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Gendered incorporations: Critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies (2011)
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Challenging yet extending extant efforts in organisation studies to disrupt the gender divide, we develop an embodied account to more fundamentally dissolve the binaries that divide conventional forms of female and male embodiment. Despite a prolifer... Read More about Gendered incorporations: Critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies.
The Vickers report (2011)
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The banking crisis (2007-8) in the UK has led to plethora of banking regulations and reforms. For example we have had the Run on the Rock report into Northern Rock, the Banking Act 2008, then Banking Act 2009. Following on from these legislative refo... Read More about The Vickers report.
Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer (2011)
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Legal policy on the global stage has combined with history, nature and economics to create an inherently unequal playing field for states seeking to undertake industrial development or agricultural reform at this point in time. The reasons for this a... Read More about Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer.
'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service (2011)
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The adaptation of lean techniques in public services is viewed as an innovative managerialist response to government demands for more efficient services amidst large reductions in public spending. This paper explores workers' experiences of the impac... Read More about 'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service.
Newcomer adjustment and the role of supervisor: Evidence from two studies in China (2011)
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Lean and mean in the civil service: The case of processing in HMRC (2011)
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The public sector has been importing private sector methods and practices aimed at generating efficiencies and cost savings. However, the consequences of these changes on the working lives of civil servants are under-researched. This article uses det... Read More about Lean and mean in the civil service: The case of processing in HMRC.
Trafficking Internet brides (2011)
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This article critically examines the world of international marriage agencies who operate on the Internet, selling women for profit to men to buy from one end of the world to the other. It examines the relationship between capitalism and choice with... Read More about Trafficking Internet brides.
Enterprise transformation: Why are we interested, what is it, and what are the challenges? (2011)
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© IIE, INCOSE. The concept of enterprise transformation has become increasingly popular as companies recognize the need to achieve an integrated perspective within and across organizational boundaries to address complex challenges. Yet, there is litt... Read More about Enterprise transformation: Why are we interested, what is it, and what are the challenges?.
Impact of the recession on household expenditure (2011)
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A new action library for localising brain activity specific to biological motion (2011)
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Ahlstrom, Blake, and Ahlstrom (1997) introduced a point-light stimuli set for the study biological motion perception. It consisted of 25 assorted actions sampled at 20 Hz for a 1 second duration and an additional 25 scrambled versions of the same act... Read More about A new action library for localising brain activity specific to biological motion.
Secure data service risk assessment (2011)
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The precuneus role in third-person perspective of dyadic social interaction (2011)
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The ability to interpret the actions of others is necessary for survival and a successful social life. Human fMRI studies have consistently identified involvement of the precuneus in first- and third-person perspective taking of social situations. Ho... Read More about The precuneus role in third-person perspective of dyadic social interaction.
Managing warehousing in an agile supply chain environment: An F-AIS algorithm based approach (2011)
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In recent years, application of the agile concept in the manufacturing sector has been researched extensively to reduce the varying effect of customer demands. However, most of the research work is focused on the shop floor of different manufacturing... Read More about Managing warehousing in an agile supply chain environment: An F-AIS algorithm based approach.
The impact of operations performance on customer loyalty (2010)
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This research develops a longitudinal study that builds upon previous findings that operations performance of service delivery can positively affect customer satisfaction, further extending this verdict to point out operations performance as a direct... Read More about The impact of operations performance on customer loyalty.
Workers' experiences of skill, training and participation in lean and high performance workplaces in Britain and Italy (2010)
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Purpose: The article aims to report on research into managerial practices at the workplace level in Britain and Italy in the automobile and aerospace industries. These are examined with regard to their impact on employees' perceptions of skill, train... Read More about Workers' experiences of skill, training and participation in lean and high performance workplaces in Britain and Italy.
Are "standardized performance appraisal practices" really preferred? A case study in China (2010)
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Purpose: In spite of the increasing awareness that standardized performance appraisal practices must fit in varied local contexts, limited research and mixed findings still cloud our understanding about how those appraisal practices are perceived and... Read More about Are "standardized performance appraisal practices" really preferred? A case study in China.
Multimodal integration of the auditory and visual signals in dyadic point-light interactions (2010)
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