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Investigating The Factors Impacting Retailers Evaluations Of Web Solution Providers, Roisin Vize, Aileen Kennedy, Joseph Coughlan, Fiona Ellis-Chadwick Sep 2009

Investigating The Factors Impacting Retailers Evaluations Of Web Solution Providers, Roisin Vize, Aileen Kennedy, Joseph Coughlan, Fiona Ellis-Chadwick

Conference papers

Relationship marketing has emerged as a central tenet in the B2B literature (Athanasopoulou, 2009). Research indicates that firms will be more successful if they build long term, mutually supportive relationships with their business customers (Rauyruen and Miller, 2007). Retailers are responding to ever increasing competitive challenges by building collaborative relationships with customers, suppliers and service providers. Increasingly SME retailers have been adopting third party web services to help them leverage the technical expertise and knowledge required to become more strategic in their e-business ventures (Ray and Ray, 2006). Such arrangements rely on relational exchange characterized by high levels of trust …

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Law Library Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3 - September/October 2009, Kresge Law Library Sep 2009

Law Library Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3 - September/October 2009, Kresge Law Library

Law Library Newsletter

The beginning of the fall 2009 semester marks another benchmark in the physical transformation of the Notre Dame Law School facility. This will be the only complete academic year without dedicated library study and research space and with just one-quarter of our print collection onsite. For first year students, this will mark some changes in the way that we teach legal research. We continue to strive to balance our teaching of various methods of online access to legal information with locating and using traditional print materials. We survey our students annually to monitor what law firms expect in research methods …

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How The Malaysian Chinese View Their Malay Counterparts: A Version Of Accepting Others, K.C. Hei, J. Mohd Ali Sep 2009

How The Malaysian Chinese View Their Malay Counterparts: A Version Of Accepting Others, K.C. Hei, J. Mohd Ali

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

A change in the political landscape of Malaysia has been emerging in a gradual manner, for the past few months, since the new premiership in March, 2009. After more than 51 years of independence, it became apparent that the ruling Malaysian government, Barisan Nasional, is not taking things in this country for granted. A number of things can be attributed to this change. First, it was the taking over of five (since 2009) Malaysian states by the opposition party, Pakatan Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) after the March 8, 2009 election. The states of Selangor, Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Kelantan, and until recently, …

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The Effect Of Frequent Managerial Turnover On Organizational Performance: A Study Of Professional Baseball Managers, Gregory C. Hill Sep 2009

The Effect Of Frequent Managerial Turnover On Organizational Performance: A Study Of Professional Baseball Managers, Gregory C. Hill

Public Policy and Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations

This analysis is designed to study the question of a manager’s contribution to the organization, particularly in terms of uncertainty related to managerial succession. The theory of managerial succession, which is the replacement of one public manager with another, suggests a negative relationship between change and organizational performance. Organizations’ decision to change managers more often exacerbates the negative effect on performance. The hypotheses are tested using baseball managers as proxies for public managers, as they perform similar duties, have similar goals, and operate under similar constraints. The results suggest that managerial succession has a negative effect on organizational performance. Frequent …

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Enhancement Plan For Downtown Cayucos, Ca, Rachelle Sarai Sneh Lopez Sep 2009

Enhancement Plan For Downtown Cayucos, Ca, Rachelle Sarai Sneh Lopez

Master's Theses

An area can be torn by the competition between the preservation of its character and the desire for new development. Cayucos’ downtown area is recognized by both residents and visitors as a special place with a strong, small, coastal town feel. However, issues such as accessibility, public amenities, parking, maintenance, and general development needs have to be dealt with. This thesis deals with the issue of how to plan for change while maintaining the character of Cayucos, and presents an enhancement plan proposal for its downtown. The development of this plan was based on a research-based design methodology, which included …

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We Have The Videoconference Equipment Installed, Now What?, Janine Lim, Shirley Freed Sep 2009

We Have The Videoconference Equipment Installed, Now What?, Janine Lim, Shirley Freed

The Qualitative Report

As K-12 schools acquire equipment for videoconferencing, they often experience limited usage of the equipment. The purpose of this study was to identify specific concerns of educators currently involved in videoconferencing. The primary data for the study was 400 discussion posts from 34 educators in an online class about videoconferencing. Data were analyzed using a basic iterative hermeneutic approach. The findings fell into two major categories: teacher concerns and administrative support. Teachers' concerns were related to professional development and curriculum expectations, and administrative support issues included the placement of the equipment, scheduling, and budgeting. Successful implementation of videoconferencing requires the …

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Setting Up Targeted Research Interviews: A Primer For Students And New Interviewers, Darren Noy Sep 2009

Setting Up Targeted Research Interviews: A Primer For Students And New Interviewers, Darren Noy

The Qualitative Report

This article analyzes key strategic considerations for setting up targeted research interviews, including human subjects and Institutional Review Board requirements, approaching respondents, the medium of contact, using technology, cultural conceptions of time and commitment, using networks, wading through bureaucracies, and watching for warning signs. By making these considerations explicit and conscious, we can better specify how to gain interviews for our research and how to ethically approach this task. This analysis will be most useful as a pedagogical explanation for students and for scholars newly approaching interviewing.

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Visualizing Qualitative Information, Debra J. Sloane Sep 2009

Visualizing Qualitative Information, Debra J. Sloane

The Qualitative Report

The abundance of qualitative data in today's society and the need to easily scrutinize, digest, and share this information calls for effective visualization and analysis tools. Yet, no existing qualitative tools have the analytic power, visual effectiveness, and universality of familiar quantitative instruments like bar charts, scatter-plots, and pie charts. Amid a discussion of the need for more powerful qualitative analysis and visualization tools, this article presents a device that takes us toward better representations of qualitative results.

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Drama: A Comparative Analysis Of Individual Narratives, Susanna Belle Spaulding, James Banning, Clifford P. Harbour, Timothy Gray Davies Sep 2009

Drama: A Comparative Analysis Of Individual Narratives, Susanna Belle Spaulding, James Banning, Clifford P. Harbour, Timothy Gray Davies

The Qualitative Report

In a narrative inquiry, five educators who taught college in prison share stories about working in this non-traditional learning environment that is often dangerous and frustrating. From the tension between the prison's emphasis on social control and the educators' concern for democratic classrooms, three broad themes emerged: working in borderlands, negotiating power relations, and making personal transformations. Large intact segments from transcripts of participant interviews form a dramatic text that illuminates how a selected group of educators made meaning of their experience teaching college courses to incarcerated students. A comparative analysis presented in a one act play brings together the …

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Designing A Woman-Friendly Workplace: A Prognosis And Prescription For Institutional Health At The University Of Guam, Helen Thompson, Andrea Sant Hartig, Diane Thurber Sep 2009

Designing A Woman-Friendly Workplace: A Prognosis And Prescription For Institutional Health At The University Of Guam, Helen Thompson, Andrea Sant Hartig, Diane Thurber

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article explores the campus activist and research efforts made possible through a Campus Action Project grant awarded by AAUW (2006-2007) to the University of Guam (UOG). Faculty-student researchers developed a workshop series addressing women's workplace concerns and conducted research investigating the health of UOG through selected key indicators of a woman-friendly institution. This article focuses on the research findings, the impact of the grant efforts, and recommendations for institutional changes.

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Women’S Understanding Of The Effects Of Domestic Abuse: The Impact On Their Identity, Sense Of Self And Resilience. A Grounded Theory Approach, Emma Crawford, Helen Liebling-Kalifani, Vicki Hill Sep 2009

Women’S Understanding Of The Effects Of Domestic Abuse: The Impact On Their Identity, Sense Of Self And Resilience. A Grounded Theory Approach, Emma Crawford, Helen Liebling-Kalifani, Vicki Hill

Journal of International Women's Studies

Research on women who have experienced domestic abuse indicates that they feel marginalized; stigma, shame and fear about the response of services stop women from seeking the support they need. The current study aimed to explore the unique perspectives of women who have experienced domestic abuse in order to gain an understanding of their experiences, their perceived identity, sense of self and resilience. Interviews were conducted with eight women who had experienced domestic abuse and transcripts were analysed using grounded theory methodology. Findings indicated that domestic abuse had a significant impact on the women interviewed. In particular, the ongoing relationship …

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Can Socialization Influence Identification Levels? Formal And Informal Socialization Of Graduate Students And Graduate Assistants, Tanna White Sep 2009

Can Socialization Influence Identification Levels? Formal And Informal Socialization Of Graduate Students And Graduate Assistants, Tanna White

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Every organization has standard expectations for member behavior. Socialization ensures that employees learn the accepted ways of responding to each situation and the expected ways of working with others. Socialization may be formal, taking place during orientation meetings, training sessions, workshops, and with assigned mentors. Informal socialization, conversely, involves off-site meetings and social interactions as well as employees learning by watching their coworkers and supervisors (Cousins, Handfield, Lawson & Petersen, 2006; Mujtaba & Sims, 2006).

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The Writer-Of-Violence-As-School-Shooter-Stereotype: How Columbine, Virginia Tech, And Public Fear Make Writing Violence Dangerous For High School And College Students, Matt Foy Sep 2009

The Writer-Of-Violence-As-School-Shooter-Stereotype: How Columbine, Virginia Tech, And Public Fear Make Writing Violence Dangerous For High School And College Students, Matt Foy

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This Time Magazine excerpt from “The Legacy of Columbine,” published on March 11, 2001, nearly two years after the infamous attack at Columbine High School, is a chilling reminder of the culture of fear that consumed the United States in the wake of the massacre, at that point the most horrific incident of gun violence in a United States school. The bloody rampage of teenage gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, respectively 18 and 17 years old and both seniors at upper class, mostly white Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, instantly captured the awe, grief and outrage of the …

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Some Determinants Of Classroom Psychosocial Environment In Australian Catholic High Schools: A Multilevel Analysis, Jeffrey P. Dorman Sep 2009

Some Determinants Of Classroom Psychosocial Environment In Australian Catholic High Schools: A Multilevel Analysis, Jeffrey P. Dorman

Journal of Catholic Education

This research investigated some determinants of classroom environment in Australian Catholic high schools. The Catholic School Classroom Environment Questionnaire (CSCEQ) was used to assess seven dimensions of the classroom pyschosocial environment: student affiliation, interactions, cooperation, task orientation, order and organization, individualization, and teacher control. The sample consisted of 1,719 students from 80 classes in 20 Catholic coeducational and single-sex schools. Validation data attested to the sound structural properties of the CSCEQ. Because the data were nested (i.e., students within classes within schools), multilevel analyses were used to investigate the influence of student gender, grade, subject, and school type on students' …

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Giving Up The Single Life: Leadership Motivations For Interorganizational Restructuring In Nonprofit Organizations, David A. Campbell Sep 2009

Giving Up The Single Life: Leadership Motivations For Interorganizational Restructuring In Nonprofit Organizations, David A. Campbell

Public Administration Faculty Scholarship

This paper addresses a gap in our understanding of why leaders of nonprofit organizations pursue interorganizational restructuring (defined as mergers and similar arrangements). It draws on several theories that explain interorganizational relations as adaptive responses to environmental conditions. The study analyzes four examples of interorganizational restructuring involving 11 nonprofit human service organizations. The research finds that theories emphasizing single-factor motivations (such as the need for resources, power, legitimacy, or greater efficiency) are incomplete; a multiple-factors approach suggested by Oliver's (1991) integrated theory of interorganizational relations provides a more satisfactory basis for theory development. Researchers can use this work to develop …

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The First Scientific Defense Of A Vegetarian Diet, Ken Albala Sep 2009

The First Scientific Defense Of A Vegetarian Diet, Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Books and Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers Sep 2009

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

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Quality Of Life Estimation With Structural Equation Modeling In School Aged Children With Asthma, Sheniz Moonie, Xuan Huang, David A. Sterling Sep 2009

Quality Of Life Estimation With Structural Equation Modeling In School Aged Children With Asthma, Sheniz Moonie, Xuan Huang, David A. Sterling

Environmental & Global Health Faculty Research

Significant increases in childhood asthma prevalence and mortality has prompted federal and regulatory agencies to work towards a national framework to address childhood asthma. Quality of life is an important component of chronic disease, and the evaluation of healthcare outcomes. There is little discussion in the literature regarding the implications of QoL as a theoretical construct. This study determined the effect of asthma on the QoL of our study population and caregiver’s missed workdays on the child’s QoL scores. A negative relationship was found between the child’s QoL and the caregiver’s missed workdays due to their child’s asthma. The use …

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Connecting Informal Workgroup Interactions And Organizational Creative Climate, Cheryl B. Nee-Gieringer Sep 2009

Connecting Informal Workgroup Interactions And Organizational Creative Climate, Cheryl B. Nee-Gieringer

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Creative imagination is required to comprehend complex challenges, solve business problems and develop the solutions that organizations need to adapt, and prosper in a dynamic and increasingly global environment. Multiple factors influence an organization’s ability to tap that imagination. For more than a half of century, research in cognitive and organizational sciences has investigated those influences and identified dimensions of creative climate, characteristics of creative people and processes for improving innovation. However, research explicitly linking organizational communication and organizational creativity has been limited. With a theoretical framework based in small group theory, this study explores the connection between intra-workgroup communication …

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Furman Alumni News, Furman University Sep 2009

Furman Alumni News, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Farewell To A Longtime Friend, Jim Stewart Sep 2009

Farewell To A Longtime Friend, Jim Stewart

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Money And College: A Timeless Issue?, Furman University Sep 2009

Money And College: A Timeless Issue?, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association Sep 2009

Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

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527 Committees And The Political Party Network, Seth E. Masket, Richard Skinner, David Dulio Sep 2009

527 Committees And The Political Party Network, Seth E. Masket, Richard Skinner, David Dulio

Working Papers

We investigate the links between 527s and other political organizations through the employment histories of 527 staff. We find that 527s are highly central to modern political party networks and are in positions to facilitate coordination within a party and to employ key party personnel. Further, we find important differences between the networks charted out by the two major parties. The Republican Party, the majority party during the period under study, had a more hierarchical network than the Democratic Party did.

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Economic Stress And Domestic Violence, Claire M. Renzetti Sep 2009

Economic Stress And Domestic Violence, Claire M. Renzetti

CRVAW Faculty Research Reports and Papers

The severe economic recession that began in December 2007 has renewed interest in the relationship between economic stress and domestic violence (DV). Although analyses of current financial statistics in relation to reported DV incidents have yet to be completed, a sizable body of research that examines various economic indicators provides a framework for understanding how economic stress may contribute to DV. At the same time, available research indicates that DV may also produce financial hardship for DV victims. This paper reviews the research on the reciprocal economic stressóDV relationship, focusing in particular on employment issues; social support networks; physical and …

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Data Note: Patterns Of State, County, And Local Id/Dd Funding Allocation, Jean E. Winsor Sep 2009

Data Note: Patterns Of State, County, And Local Id/Dd Funding Allocation, Jean E. Winsor

Data Note Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

State, County, and Local ID/DD dollars are one of the largest sources of funds for day and employment services; additionally as a funding source that is directly controlled within each state it is one of the most flexible sources of dollars for day and employment services. The allocation of these funds varied based upon year and service category: integrated employment, community based non-work, facility based work, and facility based non-work.

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Il Destino Di Karen. Università E Donne Nel Nord America (Karen’S Fate. Academe And Women In North America), Pieranna Garavaso Sep 2009

Il Destino Di Karen. Università E Donne Nel Nord America (Karen’S Fate. Academe And Women In North America), Pieranna Garavaso

Philosophy Publications

Una docente italiana all’Università del Minnesota porta la sua testimonianza sull’evoluzione della presenza femminile nel mondo accademico americano.

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 2009), Marny Rivera, André B. Rosay, Darryl S. Wood, Katherine Tepas Sep 2009

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 2009), Marny Rivera, André B. Rosay, Darryl S. Wood, Katherine Tepas

Vols 21-30 (2004-2014)

The Fall 2009 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum focuses on violence against women, with articles on legal resolutions and attrition in domestic violence cases reported to Alaska State Troopers, recent recommendations from Alaska lawmakers and the Governor on reducing violence in Alaska, and the relationship between animal abuse and domestic violence. An additional article details recent data about leading causes of death for Alaska and the U.S.

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Soc 423.01: Addiction Studies, Cynthia L. Garthwait Sep 2009

Soc 423.01: Addiction Studies, Cynthia L. Garthwait

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

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Eastern, Fall 2009, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations. Sep 2009

Eastern, Fall 2009, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations.

Alumni Publications

This issue contains articles about a service founded by Lori Gagnon called Survive the Night that helps runaway children, Reid Elementary School, the Native House, and Mount Everest climbers Mary Kay and Dawes Eddy.

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