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In this article, drawn from a speech Howard Davies made to the Securities regulatory Commission in China, the author contrasts the efforts which are being made in developing economies like China with the more established regulatory regimes like those of the UK and the USA. He argues that good corporate governance brings greater investment but there are important disciplines which ensure the strength of corporate governance and which must be firm but evolving to ensure success.

To introduce a commemorative collection of articles by colleagues and former students of the late Professor Ross Davies, a leading UK academic in the field of retail management.

Outlines the development of Ross Davies' career and enumerates his particular contributions to the development of academic studies of retailing. Summarises the objectives of each paper in the collection.

The paper identifies the link between the authors of papers and Professor Davies' work.

Demonstrates the ways in which an academic was able to relate sound scholarship to the practical needs of retailers, service companies and public sector agencies.

Mature student numbers across England’s Higher Education (HE) sector have been declining since the rise in tuition fees in 2012. Leading up to Brexit, there is a need to upskill the national workforce to provide services and skills currently sourced from the EU. Mature students play a key role in this process, as HE study can add to existing industry experiences, knowledge, and skills. Hence, the HE sector in England is beginning to evaluate and change the way in which universities and colleges can provide support to mature students from recruitment to the completion of their course.

Institutions can encourage a sense of belonging in mature students through the use of mature student mentors and ambassadors at open days, and as points of contact throughout any course. It is important to create a mature student community to provide an appropriate support network, but equally academic staff should encourage the engagement of mature students with their younger peers.

This chapter provides an insight into relevant research literature and uses examples from a case study based in a small HE provider setting to make practical recommendations for academic staff, support staff, and areas of institutional practice.

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the development, role and management of quarters in UK cities.

A case study based on Manchester's Northern Quarter, using secondary documentary materials and semi‐structured interviews with urban managers and residents of the Quarter.

The emergence of the Northern Quarter is a relatively recent phenomenon, with small scale cultural industries and artists moving into take advantage of cheap property following the collapse of the area's economic base in the 1970s. Its branding was a development of the 1990s, set within the wider context of the marketing of the city as a whole. The area has regenerated, but its idiosyncratic character is continuously under pressure from developers and the demands of corporate retailing/leisure, from which it needs to be protected as far as possible. It is not an appropriate area for a business improvement district, but rather needs treating as an eco‐system and allowed to develop under its own momentum.

This is a single case study, which would merit duplication in other cities.

The paper suggests that “real” quarters are essentially organic in their origins, and cannot be planned or managed in a top‐down way. The serial replication of artificial quarters will not assist the differentiation of localities in increasingly competitive place markets.

The paper will be of interest to students and practitioners of urban place management.

The Teaching Excellence Framework was explicitly introduced as a mechanism to ‘enhance teaching’ in universities. This chapter suggests, however, that the highly complex ‘black box’ methodology used to calculate TEF outcomes effectively blunts its purpose as a policy lever. As a result, TEF appears to function primarily as performative policy act, merely gesturing towards a concern with social mobility. Informed by the data and metrics driven Deliverology approach to public management, I suggest the opacity of the TEF's assessment approach enables policymakers to distance themselves from and sidestep the wicked problems raised by the complicated contexts of contemporary higher education learning and teaching. At the same time, however, I argue that the very indeterminacy through which the framework achieves this sleight of hand creates a space in which engaged teaching practitioners can push through a more progressive approach to inclusive success.

Designed to update research work carried out in the early 2000s on the development and impacts of Southampton's West Quay retail development on the urban milieu of the city.

Summarises the findings of detailed research work carried out at West Quay over a five year period.

Suggests that developments that have taken place at West Quay have been overwhelmingly positive for the city and that, as such, the Southampton example supports the case for retail‐led urban regeneration.

Southampton's position – as one of the first cities in the UK to embark on a city centre retail‐led regeneration scheme – finds it extremely well‐placed to provide important lessons to other local authorities currently in the process of developing large‐scale retail developments in their city centres.

This paper updates a detailed study of the history and development of the West Quay retail scheme in the city of Southampton. It seeks to draw a series of wider conclusions from the case and is offered in the spirit of generating debate on this issue.

The purpose of the paper is to present evidence on the impact of enterprise education on young people still at school in London, UK. The study was designed to measure the effect of participation in a Young Enterprise (YE) Company Program on young people's attitudes toward starting a business, and on their enterprise potential.

A longitudinal pre and post test design was used, with a sample of 276 young people. A control group provided a method of isolating the impact of the programme and was used as a test for self‐selection bias. An attitudes to enterprise test was administered at the start of the programme and again at the end, nine months later.

It was found that participation does have a positive impact on young people's enterprise potential, however this is moderated by other factors such as gender, ethnicity, socio‐economic background and type of school attended.

The paper demonstrates the added value of a longitudinal design and the use of a control group. The relatively small sample size limited the extent of multivariate analysis that could be carried out.

The paper provides an example of a robust evaluation methodology for the evaluation of enterprise education programmes in schools.

The paper highlights the importance of context in the delivery of enterprise education. The impact of enterprise programmes is likely to be moderated by a number of other factors such as socio‐economic background.

The paper cautions against a one‐size fits all approach to enterprise education, and is relevant to policy makers and providers. The research design used attempted to overcome some of the criticisms often made of evaluations studies.

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb044877. When citing the article, please cite: Richard L Davies, Keith Howard, (1981), “A Manpower Planning Model for Small Groups”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 2 Iss 4 pp. 32 - 36.

Provides an overview of the directions, including wrong turnings, in which European and global banking is heading. Based on the viewpoint of Howard Davies, the head of the UK regulatory body the Financial Services Authority, covers issues such as greater regulation, Internet services and erosion of margins. Concludes that this is an exciting time to be in banking and those who succeed will have learnt to cope with today’s speed of change and technology development.

Changes in the retail environment over the last ten years or so have been dramatic. Principally they include increased concentration in the major retail companies, new outlets and new formats, and a whole range of changing market conditions which include changes in population, in age structure, in households, and of course in the consumer. All these are well described in a new publication coming from the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, Change In the Retail Environment, by Elizabeth Howard and Ross Davies. The report is not about the wider aspects of social and economic change, except in so far as these relate to changing consumer demands and levels of spending. Essentially the report brings together aspects of work on industrial strategy, population change, consumer behaviour and urban development with research on the nature of shopping centres and store development.