Well over 50 per cent of a manufacturing company′s resources are found in Operations. Long‐ and short‐term success demands deploying these resources – money, time, material and people – on the right problems and their solution. Unfortunately, traditional accounting‐driven performance...

Marketing signals, whereupon marketing activities provide information beyond the activity itself, can be implemented in a variety of marketing activities including advertising, pricing, quality control, and competitive reactions. Examines marketing signals as they are used in the industrial...

Contends that broadcast communications ‐ including video magazines, direct satellite transmission, CD‐ROM distribution to desktop PCs ‐ is the fastest growing medium for corporate communication, both external and internal. Illustrates the potential of broadcast business television (BTV) to...

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A HREF="http://personal.vu.nl/b.vander.klaauw/promotions.htm">'Journal of Population Economics'</A>, 2011, 24, 1513-1548. <P> We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the...</p></a>