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Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management

Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2011
Scarcity of water is a severe environmental constraint to plant productivity. Drought-induced loss in crop yield probably exceeds losses from all other causes, since both the severity and duration of the stress are critical.
M. Farooq, M. Farooq, A. Wahid, N. Kobayashi, D. Fujita, S. M. Basra   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modes of theorizing in strategic human resource management: Tests of universalistic, contingency, and configurational performance predictions

, 1996
The field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) has been criticized for lacking a solid theoretical foundation.
John E. Delery, D. Doty
semanticscholar   +1 more source

DEFINING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

, 2001
A management construct cannot be used effectively by practitioners and researchers if a common agreement on its definition is lacking. Such is the case with the term “supply chain management”—so many definitions are used that there is little consensus on
J. Mentzer, William DeWitt, J. S. Keebler, S. Min, N. W. Nix, Carlo D. Smith, Zach G. Zacharia   +6 more
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Marketing Management

TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION, 2007
D.G. Brian Jones, Pioneers in Marketing: A Collection of Biographical Essays. New York: Routledge, 2012, xv + 192 pp., Price not mentioned (Hardback).
Arturo Sánchez Martínez
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Manager to Manager

Journal AWWA, 2015
Countless management training courses stress the importance of good, clear communication, but it seems that despite ubiquitous cell phones, tablets, e‐mail, and the whole social media universe, that good, clear communication ‐ so vital to effective management and leadership ‐ is often lacking. Why?
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Earnings Management Through Real Activities Manipulation

, 2006
I find evidence consistent with managers manipulating real activities to avoid reporting annual losses. Specifically, I find evidence suggesting price discounts to temporarily increase sales, overproduction to report lower cost of goods sold, and ...
Sugata Roychowdhury
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Care Management as Management

Care Management Journals, 2002
The model for this study derived from my combined MSW and MBA degrees as well as from my observations over the years, as a social work educator and practitioner, that a good deal of social work practice included the application of corporate management functions.
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Case research in operations management

, 2002
This paper reviews the use of case study research in operations management for theory development and testing. It draws on the literature on case research in a number of disciplines and uses examples drawn from operations management research. It provides
C. Voss, Nikos Tsikriktsis, M. Frohlich
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Managing the Managers

Challenge, 1960
■ in all societies of any size and complexity, there must be persons who perform the managerial function. In earlier eras, this function was performed by those who by virtue of heredity, property rights, military prowess or priestly skill held positions of power.
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Managing Creativity, Managing Management

1989
The centre stage in any discussion of accountability in broadcasting in Britain is inevitably held by the BBC. The BBC has increasingly made itself more accountable; but in the 1980s the issue is whether that accountability is sufficient or even of the appropriate kind.
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