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Nearest access: rapid location for interlibrary loan resources using OpenURL
Authors: Chen Chuanfu , Wu Zhiqiang , Wu Dan , Ran Congjing 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to propose a technical solution to rapidly access and locate the nearest interlibrary loan resources using OpenURL in the services of a local library.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the paper creates knowledge bases of “nearest access” services, which can automatically identify the nearest library and rapidly locate the resources in the target library. The knowledge bases consist of information about the nearby libraries and a rapid location rule for resources in these libraries. Second, the paper designs “nearest access” algorithms that allow users to identify and select the nearest interlibrary loan resources from the knowledge bases of “nearest access” services.FindingsThrough these steps, the paper establishes an architecture for accessing resources in the nearest library that are based on a combination of knowledge bases and “nearest access” algorithms, providing users with a convenient and rapid method to access interlibrary loan resources.Originality/valueThe innovation of this research lies in the ability of the proposed architecture in providing accurate, agile and personalized access to digital interlibrary loan services. Through this work, users will finally possess a tool to rapidly locate the resources in the nearest library using OpenURL.
Usage and acceptability of e‐resources in National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) and National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR), India
Authors: Sharma Chetan , Singh Lakhpat , Sharma Ritu 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper seeks to emphasise the use of e‐resources by teachers and research scholars in the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) and the National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR). The paper aims at particularly identifying the needs of the users as well as the problems faced by them while using e‐resources and also their level of satisfaction in getting the essential information on electronic means.Design/methodology/approachA survey was conducted through a questionnaire circulated among 140 teachers and research scholars of NDRI and NBAGR. The response rate was an encouraging 90.71 per cent.FindingsThe majority of the respondents are well aware of the various e‐resources in their respective field and confidently use them regularly. E‐Journals are the most preferred e‐resource among the respondents. They seek the help of e‐resources to perform their routine exercises, i.e. teaching, research, entertainment and communication. Some major problems faced by the respondents are slow speed of internet, difficulty in retrieving contents and poorly designed web sites.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is restricted to the teachers and research scholars of NDRI and NBAGR and elaborates on the fact that those e‐resources are being used up to the optimum limit. The study will assist the existing organizations in the field to understand the requirement of electronic resources and stimulate the path to revision of the same.Originality/valueThis is the first study on this topic in India, which has been carried out to discover the importance of e‐resources in the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) and the National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR). It will support the approach and importance of such e‐resources and their usage for intellectual investigation in the agriculture community.
A study of web‐based services offered by Asian national libraries
Authors: Zarei Hajar , Abazari Zahra 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis research aims at conducting a survey of web‐based services offered by Asian national libraries.Design/methodology/approachTo do this, 23 accessible and English language web sites of national libraries in Asia were studied. Direct observation and a checklist including six general services were used for data collection and data evaluation, respectively. In order to determine the detailed services provided by national library web sites, five web sites of the greatest and historical national libraries in the world with appropriate geographical distribution were taken into account.FindingsNational Library of Singapore had the first rank in providing its services via a web site for users and was the only national library in Asia that provides more than half of its services (52.29 per cent) via the web site. The national libraries of seven countries: Japan, Malaysia, China, Iran, Israel, Seri Lanka, and Kyrgyzstan provide web‐based services in the range of 25‐50 per cent, respectively in descending order. And the web sites of Asian national libraries (ANLs) were far from ideal and optimal as an online service provider.Practical implicationsAsian National Libraries must use the web facilities for achievement of their target goals and provision of their information services in the best manner. It is also suggested that these libraries should make high use of both traditional library tools like bibliographies and web‐based ones including web forms, chat, videoconferences, and so forth to meet their goals and ideals.Originality/valueThis study provides a unique insight into the situation of provision of web‐based services offered by national libraries in selected Asian countries.
Document supply in Denmark
Authors: Andresen Leif , Brink Helle 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the Danish inter‐library lending (ILL) environment with the focus on its current status, the level of automation and future development.Design/methodology/approachThe paper describes Danish ILL cooperation.FindingsFocussing on standards and automation delivers a better service. Danish ILL has a high level of automation. The combination of standards, interaction between systems and dedicated functions in the national system delivers an effective handling of ILL and document delivery.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to provide a detailed overview of the modern ILL system in Denmark.
The end user enabled: the development of a UK wide resource sharing network for public libraries
Authors: Froud Robert , Robinson Elisabeth 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to describe the initiative to establish a National Union Catalogue for UK Public Libraries.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews the development of a web based national union catalogue accessible to the UK citizen.FindingsIt is found that the launch of a National Library Catalogue in the UK is timely and will be of benefit to libraries and the UK population alike.Originality/valueThe paper shares experiences of the UK market with the wider community.
Job demands, job resources and meaning at work
Authors: Clausen Thomas , Borg Vilhelm 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to identify longitudinal associations between job demands, job resources and experience of meaning at work.Design/methodolgy/approachUsing data from a longitudinal survey study among 6,299 employees in Danish eldercare who were divided into 301 work‐groups, experience of meaning at work was predicted from a series of job demands and job resources measured at individual level and group level.FindingsA combination of individual‐level and group‐level measures of job demands and job resources contributed to predicting meaning at work. Meaning at work at follow‐up was predicted by meaning at work at baseline, role ambiguity, quality of leadership, and influence at work at individual level and emotional demands at group level. Individual‐level measures of job demands and job resources proved stronger predictors of meaning at work than group‐level measures.Research limitations/implicationsPsychosocial job demands and job resources predict experience of meaning at work.Practical implicationsExperience of meaning at work constitutes an important organizational resource by contributing to the capacities of employees to deal with work‐related stresses and strains, while maintaining their health and well‐being.Social implicationsExperience of meaning at work is positively associated with well‐being and reduces risk for long‐term sickness absence and turnover. Attention towards enhancing employee experiences of meaning at work may contribute towards the ability of western societies to recruit the necessary supply of labour over the coming decades.Originality/valueThis is the first study to provide longitudinal, multi‐level evidence on the association between job demands, job resources and experience of meaning at work.
A question of false self‐esteem
Authors: Gardner Donald G. , Pierce Jon L. 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper seeks to explore the relationships between organization‐based self‐esteem and narcissism, and their correlates. It aims to distinguish the two constructs, as well as to examine the degree to which organization‐based self‐esteem is contaminated by “false self‐esteem” (namely, narcissism).Design/methodology/approachParticipants completed questionnaires containing measures of organization‐based self‐esteem, narcissism, and a variety of motivational, attitudinal, and behavioral consequences. Co‐workers rated the participants' extra‐role and in‐role performance behaviors.FindingsOrganization‐based self‐esteem and narcissism appear to be quite distinct constructs. The organization‐based self‐esteem scale is unbiased by variance associated with narcissism. Organization‐based self‐esteem is associated with a variety of positive outcomes. In particular, organization‐based self‐esteem correlates negatively with hostility, while narcissism correlates positively with hostility.Practical implicationsThe hypothesized negative attitudes and behaviors of narcissists were not found. However, organizations need to be cautious when delivering negative feedback to employees high in narcissism. Supervisors need to provide concrete evidence about deficiencies in narcissists' performance when providing feedback.Originality/valueThis is the first study to examine the relationships between organization‐based self‐esteem and narcissism in an organizational context.
A cross‐level study of procedural justice perceptions
Authors: Hon Alice H.Y. , Yang Jixia , Lu Lin 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between supervisor‐perceived procedural justice and subordinate‐perceived procedural justice. The moderating roles of the subordinate‐perceived interactional justice and power‐distance value are also to be examined.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were obtained from 509 supervisor‐subordinate dyads in mainland China. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to test the research hypotheses.FindingsResults revealed that: supervisor‐perceived procedural justice is positively related to subordinate‐perceived procedural justice; the direct relationship is stronger when the subordinate perceives higher rather than lower interactional justice from the supervisor; and the direct relationship is stronger when the subordinate holds a higher rather than lower power‐distance value.Research limitations/implicationsThe data collected in the present study reside at two hierarchical levels, namely, the employee level and the supervisor level, and the sample size is relatively large. The results are thus less likely subject to common method bias. However, future longitudinal research will be helpful to lend stronger support for the hypothesized causal relationships.Originality/valueThe paper uses cognitive social learning theory in a social exchange context to explain the cross‐level relationship of procedural justice perceptions in organizations, and to identify its boundary conditions. Results support that fairness perceptions at a higher organizational level can be related to lower‐level perceptions along the organizational hierarchy.
Affective commitment and citizenship behaviors across multiple foci
Authors: Morin Alexandre J.S. , Vandenberghe Christian , Boudrias Jean‐Sébastien , Madore Isabelle , Morizot Julien , Tremblay Michel 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper seeks to examine the relationships between affective commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) across four foci: organizations, supervisors, coworkers, and customers. Further, it aims to determine whether relationships among commitments and OCBs involve mediated linkages.Design/methodology/approachThis study relies on matched employee‐supervisor data (n=216). The relative fit of different models representing relationships among commitments and OCBs was examined using structural equations modeling.FindingsResults revealed that commitments to coworkers, customers and supervisors displayed positive relationships with OCBs directed at parallel foci. In addition, commitment to the global organization partially and negatively mediated the relationship of commitments to coworkers and customers to parallel OCBs dimensions. Results also revealed cross‐foci relationships between local commitments and OCBs. Finally, no commitment target was significantly associated with organization‐directed OCBs but the latter were positively related to local OCBs.Originality/valueThe paper demonstrates that multiple commitments and OCBs are involved in a complex net of relationships among which local foci play a critical, and positive, role.
Sociomaterial practice and the constitutive entanglement of social and material resources
Authors: Styhre Alexander 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe concept of sociomaterial practice has been proposed as a term including materiality as constitutive elements in any social practice. The concept also suggests that while social relations are constituted by and mediated by materiality, materialityper seis enacted in a social context. Practice is thus unfolding as a form of constitutive entanglement of social and material resources at hand. The paper aims at discussing the concept of practice as what is mobilizing both material and intangible resources.Design/methodology/approachThe study draws on interviews with construction workers, foremen, and site managers in three projects in a medium sized construction company.FindingsThe study suggests that while construction work is both regulated by piece‐rate wage systems and being largely composed of standard operation procedures, there is still a strong reliance on collectively accomplished routines for communicating and interacting in the workplace. Rather than being determined by and reducible to material conditions, social relations and mutual trust play a key role in construction projects.Originality/valueThe concept of sociomaterial practice is opening up for a more articulated recognition of the entanglement of social and material resources in organizing work. The study presents first‐hand data on how construction work rests on the collective capacity to combine both material and social elements.
Getting ready forkaizen: organizational and knowledge management enablers
Authors: Magnier‐Watanabe Rémy 
Published: November 2011

PurposeIn an economy where firms compete for limited resources, focusing internally to boost efficiency and reduce waste is critical. In particular, thekaizenphilosophy of continuous improvement in small sustainable increments has spread in the manufacturing industry with mixed results. However, the knowledge management requirements ofkaizenhave not yet been formalized for practitioners to easily check the necessary pre‐conditions of their organization. The objective of this paper is to explore the successful implementation ofkaizenin terms of its organizational design and knowledge management preconditions.Design/methodology/approachUsing a case‐study approach building on previous in‐depth research of New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) in Fremont, California, this study assesses the organizational and knowledge preconditions ofkaizen.FindingsThe results show that the success of NUMMI may reside as much in Toyota's production system as in the alignment ofkaizenand the organizational characteristics that support suitable knowledge management practices.Practical implicationsThe findings highlight the need for practitioners who plan to implementkaizento review their firm's organizational characteristics and knowledge management practices and ensure their congruence with the requirements ofkaizen.Originality/valueThe paper shows howkaizencannot be reduced to an add‐on grafted onto existing processes and aimed at temporarily fixing the bottom line. Instead,kaizenis deeply rooted in, and therefore strongly dependent on, the processes it intends to improve.
A little known origin of cybernetics and some implications
Authors: Andrew Alex M. 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe author reminisces about an experience in the 1950s that revealed a much earlier plan to set up a research centre with aims close to what later came to be called cybernetics. That plan was thwarted by economic considerations but the general approach found expression in the later work of Warren McCulloch and of a group around him, the latter first in Chicago and then in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This paper aims to discuss the attempt to set up this research centre.Design/methodology/approachThe emphasis is on study of the brain and its modelling in mechanistic terms, and the limitations of various experimental techniques are discussed.FindingsDespite much very good work and technical developments, the detailed working of the brain is still mysterious, and quite fundamental aspects are still debatable. The suggestion that the 1990s would be the “Decade of the brain” was premature.Practical implicationsTechnical developments including scanning techniques, especially NMR, have aided the analysis of brain functioning and no doubt other developments will emerge. Modelling by methods of artificial intelligence is likely to be helpful, but must be seen as producing bold, and therefore tentative, hypotheses that workers should be ready to modify or abandon.Originality/valueThe trip to Orange, New Jersey has been described and discussed previously but not in such detail.
Toward a cybernetic psychology
Authors: Scott Bernard 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the relationship between cybernetics and psychology.Design/methodology/approachThe paradigms of cybernetics are reviewed and then applied to psychology.FindingsApplying the paradigms of cybernetics to psychology provides a conceptually coherent account of what is a psychological individual.Originality/valueIt is of value to bring conceptual coherence to the discipline of psychology, which, thus far in its history, has lacked it.
Diffusion of innovative behaviour with social responsibility
Authors: Zenko Zdenka , Mulej Matjaz 
Published: November 2011

PurposeDevelopment or existence of human society depends on innovations and the end of one‐sidedness of behavior. The complexity of innovative processes has been widely studied, yet the success rate is still low. The purpose of this paper is to identify by the dialectical systems approach how some concepts, important for development of inventions into innovations can better support requisitely holistic innovative behavior.Design/methodology/approachSystem theory, theory of innovations and social responsibility are used to understand diffusion of innovations as part of the innovative processes.FindingsMany established theories, methods, procedures and standards support innovation management, but its economic success remains poor. Invention‐innovation‐diffusion processes (IIDP) remain poorly managed, especially the non‐technological. The usual approach is too one‐sided. Invention and innovation phases received more attention than the requisitely holistic consideration of the diffusion phase. Social responsibility can help.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper adds to requisite holism of IIDP management. It focuses on diffusion and its link with social responsibility.Practical implicationsThe new approach to IIDP is widely applicable for requisitely holistic rather than one‐sided political or strategic decisions and actions. ISO 26000 can increase success of IIDP.Originality/valueThe concepts presented here are not detected in literature and offer great value for further research and understanding, designing and managing of IIDP. The selected dialectical system of viewpoints is original.
Seeing a case study through a cybernetic epistemological lens
Authors: Espejo Raul 
Published: November 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the knowledge that Beer's viable system model helps when applied to the study of change processes in organisations.Design/methodology/approachThis paper develops a case study constructed on interviews and shared reflections by the author and a key player in the company. Aspects of the case study are then seen with an epistemological lens.FindingsWhile it is apparent that ideas, purposes, values or policies depend on resources to happen, this paper argues that it is necessary their embodying in effective relations to succeed creating and producing desirable meanings.Research limitations/implicationsSome forms of embodiment are more effective than others. The viable system model offers embodiment criteria to increase the chances of a successful production of ideas, purposes, values and policies, and the case study shows that for this purpose a limitation is transforming long‐established relationships.Originality/valueThis paper uses a particular and unique situation to illustrate through the viable system model some of the general difficulties that organisations face in achieving desirable transformations.