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and the newly industrialized countries. Then examines recent developments in economics and management which may explain …
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Defendant offers into court is common procedural device aimed at increasing the probability that pre‐trial negotiations will lead to out of court settlement. Both in the UK following the Woolf Report and the Cullen Report and in the USA, the idea of extending the arrangement to plaintiff...
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both sides of industry are examined. While British management and industries are somewhat hesitant in responding to new …
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Examines the efficiency and effectiveness of a prescriptive systems development methodology in practice. The UK Government’s mandatory structured systems analysis and design method (SSADM) was examined to determine its value to software projects. The evidence was collected from interviews with...
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reforms on professional identity, which inevitably yielded information on management processes. This paper adapts and expands … monitoring and accountability. This expanded model can be used in management evaluation by categorising attitudes in high …‐order hierarchist, entrepreneurialist, covert fatalist or pseudo‐egalitarianist management trends. A manager drawn from a profession who …
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functional management and reward systems at all levels.  …
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Awareness of inconsistencies and variability in the delivery of health services across the UK has heightened in recent years, leading to general acknowledgement that a move away from “health care by post code” is a strategic priority for the National Health Service (NHS). NHS Direct, a call...
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Purpose – The purpose of this work is to provide an overview of the current debate over copyright piracy and its control in Western countries, especially the use of graduated response laws in countries like the UK, and provide some thoughts and lessons on better responses that may be adopted...
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This article considers the very important issue of the expectations that employers in the hotel sector hold regarding graduate entrants. The article reports on a study in the UK which replicates and compares findings with a similar survey in the USA – 36 key competencies were rated by 118...
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Yield Management is a scientific theory which aims to maximize profit yields for perishable commodities. Birmingham … sample of nine city hotel managers to ascertain attitudes to yield management. In addition, objective data were collected to … that a move to an organized yield management system would not prove a major upheaval, but that the effects on unit …
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