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An investigation of the impact of internal labour markets in the hotel industry

Jago, Leo Kenneth; Deery, Margaret - 2004

Maintaining a stable and competitive workforce is a key element of the role of management, and there has emerged a … management tool. Past studies by labour market researchers have confirmed the value of the components of an ILM, yet none has …-supervisory hotel employees. The findings suggest that the use of a holistic ILM strategy could provide a new means for management to …

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Dynamic relations between stock prices and exchange rates in Sri Lanka: some empirical evidence

Wickremasinghe, Guneratne B - 2006

This paper examines the dynamic relations between stock prices and exchange rates in Sri Lanka. We use monthly data on four foreign exchange rates and the All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange for the period January 1986 to December 2004 in the empirical analysis. The time...

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An empirical examination of the stakeholder strategy matrix

Polonsky, Michael Jay; Scott, Don - 2005

Purpose - This paper seeks to examine whether the stakeholder strategy matrix provides useful guidance for managers in dealing with stakeholders. The matrix suggests that strategies for dealing with stakehoders can be determined based on stakeholder ability to cooperate adn threaten...

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Close menu-planner/supplier relationship vital for successful new product development

Roberts, Linda Margaret - 2001

There has been little research undertaken on foodservice buying behaviour and so there are no models to describe it. This is of concern, for when suppliers develop new foodservice products they need to understand the purchasing decision process and the factors that affect the purchasing...

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Modeling seasonality in tourism forecasting

Kulendran, Nada; Wong, Kevin K. F - 2005

Within the multiplicative seasonal ARIMA modeling context, there are two forecasting models, RIMA14 and ARIMA1. ARIMA14 is used for modeling stochastic nonstationary seasonality and requires first and fourth differences to achieve stationarity. ARIMA1 considers the series only in first...

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Corporate sustainability: challenge to managerial orthodoxies

Dunphy, Dexter - 2003

emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which … underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management …

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Incremental innovation and business performance: small and medium-size food enterprises in a concentrated industry environment

Bhaskaran, Suku - 2005

Past studies have analyzed issues pertaining to the definition of innovation, methods of measuring innovation and the relationship between organizational characteristics and innovation orientation. Extant studies have adopted a large business or a technologically intense context of study. By...

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A framework for separation of duties in an SAP R/3 environment

Little, Adam G.; Best, Peter J. - 2003

[Abstract]: The majority of medium-to-large international organizations have adopted enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) of which SAP R/3 is the current market leader. This paper proposes a framework for the separation of duties in SAP R/3. Separation of duties is viewed as a critical...

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Utilisation and restrictiveness of covenants in Australian private debt contracts

Cotter, Julie - 1998

This paper investigates the accounting based covenants typically contained in the private debt contracts of listed Australian firms. In particular, cross sectional determinants of variation in covenant utilisation and restrictiveness are investigated. The primary source of data presented in the...

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The future of the changing face of women managers in Asia

Rowley, Chris; Yukongdi, Vimolwan - 2009

range of management, organisations and sectors, including services (IT, media, retail, hotels, finance, research and … using the common format that allowed the main contours of women in management to be traced in a similar manner with … and managers who succeeded in developing exceptional management styles. These case studies provide more specific …

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