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Coordination and responsiveness issues in SME supply chains: a review

Kumar, Ravinder; Kumar Singh, Rajesh - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 24 (2017) 3, pp. 635-650

synthesize different issues related to the coordination and responsiveness of supply chain management in SMEs, through a review … chain risks effectively. Research gaps are identified in different areas of the supply chain such as coordination and … paper explores the major areas for research on coordination and responsiveness of SME supply chains. The findings of the …

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Capacity development in fragile environments: Insights from parliaments in Africa

Rugumamu, Severine M. - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 2/3/4, pp. 113-175

Capacity development in fragile environments in Africa has often proven to be a complex undertaking. This has largely been because of existing knowledge gaps on what exactly causes fragility of states, the economy and society. The liberal peace development model that generally informs...

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Social value in policies for children: contract or culture?

Jordan, Bill - In: Journal of Children's Services 3 (2008) 3, pp. 65-75

Both the collapse of the financial system and the recent child protection scandals in the UK illustrate the limitations of the contract model for regulating social interactions. This article argues that the economic orthodoxy that has dominated recent public policy in the affluent Anglophone...

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Reaffirming public‐private partnerships in retirement pension provision

McKinnon, Roddy; Charlton, Roger - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 2, pp. 153-168

contribute positively to the management and delivery of old‐age pensions. Argues further that the social welfare …

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Accommodating Multiple Objectives in the Design of Customer Treatment Operations

Morris, Barbara - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 8 (1988) 3, pp. 86-94

An examination of the extent to which design principles based on commercial ideas of customer satisfaction and resource productivity are relevant in operating systems where there are multiple customers for the service, or where the customer is dependent on the service provider is carried out....

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Economic value of tradable farmland use rights and mortgage loans in China

Holly Wang, H. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 68 (2008) 2, pp. 289-300

shows farmers’ welfare gain in the presence of such mortgage loans with a theoretical model. Cases of risks and asymmetric …

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Wealth: the forgotten aspect of welfare in Ireland

Reeves, Eoin; O’Sullivan, Eoin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 2, pp. 45-51

of information are: the perceived irrelevance of the wealth distribution as an indicator of welfare; the problems …

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Resource allocation, investment decision and economic welfare: capitalism, socialism and Islam

Abdul Mannan Chowdhury, M. - In: Managerial Finance 25 (1999) 5, pp. 34-51

economic system, which rejects interest but considers moral factors and the will of Allah when measuring welfare. Explains how … these ideas can be expressed in the accounting price of capital (for objective factors) and by Islamic welfare criteria; and … how they differ from the Pareto Criterion and capitalist concepts of utility. Lists four principles and 12 welfare …

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Designing Employee Welfare Provision

Davis, Ann; Gibson, Lucy - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 7, pp. 33-45

disadvantages of different approaches to tertiary welfare provision. …

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Evaluating EAPs

Carolyn Highley, J.; Cooper, Cary L. - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 7, pp. 46-59

Until recently most evaluations of EAPs have been qualitative. In the US there has been a move towards insisting on hard data, i.e. cost‐benefit ratios. The nature of EAPs makes identification of a clear outcome oriented model of intervention difficult if not impossible. Discusses different...

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