Strategic planning in smaller rapid growth companies

The research reported in this article is based on a study of the strategic planning practices of the 500 fastest growing privately held smaller companies in the United States ranked according to percentage of sales increases from 1978 to 1982.^p1 Based on the information provided, a clear picture emerges regarding the actual role of strategic planning in rapid growth companies.     

Social Smoking: An Untenable Position

Abstract

Social smokers manage the conflicting aspects of their liminal identities by negotiating complex roles of performance and exchange. Using a combination of methods, including both participant observation of cultural performances and informal interviews, to elicit lay theories and accounts of self-conscious practices, this project examines social actors, self-defined as nonsmokers (or reformed smokers), who engage in recreational tobacco use. Through in-depth interviews and observations of self-identified female social smokers, we document general characteristics of this subpopulation, sampled from a large Midwest capital and its surrounding areas. Social smokers occupy an untenable social space; as neither smokers nor nonsmokers, they use both practices and discourses about those practices to stake their claim to an untenable social position. We conclude with a theoretical discussion that compares our findings with other discourses on smoking, especially the discourse of addiction narratives. In an age of increasing awareness of the health consequences, smoking has become a culturally unavailable category producing “disconfirming realities” in which social smokers constantly renegotiate their status.     

论环境侵权中因果关系的举证责任——基于《侵权责任法》第66条的分析

在对《侵权责任法》第66条进行分析解释的基础上,结合环境侵权责任的特殊性,论证传统举证责任规则的问题所在,提出因果关系推定规则的必要性与可行性,进而从理论层面到实践层面的细化方面来规范举证责任分配规则。     

当下青年女子的体型研究——以绍兴地区为例

基于现行服装号型标准不能较好地反映当代人体特征的现象,随机抽取200名绍兴地区18~25周岁女青年进行人体测量,应用SPSS软件对所采集数据进行相关数理统计分析.以胸腰差为分类依据,将研究群体划分成YY(梨形体)、Y(较瘦体)、A(中间体)、B(偏胖体)、C(柱形体)五类体型,并得到各类体型的中间体控制部位及尺寸.旨在弥补现行号型标准的不足,为该研究群体的服装产品结构设计优化提供理论依据和参考.     

Disability and migration in urban Australia: The case of Liverpool

This article presents and analyses population data on the Liverpool area of Greater Western Sydney, identifying trends with significant policy implications. Liverpool city is home to one of the highest concentrations of Australia's recent arrivals, many of whom have refugee backgrounds. From those who arrived under Australia's post-Second World War resettlement programme to new arrivals, it is also home to a rich diversity of sociocultural and linguistic communities at different stages of settlement. Demographic data show significant relationships between age, country of origin, year of arrival and need for assistance variables, many of which are either qualitatively distinct or quantitatively different from other regions in Sydney, New South Wales and Australia. Building on this analysis, the article further identifies significant policy issues in relation to disability, care and support. While Western Sydney has figured prominently in national and state public-policy directives, particularly in relation to economic growth, public infrastructure and transport mobility corridors, the analysis presented here illustrates that national policy directives for socioeconomic imperatives, such as the appropriate uptake of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, are critical to facilitate social sustainability, cohesion and equity within the region.     

Marketing and airline corporate planning

This article focuses upon the impact of marketing on the corporate planning process in the air transport industry. The literature of consequence to marketing, corporate planning, and airline planning is synthesized into a normative planning structure and a framework of marketing dimensional elements.     

福建省在校医学生对全科医学专业认知情况的调查——以福建省4所医学院校为例

目的 初步了解福建省在校医学生对全科医学专业的认知情况,分析其主要影响因素,为在福建省落实全科医学制度及政府部门相关政策的建立健全提供可行性建议.方法 使用自行设计的调查问卷,对福建省4所医学院校共计385名医学相关专业学生对全科医学专业的认知情况以及对全科医生的就业意愿进行摸底.结果 70.2％的医学生完全不了解全科医学当前的发展状况,49.4％的医学生不清楚全科医学的就业渠道和前景;83.5％的在校医学生就业仍旧倾向专科医生,仅3.2％的医学生将全科医生当做首选.结论 当前福建省在校医学生对全科医学专业的认知情况有待进一步提高,需要通过加强全科医学知识和就业前景的宣传和引导,推动福建省全科医生制度的落实.     

论中外叙事文学中的“死亡剧情”——以《呼啸山庄》《活着》为例

"死亡剧情"这种文学现象是深植于作者内心对于生命、生存的理解和情感的表达,它是作者驱除生命苦难和死亡本身的一种方式."死亡剧情"对于读者也有着特殊的意义,它的悲剧感染力使其拥有独特的文学艺术魅力而经久不衰.但是"死亡剧情"并非只是单纯的作者与读者之间表面人为力量互动的产物,作品中仿佛隐含一条暗线,人物受社会集体潜意识中的"死亡本能"影响--人物在故事中自身有一种天然的意愿,贯穿于情节发展的始终,一种本能的不可逆转的力量,一种要消灭生命的势力,以毁灭生命而重返于无机形态为目的,在心中暗暗期盼自己和别人的死亡到来.     

Understanding intimate partner violence against women in the rural South

Most U.S. intimate partner violence (IPV) research to date has been limited to women residing in urban areas, with the small body of research focusing on rural populations being primarily qualitative. In this case-control study of Southern rural women, while many factors are consistent with those found in urban settings, unlike findings elsewhere, IPV risk appears to increase with age, and race showed no increased risk. Furthermore, in rural areas where guns are more acceptable than in other parts of the United States, partners of IPV victims are considerably more likely to carry weapons than partners of nonabused women. Given the geographic limitations to police and medical response to severe IPV in a rural setting, an improved understanding of IPV risk among this population can aid health care providers in ascertaining risk before it escalates further.     

Corporate planning in small companies— a survey

The current state of research on corporate planning is directed at investigations of actual practices within specific industries. It is believed that by so doing, a more generally applicable theory of corporate planning will ultimately be developed. Within this broad framework, the study reported upon in this article was undertaken so that a determination could be made of the current level of actual planning by small businesses. More specifically, it focuses upon the corporate planning process within small and medium sized companies located in New England, U.S.A.