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Shaping exit and voice: an account of corporate control in UK sports
Authors: Nikolychuk Lynne , Sturgess Brian 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to help demonstrate the extent to which socio‐cultural and market‐oriented incentives jointly contribute to corporate control outcomes that prevail in the UK football industry.Design/methodology/approachIllustrative case studies informed by analysis of financial performance data, discussion with key informants, review of official documents.FindingsThe paper finds long term performance outcomes were influenced in substantive ways by actions led by shareholder groups pursuing largely non‐market‐oriented objectives.Research limitations/implicationsIndustry‐specific empirical work that analyses how the interplay between voice and exit strategies influences corporate control outcomes is limited. This paper focuses on two UK cases and therefore would benefit expansion to further UK cases and comparative analyses to non‐UK situations.Practical implicationsThe outcomes suggest that the market for corporate control in this particular industry context requires specific attention to actions driven by largely non‐market‐driven incentives.Originality/valuePrevious papers have not provided detailed empirical‐based evidence about how socio‐cultural concerns have influenced corporate control outcomes in the case studies provided.
Intangible economy: how can investors deliver change in businesses?
Authors: May Seitanidi Maria 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to investigate the following issues. Investors traditionally prioritised tangible outcomes (money, land, machinery) in order to protect their financial assets. However, the intangible economy (trust, human resources, information, reputation) that co‐exists draws attention to new expectations that request the continuous, active and within the public sphere involvement of investors in order to protect their assets by prioritising intangible resources.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper the case of non‐profit‐business partnerships is employed in order to demonstrate how change can be achieved.FindingsThe paper finds that investors in intangible outcomes who aim to achieve change in corporations share the same limitations within the financial and non‐financial field.Originality/valueThe paper highlights investment in the intangible economy as a mechanism of co‐determining the priority of responsibilities in the context of corporate social responsibility. The role of investors is crucial in facilitating the shift from the tangible to the intangible economy.
Entrepreneurship and organizational design: investor specialization
Authors: Casson Peter D. , Nisar Tahir M. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThis paper seeks to investigate the impact of venture capital firm organization (VC) on operations at portfolio companies, emphasizing particularly value added and involvement.Design/methodology/approachPrior literature indicates the importance of organizational design on the VC firm's engagement and monitoring practices. A survey methodology is used to examine such relationships, including the significance of human capital for the process of investor engagement.FindingsThe paper finds that VC organizations with a market focus and deal specialization are much more involved in portfolio companies than the firms who diversify their portfolios. This suggests that organizational focus is an important construct for explaining the degree of support accorded to portfolio companies by venture capitalists. The research also evaluates the performance outcomes of VC firm organization.Originality/valueThe research emphasizes the importance of organizational factors in the investment strategies of venture capital firms.
Performance effects of venture capital firm networks
Authors: Abell Peter , Nisar Tahir M. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the networking effects of venture capital (VC) firms on portfolio companies. VCs can bring specific skills and abilities to their ongoing relationships with their portfolio companies and thus add value by influencing key portfolio company operations. High levels of engagement also translate into giving advice and support, helping with the team culture, creating strategic alliances, or exercising corporate governance. A particular mechanism through which these support services are delivered is syndication investment.Design/methodology/approachUsing network theory tools the paper investigates the effects of syndication on VC firm performance.FindingsThe paper finds that networked VC firms are better placed to benefit from their investments.Originality/valueThe paper sheds light on the importance of network relationships in the venture capital industry.
The positive side of negative framing
Authors: Kotlyar Igor , Karakowsky Leonard 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a unique insight into the impact of decision framing and overconfidence on decision‐making effectiveness.Design/methodology/approachConceptual with a case study/illustration.FindingsThe findings support the paper's theoretical assertions regarding the potentially positive impact of negative framing in the context of overconfidence and the potentially negative impact of positive framing under this context.Research limitations/implicationsCase study/illustration (not empirical).Practical implicationsThis research helps identify decision‐making situations which can dramatically alter the effectiveness of decision‐making processes. Decision makers need to know how factors such as overconfidence and framing can enhance or impede the quality of decisions generated.Originality/valueHighly original – it challenges the traditional view of framing and overconfidence as automatic impediments to effective decision making.
Reflective decisions: the use of Socratic dialogue in managing organizational change
Authors: Skordoulis Rosemary , Dawson Patrick 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show that too often decisions concerning change are made on the basis of partial understanding, limited data and unreflective assumptions about people and organizations. In the discussion of the Socratic dialogue the aim is to uncover a useful method for ensuring more reflective decision making that involves active participation of employees on the receiving end of change.Design/methodology/approachAlthough dialogue is used in management processes today, it is contended that the Socratic dialogue is particularly useful in making sense of complex change processes. Data drawn from research conducted in two UK higher education institutions are used to illustrate how lack of knowledge and understanding often pervades and constrains change, and how techniques of Socratic dialogue can be used to secure higher levels of employee involvement and commitment to change.FindingsIt is argued that Socratic dialogue can be used as a practical tool to facilitate “participative” change and contend that further research is required to develop the use of this method as a qualitative research instrument for uncovering data on processes of change in organizations.Originality/valueIf practised consistently by organizational members, the Socratic techniques can lead to a more concrete understanding of the complexities of changing organizations. It is a collective process of change through critical questioning and, as such, it lends itself to further exploration on the part of both change managers and qualitative researchers for its uses as a diagnostic and research instrument.
Managing paradox in a world of knowledge
Authors: Murphy Peter , Pauleen David 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that the successful management of creative employees in organisations that rely extensively on the development of intellectual capital must incorporate new thinking to manage the inevitable paradoxical situations that arise in such contexts.Design/methodology/approachThe article explores and highlights conjunctions in several areas of current interest in management and global business, including social capital and intellectual capital, creativity and innovation, and arts firms and aesthetic management. Specifically, it links the development and maintenance of intellectual capital in large knowledge‐forming organisations to the successful management of paradox.FindingsThe article highlights numerous areas where managing creative employees often clashes with traditional management practices. These areas include crossing organisational boundaries, rules around the use of personal and organisational time and space,locusof authority, and freedom to think.Originality/valueThe article suggests that managing paradox requires special knowledge and skills, key of which are reflexive knowledge, trust of those who are out of sight, acceptance of ambiguity in thought and action, and pattern thinking.
RoMEO Studies 8: self‐archiving
Authors: Jenkins Celia , Probets Steve , Oppenheim Charles , Hubbard Bill 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to show how the self‐archiving of journal papers is a major step towards providing open access to research. However, copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) that are signed by an author prior to publication often indicate whether, and in what form, self‐archiving is allowed. The SHERPA/RoMEO database enables easy access to publishers' policies in this area and uses a colour‐coding scheme to classify publishers according to their self‐archiving status. The database is currently being redeveloped and renamed the Copyright Knowledge Bank. However, it will still assign a colour to individual publishers indicating whether pre‐prints can be self‐archived (yellow), post‐prints can be self‐archived (blue), both pre‐print and post‐print can be archived (green) or neither (white). The nature of CTAs means that these decisions are rarely as straightforward as they may seem, and this paper describes the thinking and considerations that were used in assigning these colours in the light of the underlying principles and definitions of open access.Design/methodology/approachDetailed analysis of a large number of CTAs led to the development of controlled vocabulary of terms which was carefully analysed to determine how these terms equate to the definition and “spirit” of open access.FindingsThe paper reports on how conditions outlined by publishers in their CTAs, such as how or where a paper can be self‐archived, affect the assignment of a self‐archiving colour to the publisher.Originality/valueThe colour assignment is widely used by authors and repository administrators in determining whether academic papers can be self‐archived. This paper provides a starting‐point for further discussion and development of publisher classification in the open access environment.
ICT and AIDS literacy: a challenge for information professionals in India
Authors: Ghosh Maitrayee 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the use of ICT to disseminate preventive health care information to combat the AIDS epidemic in India. The role of information professionals in various libraries and information centres and the challenges they are facing to increase HIV/AIDS awareness are discussed. Finally, recommendations are given and the conclusion is drawn that libraries and information professionals must develop AIDS literacy programmes to cater to the growing health information needs of the community.Design/methodology/approachLiterature search, web site information and personal interaction with the key persons associated with various HIV/AIDS awareness projects.FindingsLack of knowledge about AIDS, its modes of transmission and ways to avoid infection, are major challenges in India. Staff in ICT‐based library and information centres can make a high impact on the local community by developing community‐based AIDS literacy programmes and hopefully save the society from an AIDS epidemic. There is a perceived need for providing health information services through public libraries to the illiterate rural population who are increasingly making themselves vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. However, awareness of e‐channels is low, especially in rural India; one solution is to increase take‐up and run AIDS awareness campaigns through electronic media.Originality/valueA summary is provided of ICT‐based projects and initiatives by libraries and other agencies to disseminate AIDS information. Few multi‐type consortia have been formed in the USA and UK to develop AIDS databases and e‐learning modules are listed. These can be used as examples by Indian libraries with limited resources wishing to enhance community awareness through ICT. The concerted efforts amongst stakeholders are emphasized with the objectives of enhancing information professionals' skill in the AIDS information dissemination process.
The power and vulnerability of the “new professional”: web management in UK universities
Authors: Cox Andrew 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to explore the character of an emergent occupational role, that of university web manager.Design/methodology/approachThe primary data used were 15 semi‐structured interviews conducted in 2004. These were analysed partly for factual and attitudinal data, but also for the discursive interpretative repertoires in use.FindingsThe paper examines the diverse backgrounds, occupational trajectories, organisational positions, job roles and status of practitioners working in “web management” in UK higher education. The discursive divide between the marketing and IT approaches to the web is investigated. Two case studies explore further the complexity and creativity involved in individuals' construction of coherent and successful occupational identities.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper examines the position of web managers within the framework of the notions of the marginal but powerful “new professional” or “broker” technician. It gives a vivid insight into how the web as a dynamic and open technology opens up opportunities for new forms of expertise; but also explores the potential vulnerabilities of such new roles. In order to examine personal experiences in depth, data were gathered for only a relatively small number of individuals. The research was also limited to the UK university sector and to those with a broad responsibility for the web site of the whole institution, i.e. not library web managers and other web authors who work primarily to produce a departmental web presence. These limits imply obvious ways in which the research could be extended.Practical implicationsThere are implications for how institutions support people in such roles, and for how they can support one another.Originality/valueThere is a vast literature about the web, little about the new work roles that have grown up around it.
Consumption patterns of artificially coloured foods among children in Kuwait
Authors: Sawaya Wajih , Husain Adnan , Al‐Awadhi Fawzia , Al‐Hamad Nawal , Dashti Basma , Al‐Saqger Jameela , Dashti Basma 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the consumption patterns of artificially coloured foods among children in Kuwait. A 24‐h dietary recall field survey was conducted on 3,141 male and female children from 58 schools in Kuwait to determine colour additive levels in food products marketed in Kuwait, and to assess and compare intake levels to FAO/WHO acceptable daily intakes.Design/methodology/approachOf 450 coloured foods available in the market, 344 that were commonly consumed by children were purchased from different co‐operative societies and supermarkets distributed in Kuwait and were grouped into nine categories, namely: biscuits, cake, candy, chips, chocolate, drinks and juices, chewing gum, jelly, and lollypops. These were then analysed for their contents of artificial colour additives using a high‐pressure liquid chromatography with diode array detector.FindingsData obtained from the field survey showed that “drinks and juices” contributed the most to the mean daily intake, followed by “cakes and ice cream”.Originality/valueThe similarity in the high daily intake of drinks among children in Kuwait and other countries indicates a need to improve the diets of Kuwaiti children.
Effect of surface roughness on the squeeze film lubrication between curved annular plates
Authors: Bujurke N.M. , Naduvinamani N.B. , Basti D.P. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThis paper aims to study the effects of surface roughness on the characteristics of squeeze film lubrication between curved annular plates.Design/methodology/approachThe modified Reynolds type equation governing the fluid film pressure is derived. The stochastic method for rough surfaces developed by Christensen is to derive stochastic type equation and has been solved for two types of one‐dimensional roughness patterns. Closed form expressions of mean squeeze film pressure and mean load carrying capacity are obtained.FindingsThe bearing characteristics are computed for various values of roughness parameter. It is found that the effect of radial (circumferential) roughness pattern is to shift the point of maximum pressure towards the inlet (outlet) edge and also observe that the mean load‐carrying capacity increases (decreases) for the circumferential (radial) roughness pattern compared with the corresponding smooth case, for both concave and convex pad geometries.Research limitations/implicationsThe analysis is useful in obtaining suitable mathematical model of physical problems. The one which we have considered here is the idealized form of functioning of bearings in general. Analysis of finer models requires pure numerical schemes, for which the present model is a base.Practical applicationsFindings of the present paper have applications in machine elements like clutch plates and collar bearings.Originality/valueInclusions of surface roughness effect on the characteristics of bearings are original contributions in tribology.
Enterprise education programmes in secondary schools in Ireland
Authors: Birdthistle Naomi , Hynes Briga , Fleming Patricia 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to examine the perceptions and attitudes towards enterprise education at secondary level[1] in Ireland from a multi‐stakeholder perspective. The key stakeholders involved in enterprise education are teachers, principals, pupils and parents. The examination encompassed profiling the Irish educational system and the evolution of enterprise education, appraising the role of the teacher in enterprise education and the identification and evaluation of the various programmes for enterprise at secondary level.Design/methodology/approachThe research methodology adopted for this study was a subject‐specific questionnaire personally administered to 95 respondents comprising teachers, principals, pupils and parents.FindingsThe research findings suggest that tangible and intangible learning is obtained from such programmes, which create awareness of the possibilities for self‐employment, encourage more enterprising behaviour and result in important personal skills and competency development. It also indicates very positive feedback for the need and continued development of such programmes as an important intervention in creating a more entrepreneurial mindset in students.Originality/valueThe research findings add value to the empirical base of research at secondary schools by addressing a number of stakeholders. The findings highlight and provide the rationale for the need by policy makers to consider the mainstreaming of enterprise education at secondary level. Furthermore, commitment by the Irish government to the provision of increased resources, the development of programme material and teacher training are fundamental to the effectiveness of these programmes. To encourage greater participation by teachers and pupils, there is a need for formal recognition and accreditation of such programmes within the curriculum. Finally, greater awareness of the benefits of the programmes needs to be communicated to parents for them to encourage their children to participate in such programmes.
Workplace learning and higher education in Finland: reflections on current practice
Authors: Virolainen Maarit 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to describe the organization of workplace learning in Finnish polytechnics, the models that have been developed for this purpose, and the challenges presented.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the models for embedding workplace learning in the curriculum are described and analysed. Second, the conflicting factors encountered in building the network of expertise to support students' workplace learning in the cooperation of polytechnics and working life are investigated. Third, suggestions are made regarding some of the questions raised by the introduction of connectivity that might be explored to better understand the similarities and differences between workplace learning and learning at school (polytechnics). The study was carried out in five Finnish polytechnics in 2002‐2006. It focused on the bachelor' s degree programmes in the fields of social services, business administration and engineering. Data were collected through thematic interviews conducted with teachers supervising and organising workplace learning. The different models utilized in the five polytechnics with respect to the three educational fields are incorporated into a single holistic model on the basis of a theory‐led content analysis of the interviews. Further analysis of the interviews indicates the institutional barriers and obstacles that exist to the development of placements.FindingsPlacements in working life by Finnish polytechnics exhibit considerable variety. In addition the cultural practices that guide and limit the organising of placements are presented. These include the location of placement in the curriculum, negotiation of students' contracts, guidance in the workplace and practices, assessment including self‐assessment, student remuneration, and rewards for employers. The development of quality in workplace learning is heavily dependent on local initiative, as introducing connectivity is a practical process that has to be implemented and reflected on by networks of expertise. The debate on similarities and differences of workplace learning and learning in education could be enhanced by a more detailed exploration of the questions on what is learned and where.Originality/valueThe description given here of the organisation of placements can be utilized by higher education institutes and polytechnics as a tool in reflecting on their own models. Furthermore, the questions presented here within a framework grounded in a socio‐cultural approach may be used by teachers and developers of education as stimuli in developing quality assurance tools and in analysing the strengths and weaknesses of their placement systems.