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Les Championnats du monde de ski alpin 1987 de Crans‐Montana (CM 87) figurent sans équivoque au rang des grands événements faisant l'objet des réflexions du 37ème Congrès de l'A.I.E.S.T. à Calgary (Canada).

Thus far, no study collects evidence from practitioners directly to investigate the characteristics of operations management (OM) research that appears to have impacts on OM practice, nor do we know how practitioners evaluate the managerial relevance of OM research. This paper aims to answer two interesting and important questions: how do practitioners judge the managerial relevance of OM research; and whether practitioners' criteria on managerial relevance can help OM researchers improve the relevance?

A panel of senior executives was asked to read the top 10 most downloaded papers from the Journal of Operations Management and fill the designed questionnaire. Following Cronbach's cumulative theory‐building process through which progress is made by successively testing the efficacy of the measures, this research examined the diverse disciplines, consolidated relevant findings, and integrated them into a tractable, meaningful research framework.

This paper reveals that practitioners evaluate our OM research by three criteria: whether academic research is applicable or implementable (solution oriented), whether academic research provides novel insights or new perspectives to management (eye opening), and whether academic research helps practitioners recognize their situations (accessibility).

While the awareness of managerial relevance in OM research has been growing, few systematic, quantitative‐oriented empirical studies of practitioners' attitude toward academic OM research exist in current literature. This paper directly explores practitioners' opinions on managerial relevance through quantitative analysis and identified several possible dimensions to pursue managerial relevance in OM research.

A collection of essays by a social economist seeking to balance economics as a science of means with the values deemed necessary to man′s finding the good life and society enduring as a civilized instrumentality. Looks for authority to great men of the past and to today′s moral philosopher: man is an ethical animal. The 13 essays are: 1. Evolutionary Economics: The End of It All? which challenges the view that Darwinism destroyed belief in a universe of purpose and design; 2. Schmoller′s Political Economy: Its Psychic, Moral and Legal Foundations, which centres on the belief that time‐honoured ethical values prevail in an economy formed by ties of common sentiment, ideas, customs and laws; 3. Adam Smith by Gustav von Schmoller – Schmoller rejects Smith′s natural law and sees him as simply spreading the message of Calvinism; 4. Pierre‐Joseph Proudhon, Socialist – Karl Marx, Communist: A Comparison; 5. Marxism and the Instauration of Man, which raises the question for Marx: is the flowering of the new man in Communist society the ultimate end to the dialectical movement of history?; 6. Ethical Progress and Economic Growth in Western Civilization; 7. Ethical Principles in American Society: An Appraisal; 8. The Ugent Need for a Consensus on Moral Values, which focuses on the real dangers inherent in there being no consensus on moral values; 9. Human Resources and the Good Society – man is not to be treated as an economic resource; man′s moral and material wellbeing is the goal; 10. The Social Economist on the Modern Dilemma: Ethical Dwarfs and Nuclear Giants, which argues that it is imperative to distinguish good from evil and to act accordingly: existentialism, situation ethics and evolutionary ethics savour of nihilism; 11. Ethical Principles: The Economist′s Quandary, which is the difficulty of balancing the claims of disinterested science and of the urge to better the human condition; 12. The Role of Government in the Advancement of Cultural Values, which discusses censorship and the funding of art against the background of the US Helms Amendment; 13. Man at the Crossroads draws earlier themes together; the author makes the case for rejecting determinism and the “operant conditioning” of the Skinner school in favour of the moral progress of autonomous man through adherence to traditional ethical values.

Si l'on passe en revue les diverses solutions qui, dans notre époque, ont été inventées dans différents pays pour réaliser l'idée du tourisme social et qui ont déjà été mises en pratique, on vouera une attention particulière à l'étude d'un régime qui a été introduit ces dernières années en Argentine et qui est encore en plein développement. Parmi plusieurs «actions» lancées dans ce domaine, aussi bien par le Gouvernement fédéral que par ceux des provinces, il convient de relever le plan du tourisme social dans la province de Buenos‐Aires. Ceci pour trois raisons: pour l'ampleur de son objectif final, pour les résultats déjà obtenus et, enfin, pour la particularité des solutions appliquées.

GLASGOW was later by about one hundred and thirty years than some of the Scotch towns in establishing a printing press. Three hundred years ago, though Glasgow contained a University with men of great literary activity, including amongst others Zachary Boyd, there does not appear to have been sufficient printing work to induce anyone to establish a printing press. St. Andrews and Aberdeen were both notable for the books they produced, before Glasgow even attempted any printing.

OTHER TYPES OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY 1. Laboratories without student recording facilities. To this category belong the various types of ‘milking machine’. The programme is fed to the students from the master tape recorder (or other source) via (‘audio‐active’) headsets with feed‐back from the students' microphones to their ears, although in the simplest form of this type of installation the student only possesses his headphones.

This chapter explores how department stores came at the end of the 19th century to be at the origin of what is now called “fashion tourism.” Contributing to a new “geography of commerce,” it highlights the role of the space of the department store both as a place of conspicuous fashion consumption and tourism. Further, it demonstrates how Parisian department stores helped consolidate Paris's place as the capital of fashion and luxury. Far from being only places to buy the latest in fashion, the latter became indeed a symbol as quintessentially Parisian as the Eiffel Tower and as necessary to visit for the “Paris experience.”

Of course the predominating subject in British librarianship in the past month was the Manchester Meeting. It was the largest gathering in our recollection, and those who were fortunate enough to attend lived some crowded hours of glorious life. The arrangements showed that the most careful and painstaking labour had gone to their making. The Local Committee and the various librarians in Manchester and the district deserve all possible gratitude, and the Library Association has every reason to congratulate itself upon a conference which ran without fault and which received great and wide publicity.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and extent of intellectual and marketing capital disclosure among fashion companies, specifically to compare intellectual capital (IC) disclosure between European and North American fashion companies as well as between fashion industry sectors.

A coding framework proposed by Guthrie and Petty and adapted by Shareef and Davey was further developed for the fashion context and the top 15 European companies and the top 15 North American companies with accessible 2005 annual reports were analysed.

The voluntary annual report disclosures confirmed brands as highly valuable capital assets, central to competitiveness and differentiation in this industry. Fashion firm disclosures also reflected organisational change processes and philosophies in several cases. However it is concluded that fashion companies do not value the role of the consumer in the brand value dynamic, customer satisfaction, nor customer loyalty as intellectual capital assets.

The limitations include the subjectivity of the coding process and because many fashion houses remain in private ownership.

Many items of IC are marketing related, however the disclosure of marketing capital and the implications for value adding potential needs better understanding. Traditional accounting practices only partially recognise the value of an organisation's intellectual capital and therefore, the organisation's ability to generate wealth in the future is poorly represented.

The findings contribute to the IC disclosure literature in a fresh and unique way by analysing the fashion industry for the first time.