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The purpose of this paper is to identify the core literature of aerospace studies and the databases necessary to ensure its coverage in a collection for aerospace scientists. The paper also aims to examine whether China has different needs from other countries.

A sequence of bibliometric analyses was used. Institutions and countries with high aerospace research productivity were identified from 4,290 papers published in “aerospace engineering” journals in Science Citation Index. Journal papers cited in these papers (14,618 extracted from 17,015 citations in all) were analyzed to discover the core source journals for aerospace research. The availability of the core journals in online databases determined necessary library provision for aerospace research.

The most productive aerospace research institutions are in China and the USA. Journals are the most important information resources. While 20 per cent of cited journals were discipline‐specific, 80 per cent were in related fields. Chinese researchers had similar resource needs to researchers from other countries. To provide for aerospace research, a library collection needs to include the databases of the field, and commercial and open access journals that cover aerospace engineering, related disciplines and the sciences in general.

The paper reveals the characteristics of the literature of the aerospace discipline for the first time. It identifies the core journals used by aerospace researchers and the bundle of online resources necessary to adequately provide for research in the field. The technique used can be applied to other disciplines.

This article presents an introduction to the Delphi method and review of Delphi studies published in the literature of library and information science (LIS).

A review of Delphi studies published between the years of 1971 and 2019 is performed, using studies retrieved from the Library and Information Science Source database. A total of 122 articles were retrieved and evaluated based on the population studied, means of identifying experts, number of participants for each study round, type of Delphi, and type of findings.

General librarians (any type), academic librarians, and information science researchers are the most common populations in LIS Delphi studies. On average (middle 50 percent of studies), 14–36 experts are used in the first round of LIS Delphi studies (median n = 23). Employment in a specific role and publications in scholarly journals are the most common means of identifying experts. Variants of the e-Delphi (online survey/email) method are increasingly common, particularly in LIS Delphi studies that focus on general information science, rather than library, topics. Though LIS Delphi studies are relatively few in number, they have a consistent record of being published in some of the most prestigious LIS journals.

This paper provides an introduction to the Delphi method for LIS research and presents an overview of existing literature in LIS that utilizes the research method. No overview of this extent exists in the LIS literature, and, thus, this paper may serve as an important information source about the method for LIS researchers.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of an employee’s personal creative identity on their innovation behaviour in knowledge-intensive information technology (IT) service provider firms. It further investigates the mediating role of an employee’s creative process engagement (CPE) and the moderating effects of the organizational creative climate on creative identity-innovative behaviour (IB) relationships.

This study follows a quantitative method. Using a multi-item survey instrument, a total of 316 questionnaires were collected from the employees of IT service provider firms in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The collected data were analysed using structural equation modelling, factor analysis and path analysis to test the hypotheses and to assess the moderating and mediating effects of the variables.

The results revealed the significant influence of an employee’s creative personal identity (CPI) on their IB. The mediation analysis revealed that CPE mediates the association between a CPI and IB. The study also found a significant moderating effect of a creative organizational climate between a CPI and CPE.

Based on the premise of the interactionist approach of creativity and role identity theory, this study contributes to the creativity and innovation literature by providing empirical support for the relationship between a personal creative identity, organizational creative culture, CPE and IB in IT service organizations.

This study adopts a distinct model comprising four different variables to investigate an employee’s IB from a multi-level perspective, i.e., a creative identity and CPE at the individual level and a creative climate and IB at the organizational level. This integrated model using predictors from multiple levels supports the theoretical assumption that IB results from the interaction of individual and organizational level factors.

The present study focused on information literacy education through a unique research lens, i.e. the Delphi process in developing countries. The primary aim of the study is to formulate an information literacy framework for higher education.

In total 13 experts from the field, including academicians and practitioners, were invited to build consensus on the components of an information literacy curriculum for library and information sciences or management postgraduate students.

The Delphi process was completed in three reasonable rounds to build consensus on eight information literacy course units, including computer, research, critical, information, domain-specific knowledge and copyright literacies in line with learning and communication skills. The panelists considered computer, research and critical literacies as the most significant components of an information literacy curriculum for postgraduates.

The proposed framework of information literacy curriculum may have considerable implications for educators, practitioners and researchers.

The study is unique as it focuses on developing a contextual and comprehensive information literacy education framework for information professionals.

This paper aims to examine how consumer moral identity (MI) affects the impact of cause-related marketing (CRM). CRM is a popular hybrid marketing tool that incorporates charitable initiatives and sales promotion. CRM has strength in simultaneously encouraging consumer purchases and doing something good for the society. Drawing on the moral identity (MI)-based motivation model, this research examines how consumer MI influences consumer behavioural response to CRM.

Two field experiments were conducted to test a series of hypotheses relating to the conditional effect of MI on behavioural response to CRM.

Brand social responsibility image and emotional brand attachment positively moderated the relationship between consumer MI centrality and intention to purchase CRM sponsor brand.

Findings contribute to the literature on CRM, MI-based motivation of consumer behaviour and emotional brand attachment.

Brand interaction on social media increasingly involves brands openly praising their competitors. This paper examines the impact of selecting a praising target based on company size in brand-to-brand praise, such as praising a smaller competitor versus a larger competitor, on consumers’ evaluations of the praiser.

Three online survey experiments using Sina Weibo as the stimuli were conducted to analyze the brand evaluation of brand-to-brand praising. Data were collected via Credamo.

Praising a smaller competitor leads to an increased evaluation of the praiser brand compared to praising a larger competitor. The perceived competence mediates the influence of relative brand size on praiser brand evaluation. Additionally, the praiser brand’s gender moderates the influence of relative brand size on the praiser brand evaluation, with a notable enhancement observed only for the masculine praiser brand.

This paper suggests several avenues for future research. First, future research can examine how companies tailor praise content based on the recipient size. Second, future studies can consider the role of competition type, brand development potential and the perceptual differences between competitor sizes. Third, we encourage future research to examine whether certain brand personalities benefit more from praising smaller competitors and extend our study’s scope to non-food industries to generate more generalizable results. Lastly, future studies can look into the conditions where a praised brand should respond to public praise and the potential of such interactions to boost consumer favorability.

This study offers valuable insights for brand managers to boost customers’ perception of brand competence and brand evaluations through interactive marketing on social media. Brand managers are recommended to direct their praise towards smaller competitors to maximize the positive impact. Additionally, our study highlights the pivotal role of brand gender in effective brand-to-brand communication strategies. Notably, masculine brands can particularly benefit from praising smaller competitors. Overall, considering factors like company size and brand gender is crucial for crafting effective brand-to-brand praise strategies that can enhance brand competence perceptions and evaluations, ultimately fostering loyalty and sales.

This study offers rich social implications regarding customers’ attitudes toward brand-to-brand praise on social media. Zhou et al. (2022) showed that brands praising competitors can significantly enhance consumer preference compared to other communication forms. Furthermore, this paper investigates how observing different types of brand-to-brand praise impacts consumer brand evaluations, such as praising larger or smaller competitors. We found that consumers preferentially evaluate brands that praise smaller (vs larger) competitors, and this effect is particularly salient for masculine brands.

This study provides valuable insights about enhancing customer evaluations of praiser brands through brand-to-brand praising on social media, points out the underlying mechanism and identifies a boundary condition.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between leadership‐relevant attributes and occupational self‐efficacy in management students. It is assumed that leadership‐relevant attributes are related to high self‐efficacy beliefs.

In the present study management students from three different countries, namely Germany, Australia, and India, described to what degree they possess task‐ and person‐oriented leadership attributes and indicate their occupational self‐efficacy for their future profession. Data were analysed using regression analyses.

As expected, leadership‐relevant attributes were related to occupational self‐efficacy. Some support was found for the assumption that ratings of the importance of relevant attributes moderates the relationship between reported leadership‐relevant attributes and occupational self‐efficacy but only for task‐oriented attributes.

The sample size was small so that comparisons between subgroups were not possible. All data were self‐reported.

The results are relevant for career counselling. Looking at self‐description of individuals in terms of attributes relevant to their future job rather than working directly on their occupational self‐efficacy could be emphasised.

The study provides initial hints at the relationship between self‐description and occupational self‐efficacy in connection with future managers.