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Publication date: 1 December 1997

Joy Palmer

The Human Organization is a response to the network morphology. As networks supersede hierarchy as the predominant form of organization, fluid processes and flexible teams need to…

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The Human Organization is a response to the network morphology. As networks supersede hierarchy as the predominant form of organization, fluid processes and flexible teams need to replace fixed reporting lines and familiar functions. The barriers to achieving this are more often cultural and emotional than they are commercial and technological. This paper proposes that effective knowledge‐based businesses will be built on human network connections. This requires much greater investment in social processes of integration and in our individual ability to connect with each other. Without this human agenda, the openness and learning on which the generative knowledge‐based environment depends will remain beyond our reach, together with our ability to work and transfer knowledge across complex and shifting organizational boundaries.

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Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1367-3270

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Publication date: 1 September 1999

Joy Palmer and Ian Richards

Knowledge networks, knets, will be the predominant form for successful companies in the twenty‐first century. The enabler for knets is network behaviour. This is a focus on social…

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Knowledge networks, knets, will be the predominant form for successful companies in the twenty‐first century. The enabler for knets is network behaviour. This is a focus on social wiring that is necessary to unleash the collective intelligence from connected, multiple nodes. This paper provides a first view of network behaviour. The results are based on the responses to a web‐based network quiz from more than 130 people in various organisations across the world. It shows that people believe in network behaviour but appear to be encumbered by current organisational forms. The risk for those who cannot develop network behaviour is isolation, caused by the even deeper social fragmentation created by unilateral technological progress.

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Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 3 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1367-3270

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Publication date: 17 August 2010

Fred Guy and Joy Elizabeth Palmer

The paper aims to describe the context and the progress with the UK Discovery to Delivery project.

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Purpose

The paper aims to describe the context and the progress with the UK Discovery to Delivery project.

Design/methodology/approach

Having set the scene for Discovery to Delivery, the paper describes how the project work was divided into four separate but interlinked strands. The methodologies for each strand are described and the outcomes are critically assessed.

Findings

The project was successful in demonstrating that services created separately by different organisations could be enhanced to provide a seamless approach from discovery to delivery for users. It had been planned to develop a link to local document supply services, but investigation revealed that further investigation would be required before such a service could usefully be supplied.

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The project is an example of inter‐working between the national data centres with services that have already been established.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 38 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 December 1996

Pam Jones, Joy Palmer, Diana Whitehead and Carole Osterweil

Suggests that often untapped human strengths have major importance in the search for exceptional performance. Argues that information technology has not and will not replace such…

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Suggests that often untapped human strengths have major importance in the search for exceptional performance. Argues that information technology has not and will not replace such qualities, as had been thought in the 1980s. Looks at ways to maximize human resources in a world of organizational change, suggesting that there is need for a shaping of a dynamic set of relationships at all organization levels, and that the needs, aspirations and potential of people hold the key.

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Empowerment in Organizations, vol. 4 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0968-4891

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Publication date: 19 January 2023

Watchara Chiengkul, Patcharaporn Mahasuweerachai and Chompoonut Suttikun

Charity sports events have emerged as a major, beneficial social phenomenon to be encouraged. In this study, the authors aim to examine the relationships among personal norms…

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Purpose

Charity sports events have emerged as a major, beneficial social phenomenon to be encouraged. In this study, the authors aim to examine the relationships among personal norms, social norms, self-identity, response efficacy and the “warm glow” feeling, which, in turn, influences willingness to return and enjoyment of participation in charity sports events in Thailand.

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An online self-administered survey was conducted to collect data from 600 participants, and structural equation modelling (SEM) was done under the two-step modelling approach to test the hypotheses.

Findings

The findings indicate that self-identity and response efficacy positively influence participants' warm glow. By contrast, the relationships of personal and social norms with warm glow are not significant. Moreover, warm glow positively influences participants' willingness to return to attend the event and their enjoyment.

Practical implications

This study's findings have academic implications and can benefit marketers and event organizers by giving them insights into participants' behaviour and allowing them to better create services to improve participant experiences and boost repeat attendance better.

Originality/value

By applying the concept of warm glow in the context of charity sports events, this study deepens the understanding of the causal pathways from the antecedents to participants' willingness to return and enjoyment through the warm glow.

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International Journal of Event and Festival Management, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1758-2954

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Publication date: 17 February 2012

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 40 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 June 1998

Ian Richards, David Foster and Ruth Morgan

The concept of Brand Knowledge Management looks to move brand‐led organizations from content to process and from data to tacit knowledge. This paper proposes a manifesto for brand…

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The concept of Brand Knowledge Management looks to move brand‐led organizations from content to process and from data to tacit knowledge. This paper proposes a manifesto for brand marketing that re‐focuses its activities and challenges the roles, structures and behaviour of its management. Above all, it provides a new framework for developing, exploiting and managing brand knowledge.

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Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1367-3270

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Publication date: 1 January 1994

Richard A. Gray

Plato and Aristotle would have found the modern effort to fuse ethics and ecology to be incomprehensible. Despite the fact that oikos—meaning house or household—is a Greek word…

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Plato and Aristotle would have found the modern effort to fuse ethics and ecology to be incomprehensible. Despite the fact that oikos—meaning house or household—is a Greek word, Greek science did not entertain a concept of ecology. Nor did Greek philosophy regard nature as morally considerable. Etymology aside, the word ecology in anything like its modern sense of “biospheric house” did not appear in European thought until 1873 when Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, a German biologist and philosopher, used it, with the spelling “Oekologie,” in his The History of Creation. Furthermore, the words “ecology” and “ecological” always had exclusive reference, until quite recently, to a scientific discipline and not to a branch of philosophy. As with the Classical Greek philosophers, so it was also with modern thinkers. Ethics, they held, were concerned solely with interpersonal relations. They could not, therefore, recognize a duty to nature. That we do owe a duty to nature, however, is the carefully considered conclusion of most of the environmental ethicists.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 3 February 2015

Dawn Wink

This chapter explores those things that hinder the implementation of effective practices of teachers working with emergent bilinguals within the educational and political…

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This chapter explores those things that hinder the implementation of effective practices of teachers working with emergent bilinguals within the educational and political landscape of ever increasing educational reform efforts. The focus is on strategies for transforming elements of these teachers’ experiences into effective and sustainable practices. Research was conducted in bilingual and immersion elementary classrooms (Spanish-English) in public schools in a city in the southwestern United States. The research question that guided the study was How can the Goal Spiral – a structured plan designed for teachers to incorporate personal and professional goals into their daily teaching – change teachers’ views of their teaching and simultaneously meet the needs of emergent bilingual students Research was conducted using a mixed methods study of interviews and an analysis of teachers’ responses to research survey questions. Research focused on pedagogical practices, as well as teachers’ energy and professional well-being and their effects on emergent bilingual students. Implications for teacher education programs and mentoring of in-service bilingual teachers were identified and discussed.

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Research on Preparing Inservice Teachers to Work Effectively with Emergent Bilinguals
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-494-8

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Publication date: 1 August 2003

Jaqui Bradley and Sandra King Kauanui

Following September 11, 2001, spirituality has become an even more important issue. Research projects have been done to address the need of spirituality in the corporate…

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Following September 11, 2001, spirituality has become an even more important issue. Research projects have been done to address the need of spirituality in the corporate workplace. The issue of spirituality in the academic workplace is even more vital since it is from within the higher academic institutions that the leaders of tomorrow emerge. Yet, little has been done. This research is an attempt to fulfill this need. This project examined the spirituality of professors and the spiritual culture found in a private secular college, a private Christian college and a state university, all located in southern California. The design of the research was based on the work of Ian Mitroff and Parker Palmer. The results showed that there was a difference in the spiritual culture between these three campuses and that the spirituality of the professors was a reflection of the spiritual culture found on the campuses.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 16 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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