Special Issue: Theoretical Perspectives on Sociology of Professions in Germany

Special Issue on India: Macromarketing Perspectives

This special issue focuses on India as an emergent and major global economy. The various articles selected for this issue provide an interesting set of perspectives that are facing the nation with the world’s second largest population. For macromarketing scholars, the issues addressed in this special issue are retail marketing developments; cultural issues concerning the most visible export of ...

Perspectives on Global Software Development: special issue on PROFES 2007

The field of software engineering has evolved significantly over the past decades. It can be argued that software has become the vital element of any system or service. Interestingly, even in the field of automotive industry, 90% of recent innovations stem from software and electronics (ITEA2 2005). Ever since the classic NATO conference in 1968, however, software has been argued to be in some ...

Theoretical Perspectives on Corporate Narrative Disclosures: New Insights from Psychology, Sociology, and Critical Perspectives

Theories from traditional finance (e.g. agency theory) are not suitable for impression management research as they are based on fundamental assumptions of manager and investor rationality. For the assumption that impression management results in capital misallocations to hold true requires alternative theoretical perspectives. This paper develops theoretical perspectives on corporate narrative ...

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Introduction to the special issue: perspectives on research libraries

Purpose – The aim of this article is to introduce the special issue of Journal of Documentation focusing on perspectives on research libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines the theme of the issue and its underlying problems. Findings – The traditional services of research libraries may diffuse to other kinds of institutions. There is, however, a need for information speciali...