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Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs (2007)
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Purpose This paper aims to assess the link between strategic-planning, aspects of the external environment and overall corporate performance in manufacturing SMEs. Design-methodology-approach A self-reported postal survey was used to collect data fro... Read More about Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs.

Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting (2007)
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There is a widespread belief that the transparency of UK monetary policy has increased substantially as a result of the introduction of inflation targeting in 1992 and a number of procedural and institutional reforms which accompanied and followed it... Read More about Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting.

Blue sky thinking (2007)
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Building cars to customer order could provide the key to releasing billions of euros currently tied up in stock. Glenn Parry outlines a scheme to move the industry in this direction.

Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting (2007)
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The role of universities in the evolution of the triple helix culture of innovation network: The case of Malaysia (2007)
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Book review: Public relations. The profession and the practice. Dan Lattimore, Otis Baskin, Suzette T. Heiman, Elizabeth L. Toth and James K. Van Leuven. Boston: McGraw Hill. (2007)
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Living with the contradictions of modernization? Emotional management in the teaching profession (2007)
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The state education system in the UK has undergone significant transformation such that New Labour's modernization policy embodies aspects of the marketized system, inspired by New Right thinking, with a concern for placing schools at the centre of t... Read More about Living with the contradictions of modernization? Emotional management in the teaching profession.

Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry (2007)
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Drawing on case study data, this article analyzes contrasting workplace union responses to organizational restructuring in the United Kingdom's aerospace industry. It critically evaluates two distinct union strategies that resonate with contemporary... Read More about Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry.

Beyond advertising: In-home promotion of “fast food” (2007)
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the range of potential influences on children's food choices, while suggesting that recent restrictions on advertising of some foods may not be as effective as expected. It aims to use home-delivered fo... Read More about Beyond advertising: In-home promotion of “fast food”.

Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia (2007)
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This study reveals and analyses contradictory narrative voices within a local enterprise in the troubled Balkan region, recently acquired by a multinational enterprise. We employ case study research methods informed by semi-structured interviews with... Read More about Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia.

Public sector performance improvement through private sector management practices: A satisfactory solution? (2007)
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This paper examines the assumption that the injection of market discipline and private sector management practices will result in the transformation of public services. The present UK government looks for an opportunity to achieve synergy between the... Read More about Public sector performance improvement through private sector management practices: A satisfactory solution?.

Leadership and its impact on the use of process technologies and management practices in the manufacturing sector (2007)
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Leadership is widely acknowledged as the key driver of innovation and the achievement of overall organizational performance. In doing so, it draws on both process technologies and the use of management techniques. This paper examines the relationship... Read More about Leadership and its impact on the use of process technologies and management practices in the manufacturing sector.

Building donor loyalty: The antecedents and role of commitment in the context of charity giving (2007)
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In both the United States and the United Kingdom donor attrition rates are an increasing cause for concern. Many organizations lose up to 60% of cash donors after their first donation. In this study we delineate the factors that drive donor commitmen... Read More about Building donor loyalty: The antecedents and role of commitment in the context of charity giving.

Performing women: The gendered dimensions of the UK new research economy (2007)
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This article explores the development and maintenance of familiar gendered employment patterns and practices in UK universities, which are exemplars of new modes of knowledge production, commodification and marketization. After discussing in detail t... Read More about Performing women: The gendered dimensions of the UK new research economy.

Organising in the mist: A case study in leadership and complexity (2007)
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Online access panels and tracking research: The conditioning issue (2007)
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Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case (2007)
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Organizations are increasingly being called to account for their history. In particular, German and non-German companies have been called to account for their relations with the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. Organizations are not only accountabl... Read More about Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case.

Demystifying data analysis: An alternative approach for managers of manufacturing SMEs (2007)
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Purpose - Effective decision making is a crucial activity for manufacturing firms of all sizes. To this end, statistical techniques, such as variance theory, cognitive maps, heuristics and process theory, are widely used. However, such techniques rar... Read More about Demystifying data analysis: An alternative approach for managers of manufacturing SMEs.

Insights into interpreting integrated marketing communications: A two-nation qualitative comparison (2007)
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Purpose - This research paper aims to examine the theoretical and practical applicability of integrated marketing communications. Design/methodology/ approach - Presents the findings from a two-country qualitative study concerning the phenomenon. The... Read More about Insights into interpreting integrated marketing communications: A two-nation qualitative comparison.

Social marketing in action: Geodemographics, alcoholic liver disease and heavy episodic drinking in Great Britain (2007)
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