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PHOTOGRAPHIC details of various aircraft and missiles recently released in conjunction with the Soviet air show at Tushino Airport on July 9, 1961, has provided a basis for the start of an evaluation of Soviet air‐to‐air rocket weapons. These pictorial data, coupled with Russian textbooks, as well as evidence of Soviet interest in the guided‐missile work of the Western Powers, indicated by the material that has been translated from English into Russian,1 has led to this brief evaluation of their work in this field.

THIS paper is not intended to provide any startling revelations of Soviet technology but is a detailed survey and analysis of contemporary developments in Soviet turbine powered transport aircraft. The major portion of the work is based on Soviet sources of information in an attempt to assure authenticity and accuracy.

An Assessment of the Basic Design and Performance Based on a Heavily Retouched Photograph of a Large Ballistic Missile which was published in the December 4, 1962, edition of Kransnaya Zvezda (‘Red Star’). FOR the first time in any open literature source, the December 4, 1962, edition of Kransnaya Zvezda or Red Star, the daily newspaper of the Soviet Department of Defence, carried a very heavily retouched photograph of a very large ballistic missile with a caption describing the missile as their strategic rocket ready for launch. This photograph of a large rocket had obviously been heavily retouched so that little of its detail construction was identifiable. The rocket itself appears to have been cut out and pasted on to a photograph of a winter scene (fig. 1).

This study aims to improve the understanding of the relationship between organizational slack and firm performance for high technology initial public offerings (IPOs).

Using cluster analysis the paper investigates configurations of slack and their associated performance implications.

The findings indicate the existence of distinct configurations of slack resources and associated performance differences among the configurations. Implications of the findings for managerial practice and future research are discussed.

The purpose of this study is to extend slack measurement research by examining the slack and performance relationship in high‐technology IPOs from a configurational perspective.

Taken and adapted from an article by the Determinants of Health working group of the National Forum on Health. Discusses people’s ideas about health and healthcare and their views on medicare.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the non-academic impact in supply chain management (SCM) research through the application of three distinctive approaches to phenomenological methodology in different contexts.

Evidence-based examples from three case studies using interpretivist, social constructivist and critical realist methodologies are presented. They reflect non-positivist approaches commonly used in phenomenological methodology and adopted in SCM investigative research.

Different types of non-academic reach and significance from each research methodology are discussed to illustrate the non-academic impact benefits from each case. The three distinctive phenomenological approaches have been shown to contribute to innovative research methodology development on their own philosophical merit and produced novel contributions to SCM research in particular.

The non-academic impact examples have been shown to have wider influence and implication to business, the economy and society at large.

The paper highlights the relevance of phenomenological research methodology for SCM. It also contributes to the development of the SCM subject area and is hoped to encourage further reporting of non-academic impact of supply chain research.

It is contended that the theory and practice of qualitative research is an integral part of a comprehensive marketing course. Both postgraduate and undergraduate students of marketing may be expected to be familiar with, and have experience of, qualitative techniques. Focus groups are arguably the most frequently employed qualitative technique, and as such are used as a starting point for the study of qualitative research. Their accepted advantages of speed, flexibility and economy, together with the rich data generated, make qualitative methods eminently suitable for student research, with its attendant limitations on time and money. A detailed practical guide to the procedures for planning, conducting and analysing focus groups is presented.

Past research has shown that consumers believe there is a strong relationship between price and quality; they also believe there is a strong relationship between brand and quality. Therefore, when comparing similar pieces of apparel, items with a designer brand or a higher price are perceived, by most customers, to be of higher quality. The purpose of this study was to compare the pricing and quality of identical designer merchandise sold in department stores and manufacturers’ outlet stores. The researchers found no significant differences in the quality of apparel sold in the two retail formats; however, there was a significant difference in the price. The department store merchandise was 31 per cent higher in price than the outlet store merchandise.

There are three themes in this short paper. First, a brief historical context; second, the semantics of ‘dangerousness’ and ‘risk’; third, some issues that emerge from recent inquiries into homicides committed by persons known to the psychiatric service.

The major contribution of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework to coachee success and to identify the most relevant resources for coachee success.

This article attempts to determine the constructs of coaching success through a systematic literature review. The review identified 1,048,880 papers. From these, the authors selected 39 articles for the research. From these articles, the main elements of coaching success were identified.

The main elements of coaching success are coach quality, coachee engagement, coaching process, coaching reflection, behaviors resulting from coaching and coachee success. Coach quality, coaching process and coachee are often considered as key variables to success. Coachee's behavior is linked to performance but approaches to effectful coaching vary.

Coachee success is connected with the coach's emotional skills and the formality process. Success requires communication, interpersonal relationship, planning, goal setting and progress monitoring. An interplay between the coach and the coachee's emotional skills and the formality process enables success. In business, where employees usually work in their chosen profession, coaching is a tool for education and improvement that brings positive results to the organization.

On a personal level, it can lead to greater self-knowledge and to improvement in the quality of life. Coaching as a facilitator of the coachee's success must be more than a process in itself. It is a way of allowing the coachee to make a critical contribution in a broader context to an organizational culture that values human capital.

It contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms that lead to success in coaching. This systematic review adds to the few articles found on coachee success from over a million papers analyzed. It offers a proposed theoretical framework to coachee success, through a holistic approach.