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Publication date: 1 March 1997

Stephen T. Margulis, Jaideep Motwani and Ashok Kumar

The article describes the tiffin carriers of Bombay (Mumbai), India, who pick‐up and deliver 200,000 hot lunches within a 3‐hour window. This business demonstrates the influence…

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The article describes the tiffin carriers of Bombay (Mumbai), India, who pick‐up and deliver 200,000 hot lunches within a 3‐hour window. This business demonstrates the influence of culture and geography (urban infrastructure) on organizational structure, employee behavior, and the emergence and success of a logistical system. The organization's relatively uncommon conjoined‐structure logistical system is technologically and communicationally unsophisticated by western standards, but appears to be highly efficient and effective. Organizational structure, and functioning (personnel practices, employee behavior), are traced to national and local Indian ethos and cultural characteristics, particularly power distance and uncertainty avoidance.

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International Journal of Commerce and Management, vol. 7 no. 3/4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1056-9219

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Publication date: 1 December 1997

James J. Jiang, Jaideep Motwani and Stephen T. Margulis

In order to capitalize on the various technical and behavioural skills needed for a project, system development activities frequently are performed by teams. By surveying 239…

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In order to capitalize on the various technical and behavioural skills needed for a project, system development activities frequently are performed by teams. By surveying 239 information systems (IS) professionals, reports how IS managers, project leaders, and system analysts evaluate the importance of six criteria for determining the effectiveness of an IS team project. Results show that there is a significant difference among the IS professionals. IS managers give more weight to the amount of work a team produced, adherence to schedule, and adherence to budget than do project leaders and system analysts. Results indicate that all IS professionals report that they regard the quality of work produced by the team as the most critical criterion.

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Team Performance Management: An International Journal, vol. 3 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-7592

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Publication date: 1 July 1985

Some controversy has been stirred up by the conclusion, reached in the BOSTI report on office design and productivity, that design has a calculable dollar premium. In response to…

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Some controversy has been stirred up by the conclusion, reached in the BOSTI report on office design and productivity, that design has a calculable dollar premium. In response to Peter Ellis's detailed, point by point analysis of the report (Vol 3/No 1/January) the joint authors have made an equally detailed rebuttal.

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Facilities, vol. 3 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-2772

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Publication date: 1 October 1984

Energy efficiency information centre. With major support from the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency Office, the Building Centre in London's Store Street is to house an…

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Energy efficiency information centre. With major support from the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency Office, the Building Centre in London's Store Street is to house an energy efficiency centre—a joint venture between the office and trade associations and fuel industries. To open in mid‐October, it will take the form of a regularly updated exhibition area with information officers to answer day‐to‐day queries and professional consultants available, by appointment, to deal with specific technical problems.

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Facilities, vol. 2 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-2772

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Purpose

Aboriginal people across Australia have diverse practices, beliefs and knowledges based on thousands of generations of managing and protecting their lands (Country). The intimate relationship Aboriginal people have with their Country is explored in this chapter because such knowledge is important for building insight into the relationship between social and ecological systems. Often in research Aboriginal views have been marginalised from discussions focused on their lands to the detriment of ecosystems and human health. This chapter aims to understand if such marginalisation is evident in Western human–nature relationship discourses.

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This chapter provides a critical literature review which examines whether Aboriginal people’s diverse understanding of their ecosystems have been incorporated into human–nature theories using the biophilia hypothesis as a starting point. Other concepts explored include solastalgia, topophilia and place.

Findings

Critiques of these terminologies in the context of Aboriginal people’s connection to Country are limited but such incorporation is viewed in the chapter as a possible mechanism for better understanding human’s connection to nature. The review identified that Aboriginal people’s relationship to Country seems to be underrepresented in the human–nature theory literature.

Value

This chapter emphasises that the integration of Aboriginal perspectives into research, ecological management and policy can provide better insight into the interrelationships between social and ecological systems.

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Ecological Health: Society, Ecology and Health
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78190-323-0

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Publication date: 1 February 1999

Carroll Underwood Stephens and Anthony T. Cobb

Organizational development has begun to incorporate research findings from organizational justice into its own intervention technology. Because perceptions of fairness can…

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Organizational development has begun to incorporate research findings from organizational justice into its own intervention technology. Because perceptions of fairness can facilitate change success, it is quite natural to do so. Business ethicists are concerned, however, that such technology is aimed more at making change “look fair” than being fair. We label these two perspectives the “technical” and “philosophical” perspectives respectively. Proponents of the technical perspective argue that achieving justice will always be a struggle in the concrete world of organizational change. Critical ethicists question whether a technical approach to justice in change can ever really achieve it. The article presents these two positions more fully and goes on to develop a synthesis of them. Relying on Habermas and others, it presents how technical and philosophical perspectives can complement one another to achieve justice in organizational change.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 12 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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Publication date: 1 May 2009

John M.T. Balmer

Corporate marketing is a marketing and management paradigm which synthesises practical and theoretical insights from corporate image and reputation, corporate identity, corporate…

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Corporate marketing is a marketing and management paradigm which synthesises practical and theoretical insights from corporate image and reputation, corporate identity, corporate communications and corporate branding, among other corporate‐level constructs. The purpose of this paper is to explain the nature and relevance of corporate marketing and to detail the antecedents of the territory.

Design/methodology/approach

Via the adoption of a quadrivium; a traditional classical approach to the acquisition of knowledge, the paper shows how organisations can be faced by Apocalyptical scenarios through a failure to accord sufficient attention to one or more dimensions of the corporate marketing mix; explains why the emergence of corporate level constructs such as corporate image, identity, branding communications and reputation represents, both individually and collectively, the Advent of corporate marketing; details the various integrative initiatives in corporate design, corporate communications and identity studies which, together with the incremental augmentation of the marketing philosophy, find their natural dénouement in the Epiphany of corporate marketing; and describes the 6Cs of the corporate marketing mix and reflects on possible future directions in organisational marketing.

Findings

The paper reveals the efficacy of adopting an organisation‐wide corporate marketing philosophy to management decision makers and scholars.

Practical implications

Drawing on the marketing/management theory of identity alignment policy the paper accords attention to each dimension of the corporate marketing mix and ensures that they are in meaningful as well as in dynamic alignment.

Originality/value

The practical utility of corporate marketing is explicated by making reference to case vignettes, and various marketing and non‐marketing literatures.

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Management Decision, vol. 47 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 12 July 2016

Linne Marie Lauesen

The purpose of this chapter is to map out the role of arts and the transfer values of the case of intensified music education as a governance tool for cultural sustainability. It…

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The purpose of this chapter is to map out the role of arts and the transfer values of the case of intensified music education as a governance tool for cultural sustainability. It takes the form of a literature review, which reveals that the role of arts in terms of governance of cultural sustainability includes the arts as issues of cultural heritage; symbolic translations of cultural values; transferring learning about emotions and life-quality, cooperation and linguistic-logical skills and potential transmitters of socio-economic enhancement of individuals performing it. The negative outcome is that the arts are predominated by the elite and wealthy, and that the potential of the role of the arts in the public education curriculum has not been utilised nor preferred in many countries as a result of low government expenditure. Other projects may exist in non-academic public media that may confirm or reject the findings. The chapter suggests academia and practitioners study, impact and initiate better ways of including the arts in the governance of cultural sustainability through public education. The inclusion of the arts in public education can improve the livelihood of children in all socio-economic areas. It connects two different literatures – that of cultural sustainability and that of traditional art studies in education, and raises questions about current governance practices underestimating the value of including cultural sustainability in governance and the role of the arts herein.

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Accountability and Social Responsibility: International Perspectives
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78635-384-9

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Publication date: 1 June 2002

Barrie O. Pettman and Richard Dobbins

This issue is a selected bibliography covering the subject of leadership.

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This issue is a selected bibliography covering the subject of leadership.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 21 no. 4/5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 10 October 2016

Karen Renaud, Stephen Flowerday, Rosanne English and Melanie Volkamer

The purpose of this study was to identify to identify reasons for the lack of protest against dragnet surveillance in the UK. As part of this investigation, a study was carried…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study was to identify to identify reasons for the lack of protest against dragnet surveillance in the UK. As part of this investigation, a study was carried out to gauge the understanding of “privacy” and “confidentiality” by the well-informed.

Design/methodology/approach

To perform a best-case study, the authors identified a group of well-informed participants in terms of security. To gain insights into their privacy-related mental models, they were asked first to define the three core terms and then to identify the scenarios. Then, the participants were provided with privacy-related scenarios and were asked to demonstrate their understanding by classifying the scenarios and identifying violations.

Findings

Although the participants were mostly able to identify privacy and confidentiality scenarios, they experienced difficulties in articulating the actual meaning of the terms privacy, confidentiality and security.

Research limitations/implications

There were a limited number of participants, yet the findings are interesting and justify further investigation. The implications, even of this initial study, are significant in that if citizens’ privacy rights are being violated and they did not seem to know how to protest this and if indeed they had the desire to do so.

Practical implications

Had the citizens understood the meaning of privacy, and their ancient right thereto, which is enshrined in law, their response to the Snowden revelations about ongoing wide-scale surveillance might well have been more strident and insistent.

Originality/value

People in the UK, where this study was carried out, do not seem to protest the privacy invasion effected by dragnet surveillance with any verve. The authors identify a number of possible reasons for this from the literature. One possible explanation is that people do not understand privacy. Thus, this study posits that privacy is unusual in that understanding does not seem to align with the ability to articulate the rights to privacy and their disapproval of such widespread surveillance. This seems to make protests unlikely.

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Information & Computer Security, vol. 24 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2056-4961

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