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Some Issues In Implementing Library Self-Checkout Systems: A Management Perspective, Mary Jo Dejoice, Pongracz Senney Dec 1999

Some Issues In Implementing Library Self-Checkout Systems: A Management Perspective, Mary Jo Dejoice, Pongracz Senney

Mary Jo DeJoice

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Analysis Of Empirical Surveys On Organisational Innovation And Lessons For Future Community Innovation Surveys, Juergen Wengel, Gunter Lay, Annette Nylund, Lars Bager-Sjogren, Paul Stoneman, Nicola Bellini, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Philip Shapira Dec 1999

Analysis Of Empirical Surveys On Organisational Innovation And Lessons For Future Community Innovation Surveys, Juergen Wengel, Gunter Lay, Annette Nylund, Lars Bager-Sjogren, Paul Stoneman, Nicola Bellini, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

To address issues of how to better gather data on organisational innovation, the study “Analysis of Empirical Surveys on Organisational Innovation and Lessons for Future Community Innovation Surveys,” was commissioned by DG XIII-C of the European Commission. The study had two major aims:
  • The scattered experiences with surveys on organisational innovations in Europe had to be collected and summarised, both with respect to methodological and application success factors, in a systematic way.
  • These experiences were to form the basis for the development of methodological approaches to examining organisational innovation Community-wide, in a comparable way and taking into account the needs …


Encyclopedia Of Production And Manufacturing Management, Paul Swamidass Dec 1999

Encyclopedia Of Production And Manufacturing Management, Paul Swamidass

Paul Swamidass

The Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management (1048 pages) is a specialized encyclopedia developed to serve as a basic reference resource for the practitioner, researcher, and student. Because of its specialized focus, this one-volume work is able to cover the entire field of production and manufacturing management. It contains factual and conceptual information for fundamental understanding while serving as a starting point for a deeper researched investigation. The material is state-of-the-art, covering the field of operations management and its exciting recent developments. These developments are covered extensively in this volume.

The downloadable file here has 54 pages which include, the …


Redesign Of Library Workflows: Experimental Models For Electronic Resource Description, Karen S. Calhoun Dec 1999

Redesign Of Library Workflows: Experimental Models For Electronic Resource Description, Karen S. Calhoun

Karen S Calhoun

Explores the transition from a highly centralized model for cataloging to an iterative, collaborative, and broadly distributed model for electronic resource description. The purpose is to alert library managers to some experiments underway and to help them conceptualize new methods for defining, planning, and leading the e-resource description process under moderate to severe time and staffing constraints.