Describes the efforts of the owner/directors of a private limitedcompany to put into place a succession strategy. Considers three majorthemes: second generation…
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Describes the efforts of the owner/directors of a private limited company to put into place a succession strategy. Considers three major themes: second generation entrepreneurs/management succession; action learning as a human resource development strategy and philosophy; and the learning organization. Concludes that people (and organizations) “learn” best from the priorities of the business, once they have been identified, and that organizational learning is really based on institutionalization of what has been learned – requisite learning.
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Reference‐linking has added a new dimension of value to works containing citations. It drastically reduces the labor involved in accessing referenced material by capitalizing on…
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Reference‐linking has added a new dimension of value to works containing citations. It drastically reduces the labor involved in accessing referenced material by capitalizing on the ability of electronic items to point to each other. With the promise come a variety of issues that must be addressed before the full benefit can be realized. At the forefront of these are determining what to link to, determining appropriate copy, managing access and copyrights, and persistence of object identifiers. A number of initiatives are tackling these issues to various extents, and a number of publishers and vendors are enabling these technologies. Background, benefits, issues, projects, and employment of reference‐linking are examined to provide an overview of the current state of reference‐linking. A sampling of industry players is queried to obtain a variety of perspectives.
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Describes an unusual quality improvement programme which startedearly in 1994 with a publishing company, MCB University Press. It pointsout the approach used, and progress made to…
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Describes an unusual quality improvement programme which started early in 1994 with a publishing company, MCB University Press. It points out the approach used, and progress made to date, 12 months on. The approach is described as insideout and outside‐in, meaning the focused creation of internal capability for effective quality improvement, driven by outside‐in customer‐defined quality indicators.
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Lesley Gore, Kathryn Toledano and Gordon Wills
In the light of impending changes that will affect the MCB publishingenterprise, explores the leadership strategies which the owners havepursued. These comprise: management action…
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In the light of impending changes that will affect the MCB publishing enterprise, explores the leadership strategies which the owners have pursued. These comprise: management action learning; systems development; mentoring and coaching, and structured change. Concludes with personal experiences of members of the management teams in different departments.
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Like it or not, change is inevitable if you are to survive. Far better to instigate change than allow other people to inflict it on you. To anticipate the future has to be good…
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Like it or not, change is inevitable if you are to survive. Far better to instigate change than allow other people to inflict it on you. To anticipate the future has to be good to allow time to implement change rather than having to react to it. This appears quite simple, but is it? This special themed issue of Management Decision contains a number of examples of how organizations have managed change. Lessons can be learned from other industries than your own with regard to best practice and basic principles which can then be applied to your own organization..
This column looks at which rights matter, how to retain them, and which journal publishers already cooperate.
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This column looks at which rights matter, how to retain them, and which journal publishers already cooperate.
Design/methodology/approach
It uses the requirements of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, and examines the Creative Commons licences, the SPARC addendum, the project RoMEO list publishers' copyright policies, and the Emerald Journal Article Record form.
Findings
If retaining rights to works in order to provide open access is a key part of the solution to the crisis in scholarly publishing, then significant progress has taken place.
Practical implications
It remains to be seen whether having authors retain the right to provide open access will, over time, bring down journal costs. Enough publishers have cooperated that an opportunity now exists for repositories to begin to show what they can (or cannot) accomplish.
Originality/value
It remains to be seen whether having authors retain the right to provide open access will, over time, bring down journal costs.