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White paper
About: White paper is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3852 publications have been published within this topic receiving 51169 citations. The topic is also known as: White paper & White papers.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the background to the UK Government White Paper on the conservation of the built environment, and particularly to identify drivers for legislative change and possible consequences of new legislation for conservation practice.
Abstract: Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the background to the UK Government White Paper on the conservation of the built environment, and particularly to identify drivers for legislative change and possible consequences of new legislation for conservation practice.Design/methodology/approach – A critical review is undertaken of major trends in conservation and management of the historic built environment that may affect future conservation legislation.Findings – Three major trends are identified: the development of holistic landscape‐based approaches to conservation; the widening of heritage values to include those of particular groups and communities as well as those based on academic disciplines; and a shift from control‐based approaches to conservation towards those based on dynamic management of change. Each of these trends presents opportunities and challenges in framing of legislation and policy.Research limitations/implications – This is a wide and fast‐developing field. The UK Government's proposals ...
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TL;DR: Findings from a U.S. study of 48 primary care physicians acting as gatekeepers in a large health maintenance organization are summarized to highlight some of the findings and conclusions that are relevant to the current and projected problems concerned with controlling costs in Britain's National Health Service.
Abstract: BrMedJ 1989;299:1323-5 The inevitable effects of demographic changes and the escalating expectations raised by high technology medicine are that health costs are rising all over the developed world. The issues being debated in relation to the white paper Working with Patients are the same ones facing the Canadian and American health care systems.M Limits have to be set on health care expenditure. But setting limits means setting priorities and making choices. This is not new: renal dialysis units have faced such limits for decades, and doctors differ widely in the factors they take into account in selecting patients for dialysis.5 Most of the discussion in the BMJ has focused on policy, political, and administrative issues.6 8 Although undesirable effects on the doctor-patient relationship have been predicted in discussions on the white paper, they have not been studied systematically. As part of the ongoing debate on practice budgets and cost restraint I recorded the experiences of primary care doctors who had acted as gatekeepers in a large health maintenance organisation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of rural policy making and implementation in the English West Midlands is presented, which reveals a complex set of fragmented structures and blurred accountabilities in which policy implementation is an outstanding concern.
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TL;DR: The second-generation knowledge management as discussed by the authors is more inclusive of human resource and process initiatives than the first-generation KM, in which technology always seems to provide the answer, and the second generation KM is more open to human resources and processes.
Abstract: At the KM Expo show last fall in Chicago, attendees could be heard grumbling about what they felt was the event’s conspicuously myopic obsession with technology. “Document management and imaging—that’s all I’ve seen and heard about here,” one man complained. He then amplified his discontent and shared his broader disappointment with knowledge management as a whole: “...an idea that amounts to little more than yesterday’s information technologies trotted out in today’s more fashionable clothes.” Point well taken. Indeed, at the heart of most KM strategies to date can be found data warehousing, groupware, document management, imaging, and data mining. By continuing to promote that kind of narrow, technology-centric brand of thinking, the nascent field of knowledge management places its own credibility at risk. Merely re-labeling yesterday’s technologies in the sexy new name of today’s KM brings nothing new to the table. And customers won’t stand for it. As reported above, evidence of the backlash is already apparent. We, the community of KM practitioners, can do much better than that. As an advocate and strong supporter of KM, I and many others hold an entirely different view of KM compared to what we have typically seen in the press and in trade shows. Recently, a new name for this hopefully more-enlightened brand of KM has emerged: “second-generation KM.” Unlike first-generation KM, in which technology always seems to provide the answer, second-generation thinking is more inclusive of human resource and process initiatives. I believe we should embrace this term, along with its expanded perspectives, as a way of differentiating the new KM from its technology-minded ancestry. A comparison of these two competing frameworks follows below.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The work in this article is the latest stage of a policy initiative, the premises of which were already laid down in Regulation 1/2003 that stressed the essential role of national courts in the application of the EC competition rules.
Abstract: The White Paper is the latest stage of a policy initiative, the premises of which were already laid down in Regulation 1/2003 that stressed the essential role of national courts in the application of the EC competition rules, for example by awarding damages to the victims of infringements (3). Given the importance of the right to damages in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the EC competition rules, as acknowledged by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) (4), and in view of the considerable hurdles faced by the victims wishing to exercise their rights in Europe (5), the Commission adopted in December 2005 a Green Paper (6) that identified potential ways forward.
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