Abstract In light of the limitation of normative narratives of Chinese jurisprudence, this article proposes a functional interpretation of how the law evolved in China and how the jurisprudence was formalized to cope with major social challenges in the society. Through an examination on...

The growing alienation of modernist public housing estates and their ethnically and socially excluded residents, as well as the neglected human potential-capital they symbolize (not social burden), is a grotesque expression of the failure of a system driven by the profit motive and failed...

Purpose – To analyse the use of hermeneutics in library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach – Presents a literature‐based conceptual analysis of: the definition of hermeneutics in LIS; and the practical use of hermeneutics within recent LIS studies. Findings – The...

Purpose This study demonstrates how individual paradigms implicate the questions asked, methods used and results drawn in association with a common object of study in human information behavior (HIB) research – the relationship between uncertainty and decision-making....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss and shed light on the following questions: What is an author? Is it a person who writes? Or, is it, in information, an iconic taxonomic designation (some might say a “classification”) for a group of writings that are recognized by the...

In the new millennium, organisations are going through rapid changes and the role of strategic management is challenged. When the organisation is threatened by environmental changes such as crises or competition as a result of information technology development or increased customer demands, the...

Purpose – This paper aims at contributing to the conceptual and methodological advancement of international marketing research. Design/methodology/approach – The theory of social representations is utilized to study what the representatives of a certain culture think of objects and products;...