The United States drug store industry is expanding in both salesvolume and store count. The most significant market forces shaping thesetrends are demographic characteristics…
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The United States drug store industry is expanding in both sales volume and store count. The most significant market forces shaping these trends are demographic characteristics, economic fundamentals and competitive formats. Demographically, the deceleration of population growth, the ageing of the population and the lifestyles of “baby boomers” are the most significant factors impacting on drug store performance. Limited new shopping centre construction, continued bankruptcies and acquisitions, and consumer concentration on price are the near term economic forces at work in the industry. Competitively, pressure is being applied from outside the industry by the addition of prescription departments in supermarkets and discount department stores. Internally, large discount drug stores have become a new merchandising force. These trends appear to favour the continued growth of well‐capitalised drug store chains that focus on a health and personal care image and emphasise convenience
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Stephan Lukosch and Till Schümmer
During oral exams at the German distance learning university, we noticed that students fear that they will be faced with questions that they have not anticipated. In our opinion…
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During oral exams at the German distance learning university, we noticed that students fear that they will be faced with questions that they have not anticipated. In our opinion, this is mainly because students have no chance to train and thereby gather positive experiences with exam situations as they are distributed all over Germany and thus it is difficult for them to meet each other. In this paper, we present a design space of 23 learning gadgets, i.e. tools that support collaborative learning, to allow collaborative exam preparation in peer‐based distributed student groups. We discuss this design space according to eight dimensions of the concept of FLOW (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991) that constitutes enjoyable situations. Two of the learning gadgets were implemented and integrated in the CURE environment, a web‐based collaborative learning platform that was developed to support different collaborative learning scenarios, e.g. collaborative exercises or virtual seminars. We discuss these learning gadgets in more detail and show how they promise an enjoyable collaborative exam preparation.
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This paper aims to identify and fill a gap in the knowledge of the contribution of Henry S. Dennison toward management and organization studies and problematize the assumptions…
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Purpose
This paper aims to identify and fill a gap in the knowledge of the contribution of Henry S. Dennison toward management and organization studies and problematize the assumptions underlying the mainstream understanding of scientific management and human relations.
Design/methodology/approach
Primary sources are in the guise of archival papers, as well as published journal articles, books and book chapters; secondary sources in the guise of material about Dennison, as well as interviews with family and friends.
Findings
The paper concludes that Dennison made an original and enduring contribution to management theory including, but not isolated to, personnel management, organizational behavior and corporate governance that influenced key thinkers of his times.
Practical implications
Dennison was a practicing manager – in fact, he was the president of (what was) his family company which operates today as Avery Dennison – but he still found the time and energy for active public service and to peripatetically articulate his management “praxis”. The paper reveals that much of Dennison’s thoughts and deeds have much relevance today. Among other issues, in his concern with reducing labor turnover and unemployment, in devising and implementing effective personnel management and in his pioneering work on human motivation, group dynamics, goal congruence, worker empowerment and executive compensation, issues of profound importance to business leaders today can be found.
Originality/value
To date, only piecemeal attempts have been made to chronicle Dennison’s contributions to management and organization theory, but these have been scattered across the social sciences. There has been neither any systematic, consolidated synthesis of his contributions to management and organization studies nor of his impact on the thinking of key thinkers of his times.
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John Holland McKendrick, James Bowness and Emmanuelle Tulle
This paper aims to reflect on the nature of “parkrun tourism” and the challenges this presents to the understanding of sports tourism.
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Purpose
This paper aims to reflect on the nature of “parkrun tourism” and the challenges this presents to the understanding of sports tourism.
Design/methodology/approach
The contradictions and contested terrain of sports tourism is discussed with the reference to three of the most widely used definitions for the field.
Findings
Parkrun tourism is introduced comprising four formats: spanning the domestic and global; the informal and formal; the organic and institutional; and the experience and commercial product.
Research limitations/implications
The particular challenges that parkrun tourism presents to existing understandings of sports tourism is considered. The conclusion discusses the prospect of future research, both empirical and theoretical, on parkrun tourism.
Practical implications
The authors outline a range of ways in which parkrun tourism affords opportunity for further inquiry for parkrun scholarship and sports tourism.
Originality/value
A new specification for sports tourism is proposed that accommodates parkrun tourism.
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Instrumentation to be shown will include: The Brookfield Helipath stand may be used with a suitable Brookfield viscometer fitted with a T‐bar spindle, the Helipath stand permits…
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Instrumentation to be shown will include: The Brookfield Helipath stand may be used with a suitable Brookfield viscometer fitted with a T‐bar spindle, the Helipath stand permits viscosity measurement of materials i.e. pastes, putty, creams, gelating, wax, resins and inks. The Stand incorporates a synchronous motor which automatically lowers or raises the viscometer enabling its rotating shearing element to describe a helical path through the sample.
Ozge Hacifazlioglu, Ihsan Kuyumcu, Bilge Kalkavan and Rebecca Cheung
This chapter focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic leadership. Interview data from 13 academic leaders (department chairs, deans, vice-rectors) at two Turkish…
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This chapter focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic leadership. Interview data from 13 academic leaders (department chairs, deans, vice-rectors) at two Turkish universities are used to voice their experiences. Two main themes emerged from the analysis: the challenges encountered in an era or uncertainty, and the experience of being in between balance and resilience. While all of the leaders interviewed got through the uncertainty produced by the pandemic, and some thrived, it is clear that universities need to do more to prepare themselves and their leaders for future crises.
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MORE than 80 delegates from 20 countries attended the two‐day International Symposium on Remote Visual Inspection of Aircraft at the Edwardian International Hotel, Heathrow…
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MORE than 80 delegates from 20 countries attended the two‐day International Symposium on Remote Visual Inspection of Aircraft at the Edwardian International Hotel, Heathrow, London, in December.
Coral Resins' silicone modified polymer development has, it is claimed, yielded high value, higher performance materials offering the paintmaker profitable ways of gaining a…
Purushottam Suryavanshi, Srushti Lekurwale, Pankaj Kumar, Santosha K. Dwivedy and Subham Banerjee
This research aims to provide a innovative class of shape-memory-responsive cellulosic composites (RCC) for 4D printing, enabling self-activated, reversible shape morphing. By…
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This research aims to provide a innovative class of shape-memory-responsive cellulosic composites (RCC) for 4D printing, enabling self-activated, reversible shape morphing. By integrating experimental, theoretical, and computational modeling, the study optimizes material behavior, offering precise curvature predictions for advanced biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.
Design/methodology/approach
This study presents an innovative class of shape–memory–responsive cellulosic composites (RCC), with a unique combination of starch and AffnisolTM. RCC-mediated filaments were used to print single-layer strips using fused deposition modeling 3D printing technology. The printed single-layer strip exhibited reversible, contactless and self-activated shape morphing in response to swelling and heat. The programming stage involves the swelling and heating of the composite strip and subsequent shape recovery through heating. The shape deformation during the self-activated programming stage was both estimated and predicted using simple experimental, theoretical and computational tools. The study was conducted at different thicknesses (1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 mm) and temperatures (25°C and 37°C) to validate the performance of the developed model in predicting bending curvature.
Findings
The developed model showed less than a 13.96 % difference in curvature predicted using theoretical and experimental modeling at studied temperatures. At lower thicknesses, the model can predict the bending curvature with less than a 2.0 % difference in curvature. These RCC materials exhibited potential reversible 4D printing capacity and satisfied the adopted approaches and modeling to forecast the bending curvature for reversible 4D printing.
Originality/value
This study introduces a new class of composite materials for potential 4D applications and provides simple predictive models to forecast bending curvature in reversible 4D printing.