Pitfalls and opportunities for environmental marketers

Issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, insufficient landfill capacity, and excess packaging are foremost on the minds of consumers. Companies face a myriad of environmental challenges, but they also recognize the opportunities to be gained by implementing responsible marketing action plans.     

Integration of collective bargaining and formal worker participation processes: Boon or barrier to worker rights?

Many employers are extending workplace rights by allowing for more employee voice in decision making. Numerous unionized organizations have established formal worker participation processes to help achieve this end and to improve organizational performance. Based largely on theory, such processes are normally designed to operate independently from the bargaining process. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between participation and bargaining processes, and the effect of this relationship on workplace satisfaction. A total of 712 Midwest union officials were surveyed, and the results indicate that the processes tend to become integrated in the workplace. Further, union officials' workplace satisfaction was greater where formal worker participation is institutionalized within the bargaining process.     

On the variance of the ratio estimator

Summary In an earlier paper [Rao 1966] an exact expression for the variance of the ratio estimator under theMidzuno-Sen sampling scheme is obtained and here we study some of the interesting properties of the coefficients involved in this expression which depend on the auxiliary information. Use of these coefficients is made of in finding out an exact expression for the Bias and Mean Square Error of the ratio estimator under Simple Random Sampling With-Out Replacement (SRSWOR) scheme.     

对企业价值链数字化管理的探讨

新的竞争环境催生价值链管理一新的管理模式,而价值链管理离不开信息技术的支持。本文探讨了实施价值链数字化管理的意义及实施方案,阐明了企业的实施策略。     

Ein verallgemeinerter Geburten- und Todesprozeß zur Erklärung der Entwicklung des deutschen Volkseinkommens, 1851–1939

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FLEXIBLE MANPOWER RESOURCING: A LOCAL LABOUR MARKET SURVEY

This article presents the results of an establishment level investigation carried out late in 1986 and early in 1987 of the extent of flexible manpower resourcing in the Aberdeen local labour market. It is necessary to place these results in the context of the general background of an increasing interest in flexible manning and of certain theoretical developments in labour and industrial economics. The results suggest that whilst a variety of means are used to attain flexibility in manning, few establishments can be regarded as truly ‘flexible firms’ and manpower strategies tend to be largely reactive and ad hoc.     

Polyhedral Combinatorics in Combinatorial Optimization

Polyhedral combinatorics is a subarea of combinatorial optimization of increasing practical importance. It deals with the application of the theory of linear systems and linear algebra to combinatorial problems. The paper is not intended as a survey on polyhedral combinatorics but it reviews some of the main concepts and proof techniques.