Formation of Partnership in UK Law
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The two faces of partnership?. An assessment of partnership and co‐operative employer/trade union relationships
The paper examines the context and characteristics of partnership arrangements currently emerging between employers and unions at the workplace level in Britain. Case studies of 11 firms involving ...... ... The first explores thecircumstances underlying the formation of partnership and co-operativeunion/employer arrangements and assesses employer motives for seekingpartnership relations. The second section reports ... ...
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David Miller's Theory of Market Socialism and the Recent Reforms in Kibbutzim
David Miller's recent works form a substantial contribution to socialist theory and particularly to the theory of market socialism. I consider that a model of market socialism as advanced by Miller...
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PERFORMING GOVERNANCE: A PARTNERSHIP BOARD DRAMATURGY
This paper explores the governance of complex public sector partnerships through a detailed case study of a Joint Commissioning Partnership Board (JCPB) in the South East of England. It argues that...... ... and a dramaturgical analysis of institutional enactment undertaken to explore interplays of the symbolic and instru- mental in strategy formation. Some implications for our understanding of the sym- bolic in partnership governance are discussed. INTRODUCTION International public ... ...
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The shifting status of failure and possibility: Resilience and the ‘shift’ in partnership-organized prevention in Sweden
Based on a study of prevention politics in Sweden, this article probes the turn to resilience in its institutionalized form: cross-sectorial partnerships. It interrogates how resilience proponents ...... ... In characteristically epochal terms, the shift casts partnership formation as an improvement of the future, although the strategists belief in future visions is apparently shot through with cynicism.Keywordsfailure and ... ...
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A planning solution for virtual business relationships
Purpose: This paper aims to show that the planning‐oriented reference model is a conceptual approach that may provide a more complete alignment of strategic information, governance constructs, as w...... ... , theresultant blueprint may be helpful in facilitating the rapid formation of virtual businesspartnership.Originality/value – In a global economy ... in a manufacturingenvironmentby forming a virtual partnership with representative manufacturingentities.The current issue and full text ... ...
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What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic Cooperation
The current public backlash against several trade agreements has triggered a vivid discourse about the impact of top-down communication of such initiatives on public opinion. Findings from previous...... ... the mechanisms underlying the impact of message cues on opinion formation. In this article, we shed light on one potential mechanism that mediates ... benefits and risks of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement. The results show that frames have a significant effect on ... ...
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What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic Cooperation
The current public backlash against several trade agreements has triggered a vivid discourse about the impact of top-down communication of such initiatives on public opinion. Findings from previous...... ... the mechanisms underlying the impact of message cues on opinion formation. In this article, we shed light on one potential mechanism that mediates ... benefits and risks of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement. The results show that frames have a significant effect on ... ...
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A Balancing Act
In June 1994 Russia agreed to sign NATO's Partnership for Peace framework document (PFP). From the time the PFP concept was proposed, in October 1993, the Russian government has had to probe NATO's...
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Strategic partnering when the supply base is limited: a case study
This study considers a supply‐demand situation where a product has only a handful of supply firms and a large number of purchasing firms and compares the attitudes toward partnering of firms which ...... ... a lukewarm, andsometimes negative, attitudetoward the formation of alliances.There are no attitudinaldifferences between firms inalliance ... For brevity of presentation, wecategorize the firms as P = in partnership(alliance) arrangement, and NP = not in anypartnership (alliance) ... ...
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Manufacturing consensus: China’s strategic narratives and geoeconomic competition in Asia
China’s attempt to build geopolitical influence through economic instruments has become a critical facet of US-China competition. How can rising powers convince follower states to join alternative ...... ... audiences to help follower states hedge, while blunting the formation of containment coalitions. We adopt a mixed-methods approach to ... : (1) text analysis of Chinas messaging about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from 2008 to 2016; (2) case study of the rhetorical action-reactions ... ...
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