Carol Brigham, Jason Ronallo and Gretchen Sneff
Electronic reserves is an added service that can benefit both the traditional and nontraditional student. In this article the authors describe an electronic reserves pilot project…
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Electronic reserves is an added service that can benefit both the traditional and nontraditional student. In this article the authors describe an electronic reserves pilot project at Temple University using Innovative Interfaces, Inc.’s Course Reserves Module and Electronic Course Reserves product. Initial observations indicate that the project has had a different impact on the operations of Paley Library’s centralized access services unit and the departmental Biology Library participating in the project. The project has pointed out the need for investigating the economic and preservation issues of long‐term storage of reserves images and for developing quality standards for e‐reserve materials. This trial has directed our thinking about the future of integrating course reserves on our OPAC with Temple’s learning management software (primarily Blackboard) enabling the library to retain its function of organizing reserves and other documents.
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Bruce C. Payne, Janet D. Payne and Nancy C. Rumore
Contrary to theory, financial managers constantly attempt to exploit timing to offer securities that are the least costly to existing shareholders. The purpose of this study is to…
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Contrary to theory, financial managers constantly attempt to exploit timing to offer securities that are the least costly to existing shareholders. The purpose of this study is to illustrate the difference between theory and practice and to offer some rationale for this difference.
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Nikola Rosecká, Ondřej Machek, Michele Stasa and Aleš Kubíček
This study aims to explore the effects of long-term orientation (LTO) and strategy formation mode on corporate social responsibility. While many researchers have investigated how…
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Purpose
This study aims to explore the effects of long-term orientation (LTO) and strategy formation mode on corporate social responsibility. While many researchers have investigated how large businesses address corporate social responsibility (CSR), there is little empirical evidence on how small- and medium-sized businesses implement CSR or what individual drivers shape this process.
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The paper surveyed 282 small and medium-sized managers from the United Kingdom. The respondents were recruited using platform Prolific Academic.
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The findings reveal that LTO is a prerequisite for developing CSR and shapes strategy formation mode. The findings also suggested that deliberate strategies are positively related to CSR. The results are consistent across different components of LTO (futurity, continuity and perseverance) and CSR types (internal and external).
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The results show that all aspects of LTO are relevant for CSR in SMEs. Besides LTO, deliberate strategy formation model is an important factor contributing to CSR. The paper presents as first an empirical contribution to the strategy literature by examining positive relationship between LTO and deliberate strategy formation mode.
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Gary D. Barber and Carol Burroughs
The two major trends in American history reference publishing, noted in last year's survey, continued throughout 1978: the refinement of past efforts and improved access, via…
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The two major trends in American history reference publishing, noted in last year's survey, continued throughout 1978: the refinement of past efforts and improved access, via micrographics, to elusive source materials. The genuinely new or unique reference work is indeed a rara avis, but the reason for this situation is not all that puzzling. Historians of American history and culture, each looking at a particular aspect of our past, need to gain access to a number of already existing historical records (out‐of‐print books, obscure government reports, archival records, regional studies, etc.) and publishers are merely attempting to fulfill these needs in a variety of ways. Therefore, the revision of standard sources, new titles in series, and the completion of large micrographics collections reflect the principal publishing activities of 1978. The few exceptions include the unique Dictionary of American Library Biography and the essentially new Handbook of North American Indians.