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Publication date: 1 August 1996

Clive Miller

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 4 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 June 1996

Clive Miller

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 5 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 April 1995

Jon Hobden

Continuous improvement of manufacturing quality is the preoccupation of production management teams throughout the world. At least, it is within companies who hope to have a…

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Continuous improvement of manufacturing quality is the preoccupation of production management teams throughout the world. At least, it is within companies who hope to have a commercial future.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 67 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 June 1996

Peter Thistlethwaite

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 February 1998

Sue Younger‐Ross and Tess Lomax

The ‘Outlands Pilot’ was a joint project set up in 1992 by Devon Social Services Department and the Health Authority. It offered an intermediate setting between hospital and home…

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The ‘Outlands Pilot’ was a joint project set up in 1992 by Devon Social Services Department and the Health Authority. It offered an intermediate setting between hospital and home. Elderly people who had been assessed as needing residential care after discharge from hospital were admitted instead to the Outlands Unit for a six‐week period of rehabilitation. The explicit aim was to rebuild people's confidence and physical independence, so that they could manage at home again. This paper reports on the success of the model and barriers to its wider use.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, vol. 5 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1747-9886

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Publication date: 1 June 1956

READ a current Government publication, and you work study technicians can draw the inference that you are feared by managements of the Central Electricity Authority. Those…

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READ a current Government publication, and you work study technicians can draw the inference that you are feared by managements of the Central Electricity Authority. Those managements have declined to apply work study technique because, the report says: “it is known that it will be difficult to deal with that redundancy when ascertained”. It goes on to say: “In consequence we find that work study, operational research and investigations into restrictive practices are undertaken without enthusiasm.”

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Work Study, vol. 5 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 4 May 2012

Ingrid Jeacle and Chris Carter

The paper aims to investigate accounting's role as a mediating instrument between the tensions of creativity and control within the price competitive world of the fashion chain…

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Purpose

The paper aims to investigate accounting's role as a mediating instrument between the tensions of creativity and control within the price competitive world of the fashion chain store.

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The paper employs a case study approach, gathering interview data from key members within a UK fashion chain, and uses Goffman's work on impression management to inform its theoretical argumentation.

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Drawing on Goffman, the paper considers the roles adopted by organizational actors within fashion retailing and the actions they pursue in order to maintain a team performance. The authors suggest that accounting, as a form of stage prop, helps to sustain this team impression by mediating between the creativity and control concerns inherent in fashion design. In the process, they also gain some understanding of the use of accounting by actors beyond the confines of an organization's finance function.

Originality/value

Despite the magnitude of the fashion industry and its dominance in the identity construction of both individual and streetscape, the role of accounting within this domain of popular culture has remained remarkably unexplored. This paper attempts to redress such scholarly neglect. It also furthers an understanding of the relatively unexplored role of accounting as a mediating instrument within the complex dialectic of creativity and control.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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Publication date: 31 December 2010

Clive Tobutt and Raffaella Milani

The aim of this randomised intervention study was to test the use of two counselling styles in reducing alcohol consumption in offenders who were hazardous drinkers and who had…

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The aim of this randomised intervention study was to test the use of two counselling styles in reducing alcohol consumption in offenders who were hazardous drinkers and who had been charged with alcohol‐related offences. An additional aim was to evaluate the research process itself before embarking on a larger trial. Participants were recruited from a police custody suite in the south east of England and randomised to receive either a motivational interviewing brief intervention (MIBI) or a standard brief intervention (BI). The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) was used to screen offenders for hazardous drinking. Participants were asked to complete a second AUDIT 12 weeks later. Two hundred offenders with alcohol‐related offences were screened over a 10‐month period. Of these, 182 were alcohol dependent and were therefore excluded from the study. Of the 18 who were eligible to enter the study, six refused to participate. Five were randomised to the MIBI group and seven into the BI group (BI). The mean age of the MIBI group was 25 (SD±3.86) years and the mean age of the BI group was 32.4 (SD±7.9). Audit scores were significantly lower at time 2 compared to time 1 for both intervention groups (t(11) = 17.60; p < 0.05). There was no significant difference between the different intervention groups.

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Advances in Dual Diagnosis, vol. 3 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1757-0972

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