Information intermediaries and optimal information distribution

Womack, Ryan

doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(02)00109-3

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“…Yet, despite its potential effectiveness, close interaction can have high transaction costs, not only in terms of human and financial resources but also in terms of reaching out to a broader clientele. In this context, the role of trusted intermediaries or brokers that efficiently customize and repackage information for users can be critical (Wolf et al, 2001;Womack, 2002). Indeed brokers can both increase the supply of climate information and influence demand by introducing farmers to the advantages of early adaptation planning.…”

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Crop advisors as climate information brokers: Building the capacity of US farmers to adapt to climate change

Lemos

Kirchhoff

et al. 2014

Climate Risk Management

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a b s t r a c tThis paper examines the role of crop advisors as brokers of climate information to support US corn farmers to adapt to climatic change. It uses quantitative data collected from a broad survey of crop advisors in the US Corn Belt to examine the factors that shape advisors' use of (and willingness to provide) climate information to their clients. Building upon a general model of climate information usability we argue that advisors' willingness to provide climate advice to farmers is influenced by three main factors: their information seeking habits and behavior, their experience with innovation in the past, and how climate information interplays with other kinds of information that they provide-especially agronomic advice. We find that advisors' willingness to provide climate related information depends both on factors at the individual and organizational level and on the type of advice they provide. First, at the individual and organizational levels, advisors who work in supportive organizations and who collaborate with other advisors are more likely to provide climate information. Second, advisors are more likely to provide climate information if it does not interfere with their main profit making business (e.g. provision of agronomic advice). Third, there is a significant positive relationship between trust in a greater number or sources of information and use of climate information. Fourth, the way advisors perceive short-and long-term risk also influences their willingness to provide climate information; the more concerned they are about long-term climate-related risks to farming, the more likely they are to provide (or want to provide) advice based on climate information. Differently from other empirical work in the literature, our analytical model suggests that neither negative experiences with climate information in the past nor the high level of uncertainty characteristic of climate information appear to influence advisors willingness to provide climate information in the future.

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confidence: 99%

Crop advisors as climate information brokers: Building the capacity of US farmers to adapt to climate change

Lemos

Kirchhoff

et al. 2014

Climate Risk Management

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“…Regardless of their electronic platform, institutional repositories gather documents and metadata into a single system, and allow locating unequivocally a document in the context of scientific publishing through its unique identifier. These two features add value to institutional repositories, making them important mediators in the dissemination of scientific work process (Womack, 2002).…”

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Analyzing the Performance of an Institutional Scientific Repository – A Case Study

Rodrigues

2012

LIBER

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Scientific knowledge evolution is mainly based on an effective dissemination of research results. The concept of Open Access gives us the theoretical foundation of a model for accessing scientific knowledge, free from the constraints of traditional publishing and technologically supported by the Internet. Institutional Repositories are information systems that allow preserving, storing and disseminating scientific knowledge produced in higher education and scientific research institutions. They increase the visibility and the citation level of the documents. They also contribute to minimizing negative aspects like plagiarism of content because documents are exposed to peers in real time.As an alternative way to the traditional system of publishing scientific research content, repositories are developed in a cultural climate of great visibility leading to an immediate critical evaluation by peers. 99 January 2010. Its main purposes are promoting Open Access (OA), and preserving and disseminating the scientific knowledge produced at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB). Using DSpace as a technological platform, RCIPCB is an institutional project supported by the president of the IPCB. Therefore, the present study was developed with the aim of analyzing the performance of RCIPCB considering the evolution and growth in terms of users, archiving and self-archiving, the number of published documents (scientific) versus deposited documents in 2010 and the heterogeneity among communities/collections and its causes. Data were collected in RCIPCB, in the 2010 scientific publication list of the institute and through a questionnaire survey distributed among the members of the community with most documents deposited and those of the community with the fewest documents. For data collected in RCIPCB and in the publication list, average, standard deviation and counts were calculated. Data collected from questionnaires were analyzed with SPSS. The results show that RCIPCB indicates an asymmetric growing dynamics. Nevertheless, it reflects the institutional organization, in the sense that the communities related to the older schools possess more documents than the communities related to more recent schools. Communities having higher numbers of deposited documents seem to have also higher levels of searches and downloads. Therefore, it increases significantly the visibility of the institution and its researchers. Concerning the 2010 scientific production when compared with the deposit level of the corresponding community, the results show that the number of documents deposited is much lower than the number of published documents. Data obtained from the questionnaire answers from the communities The School of Agriculture (ESACB) and The School of Applied Arts (ESART) suggest that the strategy of communication used by RCIPCB is correct because everybody knows about the Repository. However, that is not related to the number of documents deposited. They also suggest that the strategy is not efficient and it needs...

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“…For instance, certain newspapers are bought because of their reputation. Womack (2002) distinguishes five information market tests that determine the revenue model and the opportunities of pricing. The first test is if the information to be delivered is for private or social benefit.…”

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Product‐oriented design theory for digital information services

Wijnhoven

Kraaijenbrink²

2008

Internet Research

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to give a structured literature review, design concepts, and research propositions related to a product-oriented design theory for information services. Information services facilitate the exchange of information goods with or without transforming these goods. Exemplar information services are e-publishing, electronic communities-of-practice, and management reporting. The importance of information services in the current economy merits the development of an explicit product-and process-oriented design theory. Design/methodology/approach -This article focuses on the product-oriented design theory by applying Walls et al.'s framework. A product-oriented design theory of information services identifies relevant descriptive and explanatory insights (i.e. content, use, value, and revenue), meta-requirements, and meta-designs. The paper describes design problems for information services, and gives key requirements for information services. Next, it describes the information, organizational and information technological components of an information service, and identifies at least four information service architectures. Finally, it gives research hypotheses, research ideas, and discusses practical implications. Findings -The results form a product-oriented design theory for information services. The paper gives a structured way for practitioners to analyze information service design challenges, and suggestions are given for requirements and design decisions on three aspects (content, use feature, and revenue). Originality/value -Given the previously fragmented nature of the literature, this paper gives new opportunities for research and practice.

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Information intermediaries and optimal information distribution

Cited by 23 publications

References 35 publications

Crop advisors as climate information brokers: Building the capacity of US farmers to adapt to climate change

Crop advisors as climate information brokers: Building the capacity of US farmers to adapt to climate change

Analyzing the Performance of an Institutional Scientific Repository – A Case Study

Product‐oriented design theory for digital information services

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