Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (55)

Scottish entrepreneurial networks in the international context. (2002)
Journal Article
DRAKOPOULOU DODD, S.L., JACK, S.L., and ANDERSON, A.R. 2002. Scottish entrepreneurial networks in the international context. International small business journal: researching entrepreneurship [online], 20(2), pages 213-219. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242602202005

The research note reports findings of a study into the personal contact networks of Scottish entrepreneurs, and compares these to results already published for other countries (Canada, Greece, Japan, Italy, Northern Ireland, Sweden and the United Sta... Read More about Scottish entrepreneurial networks in the international context..

A surfeit of socks? The impact of the First World War on women correspondents to daily newspapers. (2002)
Journal Article
PEDERSEN, S. 2002. A surfeit of socks? The impact of the First World War on women correspondents to daily newspapers. Journal of Scottish historical studies [online], 22(1), pages 50-72. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/jshs.2002.22.1.50

This article is based on such material and shows how the predominant subject matter for ladies’ letters during the war years was that of voluntary fundraising for the many charities and associations connected with the war. Such charities were often s... Read More about A surfeit of socks? The impact of the First World War on women correspondents to daily newspapers..

Proto-bibliophiles amongst the English aristocracy, 1500-1700. (2002)
Journal Article
REID, P.H. 2002. Proto-bibliophiles amongst the English aristocracy, 1500-1700. Library history [online], 18(1), pages 25-38. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2002.18.1.25

The idea of aristocratic book collecting in Great Britain tends to conjure up images of great bibliophiles like Sunderland, Roxburghe and Spencer or of the benign neglect of country house libraries. Yet the origins of aristocratic bibliophilia - whic... Read More about Proto-bibliophiles amongst the English aristocracy, 1500-1700..

Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of information need in the context of the impact of new information and communications technologies on the communication of parliamentary information. (2002)
Journal Article
MARCELLA, R., BAXTER, G. and MOORE, N. 2002. Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of information need in the context of the impact of new information and communications technologies on the communication of parliamentary information. Journal of documentation [online], 58(2), pages 185-210. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410210425458

This paper discusses critically the theoretical and methodological background to an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research project designed to investigate the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on the communica... Read More about Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of information need in the context of the impact of new information and communications technologies on the communication of parliamentary information..

Goalsetting as a tool for involving people with learning disabilities in healthcare. (2002)
Thesis
YOUNG, A.F. 2002. Goalsetting as a tool for involving people with learning disabilities in healthcare. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Background: This research was undertaken during a period of rapid change within the NHS including the deinstitutionalisation of care, and increased emphasis on partnership working. The main aim of the study was to examine collaborative goalsetting as... Read More about Goalsetting as a tool for involving people with learning disabilities in healthcare..

The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe: towards a feminist remodelling of (meta)history. (2002)
Journal Article
KOKOLI, A. 2002. The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe: towards a feminist remodelling of (meta)history. In-between: essays and studies in literary criticism, 11(1), pages 55-70.

Angela Carter's 1982 short story "The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe" is a fictional biographical account of the development and "coming to writing" of the author named in the title, while also paying tribute to Poe's poetics of the short story. The infl... Read More about The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe: towards a feminist remodelling of (meta)history..

Andrew Carnegie: a model for PFI? (2002)
Newspaper / Magazine
JOHNSON, I., REID, P. and BAXTER, G. 2002. Andrew Carnegie: a model for PFI? Library association record, 104(3), pages 175-176.

The generosity of Carnegie is truly something to celebrate and where better than in the country of his birth. To celebrate that the 68th IFLA conference was to take place in Scotland and devoting part of its programe to the great benefactor the autho... Read More about Andrew Carnegie: a model for PFI?.

The impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary information. (2002)
Report
MARCELLA, R., BAXTER, G. and MOORE, N. 2002. The impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary information. Swindon: ESRC [online]. Available from: http://www.researchcatalogue.esrc.ac.uk/grants/R000223342/outputs/read/b14a2cfd-6b55-4d3d-a4f4-b30aed2229d9

This report details the results of a pilot study, funded by the ESRC, to test the application of a new data collection tool - an interactive, electronically-assisted interview delivered in a roadshow environment - in the context of the public's need... Read More about The impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary information..

Tourism in peripheral areas: the use of causal networks and lesson drawing as analytical methods. (2002)
Thesis
NASH, R. 2002. Tourism in peripheral areas: the use of causal networks and lesson drawing as analytical methods. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The thesis sets out to evaluate the use of Causal Networks as a methodology and as a means of highlighting the problems associated with tourism in peripheral areas. Once these problems were identified through this process, the research findings are r... Read More about Tourism in peripheral areas: the use of causal networks and lesson drawing as analytical methods..

Transformational leadership, corporate cultism and the spirituality paradigm: an unholy trinity in the workplace? (2002)
Journal Article
TOURISH, D. and PINNINGTON, A. 2002. Transformational leadership, corporate cultism and the spirituality paradigm: an unholy trinity in the workplace? Human relations [online], 55(2), pages 147-172. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726702055002181

Leadership is a perennially popular topic in the academic and practitioner literature on management. In particular, the past twenty years have witnessed an explosive growth of interest in what has been termed 'transformational leadership' (henceforth... Read More about Transformational leadership, corporate cultism and the spirituality paradigm: an unholy trinity in the workplace?.

Rerefinement of (μ-1,7,11,17-tetraoxa-2,6,12,16-tetraazacycloeicosane-κ4N1,N17:N7,N11)bis[dichlorozinc(II)]. [Dataset] (2002)
Data
KUKSA, V.A., WARDELL, S.M.S.V. , KONG THOO LIN, P. and HOWIE, R.A. 2002. Rerefinement of ([mu]-1,7,11,17-tetraoxa-2,6,12,16-tetra­aza­cyclo­ei­cosane-[kappa]4N1,N17:N7,N11)­bis­[di­chlorozinc(II)]. [Dataset]. Acta crystallographica section E: crystallographic communications [online], 58(2), pages m68-m69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536802001654

This rerefinement of the title compound, [Zn2Cl4(C12H28­N4O4)], based on the original intensity data, differs from the original only in the exchange of the NH and O moieties of the oxa­aza-macrocycle, resulting in a dramatic improvement in the R fact... Read More about Rerefinement of (μ-1,7,11,17-tetraoxa-2,6,12,16-tetraazacycloeicosane-κ4N1,N17:N7,N11)bis[dichlorozinc(II)]. [Dataset].

Using document clustering and language modelling in mediated information retrieval. (2002)
Thesis
MURESAN, G. 2002. Using document clustering and language modelling in mediated information retrieval. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Our work addresses a well documented problem: users are frequently unable to articulate a query that clearly and comprehensively expresses their information need. This can be attributed to the information need being too ambiguous and not clearly defi... Read More about Using document clustering and language modelling in mediated information retrieval..

Mappin open solo show. [Exhibition] (2002)
Exhibition / Performance
Mappin open solo show. Exhibition held on 31 January - 30 April 2002, Mapping Art Gallery, Sheffield.

The images provided here are just two from a larger body of work entitled 'Narrative Driven By Shape'. This, along with other works, formed the basis of a solo show held at The Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield from January to April 2002.

Electricity liberalization. (2002)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2002. Electricity liberalization. In Pedler, R. (ed.). European Union lobbying: changes in the arena. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan [online], pages 269-294. Available from: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780333971529

Electricity was an obvious candidate in the renewed drive to complete a European Single Market in the Delors years. Despite the energy sector being the first candidate for European integration in 1951, electricity consumption remained, in the mid-198... Read More about Electricity liberalization..