Top 25 Hottest articles in ScienceDirect

Every 3 months ScienceDirect distributes a list of the Top 25 Hottest articles published with in a specific subject area.

Here is the newest list available for Business, Management & Accounting for the time period: Jan - March 2008

1. Responsive supply chain: A competitive strategy in a networked economy • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 549-564Gunasekaran, A.; Lai, K.-h.; Edwin Cheng, T.C.
2. A strategy for third-party logistics systems: A case analysis using the blue ocean strategy • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 522-534Kim, C.; Yang, K.H.; Kim, J.
3. Issues in Supply Chain Management - Don't Automate, Obliterate • ArticleIndustrial Marketing Management, Volume 29, Issue 1, 1 January 2000, Pages 65-83Lambert, D.M.; Cooper, M.C.Cited by Scopus (187)
4. The use of information systems for logistics and supply chain management in South East Europe: Current status and future direction • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 592-599Ketikidis, P.H.; Koh, S.C.L.; Dimitriadis, N.; Gunasekaran, A.; Kehajova, M.
5. Network design for reverse logistics • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 535-548Srivastava, S.K.
6. Market efficiency, long-term returns, and behavioral finance • ArticleJournal of Financial Economics, Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 September 1998, Pages 283-306Fama, E.F.
7. Investor protection and corporate governance • ArticleJournal of Financial Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1-2, 1 January 2000, Pages 3-27La Porta, R.; Lopez-de-Silanes, F.; Shleifer, A.; Vishny, R.
8. Liquidity and market efficiency • ArticleJournal of Financial EconomicsChordia, T.; Roll, R.; Subrahmanyam, A.
9. Supply chain management in the US and Taiwan: An empirical study • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 5, 1 October 2008, Pages 665-679Chow, W.S.; Madu, C.N.; Kuei, C.-H.; Lu, M.H.; Lin, C.; Tseng, H.
10. The theory and practice of corporate finance: evidence from the field • ArticleJournal of Financial Economics, Volume 60, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2001, Pages 187-243Graham, J.R.; Harvey, C.R.
11. The financing decisions of innovative firms • ArticleResearch in International Business and FinanceCasson, P.D.; Martin, R.; Nisar, T.M.
12. Information asymmetry, corporate disclosure, and the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature • ArticleJournal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 405-440Healy, P.M.; Palepu, K.G.
13. Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research • ArticleTourism Management, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 June 2008, Pages 403-428Getz, D.
14. A grounded theory research approach to building and testing TQM theory in operations management • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 5, 1 October 2008, Pages 825-837McAdam, R.; Leonard, D.; Henderson, J.; Hazlett, S.A.
15. Trust in leadership: A multi-level review and integration • ArticleLeadership Quarterly, The, Volume 18, Issue 6, 1 December 2007, Pages 606-632Burke, C.S.; Sims, D.E.; Lazzara, E.H.; Salas, E.
16. Effects of knowledge management strategy on organizational performance: A complementarity theory-based approach • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 235-251Choi, B.; Poon, S.K.; Davis, J.G.
17. Corporate governance and pay-for-performance: The impact of earnings management • ArticleJournal of Financial EconomicsCornett, M.M.; Marcus, A.J.; Tehranian, H.
18. Project management information systems: An empirical study of their impact on project managers and project success • ArticleInternational Journal of Project Management, Volume 26, Issue 2, 1 February 2008, Pages 213-220Raymond, L.; Bergeron, F.
19. Tourism strategy making: Insights to the events tourism domain • ArticleTourism Management, Volume 29, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 252-262Stokes, R.
20. Marketing the competitive destination of the future - Growth strategies for accommodation establishments in alpine regions • ArticleTourism Management, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 February 2000, Pages 97-116Buhalis, D.Cited by Scopus (65)
21. Customer relationship management: Finding value drivers • ArticleIndustrial Marketing ManagementRichards, K.A.; Jones, E.
22. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in financial services • ArticleEuropean Management Journal, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 June 2000, Pages 312-327Peppard, J.Cited by Scopus (50)
23. Trust in management and knowledge sharing: The mediating effects of fear and knowledge documentation • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 206-220Renzl, B.
24. Customer satisfaction and loyalty in service: Two concepts, four constructs, several relationships • ArticleJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Volume 15, Issue 3, 1 May 2008, Pages 156-162Bodet, G.
25. The effects of brand credibility on customer loyalty • ArticleJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Volume 15, Issue 3, 1 May 2008, Pages 179-193Sweeney, J.; Swait, J.

New journal additions in ProQuest

ProQuest has recently added new journals to their ABI/Inform Global collection, they are:

1) The Tax Lawyer (full text coverage from Spring 2007)
The Tax Lawyer, the USA’s premier, peer-reviewed tax law journal, is published quarterly as a service to its members by the American Bar Association Section of Taxation.The Tax Lawyer endeavors to provide scholarly articles by notable tax attorneys and professors, key reports by Section of Taxation committees and task forces, and student notes and comments on timely topics that the editorial board believes to be of professional interest to members of the Section and the tax profession.

2) Global Outlook Online (full text coverage from January 2008) published by The Bank of Nova Scotia. This journal covers the economic growth, conditions and statistics of Canada.

3) ICIS Chemical Business (full text coverage from October 2007) published by Reed Business Information, UK and covers the chemical industry news.

4) Telecommunications (full text coverage from July 2007) published by Horizon House, goes beyond superficial news headlines and plunges deeply into the business operations of service providers, the technologies they rely on and the applications they deploy to create competitive advantage.

Launch of new CPI

On 1 July 2008 Statistics South Africa will release the new weights for the Consumer Price Index. The new weights will be released on their website and at an information session in Johannesburg, with a second information session in Cape Town.

In addition to an explanation of the new weights, Stats SA will also provide details on some methodological changes planned for the CPI. Both the new weights and the methodological changes only become effective with the January 2009 CPI release. The sessions are open to the media and other users of the CPI.

Gauteng
Date: 1 July 2008
Time: 09h30 – 13h00
Venue: Indaba Hotel, Fourways
Cost: Free

Please RSVP with STATSSA before Wednesday 25 June 2008 by emailling rsvp@statssa.gov.za, indicating which meeting (Cape Town or Gauteng) you would like to attend. (Venue details will be forwarded once your RSVP has been received.)

New Books @ the Library!

I've sent out a list of all the new titles I've received in the last few days.

As there are quite a few, please refer to my email for the individual

titles.

Alternatively, you are more than welcome to come and browse the titles @ my office.

Who owns the networks in Africa?

Forbes published an interesting article on the state of telecoms in Africa ...

Worldwide, 61% of formerly state-owned fixed network operators were in private hands by 2005, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Yet, the figure in Africa was just 44%. Almost all of Africa's governments still own some, and many own all, of what was once the national phone monopoly.
In the mid-1990s, African telecoms markets were dominated by state-owned fixed network (wireline) monopolies. African telecoms markets have been transformed since then by mobile networks. Fixed line teledensity is still under 4% and stagnant--according to latest ITU figures (published in May), 1.6% outside North and South Africa.

New mobile networks, by contrast, now cover most rural as well as urban areas:
--Continent-wide mobile teledensity has risen to 27%, with South Africa among countries achieving over 80%.
--Mobile phones now account for more than 90% of lines in most countries on the continent.It is mobile rather than fixed networks that are expected to provide the platform for African broadband.
Although many fixed incumbents have mobile businesses, this transformation has been led by private-sector competitors, mostly European, Middle Eastern and South African investors.
For more on this story, please go to Forbes or log in to Oxford Analytica

Researching a public USA company with EDGAR

Searching for information on public companies in the USA?

All USA companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you'll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.

Here's how to start: Go to the EDGAR home page. You will find a very thorough Quick EDGAR Tutorial and a Description of SEC Forms on the left side of the screen. To begin searching, click “Search for Company Filings” and then “Companies and Other Filers.” This will bring you to the Company Search page.

There are various other ways you can search:

• "Search Companies and Filings" allows you to retrieve real-time filings for a specific company and to find key company information — including its name, address, telephone number, state of incorporation, Central Index Key (CIK) number, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code, and fiscal year end.


• You can also search for all SEC-registered companies in a particular state.


• Or you can search for all companies with a specific SIC code.


• Once you've found the company you want, you can limit the search results by date (for example, "Prior to 2002-01-01") or by the type of filing (for example, "10-K").


• Latest Filings is the most recent filings on the EDGAR system has received — from all SEC filers, including individuals and companies, paper filers and electronic filers. The list on this page features the most recent real-time filings from a broad range of companies and individuals for the current official filing date

You can also search in the Full Text, retrieve filings made the previous week, view prospectuses or proxy voting records for the mutual fund of your choice using the Mutual Funds Search feature, find Variable Insurance Products and associated filings for new filings with series and class/contract name and find Securities Act registration statements and post-effective amendments declared effective on the most recently completed business day.

Here is what a typical record looks like, it is a search for Microsoft:

In the left corner you will see the company name and below that the SIC code assigned to the company. If you click on the code it will take you to a list of other companies operating in the same industry.

The SEC filings for the company is in the table form numbers, form formats, filing descriptions, and filing dates:
- Form 10-Q (contains unaudited quarterly financial statements)
- Form 10-K (contains audited annual financial statements)
- Form 8-K (current information including preliminary earnings announcements)
- Registration statements including Form S-1 (general registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933,used for new issuers) and
- Form F-6 (registration statement used by foreign issuers of American Depositary Receipts)

Executive compensation:
You can locate information about executive pay in:
- Schedule 14A (annual proxy statement)
- Form 10-K (audited annual report)
- Registration statements filed by the issuer
- Form 8-K (current company information)

Insider Transactions and Beneficial Ownership Interest
The specific forms are:
- Form 3 (initial statement of beneficial ownership)
- Form 4 (statement of changes in beneficial ownership)
- Form 5 (annual statement of changes in beneficial ownership)

For an extensive list on understanding the EDGAR search results, please read through the Researching Public Companies Through EDGAR:A Guide for Investors

Online advertising in EU surges 40%

The Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe) has just released the findings of its annual advertising expenditure survey for the year ending December 2007.

Compiled by IAB Europe and then processed and analyzed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), this report is the definitive guide to the size and value of the European online advertising industry.
In 2007 the European online advertising market was worth €11.2 billion, up four billion euros from €7.2 billion in 2006. With a like-for-like growth rate of 40%, the European online advertising market shows signs of closing the gap on the US which grew 26% to a market value of €14.5 billion in the same period. (Chart 1 - click on the picture to make it bigger)

“10 before 10”
The report also reveals the share that online advertising has of the total advertising spend in key markets (Chart 2). Alain Heureux, President of IAB Europe says “We are well on the way to achieving the “10 before 10”- that is 10 European countries where online advertising accounts for at least 10% of overall ad spend by the year 2010. At the end of 2007 Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland Sweden and the UK had all reached this milestone.”

What’s an Internet user worth to an advertiser?
IAB Europe/PwC have created a measure ‘Spend per user’ to illustrate the value of one Internet user to an advertiser in the different markets. With the European average at €80.6, Norwegian advertisers spent the most at €133.2 per person, followed by the UK at €120.8 and Denmark at €109.5 in 2007. In the US advertisers spent €91.9 per person in 2007. The more mature the market, the higher the value placed on the Internet user by the advertisers.

The big category spenders
Industry category data has been included in the report for the first time and reveals that the sectors investing the most in online advertising in 2007 were Entertainment & Leisure, Telecoms and Finance & Insurance. In particular, advertisers from the Entertainment & Leisure sector, which spends the most money at present, have taken advantage of the interactive and social media formats on the web to promote their products and services.

New Book Release: Springer

Product Lifecycle Management
About this book
In today's manufacturing and service industries PLM - Product Lifecycle Management - is an essential means to cope with the challenges of more demanding global competition.
New, more complex and more configurable products must be introduced to markets faster than ever before.
In order to cope with this, companies form large collaborative networks. In these collaborative networks product information must be transferred between companies in electronic form, smoothly and with high levels of information security.

This is the first English-language book on PLM that introduces the reader to the basic terms and fundamentals of PLM. It provides a solid foundation for starting a PLM development project and further gives ideas and examples of how PLM can be utilized in various industries. In addition, it offers an insight into how PLM can assist in creating new business opportunities and in making real eBusiness possible.

Written for:
Project managers and IT managers, especially in manufacturing industries, PLM consultants

Keywords:
- PLM, PDM
- Product Data Management
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Product Management
- Service Management

Latest Universal McCann social media study released

Universal McCann Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) recently released its latest comparative study on social media trends.

The third in a series, Wave 3 measures consumer usage, attitudes and interests in adopting social media platforms and is the largest exploration of its kind. Wave 3 surveyed 17 000 Internet users in 29 countries.

Wave 3 highlights:

• Social media is a global phenomenon happening in all markets regardless of wider economic, social and cultural development. If you are online you are using social media
• Asian markets are leading in terms of participation, creating more content than any other region
• All social media platforms have grown significantly over the three Waves
– Video Clips are the quickest growing platform, up from 31% penetration in Wave 1 to 83% in Wave 3
• 57% have joined a Social Network, making it the number one platform for creating and sharing content
– 55% of users have uploaded photos
– 22% of users have uploaded videos
• The widget economy is real
– 23% of social network users have installed an application
– 18% of bloggers have installed applications in their blog templates
• Blogs are a mainstream media world-wide and as a collective rival any traditional media
– 73% have read a blog
• The blogsphere is becoming increasingly participatory, now 184m bloggers world-wide
– The number one thing to blog about is personal life and family
• China has the largest blogging community in the world with 42m bloggers, more than the US and Western Europe combined
• Social media impacts your brands reputation
– 34% post opinions about products and brands on their blog
– 36% think more positively about companies that have blogs

Read the whole report here.

Loerie Awards 2008 - Advertising Online Judges announced

Advertising Online Loeries Judging Panel 2008
- Pete Case, creative director, Gloo, assisting chairman
- Dylan McClean, creative director, Aqua Online
- Dallas Du Toit, art director, Gloo
- Clint Bryce, creative lead, 24.com
- Templar Wales, creative director, Blue Apple
- Allan Kent, creative director, Saatchi/AtPlay
- Adam Whitehouse, creative director, Stonewall
- Justin Gomes, creative director, FOXP2
- Malcolm King, creative director, Proximity#ttp
- Damon Stapleton, executive creative director, TBWA
- Matthew Brink, executive creative director, King James
- Graeme Jenner, creative head, Net#work BBDO

The Loeries' judging will take place in Johannesburg at Vega, The Brand Communications School, from 30 June until 4 July 2008.

The finalists will be announced on 7 July, and the winners will receive their awards at the Festival Weekend, which will take place in Margate on the South Coast from Friday 25 to Monday 28 July.

Entry deadline 31 May 2008.

New issue: AfricaGrowth Agenda

The new issue of AfricaGrowth Agenda (April/Jun 2008) is available via SAePublications.

Scope of the publication :
The Africagrowth Agenda is a quarterly Magazine which publishes high quality articles covering development issues in Africa. Special focus of the magazine is on:
* Investment Climate in Africa
* Intra-African trade
* African capital markets
* Development finance/economics
* Issues surrounding African Development Institutions
* Best practice articles

Here is the table of content for the April/Jun 2008 issue:

1. Oiling the growth engine of Africa : editor's letter Authors: Biekpe, Nicholas, Pages: 4-5
2. Globalization of microfinance markets : some conditions for success Authors: Morales-Nieto, Jairo; Pages: 6-8
3. When Iceland was Ghana Authors: Gylfason, Thorvaldur; / Jun, Pages: 11-13
4. 5th African Finance Journal Conference Pages: 15
5. Interest rate deregulation policy in developing countries - some controversies Authors: Odhiambo, Nicholas M.; Pages: 16-18
6. Reparations for apartheid human rights abuses : the case of Khulumani Authors: Bohler-Muller, Narnia; Pages: 20-22
7. Developing financial architecture for small scale enterprises in Africa : a proposal on formal-informal sector linkages Authors: Tella, Sheriffdeen A.; Pages: 24-27
8. Inward foreign direct investment and Ghana's employment generation Authors: Abor, Joshua; Harvey, Simon K.;Pages: 28-29
9. Characteristics of Kenya's informal ("Jua Kali") economy and the unbanked : a briefing for the banking and financial markets Authors: Owino, Alexander George; Pages: 30-34
10. Africa SMME Conference and Awards 2008 Jun, Pages: 36

11. Success story : Staza cleaning services AuthorsPages: 37-38
12. Success story : House of Tara International Pages: 40

Which part of the CPI publication do you use?

As many of you already know StatsSA is changing the CPI publication effect as from January 2008 and the new CPI index will highlight shifts in the consumer basket.

They would like your input on what parts of the CPI publication you actually use - to make the new CPI publication more user friendly. Please complete the survey on their website.

This June, Stats SA will release the new CPI weights - derived largely, but not exclusively, from the results of the income and expenditure survey released last month. The release of the weights follows the publication last year of the draft CPI basket.

In new CPI basket certain products will move category and new products will be introduced.
New products include:

• minibus taxis, which account for over 60% of public transport. Collection of these prices is now possible as a result of the establishment of a national team of price collectors for CPI;


• funeral costs and funeral insurance enter the basket as expenditure on these items increases;


• restaurants, take-aways and hotels, now appear as a distinct category in the new CPI classification and Stats SA proposes to publish their price change explicitly;


• internet service provider fees and laptops enter the basket as this technology becomes more pervasive;


• DVD and CD players and disks replace VHS and audio tapes and players as a result of changes in technology;


• tickets to sporting events are added to the entertainment basket; and


• the lottery will be included in the basket if it is operational on 1 January 2008.

The CPI will continue to be published on the basis of the current basket and weights until the December 2008 release (in January 2009). The January 2009 CPI (published in February 2009) will be the first to be published on the basis of the new basket and weights.

Journals now forming part of SAePublications

Enterprise Risk is now part of the SAePublications journal collections from the June 2007 issue to present.

Scope of the publication :

Enterprise Risk provides essential information to executive management to assist in identifying and measuring risk.

This magazine bridges the divide between the risk manager and the boardroom to enable informed decisions preventing or insuring against enterprise exposure.

Publication details :
11 issues per year

The newest issue is Jan/Feb 2008:
1.Sugar and spice and all things nice : editor's note Authors: Van Reenen, Retha; Pages: 3

2.Corporate investment : is it worth the risk? Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 4-5, 7-9

3. Evaluating the next 5 years : internal auditing Pages: 10-11

4. Beware, risk ahead : insurance matters Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 12-13, 15-17

5. In the fine print : insurance matters Authors: Terrazas, Monique Pages: 18-19 Notes: Due to a large file size, this article (pdf) may take a while to download.

6. Business law in SA : how are we faring internationally? : legislation risk Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 20-23

7. Employment contract pitfalls : legal update Authors: Venter, A.J Pages: 24-25

8. Keep it rolling : business continuity Pages: 28-29

9. Estate duty implications for investors : investment column Authors: Goodall, Brian; Pages: 30-31, 33, 35

10. Unfolding the future : economic risk Authors: Terraraz, Monique

11.Investigating the USB flash drive : information technology Authors: Mudeliar, Thumeshni; Pages: 40-41, 43

12.Under the spotlight : disaster risk strategies : disaster management Authors: Terraraz, Monique Pages: 44-45

13.A cableless existence : case study Pages: 46-47

14.Improving on our successes : president's message Authors: Haman, Reginald Pages: 48 15.Fighting HIV / Aids internally : editor's comment Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 3 16.Risk absorption by medical aids : HIV / AIDS Authors: Van Reenen, RethaPages: 4-7

17.A reputable reputation : reputation risk Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 8-9

18.Can SA business combat HIV / AIDS? : business insight Authors: O'Sullivan, Steven Pages: 10-13

19.The ombudsman : your partner in need : insurance matters Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 14-17

20.Plotting your way through HIV / AIDS : business continuity Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 18-19, 21
21. Stay in business by adapting a learning culture Authors: Geyser, Yolande Pages: 22-23 22.How to manage outsourced resources effectively : cost-effective outsourcing Authors: Geyser, Yolande Pages: 24-25, 27

23.How to screen your directors : corporate governance Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 28-31

24.Edifying morality : corporate governance Authors: Furter, Edmond Pages: 32-35 25.HIV/AIDS battle strategy : corporate governance Authors: Furter, Edmund Pages: 37

26.In the dark : Eskom vs. Ekurhuleni : legal update Authors: Terrazas, MoniquePages: 38-40 27.Duties everywhere : legal update Authors: Vivian, Robert W. Pages: 42-45

28. A dog's breakfast : Royal Canin : case study on reputation risk Authors: Terrazas, Monique; Pages: 46-47

29. President's message : governance, ethics and risk Authors: Winks, Steve, Pages: 48

The Journal of Transport & Supply Chain Management also forms part of the SAePublications journal collection.

Scope of the publication :
The Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management seeks to disseminate research results and to support high level learning, teaching and research in the areas of traffic and transportation (operations, policy, planning),customer service, warehousing, inventory management, procurement, packaging, materials handling, reverse logistics, demand forecasting, distribution communications and information technology.

Publication details :
1 issue per year

At the moment Volume 1(1) is available:

1.Editorial Authors: Kujawa, Beverley;Pages: i
2.Integrated supply chain risk management Authors: Bredell, Riaan; Walters, Jackie; Pages: 1-17
3. Supplier integration in product development : a matter of designing the project structure Authors: Danilovic, Mike; Pages: 18-37
4. A supply chain model for the South African recording industry Authors: De Wit, P.W.C.; Steyn, M.M Pages: 38-48
5.Impediments to the structural development of South African maritime supply chains Authors: Fourie, Yolanda; Pages: 49-64
6. The entrenchment strategy of logistics service providers : towards a sequential cooperation-competition process? Authors: Pache, Gilles; Medina, Pablo; Pages: 65-78

Sabinet Full Open Access Journal Collection

Welcome to the beta version of Sabinet's Full Open Access Journal Collection.

The collection currently comprises 44 South African journals and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles.

The journals are individually searchable. The coverage per journal varies, with some journals having full-text issues available from 2000onwards.

Of the journals in the collection, 14 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or the IBSS list. These include: Meditari, SAJIM and the South African Business Review.

New journal titles and issues are added to the collection on an ongoing basis.

Some journals also contain metadata records (including abstracts) for older articles where full text is not available.

Publishers who would like to make their journals available as Open Access journals, are welcome to contact Sabinet.

New Issue: Management Today

The new issue of Management Today is available via SAePublications:

1. The current economic situation : not all bad news Authors: Havenga, Richard
2. Power struggles and power supplies - time to take stock Authors: Westcott, Martin
3. The South African economy : will it survive 'the perfect storm?' Authors: Parsons, Raymond
4. The new innovation challenge Authors: Gibson, Rowan
5. Innovation to the Core
6. The future of management : innovation, the ultimate advantage Authors: Hamel, Gary
7. Winnovation : innovation to the core Authors: Gibson, Rowan
8. The future of quality Authors: Thabethe, Elizabeth
9. The power of quality teams Authors: Mallinson, Wayne
10. Partnering that creates quality schools Authors: Madison, Linda

11 Dr Joseph Juran 1904 - 2008 : obituary
12. Quality training courses

13.Hats off

14. Cyril Ramaphosa gets Leadership in Practice award from Unisa Authors: Havenga, Richard
15. Black diamonds : the new South African middle class Authors: Simpson, John; Dore
16. World renowned finance experts to visit South Africa
17. The challenge of leading strategic change Authors: Black, Stewart; Gregersen, Hal B

18.A strange solution to improve the productivity of knowledge workers Authors: Cloete, Gerrit

19. Retaining corporate memory Authors: Scheepbouwer, Marc
20. Talent management for turbulent times to be discussed
21. Corporate fraud : notice the red flags Authors: Botha, Carnel
22. Integrate marketing and operations for bottomline results Authors: Wright, Frances
23. Wireless communication : facilitating financial transactions Authors: Van Rooyen, Leunis
24. SMEs as job creators a global myth, says visiting researcher

Fastest Growing websites in SA

According to NielsonOnline Engineering News was the fastest growing website in South Africa over the last year, growing by 190% from 23,455 Unique Browsers in March 2007 to 67,924 in March 2008
The overall market has grown by 44% in the same period, 3.4 million to 4.9 million UBs
Creamer Media produces three of the four fastest growing sites – Engineering News, Mining Weekly and Polity

(Click on the screen to make the picture bigger)
According to Nielsen Online, the fastest growing websites in SA (for the period March 2007-March 2008) are:

1. Engineering Week
2. Mining Weekly
3. Carte Blanche
4. Polity
5. Mineweb
6. SuperSport
7. Sunday World
8. Sowetan
9. The Post
10. SuperSchools

Most Popular websites in SA
News24 remains the most popular South African website with over 1.1 million Unique Browsers in March 2008.
Of the 10 most popular websites with comparable data last year only SuperSport (103%) and Yellow Pages (51%) have a growth rate above overall market growth (44%).

The Most Popular websites in SA (for the period March 2008) are:

1. News24
2. Msn
3. Mweb
4. Webmail
5. Hotmail
6. iol
7. 24.com
8. CareerJunction
9. SuperSport
10. Yellow Page

New RefWorks features just released!

RefWorks has just released three new features:

1. Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Offline Capabilities
This means that you can not use W-N-C without being connected to the internet. Simply download your RefWorks database from within Write-N-Cite while online, then feel free to disconnect from the Internet.

Full Write-N-Cite functionality is available – inserting temporary citation placeholders, viewing reference information, using the citation editor – even formatting your paper in the output style you choose.

Download the new Write-N-Cite III for Windows from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

2. Write-N-Cite v2.5 for Mac
This Write-N-Cite for Mac version 2.5 works with Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and the Leopard operating system and has the same features as the current Write-N-Cite for Mac (citation editing, two document format, etc.).

Download the new version from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

3. Attachment Feature
Now it’s even easier to store your research documents along with your references! RefWorks has made it’s attachment feature available to all users at UJ and each user receive 100 MB of default storage space each.
You can attach any type of file – the only requirement is that you have the software necessary to view the attachment.

For information on how to attach files to references, see the online help section Adding References Manually or review the RefWorks Basics tutorial section Entering References Manually.

New Books!

I've emailed you all the list of the newest books I've received for each department.

Due the large amount of new books I have received in the last few weeks, I will keep them at my desk only until Friday 9 May, where after they will be shelved.

If you would like to have a look at some of the books, please let me know and I will keep them for you at my desk.

Springer - New Books

New Print Book Releases Business / Management Science (general)

Information, Organization and Management Picot, Arnold; Reichwald, Ralf; Wigand, Rolf T.978-3-540-71394-4

Managing Global Innovation Boutellier, Roman; Gassmann, Oliver; Zedtwitz, Maximilian von978-3-540-25441-6
Lean Brain Management Dueck, Gunter978-3-540-71837-6

Higher Education News

Highlights of The Chronicle include:

Research & Books

PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR PEER REVIEW
The National Institutes of Health considers changing its policies to entice more senior scholars to evaluate grant applications.
TALES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE
The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of humanities professors as thriving public scholars.
PEER REVIEW: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gets a permanent leader ... The University of California at Irvine's engineering school hires a climate expert as its new dean ... Bruce Shepard is the new president of Western Washington University ... A new chancellor steps in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

HACKING BACK
College students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against hackers in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

GOLD MINES OF INFORMATION
Vast education databases maintained by states can yield invaluable data, say education researchers, but concerns about privacy limit their development and use.
LINKED IN WITH: Kelly Sutton, a founder of a student-run blog about improving lives through technology.

WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Students are paying a growing share of higher-education costs, but institutions are spending less money on them in the classroom, a report says.
MOUNTAINS OF BLAME: Two administrators from West Virginia University have stepped down in the wake of a transcript scandal, but the president's job seems secure.
WHAT THEY THINK: Most college financial officers expect tuition increases to continue outpacing inflation.

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Clocking on
Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story?

Journals test software to catch cheats
Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. Universities across the UK monitor students' work using Turnitin, a program that assesses the originality of assignments.
Now a new program based on the same technology is being developed to apply similar high-tech scrutiny to research papers.

Engaging with students’ spirituality
Students’ religious convictions need not hinder the learning environment; treated respectfully and inclusively, their presence may enhance the experience for all