Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of multiple large ownership structure (MLS) and audit committee activity (ACA) on audit pricing for a sample of UK listed companies. Design/methodology/approach – One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and cross sectional multiple...

Purpose – This paper attempts to provide a critique of the Commitment to Africa report in an effort to understand how one large transnational corporation sees its role in the continent and to explain its social responsibility and its approach to citizenship. Design/methodology/approach – The...

SCOTT P. (2000) The audit of regional policy: 1934-1939, Reg. Studies 34, 55-65. This paper examines the cost-effectiveness of British regional policy during the 1930s. It takes issue with Correlli Barnett, who has argued that regional policy measures introduced from 1945 were already shown to...

<title/> SCOTT P. (1998) The location of early overseas multinationals in Britain, 1900-1939: patterns and determinants, <italic>Reg. Studies</italic> 32, 489-501. This paper examines the location patterns of early overseas multinationals in Britain over the period 1900-1939, together with the factors influencing their...

Office returns in the City of London are more volatile than in other UK markets. This volatility may reflect fluctuations in capital flows associated with changing patterns of ownership and the growing linkage between real estate and financial markets in the City. Using current and historical...

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It is firmly established that human judgement and decision making often falls short of the standard required in the Behavioural Decision Theory of von Neumann and Morgenstern (1947). Consumers in particular seem vulnerable to systematic errors of judgement which affect their choice behaviour...

In November 2009, at Noors Slott in Sweden, a small group of distinguished individuals from academia and government met to reflect on the ideas developed in the New Production of Knowledge (Gibbons <italic>et al</italic>., 1994) and Re-thinking Science (Nowotny <italic>et al</italic>., 2001). The aim was less to determine the...