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The Research-Practice Gap on Accounting in the Public Services

An International Analysis

&lt;div&gt;1. Concerns about the Research-Practice Gap on Accounting in Public Services.-&amp;nbsp;2. Where there’s a will The research-practice gap in accounting.-&amp;nbsp;3. A global view of the research practice gap.-&amp;nbsp;4. We build too many walls and not enough bridges.-&amp;nbsp;5. Closing Reflections.&lt;/div&gt;

A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The renowned co-author of The Spirit Level shows us the way.'An uplifting vision for solving inequality that benefits everyone' ANDY BURNHAM'Poverty and inequality are at the heart of all our problems. Kate Pickett's book shows how tackling them must be at the heart of our solutions too' ZACK POLANSKI'Just what these times are crying out for' KATE RAWORTHHow do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need? How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all?In this inspiring book, world-leading social scientist Kate Pickett shows that to make a good society - in which everyone has what they need to be well, and everyone would be better off - we must prioritise the health, care, education and rehabilitation of those who have the least and suffer the most. Drawing on decades of proven solutions and success stories from around the globe, The Good Society cuts to the essence of the challenges we face and presents us with a practical, perspective-shifting vision for how to tackle them.'Genuinely transformative. A powerful and deeply humane vision that focuses on what really matters' DANIEL CHANDLER'Daringly optimistic' FINANCIAL TIMES'Electrifying' POLLY MORLAND'Vital ... shines a light for hope' INDEPENDENT

And How We Make It

The Good Society

Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law

This book offers a timely examination of AI regulation in the era of Industry 5.0, where innovation must be balanced with human well-being, sustainability, and responsible governance. It explores how artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare, environmental stewardship, corporate governance, digital commerce, and emerging technologies while creating new regulatory, ethical, and societal challenges. As AI increasingly influences critical decisions across healthcare systems, innovation ecosystems, educational institutions, and business environments, policymakers and practitioners face growing questions regarding accountability, transparency, safety, trust, privacy, and human rights. Addressing these concerns, this edited volume brings together leading scholars and experts to examine the evolving legal, ethical, and governance frameworks needed to support responsible AI adoption.The chapters cover a diverse range of contemporary topics, including AI-enabled drug discovery, healthcare decision-making, medical liability, patient rights, sustainability governance, climate and environmental regulation, AI in education, intellectual property and innovation, corporate governance, e-commerce regulation, cybersecurity, regulatory sandboxes, and explainable AI in high-risk sectors. Together, these contributions provide interdisciplinary perspectives on how AI can be developed and governed in ways that foster innovation while protecting societal interests.A central theme of the book is the Industry 5.0 vision of human-centric technological progress. The contributors highlight how effective regulation can promote trustworthy AI systems that support sustainable development, strengthen innovation, encourage responsible technological deployment, and create long-term value for society. By bridging law, policy, governance, healthcare, sustainability and technology studies, this volume offers valuable insights into the opportunities and challenges of AI-driven transformation. It provides a forward-looking resource for understanding how regulatory frameworks can enable innovation while ensuring that technological advancement remains ethical, inclusive, and sustainable.This book is intended for researchers, academics, policymakers, regulators, healthcare professionals, technology practitioners, industry leaders, graduate students, and readers interested in artificial intelligence, Industry 5.0, sustainability, healthcare innovation and emerging technologies.

Healthcare, Sustainability, Innovation and Emerging Technologies

AI Regulation in Industry 5.0

Structured to reflect the process in practice, Beswick and Wine on Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses focuses on the key commercial, tax and legal issues that arise from business sales. By addressing fundamental issues from the perspective of both the seller and the purchaser it is a perfect handbook for all those involved in such acquisitions. From due diligence through to completion of the share purchase or business transfer agreement it contains clear, expert advice. The 12th Edition has been updated to include: - Merger law changes including those in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 - Company law changes in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 - Changes to taxation, including capital gains tax on business sales The book includes case law such as: - MDW Holdings Limited v James Robert Norvill, Jane Rosemary Norvill and Stephen John Norvill [2022] EWCA Civ 883 (deceit and warranties on sale of a business) - BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA [2022] UKSC 25 (directors' duties) - Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Barnsby [2023] EWHC 2284 (Ch) (directors' liability) - Decision Inc Holdings Proprietary Ltd v Garbett [2023] EWHC 588 (Ch) (warranties) It also includes checklists, draft enquiries, letters of disclosure and a specimen completion agenda, together with an accompanying electronic download containing all the precedents in the work. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

Beswick and Wine on Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses

This book examines how digital transformation, flexible work arrangements, and institutional change are reshaping organizations in the public sector and beyond. Drawing on transaction cost economics, institutional theory, public management scholarship, organizational theory, and research on virtual and hybrid work, the book analyzes the opportunities and challenges associated with new forms of work in the digital age.
 
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 Moving beyond debates over whether telework and flexible work arrangements are beneficial, the author investigates the organizational and institutional conditions under which smart work programs can enhance productivity, employee well-being, inclusion, and organizational resilience. Particular attention is given to the managerial and institutional challenges associated with remote and hybrid work, including trust, accountability, collaboration, organizational culture, leadership, fairness, and social isolation. The author identifies often-overlooked coordination and governance costs that emerge in digitally enabled workplaces and explores strategies for reducing these barriers through effective organizational design and institutional support.
 
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 Combining theoretical analysis with empirical evidence and illustrative cases from government and industry, the book develops a framework for understanding how organizations can adapt to technological, social, and environmental change while maintaining effective workforce management. As such, it will be of interest to researchers and students in public administration, public management, organizational studies, human resource management, and digital governance, as well as practitioners responsible for leading and managing hybrid and remote workforces.

Public Management Perspectives on Smart Work

Governing Work in the Digital Era

A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resources While economic research emphasizes the importance of governmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional public policy textbooks tend to focus on macroeconomic policies and on tax-and-spend decisions. Markets, State, and People stresses the basics of welfare economics and the interplay between individual and collective choices. It fills a gap by showing how economic theory relates to current policy questions, with a look at incentives, institutions, and efficiency. How should resources in society be allocated for the most economically efficient outcomes, and how does this sit with society's sense of fairness? Diane Coyle illustrates the ways economic ideas are the product of their historical context, and how events in turn shape economic thought. She includes many real-world examples of policies, both good and bad. Readers will learn that there are no panaceas for policy problems, but there is a practical set of theories and empirical findings that can help policymakers navigate dilemmas and trade-offs. The decisions faced by officials or politicians are never easy, but economic insights can clarify the choices to be made and the evidence that informs those choices. Coyle covers issues such as digital markets and competition policy, environmental policy, regulatory assessments, public-private partnerships, nudge policies, universal basic income, and much more. Markets, State, and People offers a new way of approaching public economics. <ul><li>A focus on markets and institutions </li><li>Policy ideas in historical context </li><li>Real-world examples </li><li>How economic theory helps policymakers tackle dilemmas and choices </li></ul>

Economics for Public Policy

Markets, State, and People

Studies in National Governance and Emerging Technologies

This book examines how artificial intelligence systems and their applications in security and defence are entangled with governance and policy processes in the EU. Combining concepts and insights from (critical) security studies and science and technology studies, it argues that behind the various AI-related policy initiatives in the EU are particular narratives on security and defence based on European fears of technological innovation and strategic gaps. In this respect, the book casts light on how such beliefs have become increasingly instrumentalized in the European governance dynamics, and subsequently embedded in successive policy initiatives and security and defence research programmes. It challenges conventional understandings of AI technologies as mere security and defence-enabling instruments, by providing a conceptually driven analysis of how certain visions of AI help govern and control one of the most dynamic emergent socio-technical fields. The book will appeal to all those interested in artificial intelligence, security studies, technology and European governance.&nbsp;
 
 Raluca Csernatoni is a Research Fellow at Carnegie Europe, where she works on the nexus between European defence and emerging technologies. She is also Guest Professor at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Visiting Faculty in the Department of International Relations, Central European University, Austria.

This book examines how artificial intelligence systems and their applications in security and defence are entangled with governance and policy processes in the EU. Combining concepts and insights from (critical) security studies and science and technology studies, it argues that behind the various AI-related policy initiatives in the EU are particular narratives on security and defence based on European fears of technological innovation and strategic gaps. In this respect, the book casts light on how such beliefs have become increasingly instrumentalized in the European governance dynamics, and subsequently embedded in successive policy initiatives and security and defence research programmes. It challenges conventional understandings of AI technologies as mere security and defence-enabling instruments, by providing a conceptually driven analysis of how certain visions of AI help govern and control one of the most dynamic emergent socio-technical fields. The book will appeal to all those interested in artificial intelligence, security studies, technology and European governance.&nbsp;

Artificial Security and the Politics of Hype in the EU

Public Policy

Global Public Policy Imperatives

Many existing textbooks in behavioural finance take only the perspective of users of financial information, but ignore the implications of judgments during the preparation of financial information. This book uses a holistic approach in examining behavioural accounting and bridges this gap.The book begins by introducing the current knowledge in the emerging area of behavioural accounting and also covers the entire spectrum from the preparation of financial information, auditing, and ultimately, to the interpretation and application of financial information of external users. The comprehensive overview of human elements in accounting makes this book an invaluable resource.

This book examines behavioural accounting and bridges the gap where existing textbooks in behavioural finance take only the perspective of users of financial information, but ignore the implications of judgments during its preparation.

Behavioural Accounting

Skills for Scholars

Thoughtful advice on how to leave academia gracefully and build your best life in retirement Retirement is one of the most challenging transitions in an academic's career, and it's natural to feel overwhelmed by the changes that lie ahead. This how-to guide explains how to structure your last few years of employment so that you retire well and feel good about it. Drawing on engaging personal stories from across academia, it shares concrete tips for letting go of one key phase of life and embracing the opportunity to reinvent yourself in the next. On Retiring makes the case that you have the ultimate say in charting your path through retirement, aging, and whatever comes next after academia--and provides the guidance you need to do so. Susan Shaw describes the lessons she learned from her own retirement experience and those of her colleagues, highlighting what worked and what didn't while paying special attention to the things that make the academic workplace unique. She outlines the four-year retirement plan she developed for herself and suggest some steps colleges and universities can take to honor the service of faculty members and help them to stay connected after retirement. Along the way, Shaw examines some of the downsides of aging in the academy and discusses relevant differences in academic experiences, covering topics such as gender, race, and sexuality. Focusing on so much more than just financial planning, On Retiring empowers you with social, psychological, and philosophical tools to leave the academy on your own terms and thrive in retirement.

A Guide to Preparing for Life After Academia

On Retiring

Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance

This book examines local refugee integration policies in Western Europe, focusing on small and medium-sized towns and rural areas. Applying an innovative cross-country comparative approach, it maps and compares integration policies targeting humanitarian migrants in 36 localities across seven countries – Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy and Austria. It also analyses the drivers and effects of local policymaking processes in this field.The book challenges the dominant view that migration policymaking tends to be pragmatic and oriented at problem-solving. Rather, it shows that local integration policies are largely shaped by political factors, including the political affiliations of local governments, the presence and strength of radical right parties, and the dynamics of multilevel party politics. In doing so, the book throws new light on migration policymaking in small European localities, contributing to a field dominated by studies of big cities and metropolitan areas.Tiziana Caponio
 is Professor of Political Science&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Department of Cultures,&nbsp;Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy, and Fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy.
 Andrea Pettrachin
 is Assistant Professor&nbsp;of Political Science&nbsp;in the Department of Political Sciences,&nbsp;Law and International Studies, University of Padua, Italy.

This book examines local refugee integration policies in Western Europe, focusing on small and medium-sized towns and rural areas. Applying an innovative cross-country comparative approach, it maps and compares integration policies targeting humanitarian migrants in 36 localities across seven countries – Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy and Austria. It also analyses the drivers and effects of local policymaking processes in this field.The book challenges the dominant view that migration policymaking tends to be pragmatic and oriented at problem-solving. Rather, it shows that local integration policies are largely shaped by political factors, including the political affiliations of local governments, the presence and strength of radical right parties, and the dynamics of multilevel party politics. In doing so, the book throws new light on migration policymaking in small European localities, contributing to a field dominated by studies of big cities and metropolitan areas.

The Politicisation of Local Integration Policymaking in Europe

Interdisciplinary Approaches for Policy Design and Evaluation

Citizen-Based Policy

This open access book examines why citizens in democratic societies support or oppose restrictive alcohol policies. Drawing on more than two decades of data from Sweden, it provides a comprehensive and theoretically informed analysis of public attitudes toward key alcohol policy instruments, including alcohol taxation, the retail monopoly, licensing regulations, advertising restrictions, farm sales, and other proposals affecting alcohol availability and control. It also analyses how alcohol-related public opinion is shaped by social background, self-interest, value orientations, perceptions of alcohol-related harm, beliefs about the effectiveness of policy instruments, ideological views about responsibility, and trust in institutions. The book addresses a central problem not only in alcohol policy but also in democratic theory and public opinion research more broadly: under what conditions do citizens support policies that may constrain their own choices, impose costs, or reduce convenience in order to protect others and reduce collective harm?
 
 In doing so, it speaks to broader questions about democratic legitimacy, regulation, risk governance, and public support for interventions in liberal democracies.
 David Karlsson
 is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
 Sören Holmberg
 is Senior Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
 Lennart Weibull
 is Professor Emeritus of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

This open access book examines why citizens in democratic societies support or oppose restrictive alcohol policies. Drawing on more than two decades of data from Sweden, it provides a comprehensive and theoretically informed analysis of public attitudes toward key alcohol policy instruments, including alcohol taxation, the retail monopoly, licensing regulations, advertising restrictions, farm sales, and other proposals affecting alcohol availability and control. It also analyses how alcohol-related public opinion is shaped by social background, self-interest, value orientations, perceptions of alcohol-related harm, beliefs about the effectiveness of policy instruments, ideological views about responsibility, and trust in institutions. The book addresses a central problem not only in alcohol policy but also in democratic theory and public opinion research more broadly: under what conditions do citizens support policies that may constrain their own choices, impose costs, or reduce convenience in order to protect others and reduce collective harm?
 
 In doing so, it speaks to broader questions about democratic legitimacy, regulation, risk governance, and public support for interventions in liberal democracies.

Ideology and Democratic Legitimacy in Sweden

Public Opinion on Alcohol Policy

The Research-Practice Gap on Accounting in the Public Services

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