Emerald Group Publishing is delighted to announce the launch of EarlyCite, an online, pre-publication service that enables customers to access journal articles prior to official publication. Papers will be made available at least three months and, in some cases, as much as one year before they appear in the hard copy and final online journal issue, allowing authors and users to benefit from accurate and permanent citation of the newest research.

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Emerald is proud to to be the main publishing partner of the world’s first global, purely virtual climate conference "Klima 2008/Climate 2008". The event  takes place online from November 3-7 2008. Registration is free, allowing participants to interact, access, comment and discuss a wide range of scientific papers focusing on climate change from environmental, social, economic and policy aspects.

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Emerald podcasts are media files that can be played on a computer or portable media device. Over the past year Emerald has built up a library of podcasts on a range of topics from human resources management to accounting and finance. These are now free to download from our website for a limited period. Don't miss out, visit our website for the latest podcasts today!

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Emerald Management First will shortly be relaunched with a stunning new look and feel incorporating state-of-the-art technology and features. The new design focuses on usability and the intuitive layout makes finding content even easier than before. A new range of personalization options help to make your Emerald Management First experience a truly unique one. Go live date is Wednesday November 12 2008!

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to inform its readers of the launch of Journal of Strategy and Management. This new, international publication, dedicated to improving the existing knowledge and understanding of strategy development and implementation globally, is an exciting addition to the company’s extensive portfolio of strategic and management titles. In order to celebrate its launch, we are inviting readers to access the first issue online freely until November 12 2008.

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Experience Emerald's Backfile collection for free! Backfiles contain the digitized content of Emerald's full journal archive: 60,000 articles from over 120 key management journals all the way back to volume 1 issue 1, with some articles dating back as far as 1898. The extended archive helps to fill collection gaps, reduce shelf space and provide access to articles that have never before been published electronically. E-mail: Backfiles or visit the website for more information.

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Corporate Communications: An International Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of the journal focusing on international, corporate communication strategies entitled "International communication strategies of technology or knowledge companies".

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A report on the changing status of further education lecturers by Kim Mather, Les Worrall and Roger Seifert has been featured in The Guardian. The authors argue that the shift from a student-centred learning approach to one that is increasingly market-oriented has led to a devaluation of the professional status of teachers in colleges. Their article, "The changing locus of workplace control in the English further education sector" is due to be published in Employee Relations.

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Literati Network member and author of the article, Poetry and the business life, Ralph Windle, has just opened an important new blog focusing on interdisciplinary interactions and news exchange between the arts, science and engineering communities. It supplies an international ideas exchange on these issues and seeks to engage active dialogue across the appropriate professional and academic communities.

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Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers
Leadership in Health Services , Vol. 21 No. 4

This special issue, jointly sponsored by the World Health Organization and LHS, includes an interview and articles submitted by authors from around the world who are working in or studying health-care issues from a global perspective. Recognizing the critical need for a skilled and sustainable workforce in the developing world, the papers describe the impact of the global situation and address ways to meet the global shortage, specifically through training and education initiatives designed to empower people to deal with the health and medical issues threatening to overwhelm them.

When two 14-year-old New Zealand schoolgirls challenged the advertising claims of Ribena blackcurrant drink – owned by global giant GlaxoSmithKline – they triggered a sequence of events which led to prosecution, public opprobrium and international damage to an iconic brand. This paper explores the case and identifies lessons for future management practice.

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This paper reports the results of a ten-year study on the effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on target company executives and discusses the importance of managing leadership issues during the merger integration process. The study creates a unique opportunity to generate deeper insights into a variety of top management team issues in M&As that can be leveraged to improve the effectiveness of post-merger integration engagements.

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