This Article focuses on the development of the hedge fund landscape in the United States by focusing on the industry's continued path towards a mainstream asset class, the enormous growth of the industry in terms of assets under management, and the increase in shadow banking activities. As hedge...

The Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority piloted the use of Minilab® kits, a thin-layer-chromatographic based drug quality testing technique, in a two-tier quality assurance program. The program is intended to improve testing capacity with timely screening of the quality of medicines as they...

Purpose – This paper aims to outlines recent attempts to encourage hospitality students to develop greater self‐awareness with regard to creativity and attitudes to change. The stance taken is that “blue sky” thinking has a positive role to play in the education of hospitality students...

Relates the type of expansion strategies used by international hotel groups to approaches to ensuring organizational cohesion within these organizational settings. Achieves this by exploring dimensions of control and co‐ordination of managerial resources. Uses a case‐study approach which...

The anthropological and sociological purpose of this article is to illustrate the importance of humour within hospitality and, in particular, licensed retail management. With the aid of a number of examples and with the results of some field studies it seeks to conduct a preliminary analysis of...