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  • Climate Policy in Canada: Drivers, Trends and Barriers

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Papineau, Maya
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • Dean’s Message

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Plourde, André
    Date Created:
    2017-03-03

  • There’s an App for that? : Imagining a Canadian future free from sexual and racial violence through speculative design

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Rajani, Nasreen, Hoque, Anna Shah, Bivens, Rena, and Farrall, Joanne
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • A Feminist Foreign Policy for Canada by 2042?: Prospects, Possibilities and Pitfalls

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Robinson, Fiona
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • FPA Roundtable – Speaking Notes

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Bivens, Rena
    Date Created:
    2017-03-03

  • Speculative Design/Indigenous Futurisms

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Hoque, Anna Shah
    Date Created:
    2017-03-03

  • There’s an App for That? : The Unicorns of Speculative Design

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Farrall, Joanne
    Date Created:
    2017-03-03

  • Canada’s Standard of Living in 2042 : Will Policy Keep Pace with Technology?

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Khan, Hashmat U. and Gunn, Christopher M.
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • In Defense of Majoritarianism

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Winer, Stanley L.
    Abstract:
    Few people have bothered to defend the Majoritarian, winner take all character of the current Canadian electoral system. This parliamentary system has been in existence in the same form since the founding of the modern state in 1867. In these remarks, I offer a defense of Majoritarianism in the Canadian context when the alternative is some form of Proportional Representation. These remarks were prepared as an opening statement in a debate on electoral reform at a Faculty of Public Affairs 75th Anniversary conference at Carleton University, March 3, 2017. The debate arose because of the Prime Minister's announced intention to replace the current system with some other during the election campaign that led to his victory in 2015. The debate occurred a few months after the release of a lengthy report on electoral reform by a special allparty committee of the House of Commons. A few weeks before the debate, the Prime Minister announced (independently of the debate, of course) that his government would no longer pursue electoral reform, perhaps because it looked like he would not be able to avoid a referendum, a process which is hard to control. In any event, and especially in the light of recent attempts to change the system both at the federal level and in some provinces, I think it is important for people to understand that the existing electoral system is a sensible one that likely will continue to serve us well.
    Date Created:
    2017-03-03

  • Visions for Canada, 2042 – Final Program

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Schwartz, Karen and Robinson, Fiona
    Date Created:
    2017-03-04

  • Academics in the Media Landscape: The Role of the Scholar-Columnist-Bloggers

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Saideman, Stephen M.
    Date Created:
    2017-03-03

  • Thinking with trans- masculinities in times of crises

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Irving, Dan
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • On the Record, Off-Script: Exit Interviews with Former MLAs in Nova Scotia

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Cockram, Louise
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • Shaping Canada: Students as Activists

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Przednowek, Anna, Montgomery, Lauren, Khan, Ridhwan, Orr, Steven, Bueckert, Michael, and FitzGerald Murphy, Maggie
    Date Created:
    2017-03-04

  • Building the Parliament of 2042: Fostering cross-party cooperation

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Thomas, Paul E.J.
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • Canada’s International Trade Policies in 2042: Balancing Resources, Sustainability and Employment

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Heidrich, Pablo
    Date Created:
    2017-03-04

  • The Future of Journalism in Canada

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Aske, Sherry
    Date Created:
    2017-03-04

  • Reimagining Government with the Ethics of Care: A Department of Care

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    FitzGerald Murphy, Maggie
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • The role of multilingual radio stations in the development of Canadian society

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Kaliberda, Elena
    Date Created:
    2017-03-04

  • Intersectionality as a Politics of Caring Attention

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Ghandeharian, Sacha
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • Mapping the Borderland of the Knowledge Society: International Portfolios and Global Partnerships of Universities in Transition

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Szyszlo, Peter
    Date Created:
    2017-03-04

  • Internationalization Strategies for the Global Knowledge Society

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Szyszlo, Peter
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this article is to improve understanding of internationalization as a strategic response to the catalysts of globalization and the knowledge society. The paper will attempt to critically identify and interpret how the aforementioned elements are being recontextualized and translated into responsive internationalization policies and systemic institutional change. The article takes a critical analysis approach on current internationalization efforts and provides a conceptual framework for developing a performance indicator set through a combination of institutional change theory (North 1990) and the Delta cycle for internationalization (Rumbley 2010). Recommendations on future research areas are made at the conclusion of the article.
    Date Created:
    2016-01-01

  • Pathways : Managing the complexity and uncertainty of low-carbon transitions

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Rosenbloom, Daniel
    Date Created:
    2017-03-02

  • Building action research partnerships for community impact: Lessons from a national community-campus engagement project

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Schwartz, K., Levkoe, C. Z., Changfoot, N. A., Ballamingie, P., and Andrée, P.
    Description:
    Report based on Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) research, posted on Community Campus Engage Canada.
    Abstract:
    While many studies have addressed the successes and challenges of participatory action research, few have documented how community campus engagement (CCE) works and how partnerships can be designed for strong community impact. This paper responds to increasing calls for ‘community first’ approaches to CCE. Our analysis draws on experiences and research from Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE), a collaborative action research project that ran from 2012-2020 in Canada and aimed to better understand how community-campus partnerships might be designed and implemented to maximize the value for community-based organizations. As five of the project’s co-leads, we reflect on our experiences, drawing on research and practice in three of CFICE’s thematic hubs (food sovereignty, poverty reduction, and community environmental sustainability) to identify achievements and articulate preliminary lessons about how to build stronger and more meaningful relationships. We identify the need to: strive towards equitable and mutually beneficial partnerships; work with boundary spanners from both the academy and civil society to facilitate such relationships; be transparent and self-reflexive about power differentials; and look continuously for ways to mitigate inequities.
    Date Created:
    2023-02-01

  • Rigour in Methods and Evaluation for Community Engagement

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Yordy, Christopher
    Abstract:
    This paper is an overview of the important considerations that arise at the outset of a project. There are numerous ways that a work team may decide on which methods should be prioritized among the many tools available for community engagement. As the project comes to grips with the scale and the scope of a 7-year project on Community Engagement, it will be essential to explore how the various evaluative methods: Theory of Change (ToC), Developmental Evaluation, Collective Impact, and Action Research are combined, and how Evaluation scholars have typically approached these subjects in the past. Is it possible to use ‘Theory of Change’ at the same time as other methods? One may answer this question with a resounding “Yes!” In the community sector, there are many versions of a Theory of Change. The term may be applied to both one’s personalized impression of the arrow of change, as well as according to traditional Log Frame models for mapping long term ‘policy change.’ Even if there are dilemmas in coming up with language to describe what is meant by “Theory of Change,” there are many opportunities for ToC to be fused with other methods, and tried and tested over the life of the CFICE project, whatever the original connotations of the researcher or community practitioner may be.
    Date Created:
    2012-11-01

  • Approaches to Social Innovation Hub Governance: Case Study Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Teleki, Elizabeth, Fralin, Sara, and Pulido, Andreina
    Description:
    Completed for: Community Opportunity & Innovation Network (COIN), Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans; Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
    Abstract:
    The Trent Centre for Community Based Education (TCCBE) brought together graduate students from Trent University’s Sustainability Studies Masters program with Peterborough’s Community Opportunity & Innovation Network (COIN), to collaborate on a community based research project for the Peterborough Centre for Social Innovation (PCSI). This workshop report outlines phase one's literature review on social innovation governance and strategies, workshop results and discussion, as well as recommendations and the conclusions of this community-based research.
    Date Created:
    2013-05-07

  • Approaches to Social Innovation Hub Governance: Workshop Report: Includes : Final Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Pulido, Andreina, Fralin, Sara, and Andreina, Elizabeth
    Description:
    Completed for: Community Opportunity & Innovation Network (COIN) Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
    Abstract:
    Abstract: This workshop implemented SAS2 community-based research methods to facilitate direction for the Peterborough Centre for Social Innovation (PCSI) on their governance, operations, collaborations and finance strategies during their pilot project. The results will be used to provide direction on the selection of two or three case studies for interview to understand how successful social innovation organizations have connected to the community need. The results of the governance models workshop demonstrated that the PCSI should remain flexible to be reactive to the environment as many participants supported a hybrid governance and collaboration model. In addition, the operation and collaboration workshop showed that there was strong support for work space, kitchen space and programming that would provide outreach opportunities to the community. Facilitating a locally-focused social innovation centre was also a key foundation for the participants. This workshop report outlines phase one's literature review on social innovation governance and strategies, workshop results and discussion, as well as recommendations and the conclusions of this community-based research. Prepared by Sara Fralin,Andreina Pulido and Elizabeth Teleki
    Date Created:
    2013-05-06

  • Evaluating Community/Post-Secondary Collaboration in support of Community Environmental Sustainability : Includes: Final Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Cullen, Blair
    Description:
    Completed for: Trent Centre for Community-Based Education : Supervising Professor: Nadine Changfoot
    Abstract:
    The Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research project designed to provide insights into how post-secondary institutions and community partners can establish and maintain successful relationships that ultimately maximize the value created for non-profit organizations. CFICE is organized into five self-managing research hubs; the focus of this report is the Peterborough and Haliburton section of the Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) hub. Hub members participated in interviews and a focus group to discuss the results of four first year demonstration projects. For the most part, results were favourable, especially for community-based organizations, who pointed to a high level of influence and a number of net gains such as increased capacity and the development of valuable resources. A notable finding was the important role of community-university bridging organizations, U-Links and the Trent Centre for Community-Based Education. Participants identified both organizations as a critical ingredient to the smooth functioning of demonstration projects. Challenges participants identified included delay of grant funds, delayed ethics approval and university resistance to community-based research projects in some areas.
    Date Created:
    2013-12-02

  • Report on the Implementation of Domestic Violence Death Review Committee Recommendations 2007 - 2011

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Research Change, Action
    Abstract:
    This report highlights the lack of action from ministries and organizations to help end violence against women, created by Action Research Change with the support of CFICE’s Violence Against Women Hub.
    Date Created:
    2014-12-01

  • Knowledge mobilization expands and informs Oblate Lands public

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Lait, Michael
    Date Created:
    2014-03-24

  • Common Site Planning Initiatives for Abbey Gardens and Peterborough GreenUP: Includes Final Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Badeen, Dennis, Schryer, Brook, Fox, Karen, Xie, Guoyun, Halsey, Gordon, McTavish, Kristeen, Purdon, Matthias, and Potter, Kristen
    Description:
    Completed for: Abbey Gardens & Peterborough GreenUP; Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans; Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
    Abstract:
    Finding Common Ground for Facilitating Collaborative Partnerships stemmed from a desire among several employees of Peterborough GreenUP and Abbey Gardens to explore the potential for collaboration between both organizations. In the winter of 2014, planning began for a meeting between members of GreenUP and Abbey Gardens facilitated by Trent graduate students in the Sustainability Studies program through the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project and Trent Centre for Community Based Education (TCCBE). What this meeting would look like and what would be discussed evolved over the next few weeks and culminated in a daylong workshop in Bobcaygeon on April 1st, 2014. This report summarizes the main ideas that came up in several activities and presentations. It contains resources on the background of the project, next steps, and the contact information of participants from both organizations. Appendices include the presentation slides from the respective organizations presentations, staff lists and contact information for each organization, and detailed activity notes from the workshop.
    Date Created:
    2014-04-07

  • Critical Food Forest Scan & Ideas for a Food Forest in Peterborough : Includes Final Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Shaw, Samantha, Johnston, Melissa, Mulrooney, Nadine, Poppleton, Matthew, Mager, Zoë, Knight-Lira, Andre, and Wilkinson, Matthew
    Description:
    Completed for: Peterborough GreenUP Professor Tom Whillans, Trent University Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
    Abstract:
    This document is a compilation of research reports written by students in the Environmental Resource Studies/Science (ERTS) 3160H class at Trent University in the winter of 2014. The research was completed in conjunction with GreenUP, Trent Centre for Community-Based Education (TCCBE), and Taylor Mackey (a graduate student research assistant in Trent’s Sustainability Studies program). The students looked critically at urban food forests around the world and made suggestions for designing a food forest in Peterborough. These reports will help inform this process alongside a report written by Taylor Mackey as part of his research assistanceship: An Urban Food Forest for Peterborough: Planting for Our Future. An urban food forest is an area in a city or town where trees, and often other plants, are intentionally planted for food production. These urban food forests often attempt to mimic natural ecosystems. Currently urban forests are generally considered valuable solely for the ecosystem services they provide, such as stormwater management. In the past these urban forests were often managed for the products they produced, rather than just the services they could provide. There is increasing interest in creating edible landscapes in urban areas. Some are starting to see urban forests as more than something that can clean the air or reduce the stormwater runoff. Some are starting to see the potential to create areas that can provide these services as well as produce food for human consumptions, as well as a host of other benefits. Most of the studied urban food forests focus on food security. Urban food forests have the potential to provide the same services as our current urban forests, but also produce food (and perhaps increase biodiversity in the process).
    Date Created:
    2014-05-05

  • An Urban Food Forest for Peterborough: Planting for Our Future : Includes Final Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Mackey, Taylor
    Description:
    Completed for: Peterborough GreenUP , Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans; Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
    Abstract:
    An urban food forest is modelled after a wild forest, but is intentionally designed and planted with food production in mind. Essentially an urban food forest is a combination of wild forest and orchard. They are made up of a close-knit community of plants that help each other. There are many benefits that an urban food forest can provide. They can improve the environment we live in; help build stronger, more resilient, communities; and can provide a host of economic benefits as well. Urban food forests help us create more sustainable communities that are healthy and enjoyable to live in. We need to rediscover our past, when we cultivated urban forests, not just for the services they provided, but also for the products as well. It is not just rural forests that can provide useable products. In fact it might even be argued that urban forests can be more productive, per unit of area, because of the intentional planning and design that goes into them. An urban food forest is a community within a community, the plants help and support one another, just as we help support one another in our communities.
    Date Created:
    2014-04-07

  • Community Environmental Sustainability (Ottawa) Hub Evaluation Synthesis Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Goemans, Magda and Ballamingie, Patricia
    Date Created:
    2016-08-29

  • Toward Decolonizing Community Campus Partnerships

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Levkoe, Charles and Kepkiewicz, Lauren
    Date Created:
    2016-03-01

  • Closing the Loop: Community Engaged Pedagogy in Business Courses

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    McShane, Lindsay and Neilson, Leighann
    Abstract:
    Closing the Loop: Community Engaged Pedagogy in Business Courses is a CACSL and Carleton Raven’s Den-funded CFICE evaluation project that looks at the impact on Sprott School of Business’s community partners of adopting a community service learning approach to pedagogy. Over a number of years and across a variety of courses, Sprott has implemented projects ranging in duration and topic in order to facilitate a ‘practice’ perspective for the students in Sprott’s Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of International Business programs. Sprott has received lots of feedback from students, in the form of anecdotal accounts and more structured feedback exercises, and some feedback from community partners, but mostly the latter was limited to student performance during the actual project and anticipated benefits should the organization adopt the recommendations made by the student teams. Sprott therefore undertook this study to determine the impact their CSL projects made on community partners over a longer term. This project is still ongoing, with evaluations scheduled for the Fall/Winter term from 2016 – 2017.
    Date Created:
    2016-04-21

  • CFICE Midterm Review Report

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Andrée, Peter
    Abstract:
    Wondering what the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project has been up to for the past four years? Well you’re in luck. We just completed and submitted our SSHRC Midterm report on February 29, 2016 and it’s chock full of details about CFICE’s activities and learnings from Phase I!
    Date Created:
    2016-02-29

  • Webinar Best Practices

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Bedford, Nicole
    Date Created:
    2016-11-03

  • Responsibilities and Relationships: Decolonizing the BC Food Systems Network

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Morrison, Dawn and Brynne, Abra
    Date Created:
    2016-12-01

  • Climate Change and the Residential Development Industry in Ottawa, Canada.

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Ballamingie, Patricia and Martin, Gary
    Abstract:
    This paper is intended to inform discussions between industry and government policymakers in and beyond Ottawa, Canada about climate change and potential impacts on residential development regulations and corresponding industry practices. Ultimately, both private and public stakeholders must acknowledge the impacts of urban form on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and, conversely, the impacts of climate change on cities, for any meaningful progress on urban sustainability to ensue. Section 1 introduces the basic relationships between urban development and climate change. Urban form is directly tied to energy consumption and GHG emissions, mainly through building and transportation energy consumption. Section 2 summarizes regional changes from climate change projected by various research organizations. Projected weather changes include more severe heat waves, rain and freezing rain in the future, with flooding identified repeatedly as the main concern for the Ottawa region. Section 3 reflects on the potential impacts of more severe weather on buildings and on the building industry. Impacts may include risks to structures and workers, as well as shifting regulations and insurance liabilities. Section 4 provides an overview of changes to government environmental policies that may signal future regulatory change. And finally, Sections 5 and 6 pose questions of interest for future regulators and builders.
    Date Created:
    2016-09-26

  • Moving the Needle on Poverty

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Kozak, Aaron, Weaver, Liz, Goemans, Magdalene, and Schwartz, Karen
    Description:
    Edited by Karen Schwartz, Liz Weaver, Aaron Kozak & Magdalene Goemans. Produced by the Poverty Reduction Hub of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE), a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded project, coled by Carleton University and Vibrant Communities (an imprint of Tamarack Institute). CFICE website:  https://carleton.ca/communityfirst/
    Abstract:
    Contents: Preface - Pathways to Poverty Reduction through Community-Campus Partnerships Chapter One: Creating Strategic Partnerships to Influence Policy (Liz Weaver) Chapter Two: Models of Community-Campus Engagement in the Poverty Reduction Hub of CFICE (Karen Schwartz) Chapter Three: University and Community Collaboration: Achieving Social Change (Erin Bigney, Tracey Chiasson, Melanie Hientz, Robert MacKinnon and Cathy Wright) Chapter Four: On a Path of True Reconciliation: Investing in a Poverty-free Saskatoon (Colleen Christopherson-Côté, Lisa Erickson, Isobel M. Findlay and Vanessa Charles) Chapter Five: Using Campus Community Engagement to Build Capacity for Poverty Reduction (Amanda Lefrancois) Chapter Six: Shifting Societal Attitudes Regarding Poverty: Reflections on a Successful Community-University Partnership ( Mary MacKeigan, Jessica Wiese, Terry Mitchell, Colleen Loomis and Alexa Stovold) Chapter Seven: Models of Collaboration: Does Community Engagement with University Colleges Have an Impact on Poverty Reduction? (Polly Leonard and Karen Schwartz) Chapter Eight: A Peephole into the Student Experience: Student Research Assistants on their Experiences in the Poverty Reduction Hub (Aaron Kozak, Zhaocheng Zeng and Natasha Pei) Chapter Nine: Poverty Reduction Hub Evaluation (Aaron Kozak, Karen Schwartz, Amanda Lefrancois and Liz Weaver) Chapter Ten: Conclusion (Magdalene Goemans)
    Date Created:
    2019-06-20

  • CFICE Community Impact Symposium

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE)
    Date Created:
    2017-01-19

  • Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections and Recommendations for the Next Phase of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE)

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE)
    Abstract:
    In the winter of 2015, when the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project was in the preliminary stages of planning its transition to Phase II, the Community Food Security (CFS) Hub prepared a discussion paper to synthesize collective reflections from hub partners on their proposals for action priorities to be implemented over the next four years of the project (2015-2019). This discussion paper was developed based primarily on interviews conducted with approximately 30 individuals representing the broad array of community- and campus-based partners related to the CFS Hub and reflections from the CFS Hub Management Team. Following the release of this discussion paper, the CFS Hub gathered additional feedback from CFS Hub participants. at a CAFS meeting in May 2015, and via email for those unable to attend.
    Date Created:
    2015-05-01

  • The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Schenck, Marcia C. and Reed, Kate
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators. We often assume a person residing in a refugee camp, lacking funding, training, social networks, and other material resources that enable the research and writing of academic history, cannot be a historian because a historian cannot be a person residing in a refugee camp. The Right to Research disrupts this tautology by featuring nine works by refugee and host-community researchers from across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Identifying the intrinsic challenges of making space for diverse voices within a research framework and infrastructure that is inherently unequal, this edited volume offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and perspectives to bear. Chapters address topics such as education in Kakuma Refugee Camp, the political power of hip-hop in Rwanda, women migrants to Yemen, and the development of photojournalism in Kurdistan. Exploring what it means to become a researcher, The Right to Research understands historical scholarship as an ongoing conversation - one in which we all have a right to participate.
    Date Created:
    2023

  • Finding Safe Harbour: Supporting the Integration of Refugee Youth

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Pelley, Emily
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    The global refugee crisis is staggering in scope. The United Nations Refugee Agency reported that 79.5 million people were displaced worldwide in 2019, and over half of all displaced persons were under eighteen. As the number of children and teenagers seeking asylum continues to grow, the impact of displacement on a young person’s well-being and development over the long term requires further study. In Finding Safe Harbour Emily Pelley investigates the current response to refugee youth in Canada by highlighting how Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a mid-sized urban centre, has mobilized services and resources to support young people seeking refuge. Opening with a broad contextual introduction to the global crisis of displacement and the impact of violence and armed conflict on young people, Pelley focuses on the reciprocal adaptation that is required for the long-term integration of displaced youth into the receiving society. A concise and illuminating study on refugee resettlement, Finding Safe Harbour concludes with an in-depth discussion of how cities can optimize resilience resources through meaningful engagement with refugee youth.
    Date Created:
    2022

  • Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Grabska, Katarzyna and Clark-Kazak, Christina R.
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power between researchers and research participants. This project critically assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created and reproduced through narratives in spaces of displacement, advancing a creative, collective, and interdisciplinary approach. Documenting Displacement explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers. Innovative in its use of arts-based methods, Documenting Displacement invites researchers to explore new avenues guided not only by the procedural ethics imposed by academic institutions, but also by a relational ethics that more fully considers the position of the researcher and the interests of those who have been displaced.
    Date Created:
    2022

  • The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Crawford, Neil James Wilson
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    Displacement in the twenty-first century is urbanized. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the world’s largest humanitarian organization and the main body charged with assisting displaced people globally, estimates that over 60 per cent of refugees now live in urban areas, a proportion that only increases in the case of internally displaced people and asylum seekers. Though cities and local authorities have become essential participants in the protection of refugees, only three decades ago they were considered to sit firmly beyond UNHCR’s remit, with urban refugees typically characterized as aberrations. In The Urbanization of Forced Displacement Neil James Wilson Crawford examines the organization’s response to the growing number of refugees migrating to urban areas. Introducing a broader study of policy-making in international organizations, Crawford addresses how and why UNHCR changed its policy and practice in response to shifting trends in displacement. Citing over 400 primary UN documents, Crawford provides an in-depth study of the internal and external pressures faced by UNHCR - pressures from above, below, and within - that explain why it has radically transformed its position from the 1990s onward. UNHCR and global refugee policies have come to play an increasingly important role in the governance of global displacement. The Urbanization of Forced Displacement sheds new light on how the organization works and how it conceives its role in global politics today.
    Date Created:
    2021

  • The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Rygiel, Kim, Ilcan, Suzan, and Baban, Feyzi
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and insecure conditions. The Precarious Lives of Syrians examines the three dimensions of the architecture of precarity: Syrian migrants' legal status, the spaces in which they live and work, and their movements within and outside Turkey. The difficulties they face include restricted access to education and healthcare, struggles to secure employment, language barriers, identity-based discrimination, and unlawful deportations. Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan, and Kim Rygiel show that Syrians confront their precarious conditions by engaging in cultural production and community-building activities, and by undertaking perilous journeys to Europe, allowing them to claim spaces and citizenship while asserting their rights to belong, to stay, and to escape. The authors draw on migration policies, legal and scholarly materials, and five years of extensive field research with local, national, and international humanitarian organizations, and with Syrians from all walks of life. The Precarious Lives of Syrians offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of migration precarity in our contemporary context.
    Date Created:
    2021

  • Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Cameron, Geoffrey and Labman, Shauna
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a more expansive understanding of the sponsorship framework and its potential implications within Canada and across the world. Strangers to Neighbours explains the origins and development of refugee sponsorship, paying particular attention to the unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas it produces for refugee policy. The contributors to this collection draw upon law, social science, and philosophy to bring a more robust and objective perspective on Canada's historical experience with sponsorship into wider conversations about the refugee crisis and resettlement. Together, they present recent cases that exemplify how the model has been applied and how it functions, while also analyzing the challenges that emerge in host-sponsor relations. This volume further examines how sponsorship has been implemented differently in countries such as the United States and Australia. The first dedicated study of refugee sponsorship policy, Strangers to Neighbours assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to consider whether Canada's system is indeed a sustainable model for the world.
    Date Created:
    2020

  • A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Walton-Roberts, Margaret, Veronis, Luisa, and Hamilton, Leah
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, over 5.6 million people have fled Syria and another 6.6 million remain internally displaced. By January 2017, a total of 40,081 Syrians had sought refuge across Canada in the largest resettlement event the country has experienced since the Indochina refugee crisis. Breaking new ground in an effort to understand and learn from the Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative that Canada launched in 2015, A National Project examines the experiences of refugees, receiving communities, and a range of stakeholders who were involved in their resettlement, including sponsors, service providers, and various local and municipal agencies. The contributors, who represent a wide spectrum of disciplines, include many of Canada's leading immigration scholars and others who worked directly with refugees. Considering the policy behind the program and the geographic and demographic factors affecting it, chapters document mobilization efforts, ethical concerns, integration challenges, and varying responses to resettling Syrian refugees from coast to coast. Articulating key lessons to be learned from Canada's program, this book provides promising strategies for future events of this kind. Showcasing innovative practices and initiatives, A National Project captures a diverse range of experiences surrounding Syrian refugee resettlement in Canada.
    Date Created:
    2020

  • The Criminalization of Migration: Context and Consequences

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Simeon, James C. and Atak, Idil
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself. Canada, perceived as a nation of immigrants and touted as one of the most generous countries in the world today for its reception of refugees, has not been immune from these practices. This book examines "crimmigration" - the criminalization of migration - from national and comparative perspectives, drawing attention to the increasing use of criminal law measures, public policies, and practices that stigmatize or diminish the rights of forced migrants and refugees within a dominant public discourse that not only stereotypes and criminalizes but marginalizes forced migrants. Leading researchers, legal scholars, and practitioners provide in-depth analyses of theoretical concerns, legal and public policy dimensions, historic migration crises, and the current dynamics and future prospects of crimmigration. The editors situate each chapter within the existing migration literature and outline a way forward for the decriminalization of migration through the vigorous promotion and advancement of human rights. Building on recent legal, policy, academic, and advocacy initiatives, The Criminalization of Migration maps how the predominant trend toward the criminalization of migration in Canada and abroad can be reversed for the benefit of all, especially those forced to migrate for the protection of their inherent human rights and dignity.
    Date Created:
    2018

  • Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Cameron, Geoffrey
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Between 1945 and 1980, both countries transformed their previous policies of refugee deterrence into expansive resettlement programs. Explanations for this shift have typically focused on Cold War foreign policy, but there was a domestic force that propelled the rise of resettlement: religious groups. In Send Them Here Geoffrey Cameron explains the genesis and development of refugee resettlement policy in North America through the lens of the essential role played by faith-based organizations. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish groups led advocacy efforts for refugees after the Second World War, and they cooperated with each other and their respective governments to implement the first formal resettlement programs. Those policy frameworks laid the foundation for diverging policy trajectories in each country, leading ultimately to private sponsorship in Canada and the voluntary agency program in the United States. Religious groups remain embedded in the world’s most successful refugee resettlement programs. Send Them Here draws on a rich archival record and extensive comparative research to contribute new insights to the history of refugee policy, human rights, and the role of religion in modern policymaking and global humanitarian efforts.
    Date Created:
    2021

  • Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America: Law and Policy Reforms

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Caicedo Camacho, Natalia and Freier, Luisa Feline
    Description:
    Free access to this e-book is available to readers, scholars, and students located in the Global South whose institutions lack the resources to purchase access to these books as well as to those in other regions who are part of non-profit or community organizations concerned with displacement and who lack alternate forms of access to the book or the resources needed to purchase these publications. Please see full access conditions below.
    Abstract:
    Latin America provides a compelling case for the study of migration policies and laws, with several factors - including both internal and interregional migration and refugee flows, the region’s progressive approach to the management of human mobility, and several forced displacement crises of the contemporary era - offering unique insights. Despite the region’s heterogeneous migration flows and unique immigration and refugee laws, the academic literature has thus far lacked in-depth explorations of migration policy in Latin America. Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America presents a comparative analysis of the migration legislation of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. For each country, the collection provides a historical overview of the evolution of migration legislation, an analysis of the migration flows and types of migrant profiles, and an examination of the country’s current immigration, asylum, and nationality legislation. The primary regional and international mechanisms that facilitate a normative approach to voluntary and forced migration, as well as to migrant and refugee rights, are also thoroughly interrogated. Situating itself in the often progressive immigration policies of Latin America, Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America offers alternative solutions for other countries facing migration challenges in different contexts.
    Date Created:
    2022

  • Media and Internet Concentration in Canada, 1984–2021

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Winseck, Dwayne
    Date Created:
    2022

  • Growth and Upheaval in the Network Media Economy, 1984-2021

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Winseck, Dwayne
    Abstract:
    The Canadian contribution and data set prepared as part of the Global Media and Internet Concentration (GMIC) project offers an independent academic, empirical and data-driven analysis of a deceptively simple yet profoundly important question: have telecom, media and internet markets become more concentrated over time, or less? Media Ownership and Concentration is presented from more than a dozen sectors of the telecom-media-internet industries, including film, music and book industries.
    Date Created:
    2022

  • Alleviating Loneliness, Encouraging Friendship: the Role that Political Society Can Play

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Chandler, Andrea
    Date Created:
    2022

  • Growth and Upheaval in the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2019

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Winseck, Dwayne
    Abstract:
    This report examines the development of the media economy over the past thirty-five years. Since beginning this project a decade ago, we have focused on analyzing a comprehensive as possible selection of the biggest telecoms, Internet and media industries (based on revenue) in Canada, including: mobile wireless and wireline telecoms; Internet access; cable, satellite & IPTV; broadcast television, specialty and pay television services as well as Internet-based video subscription and download services; radio; newspapers; magazines; music; Internet advertising; social media; operating systems; browsers, etc.
    Date Created:
    2020-11-16

  • Insights

    Resource Type:
    Book
    Creator:
    Del Gaudio, Chiara
    Date Created:
    2021-02-22

  • 2012 National Study on Balancing Work and Caregiving in Canada

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Duxbury, Linda E. and Higgins, Christopher
    Abstract:
    The study examined work-life experiences of 25,000 Canadians who were employed full time in 71 public, private and not-for-profit organizations across all provinces and territories between June 2011 and June 2012. Two-thirds of survey respondents had incomes of $60,000 or more a year and two-thirds were parents. Previous studies were conducted in 1991 and 2001. “It is fascinating to see what has changed over time and what hasn’t,’’ said Duxbury. Among the findings: Most Canadian employees still work a fixed nine-to-five schedule – about two-thirds. Overall, the typical employee spends 50.2 hours in work-related activities a week. Just over half of employees take work home to complete outside regular hours. The use of flexible work arrangements such as a compressed work week (15 per cent) and flexible schedules (14 per cent) is much less common. Fifty-seven per cent of those surveyed reported high levels of stress. One-third of working hours are spent using email. Employees in the survey were twice as likely to let work interfere with family as the reverse. Work-life conflict was associated with higher absenteeism and lower productivity. Succession planning, knowledge transfer and change management are likely to be a problem for many Canadian organizations. There has been little career mobility within Canadian firms over the past several years.
    Date Created:
    2012-10-25

  • 2012 National Study of Work-Life Issues in Canadian Police Departments

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Higgins, Christopher and Duxbury, Linda E.
    Abstract:
    This report provides key findings and recommendations from a study of work-life conflict and employee well-being that involved 4500 police officers working for 25 police forces across Canada. Findings from this study should help police forces across Canada implement policies and practices that will help them thrive in a "sellers market for labour."
    Date Created:
    2012-03-01

  • Education as a Positional Good: The Role of Vouchers

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Chen, Zhiqi and West, Edwin
    Abstract:
    People's satisfaction from some goods and services depends on their relative as distinct from their absolute position as consumers. Such items are called "positional goods", and a restriction of their supply in the situation of general income growth is conducive to expenditure escalation as in an arms race. If education is a positional good in this sense, arrangements are needed that will best prevent such an outcome. The introduction of education vouchers of a value egual to the average per capita public school expenditure, it is argued, will only hinder not help. This is because some recipients will be tempted to obtain more education with marginal additions to their vouchers from their own pockets. Vouchers are thus welfare reducing because they encourage rather than discourage "arms race" situations. Using a formal median voter model we show that concerns over possible escalation of expenditure will prompt a majority of voters to reject a universal voucher system. We examine, as an alternative, a selective voucher system that will remove the escalation problem. Under this system only low-income families will receive vouchers. We demonstrate that the median voter will favor such a selective voucher system provided that the voucher-induced increase in competition lowers costs and/or improves guality of education.
    Date Created:
    1997-02-01

  • Graduate Students and the Academic Library: What does the Future Hold?

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Scammell, Janice
    Abstract:
    "I began my sabbatical research with what seemed a defined but narrow focus: the information literacy needs of graduate students. The Information Literacy Standards of the Association of Colleges and Research Libraries (ACRL) provided a reasonable foundation upon which to build, and a qualitative research design, sampling a number of graduate students at Carleton University, is a productive strategy. My project has since evolved in unexpected but distinctly broader and more challenging directions. I found, through ongoing reviews of existing literature, as well as through my own personal experience and discussions with colleagues, that some work has already been done to identify the concerns and needs of graduate students. Further, I discovered that there is a growing body of research aimed at identifying gaps and suggesting best practices." (from introduction)
    Date Created:
    2009-01-01

  • Elizabeth Smart: The Shifting Boundary between Nature and Art

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Scammell, Janice
    Abstract:
    Elizabeth Smart 's writings--her theory and practice of art-- present patterns of change and constancy. Art, initially constituted in an entwined and supportive inter-relation of nature, love/passion, God, ir.spiration :and will, is in its maturity generated from within a dissolution of the supportive context. Art finds its power of expression in opposition to nature and in the absence of God. By Grand Centnl Station I Sat Down and Wept presents art in its true creativity: creating unity from a central visionary perspective. From this point onwards art falls away from its metamorphic principle of transformation, in an enforced exile, and in the later works becomes an expression of the radical separation of nature (and love/passion) from the visionary perception. Art without a supportive environment is actualized in a self-referential creation, a "magic marriage of words," that is still, however, a transformation (of tragedy into comedy) and an expression of a potentially redemptive God-like wrath and will.
    Date Created:
    1988-04-05

  • Portfolio Allocation over Life-Cycle with Multiple Late-in-Life Saving Motives

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Lee, Minjoon
    Abstract:
    Older households face health-related risks, including risk of being in need of long-term care and mortality risk. How these risks affect financial portfolio choice of households depends on household preferences for long-term care and bequest. Using linked survey-administrative data on clients of a mutual fund company, this paper finds that the desire to have enough resources for long-term care and bequests are overall strong but also heterogeneous across households. The estimated relationship between actual stock share of households and the strength of these preferences is qualitatively similar but quantitatively much weaker compared to the predictions from the life-cycle model with the estimated preference heterogeneity. Based on the predictions from the model, this paper discusses what financial instruments would better meet the needs of households.
    Date Created:
    2018-07-22

  • Heterogeneity in Expectations, Risk Tolerance, and Household Stock Shares

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Shapiro, Matthew D., Lee, Minjoon, Kézdi, Gábor, and Ameriks, John
    Abstract:
    This paper investigates the relationship between stock share and expectations and risk preferences using linked survey responses and administrative records from account holders. The survey allows individual-level, quantitative estimates of risk tolerance and of the perceived mean and variance of stock returns. Estimated risk tolerance, expected return, and perceived risk have economically and statistically significant explanatory power for the distribution of stock shares. Relative to each other, the magnitudes are in proportion with the predictions of benchmark theories, but they are substantially attenuated. MBA graduates have more stable beliefs, more knowledge about their account holdings, and less attenuation.
    Date Created:
    2017-06-26

  • The Wealth of Wealthholders

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Lee, Minjoon, Tonetti, Christopher, Shapiro, Matthew D., Caplin, Andrew, and Ameriks, John
    Abstract:
    This paper introduces the Vanguard Research Initiative (VRI), a new panel survey of wealthholders designed to yield high-quality measurements of a large sample of older Americans who arrive at retirement with significant financial assets. The VRI links survey data with a variety of administrative data from Vanguard. The survey features an account-by-account approach to asset measurement and a real-time feedback and correction mechanism that are shown to be highly successful in eliciting accurate measures of wealth. Specifically, the VRI data reflect unbiased and precise estimates of wealth when compared to administrative account data. The VRI sample has characteristics similar to populations meeting analogous wealth and Internet access eligibility conditions in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). To illustrate the value of the VRI, the paper shows that the relationship between wealth and expected retirement date is very different in the VRI than in the HRS and SCF—mainly because those surveys have so few observations where wealth levels are high enough to finance substantial consumption during retirement.
    Date Created:
    2014-12-09

  • Older Americans Would Work Longer If Jobs Were Flexible

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Tonetti, Christopher, Caplin, Andrew, Briggs, Joseph, Lee, Minjoon, Shapiro, Matthew D., and Ameriks, John
    Abstract:
    Older Americans, even those who are long retired, have strong willingness to work, especially in jobs with flexible schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job opportunities or low expectations about finding them than by unwillingness to work longer. This paper establishes these findings using an approach to identification based on strategic survey questions (SSQs) purpose-designed to complement behavioral data. These findings suggest that demand-side factors are important in explaining late-in-life labor market behavior and may be the most appropriate target for policy aimed at promoting working longer.
    Date Created:
    2017-10-29

  • Particle-based participating media rendering using density octrees

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Whitehead, Anthony D. and Monette, Richard
    Abstract:
    In order for computer generated imagery to recreate the characteristic visual appearance of phenomena such as smoke and fog it is necessary to compute the way in which light interacts with participating media. In this work we present a novel technique for computing volumetric single scattering lighting solutions for particle-based inhomogeneous participating media data sets. We seek to calculate volumetric lighting solutions for particle-based data sets as such data sets have the advantage of being spatially unbounded and relatively unrestricted with regard to memory as compared to uniform grids. In order to perform the calculations which are required for computing such a lighting solution, we introduce a novel octree based data structure. We refer to this new data structure as a density octree. The design of the density octree allows for efficiently computing light attenuation throughout the spatial extent. Using our data structure, we are able to produce high quality output imagery of arbitrary particle data sets in the presence of arbitrary numbers of lights.
    Date Created:
    2014-07-02

  • Collaboration & recognition: Authorship credit across disciplines

    Resource Type:
    Poster
    Creator:
    Newton Miller, Laura
    Abstract:
    What contributions are considered sufficient to justify authorship credit? As universities show increasing interest in both interdisciplinary work & research metrics, the library is in a unique position to help researchers across disciplines navigate through this important area of scholarly communication.
    Date Created:
    2015-04-10

  • Enhancing the Discovery of Digital Collections: A Linked Data Approach to Supporting Digital Content in Libraries.

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Browning, Jennifer
    Abstract:
    The use of open linked data in libraries is quickly developing as means of connecting digital content from the web to local library collections. In the world of cataloguing, metadata, and authority control, using controlled vocabularies through open linked data presents the possibility of providing library patrons with access to a seemingly unlimited expanse of digital resources. Encouraged by this potential, the Carleton University Library is currently implementing open linked data models within its institutional repository in order to connect users to digital content within our repository, our ILS, and beyond. This poster presents the ideas and processes behind this innovative project, and hopes to inspire other libraries to implement open linked data concepts in order to enhance the discoverability of their own digital collections. Learning Outcomes: • Clear explanation of open linked data concepts using diagrams to illustrate key points • How libraries of all sizes can utilize linked data for authority control to expand access to digital collections • How libraries can use linked data to promote and expand access to OA publications
    Date Created:
    2016-01-28

  • Navigating uncharted territory: Introducing EBLIP into a department

    Resource Type:
    Poster
    Creator:
    Newton Miller, Laura
    Abstract:
    What happens in a department when one introduces EBLIP into the daily workflow? The researcher reflects on the challenges and rewards of the first year as a Collections Assessment Librarian, a newly created position in the library.
    Date Created:
    2013-07-15

  • Optimization under economic uncertainty using a net zero energy commercial office case study

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Bucking, Scott
    Abstract:
    Energy modeling and optimization studies can facilitate the design of cost-effective, low-energy buildings. However, this process inevitably involves uncertainties such as predicting occupant behavior, future climate, and econometric parameters. As presently practiced, energy modelers typically do not quantify the implications of these unknowns into performance outcomes. This paper describes an energy modeling approach to quantify economic risk and better inform decision makers of the economic feasibility of a project. The proposed methodology suggests how economic uncertainty can be quantified within an optimization framework. This approach improves modeling outcomes by factoring in the effect of variability in assumptions and improves confidence in simulation results. The methodology is demonstrated using a net zero energy commercial office building case study located in London, ON, Canada.
    Date Created:
    2016-01-01

  • Carleton University emerging technology lending library

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Cross, Emma, Schramm, Cheryl, Skerlak, Steve, and Tucci, Ryan
    Date Created:
    2016-05-10

  • Relationships among Evaluative Criteria, Uncertainty, Organizational Size, and Performance: Empirical Evidence in Public Organizations

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Pollanen, Raili
    Abstract:
    This survey study of senior municipal administrators examines the use of evaluative criteria in managerial performance evaluation and extends previous findings in the public sector context. The results reveal that the use of evaluative criteria is very similar to that found in Otley and Pollanen's (2000) public-sector study, but significantly different from those reported in several private-sector studies. Substantially lower proportions of budget-based criteria are found in both public-sector studies than in private-sector studies. Performance is higher under low- than high-uncertainty conditions and in larger than smaller organizations. The findings suggest that different evaluative criteria may be appropriate in the public and he findings suggest that different evaluative criteria may be appropriate in the public and private sectors, and that uncertainty and organizational size may affect performance.
    Date Created:
    2007-02-01

  • A Critique of Partial Least Squares, and a Preliminary Assessement of an Alternative Estimation Method

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Thomas, Roland, Cedzynski, Marzena, and Lu, Irene
    Abstract:
    Partial least squares (PLS) is sometimes used as an alternative to covariance-based structural equation modeling (SEM). This paper briefly reviews currently available SEM techniques, and provides a critique of the perceived advantages of PLS over covariance-based SEM as commonly cited by PLS users. Specific attention is drawn to the primary disadvantage of PLS, namely the lack of consistency of its parameter estimates. The instrumental variables (IV) /two stage least squares (2SLS) method of estimation is then described and presented as a potential alternative to PLS that might yield its perceived advantages without succumbing to its primary disadvantage. Preliminary simulation results show that: PLS parameter estimates exhibit substantial bias when the number of items is moderate; SEM-based methods yield lower bias; and IV/2SLS estimates may indeed provide a viable ordinary least squares (OLS)-based alternative to PLS.
    Date Created:
    2007-02-01

  • “Nothing changes if nothing changes”: Three User-Centered Collection Development Practices at Carleton University Library

    Resource Type:
    Conference Proceeding
    Creator:
    Neely, Colleen, Rumig, Joanne, Taylor, Christine, and Sharp, David
    Abstract:
    Since 2014, Carleton University Library has been adding to the ways it practices collection development. In addition to the subject liaison firm order model, we have added 3 successful user-centred ways to acquire material. We ended our approval plan and used its selection framework to create a DDA plan. We started a textbook purchasing program in Reserves, and we instituted print purchase on demand procedures in ILL. This poster provides an overview and key takeaways for each initiative.
    Date Created:
    2016-11-03

  • The Four or Five Barred Cage: The Consequences of Hofstede's View of Culture

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Cray, David
    Abstract:
    A study of citations in four prominent journals indicates how deeply Hofstede's conceptualization dominates the understanding of culture in international business research. The implications of this intellectual hegemony for the development of the field are examined After considering some critiques of Hofstede's approach, three diverse alternatives to the value-based approach are discussed.
    Date Created:
    2007-02-01

  • Review of Management Control Systems in Their Organizational and Environmental Context : Managerial Perspective and Control Typology

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Pollanen, Raili
    Abstract:
    This paper provides a critical review of literature on management controls and their context. The review indicates that more emphasis has been placed on organizational than environmental factors and that the effectiveness of different controls in different contexts remains practically unaddressed. In general, research has been ad hoc and focused on results-oriented financial controls, short-term efficiency, and individual level of analysis. Even for commonly studied topics (e.g., budget controls), evidence has often been inconsistent and limited to manufacturing organizations, with little integration and refinement of previous theoretical models based on new evidence. Further research is required to investigate the relative importance of different financial and nonfinancial controls in different types of organizations in order to develop more comprehensive performance measurement and management frameworks.
    Date Created:
    2007-02-01

  • A Model of International Product and International Destination Relationships

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Elliot, Statia and Papadopoulos, Nicolas G.
    Abstract:
    Potential synergies between international trade and tourism are viewed optimistically by governments, yet research to assess their association is limited. To gain an understanding of trade and tourism relationships, this paper reports on a study which examines both product-related and tourism-related place image effects on consumer behavior simultaneously. Using the U.S. as the country of focus, key product and travel relationships are measured by structural equation modeling of consumer data from South Korea. Findings support the cross-over effect between one's beliefs about a country as a destination and as a producer, and one's willingness to travel to it and/or buy its products, and most strongly, that product beliefs affect views of travel destinations.
    Date Created:
    2007-02-01

  • IT Capabilities and Firm Performance: A Resource-based, Alliance Perspective

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Addas, Shamel and Pinsonneault, Alain
    Abstract:
    Information technology-based alliances are rapidly spreading in organizations, which calls upon researchers to develop an adequate theoretical lens to examine this phenomenon and its key associated outcomes, such as the business performance of alliance firms. However, strategic alliances are mostly examined from a transaction cost economics perspective, and the results on performance are inconclusive at best. This paper proposes an alternative lens - the resource-based view - and applies an extended version of it to explain the performance of firms in IT-based alliances. A conceptual model is developed that examines the impact of shared information technology resources on firm performance. Also, a measurement scale for these resources is developed and preliminarily validated.
    Date Created:
    2007-02-01

  • Furthering Collaborative Strategic Management Theory: Process Model and Factors Per Phase

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Clarke, Amelia
    Abstract:
    Social problems, such unsustainable development, can be too large for any one organization to tackle alone so are increasingly being addressed through cross-sector multi-organizational collaborations. One of the approaches being taken is formulating and implementing a collective (alternatively named collaborative) strategy. Despite the increasing usage of collaborative strategic management in practice, there is relatively little literature on this approach, particularly when considering the implementation of the collaborative strategy. This paper builds on existing interorganizational collaboration theory and organizational strategy implementation theory to determine: 1) a conceptual process model of collaborative strategic management; and 2) factors which affect each phase of cross-sectoral social-oriented collaborative strategic managment.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • What Do We Know About Collaborative Maturity? : A Review of the Literature and Research Track

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Daoudi, Jaouad and Bourgault, Mario
    Abstract:
    Working in collaborative and dispersed (C&D) settings is now common for project teams, especially for those active in multinational companies or in international contexts. The concept of "collaborative maturity" has recently been proposed by various authors in order to identify and measure the competence of a firm working in C&D mode. Many models of collaborative maturity have been proposed, reflecting the increasing importance of this area of research. However, the existing literature is spread among multiple journals in various fields of research. For a better understanding of collaborative maturity and how it is measured, a thorough literature review is conducted and an extension of existing research is proposed. This will serve as the theoretical background for future empirical research. The results should be useful for project managers and academicians with an interest in C&D projects.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Out of the Closet: An Exploration of the Role of Work Dress

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Dyke, Lorraine and Elliot, Statia
    Abstract:
    Despite the prevalence of formal and informal standards for employee attire, research on its role is limited. Social psychological theories suggest that work attire can be a meaningful, expressive symbol associated with one's occupational identity. Organizational theories suggest that work attire can affect both individual and organizational outcomes. Bridging these perspectives, this study considers work attire's potential to influence micro and macro organizational dynamics. A framework of the dimensions influencing factors and outcomes of work dress is used to assess the results of a poll of members of the Canadian Forces, an organization whose work attire is highly conspicuous and rigidly homogeneous. Though a slight majority of participants responded that their uniform did not impact their operational focus, comments indicate both organizational influences and individual concerns with specific attributes of attire. Attitudes toward work attire may be indicative of broader issues of organizational identity.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Making Sense of Nonsense in Hong Kong

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    Article
    Creator:
    Friedman, Perley-Ann
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    This paper identifies some of the challenges facing expatriates using an autoethnographic account of situations experienced by the author during her first year of work at a financial services company in Hong Kong. These experiences reveal an erratic business world of apparent nonsense and uncertainty, incomprehensible to an outsider. The challenges facing expatriates stem from the stress and anxiety affecting their work, family and social interactions within the foreign culture. Success in the new environment is dependent on the expatriate's ability to adjust to the new culture. An overview of the current research on the expatriate experience is provided to help the reader make sense of the autoethnographic situations.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • The Internationalization of Malaysian Firms into Foreign Markets

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    Article
    Creator:
    Ismail, Jannatul Firdaus
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    Available data indicate that economic conditions, exports performance and foreign direct investment from Malaysia increased significantly in the 1990s. Existing literature on the internationalization of firms is based on the study of firms from developed countries and does not directly apply to the case of firms based in developing economies, and Malaysia particularly. Based on this phenomenon, this study attempts to examine the process of internationalization among Malaysian firms into the foreign markets and compare the internationalization process of Malaysian firms with other developed countries. This study will contribute to the knowledge gap with empirical data from rapidly internationalizing firms, in respect of the Malaysian firms' experiences, organizational learning and capability creation that will offer fruitful approaches to understanding the dynamic of firms' expansion. The resulting model could assist policy makers to improve existed support programs for businesses to overcome barriers and enhance performance in internationalization process.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Towards Measuring the Personality of Performing Arts Awards: Scale Development and Theoretical Implications

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    Article
    Creator:
    Georgie, Vincent E.
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    This paper will provide insight into the personality dimensions that can be attributed to performing arts awards, and thus generate a scale to measure these dimensions. This area of work rests upon the idea that there is self-concept congruency between a viewer and product or service, and that there are instances where attributes of a human nature can be, in fact, attributed to them. The study will look particularly at a mixed sample of televised performing arts awards shows (The Academy Awards, The Prime-Time Emmy Awards, The Tony Awards, The Grammy Awards and The Golden Globe Awards) and the various motivations and interests of viewers to watch, or not watch, such shows. Based upon its position in the literature and its intended contribution, this study will propose a four-step scale development process.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Seeing and Unmaking Civilians in Afghanistan: Visual Technologies and Contested Professional Visions

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    Article
    Creator:
    Wilke, Christiane
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    This article examines the politics of 'seeing' civilians in Afghanistan with a focus on the 2009 Kunduz air strike. Drawing on the literature on professional vision and professional knowledges, I ask how divergences in the 'ways of seeing' between different professional communities can be explained, and how they are resolved in practice. 'Seeing,' I argue, is based on talking. The vocabularies with which we describe the world and understand our relationships shape how we 'see'. As a consequence, Afghans gathered around a truck can appear an 'immediate threat' or not -- depending on the ideological prisms at work. The article suggests that we need to treat professional vision as necessarily contested and examine how professionals are socialized into accepting one way of seeing as valid. Seeing is based on talking, and we need to talk about how we see (violence).
    Date Created:
    2017-03-28

  • How May I Help You? Conceptualizing the Benefits of High Performance Work Practices on Emotional Labour Pressures in the Hospitality Industry

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    Article
    Creator:
    Murray, William
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    The hospitality industry relies on front-line staff members to provide high quality service experiences to encourage repeat business. Unlike the manufacturing industry that separates the production of goods from the delivery to customers, professionals in the hospitality industry realize that customers evaluate their "product" through perceived service quality levels (Ottenbacher & Howley, 2005). Although types of service may differ, industry operators and researchers agree that both customer satisfaction and service quality are critical prerequisites for customer retention (Cronin & Taylor, 1992). Consistent service quality demands a workforce with strong emotional display management skills; however, displays of unfelt feelings, or "acting", can create intense emotional strain for service providers. This paper will examine the emotional labour pressures experienced by service workers and outline theoretical mitigating influences provided by high performance work practices (HPWP). Links will be drawn between decreased employee turnover, increased customer satisfaction and customer retention.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Code of Ethics: A Conceptual Model and Preliminary Results

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    Article
    Creator:
    Pawliw, Pierre
    Abstract:
    Academic research into codes of ethics has given us valuable information on the subject but has failed to provide an all-encompassing understanding of the contents of actual codes. This paper looks at what is presently known about this subject, presents a conceptual model that integrates the different elements that go into a code of ethics, describes the dynamics that explains why each company's code of ethics has a distinct content, and presents preliminary results obtained after having analyzed a cross-section of the code of ethics of member companies of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Involuntary Downsizing: The Impact of a Labour Shortage

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    Article
    Creator:
    Pyper, Rhonda L.
    Abstract:
    Labour shortages are imminent in a variety of different industries, particularly those that require high levels of skills. Organizations will need to plan for these shortages as many of the solutions will have fairly long lead times before an impact is felt. One area from which short-term gains may be achieved is the reduction of voluntary turnover, particularly the loss of productive employees. An area with potential for longer-term success in combating the labour shortage is in restructuring. Through restructuring, organizations can redesign the work processes so that when employees do leave, the position will have to be reworked and a replacement may not be needed. The organization will be shrinking in headcount, but it will remain as productive as it was before downsizing due to efficiencies gained; it will have successfully navigated "involuntary downsizing". The purpose of this paper is to develop the concept of involuntary downsizing" by expanding the definition of downsizing to include situations in which organizations are competing in diminishing labour markets. Similar to the current concept of downsizing, organizations will need to accomplish more, with fewer resources; however, the cause of the downsizing and the solutions that are available will be different.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • The Positive Effects of Incivility in the Context of the Armed Forces: Exploring Work Context as a Moderator of Incivility

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    Article
    Creator:
    Rostis, Adam
    Abstract:
    In the typology of harassment and aggression in the workplace, workplace incivility is situated as a non-aggressive, low intensity form of deviant behaviour with an uncertain intent to cause harm. The importance of incivility to organizational theory and human resource management is that it may have a negative effect on organizational outcomes and more importantly it may be a precursor for more overt forms of workplace violence. Two potential influences on the effects of incivility are personality and workplace context; the latter of these two has not been sufficiently explored in the literature. This paper will take one step towards addressing this gap by examining the ways in which incivility is moderated in the context of military organizations. The result of this contextual examination of incivility will be a proposal that incivility may have a positive effect through the development of coping strategies for stressful situations encountered by armed forces.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • The Strategic Dimensions of Information Systems Capability: An Evolutionary and Resource-based View

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    Article
    Creator:
    Sangwan, Hemant, Yu, Ma, and Nitin, Mehta
    Abstract:
    The paper addresses important issues regarding how consumers' purchase decisions in a product category are influenced by market mix variables in other categories. We propose a structural analysis of multi-category purchase decisions, where we simultaneously model and estimate consumers' purchase incidence, brand choice and quantity choice decisions across multiple product categories. Addtionally, we study the role played by umbrella brands in influencing the decision made by consumers. We propose a structural model where all the three decisions are derived from the consumer's global utility maximization. Such structural analysis is important from the perspective of (i) a retailer whose objective is to maximize profits over all product categories, and (ii) a manufacturer whose objective is to maximize profits over its entire product line. Our analysis highlights the importance of studying consumers' purchase decisions in a multi-category context which can not be addressed by studying each category in seclusion.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • A Markovian Simulation-based Model for Predicting the Breakage Factor in Loyalty Programs Industry

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    Article
    Creator:
    Nsakanda, Aaron
    Abstract:
    One problem faced by a profit center loyalty reward program firm is that of determining the percentage of the points (the so called "breakage factor or "breakage rate" in loyalty programs industry) accumulated each year that end up not ever being redeemed by members, and that should therefore, be recognized as revenue in the establishment of the periodical financial statements. A higher breakage rate will contribute to increase the net income and profitability on the financial statements. This in turn would offer a competitive advantage to a firm in attracting and pricing new third party partners, developing company strategic plans, and managing the overall yearly reward capacity. In this paper, we propose a quantitative methodology for determining the breakage rate in Loyalty Reward Programs (LRP). The proposed methodology is a simulation-based approach in which the accumulation and redemption of "points" is modeled as a stochastic process. An application of the approach to a real-life context is discussed.
    Date Created:
    2007-11-01

  • What Are the Pay Equity Implications of Expatriate Compensation?

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    Article
    Creator:
    Skowronski, Mark
    Abstract:
    Identification of effective and cost-efficient compensation practices for recruiting and retaining expatriate employees is becoming increasingly important in today's global labor market. This paper proposes a study to investigate perceptions of fair compensation for expatriate employment using the tenets of equity theory. Participants will specify an "equitable" monetary bonus for hypothetical overseas assignments of different lengths and locations. Relying on Konopaske's and Werner's (2002) propositions, the author predicts the following: 1) Short-term overseas assignments will require a larger "foreign service premium" (monetary bonus) than domestic relocation, 2) Long-term expatriate assignments will require a larger premium than short-term or domestic relocation, and 3) Relocation to a developing country will require a larger premium than relocation to an advanced industrialized nation or to a domestic location. A methodology and data analysis strategy are described.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Income Trusts and Growth : Empirical Evidence

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    Article
    Creator:
    Sun, Chengye
    Abstract:
    This paper provides empirical evidence on the growth, financing activity, and operating performance of Canadian business income trusts. We find that business income trusts are growing in terms of total assets and sales revenues. They frequently acquire other businesses in post-IPO period. We also find that income trusts are likely to issue third-party debt to finance acquisitions. Median operating return on total assets decreases after an business income trust IPO, indicating an operating performance inferior to that in pre-lPO years.
    Date Created:
    2007-04-01

  • Layers Of Discrimination: Income inequalities Between Female Minority Populations and Other Groups

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    Article
    Creator:
    Papadopoulos, Nicolas G., Dyke, Lorraine, and Ambwani, Vinita
    Abstract:
    This paper reviews the existing evidence for dual discrimination based on gender and ethnicity for minority/immigrant women. It focuses on income inequalities between minority/immigrant women and other groups. The effects of human capital, occupational segregation, sector segregation and discrimination or stereotyping on earnings gap are identified. The paper also proposes that a preponderance of minority females in certain occupations may result in a devaluation of wages and lowering of prestige in these occupations. The unique set of stressors experienced by minority/immigrant women that may affect access to jobs as well as performance on the job are also discussed.
    Date Created:
    2007-11-01

  • Competitive and Value Effects of Bank Privatization in Developed Countries

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    Article
    Creator:
    Otchere, Isaac
    Abstract:
    This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the performance of privatized banks in developed countries. Consistent with the competitive effects hypothesis which asserts that privatization could hurt rivals, we find that the rival banks reacted negatively to news of bank privatization in developed countries. The competitive effects are stronger in cases where government ownership decreases significantly. Contrary to the findings of prior studies that examine the performance of privatized banks in developing countries, we find that privatized banks in developed countries experienced significant improvements in operating performance and stock market performance in the post privatization period.
    Date Created:
    2007-11-01

  • The Role of Behavioural Activation and Inhibition in Advertising Appeals

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Papadopoulos, Nicolas G. and Murphy, Steven
    Abstract:
    Advertising appeals are central to the effectiveness of advertising and have been studied extensively. However, past research has focused primarily on examining the effects of one or another type of appeal on consumers, and little is known about the concept of an advertising appeal itself. As part of a broader program intended to address this gap, this paper examines the role of underlying motivational forces in the development of consumer attributions regarding advertising appeals. More specifically, we are centrally concerned with examining under what conditions emotion states, personality traits, and underlying motivations may lead to product judgements and subsequent (purchase) behaviour.
    Date Created:
    2007-11-01

  • Collaboration in Combating Identity Fraud

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    Article
    Creator:
    de Grosbois, Danuta, Kumar, Uma, and Kumar, Vinod D.
    Abstract:
    The problem of identity theft is complex, spans the boundaries of many organizations, companies and countries, and affects numerous entities in different ways at different times. However, given the nature of the problem, it is extremely difficult and costly for an individual or an organization to fight it on its own. An increasing number of practitioners and researchers have started to indicate that the success of identity theft management relies on joint efforts of different stakeholders. Collaboration, generally defined as 'working together to some end' is believed to have the potential of delivering numerous benefits to its participants when properly executed. This paper discusses different aspects of collaboration efforts undertaken by organizations in order to fight identity theft.
    Date Created:
    2007-11-01

  • Measures of Identity Fraud

    Resource Type:
    Article
    Creator:
    Kumar, Vinod D., Movahedi, Bahar, Lavassani, Kayvan, and Kumar, Uma
    Abstract:
    Identity fraud (IDF) is the fastest growing white-collar crime in many countries and specifically in developed countries. IDF is not a new phenomenal in human societies; the history of IDF can be traced back to hundreds of years ago. What has made it the center of attention in the past few years is the acceleration in the frequency and the impacts of IDF to individuals and businesses. One of the preliminary steps in managing IDF as a global phenomenon is to understand the scope of the problem and measure its different aspects. By realizing the importance of developing measurement systems in this area, and the recognition of a gap in this area of research, this study presents the previous approaches in developing IDF measurement systems, and uses them as benchmarks for developing and proposing a comprehensive measurement system for assessing IDF.
    Date Created:
    2007-11-01