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Responsibility in a globalised environment: a charter of human responsibilities

Opdebeeck, Hendrik - In: Journal of Global Responsibility 3 (2012) 1, pp. 111-120

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how one can prevent the flaws or dark sides of the globalisation process from leading to ever‐greater decay of responsibility. By decay of responsibility, is meant the threat that globalisation poses to what is referred to by philosophers...

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Revising the concept and forms of benchmarking

Kyrö, Paula - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 10 (2003) 3, pp. 210-225

This study suggests that the most recent developments in the content, forms and targets of benchmarking represent a challenge to revise its concept and classification for both theoretical and practical purposes. This problem is approached through the interpretative, heuristic‐descriptive...

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Actor‐networking stakeholder theory for today's corporate communications

Luoma‐aho, Vilma; Paloviita, Ari - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 15 (2010) 1, pp. 49-67

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest a need to widen stakeholder theory to include non‐human influences to better describe the complex corporate environment. Drawing from actor‐network theory, non‐human entities may “translate” new, unexpected stakeholders to support...

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The Business Genome Project and the advancement of business practice

Wilkinson, Ian F.; Crossfield, Roy - In: European Business Review 20 (2008) 4, pp. 331-349

Purpose – Business innovation comes from combining, recombining and modifying existing ideas, knowledge and know‐how in new ways. The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to accelerating the business innovation process by priming the combining and recombining process, called the...

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The old, the new and the complicated ‐ A trilogy of marketing relationships

Healy, Marilyn; Hastings, Kathleen; Brown, Les; … - In: European Journal of Marketing 35 (2001) 1/2, pp. 182-193

The boundaries of relationship marketing have been discussed since relationship marketing was first investigated in the 1970s. Investigating these boundaries, this paper reviews the links between relationship marketing and network theory. Three main themes of marketing relationships are...

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Islamic social capital and networking

Hassan Farooqi, Abul - In: Humanomics 22 (2006) 2, pp. 113-125

Purpose – The Islamic social capital is characterised by a desire for moral values in production and networking which … on Islamic ethics helps to solve problems such as free‐riding and the bottle‐neck of networking. Orginality/value – The … study shows that Islamic economic theory not only identifies circumstances in which communitarian institutions can function …

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The impact of gender, social capital and networks on business ownership: a research agenda

Neergaard, Helle; Shaw, Eleanor; Carter, Sara - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 11 (2005) 5, pp. 338-357

owner networking which is informed by social support theory. Design/methodology/approach – To develop a conceptual model of … business owner networking the paper reviews extant small business network research and argues that, while network theory can … business network research and proposes a conceptual model of business owner networking which may be better suited to and more …

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Comments on Yammarino's “Levels of analysis and the US Constitution” : Organization theory beyond “the firm”

Jelinek, Mariann - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 16 (2008) 3, pp. 194-197

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to respond to Yammarino's “Levels of analysis and the US Constitution”. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a conceptual assessment of the approach of Yammarino, suggesting an extension beyond “the” organization to groups of...

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Critical complexities: From marginal paradigms to learning networks

Magala, Slawomir - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 312-333

centralized. In boundary‐less correlations all critical research paradigms are subjected to a networking and re‐networking at all …

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Managing creativity and innovation : The challenge for cultural entrepreneurs

Wilson, Nicholas. C.; Stokes, David - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 12 (2005) 3, pp. 366-378

Purpose – To distinguish managing creativity from managing innovation and highlight the importance for cultural entrepreneurs of recognising the differences between the two. Design/methodology/approach – Based on government‐sponsored research project looking at access to finance in the UK...

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