The goal of this article is to better understand the diffusion of environmentally preferable manufacturing technology (as distinct from pollution control technology) in small-and medium-sized firms (SMEs) and the influence of technical assistance programs on the diffusion of these technologies....

The environment draws great attention today from many people and businesses.Some companies are beginning to play off these concerns in their marketingapproach, while others dodge the topic at all turns. While many people feel wehave serious environmental problems, others do not. It is a subject...

In spite of its advantages over manual estimating methods,computer assisted estimating (CAE) lacks acceptance in the printingindustry today. Possible reasons for non-acceptance are: 1) the costof CAE, 2) CAE's lack of versatility, 3) printing manager's lackof knowledge on the subject of CAE...

Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

Company-initiated training has become an increasingly important activity in printingfirms because of the digital revolution in the industry which started in the mid 1980's.Previously, almost every step in prepress, press and finishing was analog, but today theworkflow can be 100 percent digital...

The printing industry in Sub-Sahara Africa faces numerous problems inhibiting further growth and development. Because of a scarcity of published information regarding these problems, and regarding the nature of the industry in general, this study hoped to establish a beginning and baseline for...

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This research investigates the new psychological contract phenomenon in an organisational case study. The research question underpinning this study is - What are the core attributes of the new employment relationship? To investigate this research question, the researcher applied Noer's (1997)...

This study focuses on the determinants for the development of a human resource strategyin the Provincial Government Western Cape (PGWC).The context is that a new regulatoryframework for human resource development in South Africa, namely the National HumanResource Development Strategy (NHRDS) was...

This paper seeks to identify what scholars and policy-makers in several arenas mean by "human resource development" (HRD), and what are their shared and different assumptions and objectives, with particular reference to small/medium enterprises (SMEs). The characteristics of successful SMEs are...