Purpose This paper aims to explain the changes to the liability regime for nuclear installations before reviewing the traditional heads of damage under the 1965 Act. It argues that while there is some welcome clarification of what amounts to an “occurrence” in the purposes of the 1965 Act,...

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original title Page -- Original copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 The Paradigm of German Industrialisation : Some Recent Issues and Debates in the Modern Historiography of German Industrial...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of gender and ethnicity of CEO and audit committee members (directors) on audit fees and audit delay in the US firms. Design/methodology/approach – Audit-related corporate governance literature has extensively examined the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how occupational division impacts on social capital and access to resources that may have a bearing on the growth potential and success of a new venture. Design/methodology/approach – This study compares the social capital profiles of...

This is the first of two articles about the organisational processes concerned with promotion. In this first article, we present a brief outline of the way promotion is dealt with in most textbooks. We then begin looking at the reality of promotion processes as indicated by a case study based on...

Second part of a two‐part article. Full description of the Promco case study (see also LODJ, Vol. 6 No. 2).

Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by scholars in the United...

Obtaining formal quotes and engineering conceptual designs for carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) sequestration sites and facilities is costly and time-consuming. Frequently, when looking at potential locations, managers, engineers and scientists are confronted with multiple options, but do not have the...