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Monetary Policy Regimes. A Fragile Consensus (2006)
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Managing the global supply chain: A SME perspective1 (2006)
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This paper aims to highlight the underlying factors that contribute to the effective management of a global supply chain from the perspective of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Global competition has placed considerable pressure on SMEs t... Read More about Managing the global supply chain: A SME perspective1.

Perceptual determinants of nonprofit giving behavior (2006)
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This paper provides the first empirically based marketing model of the perceptions of givers and the resulting impact on donations. Within nonprofit marketing there is a considerable amount of extant research to support the view that both extrinsic a... Read More about Perceptual determinants of nonprofit giving behavior.

Mapping and assessing the key management issues influencing UK public healthcare purchaser-provider cooperation (2006)
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Purpose - The purpose is to examine the bases of positive relations between suppliers and purchasers of healthcare services. In doing so, the paper examines the nature of cooperation between the providers of healthcare services (hospitals) and those... Read More about Mapping and assessing the key management issues influencing UK public healthcare purchaser-provider cooperation.

In search of the drivers of high growth in manufacturing SMEs (2006)
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Though considerable attention in the extant literature has been devoted to growth and performance of firms, there is a dearth of research on high growth firms. Furthermore, the majority of literature in this area focuses on large firms while research... Read More about In search of the drivers of high growth in manufacturing SMEs.

E-commerce in manufacturing firms: panacea or myth? (2006)
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Lower costs driving SME competitive advantage (2006)
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Measuring performance in competitive strategy research (2006)
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When testing for strategy-performance linkages, attention is often given more to the measurement of strategy than to the measurement of performance. However, the selection of performance measures can dramatically influence the findings and conclusion... Read More about Measuring performance in competitive strategy research.

Downplaying Leadership: Researching How Leaders Talk About Themselves (2006)
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This article identifies the notion of downplaying leadership. While some attempt is made to explore the meaning of this practice, our primary intention is to describe a method and framework for analysing the transcripts of leadership interviews. This... Read More about Downplaying Leadership: Researching How Leaders Talk About Themselves.

Management and organizational history: Prospects (2006)
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We outline the prospects for Management and Organizational History in the form of a 10-point agenda identifying issues that we envisage being addressed in the journal. 1.The ‘Historic Turn’ in Organization Theory – calls for a more historical orienta... Read More about Management and organizational history: Prospects.

Negative Capability and the Capacity to Think in the Present Moment: Some Implications for Leadership Practice (2006)
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Two themes that are prevalent in the literature on leadership practice are planning for the future and learning from the past. In this ‘Leading Questions’ piece, we raise the question of whether, in addition, attention needs to be given to a third el... Read More about Negative Capability and the Capacity to Think in the Present Moment: Some Implications for Leadership Practice.

Modernisation or casualisation? Numerical flexibility in public services (2006)
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‘Flexibility’ is a key feature of the government's modernisation agenda. The government does not define the kind of flexibility it aims to promote in its modernisation agenda; but data indicates that numerical flexibility, in the form of temporary wo... Read More about Modernisation or casualisation? Numerical flexibility in public services.

Review of Cronin, A.M. (2004). Advertising Myths: The strange half-lives of images and commodities. London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis. (2006)
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Review of Parene, D. T. (2004). Advertising Campaign Strategy (3rd ed.) Mason OH: Thomson South Western. (2006)
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review of Kimmel, A.J. (ed) (2005) Marketing communication: New Approaches, Technology and Styles. (2006)
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Breaking through the invisible barrier of low functional literacy: implications for health communication (2006)
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The impact of personal values on perception of service provider empathy and customer loyalty (2006)
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Application of lean visual process management tools (2006)
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Visual process management tools have been developed by lean practitioners as communication aids and are used to help drive operations and processes in real time. Three case studies from aerospace companies describe the physical visual tools that have... Read More about Application of lean visual process management tools.

Trade credit supply: An empirical investigation of companies level data (2006)
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Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability (2006)
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“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”, Mahatma Gandhi. When project team members of diverse cultures act and react together... Read More about Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability.