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The post‐Griffiths period in the British National Health Service (NHS) has seen a major upswing of interest in the evaluation of organisational performance. Many criteria are available to conduct such an evaluation. This paper presents a coherent framework to assist in thinking about this area. It explores the definitions and usages of relevant concepts. The variety of perspectives that actors in the health care field hold about quality are also examined and the inevitable role of values highlighted.

University‐based executive education is big business, attracting the attention and resources of senior management in organisations. Surprisingly, a limited amount of research has been directed at the attendees themselves and even less research uses theory to understand the activity. This study targets executive attendees (n=245) and applies an action frame of reference to more deeply understand the issues surrounding their attendance at these programmes. Without that clear understanding, it is impossible to know if the time and money for this activity is being properly allocated.

Aim of the present monograph is the economic analysis of the role of MNEs regarding globalisation and digital economy and in parallel there is a reference and examination of some legal aspects concerning MNEs, cyberspace and e‐commerce as the means of expression of the digital economy. The whole effort of the author is focused on the examination of various aspects of MNEs and their impact upon globalisation and vice versa and how and if we are moving towards a global digital economy.

Investigates the differences in protocols between arbitral tribunals and courts, with particular emphasis on US, Greek and English law. Gives examples of each country and its way of using the law in specific circumstances, and shows the variations therein. Sums up that arbitration is much the better way to gok as it avoids delays and expenses, plus the vexation/frustration of normal litigation. Concludes that the US and Greek constitutions and common law tradition in England appear to allow involved parties to choose their own judge, who can thus be an arbitrator. Discusses e‐commerce and speculates on this for the future.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and poverty in Uganda.

Using annual time series data from 1983 to 2021, we use the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing method to cointegration for test the above relationship. Considering the multidimensionality of poverty, we proxy poverty by three proxies: household consumption expenditure, infant mortality rate and life expectancy.

The findings reveal that FDI is important for poverty reduction in both the long- and short-run when using household consumption and infant mortality rate, holding other factors constant. This relationship is robust to alternative specifications and estimation methods. This paper establishes that FDI does matter for poverty reduction in both the short and long run. However, when life expectancy is used to proxy poverty, results show a positive relationship between FDI and poverty.

The long-run relationship between FDI and poverty largely suggests that tackling poverty may require reforming the economic environment by addressing bottlenecks that hinder economic growth, which is a key component in poverty reduction. Thus, it is important to ensure that government expenditure is directed to the productive sectors of the economy, such as education and infrastructure, among others that are paramount in expanding the productive capacity of the economy, which in turn is crucial for poverty reduction.

The Dictionary of National Biography (or DNB as it is commonly called and as it will be referred to in this paper) is a classic. Depending on whether a library owns an original edition published by Smith, Elder and Company or a reprint edition published by Oxford University Press, sixty‐three brown volumes or twenty‐two blue volumes and supplements loom bulkily from the shelves. It would be an odd, ill‐trained reference librarian, historian, or scholar of English literature who has never heard of the DNB, let alone used and perused it. But mere bulk does not explain the lasting fame and staying power of this reference work, whose first volume appeared in January 1885 over a century ago.