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Gendered incorporations: Critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies (2011)
Journal Article
Knights, D., & Thanem, T. (2011). Gendered incorporations: Critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 4(3-4), 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWOE.2011.045963

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)
Journal Article
Chambers-Jones, C. (2011). The Vickers report. Journal of Business Law, 32(11), 280-292

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)
Journal Article
Gillen, M. (2011). Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer. European Journal of Law and Technology, 2(2),

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)
Journal Article
Danford, A., Carter, B., Howcroft, D., Richardson, H., Smith, A., & Taylor, P. (2011). 'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service. New Technology, Work and Employment, 26(2), 83-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2011.00261.x

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.

Trafficking Internet brides (2011)
Journal Article
Jones, J. (2011). Trafficking Internet brides. Information and Communications Technology Law, 20(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2011.557525

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.

Lean and mean in the civil service: The case of processing in HMRC (2011)
Journal Article
Carter, B., Danford, A., Howcroft, D., Richardson, H., Smith, A., & Taylor, P. (2011). Lean and mean in the civil service: The case of processing in HMRC. Public Money and Management, 31(2), 115-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2011.560708

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.

Enterprise transformation: Why are we interested, what is it, and what are the challenges? (2011)
Journal Article
Purchase, V., Parry, G., Valerdi, R., Nightingale, D., & Mills, J. (2011). Enterprise transformation: Why are we interested, what is it, and what are the challenges?. Journal of Enterprise Transformation, 1(1), 14-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/19488289.2010.549289

© 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?.

Managing warehousing in an agile supply chain environment: An F-AIS algorithm based approach (2011)
Journal Article
Kumar, V., Mishra, N., Chan, F. T., & Verma, A. (2011). Managing warehousing in an agile supply chain environment: An F-AIS algorithm based approach. International Journal of Production Research, 49(21), 6407-6426. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2010.528057

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 precuneus role in third-person perspective of dyadic social interaction (2011)
Journal Article
Petrini, K., Piwek, L., Crabbe, F., Pollick, F. E., & Garrod, S. (2011). The precuneus role in third-person perspective of dyadic social interaction. Perception, 40(Suppl.), 87-88

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.

A new action library for localising brain activity specific to biological motion (2011)
Journal Article
Pollick, F., Steel, W., Tan, H., Piwek, L., Crabbe, F., & Ahlstrom, U. (2011). A new action library for localising brain activity specific to biological motion. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 683-683. https://doi.org/10.1167/11.11.683

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.