<title/> Improving the quality of public participation in council decision-making is a key part of local government ‘modernization’ across the UK. This article interrogates the extent to which public participation has developed in Scottish councils. The authors explore the challenges of building...

This article opens with a review of changes to the concept of professionalism since Hall's classic 1968 study. Research into the measurement of professionalism is then evaluated and test results are reported for Hall's measure of professionalism on samples of British accountants and research...

This paper brings together research into and using the team role model developed by Belbin (1981, 1993a) in an attempt to provide an exhaustive assessment of construct validity in light of the conflicting evidence so far produced. Role theory is used to contextualize the origins of the model....