This paper describes some preliminary findings of an ethnographic inquiry into a steel mill pruchased by its employees through a stock option scheme in the early 1980's to avoid closure by its parent company.

This paper describes and illustrates a symbolic interactionist approach to critical ethnographic research in organizations. In so doing, it addresses the call by Chua (1988), for first, the development and explication of a less eclectic approach to interpretive sociology by management accounting...

This paper takes a new look at the relationship between democracy and exchange rate regimes. Evidence from a cluster analysis and a panel analysis suggests that democracies are not all equally likely to float their exchange rates. While democracies are more likely to float than autocracies are,...

This paper takes a new look at the relationship between democracy and exchange rate regimes. Evidence from a cluster analysis and a panel analysis suggests that democracies are not all equally likely to float their exchange rates. While democracies are more likely to float than autocracies are,...

The practice of viticulture and winemaking is highly dependent upon the weather and climate. Any future changes in the seasons, their duration, local maximum, minimum and mean temperatures, frost occurrence and heat accumulation could have a major impact on the winegrowing areas of the world....

The first part of this paper considers the cognition of individuals ans groups of individuals in the context of organisational project risk analysis and management, and attempts to characterise a set of models of cognition which may be of value as conceptual tools for risk analysts and managers....

This paper presents the findings of a grounded theory study of the development of strategic ideas in a multinational organization. By drawing on the rich data generated from this longitudinal in-depth fields study, this paper provides a theoretical framework for the development of strategic ideas.

In this paper we analyse the efficiency of the Spanish Police Service using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis concentrates on the police activities related to the solving of crimes. The theoretical and empirical study of the policy production function under this dimension leads us to...

This paper examines the likely impact of Capital Adequacy Directive (CAD) on European Securities markets, focusing in particular on the competitive consequences for institutions engaged in the trading of equity securities.