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"Innovation in inclusion" - a financial m-learning game: Part two (2010)
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The second part of this paper outlines the research for designing an m-learning (mobile phone) financial education game to counter financial exclusion. The paper explains the results from the research which designed a game to test the hypothesis that... Read More about "Innovation in inclusion" - a financial m-learning game: Part two.

The impact of perceived service provider empathy on customer loyalty: Some observations from the health and fitness sector (2010)
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The leisure product is often dependent on the person delivering the service. The research presented here sought to better understand how important the empathy component is in that personal delivery of a service. Health and fitness clubs, faced by hig... Read More about The impact of perceived service provider empathy on customer loyalty: Some observations from the health and fitness sector.

US financial recovery: Political regulations or a plan for the future? (2010)
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Although many commentators are examining and expounding the economic crisis, as it affects the United Kingdom, it is important to note that the economic crisis is global. The economic crisis in its commencement emanated a ripple effect of pervasive e... Read More about US financial recovery: Political regulations or a plan for the future?.

Book review: Money, distribution conflict and capital accumulation: Contributions to ‘Monetary Analysis’ by Eckhard Hein (2010)
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"Innovation in inclusion" - a financial m-learning game: Part one (2010)
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This is part one of a two-part paper. The papers outline the research for designing an m-learning (mobile phone) financial education game to counter financial exclusion. The paper will explain what led the researchers to use an m-learning game and wh... Read More about "Innovation in inclusion" - a financial m-learning game: Part one.

Conceptualising ethical capital in social enterprise (2010)
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Gendered inequality in employment: Editors introduction (2010)
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For all of our languages we are not natives here (2010)
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This paper seeks to explore the concept of the digital divide by critiquing the notion of the digital native and its relationship to the legal conception of technology transfer and sited knowledge. It is the contention of this paper that technology t... Read More about For all of our languages we are not natives here.

Who am I and what am I doing here?: Becoming and being a project manager (2010)
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Purpose: This paper aims to empirically explore the nature of tensions that emerge within the process of becoming a manager in the post-bureaucratic organisation, by focusing on the emergence of project management as a key carrier of post-bureaucracy... Read More about Who am I and what am I doing here?: Becoming and being a project manager.

Sustaining architects' and engineers' motivation in design firms: An investigation of critical success factors (2010)
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Purpose - The overall intent of this research is to identify critical factors influencing architects' and design engineers' (AE) motivational level in design firms. Design/methodology/approach - Motivational theories from the literature on organizati... Read More about Sustaining architects' and engineers' motivation in design firms: An investigation of critical success factors.

UK release practices for official microdata (2009)
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This paper describes the principles and practices by which microdata collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is made available to researchers. Access to detailed confidential microdata, often from official sources, is acknowledged to be... Read More about UK release practices for official microdata.

A good night out: Alcohol-related behaviours in young adults (2009)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate drinking patterns; attitudes towards alcohol consumption and alcohol-related behaviours amongst differing groups of young adults. A further aim is to investigate whether the drinking behaviours of... Read More about A good night out: Alcohol-related behaviours in young adults.

Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues (2009)
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Sustainable procurement is the pursuit of sustainable development objectives (WCED, 1987) through the purchasing and supply process, and involves balancing environmental, social and economic objectives. It is rising on the policy agenda for many coun... Read More about Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues.

'No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position': Age as a factor defining older women's experience of labour market participation (2009)
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This article explores age as a factor defining the labour market experience of older women. Drawing upon work histories it argues that discrimination on the grounds of age is bound up with gender, race and class. Older women described how all three c... Read More about 'No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position': Age as a factor defining older women's experience of labour market participation.

Building donor loyalty (2009)
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The ontology of things, powers and properties (2009)
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Reflections on the emergence of a field (2009)
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The relevance of outsourcing and leagile strategies in performance optimization of an integrated process planning and scheduling model (2009)
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Over the past few years growing global competition has forced the manufacturing industries to upgrade their old production strategies with the modern day approaches. As a result, recent interest has been developed towards finding an appropriate polic... Read More about The relevance of outsourcing and leagile strategies in performance optimization of an integrated process planning and scheduling model.

Book review: The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins (2009)
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Avenues for new research: What do fundraisers want? (2009)
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