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Whistleblowing: the UK experience. Part 1

Vinten, Gerald - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 9, pp. 935-943

of higher education, and the pivotal territory of financial services, accounting and auditing also are treated. …

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Continuous improvement in the history of human resource management

Langbert, Mitchell; Friedman, Hersh - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 8, pp. 782-787

Human resource management’s challenge is to improve the balance among three competing quality targets: equity …, flexibility and alignment. Management of these targets has improved through four historical periods: the pre …

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The role of economics and industrial relations in the development of the field of personnel/human resource management

Kaufman, Bruce E. - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 10, pp. 962-979

This paper surveys the contribution of economics and industrial relations (E/IR) to the development of the field of … personnel/human resource management (P/HRM). A brief review of existing accounts of the evolution of the field reveals that they … influential and authoritative academic‐based writers came from the ranks of economists and economics‐trained IR scholars. After …

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Origin of the Economic Order Quantity formula; transcription or transformation?

Roach, Bill - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 9, pp. 1262-1268

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to speculate on how the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) formula was developed. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a literature review and analysis. Findings – Ford Whitman Harris's contribution to the EOQ formula is significantly original....

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The impact of salary dispersion and performance bonuses in NFL organizations

Mondello, Mike; Maxcy, Joel - In: Management Decision 47 (2009) 1, pp. 110-123

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the effects of both salary dispersion and incentive pay on team performance using data complied from the National Football League over the years 2000‐2007. Design/methodology/approach – The authors consider the effect of pay structure on both in terms...

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Perception of entrepreneurial opportunity: a general framework

Renko, Maija; Shrader, Rodney C.; Simon, Mark - In: Management Decision 50 (2012) 7, pp. 1233-1251

is developed, based on previous literature and insights from entrepreneurship, economics, psychology and related …

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Economics and business, the theory of the firm revisited: a Scottish perspective

Hornby, Windham B. - In: Management Decision 33 (1995) 1, pp. 33-41

Examines the gap between the microeconomic theory of the firm and business reality. In particular, it seeks to redress the balance between theory and practice by examining the objectives of top Scottish companies. The survey confirms initial expectations that Scottish companies are more...

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Managing operating assets to create value

Byers, Steve S.; Groth, John C.; Wiley, Marilyn K. - In: Management Decision 35 (1997) 2, pp. 133-142

Provides the conceptual structure and practical framework for analysing the effects which changes in operating cycle variables will have on economic value. Focuses on important issues and techniques in analysing and managing raw materials, work in process, finished goods and accounts receivable....

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Marketing in the Gulf States

Leonidou, Leonidas C. - In: Management Decision 29 (1991) 8

An attempt is made to shed some light on the marketing characteristics which prevail in the countries of the Persian Gulf region. This attempt was stimulated by the increasing consumer demand in the area (especially after the end of the Gulf War) as well as the lucrative, but at the same time...

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Towards a stoic interpretation of controllability

Pesqueux, Yvon - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 1, pp. 5-12

Ethics – both within philosophy and in the new disciplines of “applied ethics” and “business ethics” – is a vogue subject these days and, as such, calls for a few cautionary words. The resurgence of ethics has engendered two main schools of criticism: one which sees it as a passing...

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