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    Internet adoption and use in small firms: internal processes, organisational culture and the roles of the owner-manager and key staff (2005)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
    New technology, work and employment 20 (2005), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1468-005X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: Emerging from a study of Internet adoption in UK Midlands manufacturing small firms is a new typology characterising owners and key staff as Warriors, Interpreters, Clerks and Priests. This typology is used to explore the impacts of internal factors and organisational culture on innovation and new technology usage in small firms.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2005.00153.x
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    "Blanket" approaches to promoting ICT in small firms: some lessons from the DTI ladder adoption model in the UK (2001)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Internet research 11 (2001), S. 399-410 
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    ISSN: 1066-2243
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Computer Science
    Notes: The current push for small firms to be "wired up to the digital marketplace" is evidenced by the number of initiatives targeting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to promote this activity. Like other governments worldwide, UK Online's SME targets (together with the supporting DTI adoption ladder) exemplify the "conventional wisdom" view of a homogeneous small business sector, within which firms take an ordered, sequential progression on the route to Internet technology adoption. This approach is questioned by grounding the official rhetoric in the reality of organisational and operational complexity of this important sector of the UK economy. These initiatives are compared and contrasted with similar models of small firm development, most of which neglected to address the diverse nature of small firm needs. The authors recommend a more discriminant approach, focused upon factors such as firm size, age, managerial structure and information and communications technology adoption stages.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006118
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    More jobs for the boys? Succession planning in SMEs (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Women in management review 16 (2001), S. 222-231 
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    ISSN: 0964-9425
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: Both the incidence of planning and the identification of female successors were lower than anticipated in this study of 128 companies with less than 50 employees. No company selected a female successor despite strong existing candidates, whether relatives or internal managers. Daughters were inappropriate for succession - they were "too good" for the workplace or were "doing something better", i.e. teaching, health care, etc. Although female relatives benefited from resources for holidays or home improvements, only male relatives were seen as "heirs apparent" in terms of work status and treatment. Female relatives were neither developed nor encouraged as managers, despite frequently acting as mentors and trainers for the selected male successor. Views of successors and non-successors are expressed and concerns for policy-makers identified given the potential disappearance of firms without successors, and the neglect of available potential female managers.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005584
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    Innovative use of the Internet in established small firms: the impact of knowledge management and organisational learning in accessing new opportunities (2003)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Qualitative market research 6 (2003), S. 18-26 
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    ISSN: 1352-2752
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: In this article, three established small- and medium-sized enterprises provide qualitative case study evidence of the extent to which information communications technology can be embedded within a firm's marketing strategy, from the earliest adoption stages to the integration of the Internet with key business functions. These case studies also provide insights into the innovative ways that can be used to reposition a firm, its marketing strategy, services and products, both within the national and the global marketplace. Established firms, in addition to new businesses and industries, could gain considerable competitive advantage from Internet usage, if they can achieve the right mix of managerial capacity and marketing focus in terms of image, brand and customer needs. Their human resource base could allow such firms to "reinvent" themselves, mainly by effectively accessing and embedding new knowledge. It emerged that organisational culture facilitates and supports the wider access and application of new knowledge through organisational learning mechanisms.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13522750310457348
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    Are women better at organisational learning? An SME perspective (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Women in management review 16 (2001), S. 287-297 
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    ISSN: 0964-9425
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: The study compared male and female owned and managed SMEs and the impact of gender on the organisational learning taking place in these firms. This explores how the learning process is managed and developed, which staff are drawn into the process and how the organisational memory is developed within female and male run organisations. The managers described their own management style and these views were compared with those of their staff. In the process, patterns of internal communication were identified within female managed firms which aid organisational learning; which were not found within male-run firms. As a result it is argued that communication needed for organisational learning is facilitated by female management processes even when the women involved have adopted ''male" management role models due to pressures within their business sector, while external links and networking need to be developed to aid success in these organisations.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005819
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    Knowledge and learning in female team-managed firms adopting information communication technologies (ICTs) (2003)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Women in management review 18 (2003), S. 334-337 
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    ISSN: 0964-9425
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: This micro-level view of information and communication technology (ICT)-related decision-making processes in particular female "knowledge" firms offers areas for further review, research and discussion. Internally focused, these firms reflect earlier studies recommending support for female networking to develop competitive advantage, since fewer sources of ideas, advice, and information may mean that options are limited when problems arise outside previous organisational experience. ICT adoption relied on family and friends rather than professional support. Similarly, Internet use to scope the market or source information was also limited. Further research is suggested to explore management practices within established female-run firms, and in firms run by teams rather than single owners, to develop deeper understanding of the processes at work and how to support change and development in such firms.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09649420310491503
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    E-innovation: Internet impacts on small UK hospitality firms (2004)
    Bingley : Emerald
    International journal of contemporary hospitality management 16 (2004), S. 82-90 
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    ISSN: 0959-6119
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Within the small firms sector, the Web is anticipated to bring unprecedented new opportunities for business development and competitive advantage. The reality in small firms, however, may be that lack of understanding of the value the Net may provide in the context of their own organisation, deters many owners from gaining such advantages. This paper looks at six cases of small hospitality firms. "E-innovation" here represents innovative strategy enabling customers to do what best serves their purpose via information communications technology. These small hospitality firms have adopted the Web and used it; as a result they have changed business processes and personal expectations. Suggests that the current narrow focus on business growth or on technology alone seen in current initiatives may miss owners such as these who took up the Net for social and personal reasons but developed business uses alongside them. Recommends that an integrated hosting of such firms would provide better customer access, and therefore lead to benefits for such firms. Where targets are set for increases in tourism, it is also recommended that the Internet might play a part in developing such growth, if integrated and applied to the context of hospitality firms.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09596110410519964
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    Bending the rules or fudging the paperwork? Documenting learning in SMEs (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    The @journal of workplace learning 13 (2001), S. 189-197 
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    ISSN: 1366-5626
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: As part of a larger study, owner-managers of 128 small firms were asked about the learning taking place in their firms. Their responses were compared to those of key workers and supportive documentation. As a result of discrepancies in responses, owners and managers identified ways in which they had "bent the rules" on occasion to take advantage of funding opportunities, hence the gap between statements and reality. Explores descriptions given by some owners and managers as to how this "fudging the paperwork" had occurred, either in accessing funding or in complying with statutory health and safety or licensing requirements and the reasons behind this. Finds that workplace imperatives had undermined the way in which learning was perceived and carried out and had caused operatives to misrepresent data (without their necessarily agreeing with this practice). Discusses the implications for those studying small firm's workplace learning practices and proposes further research to test these findings.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13665620110398081
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    A genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for colorectal cancer at 8q24.21 (2007)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature genetics 39 (2007), S. 984-988 
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    ISSN: 1546-1718
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: [Auszug] Much of the variation in inherited risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) is probably due to combinations of common low risk variants. We conducted a genome-wide association study of 550,000 tag SNPs in 930 familial colorectal tumor cases and 960 controls. The most strongly associated SNP (P = 1.72 ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng2085
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    A genome-wide association study shows that common alleles of SMAD7 influence colorectal cancer risk (2007)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature genetics 39 (2007), S. 1315-1317 
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    ISSN: 1546-1718
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: [Auszug] To identify risk variants for colorectal cancer (CRC), we conducted a genome-wide association study, genotyping 550,163 tag SNPs in 940 individuals with familial colorectal tumor (627 CRC, 313 advanced adenomas) and 965 controls. We evaluated selected SNPs in three replication sample sets (7,473 ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.2007.18
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