Volume 01 Issue 1 (Jan 2007)
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Employment Relationship and Management Control of Labour Process
This article examines the nature of employment relationship and management control over the labour process. The purpose of the article is to examine the main attributes of the employment relationship and why management must exercise control over the employees. It discussed the c…
Store design: the effect of Iceland's refit strategy on food consumers
The primary aim of the research was to determine the impact of Iceland foods plc store design refit strategy on shoppers behavior. Based on the researcher's phenomenological stand, informal interviews and observations were used to collect data. A total of thirty intervi…
Public Relations: An Alternative Communication Strategy for Achieving Competitive Advantage in Business Organisations
This paper reviews the concept of communication strategies used in business organisations. The article explores the relevant literature that underpins the concept of public relations in terms of its objectives. It reviews the various PR methods and techniques that could be used…
A market review of grocery prices in the UK supermarkets
This market review paper compares the prices of selected national and own label brands in four leading UK supermarkets. The objective is to find out price differentials between manufacturers’ and retailers’ brands in the leading supermarkets…
Employee's Satisfaction with Pay: The Case of UK Fast Food Restaurant Employees
The issue of pay satisfaction has for a long time been the centre of numerous investigations by researchers. However there are no studies relating to pay level satisfaction of the UK fast food restaurants employees. This study investigates pay level satisfaction among the UK lar…
Bridging the Housing Gap in Less Developed Countries
The housing situations in many parts of the world, particularly in the less-developed countries are so appalling. In this 21st century era of technological and socio-economic advancement many people live in very deplorable conditions with no water and sanitary infrastructure. Th…
EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES TO ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY: ADDRESSING BUSINESS DYNAMISM
Evolution is the change in characteristics as exhibited by organisms in a population and natural selection is the mechanism by which evolution occurs. Evolution is not unique to biology, it can be found in other system too (Mende and Kennedy, 1999). However, all these systems ar…
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TO SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF ECONOMIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Foreign direct investments (FDI) play a crucial role in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries’ development efforts in present integrated world economies. Yet most SSA countries have not been successful in attracting FDI. With the millennium development goals giv…
Demographic Characteristics of Grocery store shoppers in Vietnam
This study examines the major demographic characteristics of Vietnamese food consumers who shop from supermarkets. Study location is Vietnam where retailing, specifically the organised retail sector is relatively very young and going through an early phase. The research is based…