... the perceptions of accounting academics on the introduction of HE tuition fees in both England and Germany, and how this policy has affected the everyday life of academics and students alike in each country. The respective funding and reform approach sets the context of this study. Design/methodology/approach...

...Morten Hansen and Andrej Christian Lindholst; Nicola Dempsey; Mel Burton; Johanna Selin Purpose – Different models have been adopted in England over time to organise public service delivery. The purpose of this paper is to explore contracting-out, a prevalent model of public service delivery...

... or strategy: In their analysis Kriesi et al. (2006) stress the importance of domestic political systems (national context) in shaping sectoral policy networks. Borrowing from Lijphart (1999) , Adam and Kriesi (2007) categorise England as a majoritarian-unitarian democracy as decision making...

... of recent research by the Association of Public Service Excellence. Design/methodology/approach – The research for APSE, undertaken by the author, consisted of a survey and a series of interviews over 18 months with policy officers within leisure services across local authorities in England. Data...

...Chris Mackintosh; Chris Mackintosh; Graham Cookson; Gerald Griggs Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish the impact and effectiveness of the national PING! project implemented by a national governing body of sport (NGB) and key public sector partners in England. It establishes...

...Jim Hordern Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss different approaches to evaluation taken in the case of two regeneration programmes in England and Wales and identify how assumptions about the nature of policy and programme implementation affect evaluation and considerations of its use...

... in reviewing, developing and applying a resource‐based‐dynamic‐capability model to research local government organisational management. David Douglas can be contacted at: d.j.douglas@staffs.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 England Local authorities Local government Senior...

... raises questions as to whether NLTs deserve such aid for delivering upon the social inclusion agenda of the government. Design/methodology/approach The research involved a national survey questionnaire to 1,060 public leisure service providers in England. Empirical testing through multiple analysis...

...) in England. More specifically, it explores the implementation of structured change methods and performance measurement and management initiatives that claim to have a linked strategic and operational focus through to stakeholder impact. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts an interpretive...

... and affects actors' interpretation of their organizational identity and roles (Gabriel, 1999). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Public sector reform Public sector organizations Probation England The main objective of this paper is to theoretically account for the implications...

... England Since 1997 the English regional institutional tier has grown in size and complexity. It has, however, evolved as the result of a “mish‐mash” of top‐down decentralising initiatives and bottom‐up coordinating programmes – what Stoker (2005 , p. 158) refers to as “New Labour's rather chaotic...

...Graham Pearce; Martin Burch; Alan Harding; James Rees Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ask how the UK Government can currently hold such incommensurable positions, explicitly and implicitly, in respect of spatial development priorities within England, and suggest a research agenda...

... to planning inquiries, which, as discussed later, would be compromised by excessive land provision. We are concerned, therefore, with the future combination of work from two key policy silos. After briefly assessing England's legacy of regional arrangements and the relative scope of economic and spatial...

... England's ingrained tradition of centralisation. There are also concerns that the prominence given to economic considerations is incompatible with delivering sustainable development. Practical implications Greater attention needs to be given to the coordination of national policies with a regional...

... and guidance documents, participant observation in regional and sub‐regional meetings, and supplemented with primary interview data. Findings The Northern Way, promoted by central government to manage decline in the Greater North of England, demonstrated a continued legacy of regional disparities...

... urgent and much needed focus to the future strategic direction of devolvement and governance (AGMA, 2007) Critically, it considers that new governance arrangements must display a number of characteristics: At the regional level, the UK (England) has regional development agencies and regional...

... and Planning A , Vol. 33 , pp. 1213 ‐ 35 . John , P. , Musson , S. and Tickell , A. (2002), “ England's problem region, regionalism in the South‐East ”, Regional Studies , Vol. 36 , pp. 733 ‐ 41 . Jouve , B. and Lefèvre , C. (2002), Local Power, Territory...

... Limited 2008 Public procurement Local government Purchasing groups England Significantly, Redman et al. (2007, p. 1487) citing Quinn et al. (2000, p. 11) and Oates (1998) , consider that shared services have now developed to cross organisational boundaries, while...

...Tim Hannagan; Alan Lawton; Geoff Mallory Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine changes in the management of further education (FE) colleges in England following the Further and Higher Education Act (1992) and the removal of colleges from Local Education Authority control. These changes...

... a comprehensive overarching analysis in a complex field of territorial public policy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Governance Partnership Devolution Regional development Local government England Commentators reviewing the legacy of the Blair era invariably list devolution...