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Cybernetical physics Part I: “Feynman's paradox” and its implications
Authors: Fidelman Uri 
Published: February 2009

PurposeFeynman's claim that a positron is an electron moving backwards in time implies a paradox. The purpose of this paper (Part I of II) is to prevent the contradiction in physics due to this paradox.Design/methodology/approachBoth physical considerations and neuropsychological considerations are applied.FindingsThe physical considerations imply that assuming multidimensionality of time prevents Feynman's paradox and additional physical paradoxes. This multidimensionality in explained by neuropsychological considerations.Practical implicationsA suggested method of obtaining unlimited quantity of clean energy based on the principle of annihilating matter and antimatter is presented in Part II.Originality/valueThis theory is entirely new. Its approach is different from that of other approaches to the multidimensionality of time.
Aspects of a cluster research strategy: systemics applied to the study of clusters
Authors: Jensen Sven‐Are , Johannessen Jon‐Arild , Olsen Bjørn 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to shed light on the question: how can we study clusters from a systemic perspective?Design/methodology/approachFirst, clusters are discussed from a strategic point of view, then it is determined what is meant by a systemic perspective. In part two of the paper systemics applied to the study of clusters is discussed. In the last part of the paper a systemic research strategy for the study of clusters is discussed.FindingsThe paper produces a research strategy based on three main entities: composition, environment and structure.Originality/valueThe paper develops a systemic research strategy for the study of innovation based in clusters.
Pansystems traffics, logistics and knowledge rediscovery
Authors: Zhou Xiaolu , Xie Ruhe , Zhang Xizhou , Wang Cheng , Wu Xuemou 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop pansystems‐styled traffics, logistics and knowledge rediscovery. The core logoi are the generalized resources//F* and their circulation//C*. The research presents a new outlook to mathematics, physics, traffic, communication, logistics, KD, internet, computer, translation, simulation, information, life‐systems, logic or reasoning, memory or storage, process, transaction, finance, education, inherent, topology, evolution, etc. and then certain mechanism among them and related mutuality can be unveiled.Design/methodology/approachA flexible combination of philosophy, mathematics and technology is embodied. The paper is an application of pansystems methodology to approach the following topics: pansystems resource, circulation: traffics, logistics and KD; pansystems variational principle and pan‐circulation; pansystems logistics; pansystems network, supply chain and bullwhip effect; pansystems innovation and knowledge rediscovery.FindingsAll of the topics concerned are reduced to the actualization of pansystems variational OR and classification‐repetition‐PanOR, which possess a transfield nature.Originality/valueThis paper provides the framework and concretion principles of pansystems research on traffics, logistics, supply chain, bullwhip effect, innovation and related applications, and presents a new world outlook, which leads to some new comprehension to KD and WHF* <world*history*future*>, SEM* <society* economy*management*>.
The early years: some comments on the origins and concepts of cybernetics
Authors: Rose J. 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the role and importance of the ideas of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics in the context of the information revolution.Design/methodology/approachAnalyzes criticisms and objections in some detail and draws conclusions.FindingsShows how Wiener saw the need for an interdisciplinary science.Originality/valueThis review paper, originally written in 1994, sketches ideas underlying the origins of cybernetics and outlines the aims of this interdisciplinary science.
The problem of technological barriers
Authors: Rose J. 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to give an insight into the thinking of the 1960s and at a time when subsequent advances and developments could not easily have been predicated with any degree of certainty. Provides an analysis and summary of “new concepts” of cybernetics and discusses their implications.Design/methodology/approachBy presenting the essentials of this prize‐winning essay, considerations can be given to science and technology, the technological time lag; the status of technologists; industrial and academic research; the interaction of technologies; the cybernetic revolution; education and the environmental barrier; professional obsolescence; and the purpose of education.FindingsThis analysis and summary puts into perspective the historical background of the development of cybernetics and the 1960s concept of “general systems”, encountered by author.Originality/valuePays tribute to the foresight of Dr Rose at one of the most challenging periods in the development of these fields. The republication of these ideas in 2000 emphasised the accuracy of this predications of the 1960s.
The 20th anniversary tribute to Professor Rose
Authors: Rudall Brian H. 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss Dr Rose's paper which presented his views of the cybernetic revolution; education and the environmental barrier; and the purpose of education.Design/methodology/approachThis paper introduces the concepts held by systemists and cyberneticians in the late 1960s. Sections of the original publication by Dr Rose are included.FindingsPlaces in an historical context the concepts of the cyberneticians and systemists – of that time and re‐emphasizes their role in forming present day thinking.Originality/valueForms part of the tributes paid to the role of Dr Rose and his contribution to these areas of research and development. The original paper discussed was republished in 1991 as a 20th Anniversary tribute to the founding editor of the journal Kybernetes.
The financial crisis
Authors: Andrew Alex M. 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss a message from Professor Stuart Umpleby to the CYBCOM discussion group.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews developments on the internet, especially those of general cybernetic interest.FindingsFour links are followed up and discussed. The first refers to the reflexivity theory of Soros, the second to distinct epistemologies within cybernetics, and the other two specifically to means of global regulation.Practical implicationsThere should be implications for both economic and ecological regulation.Originality/valueIt is hoped this is a valuable periodic review.
From memory to digital record
Authors: Barratt Nick 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to add a personal commentary on the trends of the archiving industry over the last four years; examine the impact of the internet on archives and archiving activity amongst user groups; and look at applications that could be shaped to match these trends.Design/methodology/approachThe information in this paper is based on the author's own experiences and from the author's perspective as a media researcher, trained historian and former archive employee.FindingsThe paper shows that the internet has introduced new challenges to historians and archivists, whose roles are changing rapidly. This can be seen as daunting, intimidating and something to be resisted, but in reality there is a unique opportunity for the historical and archival community to break with its past, embrace the new user trends and find a new place at the heart of cultural activity by supporting offsite and online initiatives. The role of the historian will evolve to encompass an interpretation of contemporary and recent evidence, often user generated, as one moves from paper record keeping and document creation to a digital and online world.Originality/valueThe paper provides a discussion on the changing roles of professional historians and archivists in the twenty‐first century, as the internet makes archived documentation and personal heritage more widely available on the worldwide web.
Managing records, making knowledge and good governance
Authors: Harries Stephen 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThis paper aims to stimulate debate on the future development of records management, especially in the public sector, in the context of challenges from modernisation of government and from social and cultural changes emerging from internet developments.Design/methodology/approachThe paper discusses relevant concepts of knowledge, records and public sector change, and attempts a high‐level synthesis.FindingsThe paper proposes a framework for characterising a social dimension to records management, relating records with knowledge communities and processes, and for mapping a records/knowledge dynamic in the policy‐to‐delivery process.Originality/valueThe paper integrates recent experience with electronic records management with developments in government policy delivery and programme development.
Achieved and tangible benefits: lessons learned from a landmark EDRMS implementation
Authors: Wilkins Linda , Swatman Paula M.C. , Holt Duncan 
Published: February 2009

PurposeEntering the twenty‐first century, burgeoning information management needs in both the private and public sectors are pushing adoption of automated records management systems. Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS) are evolving as the most likely solution. Despite this trend, relatively few published accounts of e‐records implementations exist that present achieved and measurable benefits. This paper seeks to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe authors highlight a set of workflow driven strategies that required considerable managerial and financial investment. FindingsThe case study shows just how crucial it is for any organisation to bring with it the people and the processes involved in the creation, management and maintenance of records and information, if a centralised approach is to work over the longer term.Practical implicationsThe detailed nature of the investigation also serves to highlight a set of well‐documented IT strategies for records management. These strategies, carefully put in place before the project got under way, demonstrably underpin the implementation and its outcomes. Practitioners should find the opportunity to examine and select transferable practices from each stage of the implementation particularly valuable.Originality/valueThis review of a recent landmark EDRMS implementation in an Australian local government authority supplements the sparse literature currently available.
How knowledge organizations work: the case of detectives
Authors: Gottschalk Petter , Holgersson Stefan , Terje Karlsen Jan 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to conceptualize detectives in police investigations as knowledge workers.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a literature review covering knowledge organizations, police organizations, police investigations, and detectives as knowledge workers.FindingsThe paper finds that the changing role of the detective as a resource influences investigation performance in solving complex and organized crime.Research limitations/implicationsThis exploratory research provides no final conclusions.Practical implicationsLeadership in police investigations needs to focus on knowledge management among detectives rather than information collection in each criminal case.Originality/valueUntil this paper, the secretive nature of the detective world has been unexplored by manpower researchers.
Organizational commitment, knowledge management interventions, and learning organization capacity
Authors: Massingham Peter , Diment Kieren 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between organizational commitment and knowledge management initiatives in developing learning organization capacity (LOC).Design/methodology/approachThis is an empirical study based on a single case study, using partial least squares (PLS) analysis.FindingsThe strategic importance of LOC and the role of knowledge sharing in developing LOC have been well documented. The effect of social and conversational technologies on LOC has also undergone investigation. The effect of individual factors (e.g. attitudes) towards such technologies has not been adequately described empirically. This paper links organizational commitment, a broad attitude domain, and technology aptitude, a narrow attitudinal facet, to knowledge sharing via a social and conversational technology.Originality/valueThis research clarifies person‐related effects within these important workplace phenomena.
The indirect relationship between organizational‐level knowledge worker turnover and innovation
Authors: Guidice Rebecca M. , Thompson Heames Joyce , Wang Sheng 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to conceptually demonstrate that the relationship between turnover and innovation is not direct as some research suggests, but rather indirect, with organizational learning as the prerequisite social mechanism that ties the two phenomena together.Design/methodology/approachThis paper integrates research across a number of related areas to develop a model of the immediate and indirect organizational consequences of different rates of knowledge worker turnover.FindingsThe paper finds that certain conditions and mechanisms must first be in place to pave the way to innovation. Grounded in social capital theory, this paper describes how turnover rates and organizational learning can be curvilinearly related with respect to ambidextrous learning; how betweenness centrality and learning culture can moderate this relationship; and why organizational learning should mediate the turnover‐innovation relationship.Research limitations/implicationsFaulty decisions based on simplified beliefs place organizational performance in a precarious position. Studies must consider how changes in personnel affect activities where interpersonal relationships are critical. Turnover that beneficially breathes diversity, critical evaluation, and creativity should result in benefits that more than offset its costs.Originality/valueBy taking an in‐depth look at previously disconnected research, the paper offers a unified model that more accurately depicts the processes and outcomes that intercede and explain how knowledge worker turnover rates come to influence innovation.
Changing affective content in brand and product attributes
Authors: Abbott Marcus , Holland Ray , Giacomin Joseph , Shackleton John 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThis paper aims to explore whether consumers' cognitive reactions to a branded product remain stable over time. In many created concepts, entity attributes are such that cognitive reactions to them change in a predictable manner by attraction to elements of novelty and typicality in the genre. By analysing products from a luxury vehicle brand, under the framework of a theoretical model of changing “affective content”, this paper seeks to explore whether brands behave similarly.Design/methodology/approachThe study draws on research previously published into the changing nature of art, poetry, architecture and other artistic genres. Text from motoring press articles written contemporarily to the production of products of the brand, over the past 80 years, are analysed for constructs of affective content and the overall values expressed.FindingsThe results provide evidence that the attributes of some branded products produce cognitive conditions that cycle in a manner that is predictable, with change points corresponding to new product introductions.Practical implicationsThrough understanding cognitive reactions to the branded product that may be discreetly deconstructable and anticipated, advantageous product attribute development can progress with some certainty. Further, new product launches can be timed to coincide with receptive consumer conditions supported by appropriate attribute emphasis.Originality/valueThis paper applies a theory, which has been proven to exist in a number of artistic genres, to the brand for the first time. Its contribution is twofold; firstly, to expand developing knowledge into the cognitive processing of the branded product; and secondly, to introduce an informative process to product and brand development activities.
Impulse purchases of new products: an empirical analysis
Authors: Harmancioglu Nukhet , Zachary Finney R. , Joseph Mathew 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThis paper aims to examine consumers' cognitive processes and motivations for making impulse purchases of new products.Design/methodology/approachA total of 157 consumer surveys were collected and these were analyzed using structural equations modeling.FindingsThere are two major findings: new product knowledge and consumer desire for excitement and esteem promote impulse buying intention and behavior.Originality/valueThe paper is among the first to determine how impulse purchases of new products differ from impulse purchases of other types of products. In doing so, the paper builds on the substantial body of work surrounding impulse purchases.
A step‐by‐step process to build valued brands
Authors: Boatwright Peter , Cagan Jonathan , Kapur Dee , Saltiel Al 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe primary purpose of this study is to illustrate an analytical method to identify tangible and intangible customer values and to translate those values into brand identity differentiators and product specifications.Design/methodology/approachThe authors adapt a product development analysis tool, the Value Opportunity Analysis (VOA), to the design of a brand identity, illustrating the use of the tool in a case study with International Truck and Engine.FindingsThe paper illustrates how the VOA was used as a tool for evaluating and crafting both a brand identity, and shows how the brand identity translates into product specifications so that products embody, communicate, and deliver the brand identity.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the VOA has been used in diverse markets (business to business, consumer software, physical product), in this article the VOA is illustrated in the context of brand identity for physical products. Future studies should illustrate how the application of the method may vary across domains.Practical implicationsThis approach will appeal to executives, brand managers and product managers who have a goal of maintaining a differentiated brand identity and clearly delivering brand values through the products in the brand portfolio.Originality/valueProducts serve as influential sources of information about a brand's identity. The paper treats the brand as a product to be designed, adapting an analytical approach to translate customer value into brand identity and ultimately into the specification of the products, to ensure that all are aligned to answer the marketplace needs in a way that differs from competitors.
Examination of satisfaction in cross‐product group settings
Authors: Allen Broyles S. , Ross Robert H. , Leingpibul Thaweephan (Duke) 
Published: February 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to test a model that examines whether the “meets expectations” and “affective feeling state” perspectives of satisfaction are distinct constructs in a cross‐product group setting with products that have disparate levels of consumer involvement, and to test whether the constructs' influence on (re)purchase behavior are (dis)similar across product groups.Design/methodology/approachNew measures were developed for a survey that was administered to mid‐Western US respondents. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and test hypotheses that were developed from extant literature.FindingsThe study's findings suggest there is external validity that meets expectations and affective feeling state are two distinct constructs, and that while each construct's influence on (re)purchase behavior varies across product groups, the comparative influence differs from what is suggested in extant literature.Research limitations/implicationsOnly three brands, each of which is relatively affordable were used in the study and the survey was completed with university students and with respondents from a broad range of age and socio‐economic backgrounds.Practicable implicationsThis study provides a foundation for future cross‐product group research, and reveals marketers' need to develop strategies with dual goals of meeting consumers' expectations, and developing positive consumer affective feelings.Originality/valueThis study is a benchmark comparative cross‐product group consumer satisfaction study.
Plaiting pricing into product categories and corporate objectives
Authors: Kehagias John , Skourtis Emmanuel , Vassilikopoulou Aikaterini 
Published: February 2009

PurposeUsing the product classification proposed by the Commodity School as it was originally expressed and later developed, this research aims to focus on defining pricing strategies for specific corporate objectives, that is, profit increase, market share increase, and prevention of new competitors from entering the market.Design/methodology/approachIn order to investigate the relationship between four consumer product categories and alternative pricing strategies in light of various corporate objectives, a set of research questions and propositions was formed and tested on the basis of data reflecting opinions expressed by marketing executives through a mailed survey in Greece.FindingsFor convenience and preference products, the low‐price strategy is used more often, irrespective of corporate objectives, whereas the high‐price strategy is used more often, irrespective of corporate objectives, for specialty products. For shopping products, the low‐price strategy is used more often when the main corporate objectives are increased market share and the prevention of new competitors from entering the market, but when the main corporate objective is increased profits, the high‐price strategy tends to prevail.Research limitations/implicationsThe current research could be further expanded to cover other related topics such as the pricing policies and specific pricing methods that are used in the four product categories in combination with the pricing strategies they relate to and serve.Practical implicationsFor marketers, the development of the proposed framework can serve as a basis for pricing decisions, provided, of course, that they use research‐based information about the extent to which their products have the attributes of a certain product category.Originality/valueAs the literature review revealed, no conceptual links have been made between the three important parameters examined, that is, product categories, corporate objectives, and pricing strategies, that can form a pricing framework for consumer products. This research serves as a starting point for developing such a three‐point framework.