Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the practice of comedians in relation to freedom of expression, so as to throw light on the issue of giving or avoiding offence. Design/methodology/approach – The literature of comedy, newspaper coverage of comedy in the UK in 2008,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore a new research area: orally‐based information. Design/methodology/approach – The study utilizes a social constructionist approach. The social constructionist meta‐theory, which holds that contributions to knowledge can be made orally,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how the migration from the print world to the electronic environment has affected the motivations, attitudes and behaviours of researchers in scholarly communication. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an...

Purpose – In this paper the authors seek to compare lay (consumer) and professional (physician) discourse structures in answers to diabetes‐related questions in a public consumer health information website. Design/methodology/approach – Ten consumer and ten physician question threads were...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of the paucity of research on information behaviour of information providers and to propose a framework for investigating the emerging area of provider information behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The approach...

With growing competition and the increasing complexity of commercial information, interpersonal communication continues to be important to marketers. Market mavens, those consumers with general product knowledge that act as disseminators of product information, play a central role in influencing...

Purpose – This paper aims to report on the role of information sharing in business relationships development. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a single embedded case study research. Relationships between a large global manufacturer and supplier of imaging products and...

Purpose – Network‐level collaboration between different organisations is acknowledged to be one of the success factors in achieving a competitive advantage in business. However, contemporary business environments demand more suitable managerial tools and practices at both organisational and...

The extent to which and ways in which export information is used can play a significant role in a firm's level of export performance. Surprisingly, however, little empirical research has been conducted in the area of export information use, and even less attention has been paid to potential...