Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States (2013)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2013). Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States. International Labor and Working-Class History, 83(Spring), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547913000136

The explosion of industrial and political militancy that swept the world during the early years of the twentieth century gave the revolutionary syndicalist movement a prominence and notoriety it would not otherwise have possessed, while at the same t... Read More about Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States.

Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’ (2013)
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Darlington, R., & Dobson, J. (2013). Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’. Capital and Class, 37(2), 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816813489936

This article considers whether industrial relations (IR) research is objective, impartial or value-free, and argues that many IR academics in Britain have tended to start from a social-democratic premise which makes them relatively more sympathetic t... Read More about Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’.

Involve users or fail: An IT project case study from east Africa (2013)
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Procter, C., & Businge, M. (2013). Involve users or fail: An IT project case study from east Africa. International Journal of Information Technology Project Management, 4(4), 51-65. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijitpm.2013100103

Repeated surveys, and most notably those by the Standish Group, suggest that a substantial proportion of Information Technology (IT) projects fail. The literature suggests that this is in part due to a lack of user involvement in the project. The aut... Read More about Involve users or fail: An IT project case study from east Africa.

The effect of maintenance quality on spare parts inventory for a fleet of assets (2013)
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Van Horenbeek, A., Scarf, P., Cavalcante, C., & Pintelon, L. (2013). The effect of maintenance quality on spare parts inventory for a fleet of assets. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 62(3), 596-607. https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.2013.2270409

This paper considers the effect of fleet size on a joint policy of maintenance and spare parts inventory when spare parts are of varying quality. We consider N identical one-component systems subject to age-based replacement, and with a single echelo... Read More about The effect of maintenance quality on spare parts inventory for a fleet of assets.

Real interest rate parity in OECD countries: new evidence from time series and panel cointegration techniques (2013)
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Magkonis, G., & Tsopanakis, A. (2013). Real interest rate parity in OECD countries: new evidence from time series and panel cointegration techniques. Applied Economics Letters, 20(5), 476-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2012.667540

We examine the existence of Real Interest Rate Parity (RIRP) for a number of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Using time series techniques, we manage to identify cointegrating relationships. For a subset of cou... Read More about Real interest rate parity in OECD countries: new evidence from time series and panel cointegration techniques.

Enhancing India’s competitiveness in the global scenario (2013)
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Nandakumar, M., & Purkayastha, S. (2013). Enhancing India’s competitiveness in the global scenario. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 2(1), vii-viii. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277975213500878

Taking dogs to tourism activities : Testing a pet-related constraint-negotiation model (2013)
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Chen, A., Peng, N., & Hung, K. (2013). Taking dogs to tourism activities : Testing a pet-related constraint-negotiation model. Tourism Analysis, 18(2), 207-214. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354213X13645733247855

This research's purpose is to examine the factors that affect pet owners' decisions when taking pets to participate in tourism activities. Unlike tourist traveling alone, pet owners must consider their own circumstances as well as the constraints the... Read More about Taking dogs to tourism activities : Testing a pet-related constraint-negotiation model.