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Publication date: 28 July 2021

Laurence Ferry and Henry Midgley

The study focusses on explaining why advocates for reform to state audit in the United Kingdom (UK) in the early 1980s, focussed on improving the links between the new National…

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Purpose

The study focusses on explaining why advocates for reform to state audit in the United Kingdom (UK) in the early 1980s, focussed on improving the links between the new National Audit Office (NAO) and Parliament, rather than on traditional notions of audit independence. The study shows how this focus on the auditor's link to Parliament depends on a particular concept of liberty and relates this to the wider literature on the place of audit in democratic society.

Design/methodology/approach

Understanding the issue of independence of audit in protecting the liberties and rights of citizens needs addressed. In this article, the authors investigate the creation of audit independence in the UK in the National Audit Act (1983). To do so, the authors employ a neo-Roman concept of liberty to historical archives ranging from the late 1960s to 1983.

Findings

The study shows that advocates for audit reform in the UK from the 1960s to the 1980s were arguing for an extension to Parliament's power to hold the executive to account and that their focus was influential on the way that the new NAO was established. Using a neo-Roman concept of liberty, the authors show that they believed Parliamentary surveillance of the executive was necessary to secure liberty within the UK.

Research limitations/implications

The neo-Roman republican concept of liberty extends previous studies in considering the importance of audit for public accountability, the preservation of liberty and democracy.

Practical implications

Public sector audit can be a fundamentally democratic activity. Auditors should be alert to the constitutional importance of their work and see parliamentary accountability as a key objective.

Originality/value

The neo-Roman concept of liberty extends previous studies in considering the importance of audit for public accountability, preservation of liberty and democracy.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 35 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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Publication date: 23 September 2009

Nikki Wood, Kiran Patel, Josephine Skinner and Kirsty Thomson

In 2008 a dual diagnosis service was set up within the forensic services of East London NHS Foundation Trust. This paper provides an outline of the service as it currently stands…

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In 2008 a dual diagnosis service was set up within the forensic services of East London NHS Foundation Trust. This paper provides an outline of the service as it currently stands, and a description of the multidisciplinary staff roles within the service. Each staff member reflects on the success and challenges over the year that the service has been operational. Pointers to our future plans and strategy development are made.

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Advances in Dual Diagnosis, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1757-0972

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Publication date: 19 June 2007

Max Moullin, John Soady, John Skinner, Charles Price, John Cullen and Christine Gilligan

This paper seeks to describe an application of the Public Sector Scorecard (PSS) to Sheffield's Stop Smoking Service.

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Purpose

This paper seeks to describe an application of the Public Sector Scorecard (PSS) to Sheffield's Stop Smoking Service.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper uses the PSS, an integrated service improvement and performance measurement framework for the public and voluntary sectors. The PSS shares the key advantages of the Balanced Scorecard in ensuring that performance measures reflect all aspects of an organisation's performance and have clear links to the organisation's strategy. In addition its structure and methodology, with more emphasis on service user involvement, working across organisational boundaries, process mapping, service improvement, and risk management, provide many additional benefits to organisations in the public and voluntary sectors. The study incorporated service user workshops with over 100 service users and a series of meetings with a reference group containing staff, service users and other key stakeholders.

Findings

The paper concludes that the PSS has many benefits both in improving a public health service and in aligning its strategy, processes and performance measures both with one another and with the requirements and expectations of service users and other key stakeholders.

Originality/value

The paper will be of use to anyone interested in integrating strategy, service improvement, and performance measurement whether in public health or in other public or voluntary organisations.

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International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0952-6862

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Publication date: 1 August 2003

Patrik Jonsson and Mosad Zineldin

Increased attention has been paid to the question of how to build stable and long‐term working relationships between suppliers and dealers. This study proposes a conceptual model…

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Increased attention has been paid to the question of how to build stable and long‐term working relationships between suppliers and dealers. This study proposes a conceptual model including behavioral dimensions of supplier‐dealer relationships and presents hypotheses about how to achieve satisfactory inter‐organizational relationships. Satisfaction is the consequence of working relationships focused upon in our model. The model is an empirical assessment of the relationship between Swedish lumber dealers and their suppliers. T‐test evidence suggests that all proposed critical variables, with the exception of coercive power, are of significant importance for achieving a high rate of perceived relationship satisfaction, regardless of whether the relationship is characterized by a high or a low level of trust and commitment. A good reputation, close relationship and positive relationship benefits are key variables for the achievement of high satisfaction in a “high‐trust and commitment relationship”. Results also indicate that it is possible to achieve a high satisfaction level even when the supplier‐dealer trust and commitment are lacking.

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Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 8 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-8546

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Publication date: 29 March 2013

John Skinner, Sarah Salway, Daniel Turner, Lynne Carter, Ghazala Mir, Bushara Bostan and George Ellison

The purpose of this paper is to explore potential benefits in aligning Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) with implementation of the Equality Delivery System (EDS) to…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore potential benefits in aligning Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) with implementation of the Equality Delivery System (EDS) to improve commissioning of healthcare for minority ethnic groups.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper draws on data gathered for a large research study carried out in England exploring the use of evidence in commissioning for multi‐ethnic populations, to present a reflective discussion on the potential synergies between JSNA and EDS processes. Qualitative data were collected from 62 interviews with stakeholders in Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford, who, as part of their normal role, had an active responsibility to contribute to decision making for commissioning healthcare. 19 individuals working in national roles with experience in evidence use, ethnicity and commissioning across NHS, local authorities and third sector were also interviewed. Observational data were collected through regular attendance at an NHS Equality Group, which had Equality Delivery System implementation within its remit, and from a regional workshop focussing on Joint Strategic Needs Assessment improvements. Observations also came via participation in local EDS implementation meetings across Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford. These data were supplemented by a review of local and national policy literature about implementing JSNA and EDS.

Findings

Formally strengthening the connection between JSNAs and the EDS has potential benefits for enhancing the evidence base about health and wellbeing needs of minority groups in general, and ethnic minorities in particular.

Originality/value

NHS and Local Authority organisations need to establish structural processes to formally connect these two workstreams and to ensure adequate resource is made available, with clear direction from senior management.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 21 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 14 June 2013

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 21 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 6 July 2005

Chaya Halberstam

Rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity encompasses legal and exegetical texts. Whereas legal texts delineate criminal procedures to determine a guilty party and advise appropriate…

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Rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity encompasses legal and exegetical texts. Whereas legal texts delineate criminal procedures to determine a guilty party and advise appropriate punishment, exegetical texts suggest an almost entirely indeterminate and indeterminable understanding of guilt. This chapter examines rabbinic interpretations of the paradigmatic biblical story of guilt, Cain's murder of his brother Abel, in which Cain's guilt is mitigated and the stable relationship between evidence and guilt is challenged. I argue that these conflicting views of guilt in early rabbinic thought need not be harmonized – that a legal understanding of determinate guilt need not require a philosophical, or theological, counterpart.

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Toward a Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-76231-189-7

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Publication date: 1 December 2005

Nelarine Cornelius and Denise Skinner

To introduce the reader to a new way of understanding how the glass ceiling, the informal mechanisms and structures that slow or prevent women's advancement, may be configured…

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Purpose

To introduce the reader to a new way of understanding how the glass ceiling, the informal mechanisms and structures that slow or prevent women's advancement, may be configured, using capabilities theory.

Design/methodology/approach

Capabilities theory is used as an analytical lens to evaluate the nature of interaction between the senior women's “internal capabilities” (their readiness to act), and the external “work environment” (work and non‐work factors) that in combination with internal capabilities, constitute combined capabilities. In particular, we reflect on how the character of combined capabilities might effect senior women's perception of ambition and risk and the choices that are made during the “career journey”.

Findings

From a capabilities perspective, it can be argued that the remit of HRM policy makers regarding the careers of women attempting to break through the glass ceiling needs to be broadened, particularly by those organisations not only wishing to enhance their corporate social responsibility with regards to existing and potential employees but also those wishing to deepen their understanding of workplace inequality.

Originality/value

This paper adds to our understanding of women's career journeys, and is likely to be of interest also to those researching the in areas of workplace equality and diversity and HRM policy and practice.

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Women in Management Review, vol. 20 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0964-9425

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Publication date: 1 December 1990

The Stoke‐on‐Trent based company specialises in extrusion and mixing equipment for a range of process industries. It is particularly strong in the manufacture and worldwide…

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The Stoke‐on‐Trent based company specialises in extrusion and mixing equipment for a range of process industries. It is particularly strong in the manufacture and worldwide marketing of twin‐screw extrusion systems, with a significant expertise in the Powder Coating, Master Batch and technical compounding sectors.

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Pigment & Resin Technology, vol. 19 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0369-9420

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Publication date: 1 September 1923

It has been the custom for many years to preserve foodstuffs by drying, smoking, salting and pickling, and by the addition of sugar. The more modern methods include…

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It has been the custom for many years to preserve foodstuffs by drying, smoking, salting and pickling, and by the addition of sugar. The more modern methods include pasteurisation, sterilisation by heat or other means, refrigeration and the addition of chemical substances having an antiseptic action to a greater or less degree.

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British Food Journal, vol. 25 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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