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Herbig, Paul A.; Palumbo, Frederick A. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 96 (1996) 5, pp. 11-20

capita income basis and second only to the USA in GNP. Contends that Japan has virtually conquered the US consumer …

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Kumar, Ashok; Motwani, Jaideep - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 96 (1996) 6, pp. 14-19

Discusses the steps taken by Laser Inc. in the development and implementation of a statistical process control (SPC) system for two specific production lines. The SPC programme included a total of 16 steps. Explains each of these steps. Suggests that they are comprehensive in nature and can be...

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External influences in the cross‐cultural negotiation process

Herbig, Paul - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 97 (1997) 4, pp. 158-168

Internationalization, the buzzword of the 1980s, has become the necessity for firms to survive in the 1990s. Contact with foreign firms is a given for US businesses. With this contact comes the issue of cross‐cultural negotiations. How do US businesses prepare themselves and conduct such...

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The Just Wage and the Two‐earner Family

Guerin, Joseph R. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 3, pp. 5-8

Catholic social teaching has held that a just wage is one that provides adequate support for a family in which the husband is employed and the wife stays at home to care for the family. In the United States today, both parents are typically employed. Does each parent have a right to a wage...

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American Exceptionalism and the Economic Role of the Public Sector: Canada and the US Compared

Lucore, Robert E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 3, pp. 34-43

The American public exhibits an exceptionally strong bias against public sector activity in the economy. Why this is so is investigated by applying the traditional literature on “American exceptionalism” and the comparative method. A defence of an active role for government in the economy is...

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Mechanistic Physiology and Institutional Economics: Jacques Loeb and Thorstein Veblen

Rasmussen, Charles T.; Tilman, Rick - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 10/11/12, pp. 235-247

Discusses the correspondence and use of each other′s ideas of Loeb and Veblen which are seen to be significant both in understanding the evolution of their own thought and as commentary on the times.

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Capital‐Labour Tensions and Liberal Economic Thought

Wisman, Jon D. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 10/11/12, pp. 279-297

contract theory. Explores how this narrowing of focus has cast an important source of contemporary social dynamics into the … industrial economies, with special attention given to the case of the USA. Concludes with a discussion of how intensified …

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The Making of an American Communist: William Z. Foster

O'Donnell, L.A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 20 (1993) 5/6/7, pp. 142-152

Analyses the career of William Zebulon Foster, a leader of the American Communist Party, and a three‐time candidate for President of the United States under that party′s banner. Foster rose from the slums of Philadelphia to earn the reputation of an accomplished labour organizer and then to...

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Forging a Catholic‐Evangelical alliance in the American context

O’Neil, Daniel J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 9/10/11, pp. 90-108

Explores the possibility and probability of a Catholic‐Evangelical alliance within the US social arena. Notes the numerical strength and systemic importance of each tradition. Examines the histories, tenets, politics, economic teachings and lifestyles of the two respective orientations. Cites...

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Catholic and Evangelical élites in dialogue and alliance

Rutan, Gerard F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 9/10/11, pp. 109-134

classical élite theory to explain the dialogue better. Generates a seven‐postulate hypothesis to answer the question posed by … the context and the application of élite theory: can self‐selected micro‐élites maintain their alliance and accommodation … ruling and adaptive ones) the application of élite theory offers an unconventional understanding of alliance building, as …

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