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On New Footnotes to Shingo

The Toyota Production System (TPS) has continually inspired scholars of production management to a search for its essence. Two new interpretations have recently been advanced. Firstly, Johnston has argued that conventional production management is based on an approach to management called management-as-planning. The central assumption is that intentional activity is based on a representation of...

Footnotes on critical limb ischemia.

n this issue of the Journal, Guzman et al. (1) investigate a ovel approach for identifying patients at risk for amputaion secondary to peripheral arterial disease. This study is he first to use multidetector computed tomography to uantify tibial artery calcification (TAC). The authors dvance the hypothesis that TAC is a measure of the everity of below the knee atherosclerotic disease much in he...

Immigration in American Economic History.

The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This paper reviews the literatures on historical and contemporary migrant flows, yielding new insights on migrant selection, assimilation of immigrants into US...