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Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry (2008)
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In this paper we examine the implications of enterprise discourse within the context of a culture of consumption. Drawing on empirical work on the UK retail banking industry we demonstrate how retail banking in the UK is central to constructing 'conf... Read More about Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry.

Business graduates and management jobs: An employability match made in heaven? (2008)
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The rapid growth in undergraduate business education over the last three decades has coincided with the growing dominance of an economic ideology of higher education (HE); that its role is principally one of contributing to national competitiveness t... Read More about Business graduates and management jobs: An employability match made in heaven?.

"We can't join a union, that would harm the horses": Worker resistance in the UK horseracing industry (2008)
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Internationalisation in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism higher education: A call for further reflexivity in curriculum development (2008)
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Digital/web-based technology in purchasing and supply management: A UK study (2008)
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Purpose - To date little is known about the actual level of utilisation of digital/web-based interaction technologies in purchasing and supply management (SM) in the UK. This paper seeks to address this gap in the extant knowledge through empirical r... Read More about Digital/web-based technology in purchasing and supply management: A UK study.

Regulation of nutrition and health claims in advertising (2008)
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This article reviews the intentions and assumptions underlying calls for greater regulation of nutrition and health claims in food advertising and examines the likely impact of new European regulations on health-related claims. After providing a revi... Read More about Regulation of nutrition and health claims in advertising.

A shift of intention: From inefficiency to toxicity in the working environment (2008)
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Accounting for financial instruments in Turkish accounting standards (2008)
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The Turkish Accounting Standards Board (TMSK) issued TMS 32, "Financial Instruments: Disclosure and Presentation” and TMS 39, “Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement” in 2006, and TFRS 7, “Financial Instruments: Disclosures” in 2007. Thes... Read More about Accounting for financial instruments in Turkish accounting standards.

Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link (2008)
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the conceptual underpinnings of the theoretical weaknesses of extant research investigating the HRM-Organizational Performance Link (hereafter HRM-P Link). Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews... Read More about Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link.

Higher education, the ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge workers’: does current education policy make sense? (2008)
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The UK higher education (HE) system has undergone a major transformation over the past three decades from a system that catered for an elite group of entrants in the late 1960s and early 1970s to one that now aims to provide tertiary education to hal... Read More about Higher education, the ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge workers’: does current education policy make sense?.

Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions (2008)
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This article reflects on the papers published in the Symposium on 'Counterfactual History in Management and Organizations'. After describing the background to the symposium we review some important themes in the multidisciplinary domain of counterfac... Read More about Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions.

Donor retention: an exploratory study of door-to-door recruits (2008)
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Door-to-door fundraising, where recruiters knock on the door of domestic dwellings to solicit a regular donation, is an increasingly popular recruitment technique. However, reported levels of attrition remain unacceptably high and in some cases chari... Read More about Donor retention: an exploratory study of door-to-door recruits.

Book Review: Mary Jo Hatch, Monika Kostera and Andrzej K. Kozminski (2004), The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest (2008)
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Spectacular tradition Scottish folksong and authenticity (2008)
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This paper explores the heritage, changing nature, and re-inscription of traditional practices. It highlights the processes through which Scottish song traditions have moved from being everyday, unremarkable practice to public spectacle and tourism p... Read More about Spectacular tradition Scottish folksong and authenticity.

Customer relationship management in call centers: The uneasy process of re(form)ing the subject through the 'people-by-numbers' approach (2008)
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Real-time technology has the capability of symbolising both customers and call center representatives (and the moment of interaction), purely by/as numbers, or forms. The pinnacle of this data processing is customer relationship management (CRM), whe... Read More about Customer relationship management in call centers: The uneasy process of re(form)ing the subject through the 'people-by-numbers' approach.

Reassessing the value of work-experience placements in the context of widening participation in higher education (2008)
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A questionnaire was distributed to the heads of graduate recruitment in 900 British firms querying the recipients’ views on (1) the main benefits alleged to accrue to students on vocational degrees who complete work experience periods; (2) the value... Read More about Reassessing the value of work-experience placements in the context of widening participation in higher education.

Toxic celluloid: Representations of bad leadership on film and implications for leadership development (2008)
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Review of Yeshin, A. (2006). Advertising. London: Thompson Learning (2008)
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Product withdrawal pandemonium: Marketing communication implications from the pan pharmaceuticals product withdrawals (2008)
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Virtual academic organizations: ten years of changes (2008)
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