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Outre-manehe/across the channel: Ongoing training and gender in France and Britain (2005)
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The French state-levy system of ongoing training at work has not provided greater access for women than the laissez-faire British system. While headlines figures suggest that women receive more training than men in Britain and that the gap has also c... Read More about Outre-manehe/across the channel: Ongoing training and gender in France and Britain.

Brand sickness and health following major product withdrawals (2005)
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Purpose - The mandatory withdrawal of almost 2,000 complementary and alternative medicines, manufactured under contract on behalf of multiple brand names, primarily in the Australian and New Zealand markets, provides an opportunity to examine the imp... Read More about Brand sickness and health following major product withdrawals.

Best value and workplace partnership in local government (2005)
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Purpose - This paper explores employee experiences concerning job security/insecurity, workload, job satisfaction and employee involvement in the aftermath of Best Value reviews in a local authority. Design/methodology/ approach - Using a mix of quan... Read More about Best value and workplace partnership in local government.

Joined up lean (2005)
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Author's views on a a lean process methodology for core competence understanding are highlighted. UK companies have been employing lean principles to great effect. They have been supported and guided in their efforts by programmes such as the UK Lean... Read More about Joined up lean.

Strategic planning - A comparison of high and low technology manufacturing small firms (2005)
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This paper contends that firms can be classified according to the level of technology deployed in their products and processes into two main types: high and low technology firms. The paper further contends that the level of technology deployed will i... Read More about Strategic planning - A comparison of high and low technology manufacturing small firms.

Antecedents and outcomes of service recovery performance in a public health-care environment (2005)
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Purpose - This paper proposes investigating a model of service recovery performance in a public health-care setting. Design/methodology/approach - Frontline hospital staff (administrative and nursing staff) representing a range of out-patient departm... Read More about Antecedents and outcomes of service recovery performance in a public health-care environment.

Front line or all fronts? Women's trade union activism in retail services (2005)
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This article draws on data from a case study of a trade union campaign to organize part-time women workers in a large supermarket chain. The data indicate that combining paid work, work in the home and increased trade union participation means that t... Read More about Front line or all fronts? Women's trade union activism in retail services.

The unorganised worker: The decline in collectivism and new hurdles to individual employment rights (2005)
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The 'unorganised' worker (neither unionised nor covered by a collective agreement) is the norm in Britain, especially in the private sector, which employs about 70% of employees. In 2003, union membership was down to 29.3%, and 18.2% in the private s... Read More about The unorganised worker: The decline in collectivism and new hurdles to individual employment rights.

Sheila Dow's concept of dualism: Clarification, criticism and development (2005)
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This paper analyses Dow's concept of dualism and decomposes it into eight categories, one not explicitly identified by Dow. It is argued that Dow's original definition is underdeveloped and thereby lacking practical relevance. The paper presents a de... Read More about Sheila Dow's concept of dualism: Clarification, criticism and development.

Gender, transformation and employment in central eastern Europe (2005)
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This article discusses gender and employment in 10 central eastern European countries: eight new EU member states and two candidate countries. The context is set with demographic, economic, and labour-market trends, including population, GDP, and gen... Read More about Gender, transformation and employment in central eastern Europe.

High performance: Ownership and decision-making in SMEs (2005)
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Purpose - To date there is a dearth of research on strategic decision-making in manufacturing small and medium sized firms. This research paper focuses on the key drivers of decision-making and organisational performance: ownership, decision-making (... Read More about High performance: Ownership and decision-making in SMEs.

Agency and bank nursing in the UK National Health Service (2005)
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The article draws on published research, mainly survey-based, and original case study interview data to explore the forms of temporary employment in nursing, the reasons nurses give for taking temporary or agency work, as a main job or a second job,... Read More about Agency and bank nursing in the UK National Health Service.

Endogenous growth models and stock market development: Evidence from four countries (2005)
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This paper re-examines the relationship between stock market development and economic growth. It provides a theoretical basis for establishing the channel through which stock markets affect economic growth in the long run. It examines the hypothesis... Read More about Endogenous growth models and stock market development: Evidence from four countries.

A UK test of an inflation-adjusted Ohlson model (2005)
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This paper conducts a UK test of a version of the Ohlson (1995) model. We should only expect abnormal earnings to revert to zero if the book value of assets is economically meaningful. In this paper we make use of the property revaluations common in... Read More about A UK test of an inflation-adjusted Ohlson model.

Leadership, decision making and internal stakeholder engagement (2005)
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The debate on the relationship between stakeholder engagement, leadership and organisational performance is marked by a dearth of empirical studies testing the various propositions put forward. This paper attempts to address two aspects of this relat... Read More about Leadership, decision making and internal stakeholder engagement.

Innovation in SMEs: The impact of strategic orientation and environmental perceptions (2005)
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Purpose – To investigate the role and impact of strategic orientation and environmental perceptions on innovation and supporting mechanisms such as process technologies and management practices, in SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative a... Read More about Innovation in SMEs: The impact of strategic orientation and environmental perceptions.

Ontology in organization and management studies: A critical realist perspective (2005)
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Organization studies has recently been captured by a cultural, linguistic, poststructural or postmodern turn, the impetus for which has come from the ontological turn from a (naive) realist ontology to a socially constructed ontology. Much of the cur... Read More about Ontology in organization and management studies: A critical realist perspective.

The development of innovation systems and the art of innovation management - Strategy, control and the culture of innovation (2005)
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The success of strategies of changing or establishing innovation systems is indicated by scientific and technological innovations, the number of new products and patents, the prosperity of regions and firms and the creation of new jobs. However, ther... Read More about The development of innovation systems and the art of innovation management - Strategy, control and the culture of innovation.

From technology transfer to the emergence of a triple helix culture: The experience of Algeria in innovation and technological capability development (2005)
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Based on the post-independence industrialization experience of Algeria, this paper explores the need for and the challenges and prospects of shifts of policies and strategies from central planning to decentralization and liberalization; from a heavy... Read More about From technology transfer to the emergence of a triple helix culture: The experience of Algeria in innovation and technological capability development.

'Il reste des Bastille à prendre': Gender and equal opportunities in France (2005)
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