practice of researchers, which treats innovation unidimensionally, such as a process innovation or a product innovation. A …A major emphasis of modern strategic thinking involves the role innovation plays in the profile of the organization … to the identification of organizational and individual correlates of innovation. This work calls into question the …

development of an overall technology management framework and detailed frameworks and tools for process technology and innovation … and, second, can tools be developed for use in manufacturing, in particular those to do with technology management …

the end of the twentieth century, resistance to the claims of mainstream science and technology has grown to an extent …

It is tempting to begin the process of reorganisation by taking a blank sheet of paper and rearranging squares and … lines. That should, however, be the last step of the process. Redesigning an organisation involves not only thinking about … should be viewed as a deep operational innovation that results in far more than an incremental performance improvement. Much …

The changes to be expected in the marketing field as information technology becomes a more widely accepted phenomenon …

Adoption of technology in academic libraries sets up circumstances for collection of personal patron information and … article describes potential situations where patron privacy can be endangered by the presence of information technology and … records of patron information seeking behaviour not possible in the pre‐digital library. Even if collected unintentionally …

From the perspective of semiotics, “information” is an ambiguous theoretical concept because the word is used to … theoretical possibilities that open by virtue of understanding information as sign. Of particular interest is the way semiotics … suggests ways to bridge the theoretical gap between information as thing and information as cognitive phenomenon by positing …

Manufacturing companies are under pressure to minimize production costs. Reducing downtime and minimizing maintenance … maintenance (TPM) is a relatively recent development. Outlines improving maintenance productivity through structural audit and …

and nationalization of employment, industry skills and educational directives in hospitality and destination and product … strategies. Findings – The work critically accounts for the changing nature of skills needed by localised hospitality managers … market and consumer. The outcome of the paper concerns the operationalisation of soft skills and managerial expertise attuned …