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Publication date: 1 March 1967

ARTHUR GARRATT

What are the true sources of value in a product or service? How important is any particular facet of a product or service? Arthur Garratt, Technical Director of Value Engineering…

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What are the true sources of value in a product or service? How important is any particular facet of a product or service? Arthur Garratt, Technical Director of Value Engineering Limited, shows why these questions must be asked, and how they can be answered.

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Management Decision, vol. 1 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 June 1970

ALEC M HUGHES

LORD RITCHIE‐CALDER, CHAIRMAN OF THE METRICATION Board, has summed up its functions in the following way:

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LORD RITCHIE‐CALDER, CHAIRMAN OF THE METRICATION Board, has summed up its functions in the following way:

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 2 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 1 September 1947

We have pleasure in acknowledging the courtesy of the Public Health Authorities of the State of Queensland, Australia, for sending us this record. Want of space compels briefness…

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We have pleasure in acknowledging the courtesy of the Public Health Authorities of the State of Queensland, Australia, for sending us this record. Want of space compels briefness, but we hope that the few points to which we have drawn notice may prove of interest to readers. We are concerned with the work of the Government Chemical Laboratory and local authorities so far as that relates to the purity, storage, and handling of the food supply. Action is taken under the Food and Drug sections of the Health Acts, and Regulations connected therewith. The difficulties naturally arising in the administration of a vast and sparsely populated tropical territory have been increased, there as here, by shortage of labour and materials of all kinds. So that schemes devised by local authorities in the interests of public health have in many instances been seriously delayed. The Chief of the Government Chemical Laboratory remarks that the Department has worked under incessant pressure for many years. “ The well informed, versatile and competent practitioners ” demanded by the service are not at present available outside the Government service, and “ unless they are forthcoming from time to time to rejuvenate the staff the laboratory may be reduced to a laboratory of professional labourers.”

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British Food Journal, vol. 49 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 October 1971

THROUGHOUT history certain decades emerge which are of cardinal import to mankind, like the one beginning in 1781, when the inventions of fifty years reached their apogee and…

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THROUGHOUT history certain decades emerge which are of cardinal import to mankind, like the one beginning in 1781, when the inventions of fifty years reached their apogee and through general application transformed the prevailing cottage industry into what we now call the factory system. That vast accretion of resources changed the human environment.

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Work Study, vol. 20 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 December 1971

TO operate effectively in his environment a man should seek to appreciate the sources which created it. There are few better ways for the work study man, or others concerned with…

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TO operate effectively in his environment a man should seek to appreciate the sources which created it. There are few better ways for the work study man, or others concerned with the efficient running of the industrial machine, to do so than by digesting Management Thinkers, published at 40p in the Pelican Library of Business and Management.

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Work Study, vol. 20 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 15 October 2018

Asya Draganova and Shane Blackman

The term Canterbury Sound emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s to refer to a signature style within psychedelic and progressive rock developed by bands such as Caravan and…

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The term Canterbury Sound emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s to refer to a signature style within psychedelic and progressive rock developed by bands such as Caravan and Soft Machine as well as key artists including Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers. This chapter explores Canterbury as a metaphor and reality, a symbolic space of music inspiration which has produced its distinctive ‘sound’.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, particularly observations and interviews with music artists and cultural intermediates (Bourdieu, 1993), we suggest that the notion of the Canterbury Sound – with its affinity for experimentation, distinctive chord progressions and jazz allusions in a rock music format – is perceived as a continuing artistic and aesthetic influence. We interpret the genealogy of the Canterbury Sound alternativity through discussions focused on the position of the ‘Sound’ within contemporary heritage discourses, the metaphorical and geographical implications of place in relation to popular music, and cultural longevity of the phenomenon.

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Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces: Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization
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ISBN: 978-1-78756-512-8

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Publication date: 1 August 2005

Roland K. Yeo

This paper aims to provide a literature synthesis of the learning organization and discuss several pertinent theoretical concepts on the subject.

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Purpose

This paper aims to provide a literature synthesis of the learning organization and discuss several pertinent theoretical concepts on the subject.

Design/methodology/approach

A range of works mainly from 1990‐2004, which aim at providing a variety of perspectives on the learning organization, have been analyzed and discussed based on its theoretical roots and ontological perspectives.

Findings

The synthesis of the literature reveals several common themes from the various learning organization definitions and discovers the greater significance of systems thinking in Senge's five disciplines.

Research limitations/implications

It is not an exhaustive coverage of the learning organization literature. However it offers great research implications where several key concepts can be further explored. For example, is systems thinking really crucial to organizational learning?

Practical implications

Practitioners may find the analysis of the various models in relation to Senge's five disciplines useful, as there are concepts that can be implemented in practice.

Originality/value

It is the amalgamation of several key concepts in the learning organization and the analysis of these concepts in relation to The Fifth Discipline which readers will be familiar and able to identify with. People who are interested in pursuing research in the learning organization will find this paper handy as it provides a useful overview of the subject.

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The Learning Organization, vol. 12 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0969-6474

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Publication date: 14 May 2003

Jonathan L Gifford

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Flexible Urban Transportation
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ISBN: 978-0-08-050656-2

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Publication date: 1 July 1912

The official supervision which may be exercised over the food supply of England and Wales, so far as its quality and wholesomeness is concerned, falls under the following heads:—

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The official supervision which may be exercised over the food supply of England and Wales, so far as its quality and wholesomeness is concerned, falls under the following heads:—

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British Food Journal, vol. 14 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 March 1997

Karl M. Wiig

Leaders of successful organizations are consistently searching for better ways to improve performance and results. Frequent disappointments with past management initiatives have…

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Leaders of successful organizations are consistently searching for better ways to improve performance and results. Frequent disappointments with past management initiatives have motivated managers to gain new understandings into the underlying, but complex mechanisms ‐ such as knowledge ‐ which govern an enterprise’s effectiveness. Knowledge Management, far from being a management “fad”, is broad, multi‐dimensional and covers most aspects of the enterprise’s activities. To be competitive and successful, experience shows that enterprises must create and sustain a balanced intellectual capital portfolio. They need to set broad priorities and integrate the goals of managing intellectual capital and the corresponding effective knowledge processes. This requires systematic Knowledge Management. With knowledge as the major driving force behind the “economics of ideas”, we can expect that the emphasis on knowledge creation, development, organization and leverage will continue to be the prime focus for improving society.

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Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 1 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1367-3270

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