Martin Caraher, Paul Dixon, Roy Carr‐Hill, Paul Hayton, Hilary McGough and Lisa Bird
Investigates 1999/2000 health promotion activities in prisons in England and Wales and documents the range and quality of health promotion occurring in prisons, against which…
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Investigates 1999/2000 health promotion activities in prisons in England and Wales and documents the range and quality of health promotion occurring in prisons, against which future activity might be measured. Finds that health promotion is under‐resourced and the concept and practice poorly understood. Health needs assessment tended to be analysis of and for health‐care services and, except in a minority of cases, did not include consultation with staff, prisoners or their families. Where responsibility was shared and the work based on multi‐disciplinary approaches, it seems more likely to have been reported accurately as health promotion activity. The official policy of a healthy settings/whole prison approach was not understood by many and its application was limited. The findings have informed the development of a new health promotion strategy for the prison service in England and Wales.
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Developments in the global iron ore market
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB211064
ISSN: 2633-304X
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When organisations such as manufacturers and national and local institutions make a purchase the various decisions involved are frequently made by a group of people rather than…
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When organisations such as manufacturers and national and local institutions make a purchase the various decisions involved are frequently made by a group of people rather than one individual, so that we can say that such industrial type customers have within them 'buying units' or 'buying centres'. The size and composition of the units will vary depending on a host of factors—for a discussion of these see references (10, and (11). Within each unit there is usually a professional element, particularly in the case of medium and large companies, and this is generally referred to as the procurement function in the United States, and as the buying or purchasing function in the United Kingdom.
WITH tailless aeroplanes, all known aerodynamic control devices possess the peculiarity of not only producing moments about one axis, but of also causing secondary moments about…
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WITH tailless aeroplanes, all known aerodynamic control devices possess the peculiarity of not only producing moments about one axis, but of also causing secondary moments about one or both of the other axes. Horizontal controllers forming part of the wing near the tips in wings having sweep‐back or sweep‐forward, for instance, do not produce rolling moments alone, when differ‐entially deflected; they also cause yawing and pitching moments. Similarly, wing‐tip disk rudders operated on such wings not only produce yawing moments, but may cause rolling and even pitching moments.
The purpose of this study is to: discover the nature and extent of the use of graphs by the top 100 companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE), Turkey; compare patterns…
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The purpose of this study is to: discover the nature and extent of the use of graphs by the top 100 companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE), Turkey; compare patterns of graphic disclosure across industries; and assess the correlation between graphic disclosure and the variables: open‐to‐public ratio, firm performance, firm size, and firm profitability.
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The methodology of the study is content analysis of annual reports of the corporations listed on the ISE for the year 2006.
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The major findings of the study are as follows. About 75 percent of the companies include graphs in their annual reports. The average number of graphs contained in annual reports is 8.6. Financial companies have the highest graph usage per annual report (10.16). The most widely graphed financial variables are sales and earnings; however, earnings per share and dividend per share variables are graphed by none of the companies. There is no correlation between graphic disclosure and the variables open‐to‐public ratio and firm performance. There is a significant positive correlation between graphic disclosure and the variables firm size and profitability.
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The findings of this paper are based on the study conducted on the ISE. The results are not generaliseable to non‐listed companies.
Originality/value
The paper is one of the rare graphical studies conducted in developing countries. Moreover, the study is the first of its kind that has ever been conducted in Turkey.
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Uwe Faesel and Roy Hill
Examines the development of Poland′s fruit industry up to 1990,followed by the situation since that year, in which legislative reformswere introduced, mainly to break up state…
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Examines the development of Poland′s fruit industry up to 1990, followed by the situation since that year, in which legislative reforms were introduced, mainly to break up state monopolies and to privatize state assets. Analyses the Polish fruit industry in the light of the resultant shift from a sellers′ to a buyers′ market, discussing the grower, wholesaling, processing and exporting sectors, and finally the role of marketing in exporting. Conducts a SWOT analysis of the industry, as a result of which makes recommendations for: increasing growers′ influence on exports; introducing a new wholesale marketing system; improving processing equipment; rationalizing exportprocedures to the advantage of domestic competition. Sees the current transport and communication set‐ups as significant problems. Concludes that, although the temptation is to follow the capitalist route and opt for the smaller enterprise as an exporting unit, the old Communist‐style large state enterprise is still the ideal vehicle for selling fruit of Poland′s calibre abroad.
Roy Staughton, Nick Kinnie, Rebecca Smith and Huw Davies
Manufacturing strategy needs to be appropriate to the needs of theorganization acceptable to all employees, and capable of subsequentrenewal by management. To achieve this…
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Manufacturing strategy needs to be appropriate to the needs of the organization acceptable to all employees, and capable of subsequent renewal by management. To achieve this, attention needs to be paid not only to the objectives and framework of the manufacturing strategy, but also to the processes through which the manufacturing strategy is formulated, implemented, and adapted. Argues that these processes are essentially iterative passing through a series of cycles in response to a changing set of conditions. Whilst education and training issues are central to these processes, little research has been carried out. Puts forward one possible approach to dealing with these issues where education and training are handled by analysts external to the organization. This temporary resource or “locum” team works with the organization to achieve the ultimate aim of managers being able to formulate, implement, and review their own manufacturing strategy. This is achieved by helping managers to formulate a manufacturing strategy, providing guidance to them to implement the strategy and setting up monitoring and review mechanisms.
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Nikolaos Apostolopoulos, Vanessa Ratten, Stavros Stavroyiannis, Ilias Makris, Sotiris Apostolopoulos and Panagiotis Liargovas
The COVID-19 crisis has brought to the forefront the importance of rural health enterprises (RHEs), the peculiarity, in these terms, of rural areas, and the impact of rurality on…
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The COVID-19 crisis has brought to the forefront the importance of rural health enterprises (RHEs), the peculiarity, in these terms, of rural areas, and the impact of rurality on health entrepreneurial activities. This paper aims to undertake a literature review regarding RHEs in the EU, identify research gaps and set future research directions.
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A systematic literature review was conducted and the key aspects coded across four thematic areas – after examining 68 papers.
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The findings reveal that more intense research should be conducted across four area which emerged; rural health providers vs urban health providers; RHEs and rural development; RHEs and quality of life; and social RHEs.
Research limitations/implications
Future research avenues were identified and suggestions for further research on RHEs were provided.
Practical implications
The paper provides insights into how rural areas can attract health enterprises and how health enterprises can operate in rural areas.
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This research expands on the limited existing knowledge of RHEs and sets the foundations for further research.