literature review

Management Science and Engineering - Vol. 2 Nbr. 2, July 2008

Literature Review of Purchasing Management in Service Industry

It's necessary for every organization in service industry to purchase goods and services in order to carry out its missions and goals. The objectives of this paper are to review the knowledge and develop the argument of existing research findings about purchasing management especially in service industry. There are three phases in the purchasing management that have been discussed in the section of literature review in this paper, including objectives of purchasing management; global sourcing...

Journal of Comparative Family Studies - Vol. 38 Nbr. 2, April 2007

Changing Social Expectations for Work and Family Involvement Among Korean Fathers

In this study, we explore the gap between the culture and conduct of paternal involvement with children among Korean middle-class and working-class fathers. Using interview data from thirty-two fathers following a period of national economic crisis, we find that Korean fathers negotiated among three contradictory and often ambiguous sets of cultural expectations: traditional Confucian fatherhood; work success as measure of good fatherhood; and "new" fatherhood that embraces providing and care...

Winnipeg Free Press - January 14, 2010

Province Must Adapt to Weather Extremes: Report

Southern Manitoba can expect more spring flooding and summer dry spells as spring runoff occurs earlier in the year, IISD researchers Hank Venema, Bryan Oborne and Cynthia Neudoerffer state in a 77-page policy paper and literature review called The Manitoba Challenge: Linking Water and Land Management for Climate Adaptation. "It's in the agricultural industry's best interests not to do this, given the nature of climate-change projections. But it contradicts traditional practices, and that's t...

Academy of Marketing Science Review - Nbr. 2006, January 2006

Performance Measurement Systems (Pms) Integration Into New Product Innovation: A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework

In the past, researchers have long shown increasing interest in the study of new product innovation activities. A large body of research has been devoted to the study of this subject, providing useful insights as well as relevant theoretical and managerial implications. Within this research line, the identification of key activities and practices regarding new product success constitutes an especially relevant objective. On the one hand, previous literature has widely investigated organizatio...

Resources for Feminist Research - Vol. 32 Nbr. 3/4, July 2007

A Thematic Bibliography and Literature Review of Rural, Remote and Northern Women's Health in Canada 2003-2006(1)

Le travail effectué dans le domaine de la santé des femmes autochtones continue à abonder, y compris les études comparatives sur les femmes autochtones et non autochtones relatives au tabagisme et à la grossesse ([Heaman] et Chalmers, 2005), aux syndromes métaboliques ([Liu, Juan] et autres, 2006) et à la mortalité infantile ([Zhong-Cheng, Luo] et autres, 2004). Un nouvel intérêt dans le domaine de la santé génésique s'est révélé qui n'était pas un sujet forcément touché par la dernière étude...

Northern Review - Nbr. 1996, December 1996

Strange things: the malevolent North in Canadian literature.

by Margaret Atwood. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. vii, 126 pp., bibliography, index. $27.50. ISBN 0-19-811976-3 (hc). Reviewed by Aron Senkpiel Margaret Atwood's Earrings ...... This is not an unreasonable expectation; the book is, after all, subtitled "The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature." And, early on, Atwood asks, "What do we mean ...

Northern Review - Nbr. 2000, December 2000

Women and ecological moral education in Yakut literature.

... Traditions of the founders of Yakut literature in recreating life-creating maternal origins is ......There is a long-standing tradition in Yakut literature of awarding special attention to the fate of a ...

Accounting Historians Journal, The - Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, June 2008

State and Local Government Accounting in 19th Century America: A Review of the Literature

Although 19th century America offers a natural experiment in government accounting practices and voluminous original records still exist, a review of the literature on the period's state and local government accounting finds few secondary articles and almost no contemporary literature before 1875. After that, reformers, decrying the municipal accounting practices of their time, wrote profusely so that some secondary studies of that literature exist. The governmental financial records of the 1...

Canadian Psychology - Vol. 49 Nbr. 3, August 2008

Optimal Learning in Optimal Contexts: The Role of Self-Determination in Education

When examining the role of parental style to explain student motivation, researchers have often used students' perceptions of their parents. In general, mothers tend to be perceived as more autonomy supportive than fathers ([Grolnick] et al., 1991), although mothers' and fathers' perceptions tend to be positively correlated (Niemiec et al., 2006). In fact, when evaluated by external judges, mothers and fathers were found to display similar amounts of autonomy supportive behaviours (Grolnick &...