In an attempt to provide a better understanding of the tension between conformance and performance in the governance context, this study develops a conceptual model for enterprise governance (EG) from the contingency theory perspective. The study argues that the value-based…

Attempts to recognize ‘information’ as an asset have led to an increased awareness of why and how this invisible valuable resource does not appear in the financial statements. This paper aims to develop a model based on three-circled sets of…

Special issue of the journal Women: a Cultural Review, with critical introduction written and edited by Maroula Joannou, Lucie Armitt and Paulina Palmer.

The education and support of leaders at the level of ward or team leader
is essential to move the government’s plan forward for modernizing the
NHS. This study considered the experiences of midwifery team leaders
in a local community midwifery…

Most parents or carers who separate or divorce are able to make arrangements themselves about where their children will reside and how the children’s contact with the non-resident parent will be managed. A further group of parents or carers are…

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This paper presents preliminary case-study evidence on key factors associated with the internationalisation of management consultancy small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including how these factors differ from previous aggregate evidence based mainly on manufacturing firms. It contributes by adding to…

This paper introduces a Special Issue on heterodox economics of the environment and sustainability. At present, humanity faces several challenges, such as resource scarcity, biodiversity loss and climate change. And yet, we would argue, contributions from traditional ‘heterodox’ schools of…

Background: Attitudes towards the use of outcome measures by professionals working in mental health
have been shown to be variable. Occupational therapists appear to have difficulty specifying goals and measuring the outcomes of interventions.
Aims: To measure the outcomes of…

Categorical perception of robustly represented faces (self, friend) and unfamiliar faces is investigated, and the relative roles of configural and featural information are examined. Participants performed identification and discrimination tasks on morph series containing the self-face and a friend's face…