The notion of ‘participation’ has growing currency at many levels of social policy in the UK where the Labour government uses it to
denote the engagement of ‘local people’ in decision-making about the services and structures which affect their daily…

This study seeks to investigate the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor – between male heterosexual and gay employees in Athens, Greece.

To determine whether a…

Our research investigates applying the Software as a Service (SaaS) model for hosted applications to more complex business systems such as an Enterprise Resource Management System (ERP). This application of the service model is still in its infancy and we…

A low-intervention approach to restoration that also allows restoration outcomes to be framed as trajectories of ecosystem change can be described as ‘open-ended’ restoration. It is an approach that recognizes that long-term ecosystem behavior involves continual change at small and…

This research adds to the literature on relationship lending in the small business context by discussing the roles of entrepreneurial competence and voluntarily disclosed information as determinants of credit access. More specifically, we propose that the loan manager’s evaluation of…

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Nationally, there has been debate on the role of research within higher education and increased interest in the teaching/research nexus. A team of Academic Liaison Librarians at Anglia Polytechnic University was awarded funding to investigate the extent to which learning…

Background: Promoting the social inclusion of mental health service users is a UK policy priority, but the development of outcome measures in this area is at an early stage. Aim: To develop a social inclusion measure for use in a…

This version has had some references removed for republication as a book chapter, but is substantially the same as the definitive published version. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com., This paper draws on a qualitative study that was undertaken…

The definitive version is available at www.interscience.wiley.com, Personality dimensions of participants who suffer from visual stress were compared with those of normal participants using the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Extraversion-Introversion scores showed no significant differences between the participants who suffered visual…