The development of Wales is currently being reappraised in terms of the model of 'Internal Colonialism'. This model assumes that spatial inequali ties are primarily due to political intervention in the form of the subordination of a distinct society (Wales) to a central elite (the English ruling...

It has been claimed that the changes of the last decade represent a transition from a `Fordist' towards a `post-Fordist' pattern of economic organisation. A review of aspects of economic change in Britain in the last decade suggests that popular versions of this theory are misleading. Despite...

The analysis of regional development and the formation of development policies is currently excessively influenced by the assumption that globalization represents the overriding causal influence and policy imperative. This bias seems to derive from insufficiently critical borrowings from the...

A classic paper on the development of governmental financial control systems argues that such developments occur within the framework of a three‐stage model of evolution. This paper examines the validity of Dean’s model of evolution and argues that the model represents such a general level...

Considers the implications of the APIRA 1998 conference for accounting research. Research of all kinds should lead eventually to better practice and be useful. The data bank of study should provide guidance in addressing accounting problems, therefore the data bank needs some structure and order...

A number of studies have been published that claim to carry out cost of quality (COQ) studies on construction projects. These studies, however, have largely ignored the contribution of prevention and appraisal costs to COQ, and have limited their analysis to the impact of quality failures on the...

This study examines the implications that CEO age has onexecutive pay regarding data collected in a UK setting. Whereprior research has typically focused on total pay (salary plusbonus), this study offers a more complete conceptual model bysplitting pay into salary, annual bonus, and share...

This study represents a first attempt in the UK literature to split total pay into salary, annual bonus and share options for the purpose of empirically verifying how each is related to executive performance. As predicted from earlier studies on total pay, salaries were found primarily...