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The paper examines a recent example of work and employment restructuring in the Royal Navy. This involved the creation of a new employment branch (the Warfare Branch) out of two former branches: the Operations Branch and the Weapon Engineering Branch. The case study is used as a vehicle for exploring whether, and if so in what senses, technical change can be argued to have contributed to this organizational restructuring, within the wider contexts and dynamics of change.

This paper reports the results of a questionnaire survey of academic staff at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT). On the question of bureaucracy in its technical rather than its pejorative sense, the organization is perceived as being much more bureaucratic on some dimensions that others. Staff evaluation of bureaucracy indicates that some dimensions are highly valued and some are not, with no major discrepancy overall between evaluation and perception although significant differences do occur on some dimensions. Job satisfaction data indicate that senior staff have more favourable attitudes than lecturers and senior tutors. A number of questions were asked on authority relations and it was apparent that those in the sample perceiving a clear hierarchy of authority did not differ from the rest of the sample in their perception of the centralisation of organizational power. Respondents who saw the basis of authority as expert and referent were more satisfied than those who did not. Staff above the rank of head of department were seen as having less referent and coercive authority than heads of departments and senior lectures.

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Explores the way that men and women through autobiography have charted the private self. Shows the depiction of life as a voyage or journey to self‐perception. Looks at the value and purpose of using autobiographical accounts and life reviewing in adult educational work especially with older women. Suggests this can be used extremely effectively within this area and provides a number of examples of its usage.

The domestic market environment is host to complex phenomena that affect, and are affected by, the actions and activities of both exporting and non‐exporting firms. In this regard, a significant degree of research attention has been devoted to overseas competitive environments and the nature of market selection made by exporting firms. However, very limited research work has been dedicated to the domestic market environment confronted by the non‐exporting firm and its influence on export strategy development. It is argued there that domestic market environment can significantly affect the “fit” between the resources and capabilities of the firm and the overseas opportunities and threats that are perceived. Accordingly, this paper: reviews the literature associated with the domestic market environment, firm internationalization, the concept of “strategic fit” and the factors and influences present in the domestic market environment; and, presents a series of conceptual propositions concerning the respective relationships between competitive intensity, technological turbulence and product‐market turbulence, and export strategy development at the pre‐export level.