All Outputs (1310)

Negative capability: Managing the confusing uncertainties of change (2001)
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Explores how psychoanalytic thinking can contribute to the management of the conflicting emotions stimulated by cliange. Suggests that successful change management depends on a combination of "positive" and "negative" capabilities. The positive capab... Read More about Negative capability: Managing the confusing uncertainties of change.

Doing the doric: The institutionalization of regional language and culture in the north-east of Scotland (2001)
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The focus of this paper is on the practices and processes of joint action and knowledge, the performativity of language and the tracing of how particular items of rhetoric move, solidify and change. The paper illustrates the contingent factors that g... Read More about Doing the doric: The institutionalization of regional language and culture in the north-east of Scotland.

Theory and practice in SME performance measurement systems (2001)
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Describes research undertaken to evaluate the appropriateness of strategic performance measurement (PM) system development processes for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SAIEs). An evaluation is undertaken often PM approaches found in the literat... Read More about Theory and practice in SME performance measurement systems.

Advertising restrictions: Protection of the young and the vulnerable? (2001)
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Professional learners: Students as informed and informing partners in the learning transaction (2001)
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Informed eclecticism: A research paradigm for the twenty-first century (2001)
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Introducing complex systems using the red-blue exercise (2001)
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The red-blue exercise provides a powerful yet manageable example of a complex system in action. A systems analysis is offered that demonstrates how the exercise may be used as an educational tool to introduce the subject of complex systems.

Information asymmetry, small firm finance and the role of government (2001)
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Sex workers of the world unite! (2001)
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Money, credit and spending: Drawing causal inferences (2001)
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It is widely accepted that loans cause deposits. Hitherto, though, the empirical evidence has come from bivariate causality tests which we now know can give rise to invalid inference if either of the two variables is causally influenced by some third... Read More about Money, credit and spending: Drawing causal inferences.

Relationship fundraising: How to keep donors loyal (2001)
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This article explores how relationship marketing and its variant relationship fundraising may be used to assist nonprofits in reducing the lapse rate of donors to their organization. Employing a postal survey of ten thousand donors to causes in a var... Read More about Relationship fundraising: How to keep donors loyal.

Leaders achieving focus in the place of not knowing (2000)
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The senior manager's role is to constantly identify and clarify what to focus on and then to direct energy into that focus. This involves learning to gain clarity of purpose within a context of uncertainty and disagreement: the place of not knowing.... Read More about Leaders achieving focus in the place of not knowing.

Using a red-blue exercise to facilitate learning about complex systems (2000)
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The red-blue exercise is an example of an iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) and is commonly used in educational and training settings to help participants to develop skills in conflict management, negotiation, and inter-group dynamics. In this paper,... Read More about Using a red-blue exercise to facilitate learning about complex systems.

IMC, brand communications and corporate cultures: Client/advertising agency co-ordinations and cohesion (2000)
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The concept of integrated marketing communication (IMC) has received considerable coverage in the literature, but even its most ardent supporters have noted problems in translating the concept into reality. Reports on an extensive two‐phase study of... Read More about IMC, brand communications and corporate cultures: Client/advertising agency co-ordinations and cohesion.

Dialogue: State-sector manager ethos must be discarded quickly (2000)
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Meeting the needs of mature students (2000)
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Advert ban could have major drawbacks (2000)
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Strategic planning for SMEs (2000)
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Anyone want a DipBus? Rediscovering Dip Bus in the debris of the education war (2000)
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Human capital theory and the economy (2000)
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