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  • A review of six sigma implementation frameworks and related literature 
    Amar Kifayah; Davis Douglas (Newswood Limited - International Association of Engineers, 2008)
    This paper presents a review of Six Sigma focusing on implementation frameworks/models in the literature. The work is a part of a research project aimed at developing a Lean Six Sigma implementation framework for Indonesian ...
  • A Review of the Institutional Change Literature 
    Pratt Jonathan (University of Western Sydney, 2007)
    Over the last 30 years, institutional theory has been used to explore the ways in which institutions can constrain and shape individual and organisational behaviour. Although neo institutional theorists have argued that ...
  • A review of the proposals for reform of independence of Australian company auditors 
    Stokes, D. J.; Taylor, S.; Culvenor, J. M. (Entomological Society of America, 2004)
  • A Rigorous Approach to Knowledge Base Maintenance 
    Debenham John (Springer-Verlag, 2003)
    A knowledge base is maintained by modifying its conceptual model and by using those modifications to specify changes to its implementation. The maintenance problem is to determine which parts of that model should be checked ...
  • Rise and decline in work stoppage statistics 
    Perry Leonard (Pacific Employment Relations Association, 2009)
    This paper examines work stoppage statistics for the period 1900-2006 for the contemporary world¿s 21 largest economies. Attention is drawn to the large number of missing observations and the overall poor historical quality ...
  • The rise and fall of a songwriting partnership 
    DeVries, P. A. (Nova Southeastern University, 2005)
    The working relationship of two novice songwriters is examined in this ethnographic study, which highlights the importance of common goals and values in a songwriting collaboration. Stemming from this core there are ...
  • The Rise and Fall of Single-Letter Ticker Symbols 
    Michayluk David (Routledge, 2008)
    A single-letter stock ticker symbol is a limited resource - only 26 possibilities are available in a stock universe of over 475,000 possible one-, two-, three- or four-letter ticker symbols. These symbols were first allocated ...
  • The rise and rise of IFRS: an examination of IFRS diffusion 
    Chua Wai Fong; Taylor Stephen (Elsevier Inc, 2008)
    We seek to understand the ever-increasing push towards the international harmonization of accounting standards and particularly the inexorable rise of standards produced by the International Accounting Standards Board ...
  • Risk Management for an Open CBS Project 
    O'Neill, T.; Leaney, J. R (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc (IEEE), 2001)
    Open Systems are being presented as the way forward for the construction of complex Computer Based Systems (CBS) of all types. They have had some success but as with all such attempts to solve problems in computing, it ...
  • The Risk Management of Minimum Return Guarantees 
    Mahayni Antje; Schlogl Erik (German Academic Association of Business Research, 2008)
    Contracts paying a guaranteed minimum rate of return and a fraction of a positive excess rate, which is specified relative to a benchmark portfolio, are closely related to unit-linked life-insurance products and can be ...
  • Risks, Benefits and DTC - An Analysis of Information Formats 
    Hoek Janet; Gendall Philip; Louviere Jordan (ANZMAC, 2008)
    Critics of direct to consumer prescription medicine advertising (DTC) claim it is unbalanced because benefit information features more prominently than risk information, and that it thus fails to meet the high standards ...
  • Risks in the development of social capital of hierarchical relations: a study of Chinese firms 
    Wang Karen (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 2005)
    The unique role of social capital in economic activities has been increasingly recognized. However, previous research gives limited attention to the role of hierarchical relations in buttressing social capital in business ...
  • Risk-Taking Tendencies and Fixed Salary/Commission Rates in Salesforce Compensation Arrangements: A Prospect-Agency-Theoretical Perspective 
    Gudergan Siggi (Academy of Marketing Science, 2001)
    An analytical model for risk taking tendencies in salesforce compensation arrangements is developed that takes into account fixed salary levels and commission rates. The model demonstrates that a salesperson's preference ...
  • Robust anomolies? A close look at accrual-based trading strategy returns 
    Taylor Stephen; Wong Leon (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)
    The last 40 years have seen an extensive literature documenting so-called anomalies in major capital markets. Evidence of abnormal returns associated with trading strategies based on readily observable phenomena such as ...
  • The Rocket Science: Reading Financial Accounting Standards 
    Farrell Brian; Farrell Helen; Wells Peter (Irish Accounting and Finance Association, 2010)
    This paper identifies readability as a significant obstacle to the international harmonisation of financial accounting standards. In the study, the Flesch Reading Ease and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level tests are used to ...
  • Rocking management critique: utopia, dystopia and work in rock music 
    Rhodes Carl (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 2004)
    This paper explores how the relationship between work and utopia has been expressed rock music. It is argued that the cultural discourse in rock provides important critical insights into the meanings of work in contemporary ...
  • Role models and heroes in the lives of teenage girls 
    Adriaanse Johanna; Crosswhite Janice; Wilde Kerrie (Praxis Education, 2003)
  • The Role of Attention in Robot Self-Awareness 
    Novianto Rony; Williams Mary-Anne (IEEE, 2009)
    A robot may not be truly self-aware even though it can have some characteristics of self-awareness, such as having emotional states or the ability to recognize itself in the mirror. We define self-awareness in robots to ...
  • The role of education and skills in Australian management practice and productivity 
    Agarwal Renu; Green Roy (NCVER, 2011)
    The main impetus for the interest in innovation is that it is seen to improve productivity at the firm level and therefore improved economic prosperity and living standards. This edited volume was commissioned by the ...
  • Role of E-Learning in Managing e-Work Environments 
    Soliman Fawzy (Vaxjo University, 2001)
    This paper outlines a framework for managing eWork processes in cooperative and competitive environments. The paper also identifies the generic activities in eWork processes whicn are integrative with cooperative and ...