In the three decades since China's economic opening to the world, the country's integration into the global economy has progressed by leaps and bounds. Especially after joining the WTO in 2001, international trade and investment flows have been on a steep upward trajectory. This process was not...

In assessing the professionalisation of British management and the influential position enjoyed by accountants in British business, a multidisciplinary approach is adopted in order to provide a better understanding of the processes at work. After devoting some space to analysing the literature...

In recent years, workplace conflict has become increasingly manifest in individual employment disputes as collective labour regulation has been eroded. Accordingly, attention has been focused on finding ways to facilitate the early resolution of such disputes. Policy-makers have placed a...

This paper reports a follow-on project that assessed a series of portfolios assembled by a cohort of participants attending a course for prospective general practice trainers. In an attempt to enhance reliability, a framework for defining and addressing problems using a reflective practice model...

Information on 13,127 mothers who were certain of the date of their last menstrual period (LMP) and who delivered in one week of April 1970, was analysed to assess whether delayed attendance for antenatal care (defined as not attending prior to 28 weeks of gestation) was associated with adverse...

What the critics have failed to recognize, is that Google and DoubleClick are at best potential competitors in each other’s markets, and these markets are already robustly competitive and becoming more so each day.