Purpose This paper presents findings from a project that aimed to support social work managers to observe, evaluate and give feedback on social work practice skills. Design/methodology/approach An embedded team of researchers observed over 300 meetings between parents and social workers and gave...

The purpose of our endeavour was to identify the buying behaviour during the 2012 winter holidays. We focused on large surface stores for several reasons. First of all, in Bucharest, there is a strong tendency toward purchasing from the modern retail. Secondly, the assortment displayed in these...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sensory marketing activities in an outdoor out-store shopping environment. Design/methodology/approach The study synthesizes the existing literature to build up an integrative conceptual framework of sensory marketing from the supply-side...

Purpose – The purpose of the study was twofold: to investigate the correlation between a sample of personal psychological and demographic factors and resistance to phishing; and to investigate if national culture moderates the strength of these correlations. Design/methodology/approach – To...

Ecological models of physical activity emphasize the effects of environmental influences. “Microscale” streetscape features that may affect pedestrian experience have received less research attention than macroscale walkability (e.g., residential density). The Microscale Audit of Pedestrian...

This article analyses a controller’s action in a product development setting. An alliance context provides for a hybrid form of governance and for complexity. The analysis builds on the participants’ own comments to a video-recorded clip from one of their earlier meetings with a heated...

The extant methodological literature has challenged case selection in qualitative case study research for being arbitrary or relying too much on convenience logic. This paper aims to address parts of such criticism on the rigour of case selection through the presentation of a sampling framework...