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Modernising pathology services: modelling effective IT project collaboration
Wainwright, David W.; Shaw, Christopher S. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 26 (2013) 4, pp. 268-282
‐organisational IT systems across NHS hospital pathology departments. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers adopted an … pathology. Originality/value – This study investigates the anatomy of a high‐profile IT project under the umbrella of strategic …
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Applying lean flows in pathology laboratory remodelling
J. Hayes, Kathryn; Reed, Nick; Fitzgerald, Anneke; … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 28 (2014) 2, pp. 229-246
to pathology laboratory remodelling as part of a lean rapid improvement event (RIE). Design …/methodology/approach – Longitudinal case study of a lean RIE linking emergency and pathology departments focusing on the systematic application of lean …. Originality/value – To the best of the authors’ knowledge this is the first comprehensive report applying lean flows to pathology …
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Metasystem pathologies (M-Path) method: phases and procedures
Katina, Polinpapilinho Freeman - In: Journal of Management Development 35 (2016) 10, pp. 1287-1301
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic method for practitioners (owners, operators, designers, and performers) to identify pathologies (aberrations from healthy system function) in complex systems. Design/methodology/approach A range of published works, which aim to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014883897
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Cross‐laboratory benchmarking in pathology
France, Necia C.; Francis, Graham A.J. - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 12 (2005) 6, pp. 523-538
tool for a national pathology service comprising both public and private service providers. Design … potential advantages and pitfalls in comparative pathology benchmarking for expenditure control. They also identified some … to New Zealand pathology services as a useful service rationalisation tool and a realistic price‐signalling device …
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Baby Boomers of different nations
Sudbury-Riley, Lynn; Kohlbacher, Florian; Hofmeister, Agnes - In: International Marketing Review 32 (2015) 3/4, pp. 245-278
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate self-perceived age among Baby Boomers in the UK, Germany, Japan, and Hungary, and identifies two horizontal segments based on the way consumers view their age. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaires were used to sample 880 Baby...
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How global brands create firm value: the 4V model
Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict - In: International Marketing Review 31 (2014) 1, pp. 5-29
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework – the 4V model – for better understanding how global brands create firm value. Organized around the global brand value chain, the 4V model includes four sets of value-creating activities: first, valued brands; second,...
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The Woman’s Budget Bureau: friendship and consumption in Australia
Dickenson, Jackie - In: Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 8 (2016) 3, pp. 434-451
Purpose This paper aims to reveal the marshalling of an emotion – loneliness – over time for the construction of relationships between advertisers and consumers between 1909 and 1934, paying attention to the shifting contexts in which these relationships were built, maintained and extended....
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Cold War binaries and the culture of consumption in the late Soviet home
Reid, Susan E. - In: Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 8 (2016) 1, pp. 17-43
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to challenge Cold War binaries, seeking a more nuanced understanding of popular experience of change in the Soviet Union’s last decades. This was a period of intensive modernization and rapid transformation in Soviet citizens’ everyday material...
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From segments and lifestyles to communities‐light
Mossinkoff, Marco; Corstanje, Charlotte - In: Journal of Islamic Marketing 2 (2011) 2, pp. 154-164
Purpose – The ethnic marketing field has long recognized the need to address specific needs and tastes of ethnic minorities in traditionally Western‐dominant societies. However, it has done so mainly by considering socio‐demographic indicators such as ethnic provenance. The growing...
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Consumer xenocentrism in China: an exploratory study
Mueller, Rene Dentiste; Wang, George Xun; Liu, Guoli; … - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 28 (2016) 1, pp. 73-91
Purpose – Marketing research has focussed more on in-group favoritism and out-group derogation (i.e. ethnocentrism) than out-group favoritism and in-group derogation (i.e. xenocentrism). The purpose of this paper is to explore the xenocentric behavior in the consumer sphere to explain why some...
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