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Linking Local and Global Feminist Advocacy: Framing Women's Rights as Human Rights in the Republic of Ireland
(Elsevier, 2007)
This article argues that global-level feminist advocacy in the 1990s has had a significant impact within feminist advocacy in the Republic of Ireland. An important manifestation of this is the growing engagement of groups ...
A Framework for a Strategic Repositioning Strategy: A Case Study of Bulmers Original Cider
(Irish Academy of Management, 2007)
Repositioning is conscious adaptation to a changing environment, representing a fundamental shift in the firm's value proposition (Turner, 2003). Repositioning as a pure play is largely neglected in the strategy literature, ...
Health promoting school indicators: schematic models for children.
(Emerald, 2007-06)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to outline a three-stage process for engaging with students to develop school level indicators of health; in sequential class groups students first generated, then categorised indicators ...
Third Stream Activities: Company Formation - Issues, Challenges and Implications
(Irish Academy of Management, 2007)
The U.S. Navy's aviation safety program: a critical review.
(2007)
Safety research has shown that human error, as opposed to mechanical failure, is a major causal factor in accidents in high reliability organizations. In U.S. Naval aviation, human error accounts for more than 80% of ...
The nontechnical causes of diving accidents: Can U.S. Navy divers learn from other industries?
(Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Society, 2007)
Although U.S. Navy diving is remarkably safe, because of the high-risk environment in which military divers work, accidents and mishaps do occur. Failures in leadership and situation awareness (particularly in risk and ...
A methodology for identifying human error in U.S. Navy diving accidents
(2007)
Objective: To better understand how human error contributes to U.S. Navy diving accidents. Background: An analysis of 263 U.S. Navy diving accident and mishap reports revealed that the human factors classifications were ...
Agile Practices in Use from an Innovation Assimilation Perspective: a Multiple Case Study
(2007)
Agile methods have been adopted by many information systems development (ISD) teams and organizations in recent years. However, while agile method research is growing, many studies lack a strong theoretical and conceptual ...
Seeking Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Transitions: Towards a Transformative Women's Human Rights Approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)
This article critically examines the prospects for achieving a comprehensive vision of gender justice in post-conflict transitional contexts. It is divided into three main sections. The first reviews the gendered limits ...