The study reported in this paper is part of a programme of ongoing research based on the model of the Information …

The author reviews the major approaches and central findings of empirical research use studies. Six major research … established in this sense. The qualitative research settings seem to gain more popularity, thus making the use studies more … balanced methodologically. The strengths and weaknessess of the research approaches are assessed and conclusions are drawn …

of research published in them. The comparison of Journal Impact Factors (JIF) is another contribution of this study …

. It is intended to raise some of the issues that are currently exercising the information retrieval research community, in …

The study explores the role of information and information seeking in the Research and Development Department of an … international oil and gas company. The information seeking patterns of engineers and research scientists at Statoil’s Research … Centre, in Trondheim, Norway were studied in relation to their research activities in different phases and types of project …

Research Assessment Exercise, and the number of citations received by academics in those departments for articles published in … of citations received, or the average number of citations per member of staff, and the Research Assessment Exercise score … indicator of the research performance of UK academic departments in a variety of disciplines, and the paper argues that for …

the marketing discipline. In the context of scholarly research, third space exists between the academy and places of … research, and applies to research agendas involving businesses and consumers in emerging and/or subsistence markets, where … areas (i.e. researcher identity, researcher context, research methods) and the corresponding themes of rediscovering the …

salespeople to perform well. Discusses research implications and offers management guidelines to improve the effectiveness of …

programs are still lacking. In this paper, experiences from a longitudinal action research project with a middle management …