* University Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Research Associate, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute. ** Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, National Taiwan University; formerly Research Fellow, Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University. *** Geldards LLP Professor of Corporate and Insolvency L...

Although I hate to begin a serious article on an important Supreme Court case this way, the Court’s recent decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States1 reminds me of nothing so much as the old Woody Allen line that ‘‘[s]ex without love is an empty experience . . . but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.’’2 This is because for all practical purposes, Andersen is a meaningless dec...

(a) there are certain areas where the guidelines are silent or virtually silent. This is particularly notable in relation to the economic assessment of mergers in local markets and in bidding markets. These issues are described further at Section 5 below. We would welcome an extension of the guidelines to deal with these issues, which regularly impact on merger assessment by the OFT and the CC;...

INTRODUCTION Ambulatory practices that actively partner with patients and families in quality improvement (QI) report benefits such as better patient/family interactions with physicians and staff, and patient empowerment. However, creating effective patient/family partnerships for ambulatory care improvement is not yet routine. The objective of this paper is to provide practices with concrete e...

The NanoEL is an Erasmus LLP project about sharing technology and human resources. Knowledge and information made available at project partner’s universities, in order to develop teaching material in the form of courses or modules within the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology.

Introduction: Governments and professional organizationshave called for new partnerships between health care providersand academics to improve clinical education for the benefit ofboth students and patients. To develop a substantive groundedtheory on the process of forming academic-service partnershipsin implementing clinical education, from the perspective ofacademic and clinical nursing staff...

This study aimed at investigating the Iranian undergraduate EFL students’ and teachers’ attitude towards Partnership Approach as a new way of engaging learners in the learning process. A descriptive, ethnographic research method, using a questionnaire along with focus group semi-structured interview, was employed. Seventy-two undergraduate EFL learners and 40 EFL teachers with more than ten yea...

BACKGROUND Process evaluation of community-academic partnership function and fidelity to principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is essential to achievement of intermediate and long term partnership goals. OBJECTIVES This article describes the evaluation of B Free CEED, a community-academic partnership created to address hepatitis health disparities in Asian American and P...

We examine, experimentally and theoretically, how communication within a partnership may mitigate the problem (highlighted in contract theory) of hidden action. What is the form and content of the communication? Which model of decision-making can capture the impact of communication? We consider free-form communication, measure beliefs (about actions and beliefs), and examine which motivational ...

undoubtedly, more attention is being made in the word service and industries that can be learnt from manufacturing for improving its production out puts and their associated quality and cost. these include such lean production, jit, tqm, and the relationship between buyer, supplier and finally the customer satisfaction. the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between three...