Purpose – The aim of the paper is to study the reasons for the adoption and certification of quality systems and the subsequent impacts on performance. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology selected is a study based on the perceptions of two…

This study has as its aim to help to clarify the relationship between environmental management and economic performance by
integrating it into a wider framework that includes the relationship between environmental strategy and firm performance, the latter being understood as…

Recent research into quality management has examined the relationship between quality management and performance. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationships between quality management practices, and to examine the direct and indirect effects of these practices on…

The Irish are the largest and longest-established non-British minority ethnic group in Britain, but their difference
is recognised only in the migrant generation. Unlike the second generations of the so-called 'visible' ethnic groups, children of Irish-born parents in England are…

Since coming to power in 1997, New Labour has identified reducing anti-social behaviour and fear of crime as key issues to be dealt with. In the main, its response has been to introduce a range of punitive measures. The main…

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: O’Brien, N., 2009. Secondary school teachers’ and pupils’ definitions of bullying in the UK:…

This is an electronic version of an article published in Ethics and Social Welfare, 3(3), pp.229-233. Ethics and Social Welfare is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t744402347., In the flyer for the ‘Ethics that Work’ conference organized by this journal in November…

A new species, Vaejovis atenango, belonging to the V. punctipalpi group is described from southern Mexico; this group was previously only known from the North American deserts in the USA and northern Mexico. This geographically discontinuous distribution is similar to…

The new species Pachychernes tamaulipensis is described from all freeliving stages collected in nests of the packrat, Neotoma micropus, in Tamaulipas, Mexico. This species is related to P. shelfordi, P. zehorum, P. attenuatus and P. baileyi; all of them form…

Sciurodendrium bravohollisa e n,sp.(Heligrnone llidae) is described as an intestinal parasite of 2 squirrels. Sciurus aureogaster Cuvier,1829, collected from Los Robles, Municipio de Tlalnepantla, Morelos State, Mexico. The new species differs from all other congeners in possessing a very well…