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The fight against fraud: A critical review and comparative analysis of the Labour and Conservative government’s anti-fraud policies in the United Kingdom (2015)
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This article identifies the new trends and policies adopted by the Labour and Conservative governments towards the prevention of fraud and critiques their effectiveness.

Fresh driver for economic growth: fracking the UK nation (2015)
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© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to examine UK shale gas viability. The recent commitment to shale gas exploration in the UK through fracking has given rise to well-publicised economic benefits and env... Read More about Fresh driver for economic growth: fracking the UK nation.

Towards a model of the intervention process (2015)
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© Policy Press 2015. This paper explores the challenging circumstances when one part of government decides that the performance of a subsidiary part is unacceptable and arranges some kind of remedial intervention. Following the detailed analysis of a... Read More about Towards a model of the intervention process.

Attitudes of undergraduate business students toward sustainability issues (2015)
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© 2015 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to report on findings from the first phase of a longitudinal study of undergraduate business students’ attitudes, beliefs and perceptions concerning sustainability issues. Design/meth... Read More about Attitudes of undergraduate business students toward sustainability issues.

Help students help themselves: The Intervention Initiative (2015)
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Article about the Intervention Initiative: why it was developed and what theories it is based on.

Is there a role for marketing in community development? (2015)
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© Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal. 2014. All rights reserved. Social marketing is the application of marketing theory to social issues. A significant drawback, though, is that practitioners are encouraged to assume high leve... Read More about Is there a role for marketing in community development?.

The impact of analyst sentiment on UK stock recommendations and target prices (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between narrative sentiment in analysts' company reports and their recommendation and target price outputs. We study an industry-balanced sample of 275 UK quoted comp... Read More about The impact of analyst sentiment on UK stock recommendations and target prices.

Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation (2015)
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© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the “crisis of governance” facing the Earth's natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically inte... Read More about Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation.

Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences (2015)
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© 2015 by the author(s). Leadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable development. To understand how leadership is conceptualized and analyzed in the environmental sciences and to discover what this research says... Read More about Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences.

Linking functional with personal income distribution: a stock-flow consistent approach (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper develops a benchmark stock-flow consistent model that links functional with personal income distribution. The model consists of various household groups that receive income from different sources or from the same... Read More about Linking functional with personal income distribution: a stock-flow consistent approach.

DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing (2014)
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This paper looks at three key cases; UsedSoft (C-458/13), PC Box (C-355/12) and Grund (C-458/13), on the topic of the extent and nature of a copyright holders abilityto constrain future uses of their copyrighted works in the field of software and cri... Read More about DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing.

Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being (2014)
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© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mediated by differences in dimensions of job... Read More about Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being.

Environmental law-making public opinion in Victorian Britain: The cross-currents of Bentham's and Coleridge's ideas (2014)
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It is increasingly clear that law and its enforcement in Victorian Britain were quite effective in tackling formative industrial problems concerning pollution and broader threats to nature. What is unclear is the political philosophy, if any, underly... Read More about Environmental law-making public opinion in Victorian Britain: The cross-currents of Bentham's and Coleridge's ideas.

Toward a View of Complementarity: Trust and Policy Influence Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Political Activity (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2014. The extant literature argues that nonmarket strategies can establish, sustain, or enhance a firm’s competitive advantage. Less clear is how and why effective nonmarket strategies influence a firm’s competitiveness. Moreover, the... Read More about Toward a View of Complementarity: Trust and Policy Influence Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Political Activity.

Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain (2014)
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© Economic History Society 2014. Using ownership and control data for 890 firm-years, this article examines the concentration of capital and voting rights in British companies in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that both capital an... Read More about Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain.

In-depth study of decoupling point as a reference model: An application for health service supply chain (2014)
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© 2013 © 2013 Taylor & Francis. This paper reports the findings from a case study research about in-depth analysis of decoupling point as a reference model to address a particular management dilemma. Managers from a health service organisation cont... Read More about In-depth study of decoupling point as a reference model: An application for health service supply chain.

The ‘slippery’ concept of ‘culture’ in projects: Towards alternative theoretical possibilities embedded in project practice (2014)
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Education: To be, or not to be, sustainable (2014)
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Integration of energy efficient technologies in UK supermarkets (2014)
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The purpose of this paper is twofold: to determine if the integration of energy efficient technologies in UK supermarkets can determine consumer behaviour, and to establish if such activities can help satisfying the environmental elements of the clie... Read More about Integration of energy efficient technologies in UK supermarkets.

Empirical evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis fails to confirm the predicted effect of motion (2014)
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The uncanny valley hypothesis states that the acceptability of an artificial character will not increase linearly in relation to its likeness to human form. Instead, after an initial rise in acceptability there will be a pronounced decrease when the... Read More about Empirical evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis fails to confirm the predicted effect of motion.