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The Oppenheim effect in scholarly journal publishing
Authors: Gorman G.E. 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThis paper aims to look at the Oppenheim effect in scholarly journal publishing.Design/methodology/approachDiscusses the quality control of refereed scholarly journals.FindingsA key finding of this research was that editors perceived originality to be the most important factor in their assessment of manuscripts.Originality/valueProvides a discussion on the quality control of scholarly journals.
Are co‐linked business web sites really related? A link classification study
Authors: Vaughan Liwen , Kipp Margaret , Gao Yijun 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to examine the reasons for the creation of co‐links between pairs of business web sites. Specifically, to determine whether co‐linked business web sites are really related.Design/methodology/approachCo‐links to 32 telecommunications companies were retrieved using Yahoo! and a random sample of 495 co‐linking pages (the page that initiated the co‐link) were selected for a content analysis. The context of the co‐link and the content of the co‐linking page were manually examined to record the following data: type of web site and the reason for the creation of the co‐link.FindingsThe study found that 61.4 per cent of co‐links were created to connected pairs of highly related businesses (related companies, related products, and related services). Only 14.7 per cent of co‐links were created for non‐business reasons. The remaining 23.8 per cent of co‐linked sites showed a loose or marginal business relationship. The study also found that co‐links targeting home pages (as opposed to non‐homepages) were more likely to connect related businesses. Furthermore, co‐links coming from commercial sites (as opposed to other sites such as educational sites) are more likely to link related businesses.Originality/valueThe findings from this content analysis study confirm results from previous quantitative studies that showed that web co‐links measure relatedness of co‐linked sites and that co‐links can be objects of web data mining. The study contributes to our understanding of link motivations and the web linking phenomenon in general. The difference between links to homepages and that to non‐homepages found in the study can guide us in co‐link data collection.
Automated classification of HTML forms on e‐commerce web sites
Authors: Ru Yanbo , Horowitz Ellis 
Published: August 2007

PurposeMost e‐commerce web sites use HTML forms for user authentication, new user registration, newsletter subscription, and searching for products and services. The purpose of this paper is to present a method for automated classification of HTML forms, which is important for search engine applications, e.g. Yahoo Shopping and Google's Froogle, as they can be used to improve the quality of the index and accuracy of search results.Design/methodology/approachDescribes a technique for classifying HTML forms based on their features. Develops algorithms for automatic feature generation of HTML forms and a neural network to classify them.FindingsThe authors tested their classifier on an e‐commerce data set and a randomly retrieved data set and achieved accuracy of 94.7 and 93.9 per cent respectively. Experimental results show that the classifier is effective and efficient on both test beds, suggesting that it is a promising general purpose method.Originality/valueThe paper is of value to those involved with information management and e‐commerce.
Blog search engines
Authors: Thelwall Mike , Hasler Laura 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to explore the capabilities and limitations of weblog search engines.Design/methodology/approachThe features of a range of current blog search engines are described. These are then discussed and illustrated with examples that illustrate the reliability and coverage limitations of blog searching.FindingsAlthough blog searching is a useful new technique, the results are sensitive to the choice of search engine, the parameters used and the date of the search. The quantity of spam also varies by search engine and search type.Research limitations/implicationsThe results illustrate blog search evaluation methods and do not use a full‐scale scientific experiment.Originality/valueBlog searching is a new technique, and one that is significantly different from web searching. Hence information professionals need to understand its strengths and weaknesses.
The IP's guide to the galaxy of portal planning: part III – administrative framework
Authors: Finley Amy M. , Augustyniak Rebecca H. 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThis article is the third in a four‐part series that aims to illustrate the process involved in planning a portal and creating a portal definition document.Design/methodology/approachBased on a review of the academic and industry literature and using a case study, the authors share their experience in planning the Florida ExpertNet Research portal.FindingsPortal development is a complex and costly endeavour that requires meticulous planning and design. As with any system development initiative, the time and energy spent in the planning process is reflected in the success or failure of the end product. A portal administrative framework encompasses governance (strategic) and management (operational) models. The governance model contains a description of the governing units and their responsibilities. The management model includes a description of key management components (primary function, activities, and manager) and management roles and responsibilities.Originality/valueThis series will be useful to the information professional who is contemplating portal development and may be used as a model in developing a blueprint – the portal definition document. Whether the information professional is considering doing development or outsourcing, it is important to understand the architectural requirements of a portal.
Using conditional probabilities for automatic new topic identification
Authors: Ozmutlu Seda , Ozmutlu Huseyin C. , Buyuk Buket 
Published: August 2007

PurposeOne of the most important dimensions of search engine user information seeking behaviour is content‐based behaviour. One of the main elements in developing a personalised intelligent search engine is new topic identification. The purpose of this study is to perform automatic new topic identification in search engine transaction logs using conditional probabilities of new topic arrivals.Design/methodology/approachSample data logs from FAST (currently owned by Yahoo!) and Excite (currently owned by IAC Search & Media) are used in the study. Conditional probabilities of new topic arrivals and topic continuations given query category are used to estimate new topic arrivals.FindingsThe findings of this study show that the conditional probability approach reduced overestimation of topic shifts, increasing some performance measures to their highest ever value compared to previous studies. A straightforward procedure such as the conditional probability approach can be as successful as, and for some measures more successful than, more complex methods applied in previous automatic new topic identification studies.Originality/valueA straightforward procedure that can enable fast automatic new topic identification, a problem not yet solved, and an important step towards personalised search engines.
How big is a database versus how is a database big
Authors: Jacsó Péter 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the sizes of databases.Design/methodology/approachThe paper illustrates the various dimensions of some library and information science (LIS) databases and database subsets, and the implications of these differences.FindingsEnhancements of database records by cited references have great potential for guiding the searcher to cited and cited references.Originality/valueIllustrates the various dimensions of some LIS databases and database subsets, and the implications of these differences.
Sorting out evaluation of learning and development: making it easier for ourselves
Authors: Cunningham Ian 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to expose the errors of existing common evaluation frameworks such as Kirkpatrick and to suggest superior approaches.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on work done in a variety of organizations as well as existing research evidence.FindingsThe paper finds that evaluation of learning and development can be both more rigorous and simpler.Practical implicationsThe paper has real practical implications for leaders/managers and learning and development professionals, as it shows how to overcome the limitations of existing approaches to evaluation. By proposing an alternative approach to Kirkpatrick's model it encourages practitioners to be clearer about evaluation activity.Originality/valueThe paper will be of value to managers and learning specialists as it raises important issues about how to evaluate learning and development activity.
Organizational change – overcoming resistance by creating readiness
Authors: Self Dennis R. 
Published: August 2007

PurposeDespite a significant amount of academic research showing that failure to create and manage readiness for change, nonetheless, far too many organizational managers have failed to learn both from their past mistakes and from the research. This paper aims to provide a brief review of five important elements necessary to build readiness in an organization when it is faced with change. By successful application of the five elements, readiness for the change may be created and managed leading to a prevention or minimization of resistance to the change.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a general review of one approach to managing change.FindingsThe paper finds that by addressing each of the five elements, there will be a greater likelihood of successful change introduction and management.Originality/valueThe paper provides overview of the five elements of readiness for managing change as created by Armenakis et al.
Do leaders learn from near death experiences? Ten years after …
Authors: Santora Joseph C. , Sarros James C. 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to determine the degree to which a leader of a nonprofit organization changed over time after a near death experience.Design/methodology/approachThis follow‐up case study uses interviews with a leader and other key actors in a nonprofit organization as well as participant and non‐participant observation over a ten‐year period.FindingsThe paper finds that while a leader may change behavior after a near death experience that change is not fully sustained over time.Practical implicationsThis paper offers leaders who face similar challenges as a result of a near death experience with recommendations for making personal and organizational changes.Originality/valueThis paper will be of value to leaders who have had near death experiences and return to the workplace.
Grounded theory and management research: a lack of integrity?
Authors: Jones Robert , Noble Gary 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThis paper aims to analyse the manner in which “objectivist” grounded theory methodology has progressively developed since 1967 and how it has been employed by management researchers.Design/methodology/approachThe paper traces the methodological development of grounded theory with particular emphasis on the variations, contradictions and modifications to the methodology both between and within the Glaserian and Straussian Schools. Totally 32 empirical grounded theory studies published in the management literature since 2002 are analysed in order to gauge the impact of these variations on the manner in which researchers have employed the grounded theory methodology.FindingsIt is argued that grounded theory in management research is in danger of losing its integrity. The methodology has become so pliant that management researchers appear to have accepted it as a situation of “anything goes” “Grounded theory” is now loosely used as a generic term to refer to any qualitative approach in which an inductive analysis is grounded in data.Originality/valueIt could be argued that grounded theory cannot continue to be regarded as a moving target, or to be practised as a free‐for‐all methodology in management research, without risking serious danger of becoming irrelevant. Three suggestions are offered for restoring more discipline into grounded theory studies.
Deconstructing a personal “academic”/“practitioner” narrative through self‐reflexivity
Authors: McKenna Steve 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to self‐reflexively deconstruct a paper published by the author in 1996 about a Singaporean entrepreneur for whom the author worked. Through the deconstruction a number of important methodological and epistemological issues are raised. Firstly, the way in which the value of qualitative research in management and organization studies is judged more by how it conforms to acceptable ways of data collection, analysis and interpretation (strategic apparatus) than on any “truth” value it may have. Secondly, a consideration of how the “I” of the researcher is influential in how research is undertaken and written up. Thirdly, that this “I” of the researcher is also determined by what is acceptable “scientific” discourse and by other prevailing discourses.Design/methodology/approachIn a paper published in 1996, the author detailed the “dark side” of an entrepreneur for whom he worked. Using a psychoanalytic framework this paper constructed the entrepreneur as an irrational and unethical incompetent. In the present paper, this earlier work is deconstructed using insights from Derrida's in order to highlight “strategic exclusions,” and to offer alternative readings. These alternative readings emphasize the influence of various discourses on the construction of the earlier paper, and also introduce a reading of the earlier paper as a psychoanalytic narrative.FindingsThe paper highlights the uses to which “objective tools” of analysis can be put in order to manipulate and construct an explanation and interpretation of personal experiences. This raises important epistemological issues concerning the influence of broader discourses on the representation of experiences and how realities and identities are constructed and performed. The paper concludes by suggesting that whom we are as researchers, and what we observe and write, is more complex and influenced by more discourse(s) than we might think. Even if researchers tell impressionistic and confessional tales simultaneously with their realist ones, it is necessary to consider what discourses may lay behind their telling. It has been argued that a limitation of deconstruction is that it may result in endless iterations and readings of text with no discursive closure. This may be a limitation of the deconstruction offered here.Originality/valueThe paper raises questions about the nature of the “academic” narrative and the importance of deconstruction in establishing author positioning within narrative. It contributes to the discussion about objectivity in organizational and management research and issues of epistemology and ontology more generally.
Dialogic e‐learning2learn
Authors: Korsgaard Sorensen Elsebeth 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to address the challenge and potential of online higher and continuing education, of fostering and promoting, in a global perspective across time and space, democratic values working for a better world.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a generalized dialogic learning architecture of networked collaborative learning and makes a plea for a theory‐informed networked collaborative learning architecture and methodology appropriate for adult learners in higher and continuing education.FindingsValues include mutual political and intercultural understanding, collaboration, and tolerance to cultural and ethical diversity, and they are mediated through collaborative dialogue and knowledge‐building processes between learners. While embedded, empirically, in a networked distance learning context, established through synchronous and asynchronous communication technologies, the paper advocates for theory informed pedagogical designs and a teaching‐learning methodology, which assumes online collaborative dialogue as the centre of a genuine learning process.Originality/valueThe paper complements this plea with a description and evaluation of the implementation of the pedagogical architecture into a Danish Master Programme.
Multi‐channel communication and consumer choice in the household furniture buying process
Authors: Lihra Torsten , Graf Raoul 
Published: August 2007

PurposeFurniture is among the important personal consumption expenditures for durable goods in the USA. Retailers and manufacturers offer different communication channels to assist consumers all through the process of acquiring furniture. The objective of the present study is to evaluate US consumers' channel use at different steps of the residential furniture‐buying process.Design/methodology/approachA cross‐section study was conducted by taking advantage of the structured nature of quantitative methods using a questionnaire for data collection and a socio‐demographic representative sample of US citizens. Consumers' use of six communication channels through five buying decision steps was assessed.FindingsResults showed that the furniture retail store is the most important communication channel at each of the five considered buying process stages. Overall score of that channel was higher for females than males, indicating that women care more about communication when buying furniture. The internet was not of significant importance when buying furniture. Advertising was perceived as a significant means to gather information.Practical implicationsThe study will help to orient companies' marketing strategies by making proper use of communication channels. It also shows marketing students the present state of consumers' communication channel preferences.Originality/valueThis paper gives unique insights into consumers' buying behavior that will help to design communication channels properly.
How direct marketing is revolutionizing an industry: residential real estate in the USA
Authors: Keillor R. David 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThis paper seeks to discuss the history of real estate marketing in the USA and to assess the future impact of direct marketing on that country's real estate set‐up.Design/methodology/approachThe paper chronicles the history of real estate marketing in the USA and describes the present situation vis‐à‐vis direct marketing.FindingsThe paper finds that home buyers prefer online direct marketing to the traditional process of physical involvement and personal inspection.Originality/valueThe paper promotes the advantages of direct marketing as the future of residential real estate in that it offers lower prices, direct participation in the process and better access to information.
Is there a rationale for the continuing link to oil product prices in continental European long‐term gas contracts?
Authors: Stern Jonathan P. 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the continuing justification for linking the prices of European gas to those oil products.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses an analytic‐deductive approach supported by relevant analysis of data over a period of two decades.FindingsStatistical analysis of the end‐uses of gas and oil products over the past two decades reveal that, with few exceptions, use of oil is increasing confined to transportation while gas is a utility fuel used to generate heat and power. The ability of end‐users to substitute oil products for gas – the principal justification for price linkage – has substantially diminished over the past two decades, and this trend is continuing. The implication of these findings is that nearly 20 percent of Europe's energy supplies are priced inappropriately with reference to a fuel which has little relevance to the supply/demand dynamics of natural gas. At levels of oil prices seen since 2003, this has significantly negative consequences for consumers. An important qualification to these findings is that in markets where prices have been set by gas to gas competition for many years – the UK and North America – a long‐term “natural correlation” between gas and oil prices has been observed.Originality/valueThe paper raises the important question facing European gas stakeholders and asks whether to remain with oil‐linked prices or move to spot market prices created at hubs in North West Europe.
Modelling for policy assessment in the electricity supply sector of Pakistan
Authors: Qudrat‐Ullah Hassan , Karakul Mustafa 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a long‐term assessment of Pakistan's electricity policy in the context of both environmental and resource constraints. To increase the sustainability of energy supply, the Government of Pakistan introduced a series of reforms in the electricity supply sector during 1990‐1995. In response to these policy incentives, most of the independent power producer offers included coal, oil, and/or gas‐based power plants. Considering that Pakistan produces only up to 40 percent of its oil demand domestically and thermal power generation causes CO2emissions, there is a great need for an assessment of the existing electricity policy.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on system dynamics methodology, this study presents and utilizes a dynamic simulation model that captures the dynamics of the sectors underlying the electricity supply system including investments, capital, production, resources, financial resources, and the environment.FindingsThe key findings of this study are: policy incentives encouraged thermal‐based generation at the potential expense of hydro power generation; and the evolution of electricity supply related CO2emissions exhibits an exponential growth.Research limitations/implicationsWhile there are other emissions related to the electricity supply system with potentially severe environmental concerns, for example SO2, this study focuses only on CO2emissions.Originality/valueThe paper offers a system dynamics model and provides some useful policy insights for the electricity supply sector of Pakistan.
Polish Government policy for coal (1989‐2006)
Authors: Zientara Piotr 
Published: August 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss and assess the consecutive Governments' policy for coal (1989‐2006) in the context of the systemic transformation of the Polish economy.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a critical analysis of the rationale and effectiveness of government efforts to restructure the Polish coal mining industry in the light of economic theory, published literature, and a survey of three collieries. Some parallels, toutes proportions gardées, are drawn between the situation in the UK under Margaret Thatcher and that in Poland.FindingsThe paper argues that, despite throwing billions of zlotys at the industry in the form of direct subsidies and debt write‐offs, decision makers failed to make the collieries economically sound. The weaknesses of the consecutive governments – manifesting itself, amongst other things, in the unwillingness and/or inability to confront the miners' unions, to introduce market mechanisms into the sector, to ensure competent management and, crucially, to press on with nationwide economic liberalisation – are seen as the principal reasons behind the failure.Practical implicationsThe paper highlights the root causes of government ineffectiveness as well as aspires to provide policy recommendations with a view to rendering the Polish coal industry economically viable in a free‐market reality.Originality/valueIt presents the coal mining industry as a relic of socialism and highlights the inconsistencies and inadequacies of the consecutive restructuring programmes; concludes that restructuring efforts – to be truly effective – have to be co‐ordinated with nationwide economic liberalisation.