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Siemens takes a grass‐roots approach to knowledge management Siemens, once noted for its bureaucratic and hierarchical approach to business, has adopted a grass‐roots and “bottom up” approach to knowledge management, which has transformed the company over the last three years.
Without any suggestion or provocation from above, middle‐level employees and managers in Siemens business units began to create repositories, communities of practice and informal sharing approaches for knowledge.
Tập 10 Số 2 - Trang 12-14 - 2002
Looking back to see forward in services marketing: some ideas to consider The article considers the applicability of traditional attitude and other constructs in service quality research. It is suggested that the effects of perceived service quality may be masked by non‐linear relationships and under‐identified explanatory models. Constructs that might assist researchers and practitioners improve their service quality research and strategies are identified.
Tập 13 Số 5 - Trang 332-337 - 2003
THEORY OF THE BRADFORD LAW The Bradford law is explored theoretically by means of a very mixed Poisson model which, it is claimed, elucidates the uncertainties surrounding the law and its applications. It is argued that Bradford succeeded in formulating an empirical regularity which has pure and hybrid forms but that all the variants can be subsumed under a simple logarithmic law which, for reasons explained, escapes exact expression in conventional frequency terms. The theoretical aspects discussed include the hybridity of form, estimations, sampling problems, the stability of ranks, homogeneity of data, and tests of significance. Some numerical examples, some simulated and some drawn from social contexts outside bibliography, are used both to illustrate theoretical issues and also to indicate the wide generality of the Bradford law. Possible applications and developments of the theory are indicated.
Tập 33 Số 3 - Trang 180-209 - 1977
Wear behaviour of eutectic and hypoeutectic Al‐Si‐Mg‐Ce alloys Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the wear behaviour of eutectic and hypoeutectic Al‐Si‐Mg‐Ce alloys. Design/methodology/approach The eutectic and hypoeutectic alloys were prepared using permanent mould casting process by varied cerium (Ce) addition in the alloy from 1 to 3 wt%. Dry sliding wear tests were performed against a hardened carbon steel (Fe‐2.3%Cr‐0.9%C) using a pin‐on‐disc configuration with fixed sliding speed of 1 m/s and load 50 N at room temperature of ∼25 degree. Morphologies of both worn surfaces and collected debris were characterised by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with an energy dispersive X‐ray spectrometer (EDS). Findings It was revealed that following the addition of cerium, intermetallic Al4Ce needle‐like structure was present in eutectic alloys whereas CeMg2Si2 blocky phase was present in the hypoeutectic alloys. The increasing of Ce addition up to 3.0 wt% in hypoeutectic alloy led to formation of AlCe3 intermetallic phase. The increase in cerium content up to 2 wt% led to higher wear resistance behaviour for both as‐cast alloys. Formation of craters and localised plastic deformation were observed on the worn surface of both as‐cast alloys, resulting fine particulate and sheet‐like wear debris. The wear resistance was found to be higher for hypoeutectic alloy compared to the eutectic alloy containing Ce. Originality/value An attempt has been made to study the influence of intermetallic compound containing Ce in the Al‐Si‐Mg alloys on wear behaviour of both as‐cast alloys.
Tập 65 Số 2 - Trang 135-140 - 2013
Pathways to early retirement in Denmark, 1984‐2000 Purpose The paper seeks to describe the multitude of pathways to early exit from the labour force and to estimate how individuals allocate into different pathways out of the labour force conditional on early retirement. Design/methodology/approach A multinomial logit approach is used to analyse the characteristics of individuals who retire through each pathway compared to those remaining in the labour force. Findings Eight pathways from work to an early retirement programme are identified. Overall, availability and/or generosity of retirement programmes are important for early retirement through the employment and unemployment insurance benefit dominated pathways, while personal characteristics seem to be at least as important for early retirement through other pathways. Research limitations/implications An interesting approach in future work would be to gain access to health data, making it possible to build a competing risks model where some pathways are used due to health shocks and others are chosen based on economic optimisation comparing compensation rates with disutility from continued work. Originality/value While the dominant approach in many retirement studies is on destinations, the analytical focus in this paper is instead on how people span the period from leaving the job until entry into an early retirement programme. The period the authors study contains a policy experiment, where a programme for early retirement conditional on age and unemployment is opened and closed down again later in the period.
Tập 29 Số 5 - Trang 384-409 - 2008