bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Affect, emotional intelligence and librarian‐user interaction
Authors: Mills John , Lodge Damian 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore practical ways in which librarians may better assist, understand and manage a library user's experience.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on earlier work by Mills where 34 academics were interviewed on their information seeking behaviour. The concepts of affect and emotional intelligence have been introduced so information professionals can obtain a more clear understanding of the information environment.FindingsIn order to connect more closely with their user populations' information professionals could consider the following: embrace the key tenets of emotional intelligence as useful assistance strategies in user‐librarian interaction; understand that personal interaction is important for many users; understand that such interaction can offer valuable insights into user understandings of the role of the library; understand that there is more to a library than resource access; understand that not all users share the same perceptions as librarians of the information values of such tools as catalogues and databases; appreciate that users see many roles for a library and these are individually constructed based upon past experience and current needs; extending the physical boundaries of the library into user communities is important for role development and accept that the key marketing strategy of commercial retailers to get customers to “buy” and return to buy, is relevant in environments such as libraries.Originality/valueThe paper builds upon research on the information seeking behaviour of academics and explores the idea that users select information sources for more than cognitive reasons, i.e. just to find out. The importance of the emotional aspect of user interaction with sources, including information professionals, in their search for information has been neglected. It is necessary to re‐examine why and for what reasons users discriminate in their choice of information sources.
Strategic cooperation and consortia building for Indian libraries: models and methods
Authors: Ghosh Maitrayee , Biswas S.C. , Jeevan V.K.J. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the state of libraries in India and summarise the strategic cooperative initiatives undertaken to improve user access to electronic information services.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology used included personal interview, e‐mail interaction and literature searches. Several strategies for retrieving information were used across both the professional and research literature [Library Literature, Library and Information Science Abstracts, and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)] and the Internet (Google). A variety of search terms were employed to gain a broad overview of the subject and then more targeted terms to examine key aspects of the area of study with greater specificity. The paper also examines a range of general environmental factors impacting on libraries and which must be taken into account to accelerate the pace of beneficial change. It also lists the significant achievements in this field to date.FindingsThere are still significant potentials for further implementation of cooperative strategies to enhance networked, electronic information service delivery in India. This paper discusses some of the underlying issues which are presumably delaying the establishment of consortia and which need to be resolved.Research limitations/implicationsThis area of study is extremely fast moving and regular updating and continuation of this research is required to maintain a grasp of the situation.Practical implicationsThe negative factors outlined in this paper which militate against the full successful impact of cooperative strategies are clearly set out, in order to help library managers and administrators create practical solutions capable of eliminating these obstacles to progress.Originality/valueThis research gives an insight into how consortial strategies can help overcome the resource constraints which characterise library provision in many developing countries, providing a model for other library systems, which face similar problems, to follow.
Evaluating websites A systematic investigation of internet site quality from a single country domain name
Authors: Davarpanah M.R. , Khaleghi Narges 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe objective of this research paper is to evaluate websites freely available on the internet from one country – Iran and to provide information about the quality of their content.Design/methodology/approachGeneral quality criteria were used for the evaluation. These included ownership and authorship, type of websites, purpose and scope of the sites, language, links, domain types, currency/updating of information, accessibility, services and facilities. Thus, in May and June 2004, 328 websites were selected using Yahoo, Google, Lycos, Iran Digest, and A Guide to Iranian Websites, to conduct searches. A check list was drawn up to review the information from the tools.FindingsThe research revealed that among Iranian websites providing information on the internet, private sites were much more likely to be of poorer quality compared to sites of governmental organizations.Research limitations/implicationsBecause there are no authoritative search engines which are specifically Iranian, the data were collected by using a selection of five search tools over a limited period of time. Using only these search tools, 3735 websites were found. While this paper has surveyed the content of the websites, more research is needed to highlight the nature of the internet infrastructure and its use in this country.Originality/valueThe websites of each country are regarded as a prime national gateway of information. The paper uses other work on evaluating national web presence and gives clear insight into Iran's websites and gives a model for evaluating the national web presence in any one country. Based on the results, national digital strategies can be devised to help make progress towards an effective and high quality national portfolio of websites.
Does education have a role in developing leadership skills?
Authors: Elmuti Dean , Minnis William , Abebe Michael 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to provide a pragmatic example of multi‐stage leadership education model. Leadership education that is multidisciplinary, global, and ethics oriented is a remedy for many of the leadership challenges we are currently facing in the business world.Design/methodology/approachThis article discusses whether we can teach leadership, and if so, what essential skills should be taught in business schools. It also examines the shortcomings of current leadership education curriculum and recommends some major changes that need to be made. This article provides a descriptive overview and historical examination of these issues and techniques.FindingsA major finding can be drawn from this paper is that the present leadership education curriculum in business schools is not adequate in many regards and more work needs to be done.Research limitations/implicationsBusiness schools need to focus on revitalizing the leadership education curriculum to come up with a program that prepares students with practical and dynamic skills that enables them to be the future business leaders. A long‐term approach to leadership education rather than a short‐term effort is suggested.Originality/valueBy incorporating multidisciplinary, global‐oriented and ethical leadership education, we believe that this article on leadership education can effectively address the major challenges of the new millennium.
Leaving leadership: solving leadership problems through empowerment
Authors: Carson Charles M. , King James E. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeHas the objective of examining why the focus given to leadership should be severely curtailed in research and teaching, and replaced by concepts that are better defined, understood and whose positive contributions are clearly and consistently attainable. Education and research should firmly alter its focus to concentrate on empowerment, a concept that has been consistently tied to important organizational outcomes. Greater benefit can be attained by refining and advancing our understanding of empowerment (while instructing students/practitioners with our current knowledge), than by continuing to devote massive resources to the morass that is leadership.Design/methodology approachThese concepts are supported by prior studies and theoretical development rather than empirical evidence.FindingsFinds that we are infinitely better off teaching people what we know about using and encouraging empowerment than what we do not know about leadership, as traditionally defined. Moreover, in the twenty‐first century with flatter hierarchies and less variance in knowledge, power and resources, perhaps “leadership” should be defined by one's ability to respond to empowered situations with self‐leadership, as opposed to the traditional characterizations, which were derived from and are rooted in a more hierarchical view of work and organization.Originality/valueThis paper calls for a radical shift in our thinking about leadership research and teaching. Its value and originality to leadership scholars should be high.
Leadership development: teaching versus learning
Authors: Allio Robert J. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to elucidate the limitations of contemporary approaches to developing leaders and to present alternative approaches.Design/methodology/approachThis paper offers a review and critique of the assumptions on which current leadership programs are based.FindingsMost leadership training initiatives fail to produce leaders. Typical programs teach leadership theory, concepts, and principles; they promote leadership literacy but not leadership competence. Paradoxically, however, while leadership cannot be taught, leadership can be learned. Men and women become leaders by practice, by performing deliberate acts of leadership. The primary role of a good leader (one who is competent and ethical) is to establish and reinforce values and purpose, develop vision and strategy, build community, and initiate appropriate organizational change. This behavior requires character, creativity, and compassion, core traits that cannot be acquired cognitively.Practical implicationsFor those charged with the responsibility of developing leaders, the three necessary steps are to select the right candidates, create learning challenges, and provide mentoring. Those who seek to develop effective leadership training programs must first establish a metric for assessing leadership effectiveness. They must then design experiments that can establish a causal or statistically significant relationship between training initiatives and leadership competency. Evidence suggests that the most effective leadership programs will focus on building self‐knowledge and skills in rhetoric and critical thinking.Originality/valueThis paper challenges the utility of most leadership training. Leadership cannot be taught, although potential leaders can be educated.
There is no such thing as leadership, revisited
Authors: Washbush John B. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThis essay reflects a profound sense of frustration with the concept of leadership and the enormous and every increasing body of research and pontification about it. Given the ongoing failure to define leadership as a coherent construct, it aims to argue that continuing along this omni‐directional path is not likely to produce anything truly useful for those who study, teach about or work in organizations; rather, abandoning the concept altogether and emphasizing a focus on improving decision making in organizations may prove more fruitful.Design/methodology/approachLooks at different concepts of leadership and the enormous and ever‐increasing body of research and pontification about it.FindingsIn the end, however, the author believes that we are mostly left with endless discussions and perspectives of a word that simply sounds better. We seem to remain intent on calling almost everything leadership – but, if everything is leadership, then logically nothing is leadership.Originality/valueThis review is a useful source of information for anyone interested in the concept of leadership.
Leaders and the decision‐making process
Authors: Schwarber Patricia D. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe author has the objective of demonstrating how decision‐making conversations that are not guided by a process can lead to misunderstandings, wasted time, and a lack of results. These undisciplined exchanges will be contrasted with communications between and among people who use a common language and follow an agreed‐on, step‐by‐step approach to the decision at hand.Design/methodology approachThe author uses a partially hypothetical example of a leader who failed to involve her team in a major decision as a starting point for discussion of who should be involved in decisions, why, how, and when.FindingsDecision making happens through conversations that people have, either one‐on‐one, with teams, or in cross‐functional groups. Unfortunately, many decision‐making conversations end up as free‐for‐alls, with people talking at cross‐purposes, sharing information haphazardly, and covering the same ground over and over without coming to any conclusions. Decision makers are far more successful when they are focused and equipped with a process to guide them through their conversations than if they let these conversations just “happen”. Two of the most important roles leaders can play are those of role model and coach, to individuals and groups, to ensure that their decision‐making conversations proceed in a rational, organized manner.Originality/valuePractical ideas will be offered to help leaders transform their organization's decision‐making conversations from undisciplined exchanges to results‐oriented encounters.
The influence of managers' characteristics and perceptions in strategic alliance practice
Authors: Pansiri Jaloni 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a linkage between strategic alliance practice and managerial cognitive base with a view to understanding alliance dynamics better.FindingsBrings together two streams of management literature (cognitive base and strategic alliances) in order to provide an alternative to understanding strategic alliances. The analysis found that ever since the work of Hambrick and Mason, Upper echelon (UE) linking managerial characteristics to strategic choice have persistently overlooked strategic alliances as strategic options worth consideration. While on the other hand only a handful of strategic alliance researchers have paid lip‐service to the UE perspective.Design/methodology/approachAfter presenting a strategic alliance model, the paper reviews analysis of reasons for alliance formation, choice of partners, alliance structure and scope and alliance performance. Literature on managerial characteristics is also explored with a view to provide an approach to researching strategic alliances.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper cannot claim to have evaluated all the literature on the subject. A claim regarding lack of linkages between the two streams of research is made only in the context of accessed publications.Practical implicationsThe paper identifies opportunities for further research that links managerial cognitive base with diverse strategic alliance practices. Borrowing from the work of Carpenter et al. the paper further identify possibilities for further research that links top management teams characteristics to strategic alliance research which also has not been researched before.Originality/valueThe paper uses well‐established and researched management fields to identify gaps in the literature which could be further explored. To this end, the paper's originality and value is within identification of these gaps in the management literature.
Defining intellectual capital: a three‐dimensional approach
Authors: Marr Bernard , Moustaghfir Karim 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a three‐dimensional framework to facilitate future definitions of intellectual capital (IC). The concept of IC is often ill‐defined and there is a multitude of different definitions for the construct of IC. The lack of a common platform for dialogue has negative implications for research and practice in the field as it has hinders cross‐disciplinary learning. This paper aims to presents a flexible framework in order to make important differences explicit and therefore, if adopted, facilitates the creation of a cohesive body of knowledge.Design/methodology/approachThe paper utilises a systematic review process. This methodology was initially developed in the medical science to produce a replicable, scientific, and transparent analysis of evidence in the literature and has recently been broad into management science. A total of 938 papers were analysed to extract findings. The summary of the review protocol can be found in the Appendix.FindingsAnalysing the literature allowed the necessary components of a definition together with a list of possible sub‐components to be extracted. Definitions of IC need to be explicit about the: component parts of the construct; role IC will take in an organisation; and disciplinary perspective taken for the discussion.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper presents the necessary components of a definition of IC. If widely used, it would be able to facilitate cross‐disciplinary understanding and hopefully inter‐disciplinary research. It is seen as a starting point and open for future extension and development. A systematic review aims to limit bias and random error, however, it is limited by its scope on the basis of the defined research question and therefore delimited by factors outlined in the research protocol.Practical implicationsThe major implication for practitioners is the understanding that IC can mean very different things for different people. Insights outlined in this paper will enable anyone to understand better the important construct of IC from different perspectives, which in turn should facilitate dialogue and avoid many unnecessary misunderstandings.Originality/valueThe paper is a first attempt to present a framework to facilitate future definitions of IC. If used, discussed, and extended in the future, it could present an important corner stone for better cross‐disciplinary dialogue and the establishment of a research field of IC.
Linking intellectual capital and intellectual property to company performance
Authors: Bollen Laury , Vergauwen Philip , Schnieders Stephanie 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to link empirically the value of intellectual capital and intellectual property to firm performance.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data from managers in the (German) pharmaceutical industry is used to conduct a regression analysis focusing on the correlation between human, structural and relational capital, intellectual property and firm performance.FindingsThe results of the study show that including intellectual property in models linking intellectual capital to firm performance enhances the statistical validity of such models and their relevance for management.Practical implicationsIntellectual capital is an important source of an organization's economic wealth and is therefore to be taken into serious consideration when formulating the firm's strategy. This strategy formulation process can be enhanced by fully integrating intellectual property and intellectual capital into management models, as shown in this paper.Originality/valueThis empirical paper builds on and extends the Bontis research on the relationship between intellectual capital and firm performance. Contrary to Bontis the authors include intellectual property into the intellectual capital framework and focus on the role of intellectual property in the relationship between intellectual capital and firm performance.
Formal organizations in contemporary society
Authors: Dwyer Rocky J. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe paper examines the importance and pervasiveness of formal organizations in contemporary society.Design/methodology/approachAn examination of the historical, classic, and modern theorists' perspectives was undertaken to determine the relevancy of the theories in dealing with the changing social, technological and cultural values of today's organization and society.FindingsUnderstanding the importance and pervasiveness of formal organizations in contemporary society would enable individuals to influence better factors associated with changing values.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that an intrinsic understanding of the various dimensions, which help, create and shape an organization, can be influenced at both the micro and macro levels.Originality/valueThis paper presents an overview of the literature which both enhances personal knowledge and understanding at the theoretical and practical levels so as to enable individuals to gain insight on the inherent factors that may be influenced to advance organizational goals and objectives.
From pre‐Medieval to post‐Modern times
Authors: Kidd John , Stumm Marielle 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe paper aims to begin with a brief review of early banking and finance methods, early logistics routes through Europe, and message delivery modes in medieval China, the paper then proposes to move on to a comparative study of modern logistics modes in the European Union and in India – in particular the ports of Le Havre (France) and Mangalore (Karnataka).Design/methodology/approachThe data are derived from secondary sources, including the local press in India as well as official European Union (EU) documentation.FindingsGiven the cultural and political differences between the EU and India, their logistics and hinterland development are very different in deployment and scope: Le Havre “scores” much more highly than Mangalore and the EU is much more coherently developed than India.Practical implicationsLe Havre, France, and the EU are well placed through their integrated logistics development to merge with the proposed Euro‐Asia‐America “land‐bridge” which initially will be based on a redeveloped Trans‐Siberian rail network; whereas the southern “Silk Road” development, taking in India, is floundering due to many factors inhibiting implementation of this new network.Originality/valueThe paper will be of interest to those who wish to view the development of intercontinental logistics routes, and to grasp the future potential for new trade links between the Pacific and the Atlantic ports.
Origin of the Economic Order Quantity formula; transcription or transformation?
Authors: Roach Bill 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to speculate on how the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) formula was developed.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a literature review and analysis.FindingsFord Whitman Harris's contribution to the EOQ formula is significantly original.Practical implicationsOrigins of work and questions of plagiarism can be ambiguous. The speculations here illustrate some of the ambiguities inherent in trying to use citations to give appropriate credit for ideas. They also help scholars understand the creative process and perhaps to teach in a way that enhances the creativity of students.Originality/valueThe paper specifies the link between Lord Kelvin and Ford Whitman Harris.