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Pre-departure cultural training: US managers in Mexico (2006)
Journal Article
Celaya, L., & Swift, J. (2006). Pre-departure cultural training: US managers in Mexico. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 13(3), 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1108/13527600610683372

Purpose – The variety of differences encountered when interacting with people from other cultures can be daunting for foreign nationals operating in another country. Consequently, many companies send their managers on some form of cultural orientatio... Read More about Pre-departure cultural training: US managers in Mexico.

Analysis and design of returns policies from a supplier's perspective. (2006)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Wang, W., & Kobbacy, K. (2006). Analysis and design of returns policies from a supplier's perspective. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58(3), 391-401. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602157

This paper considers the problem of designing a returns policy in a supply chain from a supplier's perspective. The supply chain considered here is assumed to have one supplier and one retailer who serves a random demand of a product with a short lif... Read More about Analysis and design of returns policies from a supplier's perspective..

Accounting for organization: round-up the usual suspects (2006)
Journal Article
Jones, O., Sharifi, S., & Conway, S. (2006). Accounting for organization: round-up the usual suspects. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 17(2-3), 283-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2003.04.004

Over the last 15 years, critical organization theorists have increasingly adopted postmodernist perspectives. The setting-up of Organization by a group of “radical organization theorists” provided an outlet for a network of authors who considered “co... Read More about Accounting for organization: round-up the usual suspects.

The dynamics of destination attribute importance (2006)
Journal Article
Fallon, P., & Schofield, P. (2006). The dynamics of destination attribute importance. Journal of Business Research, 59(6), 709-713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2006.01.007

The importance construct plays a vital role in evaluating visitor perceptions and experience of tourism destinations. This article examines the dynamics of attribute importance assessment at destination level with respect to Orlando, Florida. The art... Read More about The dynamics of destination attribute importance.

Legal advice and pre-trial silence: Unreasonable developments (2006)
Journal Article
Cooper, S. (2006). Legal advice and pre-trial silence: Unreasonable developments. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 10(1), 60-69. https://doi.org/10.1350/ijep.2006.10.1.60

This article examines recent case law concerning the drawing of adverse inferences, pursuant to s. 34 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, from a suspect’s failure to mention during pre-trial interview facts that he subsequently relies... Read More about Legal advice and pre-trial silence: Unreasonable developments.

Liability for professional athletes' injuries: a comparative analysis of where the risk lies (2006)
Journal Article
James, M. (2006). Liability for professional athletes' injuries: a comparative analysis of where the risk lies. Web journal of current legal issues,

Over the past 20 years, there has been an unprecedented increase in sports labour migration, international competition and litigation arising from sports injuries. As athletes move between jurisdictions and play abroad more frequently, the legal norm... Read More about Liability for professional athletes' injuries: a comparative analysis of where the risk lies.

Online communication and information technology education (2006)
Journal Article
Heinze, A., & Procter, C. (2006). Online communication and information technology education

Blended Learning, a learning facilitation that incorporates different modes of delivery, models of teaching, and learning styles, introduces multiple media to the dialog between the learner and the facilitator. This paper examines online communicatio... Read More about Online communication and information technology education.

Enabling or disabling technologies? A critical approach to web accessibility (2006)
Journal Article
Adam, A., & Kreps, D. (2006). Enabling or disabling technologies? A critical approach to web accessibility. https://doi.org/10.1108/09593840610689822

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to analyse the continuing problem of web accessibility for disabled people as a critical information systems issue. Design/methodology/approach – The ways in which the web is used by disabled people, and prob... Read More about Enabling or disabling technologies? A critical approach to web accessibility.

Achieving information fulfilment in the networked society: part 1: introducing new concepts (2006)
Journal Article
Burke, M. (2006). Achieving information fulfilment in the networked society: part 1: introducing new concepts. New Library World, 107(9/10), 444-449. https://doi.org/10.1108/03074800610702624

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the idea of information fulfilment. The networked society provides many opportunities for information flow. However, information professionals readily accept that, although one is surrounded by info... Read More about Achieving information fulfilment in the networked society: part 1: introducing new concepts.

Revolutionary syndicalist opposition to the First World War: An international comparative reassessment (2006)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2006). Revolutionary syndicalist opposition to the First World War: An international comparative reassessment. Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire (Imprimé), 12(4), 983-1003

It has been argued that support for the First World War by the important French syndicalist organisation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) has tended to obscure the fact that other national syndicalist organisations remained faithful to th... Read More about Revolutionary syndicalist opposition to the First World War: An international comparative reassessment.

Electronic business : a business model can make the difference (2006)
Journal Article
Owens, J. D. (2006). Electronic business : a business model can make the difference. Management services (Enfield), 50(1), 24-29

Conducting business electronically, electronic commerce has such well-documented advantages that if a business does not engage in doing so one must question the wisdom of management. The major growth in this transition will be from established ‘bric... Read More about Electronic business : a business model can make the difference.

Exploring the modes of internationalization : the case of UK Business Schools (2006)
Journal Article
the case of UK Business Schools. International journal of applied international management, 1(1), 1-10

Recently there has been a large expansion of Higher Education (HE). Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree programmes have seen a large rise in international applications. As a consequence, the UK is gaining more revenue from the Internationa... Read More about Exploring the modes of internationalization : the case of UK Business Schools.