Caroline Barratt, Gillian Green and Ewen Speed
Previous research has established that there is a relationship between housing and mental health, however, understanding about how and why housing affects mental health is still…
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Purpose
Previous research has established that there is a relationship between housing and mental health, however, understanding about how and why housing affects mental health is still limited. The purpose of this paper is to address this deficit by focusing on the experiences of residents of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs).
Design/methodology/approach
Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 20 HMO residents who were asked about their housing career and experience of living in a HMO. Participants were recruited with assistance from community organisations and landlords.
Findings
The physical properties and social environment of the property, as well as personal circumstances experienced prior to the move into the property, all influenced how mental health was affected. The authors identify and discuss in detail three key meditating factors: safety, control and identity which may affect how living in the property impacts the mental health of tenants.
Practical implications
Good property management can lessen the potential harmful effects of living in a HMO. However, poorly run properties which house numerous vulnerable people may increase the risk of poor mental health due to attendant high levels of stress and possible risk of abuse.
Originality/value
Based on the reports of HMO residents, the authors outline the key mediating processes through which living in HMOs may affect mental wellbeing, as well as illuminating the potential risks and benefits of HMOs, an overlooked tenure in housing research.
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Ethics is attracting increasing attention in management of both public‐ and private‐sector organisations. For managers within health‐care systems, ethical issues can be most…
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Ethics is attracting increasing attention in management of both public‐ and private‐sector organisations. For managers within health‐care systems, ethical issues can be most acute, especially given the human rights issues involved in new legislation. This paper explores some of the ways in which philosophy may potentially offer guidelines to managers faced with the need to make decisions ethically. It draws on a small number of philosophical perspectives to demonstrate how they can assist in informing ethical decision making, and illustrates its arguments through one topic, suicide prevention, an area of relevance to health managers but one that is beset by some of the most profound ethical dilemmas. The ways in which philosophy may assist in decision making in this one example are, it is argued, generalisable to many other health issues where complicated decisions have to be made. The paper develops a philosophical framework consisting of the ethical considerations of “self‐love”, “humanity”, “the value of human life” and “duty to others” and demonstrates, through the use of two hypothetical case studies, how these can be applied to a decision‐making process so as to reduce inconsistencies in attitudes and practice.
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Nadia Alaily-Mattar and Paul Jones
This paper is concerned with materials developed to represent and communicate state-commissioned spatial experiments on social media. Our objective is to reveal what such…
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This paper is concerned with materials developed to represent and communicate state-commissioned spatial experiments on social media. Our objective is to reveal what such materials can do, even before – or whether–the projects they represent are built. Such materials can constitute an intervention in the way political territory is created, shared and made sense of.
Design/methodology/approach
We use empirical research of The Line, a new city set to be built in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), to explore this contention. Our research data is the publicly available visual, textual and audio-visual materials commissioned by The Line’s delivery company to be disseminated on digital platforms. Our methodological approach to these materials is a qualitative content analysis.
Findings
The materials do not provide a clear sense of fundamental elements of what The Line as an architectural project actually is. Rather the materials foreground three main tropes that disrupt existing notions of nature, space and temporality. Such disruptions propagate KSA’s official story of transformation as drafted in its Vision 2030. They lead us to understand The Line as a radical experiment to rework the Saudi territory and therefore reflecting the power of the state.
Originality/value
Exploring critically the ways in which material projects are embedded in predominantly visual digital cultural forms that imply architecture – and are compounded by affordances of social media – can illuminate much about how designed environments can be mobilized vis-a-vis political imaginaries.
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Vikash Ramiah, Thomas Morris, Imad Moosa, Michael Gangemi and Louise Puican
This paper aims to investigate the impact of 75 announcements of environmental policies on British equities over the period 2003 to 2012. In particular, the research has the…
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This paper aims to investigate the impact of 75 announcements of environmental policies on British equities over the period 2003 to 2012. In particular, the research has the following specific objectives: finding out whether there is wealth creation/destruction for investors as a result of the announcements of green policies and identifying changes in risk structure following the introduction of green policies.
Design/methodology/approach
Using event study methodology and non-parametric tests, the authors attempt to find out whether announcements of environmental/sustainability policies are value constructive or destructive for equity investors. The CAPM is fitted with interaction variables to measure the change in systematic risk following announcements.
Findings
The results show that the UK market is particularly sensitive to domestic, international and nuclear announcements. Cumulative abnormal returns in the range of 30-40 per cent were recorded in certain sectors. Consistent with the emerging literature, the authors observe that environmental policies induce changes in the systematic risk of businesses, both in the short run and the long run.
Originality/value
To the best of authors’ knowledge, the literature does not provide any answer as to how the risk and return of British equity portfolios change following the announcement of green policies in the aftermath of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Furthermore, the literature does not differentiate among various categories of announcements (domestic, international and nuclear). Therefore, this paper bridges the gap in the literature on these two grounds.
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The staff and members of Aslib have long been noted for taking a close interest in the topic of copyright, and have done a great deal in recent years to clarify the copyright…
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The staff and members of Aslib have long been noted for taking a close interest in the topic of copyright, and have done a great deal in recent years to clarify the copyright problems experienced by members, and to represent members' interests in national debate. If I may remind the audience of some Aslib activities in very recent times—for example, in the Supplementary Memorandum submitted by Aslib to the Price Committee in 1980, this statement was made re copyright:
Gillian Maree Vesty, Chao Ren and Sophia Ji
The purpose of this paper is to provide practical insights into a senior manager’s engagement with integrated reporting (IR). This paper theorises IR as an accounting compromise…
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The purpose of this paper is to provide practical insights into a senior manager’s engagement with integrated reporting (IR). This paper theorises IR as an accounting compromise and test of worth in an Australian IR pilot organisation.
Design/methodology/approach
In-depth interviews with the chairman of the IR pilot organisation are analysed in the context of Boltanski and Thévenot’s (1991, 2006) economies of worth (EW). A personal narrative approach was used to privilege the voice of an individual actor at the heart of decision making.
Findings
In contributing to van Bommel’s (2014) use of EW to examine IR as an accounting compromise, the authors find that ambiguity in IR does not mean that reporting is getting harder to operationalise. Instead, IR is getting harder to justify. The relativism issues that IR has revealed suggest that if all views are met, any significant contributions would not stand out. Interviews reveal that the challenge for IR is to provide the means to report on the organisation’s broader societal impacts, which go beyond measures of IR value creation.
Practical implications
This paper contributes to the accounting academy with practical insights on a dual-purpose organisation’s experiences with IR. The authors demonstrate how a chairman of the board uses accounting to navigate competing priorities and justify management decisions.
Originality/value
This study offers unique insights from the chairman of an IR pilot organisation. A personal narrative approach contributes to the limited empirical literature in accounting using EW as a micro-level analytic.
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Devashish Pujari and Gillian Wright
With the rise in environmental concerns among the stakeholders of businesses, firms are responding with strategic environmental marketing activities designed to meet the growing…
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With the rise in environmental concerns among the stakeholders of businesses, firms are responding with strategic environmental marketing activities designed to meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly processes, products and packaging. Part of an ongoing major research project being undertaken in Bradford Management Centre, empirically analyses the development of environmentally conscious product strategies (ECPS) in the broader framework of strategic environmental marketing. A multi‐case study approach is applied and qualitative methods are used for the data collection in the UK and Germany. The data collected are analysed in terms of strategies (corporate and product level) and structure and processes (internal and external). Suggests that companies in the UK have started internalizing the ecological externalities into their product strategies and a few of them have actually achieved success. Identifies and discusses key factors for the achievement of both environmental and commercial success of ECPS.
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M Garralda, Gillian Rose and Ruth Dawson
The aim of this article is to examine clinical outcomes in a child psychiatry inpatient unit using dedicated measures. Clinicians completed contextual (Paddington Complexity Scale…
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The aim of this article is to examine clinical outcomes in a child psychiatry inpatient unit using dedicated measures. Clinicians completed contextual (Paddington Complexity Scale - PCS) and clinical change (Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents - HoNOSCA) questionnaires on admission and discharge for consecutive admissions to the unit between 1999 and 2007 (n=167). Mean changes in HoNOSCA scores were analysed, and the predictors of HoNOSCA mean change were assessed using regression analysis. The results showed that the mean length of stay at the unit was 5.6 months (SD 3.1). PCS ratings identified high total, clinical, and environmental complexity scores. HoNOSCA ratings indicated high levels of psychological problems on admission and significant improvement at discharge (mean change 7.7 (SD 6.7)). Greater positive change was associated with higher initial HoNOSCA scores, diagnoses other than conduct disorder and schizophrenia, and a facilitative parental attitude. The authors conclude that the systematic use of standardised outcome measures in child psychiatric inpatient units is useful to document clinical features, complexity and clinical change.
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Justin Gagnon, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Cristina Longo, Peter Nugus and Gillian Bartlett
Healthcare innovation, exemplified by genomic medicine, requires increasingly sophisticated understanding of the interdisciplinary-organizational context in which new innovations…
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Healthcare innovation, exemplified by genomic medicine, requires increasingly sophisticated understanding of the interdisciplinary-organizational context in which new innovations are implemented. Deliberative stakeholder consultations are public engagement tools that are gaining increasing traction in health care, as a means of maximizing the diversity of roles and interests vested in a particular policy or practice issue. They engage participants from different knowledge systems (“cultures”) in mutually respectful debate to enable group consensus on implementation strategies. Current deliberation analytic methods tend to overlook the cultural contexts of the deliberative process. The paper aims to discuss this issue.
Design/methodology/approach
This conceptual paper proposes adding ethnographic participant observation to provide a more comprehensive account of the process that gives rise to deliberative outputs. To underpin this conceptual paper, the authors draw on the authors’ experience engaging healthcare professionals during implementation of genomics in the care for pediatric oncology patients with treatment-resistant glioblastoma at two tertiary care hospitals.
Findings
Ethnography enabled a deeper understanding of deliberative outcomes by combining rhetorical and non-rhetorical analysis to identify the implementation and coordination of care barriers across professional cultures.
Originality/value
This paper highlights the value of ethnographic methods in enabling a more comprehensive assessment of the quality of engagement across professional cultures in implementation studies.