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

program evaluation at a time when Japan’s public sector is in crisis and probably at a turning point in its history. A central … direction of program evaluation resources. The voluntary nature of AC and its reliance on the efforts of citizens of social …

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 …

examining also the knowledge export of journals as an additional criterion for the evaluation of their impact, and the quality … 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 context of experimentation and evaluation.  …

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 …