Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the labour contract system (LCS) established by the Freedmen’s Bureau after the American Civil War to normalise relations between freed-slaves and their former masters and to uphold their rights as free citizens. In particular, it explains the...

This paper condenses 17 personal interviews that were conducted with top executives, middle managers, and union officials in the U.S. men's tailored clothing industry. Each of the interviewees had participatory knowledge about procedures that impact standard cost numbers: piece rates, time...

Traditional, single time-period models of quality cost expenditures assume static conditions and ignore the impact of the learning curve effect on a firmÕs product quality, and that of quality improvement efforts by the competitors. In this paper we incorporate both factors in a dynamic model...