1. Qualitative research in HRM: innovation over stagnation / Keith Townsend, Rebecca Loudoun and David Lewin -- Section I designing qualitative projects -- 2. The role of qualitative methods in mixed methods designs / Roslyn Cameron -- 3. Anchoring qualitative methods for longitudinal studies /...

Contents: 1. What we wish we had known : lessons learned to keep your doctorate on track (1) / Rebecca Loudoun, Emily A. Morrison, Mark N.K. Saunders and Keith Townsend ; PART I. GETTING INTO IT: 2. Choosing your topic : a supervisor perspective (14) / Jimmy Donaghey -- 3. 'Begin at the...

In March 2009, Business and Economic Research Limited ("BERL") published “Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use,” a report jointly commissioned by the Ministry of Health and ACC. BERL was asked to measure the costs of drug and alcohol abuse to New Zealand society, but not to evaluate...

We review methods and assess the policy influence of a series of publiclyfunded Cost of Illness studies, mostly published since 1990. Our analysis shows that headline cost estimates, including the influential paper by Collins and Lapsley (2008), depend on an incorrect procedure for incorporating...

Matt Burgess presented Dynamic Electricity Pricing in California: Do Customers Respond? at an ISCR seminar May 2006.