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Reflections on the emergence of a field (2009)
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Clear insights: Philanthropic psychology (2009)
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The ontology of things, powers and properties (2009)
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Avenues for new research: What do fundraisers want? (2008)
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Avatars in social media: Balancing accuracy, playfulness and embodied messages (2008)
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This paper examines how users negotiate their self-presentation via an avatar used in social media. Twenty participants customised an avatar while thinking aloud. An analysis of this verbal data revealed three motivating factors that drive self-prese... Read More about Avatars in social media: Balancing accuracy, playfulness and embodied messages.
Philanthropic psychology: The new kid on the block (2008)
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Institutions and social structures (2008)
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This paper clarifies the terms "institutions" and "social structures" and related terms "rules", "conventions", "norms", "values" and "customs". Part one explores the similarities between institutions and social structures whilst the second and third... Read More about Institutions and social structures.
Secure access to confidential microdata: Four years of the virtual microdata laboratory (2008)
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Collaborative academic/practitioner research in project management: Examples and applications (2008)
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a cost-benefit interpretation of academic-practitioner research by describing and analysing several recent relevant examples of academic-practitioner research with a focus on doctoral theses carried o... Read More about Collaborative academic/practitioner research in project management: Examples and applications.
Fractured transitions: Young adults' pathways into contemporary labour markets (2008)
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This article uses qualitative data from a study of young adults aged 20-34 in Bristol to explore the labour market transitions considered typical of contemporary advanced economies.The main objective of the article is to develop a typology of labour... Read More about Fractured transitions: Young adults' pathways into contemporary labour markets.
The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies (2008)
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© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this research note is to articulate the limitations that project management (PM) currently faces by outlining the PM literature’s frequent neglect of political, social and ethical d... Read More about The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies.
Diversities in an organisational context (2008)
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The purpose of this paper is to report on a research day on the theme of diversity, held at the Centre for Employment Studies Research, University of the West of England. The report is based upon observations, notes and discussions of papers presente... Read More about Diversities in an organisational context.
Structure, institution, agency, habit and reflexive deliberation (2008)
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Achieving effective academic/practitioner knowledge exchange in marketing (2008)
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Marketing management research and teaching has been criticised for some time as being divorced from practice. However, there has been little research into the nature of knowledge exchange between academics and practitioners in the marketing field. In... Read More about Achieving effective academic/practitioner knowledge exchange in marketing.
Let's get ethical: Dealing with socially desirable responding online (2008)
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Because marketing researchers are focusing increasingly on the issues of corporate and consumer social responsibility and other ethical behaviour, there is a clear need to assess the possible impact of Socially Desirable Responding in interviews on t... Read More about Let's get ethical: Dealing with socially desirable responding online.
The true cost of fundraising: Should donors care? (2008)
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Learning from failure, ambiguity and trust in social enterprise (2008)
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Collaborative academic/practitioner research in project management: Theory and models (2008)
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Turing test for organizational intelligence (2008)
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This article considers the popular perception of man’s superiority to machine and the arguments for and against the possibility of thinking-machines. The Turing Test is used as a basis for these discussions and the philosophical debates that surro... Read More about Turing test for organizational intelligence.