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Research Think Tank: "Complexifying" International Communication and Communication Technology
(Sage Publications, 1997)
Work/Life Balance
(Sage Publications, 1997)
In this article, I contend that the well-intentioned discourse of work/life balance in the popular and scholarly press actually may undermine women's and men's attempts to live fulfilling lives. Drawing on feminist and ...
A reexamination of the distance-based facility layout problem
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Chapman and Hall ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-07)
In this paper we qualitatively and numerically compare basic modeling approaches to the distance-based facility layout problem and the types of result obtained from them. In the process we observe that when the facility ...
Current Advances in Mechanical Design and Production
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Chapman and Hall ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-09)
Discourse in the Marketplace: The Making of Meaning in Annual Reports
(Sage Publications, 1997)
This paper reviews linguistic structures in a series of management messages in the annual reports of Cross & Trecker, a machine tool manufacturer. The docu ments cover the years 1984-1988, which began with prosperity and ...
HR of the future: Conclusions and observations
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997)
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Editor's note
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997)
We are very excited about this issue of the Journal. It inaugurates a new alliance among the University of Michigan, John Wiley & Sons, and the Society for Human Resource Management. For 34 years, the University of Michigan ...
Sales Quota Plans: Mechanisms For Adaptive Learning
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-10)
A vexing problem in managing sales forces occurs when the sales manager does not know the characteristics of a sales territory. In this paper we show how sales quota-bonus plans can be optimally used to learn about unknown ...