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Publication date: 1 January 1977

Matthew J. Lesko

Many planners, although aware of the importance of external information, continue to make decisions without using this resource. Such situations exist because planners have been…

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Many planners, although aware of the importance of external information, continue to make decisions without using this resource. Such situations exist because planners have been conditioned to believe that the information they really need for precise decision‐making is either unavailable or too costly. These misconceptions are contrary to evidence showing that the United States has been experiencing an “information explosion” during the last twenty years and that most contributors to this explosion are public organizations and special interest groups who make information available at low cost. Ignorance of sources of external information, rather than its cost or availability, is the core of the planners' dilemma. This seeming incongruity exists because a majority of organizations generating information spend most of their resources collecting data and preparing reports, reserving little or no funds for advertising the availability of their information.

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Planning Review, vol. 5 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0094-064X

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Publication date: 16 September 2017

Henrich R. Greve and Seo Yeon Song

Industry platforms can alter relations among exchange partners in such a way that the industry structure is changed. The focus of much industry platform research has been on how…

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Industry platforms can alter relations among exchange partners in such a way that the industry structure is changed. The focus of much industry platform research has been on how platform creation and leadership offers advantages to the most central firms, but platforms can also be advantageous for small specialist firms that compete with the most central firms. We examine book publishing as an example of an industry in which the central players – large publishing firms – are losing power to self-publishing authors because the distributor Amazon has a powerful platform for customers to communicate independently, and the non-publishing platform Twitter also serves as a medium for readers to discuss and review books. Our empirical analysis is based on downloaded sales statistics for Amazon Ebooks, matched with Amazon reviews of the same books and tweets that refer to the book or the author. We analyze how Ebook sales are a function of publisher, Amazon reviews, and tweets, and we are able to assess the importance of each factor in the sale of book titles. The main finding is that Amazon reviews are powerful drivers of book sales, and have greater effect on the sales of books that are not backed by publishers. Twitter also affects book sales, but less strongly than Amazon reviews.

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78743-080-8

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Publication date: 28 February 2022

Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson

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Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with Young People
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-743-0

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Publication date: 24 September 2015

Matthew H. Rafalow

This study illustrates how youth and young adults use boundary-making processes to create a regulated community online.

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Purpose

This study illustrates how youth and young adults use boundary-making processes to create a regulated community online.

Methodology/approach

Ethnographic methods are used to compare deviance models of internet participation with work on digital youth culture.

Findings

This paper finds that digital youth draw boundaries around three categories of participation (n00bs, trolls, and idols) to identify new people who need help, ward off bullies, and uphold community ideals.

Originality/value

Contrary to deviance perspectives, this study finds that digital youth use boundary-making processes to cultivate a civil online community.

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Technology and Youth: Growing Up in a Digital World
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ISBN: 978-1-78560-265-8

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Publication date: 1 April 1985

Christine L. Borgman, Donald O. Case and Dorothy Ingebretsen

We have conducted a study of academic faculty use of databases for research, their need for evaluative guides to databases, and the appropriateness of currently‐available guides…

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We have conducted a study of academic faculty use of databases for research, their need for evaluative guides to databases, and the appropriateness of currently‐available guides. Although the response rate was low (19%), the follow‐up survey suggested only a minimal non‐response bias. Our findings suggest that academic faculty are typically unaware of the range of databases available and few recognize the need for databases in research. Of those faculty who do use databases, most delegate the searching to a librarian or an assistant, rather than performing the searches themselves. We identified thirty‐nine database guides; these tend to be descriptive rather than evaluative.

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Online Review, vol. 9 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-314X

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Publication date: 1 January 1977

The Society is a non‐profit professional and educational association formed in 1966. Today membership exceeds 1,600 individuals interested in improving their competence as…

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The Society is a non‐profit professional and educational association formed in 1966. Today membership exceeds 1,600 individuals interested in improving their competence as planners and increasing the use of planning in corporations and institutions throughout North America.

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Planning Review, vol. 5 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0094-064X

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Publication date: 1 April 1989

Michael Sawyer

In January 1987, history was made at the Chillicothe Correctional Institute (CCI) library in Ohio when the prison library automated its catalog and circulation systems. This…

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In January 1987, history was made at the Chillicothe Correctional Institute (CCI) library in Ohio when the prison library automated its catalog and circulation systems. This innovative program, implemented only after two years of planning and developing, and with help from a Library Services and Construction Act (LCSA) grant, was the first of its type in the country.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 17 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 8 June 2015

Elisabeth Ilie-Zudor, Anikó Ekárt, Zsolt Kemeny, Christopher Buckingham, Philip Welch and Laszlo Monostori

– The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges and potential of big data in heterogeneous business networks and relate these to an implemented logistics solution.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges and potential of big data in heterogeneous business networks and relate these to an implemented logistics solution.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper establishes an overview of challenges and opportunities of current significance in the area of big data, specifically in the context of transparency and processes in heterogeneous enterprise networks. Within this context, the paper presents how existing components and purpose-driven research were combined for a solution implemented in a nationwide network for less-than-truckload consignments.

Findings

Aside from providing an extended overview of today’s big data situation, the findings have shown that technical means and methods available today can comprise a feasible process transparency solution in a large heterogeneous network where legacy practices, reporting lags and incomplete data exist, yet processes are sensitive to inadequate policy changes.

Practical implications

The means introduced in the paper were found to be of utility value in improving process efficiency, transparency and planning in logistics networks. The particular system design choices in the presented solution allow an incremental introduction or evolution of resource handling practices, incorporating existing fragmentary, unstructured or tacit knowledge of experienced personnel into the theoretically founded overall concept.

Originality/value

The paper extends previous high-level view on the potential of big data, and presents new applied research and development results in a logistics application.

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Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-8546

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Publication date: 1 February 1985

Beverly Feldman

Directories of online databases vary in content and quality. Here, Beverly Feldman reviews nine publications, including comprehensive guides and basic introductions for users of…

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Directories of online databases vary in content and quality. Here, Beverly Feldman reviews nine publications, including comprehensive guides and basic introductions for users of home computers.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 April 1978

New Officers — It is traditional — and most certainly prudent — for formal NASCP Chapter activities which peaked with the Washington Conference in May to subside during the…

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New Officers — It is traditional — and most certainly prudent — for formal NASCP Chapter activities which peaked with the Washington Conference in May to subside during the summer. The interweaving of vacation schedules with normal business activities makes it impossible for a majority of the membership to dedicate much real time to the concerns of the Society. While we mortals are taking our ease, a gallant few — our new officers — are engaged in developing firm action plans for 1978–79.

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Planning Review, vol. 6 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0094-064X

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