Looks at where companies go wrong in measuring supply chain performance. Gives a number of examples of those who are doing it right.

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss the growing importance of electronic discovery in commercial litigation; the impact of the e‐discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), and the steps corporations should take to address the new rules. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose To provide a roadmap for financial services firms in designing some key policies and procedures relating to their cybersecurity programs, including document retention policies, creating incident response plans, and starting or evaluating a bounty program. Design/methodology/approach This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present different verification algorithms that will be used by digital rights management (DRM) systems to enable the governed distribution, super‐distribution and offers of multimedia content. An issue of increased interest in DRM systems is the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a review of some of the fundamental theoretical and contextual components of commissioning and regulatory processes as applied to care home services, revisiting and examining how they impact on the potential prevention of abuse....

Purpose – One of the most pressing questions facing small‐island development states (SIDS) is the appropriate way in which to operate and manage their infrastructure industries. After all SIDS are faced with high cost of infrastructure due to the narrow markets and diseconomies of scale and...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the different practices and regulatory frameworks of Shariah supervision in Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) across Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states and to identify the gaps in current Shariah supervisory practices. Parallel with...

Purpose – The paper seeks to outline the increasing requirements for demonstrating that training has taken place within regulated industries and to examine how a learning management system can meet the most stringent requirements of best practice in this field. Design/methodology/approach –...

This paper provides a critical appraisal of existing models of social partnership. We argue that single forms of partnership operating at the micro‐level are unlikely to be sustainable in the medium and long term. Yet, there is evidence that multi‐layered forms of partnership – in other...