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Publication date: 1 April 2004

Mike Rake

The author, chairman of one of the biggest international accounting firms in the world, takes a worried look ahead at 2004. He predicts that greater regulation could bring as many…

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The author, chairman of one of the biggest international accounting firms in the world, takes a worried look ahead at 2004. He predicts that greater regulation could bring as many problems as benefits around the world.

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Balance Sheet, vol. 12 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-7967

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Publication date: 7 August 2009

Nicholas O'Regan and Abby Ghobadian

British Telecom (BT) has achieved a classic turnaround that involved divestment and efficiency drives. This interview with Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT, sheds light on BT's past…

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British Telecom (BT) has achieved a classic turnaround that involved divestment and efficiency drives. This interview with Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT, sheds light on BT's past development and future growth.

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The paper takes the form of an interview with Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT.

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The interview outlines a number of important factors in running a resilient and effective global company such as culture and common values, leadership at board and executive levels, remuneration transparency, skills, technology, and corporate governance.

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The paper provides insight into the strategic journey of BT.

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Journal of Strategy and Management, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1755-425X

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Publication date: 1 April 2004

Robert Bruce

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Balance Sheet, vol. 12 no. 2
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ISSN: 0965-7967

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Publication date: 31 December 2000

Kevin Thomson and Lorrie Hecker

It takes more to succeed in today’s global marketplace. More responsiveness. More flexibility. More commitment. To compete, organisations need their staff to understand business…

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It takes more to succeed in today’s global marketplace. More responsiveness. More flexibility. More commitment. To compete, organisations need their staff to understand business goals and brand values and feel personally committed to their achievement. To flourish, they need their people to act as champions of their business and their brand, both internally and with customers and other external stakeholders. Many businesses realise this and have started talking about staff “buy‐in”. Yet they have failed to achieve the results they need. This paper explores what staff buy‐in really means and how it ultimately affects customers, using the findings of two major surveys commissioned by MCA and conducted by MORI. It also looks at the managerial implications of new approaches to employee communication and internal marketing and the potential impact on business performance.

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Journal of Communication Management, vol. 5 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-254X

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Publication date: 5 October 2017

Louise Gillies and Helen M. Burrows

Families conduct their affairs through processes that are built upon those of previous generations and also social capacities such as culture, class, oppression and poverty. The…

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Families conduct their affairs through processes that are built upon those of previous generations and also social capacities such as culture, class, oppression and poverty. The media has played a part in stereotyping the lower classes through their portrayal on the television programmes such as Benefits Street and Jeremy Kyle and tabloid newspaper stories. This chapter is a case study of two families who are at the opposing ends of the social scale, the Horrobin/Carter and Aldridge families. The two families were chosen due to them being linked by marriage in the younger generation. Through the use of genograms, we explore how the families differ in their attitudes towards relationships within their individual families, and also how they relate to each other as separate family groups. Despite the many differences, there are also a number of key similarities, particularly regarding the key females in the families, in terms of family background and snobbery. We also show that there is little family loyalty in the more privileged family and a power differential between the two families (oppressors vs. oppressed) in terms of the crimes committed.

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Custard, Culverts and Cake
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-285-7

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The Canterbury Sound in Popular Music: Scene, Identity and Myth
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-490-3

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Publication date: 8 November 2019

Peter Simon Sapaty

The chapter offers complete details of the latest SGL version particularly suitable for dealing with large security systems and emerging crisis situations. It describes main types…

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The chapter offers complete details of the latest SGL version particularly suitable for dealing with large security systems and emerging crisis situations. It describes main types of constants representing information, physical matter or both and five very different and specific types of variables operating in fully distributed spaces and even being mobile themselves when serving spreading algorithms. Also given full repertoire of the language operations, called rules, which can be arbitrarily nested and carry different navigation, creation, processing, assignment, control, verification, context, exchange, transference, echoing, timing and other loads. The rules equally operate with local and remote values, process both, matter and distributed networked knowledge, and can express active graph-based patterns navigating, matching, conquering and changing distributed environments. Elementary programming examples in SGL are also provided.

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Complexity in International Security
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-716-5

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Publication date: 28 January 2019

Bob Langert

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The Battle to Do Good
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ISBN: 978-1-78756-815-0

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Publication date: 1 July 2002

Phil Green and Mike Sleight

People opt for training to solve problems. Performance factors include tools and equipment, and organisational structure. Man’s progress in society has been shaped by a succession…

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People opt for training to solve problems. Performance factors include tools and equipment, and organisational structure. Man’s progress in society has been shaped by a succession of important utilities: water, gas, electricity and the telephone, followed by an innovative range of practical appliances. Now, we are on the threshold of the information utility. With the Internet it was possible to create a World Wide Web. We are moving inexorably from headheld to handheld information, and to a new concept that has attracted the soubriquet “m‐learning” or “m‐support”. A new age is upon us: the age of the handheld device. By holding information, learning and performance support in the palm of your hand and retrieving it efficiently, you no longer need to recall many facts, just learn to learn, access and apply knowledge.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 34 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 1 February 2000

Eric Winter

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Reference Reviews, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0950-4125

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