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Corporate responsibility in tackling environmental harm: Lost in the regulatory maze? (2014)
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Environmental harm and corporate responsibility are increasingly being linked. While a number of approaches and techniques such as market instruments and enforcement are explored in the environmental, criminal and human rights law at the internationa... Read More about Corporate responsibility in tackling environmental harm: Lost in the regulatory maze?.

Integrated Water Resource Management, Public Participation and the 'Rainbow Nation' (2014)
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© 2013 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. This article provides varied examples of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and public participation interaction in South Africa. It critically examines the inadequate application of IW... Read More about Integrated Water Resource Management, Public Participation and the 'Rainbow Nation'.

Unpacking strategic foresight: A practice approach (2014)
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This paper unpacks strategic foresight by exploring the creative evaluation and reconfiguration of sources of potentialities into resources and productive outcomes. Placing emphasis on the everyday practices of organizational members' positioned lowe... Read More about Unpacking strategic foresight: A practice approach.

Empirical evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis fails to confirm the predicted effect of motion (2014)
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The uncanny valley hypothesis states that the acceptability of an artificial character will not increase linearly in relation to its likeness to human form. Instead, after an initial rise in acceptability there will be a pronounced decrease when the... Read More about Empirical evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis fails to confirm the predicted effect of motion.

Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown (2014)
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In 'Approach with caution: critical realism in social research', Andrew Brown sets out a series of criticisms of critical realism from the perspective of systematic dialectics. This current article is one critical realist's reply to Brown. © The Auth... Read More about Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown.

Supplier replenishment policy using e-Kanban: A framework for successful implementation (2014)
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This paper provides generic implementation guidelines for an electronic supplier Kanban in the form of an eight-step implementation Framework. This has been tested, proven and realised, providing a clear process to follow. The steps provide a clear p... Read More about Supplier replenishment policy using e-Kanban: A framework for successful implementation.

Visions of a Pole Position: Developing Inimitable Resource Capacity through Enterprise Systems Implementation in Nestlé (2014)
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Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Multinational organizations can achieve a non-replicable capacity and may use the key nature of foresight to support the development and deployment of the enterprise system across several locations around the... Read More about Visions of a Pole Position: Developing Inimitable Resource Capacity through Enterprise Systems Implementation in Nestlé.

Negociación colectiva: Construyendo la solidaridad mediante la lucha contra las desigualdades y la discriminación (Collective bargaining: Building solidarity through the fight against inequalities and discrimination) (2014)
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Equality bargaining in essence is turning the resource of collective bargaining to the objectives of equality and diversity in work and employment. This article traces the progress of equality bargaining, with a focus on the UK. It explores the decli... Read More about Negociación colectiva: Construyendo la solidaridad mediante la lucha contra las desigualdades y la discriminación (Collective bargaining: Building solidarity through the fight against inequalities and discrimination).

How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS (2014)
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© 2014 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. A resource-based view of organizations suggests that internal knowledge is amongst the most important sources of competitive advantage (Hendry and Pettigrew 1990; Leonard-Barton 1995). Regardless of whe... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS.

Copyright and creation: Repositioning the argument (2014)
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Purpose: This paper highlights the challenges and key arguments for digital copyright protection legislation for creative industries. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by independent academics who place the arguments in context b... Read More about Copyright and creation: Repositioning the argument.

Stop 'helping' me! Identity, recognition and agency in the nexus of work and care (2014)
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This article explores what it is like to be a 'working carer'-that increasingly common category of employee who combines paid work with unpaid care.1 We draw on phenomenology for our initial motivation, epistemological assumptions and method of data... Read More about Stop 'helping' me! Identity, recognition and agency in the nexus of work and care.

Using Data in Decision-Making: Analysis from the Music Industry (2014)
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Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Internet use provides an increasing amount of data that has potential value for managers and policy makers but, without a precise understanding of the meaning of data, erroneous conclusions may be drawn which... Read More about Using Data in Decision-Making: Analysis from the Music Industry.

Female part-time managers: Careers, mentors and role models (2014)
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This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part-time managers in a range of UK public, private and not-for-profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of th... Read More about Female part-time managers: Careers, mentors and role models.

Entrepreneurship: Cause and Consequence of Financial Optimism (2014)
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© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by a greater margin than employees is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may foster optimism or intrinsic optimists ma... Read More about Entrepreneurship: Cause and Consequence of Financial Optimism.

Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure (2014)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this paper, we discuss how both success and failure induce anxiety, and how narratives help defend against it. We argue, using a psychoanalytic approach, that these narratives become culturally embedded through sharing a... Read More about Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure.

Where social enterprise practitioners draw the line: Towards an understanding of movement from social entrepreneurship as boundary work (2014)
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© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to offer new reflection upon the contested interaction of social enterprises with the public sector. It does this by fore fronting the notions of boundaries, boundary work and b... Read More about Where social enterprise practitioners draw the line: Towards an understanding of movement from social entrepreneurship as boundary work.

Precarious pedagogies? The impact of casual and zero-hour contracts in Higher Education (2014)
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Precarious work is associated with and characterizes the effects of neoliberal policy—the transference of economic risk onto workers, the erosion of workers’ rights, the flexibilization and casualization of work contracts, self-responsibility, fina... Read More about Precarious pedagogies? The impact of casual and zero-hour contracts in Higher Education.

Exploring the application of quality improvement programmes and ISO standards in the Indian marble mining sector (2014)
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In this era of globalisation, as competition intensifies, providing quality products and services has become a competitive advantage and a need to ensure survival. To ensure such competitive advantage, organisations of different industries around the... Read More about Exploring the application of quality improvement programmes and ISO standards in the Indian marble mining sector.

The implementation of an environmental management system in the not-for-profit sector (2014)
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Purpose This paper examines the implementation of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) in a non-profit, small to medium sized enterprise (SME) in the UK. Methodology A four year Participatory Action Research study is made upon Knowledge Tran... Read More about The implementation of an environmental management system in the not-for-profit sector.

Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective (2014)
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This paper studies the individual and household-level determinants of economic insecurity in post-socialist countries. Exploring subjective, backward- and forward-looking measures of economic insecurity, the paper focuses on: (1) the perceptions of p... Read More about Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective.