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Publication date: 1 April 1996

David Hole, Jim Marsh and Mike Hudson

Provides details of the case study company’s background and highlights the need for quality of service. Describes in detail the re‐design process and the methodologies used;…

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Provides details of the case study company’s background and highlights the need for quality of service. Describes in detail the re‐design process and the methodologies used; discusses the need to balance hard (re‐engineering) issues with soft (people) ones. Finally, details some of the major benefits gained from this approach to re‐design.

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Logistics Information Management, vol. 9 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0957-6053

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Publication date: 1 July 1998

Clem Tisdell

Outlines the international travels of Clement Allan Tisdell in the period 1965‐1996 and an Australian journey made to Adelaide in 1962 for academic reasons and indicates the…

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Outlines the international travels of Clement Allan Tisdell in the period 1965‐1996 and an Australian journey made to Adelaide in 1962 for academic reasons and indicates the influence of these journeys on his publications, outlook and intellectual evolution. Emphasises how varied the life of an economist can be and the importance of international social contacts for academic development. Because of the extent of his travels, descriptions and analysis of most of his journeys are brief. Consequently, a longer story still remains untold.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 25 no. 6/7/8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 1 May 1983

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of…

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In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

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Management Decision, vol. 21 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 February 1982

Jim Gillies and Arthur Marsh

Since the re‐emergence of picketing as a popular form of protest among strikers in the mid‐1960s, there has been a considerable outcry from the public, press and parliamentarians…

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Since the re‐emergence of picketing as a popular form of protest among strikers in the mid‐1960s, there has been a considerable outcry from the public, press and parliamentarians about the tactics sometimes employed. This protest grew as the nation experienced first the “winter of discontent” embracing the National Health Service strike at the end of 1978 and the road haulage dispute in January 1979, and later national stoppages, both involving picketing, in the engineering and steel industries. There was, it seems, much to complain about; there were too many incidents to add to those earlier sensations of the new picketing era—Roberts Arundel in 1966/67, the Fine Tubes saga of 1970, the “Shrewsbury” flying pickets and the mass miners' blockade of the Saltley coke depot in 1972 and the long running and acrimonious Grunwick affair of 1976.

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Employee Relations, vol. 4 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0142-5455

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Publication date: 22 July 2024

Jim Bowden, Esra Abdelzaher and Bacem A. Essam

This chapter discusses how immigrants adopt translanguaging practices (i.e., the flexible use of linguistic resources by bilinguals or multilinguals to make sense of their worlds…

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This chapter discusses how immigrants adopt translanguaging practices (i.e., the flexible use of linguistic resources by bilinguals or multilinguals to make sense of their worlds inside and outside classrooms) to scaffold learning, clarify concepts, facilitate communication, and promote academic understanding. Even inside the campus, outside the classroom discourse, translanguaging can be used to navigate bureaucratic systems, such as filling out forms, engaging in social gatherings, or accessing library services, that require proficiency in the language of the host country. Whereas the academic context is not always a positive space for translanguaging practices, everyday communications usually create a positive space for translanguaging. This chapter discusses translanguaging practices in academic and nonacademic contexts. We also provide an overview of the negative pedagogical attitudes toward translanguaging in higher education institutions, where challenges commonly faced by mobile and immobile non-native English scholars pertain to strict strategies. Reflections on the restrictive publishing policies that constitute a negative translanguaging space, acceptable and nonacceptable translanguaging practices in academic publications and the role of translanguaging facilitators, such as artificial intelligence (AI) applications, are also deliberated based on the field experience of a professional copy editor.

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Publication date: 21 June 2013

Leslie P. Willcocks, Will Venters and Edgar A. Whitley

Although cloud computing has been heralded as driving the innovation agenda, there is growing evidence that cloud computing is actually a “slow train coming”. The purpose of this…

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Purpose

Although cloud computing has been heralded as driving the innovation agenda, there is growing evidence that cloud computing is actually a “slow train coming”. The purpose of this paper is to seek to understand the factors that drive and inhibit the adoption of cloud computing, particularly in relation to its use for innovative practices.

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The paper draws on a composite research base including two detailed surveys and interviews with 56 participants in the cloud supply chain undertaken between 2010 and 2013. The insights from this data are presented in relation to set of antecedents to innovation and a cloud sourcing model of collaborative innovation.

Findings

The paper finds that while some features of cloud computing will hasten the adoption of cloud, and its use for innovative purposes by the enterprise, there are also clear challenges that need to be addressed before cloud can be adopted successfully. Interestingly, the analysis highlights that many of these challenges arise from the technological nature of cloud computing itself.

Research limitations/implications

The research highlights a series of factors that need to be better understood for the maximum benefit from cloud computing to be achieved. Further research is needed to assess the best responses to these challenges.

Practical implications

The research suggests that enterprises need to undertake a number of steps for the full benefits of cloud computing to be achieved. It suggests that collaborative innovation is not necessarily an immediate consequence of adopting cloud computing.

Originality/value

The paper draws on an extensive research base to provide empirically informed analysis of the complexities of adopting cloud computing for innovation.

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Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1753-8297

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Publication date: 1 June 1989

S. Tung

Considers the main benefit of building indexes for a dBASE database– speed and performance of retrieval – and the fields dBASEcan index on. Suggests tips for building up indexes…

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Considers the main benefit of building indexes for a dBASE database – speed and performance of retrieval – and the fields dBASE can index on. Suggests tips for building up indexes: character field length, fields with upper and lower case, two character field indexing, numeric fields, character and numeric fields, date fields, character and date fields, and date fields in reverse chronological order.

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OCLC Micro, vol. 5 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 8756-5196

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Publication date: 1 March 2004

CHRIS MUNDY

There are a number of trends clearly detectable in the UK markets that have the potential to change radically the approach of major and medium sized companies to insurance…

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There are a number of trends clearly detectable in the UK markets that have the potential to change radically the approach of major and medium sized companies to insurance. Although some of these have been caused by the substantial increases in premiums triggered by the recent hard market, there are clear signs that these trends are becoming institutionalized, and are thus likely to continue despite any subsequent softening of the market.

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The Journal of Risk Finance, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1526-5943

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Publication date: 30 November 2011

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Louise Seamster

This essay tackles the Obama “phenomenon,” from his candidacy to his election, as a manifestation of the new “color-blind racism” that has characterized U.S. racial politics in…

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This essay tackles the Obama “phenomenon,” from his candidacy to his election, as a manifestation of the new “color-blind racism” that has characterized U.S. racial politics in the post-civil rights era. Rather than symbolizing the “end of race,” or indeed a “miracle,” Obama's election is a predictable result of contemporary U.S. electoral politics. In fact, Obama is a middle-of-the-road Democrat whose policies since taking office have been almost perfectly in line with his predecessors, especially in terms of his failure to improve the lot of blacks and other minorities. In this essay, I review the concept of color-blind racism and its application to the Obama phenomenon. I also revisit some of my past predictions for Obama's presidency and evaluate their accuracy halfway through his term. Finally, I offer suggestions for constructing a genuine social movement to push Obama and future politicians to provide real, progressive “change we can believe in.”

This chapter is based on a chapter I added for the third edition of my book, Racism without Racists. Louise Seamster, a wonderful graduate student at Duke, helped me update some material, locate new sources, and rework some sections, as well as abridge some of the many footnotes (interested readers can consult the chapter). I kept the first person to maintain the more direct and engaged tone of the original piece and because the ideas (the good, the bad, and the ugly ones) in the chapter are mine, and thus, I wish to remain entirely responsible for them.

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Rethinking Obama
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-911-1

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Publication date: 1 June 1985

The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…

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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.

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Management Decision, vol. 23 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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