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Publication date: 1 January 2014

Liz Doherty and Ann Norton

The purpose of this paper is to understand how “good” HR practice is characterised in SMEs and what the drivers are for adopting this good practice. The paper also explores…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to understand how “good” HR practice is characterised in SMEs and what the drivers are for adopting this good practice. The paper also explores methods for measuring the impact of HR practice which are helpful and realistic in the context of an SME.

Design/methodology/approach

The research was carried out in one SME, a bakery based in South Yorkshire. It was an action research project which utilised semi-structured interviews, participant observation on the factory floor and analysis of company documentation in the diagnosis phase. In addition, reflections on action interventions have informed the findings, together with post-project, semi-structured interviews with key actors three years after the completion of the project.

Findings

The drivers of good HR practice were found to be size, market position, external “coercive networks”, presenting issues, the ideology of the managing director and the energy of an HR champion. The findings demonstrate that the impact of “good” HR practice can be best evaluated in SMEs through one-shot, cost-based metrics or more strategic qualitative measures.

Originality/value

The paper develops an original model to show the relationship between the drivers, the HR practices adopted and measurable outcomes. This makes an important contribution to the debate about HRM within SMEs and it has practical value for informing the development of good HR practice in SMEs.

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Employee Relations, vol. 36 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0142-5455

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Publication date: 22 December 2008

Jessica Silbey

In the 1988 film The Accused, a young woman named Sarah Tobias is gang raped on a pinball machine by three men while a crowded bar watches. The rapists cut a deal with the…

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In the 1988 film The Accused, a young woman named Sarah Tobias is gang raped on a pinball machine by three men while a crowded bar watches. The rapists cut a deal with the prosecutor. Sarah's outrage at the deal convinces the assistant district attorney to prosecute members of the crowd that cheered on and encouraged the rape. This film shows how Sarah Tobias, a woman with little means and less experience, intuits that according to the law rape victims are incredible witnesses to their own victimization. The film goes on to critique what the “right” kind of witness would be. The Accused, therefore, is also about the relationship between witnessing and testimony, between seeing and the representation of that which was seen. It is about the power and responsibility of being a witness in law – one who sees and credibly attests to the truth of their vision – as it is also about what it means to bear witness to film – what can we know from watching movies.

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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84855-378-1

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Publication date: 13 March 2007

V.K. Gupta, N. Kwatra and S. Ray

This paper aims to explore the capabilities of artificial neural network (ANN) for predicting the creep response of a rotating Al‐SiCP composite disc operating at elevated…

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Purpose

This paper aims to explore the capabilities of artificial neural network (ANN) for predicting the creep response of a rotating Al‐SiCP composite disc operating at elevated temperature.

Design/methodology/approach

Mathematical modeling of the steady state creep behavior, as described by Sherby's law, of a rotating disc made of isotropic aluminium‐silicon carbide particulate composite has been carried out. The creep response has been calculated for various combinations of particle size, particle content and temperature by extracting creep parameters from the limited experimental creep data available on similar material. The results thus obtained are used to train the ANN based on back propagation learning algorithm with particle size, particle content and temperature as input and stress and strain rates as output parameters. The trained network is used to predict the stresses and strain rates in the disc for the data set not covered in the training of network. The predictions obtained from the ANN model have been compared with the corresponding analytical values.

Findings

A nice agreement between the ANN predicted and analytical values of the creep stresses and strain rates has been observed.

Originality/value

ANN can be used as a reliable tool for investigating the effect of operating temperature and, reinforcement‐size and ‐content, on the creep behavior of a rotating composite disc to reach at optimum design code.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 24 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Publication date: 27 June 2020

Maria Esther Medalla, Kafferine Yamagishi, Ann Myril Tiu, Reciel Ann Tanaid, Dharyll Prince Mariscal Abellana, Shirley Ann Caballes, Eula Margareth Jabilles, Celbert Himang, Miriam Bongo and Lanndon Ocampo

Due to the growing dominance of the millennials in the secondhand clothing (SHC) market, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of their SHC buying behavior. Despite such…

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Purpose

Due to the growing dominance of the millennials in the secondhand clothing (SHC) market, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of their SHC buying behavior. Despite such significance, it has yet to be explored in the current literature. To address such a gap, this paper aims to explore the antecedents of the SHC buying behavior of millennials.

Design/methodology/approach

A purposive survey is conducted to establish relationships between the antecedents. As such, the interrelationships of the antecedents are modeled using the interpretative structural modeling (ISM) approach.

Findings

Results reveal that SHC antecedents exhibit several characteristics depending upon their characterization of being driving, dependence, linkage and autonomous variables.

Originality/value

This work pioneers the identification of SHC buying behavior antecedents specifically for the millennial market, as well as in the provision of a holistic analysis of the complex contextual relationships of these antecedents. The findings of this work provide insights that are crucial to the extant literature in developing theoretical frameworks and paradigms that help in understanding the dynamics of the SHC buying behavior. Moreover, such results are beneficial to marketing managers and practitioners in innovating their strategies to capture the millennial market better.

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Journal of Modelling in Management, vol. 15 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5664

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Publication date: 1 June 1997

Eric Magnuson

Approaches to the sociology of culture have largely been constituted around the long tradition of functionalism in sociology. This has hampered the field greatly. Among other…

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Approaches to the sociology of culture have largely been constituted around the long tradition of functionalism in sociology. This has hampered the field greatly. Among other shortcomings, this intellectual foundation has led to a limited understanding of ideology and civil society, a conservative political orientation and an overdeterministic view of social action and the actor. In this paper, I explore and then apply a new approach to the sociology of culture, one that attempts to conceptualize more robustly the dynamics of ideology, ideological conflict and civil society. As part of this project, I endeavor to map out a critical cultural perspective that establishes a multidimensional understanding of the contingency of social action.

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International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 17 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-333X

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Publication date: 15 December 2016

Mary Ann Glynn, Thomas B. Lawrence, Renate E. Meyer, William Ocasio, M. Paola Ometto and Jean-François Soublière

The closing plenary of the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference offered an opportunity to reflect on the current status of the institutional perspective and the direction it may…

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The closing plenary of the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference offered an opportunity to reflect on the current status of the institutional perspective and the direction it may take in the future. Our four panelists, Mary Ann Glynn, Tom Lawrence, Renate Meyer, and William Ocasio, reflected on how institutionalists can matter. In a first conversation, Renate and William discussed how institutionalists can matter to different audiences, and whether or not the desire to matter should drive research. In a second conversation, Tom proposed problem-driven research as a means of developing relevant theoretical insights. In a third and final conversation, Mary Ann encouraged us to reconsider the role of institutions and culture in shaping the collective rationality of actors and to reveal what matters in everyday occurrences.

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Publication date: 1 June 2010

Pratesh Jayaswal, S.N. Verma and A.K. Wadhwani

The objective of this paper is to provide a brief review of recent developments in the area of applications of ANN, Fuzzy Logic, and Wavelet Transform in fault diagnosis. The…

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Purpose

The objective of this paper is to provide a brief review of recent developments in the area of applications of ANN, Fuzzy Logic, and Wavelet Transform in fault diagnosis. The purpose of this work is to provide an approach for maintenance engineers for online fault diagnosis through the development of a machine condition‐monitoring system.

Design/methodology/approach

A detailed review of previous work carried out by several researchers and maintenance engineers in the area of machine‐fault signature‐analysis is performed. A hybrid expert system is developed using ANN, Fuzzy Logic and Wavelet Transform. A Knowledge Base (KB) is created with the help of fuzzy membership function. The triangular membership function is used for the generation of the knowledge base. The fuzzy‐BP approach is used successfully by using LR‐type fuzzy numbers of wavelet‐packet decomposition features.

Findings

The development of a hybrid system, with the use of LR‐type fuzzy numbers, ANN, Wavelets decomposition, and fuzzy logic is found. Results show that this approach can successfully diagnose the bearing condition and that accuracy is good compared with conventionally EBPNN‐based fault diagnosis.

Practical implications

The work presents a laboratory investigation carried out through an experimental set‐up for the study of mechanical faults, mainly related to the rolling element bearings.

Originality/value

The main contribution of the work has been the development of an expert system, which identifies the fault accurately online. The approaches can now be extended to the development of a fault diagnostics system for other mechanical faults such as gear fault, coupling fault, misalignment, looseness, and unbalance, etc.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 16 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 1 January 1972

PUBLIC RELATION IS STILL clouded in mystique in the eyes of many managements—a concept they do not understand fully and which therefore frightens or baffles them to varying…

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PUBLIC RELATION IS STILL clouded in mystique in the eyes of many managements—a concept they do not understand fully and which therefore frightens or baffles them to varying degrees.

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Industrial Management, vol. 72 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-6929

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Publication date: 1 March 1974

Tom Schultheiss, Lorraine Hartline, Jean Mandeberg, Pam Petrich and Sue Stern

The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the…

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The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the RSR review column, “Recent Reference Books,” by Frances Neel Cheney. “Reference Books in Print” includes all additional books received prior to the inclusion deadline established for this issue. Appearance in this column does not preclude a later review in RSR. Publishers are urged to send a copy of all new reference books directly to RSR as soon as published, for immediate listing in “Reference Books in Print.” Reference books with imprints older than two years will not be included (with the exception of current reprints or older books newly acquired for distribution by another publisher). The column shall also occasionally include library science or other library related publications of other than a reference character.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 17 April 2007

Chung‐Ching Chiu, Chih‐Hung Tsai and Yi‐Chan Chung

In the early industrial age which with high intensity of machine and labor, using financial measurement index was good enough to tie in company’s mechanization and philosophy of…

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In the early industrial age which with high intensity of machine and labor, using financial measurement index was good enough to tie in company’s mechanization and philosophy of management and been in efficiency. But being comply with “New Economic age,” a new economic environment is full of knowledge and information, the enterprise competition had changed from tangible assets, plants to intangible innovation ability of knowledge. As recognizing the new tendency by enterprise, they value gradually the growth and influence from learning. Practice of organization learning not only needs firm structure and be in coordination with both hardware and software, but also needs an affect measurement model to offer enterprise to estimate learning performance. It’s a good instrument of financial performance measure mold in the past years, But it’s for measuring the past, couldn’t formulate enterprise trend to future, hard to estimate investment for future, such as development of products, organization learning, knowledge management etc, as which intangible assets and knowledge ability just the key factors of being win around competition environment in the future. In 1992, Kaplan and Norton brought up Balance Scorecard (BSC) on Harvard Business Review, as an instrument helping enterprise to measure performance, which is being considered to be a most influence management instrument. It added non‐financial index such as customer, internal process and learning growth besides traditional financial index, as offering enterprise an index to measure and manage intangible assets and intellectual property. As being aware of organization learning is hard to be ignored in the new economic age, this research is based on learning and growth of BSC, and citing one national material company try to let the most difficult measurement performance of organization learning, to be estimate through BSC, analyze of factor and individual case, to discuss the company how to make the related strategy and vision of organization learning to develop learning and growth of the structure of BSC, subject the matter of out put factors to be discussed, and measure the outcomes as a result of research. The research affect offers (1) the base implement procedure of carrying out BSC; (2) the reference of formulating measurement index while enterprise using BSC to estimate performance of organization learning; (3) the possibility bottleneck maybe forcing while carrying out BSC, to be an improvement or preventive for enterprise.

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Asian Journal on Quality, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1598-2688

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