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"Supporting the dissemination of knowledge for social good in developing countries"

Call for Chinese, Indian and Latin American management research proposals

This year, Emerald Group Publishing Limited is proud to offer three research grants for Chinese,  Indian and Latin American projects in the field of management. The funding awards will be as follows:

• Chinese management research: £4,000 (US$7,700 equivalent)
• Indian management research, in partnership with the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS): £2,000 (US$3,850 equivalent)
• Latin American management research, in partnership with CLADEA, the Latin American Council of Management Schools: £2,000 (US$3,850 equivalent)

Applications should address the dissemination of knowledge for social good with a specific orientation toward benefit for developing economies.

Eligibility
At least one member of each research team must be based in either mainland China, India or Latin America, depending on the award applied for.

Judging criteria

Each application will be judged, by a panel of experts, on the criteria below. The research must:

• Be of significance, particularly illustrating how it will benefit the social good.
• Demonstrate originality and innovation.
• Make an outstanding contribution to theory and its application.
• Illustrate the appropriateness and application of the methodology.
• Demonstrate sound implications for theory and practice.

Application requirements
Each proposal, to arrive either by post or by e-mail, should:

• Have a one-page summary stating specific goals, outcomes and benefits of the research. This should not exceed 2,000 words.
• Display clearly a statement of purpose and intent
• State clearly the methodology(ies) applied and explicitly describe the research process
• State expected research outcomes and expected impact and possible application
• Specify the expected timescales of the research process
• Outline projected costs and total research grant required.

Contact
To view this information online, or to find out about the winners from previous years, please see
www.emeraldinsight.com/awards

For further information, or to apply for the awards, please contact:

Jim Bowden
Research and Publishing Adviser
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
60/62 Toller Lane
Bradford BD8 9BY UK
Tel: 01274 777700
Fax: 01274 785200
E-mail: jbowden@emeraldinsight.com

Key dates
The closing date for applications is 1 July 2007.
The initial short-list will be completed by mid-August 2007.
Winners will be announced in early September 2007.

Details of the Emerald Research Fund Awards: Library and Information Science (LIS) Category will be announced this summer at www.emeraldinsight.com/awards

 InTouch “Changing the face of research collaboration and education”

UNITED KINGDOM, 15 May 2007 – Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce the launch of InTouch, a web space and hosting service that supports research networking, learning, and collaboration. 

Designed for Emerald’s author and editor communities, InTouch places a range of collaborative technologies and social networking tools in one simple, easy-to-use, secure space.  It can also link directly into the Emerald Management Xtra database so that users can search for articles, abstracts and research alongside InTouch blog posts, multimedia files and researcher profiles.

Amanda Briggs, Head of Research and Development at Emerald, says, “InTouch was developed with our research and contributor communities in mind.  Online technologies have had a dramatic effect on the educational and learning environment and students regularly use informal social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook to communicate with their classmates. Now, Emerald authors and editors can take advantage of these technologies in a space that is designed specifically for the academic and business community – InTouch.  Users can create online communities based around journals or research interests, share ideas and expertise with (and learn from) their peers.  This service supports our commitment to building and facilitating communities around key management research areas.”

Emerald contributors can use InTouch to find out about forthcoming articles; create a personal blog; Share research findings and collaborate on future projects.

As well as providing networking and collaboration services, InTouch also contains tools to support students, particularly in a distance learning setting.

Glen Hardaker is Professor of Innovation Management at The University of Huddersfield and editor of Emerald’s Campus Wide Information Systems and Multicultural Education & Technology Journal. He has been working with Emerald to develop InTouch by introducing the service to support new students throughout their first term on his “ICT in Practice” degree course. Hardaker believes online services like InTouch “are changing the face of research collaboration and education.  There are a variety of tools available; yet few currently offer such a range as InTouch in one single learner-centric space.  Students can store files, blog, receive RSS feeds, record personal learning and reflection as well as communicate directly with their peers. InTouch supports the bridge between formal and informal learning.”

As Emerald seeks to enhance this service in line with the needs of its users over coming months, an online focus group will be assembled to provide regular feedback.  To join this group, please contact Anna Torrance, InTouch Market Manager (atorrance@emeraldinsight.com).

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 About InTouch

http://intouch.emeraldinsight.com

InTouch is built on the Elgg learning landscape and is hosted by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.  Academic and corporate organisations can purchase a personalised, branded version of InTouch for use within their own institution.  For further information please contact:  Anna Torrance, Market Manager (atorrance@emeraldinsight.com) or visit http://intouch.emeraldinsight.com to learn more.

About Emerald

www.emeraldinsight.com

 

Established in 1967, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd is the world’s leading publisher of management journals and databases. Emerald celebrates 40 years of publishing excellence in 2007.  Consistently ranked at 98% in customer satisfaction surveys, Emerald was voted “Best Customer Support” by readers of The Charleston Advisor.  Emerald is COUNTER-compliant, meeting the international code of practice for reports that allow clients to measure usage of online information products and services in a consistent manner.

 

Emerald publishes over 190 titles, 93% of which are peer-reviewed. Titles such as Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation, Library Hi-Tech, Journal of Knowledge Management, Industrial Management and Data Systems and The TQM Magazine are published by Emerald along with a core collection of library and information science journals.  36 Emerald journals are now ranked by Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) – an important indicator of their high quality within the research community.

The Emerald online collection of journals, abstracts and resources, Emerald Management Xtra, is designed for business schools and management departments worldwide.  For managers in corporate and public organisations, Emerald Management First provides fast and friendly access to applied research, ideas, insights and interviews from the world’s best management thinkers.

35 Emerald journals now ranked by Thompson Scientific

United Kingdom, April 2007 -  Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce the inclusion of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing in the Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index.  Bringing the total number of Emerald journals listed in Thompson Scientific to 35 with a further two listed on their Current Contents Connect update service.

Whilst the journal has been covered in some of the Thomson Scientific services – such as the alerting services – for some time, it is inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index leads to the provision of a journal impact factor – deemed an important indicator of quality by much of the academic community around the world. 

The Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing focuses on the ways in which companies market their products, services and ideas to other companies (B2B marketing). Disseminated both individually and as part of the Emerald Management Xtra database, it has a global audience – during 2006 articles from the journal were downloaded on no less than 175,114 occasions by users in pretty much every corner of the world.

Having just passed its 21st birthday the journal has garnered loyal support from some of the world’s leading marketing authors – recent authors have included such major figures as Christian Grönroos, Jagdish Sheth, George Day and Evert Gummesson with others such as Philip Kotler to appear in forthcoming issues.

Shelby Hunt, of Texas Tech University and past Editor of the Journal of Marketing (publication of the American Marketing Association) believes Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing to be “…at the forefront of thoughtful, informed, managerially relevant scholarship on business and industrial marketing…” Clearly factors such as these represented a telling case for the journal’s inclusion in the Social Sciences Citation Index.

Emerald currently publishes the largest single collection of marketing journals worldwide and this excellent news from Thomson Scientific means that three of these titles – European Journal of Marketing, International Marketing Review and now Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing are included in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Emerald will be making further applications for inclusion of its journals in due course.

The final word must go to Professor Wesley Johnston of Georgia State University, USA – only the second Editor the journal has had and in the post since 1993, steadily and patiently building the journal’s quality and reputation. “This is excellent news for the editorial team and for the journal’s authors – inclusion of Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing in the Social Sciences Citation Index is one more indicator that our journal’s contribution to the development of knowledge in this field is key – news like this is a great boost and another motivation to continue our progress. I would like to express my thanks to my university for its support of myself and my staff over the years – this has been a major source of encouragement.”

For details on writing for or subscribing to Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/jbim.htm