Clayton Whittle, Sonia Tiwari, Shulong Yan and Jeff Williams
This study aims to provide an educational framework for not only the emerging COVID crisis but also future emergency remote teaching environments (ERTE).
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Purpose
This study aims to provide an educational framework for not only the emerging COVID crisis but also future emergency remote teaching environments (ERTE).
Design/methodology/approach
Using participatory design methodologies, this study engages K-12 teachers and professional instructional designers in a design-focused discussion.
Findings
This work identifies thematic elements present across multiple subject areas, school districts, learner ages and socio-economic situations. Using these themes, as well as design solutions created by our participants, the authors propose the ERTE framework.
Research limitations/implications
The framework presented is grounded in the experiences of a limited number of teachers, but presents a theoretically grounded approach to teaching in an emergent field.
Practical implications
This framework is designed for practical application for use by teachers operating in ERTE.
Originality/value
Though multiple online teaching frameworks exist, the ERTE framework is novel in its emphasis on shifting constants and variables rather than planned pedagogy and is specifically for use in unplanned or responsive remote teaching situations.
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Jeff Williams and Brian H. Kleiner
Defines sexual harassment before outlining what items should be contained within a law enforcement policy. Discusses harassment in the City of Los Angeles Police Department and…
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Defines sexual harassment before outlining what items should be contained within a law enforcement policy. Discusses harassment in the City of Los Angeles Police Department and introduces the National Centre for Women and Policing, briefly covering their programmes. Provides some general statistics about sexual harassment law enforcement. Concludes that the National Centre is essential to the future in this area but it will be individuals who must have the desire to change.
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Gezinus J. Hidding, Jeff Williams and John J. Sviokla
To study successful strategies in platform industries, which are IT products that enable (a network of) users to communicate with each other, and that, consequently, exhibit…
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Purpose
To study successful strategies in platform industries, which are IT products that enable (a network of) users to communicate with each other, and that, consequently, exhibit network effects.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors studied 15 platform industries, including their first‐mover, early entrants and current leaders. Also studied were historical documents, for example to find the time of market entry.
Findings
Unlike traditional products (e.g. consumer products), platforms evolve over time by technically integrating separate platforms (“embrace and extend”). Two key patterns were found among platform leaders: follower advantage and staircase strategies. While follower advantage is also prevalent in traditional industries, staircase strategies are not. Complementary resources (i.e. resources the firm possesses outside of the product in question, for example R&D skills or customer relations) did not explain why the current leaders won.
Research limitations/implications
First‐mover advantage was largely illusionary and follower advantage prevalent. Some leaders of platform industries entered the industry early and some entered late, but it is not clear why a particular entry timing was successful in one platform industry but not in another. The authors cannot (yet) predict how a platform industry evolves, particularly in the presence of network effects.
Practice implications
To become the leader in a platform industry, do not become the first mover, but enter some time afterwards, and manage the “embrace and extend” platform evolution using staircase strategies.
Originality/ value
This study analyzed a sample of 15 platform industries, i.e. more than a few case studies.
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Ruby Saine, Carlin A. Nguyen, Ali Besharat and Philip J. Trocchia
When consumers imagine themselves in various consumption scenarios, they can do so from the actor or the observer perspective. These different vantage points are known as imagery…
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Purpose
When consumers imagine themselves in various consumption scenarios, they can do so from the actor or the observer perspective. These different vantage points are known as imagery perspectives. This paper aims to investigate how imagery perspectives can influence consumers’ decisions to stay with the status quo (default option) or to switch to an alternative.
Design/methodology/approach
A series of four experimental design studies were conducted in both lab and online settings to study consumers’ switching tendency and choice. The empirical testing involved products, brands and services, including cameras (Study 1), vacation hotels (Study 2), toilet paper (Study 3) and food (Study 4).
Findings
The authors demonstrate that compared with actor imagery that tends to perpetuate the default product and brand choice, observer imagery increases consumers’ tendency to change and switch to new products and brands.
Research limitations/implications
Due to the methods used in empirical testing, the research results may lack generalizability.
Practical implications
Marketers spend a considerable amount of resources in an attempt to get consumers to switch products and brands. The results of this paper shed light on how marketers can promote switching behaviors through imagery perspective.
Originality/value
The research contributes to the streams of research in mental imagery, de-biasing and status quos, which have progressed in isolation from one another to date. This research is one of the first to investigate imagery perspective in the context of choice architecture.
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Robert Lloyd, Daniel Mertens, Ashley Adams, Christianna Pruden and Angela Bates
The purpose of this paper is to establish a supported and validated reference point for understanding how Nicodemus, Kansas warrants significant inclusion in both the history of…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to establish a supported and validated reference point for understanding how Nicodemus, Kansas warrants significant inclusion in both the history of management and current entrepreneurship education.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper consists of a literature review to identify the salient historical and theoretical importance of the community of Nicodemus, Kansas. The research was conducted by reviewing and couching the research in this context.
Findings
Nicodemus, born out of an entrepreneurial spirit of newly liberated Black Americans, is the surviving entrepreneurial force for the African-American efforts in the western US expansion efforts in the later 1800s. The community, courage and cooperative views of the settlers were instrumental in overcoming a variety of hardships inherent in the location, society and time period to not only survive but also deliver growth and success. Nicodemus personified cultural pride and self-reliance, which fueled personal and commercial success.
Practical implications
The cooperative advantage is justified to be included in discussions of American management history, taught in the entrepreneurship curriculum and used by practitioners.
Social implications
Collective courage and cooperative advantage used by Nicodemus carries implications for how modern Black communities can advance their economic and social agendas.
Originality/value
Coverage of Black contributions management and entrepreneurship is scant, but a Black Enlightenment period has recently changed that scholars have recently begun to cover these significant moments in the literature (Prieto and Phipps, 2019). We argue that Nicodemus as an entrepreneurial community serves as a case study that needs contextualization in this Black Enlightenment era and holds pertinent implications for modern Black communities.
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This bibliography is intended as a guide for librarians, scholars, students, and interested amateurs. It suggests what books or media would be an invaluable starting collection to…
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This bibliography is intended as a guide for librarians, scholars, students, and interested amateurs. It suggests what books or media would be an invaluable starting collection to understanding the Arthurian legend, which has been over a millennium in the making.
Snehalata Bhikanrao Shirude and Manish Ratnakar Joshi
Free Open Source Softwares (FOSS) witnessed the development of many very good alternatives to proprietary softwares. These free softwares can be localized in several local…
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Purpose
Free Open Source Softwares (FOSS) witnessed the development of many very good alternatives to proprietary softwares. These free softwares can be localized in several local languages. This paper aims to illustrate a very interesting empirical investigation on FOSS. Several significant benefits of localization are described in introduction and subsequent sections.
Design/methodology/approach
Although the localization process is standard and well documented for most of the FOSS, it is a more complex task as it involves coordination among developers, linguists and domain experts. Hence, a very few open source softwares are successfully localized in Indian languages. In this paper, the authors present an approach that they have used for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) software Marathikaran (localization in Marathi language) project of by Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha of Maharashtra Government (RMVS), India.
Findings
This localization project has been described by RMVS as a pilot project that would guide such similar localizations in many other Indian languages for other popular open source softwares.
Social implications
The localization work overcomes the general misconception that regional languages are good only for communication (Boli Bhasha) but cannot be used for dissemination of knowledge (Gyan Bhasha). This work is notably contributing to language preservation, language revitalization and Digital India Initiative.
Originality/value
This work is the pioneering work in this domain for Marathi language with respect to GIMP. The authors presented systematic steps used to localize the GIMP software in Marathi language (from 2% to 100%).