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size of organisation. This paper describes how the quality and reliability (Q&R) team of the Warwick Manufacturing Group …
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suggesting that family can function as a buffer. …
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This paper argues for a critical reclaiming of family and highlights the risks associated with decentring such a … powerful and pervasive concept. Influential critiques of family as an organising category are considered in the context of a … and nature of relations raised through the lens of family. In particular the political consequences of subsuming family …
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continues to have limited competence in areas of family, social, and welfare policy. As a result, these common employment … mainstreaming in all aspects of European employment policy. There is an implied Europe-wide, universal policy of encouraging female … objectives for women are thus being pursued against a background of quite different systems of social, family, welfare, and …
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; constraints created by family and household responsibilities; and perceptions of normality. It is suggested that unless such …, it is argued that there needs to be a much more integrated approach to transport policy that combines interventions to …
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achieve such objective. Any territorial cohesion policy approach, which would not built on coordination mechanisms would … "degrade" in an own sector policy. Coordination mechanisms represent the main tools for achieving territorial cohesion, as the … specification. In practical terms, this means that a discussion of the policy objectives is important in order to progress on the …
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achieve such objective. Any territorial cohesion policy approach, which would not built on coordination mechanisms would … "degrade" in an own sector policy. Coordination mechanisms represent the main tools for achieving territorial cohesion, as the … specification. In practical terms, this means that a discussion of the policy objectives is important in order to progress on the …
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The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other factors, the commitments that several countries have acquired in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals and the current political situation which gives a more prominent...
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We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...
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