The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the nature of the American system of manufactures in a descriptive and critical manner, to analyze its entrenched paradigm, and then to uncover its rational inadequacy. In particular, the paper first describes the dominant model embodied in the American system in terms of job design, organizational structure, and organizational technology, and reveals its...

To what extent should business have an implication of service when its fundamental purpose is profit-seeking? We explore this issue through a contextually informed reappraisal British interwar management thinking (1918–1939), drawing on rich archival material concerning the Rowntree lectures and research groups. Whereas existing literature framed around scientific versus human relations schools...

The concept of alliance or preferably ‘alignment’, as I shall explain below – is central to the conduct of international politics, and thus the discipline of International Relations (IR). Duffield et al. (2008: 291) identify that ‘Alliances are one of the most significant phenomena in security studies and world politics more generally’, while Modelski (1963: 773) considers them ‘one of a dozen ...

Historically, issues of gender, race and the environment have received little attention in mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship. Great strides have been made, however, in interrogating the inadequacies of the field in these areas and, similarly, in demonstrating the necessity of expanded definitions of security and violence in IR. Despite these strides, mainstream environmental s...

in this study, attempts have been made to investigate the self-healing factors in marital conflicts, with an emphasis on the views of ayatollah javadi amoly in anthropology. a holistic approach based on strong points of marriage is better suited to meet different needs of couples, contributing to the resolution of conflicts, as compared to an approach that deals with strengths and self-healing ...

The author first defended the credibility of movement-writing in Chapter 2, Section 3, of a B. Litt.l thesis entitled Social Anthropology and [the] Dance, (Oxford, U.K., 1972). Seven theoretical criteria from Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art (1969) were used to illustrate to examlners who knew nothing about movement-writing in any form that Laban's system was not merely a mnemonic device. The ...

in this study, attempts have been made to investigate the self-healing factors in marital conflicts, with an emphasis on the views of ayatollah javadi amoly in anthropology. a holistic approach based on strong points of marriage is better suited to meet different needs of couples, contributing to the resolution of conflicts, as compared to an approach that deals with strengths and self-healing ...

this paper deals with the concept of “residential models” and the role it plays on human relations in residential complexes. it intends to; review the concept of residence; understand how a residential model takes form; the influence of a residential model on future human interactions. to this end, having reviewed comments and viewpoints, focused on “what is residence? which factors may create ...