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A speech by Dr Don Parker at a plenary session at the Western Academy of Management, 1992 examines the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation standards and their impact and examines missionlined accreditation. Suggests that although expectations of business schools will be higher, the new standards will “provide more latitude and opportunities for accreditation consistent with mission”.

WE offer our readers good wishes for 1939. We hope that every kind of library may be allowed in peace to pursue its development for the spreading of good reading, to the end that enlightenment and with it wisdom may prevail amongst our millions of readers. We hope too that it will be another year of progress in service, in good and deftly‐employed technique, in the development of the will to make libraries interesting, attractive, useful and indeed inevitable and essential to all men. For librarians we hope it may be a further stage in the promotion of their profession, of growth of their own faith in it, and of increase in the willingness of those who employ librarians in municipalities, counties, colleges and other places to recognize training and service with better pay, prospects and status. We know that appreciation will not give greater willingness to serve; we do know it will give greater happiness.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of tall buildings development in Kuwait and to look at the issue of how sustainable and green design principles and strategies are disseminating in the society of tall buildings designers. Specifically the paper investigates how those designers are looking at this issue and what is the drive or incentive behind adopting some of the green design technologies and strategies in their projects. It also looks at the process of designing tall buildings and the obstacles and potential opportunities for making this process green and sustainable. The paper sets forth a hypothesis that green design parameters, such as LEED, may not be directly applicable to the Kuwaiti context. The assumption is a more appropriate system of LEED must be devised for Kuwait, similar to the UAE Green Building Council, for example. While this appropriate system is based on universal rules and guidelines for green design, it must take into consideration, and respect, local systems and conditions. These could be human, cultural, economical and technical. In this paper, the focus is on the designers of tall buildings, since they represent the experts on the matter. The paper uses both quantitative and qualitative data to prove or disprove this hypothesis. The data collection tool used is interview survey with a representative sample of tall buildings designers in Kuwait.

The International Association for Manage‐ment Education (AACSB) historically has been a strong supporter of the business disciplinary communities that have served to create and protect a much narrower definition of faculty qualifications. Research has supported the notion that business schools have often selected and rewarded faculty for their academic credentials and for their ability to conduct empirical research regardless of institutional type. In recent studies following the introduction of the new AACSB stan‐dards, deans surveyed generally anticipate only modest changes in the credentials and research expectations for their faculties. This multiple case study investigated dean and management and marketing chair and faculty perceptions of the potential impact of the new AACSB faculty qualifications standards on hiring, tenure, and promotion criteria at four comprehensive universities. Generally, respondents expected little opportunity for selection, tenure or promotion of faculty with doctorates outside traditional business disciplines and no opportunity for those considered professionally qualified.

Viruses and the Role of Responsibility. Computer viruses are members of a family of destructive programs that have existed in one form or another since the 1960s with such descriptive names as Trojan horses, time and logic bombs, and worms. All of these electronic creations present a real threat to librarians interconnected with potential sources of infection in the form of academic networks, commercial database services, and local bulletin boards.

Presents an empirical investigation of office rental trends for some of the largest cities in Europe. Uses annual data for the period 1983‐91 to test the changes in rental values and fluctuations in economic activity. Includes a review of previous office market studies and an assessment of the research direction and information requirements of current European property research. Suggests that European rental values are determined by similar demand‐side variables and, in particular, real gross domestic product (GDP).

A new department has been formed by Bristol Aircraft Limited to design, plan, and co‐ordinate work on the interior furnishing of Britannia airliners. Known as the Britannia Furnishing Department, it is believed to be the first specialist unit of its kind to be set up in the British aircraft industry. Mr A. G. L. Langfield and Mr Donald Diamond have been appointed respectively Manager and Designer.

Information technology (IT) has been widely applied across many economic sectors in order to increase competitiveness and reduce costs. This paper identifies that uptake of IT within construction is low. It is argued that significant barriers preventing construction organizations from investing in IT include uncertainty concerning the identification and measurement of benefits associated with applications. In particular, it is argued that difficulties in quantifying benefits associated with improved information availability and decision making prevent effective IT cost/benefit analysis. Existing approaches to evaluating IT within construction are reviewed. A framework is presented which identifies metrics by which IT impacts both management and operational processes within construction in order to deliver value. An evaluation methodology tailored to one specific IT application, high‐density bar coding in maintenance management, is presented to illustrate the quantification of both the costs and benefits of applying IT.

This paper aims to understand why higher education institutions (HEIs) struggle to become sustainable institutions themselves despite providing relevant teaching and research on sustainability.

Using 17 open-ended, semistructured interviews to determine common themes (codes) regarding sustainability, the authors mapped those codes to the adaptive cycle from social innovation theory.

Using the adaptive cycle offered a framework for understanding sustainability at HEIs as a cyclical process where innovation occurs in ebbs and flows. Differing perceptions of power by students and faculty slow down the process, and cross-collaboration is the key to further sustainability.

Insights from the adaptive cycle can contribute to HEI assessment of its sustainability initiatives by identifying the stage of the adaptive cycle relevant to the institution’s present sustainability work.

Applying the adaptive cycle is an original way of understanding the process of anchoring sustainability at HEIs providing concrete insights into advancing this process.

The essence of air travel is speed. Consequently, air passengers expect speedy, as well as reliable, service. With passenger aircraft developing into larger machines, more passengers check in for each flight, and with the number of flights increasing at busy airports, the total throughput of passengers is growing. Accordingly the administration and procedures have to be made more streamlined in order to keep pace. Furthermore, there is need, in the face of competition, to make economies and at the same time to maintain, or even to improve, customer service. Fortunately, increasing and better use of computer systems is enabling airports to do just this.