It was a concern among management, too.
This new meaning is especially influential among management consultants.
"Activists aren't particularly popular here among management, and they won't be popular in Japan either".
Redundancies - in Local World corporate-speak "headcount reductions" - are also anticipated among management, commercial and administrative staff.
"There's recognition among management at IAG that legacy airlines responded late to the development of low-cost short haul," said John Strickland, director of consultancy JLS Consulting.
Among management changes, Siemens said Roland Koch, the head of its networks unit, would step down and be succeeded by Thomas Ganswindt.
Tory MP Andrew Tyrie also told the governance committee about his frustration at the ambivalence among management towards keeping the palace in good order.
Then last month a report concluded that there were major gaps in communication among management and the psychiatrists, pediatricians and nurses who work at the facility, Riverview Hospital.
The rise of the neo-Coasian school of economists has led to a fierce backlash among management theorists who champion the "resource-based theory" of the firm.
There used to be a near-consensus among management thinkers that Western-style focused companies represented business's version of the end of history.
In title and structure, Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" echoes the idea, popular among management consultants, that a company can preëmpt the natural selection of the marketplace by having its divisions compete against one another internally.
