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Resource management problems have become more and more complex. The traditional approach to solving isolated environmental problems with technological fixes and end-of-pipe solutions has started to shift towards a more thoughtful and integrated attitude. Hence it becomes more and more important to develop appropriate means for representing the human dimension in integrated models and in the dev...

Revised selection mechanisms to medicine now include an adjunct admission test known as the HPAT. Stakeholder acceptability is a key issue. General Practitioners (GPs) represent an important stakeholder group. A questionnaire was administered to a regional sample of GPs evaluating their knowledge of the new selection system, views on acceptability, performance on sample HPAT questions and perce...

This essay presents a speculative work on making distinctions among different equally valid types of research relevance. The work is innovative not only because it departs from the extant monistic perspectives, where only narrow forms of relevance are acknowledged, towards a pluralist perspective, but also because it recognizes and accounts for the plurality in the perceptions of relevance amon...

Sustainability reporting continues to become more widespread, despite ambiguities underlying the concept that may lead to varied interpretations and wider scope for “managing public perceptions” (e.g., Cho et al., 2010; Neu et al., 1998). An examination of the current form it takes using the GRI suggests a trade-off between principles and rules, with reduced emphasis on normative principles and...

Enterprise systems (ES) implementations are difficult to govern successfully due to the degree of organizational change involved for a diverse set of stakeholders. These stakeholders typically have multiple and often conflicting interests and rarely agree on a set of common objectives. Prior studies have highlighted the need for stakeholder engagement, but have provided few details on the types...

Heatwaves kill more people than any other natural hazard in Australia. Current literature on managing health risks of heatwaves highlights the importance of implementing urban planning measures, and engaging with vulnerable groups on a local level to better understand perceptions of risk and tailor health protection measures. This paper reviews arrangements to reduce heatwave health risks in So...

SYNOPSIS: U.S. and international auditing standard setters continue to raise questions about standard auditors’ reports and are exploring alternatives to those reports. Government agencies and professional organizations are also raising questions about the auditor’s report. These questions point to a continued existence of an ‘‘audit expectation gap.’’ To investigate perceptions and mispercepti...