Crossing cultures: Analysing the experiences of NZ returnees from the EU (UK vs. non-UK)

While there is growing scholarly interest in returned and cyclical migration, and on young adult cultural or adventure seeking migration, there is still a lack of systematic empirical insights into how the experiences of being abroad, and after return, are mediated by exposure to different cultural environments. Addressing this conceptual and empirical gap, the paper analyses the experiences of New Zealand return migrants, or sojourners, who lived and worked in European countries (other than the UK) for more than one year and compares them with the experiences of NZ returnees from the UK. Drawing on 20 ‘non-UK’ and 22 ‘UK’ in-depth interviews, the paper revisits [Rhinesmith, 1975] and [Rhinesmith, 1986] typology of cross-cultural, or intercultural, adjustment (largely ignored in studies of return migration) to assess sojourners’ experiences throughout the migration cycle and serve as a useful tool for identifying and reporting psychological and socio-cultural elements in the returnees stories. The findings of sojourners’ possible identity shifts during intercultural transition are discussed with reference to the four-member paradigm of Cultural Identity Model (CIM) (Sussman, 2010) while addressing Sussman's (2002) argument that overseas adaptation and repatriation experiences are not directly associated. This paper demonstrates the need to understand first that the costs and benefits of circular migration or sojourning are country-specific, and that they do not ‘just happen’ at a particular moment or in one phase but are forged through a veritable rollercoaster of experiences of intercultural adjustment.     

Forty years of the International Journal of Information Management: A bibliometric analysis

In 2019, the International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) celebrated its 40th year of publication. This study commemorates this event by presenting a retrospect of the journal. Using a range of bibliometric tools, we find that the journal has grown impressively in terms of publication and citation. The contributions come from all over the world, but the majority are from Europe and the United States. The journal has mostly published empirical articles, with its authors dominantly using quantitative methodology. Further, the culture of collaboration has increased among authors over the years. The journal publishes on a number of including managing information systems, information technologies and their application in business, technology acceptance among consumers, using information systems for decision making, social perspectives on knowledge management, and information research from the social science perspective. Regression analysis reveals that article attributes such as article order, methodology, presence of authors from Europe, number of references, number of keywords, and abstract length have a significant association with the citations. Finally, we find that conceptual and review articles have a positive association with citations.     

Industry Norms as Predictors of IT Outsourcing Behaviors

How do firm-specific factors impact strategic IT decisions such as IT outsourcing? Do non-financial factors influence these decisions? Whereas prior IT outsourcing research has focused primarily on normative, economic drivers of IT outsourcing, we find evidence of firm-specific non-financial factors influencing IT outsourcing decisions. We focus on the social influence perspective and use IT outsourcing decisions as exemplars of strategic IT decisions. Using a data sample of 77 outsourcing contracts from the automotive industry from 1995 to 2010, we find that even after controlling for financial factors, industry average levels of outsourcing can be used to distinguish strategic outsourcing behaviors of firms for IT enabled services. Firms with above-average levels of IT outsourcing tended to further increase outsourcing, a behavior consistent with perceived Red Queen competitive pressures. Firms with below-average levels of IT outsourcing showed no measurable trends of either increasing or decreasing outsourcing levels. This suggests that firm-specific factors influence IT outsourcing decisions and deviations from non-financial industry norms can indicate how firms make strategic IT decisions.     

Fifty years of information management research: A conceptual structure analysis using structural topic modeling

Information management is the management of organizational processes, technologies, and people which collectively create, acquire, integrate, organize, process, store, disseminate, access, and dispose of the information. Information management is a vast, multi-disciplinary domain that syndicates various subdomains and perfectly intermingles with other domains. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the information management domain from 1970 to 2019. Drawing upon the methodology from statistical text analysis research, this study summarizes the evolution of knowledge in this domain by examining the publication trends as per authors, institutions, countries, etc. Further, this study proposes a probabilistic generative model based on structural topic modeling to understand and extract the latent themes from the research articles related to information management. Furthermore, this study graphically visualizes the variations in the topic prevalences over the period of 1970 to 2019. The results highlight that the most common themes are data management, knowledge management, environmental management, project management, service management, and mobile and web management. The findings also identify themes such as knowledge management, environmental management, project management, and social communication as academic hotspots for future research.     

生态位理论视阈下高校新型研发机构人才培养体系研究

高校新型研发机构是产学研深度合作的创新形态,作为国家创新体系的重要组成部分,其发展背后体现着新型高端特色人才的培养逻辑。基于生态位理论视野下的高校新型研发机构人才培养,以懂理论、懂科研、懂市场为目标,通过构建科研与市场的“双导师”指导体系、完善教学培养体系、健全毕业考核体系,充分发挥高校新型研发机构的“产学研”作用,将学生培养为精通理论、擅长研究、熟悉产业的新型特色高端创新人才,从而更好地解决高校人才培养与市场人才需求两张皮的现象,为国家创新驱动发展战略的实施提供高素质人才。     

国外基于工作任务的信息搜索行为研究进展*

系统地梳理国外相关文献,旨在把握国外信息搜索行为研究进展,揭示国外信息搜索行为研究视角、研究方法、研究内容和研究趋势,以期为我国信息搜索行为研究提供借鉴和参考.对94篇文献采用综合、归纳、比较等方法进行综合分析,在知识脉络研究部分分研究对象、研究方法、研究内容进行梳理,信息搜索行为研究内容按科研人员、大学生、专业技术人员、其他人群分别进行述评.国外基于工作任务的信息搜索行为研究进展对我国搜索行为研究的启示,一是研究对象上要扩宽;二是在研究方法上寻求突破和创新;三是跨学科合作研究.     

“计算机信息技术基础”中课程思政的教学探究与实践

结合时代特征、课程特色和学生特点,着力挖掘融入“计算机信息技术基础”的思政元素,确保课程思政稳步推进、取得实效,为全员、全程、全方位推进课程思政提供参考。     

高校图书馆新媒体阅读推广服务的思考

新媒体时代,高校读者获取信息的渠道和阅读方式都发生了改变。针对这种情况,高校图书馆应顺应新媒体阅读的特点,建立高校图书馆阅读推广机构,加强推广指导服务,加强网络阅读的引导,为读者创造良好的阅读氛围,实现与新媒体相适应的阅读推广模式。     

中国特色社会主义历史进程探析

马克思主义中国化的过程同时是中国特色社会主义形成和发展的过程。中国特色社会主义的整个历史进程不仅包括十一届三中全会至今的发展阶段,而且包括毛泽东思想的整个发展阶段,新民主主义革命阶段也不能被排除在外。新民主主义革命时期是中国特色社会主义道路的孕育阶段;社会主义改造时期是中国特色社会主义道路的起步阶段;社会主义建设时期是中国特色社会主义道路正式形成并获得巩固发展阶段。     

卓然独秀南中国——论新世纪的广西文学

新世纪以来,伴随着广西经济社会发展的新阶段,广西文学也呈现出新的面貌：知名作家、女性作家、文学品牌、获奖作品大幅增加,海外影响不断增强。与此相应,广西文学也展现着不同以往的品质：愈加深刻的土地情感,更为深厚的现实关怀,自我追问的不断探求,人物形象的经典性以及更加细致的艺术品质。而这些也都印证着新广西文学的成长和成熟。