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The essence of the lessons from Japanese industry are abstracted so that it is possible to relate productivity …
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Japan's superior quality and high growth rate of productivity. Just‐In‐Time (JIT) is one of the best known Japanese … production system requires many changes in the organisation; yet successful implementation results in improved productivity and …
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corporate productivity are a flexible sense of involvement in duties, an enterprising forwardness in doing these duties and …
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Japan's adoption (and adaption) of QC circles 10 years earlier than most of the rest of the world, and the role this … has played in Japan's advancement as an industrialised nation, is examined. The growth of circles in Japan is charted, and …
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This paper attempts to examine which theory is best at explaining the geographic concentration in Java, an island in which most of the Indonesia’s large and medium manufacturing industries have located overwhelmingly. Our previous studies on Java have found that there was a stable – albeit...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework for the legal classification of trading venues in financial markets. Currently, there is no clear definition of when a trading platform should be classified as multilateral or bilateral. This paper builds a theoretical...
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Natural wine was not a factor in South Africa until after 1935. However, the hybrid Pinotage was produced in the 1920's and the now quasi government KWV representing wine farmers, was far reachingly empowered to fix the price of distilling wine. South Africa is traditionally a national brandy...
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The paper uses annual and pooled data on Australian banks for the years 1994 to 1996 to test the two competing hypotheses of market structure and performance; namely, the structure‐conduct‐performance hypothesis (in concentrated markets firms derive higher profits due to collusion) and the...
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The forecast revision process is shaped by the environment in terms of the nature of the revision activity and in terms of its perceived effectiveness. A study on forecast revision focuses on the variables that describe the market situation for a product and so shape the context within which...
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Over the past 30 years, both the governmental and private sectors have made use of a feedback mechanism, which helps improve the quality of environments: post‐occupancy evaluation (POE) or similar systematic processes, which gauge the satisfaction with, and importance of, the designed and...
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