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Technological capabilities, resilience capabilities and organizational effectiveness (2016)
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© 2016, © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Previous research has defined resilience as a desirable characteristic for an organization and its members to possess when circumstances adversely change. Resilience is analysed... Read More about Technological capabilities, resilience capabilities and organizational effectiveness.

Cultivating strategic foresight in practise: A relational perspective (2016)
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© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Drawing on relationalism as a theoretical lens, we examine how normative organising structures, rights and authority relationships influence the cultivation of strategic foresight among organisational members lower down the organ... Read More about Cultivating strategic foresight in practise: A relational perspective.

Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation (2016)
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© 2016 International Communication Association Linguistic style accommodation between conversationalists is associated with positive social outcomes. We examine social power and personality as factors driving the occurrence of linguistic style accomm... Read More about Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation.

Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency (2016)
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© 2016 The Author(s) This study draws on literature at the intersection of servitization, digital business models and supply chain management. Work empirically explores how digital disruption has affected Business-to-Business (B2B) interdependencies.... Read More about Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency.

An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management (2016)
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The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty are used to redescribe the fundamental assumptions underpinning project management. Rather than viewing project management as merely a science, the significance and value of philosophy for projec... Read More about An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management.

e-Leadership through strategic alignment: An empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age (2016)
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© 2016 JIT Palgrave Macmillan. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the European economy. A critical challenge faced by SME leaders, as a consequence of the continuing digital technology revolution, is how to optimally... Read More about e-Leadership through strategic alignment: An empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age.

Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector (2016)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Temporary workers in low-skilled roles often experience ‘hard’ HRM practices, for example the use of the Bradford Factor to monitor absence, rather than using incentives to reward attendance. However, this peripheral workfo... Read More about Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector.

Utilising Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods: rich perspectives on union learning journeys and learner motivations (2016)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This article explores the use of Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods (BNIM) in research on motivations for trade union learning. Our use of BNIM – a new methodological approach for us – was intended to test our own... Read More about Utilising Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods: rich perspectives on union learning journeys and learner motivations.

The Effect of State-Private Co-partnership System on Russian Industry (2016)
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In Russia at the turn of the new millennium, the Putin regime introduced a system of state-private co-partnership with corporate private investors. We argue that this policy had the effect of reducing... Read More about The Effect of State-Private Co-partnership System on Russian Industry.

Bridging the gap between energy and the environment (2016)
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© 2016 The Authors. Meeting the world's energy demand is a major challenge for society over the coming century. To identify the most sustainable energy pathways to meet this demand, analysis of energy systems on which policy is based must move beyond... Read More about Bridging the gap between energy and the environment.

The project (management) discourse and its consequences: On vulnerability and unsustainability in project-based work (2016)
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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In this paper, we examine how the discourses related to project-based work and management are drawn upon in the organising of contemporary work, and the implications they have for project workers. We are interested in... Read More about The project (management) discourse and its consequences: On vulnerability and unsustainability in project-based work.

Second-life retailing: a reverse supply chain perspective (2016)
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© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The authors examine the role of entrepreneurial business models in the reverse supply chain of apparel/fashion retailers. The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative approach to the “retu... Read More about Second-life retailing: a reverse supply chain perspective.

Towards conceptualizing reverse service supply chains (2016)
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© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Recognizing the heterogeneity of services, this paper aims to clarify the characteristics of forward and the corresponding reverse supply chains of different services. Design/methodology/approach... Read More about Towards conceptualizing reverse service supply chains.

Knowledge acquisition through process mapping: Factors affecting the performance of work-based activity (2016)
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© 2016, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Business improvement initiatives have benefit for both an organisation’s operational effectiveness and its knowledge acquisition capabilities. These have a synergistic effect upon the ability to gai... Read More about Knowledge acquisition through process mapping: Factors affecting the performance of work-based activity.

Operationalising IoT for reverse supply: the development of use-visibility measures (2016)
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© 2016, © Authors. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 3.0) Licence Purpose – Improvement of reverse supply chains requires accurate and timely information about the patt... Read More about Operationalising IoT for reverse supply: the development of use-visibility measures.

Corporate Ownership, Control, and Firm Performance in Victorian Britain (2016)
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Scholars have long debated whether ownership matters for firm performance. The standard view regarding Victorian Britain is that family-controlled companies had a detrimental effect on performance. In this article, we examine this view using a hand-c... Read More about Corporate Ownership, Control, and Firm Performance in Victorian Britain.

Children as vulnerable consumers: a first conceptualisation (2016)
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© 2015 Westburn Publishers Ltd. Understandings of consumer vulnerability remain contentious and despite recent developments, models remain unsuitable when applied to children. Taxonomic models, and those favouring a ‘state’- or ‘class’-based approach... Read More about Children as vulnerable consumers: a first conceptualisation.

Applying forgotten lessons in field reliability data analysis to performance-based support contracts (2016)
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Assumptions used in field reliability data analysis may be seldom made explicit or questioned in practice, yet these assumptions affect how engineering managers develop metrics for use in long-term support contracts. To address this issue, this artic... Read More about Applying forgotten lessons in field reliability data analysis to performance-based support contracts.

How does music as a digital service affect consumer attitude and behaviour? (2016)
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Digital technologies allow users to share files, which in some circumstances violates property rights and constitutes consumer misbehaviour. This form of behaviour, often called piracy, is cited as causing revenue loss to the creative industries. Exi... Read More about How does music as a digital service affect consumer attitude and behaviour?.

Family law session: Transparency in the family courts and what the delegates said (2016)
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This article was published as part of the "Update Extra" in Jordans' Family Law Journal in February 2016 and discusses the first public Family Law Session of its kind in England & Wales which took place at the Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre... Read More about Family law session: Transparency in the family courts and what the delegates said.