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The stability of vitamin C in different beverages
Authors: Jeney‐Nagymate Emese , Fodor Peter 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the stability and the parameters affecting the stability of vitamin C in beer, wine and orange juice.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, a high performance liquid chromatography method was applied for reliable determination of ascorbic acid in these beverages. Three different types of beer, a wine and orange juice sample were spiked with ascorbic acid using different concentrations and pH values. The samples were stored at 4oC, but in some cases 20oC was also used as storage temperature. The joint effect of vitamin C and E was also examined.FindingsThe results demonstrated that vitamin C was stable only in orange juice at the original pH values. Under pH=4, beer was also a good matrix for vitamin C addition, but only at low storage temperature (4oC). Vitamin E addition increased the stability of ascorbic acid (p<0.05) even at room temperature.Practical implicationsThese findings could have significant implications to the beer industry. This study shows that vitamin C can be stable in beer during the shelf life of this product using appropriate pH and storage temperature.Originality/valueThe paper shows that the addition of an antioxidant vitamin is good from the point of view of the consumer's health, and it can improve the shelf life of the food because of its antioxidant activity.
Production locations for the internationalising food industry: case study from Russia
Authors: Lorentz Harri 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to identify the location decision criteria and their relative weights in the context of food manufacturing internationalisation into emerging markets, and to clarify how supply chain related factors are reflected in the location decision criteria. Knowledge of these factors is considered crucial in understanding the entry and location decisions of foreign food manufacturers into emerging markets where a high level of operational uncertainty may be evident.Design/methodology/approachThe AHP method is utilised in the creation of a location/investment target ‐model, with input from a panel of decision makers in the Finnish food industry. A real‐life application from the Russian agribusiness industry is presented.FindingsSeven criteria reach above average values, namely economic activity potential (10 per cent), consumption potential (9 per cent), available acquisition targets (12 per cent), adequate supply of raw materials (13 per cent), competitive situation (16 per cent), favourable level of input costs (11 per cent), and SCM readiness and know‐how (9 per cent). The significant weight of the last item and the supply chain related factors in general underscore the total demand‐supply network‐oriented thinking in the food industry.Research limitations/implicationsSupply chain considerations are a major factor in the food industry location decisions, due to the need to utilise the local sourcing, distribution and service systems in the economy. The downstream, upstream and related service sectors in the supply chain can thereby serve as constraints for the business expansion process.Originality/valueThe research addresses the sparsely researched area of linking a firm's internationalisation decision making with supply chain management issues in the emerging market context.
Manage learning without apology: an economist's perspective
Authors: Vance David 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the current state of corporate learning from a business perspective and make specific recommendations for improvement.Design/methodology/approachConclusions are reached based on personal experience at Caterpillar Inc. (Caterpillar University was named Best Overall Corporate University in 2004 and ranked 1st in ASTD BEST Awards for 2005), from numerous benchmarking visits with other companies and from discussions with other learning professionals.FindingsIt is found that learning is not managed like a business in most organizations which reduces its impact and influence. Worse, many in the learning profession continually apologize for the lack of rigor and discipline, believing that it is too hard or too difficult to manage learning like other lines of business. It is concluded that learning is not any more difficult to manage than the rest of business and two key requirements for success are suggested. First, the learning function should create a written business plan with specific, measurable objectives that are strategically aligned to the organization's overall goals. Second, the plan must be executed throughout the year with discipline, rigor, accountability and transparency. Examples of alignment and measurement scorecards are included.Practical implicationsSpecific recommendations to run learning like a business, including sample reports.Originality/valueThe paper brings a business perspective to learning which will be valuable for HR and training professionals without business line experience. Intended for those who want to improve their existing T&D function or start a corporate university.
Driving organisational change with internal coaching programmes: part two
Authors: Rock David , Donde Ruth 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this two‐part paper is to outline a new way of utilising coaching to drive wide scale organisational change.Design/methodology/approachThe various benefits to using internal coaches are illustrated by fleshing out the cost benefits, and highlighting a range of ways that organisations can integrate coaching into their people, performance and culture frameworks. The paper covers training, design and implementation issues as well as looking at aligning coaching models with the organisation's strategic approach; draws on extensive case studies and posits some best practice principles, then addresses some of the key questions around this topic. This paper also draws on interviews with over 50 internal coaches over two years, and several other research papers on this topic.FindingsThe paper illustrates how training leaders to be internal coaches is a more scalable, sustainable and robust approach to driving change and improving performance than hiring external coaches. Early indicators are showing significant increases in retention, engagement, productivity and performance, as well as ROI (17X), across organisations that have developed internal coaching.Practical implicationsData are critical to understanding coaching impacts within organisational contexts. Thanks to those organisations using measurement, impacts to the business can be determined.Originality/valueThese positive data are significant for organisations making decisions around introducing coaching initiatives, driving organisational change or adopting a coaching culture.
Interpersonal influence in the workplace – part one: an introduction to concepts and a theoretical model
Authors: Manning Tony , Pogson Graham , Morrison Zoë 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to model the relationship between influencing behaviour, personality traits, work roles and role orientation. It builds on previous research into team roles, highlighting the relationship between influencing behaviour and team role behaviour.Design/methodology/approachStatistical analysis on questionnaire data from a mixed, work‐based, UK sample is used to assess relationships between influencing behaviour, role expectations, role orientation and team role behaviour.FindingsThe paper argues that team roles access different types of power and influencing behaviours depending on role and role orientation. Findings establish a link between influencing behaviour and team role behaviour, as well as personality traits, developing the idea that there is a significant social dimension to team roles.Research limitations/implicationsThe research does not consider specific influence attempts, nor does it present evidence regarding the effectiveness of patterns of influencing behaviour in particular contexts.Practical implicationsThe paper highlights the relationship between influencing behaviour and personality and contextual variables. Considering “when” different strategies and styles are used may offer guidelines for action. Findings reinforce the significance of the social dimension of team roles and indicate a need for further research to consider the success of influencing behaviour in different contexts.Originality/valuePrevious research into influencing behaviour has focused on its relationship to either situational variables or personality traits and, where personality variable have been studied, they have been specific traits. This research considers both sets of variables simultaneously and covers the whole personality domain. This is the first study of the relationship between team role behaviour and influencing behaviour.
Strategic alignment: linking your learning strategy to the balanced scorecard
Authors: Pangarkar Ajay M. , Kirkwood Teresa 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to address the increasing need to move past the traditional measurement, evaluation methodologies and truly connect the value of learning and performance to organizational objectives and strategy.Design/methodology/approachThough anecdotal research, several industry conference presentations on the topic, and discussions with senior management groups it is highly evident that there is a need for both an organization's learning group and senior management to communicate. Add to the fact that the Balanced Scorecard is becoming the tool of choice for many organizations to translate their mission into tactical outcomes, the learning and growth component is one of the weakest developed areas of this important tool but, according to the creators of BSC, it is the most significant part of the BSC enabling the other components.FindingsThe need for organizations to compete is increasing exponentially. Organizational leaders are quickly realizing that their organizations can no longer compete based on past success factors such as assets, products, or pricing in a knowledge‐based economy. The senior management groups understand that more than equipment, their success lies in the knowledge of their employees to compete. New ideas, innovation, and technology are significantly contributing to the knowledge need.Practical implicationsFrom this paper, readers, specifically those responsible for training, learning, and human resources along with senior managers, will be able to communicate and begin to connect their learning strategies to the organization's mission and strategic planning process.Originality/valueKaplan and Norton stress the need for management to be attentive to the “Learning and growth” component of the BSC and not disregard or minimize its importance to the other perspectives. To date, how to integrate and develop the learning and growth component was not addressed in any depth.
Behaviorally‐based management training: linking behaviors to employee satisfaction
Authors: Thacker Rebecca A. , Holl Kelly B. 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify behaviorally‐based training for management trainees with a foundation in employees' beliefs about effective managerial behaviors, and the relationship of these behaviors to employees' satisfaction with supervision, company as employer, and job assignments.Design/methodology/approachManufacturing organization and social services agency employees (N=134) were surveyed by questionnaire and asked “How important do you think it is that managers exhibit the following behaviors?” and “How well does your manager exhibit the following behaviors?” Factor analysis produced three factors: Connection with employees, Vision, Autonomy. Employee satisfaction questions were included.FindingsVision and Autonomy scales for “How well does your manager exhibit the following behaviors?” showed significant, positive correlations for satisfaction with quality of supervision, and with company/agency as an employer. Connection with employees scale for “How important do you think it is that managers exhibit the following behaviors?” showed significant, positive correlations for employees' satisfaction with job assignmentsResearch limitations/implicationsFuture research should include employees' perceptions of what constitutes effective managerial behaviors. Study should be replicated in larger, multicultural organizations to assess the universality of these managerial behaviors.Practical implicationsSpecific recommendations for behaviorally‐based manager training of management trainees, based on employee‐identified behaviors, are provided.Originality/valueThe paper is creative in its inclusion of employees in data collection of definition of effective managerial behaviors and is valuable to those interested in management trainee programs linking behaviorally‐based development to employee satisfaction outcomes.
Is digitisation the new circulation?
Authors: Joint Nicholas 
Published: April 2008

PurposeTo explore the belief that digital technology has created a steep and irreversible decline in traditional library use, particularly in borrowing from public and higher education library print collections, with a concomitant effect on familiar patterns of reading and reflection. If digital technology has led to a fundamental change in the way young people in HE process information, should traditional assumptions about library use and educational reading habits be abandoned?Design/methodology/approachThis is a comparative analysis of statistics of library use available in the public domain in the USA and UK.FindingsThat reading habits shown in the use of public libraries are arguably conservative in nature; and that recent statistics for the circulation of print stock in US and UK university libraries indisputably show year on year increases, not decreases, except where the digitisation of print originals has provided a generous supply of effective digital surrogates for print holdings. The nature of reading has not changed fundamentally in nature. But where copyright law permits large‐scale provision of digital collections to be derived from print originals, these will readily displace borrowing from print collections, leading to lower circulation figures of hard copy items.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper asserts that the restrictive nature of UK copyright law, which is demonstrably backward by international standards, is a major factor inhibiting university teachers from helping their students migrate from print to digital media. This assertion should be researched in greater depth, with a view to using such research to influence the development of future intellectual property legislation in the UK.Practical implicationsBecause of the essentially conservative nature of reflective reading for educational purposes, digitisation programmes offer an important way forward for academic library service development. Library managers should not underestimate the persistent demand for traditional reading materials: where such materials are provided in digital or print formats, in most cases the digital formats will be preferred; but where high quality educational resources are only available in print, there is no evidence that the format of alternative digital media is in itself sufficient to lure students away from quality content.Originality/valueThis paper questions some of the more casual assumptions about the “death” of traditional library services.
The US information infrastructure and libraries: a case study in democracy
Authors: Thompson Kim M. 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the US information infrastructure, including discussion of federal policy affecting the evolution of the infrastructure. Libraries are then discussed as a means to further utilize the information infrastructure to ensure democratic access to information.Design/methodology/approachThe paper begins with a brief history of the evolution of the US information infrastructure and then turns to discussion of how libraries can maximize their utility within the context of this information society.FindingsThe paper identifies the richness of the information infrastructure and the potential for information poverty of Americans if libraries are not careful to focus on the information available through information technology rather than focus on the information technology itself.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is based on an historical look at the democratic underpinnings of the US information infrastructure and outlines general trends in US federal information policy that lead to the modern US information society.Practical implicationsIt is the author's wish that librarians and other information professionals use this work to support their focus on information access, using information technology and the rest of the information infrastructure to provide top information service and access to their users.Originality/valueDemocratic rule requires an informed populace. The key to an informed populace is utilizing a nation's information infrastructure to most fully disseminate and gather needed information to and from the citizens of that nation. This case study provides an historical overview of the evolution of one nation's information infrastructure as a means to draw attention to the leading role libraries can take in supporting a democratic society, providing access to information via information technologies.
Analysis of information use in agricultural science PhD theses at Central University of Venezuela (1986‐2002)
Authors: Isaac Chaparro‐Martínez Exio , Ángel Marzal Miguel 
Published: April 2008

PurposeTo analyze information use in agricultural science PhD theses submitted between 1986 and 2002 in the Faculty of Agronomy, Central University of Venezuela (UCV).Design/methodology/approachThe source of information was the UCV Faculty of Agronomy, Library's database, “Tesis”. The unidimensional production and use indicators analyzed included: scientific production, reference density, self‐citations, document contemporaneousness and type of documents cited, reference scattering and accessibility of the journals cited.FindingsThe analysis of the data obtained from 4,646 bibliographic references in 42 agricultural science PhD theses provides insight into information use in a Venezuelan agricultural science community. The mean number of references per thesis found was 113 ± 21. The number of women earning a PhD in agriculture was observed to grow. The percentage of self‐citations varied widely. The half‐life was 11 years and the Price's Index 22 per cent. According to the distribution by document type, most of the publications cited were articles in journals, while references to technical standards and internet publications were rare. UCV Faculty of Agronomy PhD students tended to seek information primarily in the Anglo Saxon literature. The Celestino Bonfanti Library periodicals section met a high proportion (92 per cent) of the demand for journals located in the first and second concentration‐scattering zones.Originality/valueThis is the only paper on the evaluation of PhD theses in Venezuela. The findings will be useful for education planners in Venezuela and other developing countries.
Library services for people with disabilities in Greece
Authors: Koulikourdi Anna 
Published: April 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate current library services for people with disabilities in Greece and their information seeking behavior and to study both libraries' and users' perspectives in this field for the first time in Greece.Design/methodology/approachSurvey methodology has been used as the basic research tool by sending questionnaires both to Greek libraries and to associations for the disabled.FindingsThe paper depicts the lack of library services to the disabled and acknowledges possible barriers but also presents several, recent steps of improvement and development in Greek libraries.Research limitations/implicationsDifficulty in identifying these vulnerable group of disabled users and estimating their exact figures.Originality/valueThis paper is useful for information professionals who seek a greater understanding of library services for people with disabilities in Greece, since there is almost no literature and research relevant to this topic. Furthermore, it shows that effective library programs for disabled users are generally lacking in Greece.
Nutritional composition of Gongronema latifolium and Vernonia amygdalina
Authors: Frederick Eleyinmi Afolabi , Sporns Peter , Bressler David C. 
Published: April 2008

PurposeTo investigate the potential food, feed and industrial values of some tropical underutilized medicinal plant materials.Design/methodology/approachDry‐milled plants, namely: Gongronema latifolium and Vernonia amygdalina were subjected to chemical analysis to determine their proximate, mineral, elemental, fatty acid and amino acid compositions using standard procedures.FindingsResults show that the lipid extract, ash, crude fibre and nitrogen free extractives, oxalate, phytate and tannin of the plants are within expected ranges. They however had unexpectedly high crude protein content: 27.20 and 21.69 per cent, respectively. Potassium, phosphorus, calcium and cobalt were the most abundant mineral elements. G. latifolium and V. amygdalina leaf oils are 50.22 and 24.54 per cent saturated; 39.38 and 65.45 per cent polyunsaturated, respectively. Palmitic and oleic acids were the major monounsaturated fatty acids. Degrees of unsaturation are 0.46 and 0.41, respectively. Major essential amino acids are leucine, valine and phenylalanine. Proportions of essential to non‐essential amino acid are 43.37 and 49.84 per cent, respectively.Originality/valueThe nutritional composition of the plant materials suggests that they may find use in food/feed formulation operations and as industrial raw materials.
Knowledge and practices of food safety regulators in Southern India
Authors: Sudershan R.V. , Subba Rao G.M. , Rao Pratima , Vishnu Vardhana Rao M. , Polasa Kalpagam 
Published: April 2008

PurposeTo assess knowledge, perceptions and practices of grassroots‐level food safety regulators.Design/methodology/approachKnowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) study using quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection. Quantitative data was collected using a pre‐tested knowledge assessment questionnaire. Qualitative data was collected by conducting a focus group discussion (FGD) and six in‐depth interviews among food safety regulators from all 23 districts of the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Quantitative data were analysed using SPSS package (version 14.5). The FGD and in‐depth interviews' recordings were transcribed verbatim and translated into English before compiling them into individual reports. These reports were read independently by a group of researchers before inferences were drawn.FindingsThe respondents' knowledge on basic food microbiology was limited. They attributed their inability to monitor all cases of food poisoning/adulteration to delay in receiving information and lack of laboratory facilities. They had sound knowledge of conventional adulterations, but were not equipped to check newer adulterations. Their knowledge on health/nutrition claims on food labels is almost nil. Orientation towards food safety issues other than adulteration is the need of the hour.Originality/valueThe results of the study can serve as the basis for developing an in‐service training module for food safety regulators.