<title/> Effective knowledge management is as important to policing as to any other public (or private) sector organization in terms of improving performance. This article reviews the literature of knowledge management in policing, set in the context of the public criticism of intelligence systems in...

<title/> The notion of police performance needs to be unpacked into what is done; how it is done; and the results of what is done. But performance indicators are inextricably bound up with the objectives of policing. The change in these objectives and in police performance indicators that have taken place...

Purpose – This study aims to focus on the accountability of organizations to multiple stakeholders with differing interests and power, where there is an absence of accountability towards shareholders. Design/methodology/approach – Longitudinal field study via participant-observation....

The management of police performance through cash-limited budgets, performance indicators and crime statistics is the result of a control systems paradigm. This article uses examples of police practice to raise the possibility that this performance culture may be in tension with human rights...

Conventional texts on research methods research have a tendency to provide acontextual prescriptive accounts of how research should be carried out. The authors of this paper have recently compiled an edited collection of accounts of how qualitative research was carried out in a variety of social...

This paper explores the current debate about case studies in accounting education and accounting research and concludes that there is a potentially bigger role for case studies in furthering the alignment between accounting research, education and practice. It uses an empirically-researched,...

This paper explores the differences in tendencies toward using middle-of-the scale responses between Chinese and American managers in Sino-American International Joint Ventures when questionnaire instruments were administered with an explicit midpoint. Results demonstrate that Chinese and...