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The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food funded a two‐year project on “Constraints on freedom of dietary choice and their implications for the adoption and maintenance of healthy diets”. Part of this work included a study on the impact of changing income on dietary patterns, food intake and food preferences. Results suggest that alterations in food choices relevant to health promotion occur in people who have experienced a change in income although further study is necessary to explore the longer‐term results of these actions.

This research provides accounting-ethics authors and administrators with a benchmark for accounting-ethics research. While Bernardi and Bean (2010) considered publications in business-ethics and accounting’s top-40 journals this study considers research in eight accounting-ethics and public-interest journals, as well as, 34 business-ethics journals. We analyzed the contents of our 42 journals for the 25-year period between 1991 through 2015. This research documents the continued growth (Bernardi & Bean, 2007) of accounting-ethics research in both accounting-ethics and business-ethics journals. We provide data on the top-10 ethics authors in each doctoral year group, the top-50 ethics authors over the most recent 10, 20, and 25 years, and a distribution among ethics scholars for these periods. For the 25-year timeframe, our data indicate that only 665 (274) of the 5,125 accounting PhDs/DBAs (13.0% and 5.4% respectively) in Canada and the United States had authored or co-authored one (more than one) ethics article.

Tom Haggerty, Leader of the Washington, D.C. Online Users' Group, chaired an Online User Workshop at NICE II — the Information Industry Association sponsored meeting in Washington, D.C. in April. The Workshop was lively and well attended. A restriction on the physical size of the platform resulted in a two‐tier panel — the Panel proper and ‘First Row Participants’. On the panel Tom Haggerty was joined by Diana Danko of the Northern Ohio, ASIS group, Robert Donati of Lockheed Information Service (Dialog), Paul Hennrikus of Congressional Information Service (CIS), Marjorie Hlava of both the New Mexico and Southwestern Library Association Users Groups and Gerri Lawrence of the Kansas City Users Group. The three first row participants were Kay Durkin of Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS), Lynne Morris of the Medline Users Group of the Midwest and Susan Woodford of the New England Online Users Group.

This multi-day lesson involves grade 2-grade 4 students in exploring the life and achievements of Susan B. Anthony. It provides opportunities for students to investigate events associated with the Women’s Rights Movement as well as issues related to women’s right to vote, work, and to receive an education. This three-day learning cycle lesson will provide students with a better understanding of women’s suffrage as well as the time period and contributions of women leaders. Day 1 begins with a simulation of gender bias and follows with a Quickwrite and read aloud. On the second day, students will participate in station activities. On the third day, students will use a Bio Cube to describe the activities of a current woman reformer and how those acts have impacted U.S. history.

On April 2, 1987, IBM unveiled a series of long‐awaited new hardware and software products. The new computer line, dubbed the Personal Systems 30, 50, 60, and 80, seems destined to replace the XT and AT models that are the mainstay of the firm's current personal computer offerings. The numerous changes in hardware and software, while representing improvements on previous IBM technology, will require users purchasing additional computers to make difficult choices as to which of the two IBM architectures to adopt.

The authors have constructed a model which breaks down customer contact in consuming a service into six steps: search, arrival, pre‐contact, contact, withdrawal, follow‐up. They argue that this “journey” should be mapped out by service organisations and the key points carefully managed.

The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the RSR review column, “Recent Reference Books,” by Frances Neel Cheney. “Reference Books in Print” includes all additional books received prior to the inclusion deadline established for this issue. Appearance in this column does not preclude a later review in RSR. Publishers are urged to send a copy of all new reference books directly to RSR as soon as published, for immediate listing in “Reference Books in Print.” Reference books with imprints older than two years will not be included (with the exception of current reprints or older books newly acquired for distribution by another publisher). The column shall also occasionally include library science or other library related publications of other than a reference character.

Describes the history of the tobacco industry and its emergence as an extremely effective marketer and non-market strategist. After years of success, both publicly and politically, the leaders of the tobacco industry are faced with mounting political pressure and the financial threat of litigation from class-action lawsuits. The leaders face an industry-wide strategic decision of whether to acquiesce to government demands in exchange for immunity, focus on judicial success, or develop a new course of action.

To evaluate the formulation and implementation of non-market strategies in the context of regulatory, legislative, and legal institutions. To understand how various aspects of the non-market environment interact and how these environments not only change over time, but change market competition within an industry. Further, to formulate and decide between firm-specific and industry-wide strategies. Finally, to appreciate and reflect upon the potential conflict between non-market strategies and ethical concerns.

At a recent inquest upon the body of a woman who was alleged to have died as the result of taking certain drugs for an improper purpose, one of the witnesses described himself as “an analyst and manufacturing chemist,” but when asked by the coroner what qualifications he had, he replied : “I have no qualifications whatever. What I know I learned from my father, who was a well‐known ‘F.C.S.’” Comment on the “F.C.S.” is needless.

Reviews the strengths and weaknesses of quality control, quality assurance, total quality control and total quality management and shows how you can choose the quality management style which best fits your organisation′s needs. Compares approaches to quality management and articulates the differences between total quality management and the rest of the field. Argues that the choice of QM should fit an organization′s business strategy. Contends quality is a strategic issue, central to which is the management of change, which requires a diagnosis of where the organization is now. Suggests managers should look at what competitive advantage a particular approach will deliver for their organization and not at what has been delivered to other organizations.