...Xiaoli Zhao; Pavel Castka; Daniel Prajogo Purpose We study how organisations (that upgrade from baseline standards to advanced standards) use and integrate knowledge to adapt to changes in compliance practices. We explore this problem in the context of occupational health and safety (OH&S...

... Bureaucracy Ethics Management Participation Politics Society Standards The transition from the industrial era to the information age produced a paradigm shift which has created a second authority structure in the economy. The new construct, called a management system, provides for high output...

... Organizational behaviour Standards Strategic planning TQM Interest in environmental issues from consumers, distributors and manufacturers has not abated, as some sceptics predicted, and environmentalism seems to be destined to be one of the key management concerns of the 1990s and beyond...