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Nye, David E. - The MIT Press

The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin’s little tramp...

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Associations of perceived underemployment with in-role and organisational citizenship behaviours: the beneficiary perspective

Chen, Yi-Jung - In: Global Business and Economics Review 11 (2009) 3/4, pp. 317-331

This study investigated whether employees' perceived underemployment is associated differently with in-role behaviours and two forms of organisational citizenship behaviours and whether there is any difference in such relationships between in-group and out-group subordinates. Results of 304...

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Operations Forensics: Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tools

Lai, Richard - The MIT Press

Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and influence the valuation of a firm. It is the first to present these...

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Leading Open Innovation

Huff, Anne Sigismund (contributor) - The MIT Press

In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi may launch...

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Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth

Sheffi, Yoss - The MIT Press

logistics clusters--geographically concentrated sets of logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain …

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Unintended consequences: how Somalia's business community, in search of stability, and the USA, in search of terrorists, nearly created a radical Islamic state in the horn of Afric...

Tomlinson, Chris - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 229-238

In the late 1990s, Somalia's business community struggled to profit in a market without any regulation. The government … had collapsed and clan warlords had divvied up the country and the capitol. The business people supported the Islamic …

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Terrorism and business

Frey, Bruno S. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 172-183

here argued that they not only apply to society as a whole but can also usefully be applied by business enterprises. …

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CIBAM and the Symposium on 'Security, Terrorism and Business'

Pitelis, Christos N. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 145-171

We discuss the nature, evolution and functions of the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), paying … attention to its Global Business Symposia, in particular, the one on 'Security, Terrorism and Business'. We also discuss issues … pertaining to terrorism and business, which cover grounds from the introductory talk by this author to the Symposium in question. …

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Ten propositions concerning security, terrorism and business

Clegg, Stewart R. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 184-196

The history of the present is assessed in terms of forecasts that proved to be spectacularly incorrect. Debate about power in the past was largely state-centred but the realisation that the opposite of the state is not a free market but a political anarchy seems to have been forgotten. The...

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Unintended consequences: how Somalia's business community, in search of stability, and the USA, in search of terrorists, nearly created a radical Islamic state in the horn of Afric...

Tomlinson, Chris - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 229-238

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