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SUMMARYAlthough John Stuart Mill was a senior officer in the East India Company (EIC), he is best known for his outstanding contributions to economic and political thought during the 19th century. Close analysis of his writings and career in the EIC also reveals an important contribution to the evolution of management thought.

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00048.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYThe nature and integration of strategy and human resource management practices, and the effects of such integration on firm performance were examined in two groups of mid‐sized flrms: fast‐growth firms and a random sample of similar sized mature firms. The results indicated that the fast‐growth firms emphasized fewer human resource activities and experienced a lower degree of strategy‐human resource integration than the mature firms. Some evidence was found that the relation between the level of integration and firm performance was moderated by the organization's stage of deve

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYOne determinant of the success of a retail outlet is its location. The location strategies adopted by many retailers of convenience products, including those marketing groceries, have been based upon the principle of siting stores away from competition. Recent moves by leading grocery retailers to develop out of town and other sites jointly, where they would trade side by side, mean that methods are needed to appraise the selection of location partners to supplement or replace traditional, spatial analyses. A method based on similarity of image and cross‐shopping behaviour is proposed and tested on two substantial data bases. A concept, drawn from theory on brand switching, that customers would treat outlets seen as similar in a similar way, is found not to apply to source switching. Source switching behaviour is found instead to vary with the source itself, according to two distinct patterns. In one, shoppers cross shop more to retailers perceived to be similar; in the other, shoppers cross shop more to retailers perceived to be different. The strategies currently adopted by four grocery retailers in joint site development are appraised against the model of source switching that can be defined from these patterns. Some location alliances are predicted to be potentially more valuable to one partner than another both in the short and long term. The anomalies identified in the selection of location partners are analysed by reference to concepts drawn from the literature on co‐operation. Two different types of relationship exist between the various retail partners; a longer term alliance at each site and shorter co‐operation between head offices. It is suggested that the nature of the second could prejudice the outcome of the

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00050.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYThough there have been many prescriptive accounts of career development procedures and techniques, there has been little systematic research into how extensive their use is in Britain, how effective they are, or how participants in such programmes react to them. Following a review of the availability, effectiveness, and acceptability of such programmes, we report the results of a survey of 120 British managers undertaking a distance‐learning Master of Business Administration programme. In particular, findings are presented concerning the availability and usage of a range of such procedures and respondents' reactions to them in terms of their perceived fairness and usefulness for personal, organizational and career development. These studies help to identify features that characterize well‐received career development program

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00051.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYNinety‐one Japanese managers and professionals on international assignments in the London offices of trading houses and insurance companies responded to a wide‐ranging survey on work and non‐work adjustment. Dependent variables included standardized measures of adjustment, well‐being, mental health and modes of adjustment (personal change and role innovation). In comparisons with samples from other studies, the expatriates experienced lower work well‐being and mental health, and, compared with a sample of United Kingdom domestic job changers, engaged in less role innovation but recorded higher personal change, especially in their values. Predictor variables, including predeparture experience, family factors, self‐rated job performance, self‐efficacy, work‐non‐work spillover, social interaction and perceived company purpose in the assignment, were found to be differentially related to outcome measures. A new method of retrospectively recording changes in feelings over time in the work and non‐work domains was also applied, supplying tentative evidence for a negative shift in affect on arrival, especially in the non‐work domain, and a further fall after arrival, especially in the work domain. In most cases, this latter dip was followed by a recovery, providing some evidence in favour of the U‐curve hypothesis. Implications for theory an

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00052.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY