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Action inquiry strategies: taking stock and moving forward
Ellis, John H.M.; Kiely, Julia - 2000
By focusing on the dynamics of action inquiry strategies, this paper has framed the way in which the process is characterised and the potential of this approach for applied management research. The relationship between improved knowledge through action and improved action through reflection is...
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Success in selling - the current challenge in banking
Kiely, Julia; Stephenson, B. - 1991
is most likely to be successfully accomplished by top-down target setting based on corporate business objectives. …
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Which is the risk and which is to be managed?
Navare, J. - 2003
Based on the belief that it is behaviour which constitutes risk rather than procedures, the paper focuses on the awareness of behavioural aspects in risk management techniques and the consequences that arise out of this awareness. It questions the traditional thinking that risk management is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429873
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Compliance competent life assurance companies: a partnership approach
Edwards, Jonathan M. - 2003
partnership. It focuses on investment business and the resulting importance of conduct of business regulation. It reviews the …
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Pooling for Combination of Multi Level Forecasts
Riedel, Silvia; Gabrys, Bogdan - 2009
In this paper we provide a theoretical analysis of effects of applying different forecast diversification methods on the structure of the forecast error covariance matrices and decomposed forecast error components based on the bias- variance- Bayes error decomposition of James and Hastie. We...
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Strangers on the train: the relationship of the IT department with the rest of the business
Day, Jacqui - 2006
relationship between the in-house IT department and other parts of the business. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, IT …
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The Importance of Location in Pop Up Retailing
Marciniak, Ruth; Budnarowska, Corinna - 2010
Despite pop-up stores being a retail format that is both temporary and mobile, as with other physical stores, despite their mobility, location considerations may be assumed necessary for their success. This paper reports on a study that examined locational drivers for this form of retailing and...
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Bournemouth Town Centre: A ‘Clone Town’ or a potential fashion destination?
Budnarowska, Corinna - 2008
Bournemouth, like many other towns in the UK, has appeared to have fallen victim to what the New Economics Foundation (NEF) are calling ‘clone town Britain’. High rents have put space at a premium, and in a bid to provide much needed High Street brands the town has begun to overlook the...
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A Framework for knowledge-based diagnosis and improvement planning of business processes.
Nikitan, Ivan - 2011
planning of business processes. The outcome is a soundly based framework that can provide additional leverage within … incorporating knowledge processes and newer knowledge management perspectives into business process improvement initiatives. The … of the link between knowledge management and business process improvement. The study also contributes an extended design …
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Unemployment and life satisfaction: a non-linear adaptation process
Georgellis, Yannis; Gregoriou, Andros; Healy, Jerome; … - 2008
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to model the dynamic path of adjustment towards pre-unemployment levels of wellbeing for a group of full-time workers who experienced job loss. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data from the German Socio-economic Panel, a large-scale panel survey,...
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