Leadership & Professional Development series. Research in the USA on the online educational needs of oncology advanced practice nurses. The development of a continuing education evaluation tool and ...the use of personal digital assistants are described. (BNI unique abstract) 20 references
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What are the antecedents of counterproductive behaviour (CB) at work? Previous research identified both trait and perceived situational variables such as dispositional self-control and organizational ...justice. In this article, the focus is on employees' perceived job demands. More specifically, the relation between emotional labour (surface and deep acting) and CB is examined. An online study with service providers from different lines of business (N = 559) confirmed that, while controlling for dispositional self-control and organizational injustice, both surface and deep acting in customer interactions were related to CB at work. Whereas the most influential variable was dispositional self-control, the findings confirm that people's perceived job demands contribute to deviant behaviour at work. Practical implications for job design are discussed.
Developing a distinctive image in the marketplace is increasingly recognized as a key part of a company’s marketing strategy and a route for achieving competitive advantage. Strong corporate brands ...(CB) can lead to a wide customer base and a distinctive image. As product and service offers become similar, companies tend to emphasize the communication of CBs to stakeholders as a way to convey distinctiveness and uniqueness. Nonetheless, although CB focuses primarily in reaching all the company’s stakeholders, consumers are increasingly becoming a core target for corporate branding. Consumers are exposed to the image portrayed by a company online. The website, therefore, can be a reflection of the company’s CB’s characteristics and personality and a company’s online atmospherics and its online stores may have an impact on consumer behaviour. In the online context, the CB dimensions of visual appeal, the way the information is communicated, and social responsibility are crucial. A well-liked corporate website could lead to favourable behavioural outcomes, such as positive word of mouth, and repatronage intentions. Despite the obvious commercial benefits and the recent research attention on online corporate branding, the impact of online dimensions of CB in consumer perceptions is overlooked. Our study investigates the impact of three online CB dimensions (visual appeal, communications, CSR) on consumer-company identification (CCI), and the behavioural outcomes (word of mouth, repatronage intention) in retail sector. We employed a scenario-based quasi-experiment in two retail settings—grocery and clothing—using two fictitiously created brands and their websites. Three scenarios for each brand were created representing high, medium, and low levels of descriptions of dimensions of CB on the websites. A questionnaire was created and the scales operationalization relied on adaptations from previous research. Following a pilot, the data were collected via web-based survey software, using a convenience sample of cross-section demographics of UK consumers, resulting in 244 valid responses. We tested the hypothesized relationships using partial least squares-based structural equation modelling (PLS SEM). The results show that the way in which a company communicates its CB online, as well as its socially responsible activities, positively influences consumers’ identification with the company. Such identification also leads to the generation of positive word of mouth and repatronage intentions. The results also reveal that high degree of information placed on a website is not the most optimal tool for generating positive CCI. Further, stronger the firm’s portrayed engagement in corporate giving, the more a consumer identifies with the firm. Overall, the study makes novel contributions to the domain of CB and its impact on consumer perceptions, and leads to several managerial implications and avenues for further research.
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how the strength of a corporate brand influences the adoption of an innovative service, and the main components of the construct: corporate brand ...(CB).Design/methodology/approach – A real‐world, online, information acceleration experiment was conducted where the marketing mix and competitive environment was held constant for a new service from three different CBs. Respondents indicated their likelihood of buying from each of these and their perceptions of them.Findings – The study finds that there was a significant relationship between CB strength and respondents' likelihood of adoption of the service. The CB construct was found to comprise two factors: conative and cognitive, where the former was more influential on adoption probability.Research limitations/implications – A limited set of variables commonly associated with brands was taken to be representative of CB. Further research would be needed to more generalise the findings and more fully examine the CB construct for its components.Practical implications – A competent marketing mix is not sufficient on its own to gain the adoption of an innovative service: a strong CB is influential. The emotive rather than factual associations with the CB may well be a more influential on adoption decisions.Originality/value – An indication of the scale of the CB effect on innovation adoption is given. CB is indicated to have two components: emotive and factual. Those managing the potential launch of an innovative service and who may have several corporate brands to choose from to use would be aided by this research.
Background
There are numerous methods and procedures described for the preparation of cell blocks (CBs) from cytological samples. The objective of this study was to determine current practices and ...issues with CBs in European laboratories.
Methods
A link to an online survey, with 11 questions about CB practices, was distributed to cytology laboratories via participants of United Kingdom National External Quality Assurance Service for Cellular Pathology Techniques and national representatives in the European Federation of Cytology Societies.
Results
A total of 402 laboratories responded completely (337/402, 84%) or partially (65/402, 16%) to the survey by February 4, 2022. The most common CB practice is embedding cell pellets using plasma and thrombin (23.3%), agar (17.1%), Shandon/Epredia Cytoblock (11.4%), HistoGel (7.9%), and Cellient (3.5%). Other methods such as CytoFoam, albumin, gelatin, Cytomatrix, and collodion bags are rarely used (1.0%, 0.7%, 0.7%, 0.3%, and 0.2%, respectively). CBs are also prepared from naturally occurring clots or tissue fragments (29.5%) and cells scraped from unstained or prestained smears (4.4%). The most frequent issues with the CBs in a daily cytology practice are low cellularity (248/402, 62%) and dispersed cells (89/402, 22%), regardless of the CBs preparation method or how the samples for embedding were selected.
Conclusions
There is a great variability in CB practices in European laboratories with low cellular CBs as the main issue. Additional studies are mandatory to evaluate and improve performance and cellular yield of CBs.
There is great variability in cell block (CBs) practices in European laboratories with low cellular CBs as the main issue. Additional studies are needed in order to evaluate and improve performance and cellular yield of CBs.
Insignia Financial Group, Inc., based in New York, operates through more than 60 offices in the United States and Europe with more than 8,000 employees. The Company provides commercial real estate ...services through Insignia/ESG in the United States and Insignia Richard Ellis in the United Kingdom. Its businesses include Realty One, a residential real estate brokerage firm in Ohio; Douglas Elliman, a residential sales and rental brokerage in New York City; Insignia Residential Group, a manager of cooperative and condominium housing in New York City. In 1999, Insignia reported revenues of $678.5 million. Its web address is www.insigniafinancial.com . SOURCE Project Octane LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO, DALLAS and NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ - - CB Richard Ellis (NYSE: CBG), Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE: JLL), Trammell Crow Company (NYSE: TCC) and Insignia Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: IFS) today announced that the four companies have joined forces as equal partners to continue the development and launch of a comprehensive online transaction services platform. As part of its membership in the transaction portion of Project Octane, the alliance's temporary name, Insignia will commit an equal percentage of capital to the transaction initiatives jointly led by the partner companies.
The department store has been promoting the online services - such as stylist match, remote assistance and virtual demos - that 4,900 associates, stylists and managers across Neiman Marcus and ...Bergdorf Goodman use to bring the feel and flavor of its personalized in-store service online. According to CB Insights, investment dollars are surging into these areas, which means more development for the foreseeable future. The report singled out social commerce start-ups, resale platforms, virtual shopping tools and on-demand services as key focal areas for investors.
Capital Cities ABC Multimedia Group Pres Stephen Weiswasser believes that online services will be considered the CB radio of the 1990s, but he doubts that there will be a profitable market for such ...services. Internet does not have the quality that will attract the wide audience it needs to make it profitable for companies to use it. Weiswasser believes that ABC Online is a good example of a service that reaches 2.6 million homes via American Online, but brings in little revenue for Cap Cities ABC.
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10.
The Gentrification Of Videotex Harris, Joshua M
Link-Up (Minneapolis, Minn. 1983),
09/1989, Letnik:
6, Številka:
5
Magazine Article
CompuServe Information Service is the most comprehensive, efficient, and functional videotex service. CB Simulator, an international online messaging service, accounted for over half of total ...CompuServe usage when it first appeared on CompuServe in 1980, but, because of changes in subscriber demographics, it now accounts for a much smaller portion of online activity. The use of investment services has grown, and CompuServe offers the most complete group of financial services available anywhere. Travel services provide schedule and rate information, and members can book their flights online. CompuServe's series of multiplayer games allow subscribers to compete with other CompuServe users. Subscribers can upload or download user-written software programs from CompuServe file libraries. The online videotex environment will experience many changes in the 1990s, and CompuServe will be challenged to retain its leadership role.
