A survey of food safety training was conducted in small food manufacturing firms in South Wales. Structured interviews with managers were used to collect information on the extent and level of food hygiene and HACCP training and the manager's perceptions of and attitude towards training. All the businesses surveyed had undertaken some hygiene training. Hygiene induction programmes were often un...

Consistent with Protestants (Catholics) being more (less) risk-averse than the general population, we find that mutual funds located in regions with low Protestant (or high Catholic) population have higher total and idiosyncratic return volatilities. These higher volatilities are driven by portfolio under-diversification and aggressive interim trading, rather than overweighting risky (local) st...

In this article we report from a case study of a software development organization and we study in particular the developers’ and product managers’ attitudes towards integrating usability work into software development. We offer explanations based on system justification theory illuminating what would-be integrators might be up against. The analysis shows how the developers only pay lip service...

OBJECTIVE To identify the attitudes, knowledge and practices regarding advance care planning (ACP) in palliative care. METHODS A nationwide online survey was distributed to Australian palliative care services associated with the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (n=105). Seventy-three health professionals (HPs) and 59 service managers completed the survey. RESULTS Regarding ACP, 51% of...

This article investigates the benefits and supports provided by project management methodologies (PMMs) to project managers for the management and delivery of information technology/ information system (IT/IS) projects. Using a qualitative approach, through case study strategy, the role of PMMs is examined in different business and project contexts. This article evaluates the benefit of PMMs ba...

This research uses an appropriation perspective to explore how project management norms are concretely used in context. We have drawn on AST (Adaptive Structuration Theory) to study the appropriation of norms by I.T project managers, using three case studies. Direct appropriation moves have been observed from each project manager, as well as faithfulness to the spirit of PM norms. However a tho...