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Counting to zero: accounting for a green building

Georg, Susse; Justesen, Lise - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 5, pp. 1065-1081

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how a particular form of environmental accounting, energy accounting, is negotiated in practice and how energy accounting may act as a productive organizing device in organizational contexts. Energy accounting is considered as performative in...

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On the relationship between financial and non-financial factors : A case study analysis of financial failure predictors of agribusiness firms in Australia

Purves, Nigel; Niblock, Scott James; Sloan, Keith - In: Agricultural Finance Review 75 (2015) 2, pp. 282-300

the stress level within the organization and the management skill base. Practical implications – The cases studied …

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Stretching risk management standards: multi-organizational perspectives

Lehtiranta, Liisa; Junnonen, Juha-Matti - In: Built Environment Project and Asset Management 4 (2014) 2, pp. 128-145

Purpose – Standard frameworks for project risk management (RM) are currently mostly focussed on single-firm organizations, whereas in practice, construction project RM involves multiple organizations. The purpose of this paper is to identify and systematically maps practical processes that...

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Do we practise what we preach? : Are knowledge management systems in practice truly reflective of knowledge management systems in theory?

Wickramasinghe, Nilmini - In: Business Process Management Journal 9 (2003) 3, pp. 295-316

Knowledge management systems are predominant in both theory and practice. However, are the same systems discussed in theory actualized in practice? By comparing and contrasting knowledge management systems in theory and practice, this paper demonstrates that they are indeed dissimilar. In...

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Grey literature management in Iranian medical science libraries

Doulani, Abbas; Ansari, Nasim; Mirezati, Seyedeh Zahra; … - In: Collection and Curation 40 (2020) 3, pp. 112-121

in terms of three dimensions, collection development, organization and dissemination. Design/methodology/approach In this … (demographic characteristics, the use of the term GL, types of GL, collection development, organization and dissemination). In … common way of obtaining GL was through deposition. The analysis of the status of GL organization indicated that 80 per cent …

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Towards an integrated approach to corporate branding – an empirical study

Einwiller, Sabine; Will, Markus - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 7 (2002) 2, pp. 100-109

Based on the findings of an empirical study among communication executives in 11 multinational companies we propose an increasingly integrated approach to corporate branding. Key aspects which support our claim are the growing importance of the financial community, the augmenting skills shortage...

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Fun times: the relationship between fun and workplace engagement

Plester, Barbara; Hutchison, Ann - In: Employee Relations 38 (2016) 3, pp. 332-350

behaviours at all levels of each organization. The specific focus of the research is organizational culture and humour and during … organization itself. Conversely the data also suggest that for some people managed or organic fun (see Plester et al. , 2015 …

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The fun paradox

Plester, Barbara; Cooper-Thomas, Helena; Winquist, Joanne - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 3, pp. 380-398

Purpose – Fun means different things to different people and the purpose of this paper is to attempt to answer the question “what is fun at work?”. Given that perceptions of fun differ among people, the answer is that a pluralistic concept of fun best captures different notions of what...

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Developing individual and organisational work-life balance strategies to improve employee health and wellbeing

Zheng, Connie; Molineux, John; Mirshekary, Soheila; … - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 3, pp. 354-379

Purpose – Work-life balance (WLB) is an issue of focus for organisations and individuals because individuals benefit from having better health and wellbeing when they have WLB and this, in turn, impacts on organisational productivity and performance. The purpose of this paper is to explore...

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Managing people’s values and perceptions in multi‐cultural organisations : The experience of an HR director

Holden, Richard - In: Employee Relations 23 (2001) 6, pp. 614-626

Examines the problems and pitfalls of managing multi‐cultural organisations from a corporate perspective. The author, a practising HR director, makes use of his work experience of three companies to analyse the difficulties arising from different values, perceptions and cultures in MNCs....

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