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resistance to quality control. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes a case in which the philosophy of Herman … resistance to it after six years, using the same philosophical approach. Findings – Economic goals of quality control were … achieved without any substantial employee resistance by addressing non-economic aspects. Apparently, social needs are not …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contributing factors that lead to resistance to change, and … to ascertain the relationship between organizational culture and employee resistance in organizational change programmes … review of the literature pertaining to resistance to change is, secondly, followed by a case study involving an anonymous …
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have input regarding the retail composition of local shopping areas, and that their resistance to new stores can be …
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emerging country. It aims to identify the motivations for rejecting such retail outlets as well as how the resistance that is … generated expresses itself and to point out the amazing precocity of the emergence of this resistance in these developing … structured protest movements in developed countries. In addition, the findings show a two‐fold orientation of this resistance: on …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute with knowledge about how resistance to the neo-liberal agenda is … two ethnographical studies, one of a chamber orchestra and one of a shipping company for illustrating resistance. Findings … – It is resistance through distancing and creation of a “hidden script” that prevents the collective community from be …
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Intro -- Strong Towns -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Human Habitat -- Complex, Adaptive Systems -- Spooky Wisdom -- Systems That Are Merely Complicated -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Incremental Growth -- Complex versus Complicated Buildings -- Neighborhood Renewal -- The Stifling Nature of High...
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Covering the role of trades unions and labour organizations in industrial relations, Industry's Democratic Revolution contains case studies from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Each chapter is authored by a President or Secretary General of...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Money, Weights, and Measures -- Part One: An Old Industry -- Chapter One: French Industry in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter Two: Making Paper -- Chapter Three: The Montgolfiers and Their Craft -- Chapter Four: Rags, Regulation, and Government...
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"Most histories of economic life explore how markets are built. This book looks instead at how they have been dismantled. Soon after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, they began the process of transforming the economy, and indeed all of society, in accordance with communist ideology....
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primary reason for this is not a lack of skill or resources, but resistance …  …
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