are discussed in considerable detail. Some personal views on the likely future of development are also offered.
An anthology of codes of ethics
Authors: Mcdonald Gael M. 
Published: June 2009

PurposeCorporate codes of conduct originated around 1900 in the USA gaining further momentum in the 1950s in relation to anti‐trust legislation. Subsequently, the adoption of codes of ethics has spread throughout the world and they now feature extensively in many organisations. The literature relating to codes of ethics, therefore, spans many decades and is undoubtedly comprehensive. The purpose of the paper is to provide an appropriate anthology of codes of ethics.Design/methodology/approachA descriptive, historical, anthological approach has been taken.FindingsThis paper examines the motivations for the adoption of codes of ethics, which naturally also includes international codes, their frequency of use and content. Codes are also not without critique and it is appropriate to highlight the criticisms of codes, to provide an assessment of their potential effectiveness, the issues surrounding implementation and enforcement and the relationship to organisational culture and leadership.Research limitations/implicationsAs noted, the literature on codes of conduct is extensive and while effort has been made to capture the key themes the review is not necessarily exhaustive.Originality/valueThe literature is characterised by the means of institutionalising ethics in organisations and the paper concludes with a summative reflection on the key dimensions that appear to be paramount for improving the efficacy of codes of conduct.
Creative restruction – how business services drive economic evolution
Authors: Wirtz Jochen , Ehret Michael 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to express the widely underestimated role of business services in driving the growth of the service sector, and the increasing specialization and productivity of the economies.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw on statistical data and industry reports and link them to the non‐ownership‐concept in service research and the theory of the firm.FindingsBusiness services are the major driver of the service economy. Organizations focus on core competencies and outsource commoditized and non‐core activities in order to free managerial capacity for the entrepreneurial pursuit of opportunities. This in turn drives the specialization and enhanced productivity of economies.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper advances the non‐ownership discussion in service research and integrates it with economic theories of the firm, including the property rights theory, the resource‐based view and the entrepreneurial theory of the firm. This paper makes a conceptual contribution without empirical testing.Practical implicationsImplications for individual businesses include recommendation to focus on core activities and outsourcing of non‐core competencies to competitive business service providers. Here three fundamental value propositions business service providers can offer their clients are identified: reduction of the costs of asset‐ownership (property rights theory); freeing scarce management capacity to focus on high value‐creation opportunities (resource‐based view); and the enhancement of their entrepreneurial agility and leverage (entrepreneurial theory of the firm). Policy implications include a better understanding of the role of business services in wealth creation and the recommendation to create and ensure competitive business services markets that are open to global competition.Originality/valueThe authors provide an explanation for the role of business services as a driving force of economic development and business productivity.
Accommodating the newfound strategic importance of educational technologists within higher education
Authors: Shurville Simon , Browne Tom , Whitaker Marian 
Published: June 2009

PurposeEducational technologists make significant contributions to the development, organisational embedding and service provision of technology‐enhanced learning (TEL) environments, which are key enablers for mass access to flexible higher education (HE). Given the increasing centrality of this role, it is advocated that institutions investigate sustainable career structures for educational technologists. This paper aims to address these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe arguments are evidence‐driven by the small body of research literature describing the role of educational technologists and contextualized by the experiences as academics and leaders of TEL projects in HE, including managing educational technologists.FindingsThe roles of educational technologists are very diverse, requiring competencies in educational leadership, both management and technical. Their career paths, backgrounds, legitimate powers and organisational locations exhibit considerable variation.Research limitations/implicationsUniversity leaders require evidence to formulate appropriate human resource strategies and performance management strategies for educational technologists. Further empirical research to analyze current issues and future trajectories relating to their aspirations, career structures, legitimate power, management and organisational contexts is proposed.Originality/valueGiven the strategic importance of educational technologists to information and communications technology‐driven transformation, university leaders will require evidence to formulate appropriate human resource and performance management strategies for these key academic‐related/professional staff. This paper brings together relevant literature for the first time, generates recommendations for further research and policy discussion.
Using learning styles to personalize online learning
Authors: Zajac Maria 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of research aimed at collecting the data necessary for preparing personalised content of e‐learning courses. Its aim is to show how the information describing individual learning styles can be linked to the rules of creating tailored online courses.Design/methodology/approachThe paper gives a brief explanation of how personalization is understood for the purpose of research carried out by the author and what are the psychological backgrounds of the applied approach. It presents also a KS‐TIW questionnaire, based on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory.FindingsAs it is not possible to define infinite number of different course models corresponding to every single learner a concept of defining several learner profiles which would represent various types of learning preferences is described.Practical implicationsThe final part of the paper shows how the data concerning one's learning preferences can be transferred into particular type of learning content with special emphasis on a form of learning content delivery and type of activities planned for individual learner.Originality/valueThis research goes one step further than typical approach to personalization in e‐learning, which is usually understood either by freedom of choosing the time and the place of learning or by adapting the layout of virtual learning environment (VLE) to one's individual needs. Quite rarely the solutions offered in VLE's enable the learner to choose among the forms and methods the learning content is delivered.
Past, present and possible future developments in human capital accounting
Authors: Guthrie James , Murthy Vijaya 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to pay tribute to several of the ideas of Jan‐Erik Gröjer by reviewing and critiquing the field of Human Competence Accounting (HCA) since his Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal review article in 1998.Three research questions he posed in that article are now addressed in the current paper: What could be done, as envisaged in the commentary of Gröjer and Johanson; What has been published in HCA research in the ten year period (1999‐2008); What more could/should be done in HCA as a research agenda.Design/methodology/approachA literature based analysis and critique of HCA accounting articles published in the selected journals from 1999 to 2008 is employed. A purpose built coding and classification scheme is built around several categories for the purpose of analysing the HCA literature.FindingsThe paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of Gröjer and Johanson's review and indicates that questions they raised and possible research directions have been acted upon by a number of authors. The findings of the analysis indicate that, a decade on from the original review, HCA is a legitimate area for accounting research and is multi‐disciplinary and multi‐focused in nature.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper only considers selected HCA articles within the ten journals used over the period 1999‐2008.American mainstream positivist research has not been reviewed. Also the categories chosen to represent HCA have several limitations which are addressed in the paper.Originality/valueHCA research has a strong tradition and the Gröjer and Johanson review is an important beacon that provided insights to accounting researchers. The current analysis extends Jan‐Erik's work by providing several insights into what has happened and also provides several ideas for future research and policy work in accounting for HCA.
The design of everyday identity
Authors: Maler Eve 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine trends towards “user centricity” in web‐based digital identity technologies, and analyse these technologies in light of universal principles of human‐centred design and usability in order to recommend future directions.Design/methodology/approachWeb users' habits and relevant usability research are analysed and requirements for identity‐enabled online interactions are proposed given this context. Modern identity technologies of various types are then studied to assess their ability to satisfy the requirements.FindingsThe results of these analyses point towards a possible explanation for the lack of wide adoption of today's user‐centric solutions.Research limitations/implicationsBased on the findings of the analyses, practical implications and recommendations are offered.Originality/valueThe paper's discussion of usability factors to consider and its set of final recommendations in light of these factors are new work that may be useful to identity management developers and deployers looking to achieve better user adoption, as well as to researchers and innovators in the fields of social networking and vendor relationship management.
A unified strategy for search and result representation for an online bibliographical catalogue
Authors: Zhitomirsky‐Geffet Maayan , Feitelson Dror G. , Frachtenberg Eitan , Wiseman Yair 
Published: June 2009

PurposeOne of the biggest concerns of modern information retrieval systems is reducing the user effort required for manual traversal and filtering of long matching document lists. Thus, the first goal of this research is to propose an improved scheme for representation of search results. Further, it aims to explore the impact of various user information needs on the searching process with the aim of finding a unified searching approach well suited for different query types and retrieval tasks.Design/methodology/approachThe BoW online bibliographical catalogue is based on a hierarchical concept index to which entries are linked. The key idea is that searching in the hierarchical catalogue should take advantage of the catalogue structure and return matching topics from the hierarchy, rather than just a long list of entries. Likewise, when new entries are inserted, a search for relevant topics to which they should be linked is required. Therefore, a similar hierarchical scheme for query‐topic matching can be applied for both tasks.FindingsThe experiments show that different query types used for the above tasks are best treated by different topic ranking functions. To further examine this phenomenon a user study was conducted, where various statistical weighting factors were incorporated and their impact on the performance for different query types was measured. Finally, it is found that the mixed strategy that applies the most suitable ranking function to each query type yielded a significant increase in precision relative to the baseline and to employing any examined strategy in isolation on the entire set of user queries.Originality/valueThe main contributions of this paper are: the alternative approach for compact and concise representation of search results, which were implemented in the BoW online bibliographical catalogue; and the unified or mixed strategy for search and result representation applying the most suitable ranking function to each query type, which produced superior results compared to different single‐strategy‐based approaches.
Information portal development and practice at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library
Authors: Jin Yi , Peng Jia 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to relate how Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library integrates its resources and services, the functions realised and technologies adopted in order to meet user's information needs in a simple, convenient and personalised way. As information resources become more web‐based, disparate and distributed, libraries are facing the challenge of how to provide information efficiently to their users. A promising approach is to integrate resources and deliver services via a portal.Design/methodology/approachThis paper analyses existing portal features, needs and functions, and carries out the approach to meet portal requirements through resource integration and service integration supported by MetaLib, SFX and Web 2.0 technologies.FindingsPortal requirements can be met by resource integration and service integration. Methods to achieve cross searching, ways to enhance resource linking, and integration of library, subject and personalisation services are analysed and concluded. The service framework is depicted in the end.Research limitations/implicationsSince the analysis is not based on an exhaustive list of portals and as technologies are always developing rapidly, the methods and functions to achieve information integration and provision presented in this paper perhaps are not complete and may need to be adjusted and amended. Work is also needed urgently to develop and establish related standards and protocols for service collaboration.Practical implicationsThis paper should be helpful for libraries that plan to provide services to their users via information portals, or to develop or evaluate portal systems or products.Originality/valueThis paper analyses and concludes methods and functions to meet portal requirements through resource integration and service integration supported by MetaLib, SFX and Web 2.0 technologies. It discusses the service collaboration and depicts the service framework.
Resource discovery through social tagging: a classification and content analytic approach
Authors: Hoe‐Lian Goh Dion , Chua Alton , Sian Lee Chei , Razikin Khasfariyati 
Published: June 2009

PurposeSocial tagging systems allow users to assign keywords (tags) to useful resources, facilitating their future access by the tag creator and possibly by other users. Social tagging has both proponents and critics, and this paper aims to investigate if tags are an effective means of resource discovery.Design/methodology/approachThe paper adopts techniques from text categorisation in which webpages and their associated tags from del.icio.us and trained Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers are downloaded to determine if the documents could be assigned to their associated tags. Two text categorisation experiments were conducted. The first used only the terms from the documents as features while the second experiment included tags in addition to terms as part of its feature set. Performance metrics used were precision, recall, accuracy and F1 score. A content analysis was also conducted to uncover characteristics of effective and ineffective tags for resource discovery.FindingsResults from the classifiers were mixed, and the inclusion of tags as part of the feature set did not result in a statistically significant improvement (or degradation) of the performance of the SVM classifiers. This suggests that not all tags can be used for resource discovery by public users, confirming earlier work that there are many dynamic reasons for tagging documents that may not be apparent to others.Originality/valueThe authors extend their understanding of social classification and its utility in sharing and accessing resources. Results of this work may be used to guide development in social tagging systems as well as social tagging practices.
Five‐year impact factor data in the Journal Citation Reports
Authors: Jacsó Péter 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the five‐year journal impact factor (JIF) score of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).Design/methodology/approachThe paper looks at one of the important enhancements to the JCR, the new five‐year journal impact factor (JIF) score. This element complements the traditional JIF scores and data. The new indicator addresses the criticism against the short citation window for evaluating the performance of nearly 8,000 scholarly and professional journals on a medium term.FindingsIt may be feasible that some of the other proposals presented by the best scientometricians for improving the JIF and its alternatives will be implemented in various specialty editions of JCR. Particularly interesting would be the adding of scores computed through diachronous instead of or in addition to synchronous measurement; creating new indicators based on the level of uncitedness of articles in journals; and calculating percentile JIF, JIF point averages and/or JIFs based on article count, with or without self‐citations.Originality/valueThe five‐year mid‐term JIF complements very well the short‐term two‐year JIF for indicating the prestige, reputation and influence of the journals through the prism of the average productivity of journals and the citedness counts of articles published in the journals for a longer time span. As mentioned above, breaking down the various indicators by disciplinary and subdisciplinary categories, or even by the language and the country of publication of the journals (not the country affiliation of the authors) can provide further insight into the landscape of scholarly publishing.
Learning on the move: how m‐learning could transform training and development
Authors: Donnelly Kirstie 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to aim to help those in the learning and training community understand the potential applications and practicalities of mobile learning, and how it can be exploited to improve competitiveness – particularly important in this difficult economic climate.Design/methodology/approachBased on recent academic research and on piloted initiatives, the role of mobile learning in improving organizational performance is explored in a step‐by‐step guide.FindingsIn today's highly mobile and competitive world, organizations need to change the way in which they provide skills training for employees. As traditional forms of learning become less common, mobile devices, such as MP3 players and PDAs, will increasingly be used to help train and support the performance of staff.Originality/valueThis article is of considerable practical importance to learning and development managers, as it outlines the most important aspects of mobile learning and how it can be used to improve organizational performance.
Reframing practice: creating social learning networks
Authors: Bartlett‐Bragg Anne 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that social learning networks can be implemented and achieve greater results than traditional e‐Learning initiatives.Design/methodology/approachA case study is used to illustrate the social learning networks framework and pedagogical underpinnings.FindingsThe case study shows significant outcomes not previously experienced in face‐to‐face taught environments. However, there are inhibtors to successful implementation and these are highlighted for the reader.Originality/valueThe future of online learning lies with the development of social learning networks, but the value will only be experienced if organizational learning practitioners re‐frame their practices to enable learners to share, collaborate, build knowledge, network and learn.
Using wikis for organizational learning: functional and psycho‐social principles
Authors: Moskaliuk Johannes , Kimmerle Joachim 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to aim to identify principles that make wikis an effective application when they are used within an organization. Those principles are supposed to make wikis a successful instrument for organizational learning.Design/methodology/approachThe article makes a distinction between functional and psycho‐social principles and emphasizes their impact on organizational learning.FindingsThe functional principles (quick and easy editing; wikilinks; no hierarchical hypertext structure; revision and topicality; collaborative product; scalability and flexibility) may be regarded as the constitutive attributes of wikis. The psycho‐social principles (openness; self‐organization; autonomy; interest and personal relevance; diversity; serendipity effect) are not directly associated with wikis as a tool, but refer to the application context.Originality/valueThe article explains the functional and psycho‐social principles in detail. This will help organizations and knowledge‐management executives to employ wikis in an efficient way and avoid their disadvantages. Thus, the functional and psycho‐social principles can be a valuable starting point for applying wikis successfully in various organizational scenarios.