<title/> This article provides a time series analysis of NHS public inquiries and inquiries related to health against the background of recent policy changes which are centralizing hazardous incident investigations within agencies such as the Healthcare Commission.

Three historical case studies from Polish manufacturing industry are used to evaluate the rise of survival networks in Poland during the early 1990s. The article poses the question of whether survival networks represented a hidden driver of organisational transformation and change in...

This article considers the theoretical and management implications of the recent reorganization of UK cancer services on network lines in which the intermediate tier of the Regional Office (RO) has played an important implementation role. Empirical evidence drawn from the first stage of a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose Neo-Durkheimian institutional theory, developed by the Durkheimian institutional theory, as developed by anthropologist Mary Douglas, as a suitable theory base for undertaking cross-cultural accounting research. The social theory provides a...

Purpose: The UK private finance initiative (PFI) public policy is heavily criticised. PFI contracts are highly profitable leading to incentives for PFI private-sector companies to support PFI public policy. This contested nature of PFIs requires legitimation by PFI private-sector companies, by...