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Publication date: 1 February 1998

Ron A. Wolf and David T. Gering

Very few companies operate with clearly identified strategies for reaching long‐term goals, yet strategic thinking and planning offer businesses abundant opportunities for…

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Very few companies operate with clearly identified strategies for reaching long‐term goals, yet strategic thinking and planning offer businesses abundant opportunities for success. They serve as a road map for navigating in today's competitive and rapidly changing business environment. They help people act before problems crop up and offer the best hope for companies that want to make the maximum use of their time, money, and personnel resources. Carefully conceived strategies help position companies to outperform the competition, understand prospect and customer needs, provide quality products and services, improve morale, and develop personnel. Yet far too many companies seem to stumble along without well‐defined action plans for the future.

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Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 19 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0275-6668

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Publication date: 30 November 2018

Heloisa Pait

This chapter introduces the important connections between media, democracy, and development in Brazil. Brazilian thought has relied heavily on conceptual oppositions in attempts…

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This chapter introduces the important connections between media, democracy, and development in Brazil. Brazilian thought has relied heavily on conceptual oppositions in attempts to understand the country, as if there were something mysteriously contradictory in our culture and history, forever set on a rift between modernity and tradition. However convincingly described, the origin of such oppositions has never been fully explained. Introducing media history and theory into this discussion, we present a material dichotomy that illuminates the more abstract and cultural explanations of our particular history. We look at the region of Minas Geraes, where a sophisticated and diverse culture developed after the gold rush in the eighteenth century, in the Americas, and contrast such cultural achievements with the insurmountable difficulties in establishing a compatible written culture, primarily due to the prohibition of printing in the colony. We take note of the particular experience of the Conversos in Brazil, Jews who adopted Christianity in the shadow of the Portuguese Inquisition, as key to understand our ambivalent relationship to the written word and to knowledge. We describe commercial and cultural networks and contrast them with the paucity of media networks, including those of books and mail, domestic and international. This material disconnect, constitutive of colonial times in general, was particularly important during the formative years of a national market and identity and continues to resonate in the present.

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Publication date: 1 February 1993

Rebecca L. Gardner, Ellen Calhoun and Jeanne E. Boyle

In 1990 we compiled an annotated bibliography of official state lists of endangered, threatened, and rare species. In gathering information for that bibliography, which appeared…

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In 1990 we compiled an annotated bibliography of official state lists of endangered, threatened, and rare species. In gathering information for that bibliography, which appeared in Reference Services Review in Spring 1991, we found numerous unofficial sources of state lists, such as those developed by universities, institutes, and Natural Heritage Programs, which also provide valuable information on statuses of endangered, threatened, and rare species. A comprehensive search for unofficial lists results in this second bibliography.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 21 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 January 1980

A highly significant action taken by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, reported elsewhere in this issue, could well result in important advances in surveillance and…

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A highly significant action taken by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, reported elsewhere in this issue, could well result in important advances in surveillance and probably legislative control over enforcement of certain aspects of EEC legislation in the Member‐states. The Minister has sent an urgent request to the Commission in Brussels to dispatch inspectors to each country, including the United Kingdom, to examine and report on the standards of inspection and hygiene with detailed information on how the EEC Directive on Poultry Meat is being implemented. Information of the method of financing the cost of poultrymeat inspection in each country has ben requested. The comprehensive survey is seen as a common approach in this one field. The Minister requested that the results of the inspectors' reports should be available to him and other Member‐states.

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British Food Journal, vol. 82 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 February 1998

David C. Wyld

Narrates the discussion between Juan (a corporate executive of a multinational company) and Audrey (an independent environmental consultant) when they sit next to each other on a…

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Narrates the discussion between Juan (a corporate executive of a multinational company) and Audrey (an independent environmental consultant) when they sit next to each other on a flight. Explains, through the dialogue, some of the environmental pitfalls companies can encounter when basing operations in the USA, such as regulations relating to clean air, clean water, emissions, toxic pollutants, land use restrictions, species protection plans etc.). Makes the point that it is individuals who face civil and criminal penalties for breaking these regulations, not the company. Provides an overview of US environmental regulations and recommends that companies can avoid falling foul of the law through education, training and taking legal advice. Mentions ISO 14000 and 14001 environmental standards as a potential way forward, although they do not yet carry any weight under US law.

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Managerial Law, vol. 40 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

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Publication date: 18 September 2023

John Quin

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ISBN: 978-1-83753-756-3

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Publication date: 1 February 1914

The Annual General Meeting of the Pure Food and Health Society of Great Britain was held at 20, Hanover Square, W., on February 27, the President, Sir PHILIP SASSOON, Bart, M.P.…

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The Annual General Meeting of the Pure Food and Health Society of Great Britain was held at 20, Hanover Square, W., on February 27, the President, Sir PHILIP SASSOON, Bart, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary, Mr. A. E. MOORE, read the following report of the Executive Committee:—

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British Food Journal, vol. 16 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 May 1983

DAVID MARSLAND

It has taken a very long time in Britain for us to acknowledge the seriousness of youth unemployment. It is now nearly a decade since there were clear signs of its scale and…

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It has taken a very long time in Britain for us to acknowledge the seriousness of youth unemployment. It is now nearly a decade since there were clear signs of its scale and structural significance. Yet there are still influential people blandly demanding “real jobs at real wages”, as if by some well‐meaning magic the problem could be wished away. Those who drew attention to the problem in the seventies were routinely criticized from left and from right alike as hysterical pessimists. From the right we were told that recession would fade and that economic recovery would absorb young people in an expanding labour market. On the left it was widely believed, and the belief absurdly persists, that under a sensible government the problem would be easily dealt with by a further straightforward extension of conventional education.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 15 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 1 January 1991

Rebecca L. Gardner, Jeanne E. Boyle and Ellen Calhoun

Following enactment of the federal Endangered Species Act in 1973, a variety of organizations proceeded to establish lists of endangered, threatened, or rare species of wildlife…

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Following enactment of the federal Endangered Species Act in 1973, a variety of organizations proceeded to establish lists of endangered, threatened, or rare species of wildlife that they believed fell within their purview. State lists, as opposed to regional or national lists, are of particular importance because they form a rigorous record of the status of species in small, well‐defined geographic areas. State lists also indicate the development status of legal management efforts in the various states and are, therefore, predictors of how rigorously species variety will be maintained. Online searches of environment, legal, and government indexes (Enviroline, NTIS, Agricola, and others) demonstrated that there is no organized way to identify official state lists and that, in fact, few official lists are cited within the voluminous environment literature.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 19 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 5 August 2022

Matthew Pointon, Geoff Walton, Martin Turner, Michael Lackenby, Jamie Barker and Andrew Wilkinson

This paper intends to explore the relationship between participants' eye fixations (a measure of attention) and durations (a measure of concentration) on areas of interest within…

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Purpose

This paper intends to explore the relationship between participants' eye fixations (a measure of attention) and durations (a measure of concentration) on areas of interest within a range of online articles and their levels of information discernment (a sub-process of information literacy characterising how participants make judgements about information).

Design/methodology/approach

Eye-tracking equipment was used as a proxy measure for reading behaviour by recording eye-fixations, dwell times and regressions in males aged 18–24 (n = 48). Participants' level of information discernment was determined using a quantitative questionnaire.

Findings

Data indicates a relationship between participants' level of information discernment and their viewing behaviours within the articles' area of interest. Those who score highly on an information discernment questionnaire tended to interrogate the online article in a structured and linear way. Those with high-level information discernment are more likely to pay attention to an article's textual and graphical information than those exhibiting low-level information discernment. Conversely, participants with low-level information discernment indicated a lack of curiosity by not interrogating the entire article. They were unsystematic in their saccadic movements spending significantly longer viewing irrelevant areas.

Social implications

The most profound consequence is that those with low-level information discernment, through a lack of curiosity in particular, could base their health, workplace, political or everyday decisions on sub-optimal engagement with and comprehension of information or misinformation (such as fake news).

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Ground-breaking analysis of the relationship between a persons' self-reported level of information literacy (information discernment specifically) and objective measures of reading behaviour.

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Online Information Review, vol. 47 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1468-4527

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