Local government in Great Britain is currently undergoing reorganisation. The reorganisation process is being progressed separately in each of the three countries of Great Britain -- England, Scotland, and Wales. Reorganisation itself has always been a sensitive issue, and the current process is...

I here have been very few studies carried out on enhancing CFC (Cross-functionalCollaboration) for the product design development. nevertheless there is a clearconsensus among researchers that this issue is a critical one in ne product designdevelopment. Besides, almost all of the research work,...

This paper investigates firm characteristics associated with the choice of individual versus group compensation schemes for senior executives below the CEO level. We define individual compensation schemes where senior executives are compensated independently from other senior executives, where...

This paper investigates whether the accrual anomaly identified by Sloan (1996), whereby investors overestimate the impact of accruals on the persistence of earnings exists within an Australian context. While there is general support for the existence of the anomaly in Australia there are a...

Worker participation in management is an attractive catch‐phrase and very much the in‐thing. But unless it can be translated into realistic forms of activity it is meaningless and a waste of effort. Here is one example which shows how worker participation can offer something positive,...