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Publication date: 1 June 1992

HOWARD JOHNSON

Alongside the ubiquitous computer games apparently the marketing success of the 1992 toy season was a series of 25 year old puppets who had featured in a repeat showing of the…

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Alongside the ubiquitous computer games apparently the marketing success of the 1992 toy season was a series of 25 year old puppets who had featured in a repeat showing of the orginal ITV series on BBC — Thunderbirds — more than 70 franchises have been sold to sell goods marked with the International Rescue logo and it is alleged that these products are even bigger than the previous smash marketing hit the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, saving thousands of jobs and making substantial profits for the British toy industry. The characters are licensed for right‐owners ITC (originally the international marketing arm of ATV, the ITV company which put out the programme, and now an independent company, ATV having long since lost its ITV franchise) by Copyright Promotions, Europe's largest licensing company (‘Thunderbirds are go to save the toy industry’ Sunday Telegraph 15/11/92).

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Managerial Law, vol. 34 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

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Publication date: 1 May 1995

Peter Simpson and Tony Lyddon

Explores issues arising from an evaluation of a qualification basedmanagement development programme run in partnership between BristolBusiness School and Chep UK Ltd. Finds the…

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Explores issues arising from an evaluation of a qualification based management development programme run in partnership between Bristol Business School and Chep UK Ltd. Finds the outcomes of the research were important in three ways. First, in providing a greater understanding of stakeholder perceptions of the programme, facilitating modification and improvement. Second, in highlighting the differences between the three major groups of stakeholders within Chep: participants, line managers and board members. Finally, in demonstrating the importance of locating management development initiatives within a clearly developed strategy for organizational change and development. The research was completed in 1993 prior to a major change in the senior management of Chep across Europe and the publication of a strategic plan up to 1998. The views expressed are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by others.

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Publication date: 1 April 1999

Isaac Alfon and Peter Andrews

The proposed contents of the planned Financial Services and Markets Act have been revealed in the draft bill (FSMB) that was introduced into Parliament on 17 June, 1999 and in…

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The proposed contents of the planned Financial Services and Markets Act have been revealed in the draft bill (FSMB) that was introduced into Parliament on 17 June, 1999 and in various announcements by the government. On that basis, the Act is expected to require the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to have regard, in discharging its functions, to the economic impacts of the provisions it makes and to publish a cost‐benefit analysis (CBA) of proposed rules and general guidance with respect to the operation of rules. This paper describes the technical and organisational measures that the FSA is taking in order to fulfil the FSMB's requirements for CBA and considers the rationale for those requirements. The paper suggests that the case for undertaking cost‐benefit analysis rests on the dangers of interfering in markets without analysing the likely consequences in a rigorous and theoretically sound manner. The paper also reviews the (so far limited) experience of applying cost‐benefit analysis to financial regulation in the UK and suggests how difficulties in the assessment of the costs and benefits can be addressed, with a consequent increase in the value of financial regulation.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 7 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 1 May 1968

In a Northern city, which claims to have more than 12,000 Commonwealth immigrants, mostly of Asian origin—Pakistanis and Indians, an increasing number of whom have been joined by…

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In a Northern city, which claims to have more than 12,000 Commonwealth immigrants, mostly of Asian origin—Pakistanis and Indians, an increasing number of whom have been joined by their wives and families, there was instituted in 1965 a routine examination of their children before school entry, later extended to children of immigrant origin already in the schools. This examination extended to haemoglobin estimation, tuberculin‐testing and, equally important, examination of the stools for pathogens and parasitic ova. 419 entrants were examined in the first half of 1965 and 898 pupils. Parental co‐operation must have been excellent, as parents all agreed, without exception, to the special examination, although to some extent, there might have been considered legal authority in the current School Health Service (Medical Inspection) Regulations made under the Education Act, 1944. We are not aware of any report of intestinal pathogens, but helminth infestations were reported (Archer D. M., Bamford F. N., and Lees E., Helminth Infestations in Immigrant Children, 1965, Brit. Med. J., 2, 1517), from which it appears 18·6% carried five types of worm, of which the commonest was hookworm. It would be fair to assume that helminth infestation, indicating as it does, exposure to food infections, water‐borne disease and environment generally, is an index of gastro‐intestinal infection and the presence of pathogens, including the carrier state.

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British Food Journal, vol. 70 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 20 October 2014

Dr Ruth Helyer

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Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2042-3896

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Publication date: 6 April 2010

Marja Flory and Oriol Iglesias

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a critical review of the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a critical review of the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice.

Design/methodology/approach

Conceptual implications are drawn from the analysis and discussion of the papers of this special issue, as well as from previous literature.

Findings

Managers and researchers will be unable to explore the potential of narratives and stories fully if, at the same time, they do not deeply comprehend the underpinnings of rhetoric.

Originality/value

The paper further discusses the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice and also explores the relationships between rhetoric and narratives.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 23 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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Publication date: 20 August 2020

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Death, Culture & Leisure: Playing Dead
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83909-037-0

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Publication date: 4 June 2019

Nurdiana Gaus

The purpose of this paper, which is drawn on Indonesian academic women’s experiences, is to examine the extent to which the aesthetics of existence or true life of women academics…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper, which is drawn on Indonesian academic women’s experiences, is to examine the extent to which the aesthetics of existence or true life of women academics in relation to the truth telling, played out within the interaction between philosophy and politics, is affected by the application of NPM in research and publication productivities, and the way in which women academics are voicing their opinions toward this issue.

Design/methodology/approach

In total, 30 women academics across two geographical region (east and west) universities took part in this research, sharing their perceptions and the way they criticize this policy to the audiences (Indonesian government), framed within the concept of parrhesia (truth telling), parrhesiastes (truth teller) of Foucault and the pariah of Arendt.

Findings

Using semi-structured interviews, this research finds that women academics in Indonesian universities have shown discursive voices and stances to the extent to which they agree and oppose this policy, showing the patterns similar to those of parhesiastes and pariah. The implication of this study is addressed in this paper.

Originality/value

This research, via the lenses of Parrhesia and Pariah, finds several kinds of philosopher roles of women academics in Indonesian universities, such as apathetic philosophers or depraved orators and Schlemihl figure of Pariah, and Parrhesiastic philosophers of Socrates and a conscious figure of Pariah.

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Qualitative Research Journal, vol. 19 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1443-9883

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Publication date: 1 April 1999

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Work Study, vol. 48 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 28 August 2009

Kim Turnbull James

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Human Resource Management International Digest, vol. 17 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0967-0734

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