The Language of Organizations: The Case of the Navy

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Review of Schendel and Hofer's Book Entitled Strategic Management: A New View of Business Policy and Planning

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Market research for effective competition in the Federal procurement process.

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Alternative Perspectives in the Organizational Sciences: "Inquiry from the Inside" And "Inquiry from the Outside"

An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, August 1979."Inquiry from the inside" is characterized by the experiential involvement of the researcher, the absence of a priori analytical categories, and an intent to understand a particular situation. "Inquiry from the outside" calls for detachment on the part of the researcher, who typically gathers data according to a priori analytical categories and aims to uncover knowledge that can be generalized to many situations. Greater appreciation of the epistemological differences between these two approaches can help organization scientists select the mode of inquiry appropriate to the phenomenon under study and to their own abilities and purposes.Support during the writing of this article was provided by grants from the Office of Naval Research Foundation Research Program at the Naval Postgraduate School

Crude protein-content of fat-free muscle and viscera in sheep

The nutritional effects of variation in feed supply and subsequent compensatory gain can play a significant role in cattle and beef production, due to their effects on carcass quality and feed costs. A system that predicts changes in fat and protein content of muscle and viscera in animals of different life stages and nutritional histories could therefore assist management to optimize performance and reduce costs of feed. A method has been developed to simultaneously estimate body composition and nutrient requirements of ruminants. This method estimates body composition from the difference in energy balance derived from ME intake and heat production from ME intake and protein content of muscle and viscera. Information on protein content of fat free mass in viscera and muscle (all non-viscera components of the body) is required by this new method. Data from the literature was combined with unpublished data from a study conducted in growing lambs. This experiment tested the effects of ad libitum intake of diets of varying energy density and added RUP on performance and carcass composition of lambs that had been previously restricted or unrestricted prior to a 12-13 week finishing phase, and both carcass and viscera components were chemically analysed on an individual basis. On a fat-free basis, muscle crude protein averaged 20.8%, with no effect of nutritional history or current diet; these numbers are in agreement with literature values, which lie between the range of 20-24% and which do not appear to vary substantially with age in postweaning sheep. In the same sheep, crude protein of viscera was affected by past and current nutritional state, and ranged from 15.3 to 16.2 % crude protein on a fat-free basis, averaging 15.7%. These values are within range of the limited literature data available on visceral composition. This data is use to parameterize functions describing growth of viscera and changes in heat production over time. This contributes to the method we have developed to estimate nutritional effects on body composition

MARINE CORPS FINANCIAL KANAGEMENT OFFICER TRAINING IN THE 1990'S

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