This paper emphasises the importance of business history for analysing labour market structures and practices in financial markets in the United Kingdom and more particularly at Barclays De Zoete Wedd (BZW), the international investment banking arm of the British bank Barclays plc. By adopting...

The purpose of this article is to outline the core principles of Integrative Improvement (II) in comparison with current development approaches, describe key features of II and briefly comment on II in relation to the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach of the United Kingdom Department for...

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

This article focuses partly on the interaction between a company headquarter and the divisions and partly on how new IT technologies can influence this process. Specifically, the influence of a newly developed Data Warehouse sys-tem organization of supply is investigated. Based on earlier...

Not only business companies but also Universities are subject to change. This change leads to a development of these institutions or rather an assimilation to changing surrounding conditions. Due to reduction of school years for passing the German Abitur and the abolition of compulsory military...

This paper is an evaluation of an attempt to apply managerial tools and techniques initially developed for industry in the health care sector. In 1999, Sunderby hospital was opened and the result of extensive organisational development became subject to an evaluation of whether goals in terms of...

This research aims at understanding the processes followed by the learning and development (L%D) team of Tata Communications Ltd. (TCL) and benchmarking their processes with those used at six other leading organisations. There are two key focus areas of the case: measuring training programme...

This research investigates the study of the concept of adaptation as a foundation to guide management in creating a planning and scheduling system. The review paper identifies theories that are being studied in relation to the process of adaptation using genetic algorithms as well as adaptive...