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Publication date: 1 June 1998

Jack E. Call

In Cady v. Dombrowski (1973), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a warrantless search for a weapon in a wrecked car driven by a police officer who had been taken to…

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In Cady v. Dombrowski (1973), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a warrantless search for a weapon in a wrecked car driven by a police officer who had been taken to the hospital, even though the police lacked probable cause to believe there was a weapon in the car. In so ruling, the Supreme Court seemed to establish an exception to the warrant requirement that has been referred to as the community caretaking function. This paper examines lower court treatment of the community caretaking function and proposes a clearer statement of the contours of this exception to the warrant requirement.

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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 21 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-951X

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Publication date: 3 July 2013

Liang Guo, Clive Smallman and Jack Radford

This paper aims to offer a critique of corporate governance in China.

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Purpose

This paper aims to offer a critique of corporate governance in China.

Design/methodology/approach

The critique is based upon a literature review and secondary data sources.

Findings

The Chinese Government has made efforts to strengthen the effectiveness of corporate governance in state‐owned enterprises. However, existing research shows that some governance mechanisms that are effective in Western countries have no significant or negative impacts on firm performance in China. An apparent reason for this is the strong relationship between state‐owned enterprises and the government.

Originality/value

Policy implications are offered as a means to improve corporate governance in China.

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International Journal of Law and Management, vol. 55 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1754-243X

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Publication date: 19 April 2013

Suwit Srimai, Chris S. Wright and Jack Radford

The purpose of this paper is to consider the presence and consequences of functional overlap in organizational performance management (PM) systems.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to consider the presence and consequences of functional overlap in organizational performance management (PM) systems.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper is speculative in that it considers the consequences of organizations applying multiple PM systems. Four widely‐used PM systems from various management perspectives are selected as proxies to demonstrate that overlap can occur across a broad array of extant PM systems. The content of the selected PM systems literature was used for analysis.

Findings

The analysis found evidence of substantial functional overlap among the selected PM systems. Significant niche overlap occurred in the functions: assisting strategy formulation and implementation processes; supporting strategic decision making; and facilitating strategic learning.

Practical implications

This study and its findings should help scholars to reframe their understanding of PM systems and let managers recognize and take action to optimize the benefits and costs of functional overlap.

Originality/value

The paper identifies functional overlap; a concept not explicitly addressed in the PM literature.

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International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, vol. 62 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1741-0401

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Publication date: 20 September 2011

Suwit Srimai, Jack Radford and Chris Wright

This paper aims to understand the evolutionary paths of performance measurement (PM) from the 1980s to the present.

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Purpose

This paper aims to understand the evolutionary paths of performance measurement (PM) from the 1980s to the present.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is a narrative review. The sources of literature reviewed are from diverse academic disciplines (e.g. operations management, strategic management, management accounting and organisational behaviour). Three main types of literature were selected, namely scientific literature, professional journals, and books. The authors' approach is illustrative and selective. It is based on the belief that societal and organisational contexts provide the clues for the appropriateness in design and use of a managerial innovation. It describes the transition in performance measurement, incorporating a number of PM innovations as illustrative exemplars.

Findings

Management needs, arriving from the evolving business ecology and focused on creating and sustaining competitive advantage, drive the destiny of PM systems during their evolutionary progression. Performance measurement has evolved from various perspectives. The evolution took place in four major paths, from operations to strategic, measurement to management, static to dynamic and economic‐profit to stakeholder focus.

Practical implications

The evolutions embody trends in development and use of PM systems over the long periods that point the way for future PM to develop and evolve.

Originality/value

The contemporary evolution of PM exhibited in the connection with its evolving contexts that is not explicitly acknowledged in the literature gives the raison d'être to this review.

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International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, vol. 60 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1741-0401

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Publication date: 3 July 2013

Chris Gale

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International Journal of Law and Management, vol. 55 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1754-243X

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Publication date: 9 May 2016

Scott Hamilton Dewey

The purpose of this paper is to provide a close, detailed analysis of the frequency, nature, and depth of visible use of two of Foucault’s classic early works, The Archaeology of

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide a close, detailed analysis of the frequency, nature, and depth of visible use of two of Foucault’s classic early works, The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Order of Things, by library, and information science/studies (LIS) scholars.

Design/methodology/approach

The study involved conducting extensive full-text searches in a large number of electronically available LIS journal databases to find citations of Foucault’s works, then examining each citing article and each individual citation to evaluate the nature and depth of each use.

Findings

Contrary to initial expectations, the works in question are relatively little used by LIS scholars in journal articles, and where they are used, such use is often only vague, brief, or in passing. In short, works traditionally seen as central and foundational to discourse analysis appear relatively little in discussions of discourse.

Research limitations/implications

The study was limited to a certain batch of LIS journal articles that are electronically available in full text at UCLA, where the study was conducted. The results potentially could change by focussing on a fuller or different collection of journals or on non-journal literature. More sophisticated bibliometric techniques could reveal different relative performance among journals. Other research approaches, such as discourse analysis, social network analysis, or scholar interviews, might reveal patterns of use and influence that are not visible in the journal literature.

Originality/value

This study’s intensive, in-depth study of quality as well as quantity of citations challenges some existing assumptions regarding citation analysis and the sociology of citation practices, plus illuminating Foucault scholarship.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 72 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 30 October 2018

Yang Lor

Research demonstrates that social class affects where high-achieving students apply to college, but the processes through which such effects come about are not well understood…

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Research demonstrates that social class affects where high-achieving students apply to college, but the processes through which such effects come about are not well understood. This chapter draws on 46 in-depth interviews with high-achieving students in the Bay Area to examine how social class impacts college application decisions. I argue that the upbringing and experiences associated with students’ social class shape their narratives regarding how much autonomy or constraints they perceive in making college decisions. Higher-SES students present a narrative of independence about what they have done to prepare themselves for college and where to apply. In contrast, lower-SES students speak of experiences and considerations that reflect a narrative of interdependence between themselves and their parents that is grounded in the mutual concern they have for one another as the prospect of college looms. As a result, higher-SES students frame college as an opportunity to leave their families and immerse themselves in an environment far from home while lower-SES students understand college as a continuation of family interdependence. Consequently, higher-SES students are more likely to apply to selective private universities in other parts of the country, while lower-SES students tend to limit their choices to primarily selective and nonselective public colleges closer to home. This research enhances our understanding of the mechanisms by which social class differences in family experiences contribute to the perpetuation of social inequality.

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Research in the Sociology of Education
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78769-077-6

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Publication date: 1 January 2001

Margaret Latshaw, Beth Harmon‐Vaughan and Bob Radford

With corporations reinventing and changing themselves with increasing frequency and speed, what is the real estate industry doing to enable that change? This paper presents the…

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With corporations reinventing and changing themselves with increasing frequency and speed, what is the real estate industry doing to enable that change? This paper presents the perspectives of a corporate tenant, a developer and an interior designer to answer the question of what some companies are doing to make workspace more flexible and to shorten the cycle time for the processes by which workspace is constructed, procured and fitted‐out for new occupancy. The following questions will be answered ‐ In the low vacancy market prevalent in so many parts of the United States, what strategies are corporate real estate executives in high‐growth companies using to acquire space fast? ‐ What trends are emerging in the industry to streamline the processes to build, acquire, fit‐out and manage space? ‐ How is the industry changing its product to ensure that the space that is delivered can meet a variety of users and uses as occupants churn through the space in unforeseen ways?

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Journal of Corporate Real Estate, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1463-001X

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Publication date: 9 September 2020

Evan H. Offstein, Ronald L. Dufresne and John S. Childers Jr

In this paper, we problematize the prevailing assumptions in the executive coaching literature that effective coaching is deliberative, trust-based and relational in nature…

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Purpose

In this paper, we problematize the prevailing assumptions in the executive coaching literature that effective coaching is deliberative, trust-based and relational in nature, thereby requiring significant time investment before the focal leader might realize enacted benefits from the coaching. Contrary to these prevailing assumptions, we propose five contingencies wherein a more direct, performance-first approach to coaching may be more effective.

Design/methodology/approach

This conceptual paper reviews relevant literature to develop testable propositions regarding directive coaching contingencies.

Findings

We develop propositions that argue executive coaches will need to employ a more directive, urgent and accountable coaching relationship when the executive's career is in jeopardy, the organization is in distress, if the leader needs to signal legitimacy, if the coaching occurs within the boundaries of a high reliability organization or if the coach is working with an executive who has interim status.

Originality/value

This paper intends to advance the theory and practice of executive coaching by challenging executive coaching orthodoxy regarding the need for a deliberative, relational approach to coaching. Future research should broaden this theorizing and empirically test our propositions.

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Journal of Management Development, vol. 39 no. 9/10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0262-1711

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Publication date: 31 July 2007

Jutta Haider and David Bawden

To provide an analysis of the notion of “information poverty” in library and information science (LIS) by investigating concepts, interests and strategies leading to its…

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Purpose

To provide an analysis of the notion of “information poverty” in library and information science (LIS) by investigating concepts, interests and strategies leading to its construction and thus to examine its role as a constitutive element of the professional discourse.

Design/methodology/approach

Starting from a Foucauldian notion of discourse, “information poverty” is examined as a statement in its relation to other statements in order to highlight assumptions and factors contributing to its construction. The analysis is based on repeated and close reading of 35 English language articles published in LIS journals between 1995 and 2005.

Findings

Four especially productive discursive procedures are identified: economic determinism, technological determinism and the “information society”, historicising the “information poor”, and the library profession's moral obligation and responsibility.

Research limitations/implications

The material selection is linguistically and geographically biased. Most of the included articles originate in English‐speaking countries. Therefore, results and findings are fully applicable only in an English language context.

Originality/value

The focus on overlapping and at times conflicting discursive procedures, i.e. the results of alliances and connections between statements, highlights how the “information poor” emerge as a category in LIS as the product of institutionally contingent, professional discourse. By challenging often unquestioned underlying assumptions, this article is intended to contribute to a critical examination of LIS discourse, as well as to the analysis of the discourses of information, which dominate contemporary society. It is furthermore seen to add to the development of discourse analytical approaches in LIS research.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 63 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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