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Publication date: 1 December 1994

Gregg Tong

Presents the winning product development teams from the 1994American Product Excellence (APEX) Awards. Describes the secrets ofsuccess which includes taking time to understand…

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Presents the winning product development teams from the 1994 American Product Excellence (APEX) Awards. Describes the secrets of success which includes taking time to understand customer needs and being “right‐to‐market” instead of “first‐to‐market”. An overall award was presented to the team that developed the IBM Thinkpad series of mobile computers.

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World Class Design to Manufacture, vol. 1 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-3074

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Publication date: 1 February 1994

Gregg Tong

Reports on the Management Roundtable′s Second Annual Congress onEnovironmentally‐consciuous Design and Manufacturing: From BestPractices to Profit held in Dearborn, Michigan, USA…

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Reports on the Management Roundtable′s Second Annual Congress on Enovironmentally‐consciuous Design and Manufacturing: From Best Practices to Profit held in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. States that environmental issues are not a fad, and that environmental factors should be integrated into the manufacture and design of products. Investigates the key issues in the implementation of a corporate environmental programme including cost and time. Examines a few working examples of corporate environmental programmes and concludes that these work. Suggests that implementing such programmes is the way forward.

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World Class Design to Manufacture, vol. 1 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-3074

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Publication date: 1 October 1994

Gregg Tong

Explores the issues surrounding process improvements in thesoftware development function of product development, an areatraditionally neglected by corporate quality programmes…

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Explores the issues surrounding process improvements in the software development function of product development, an area traditionally neglected by corporate quality programmes. Explains the need for implementation of software process improvement, the current state of such initiatives in industry, and cites a case study of successful implementation at Hewlett Packard. Provides guidelines on identifying the need for such a programme in an organization, information on Carnegie Mellon University′s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and instructions for receiving additional information.

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World Class Design to Manufacture, vol. 1 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-3074

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Publication date: 1 June 1994

Gregg Tong and Brian Fitzgerald

Presents samples of ideas and examples of concurrent engineeringdiscussed at Management Roundtable′s Seventh International Conference onDesign for Manufacturability, held in…

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Presents samples of ideas and examples of concurrent engineering discussed at Management Roundtable′s Seventh International Conference on Design for Manufacturability, held in Orlando, Florida, USA.

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World Class Design to Manufacture, vol. 1 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-3074

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Publication date: 9 August 2021

Seung-Eun Lee

This study aims to explore whether fabric contents, specifically cotton and polyester, possess particular personality dimensions, as posited by Aaker (1997). The author examined…

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Purpose

This study aims to explore whether fabric contents, specifically cotton and polyester, possess particular personality dimensions, as posited by Aaker (1997). The author examined both explicit (conscious, deliberate) and implicit (unconscious, automatic) perceptions of brand personality traits of cotton and polyester.

Design/methodology/approach

The convenience sample of this study included 51 students from different merchandising classes in a Midwestern university. Participants were first directed to the multidimensional implicit association test (md-IAT) and their implicit perceptions were measured for the content of the two fabrics (cotton and polyester) on five different personality attribute dimensions (sincerity, excitement, competence, sophistication and ruggedness). After the IAT, participants completed the post-IAT survey, including explicit measures of brand personality attributes of cotton and polyester.

Findings

The findings of this study show that fabric contents can be successfully described and differentiated by Aaker’s brand personality dimensions. Compared with polyester, the distinctive brand personality of cotton was the favorable association between cotton and sincerity. This association was significantly higher than all other personality dimensions in both consumers’ implicit and explicit perceptions. Neither cotton nor polyester was significantly associated with the exciting, competent and sophisticated personality dimensions.

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A unique contribution of this study is that it examines implicit perceptions of the brand personality traits of cotton and polyester. The use of the md-IAT in this study allowed the assessment of consumers’ automatic associations with cotton and polyester of which they may not be aware.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 26 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 19 September 2014

Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen and Lasse B. Lien

The relevance of finance for strategy is probably never greater than during a recession. We argue that the strategy literature has been virtually silent on the issue of…

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The relevance of finance for strategy is probably never greater than during a recession. We argue that the strategy literature has been virtually silent on the issue of recessions, and that this constitutes a regrettable sin of omission. Recessions are also periods when the commonly held view of financial markets in the strategy literature – efficient, and therefore strategically irrelevant – is particularly misplaced. A key route to rectify this omission is to focus on how recessions affect investment behavior, and thereby firms’ stocks of assets and capabilities which ultimately will affect competitive outcomes. In the present chapter, we aim to contribute by analyzing how two key aspects of recessions, demand reductions and reductions in credit availability, affect three different types of investments: physical capital, R&D and innovation, and human- and organizational capital. We synthesize and conceptualize insights from finance- and macroeconomics about how recessions affect different types of investments and find that recessions not only affect the level of investment, but also the composition of investments. Some of these effects are quite counterintuitive. For example, investments in R&D are both more and less sensitive to credit constraints than physical capital is, depending on available internal finance. Investments in human capital grow as demand falls, and both R&D and human capital investments show important nonlinearities with respect to changes in demand.

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Finance and Strategy
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78350-493-0

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Publication date: 20 June 2024

Randa Diab-Bahman

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Sustainable Business in the Arab Region: Corporate Social Responsibility vs Culture
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ISBN: 978-1-83549-327-4

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Publication date: 4 May 2021

Angelina Zubac, Marie Dasborough, Kate Hughes, Zhou Jiang, Shelley Kirkpatrick, Maris G. Martinsons, Danielle Tucker and Ofer Zwikael

The aim of this special issue is to better understand the strategy and change interface, in particular, the (sub)processes and cognitions that enable strategies to be successfully…

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The aim of this special issue is to better understand the strategy and change interface, in particular, the (sub)processes and cognitions that enable strategies to be successfully implemented and organizations effectively changed. The ten papers selected for this special issue reflect a range of scholarly traditions and, thus, as our review and integration of the relevant literatures, and our introductions to the ten papers demonstrate, they shed light on the strategy and change interface in starkly different ways. Collectively, the papers give us more insight into the recursive activities, and structural, organizational learning and cognitive mechanisms that are encouraged or deliberately established at organizations to allow their people to successfully implement a strategy and effect change, including achieve greater levels of horizontal alignment. Moreover, they demonstrate the benefits associated with establishing platforms and/or routines designed to overcome decision-makers’ cognitive shortcomings while implementing a strategy or making timely adjustments to it. We conclude our editorial by identifying some yet unanswered questions.

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Publication date: 9 March 2015

Roel Pieterman

This paper investigates whether in the case of obesity medicalization implies transforming deviants into patients. First, a brief history is presented of the social construction…

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This paper investigates whether in the case of obesity medicalization implies transforming deviants into patients. First, a brief history is presented of the social construction of obesity as an epidemic. Since the turn of the millennium obesity experts claim that a continuously increasing proportion of the Western population is becoming overweight and that this trend is spreading across the globe. Other claims have been made as well, such as that fatter people die younger and add substantially to the cost of health care. Counterclaims have been made too, such as that in Western countries obesity no longer increases and that only extreme obesity increases the risk of dying young.

Furthermore, several explanations for the obesity epidemic are discussed. Public health experts all over the world prefer two explanations that suggest the obesity problem is amenable to intervention. Most basically, it is held that people become overweight because their intake of calories exceeds their expenditure. In addition it is proposed that modern societies are obesogenic, for example, offering food in abundance while removing the need for physical exertion. The first explanation leads to blaming overweight people for their own condition. The second offers opportunities for disciplining the food industry, which following the anti-tobacco movement is labeled “big food.” Especially with regard to individual citizens the conclusion seems warranted that medicalizing fatness adds opportunities for stigmatization and discrimination beyond those offered by conceptions of beauty and fitness. This causes a double bind for governments that want to fight both obesity and stigmatization.

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Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Reflections on Methods
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78441-854-0

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Publication date: 1 December 1998

Usha C.V. Haley and Linda Low

The Singaporean government has enjoyed an astounding record of success based on its ability to attract MNCs and corresponding capital. Government‐led development has involved…

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The Singaporean government has enjoyed an astounding record of success based on its ability to attract MNCs and corresponding capital. Government‐led development has involved crafting a culture that will adapt to MNCs’ needs and to fast‐changing global environments in a restructured economy. The socially re‐engineered Singaporean culture appears hierarchical, disciplined, authoritarian and a showcase for technocratic management. Yet, further crafting of the Singaporean culture along the top‐down, technocratic model seems to result in a diminishing ability to produce creative, innovative and productive workers for the knowledge economy and the MNCs that dominate it. The authors sketch the ideological bases for Singapore’s crafted culture and explore Singapore’s distinctive characteristics as well as governmental policies that have molded this culture. They proceed to highlight specific governmental policies that are designing Singapore for the restructured, globalizing and fast‐changing knowledge economy; and discuss the competing model offered by Taiwan. Finally, the authors propose some implications for civic society and cultural change in Singapore.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 11 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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