Through the use of a case study, this article illustrates the potential value of involving ACAS in attempts to improve industrial relations. A joint approach is far more likely to secure the understanding and commitment of the parties concerned and thus make possible genuine and lasting...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide evidence to suggest that private social and environmental reporting (i.e. one-on-one meetings between institutional investors and investees on social and environmental issues) is beginning to merge with private financial reporting and that, as a result,...

During the 1980s Vietnam experienced a radical process of industrial and service sector liberalization, known as doi moi. The process was initiated by the government as a means for managing the collapse in overseas financial support occasioned by the demise of its principal supporter, the former...

Purpose – This paper aims to consider the suitability of Anglo‐American new public management (NPM) practices in the context of public sector reform in Japan. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the two principal alternative approaches that have been taken to public sector...