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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450041003321

Titolo

Achieving managerial control [[electronic resource] /] / editor, Gerald Vinten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bradford, England], : Emerald Group Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-280-51538-4

9786610515387

1-84544-398-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (95 p.)

Collana

Managerial auditing journa; ; ; v. 19, no. 4, 2004

Altri autori (Persone)

VintenGerald

Disciplina

657

Soggetti

Auditing

Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Abstracts and keywords; Control self-assessment as a route to organisational excellence A Scottish Housing Association case study; Management accounting practices in selected Asian countries A review of the literature; Impact of ISO 9000 registration on company performance Evidence from Malaysia; Goal characteristics, communication and reward systems, andmanagerial propensity to create budgetary slack; BSQ strategic formulation framework A hybrid of balanced scorecard, SWOT analysis and quality function deployment

The evolution of IT auditing and internal control standards in financial statement audits The case of the United StatesA conceptual risk framework for internal auditing in e-commerce; Investment appraisal A new approach; Errata

Sommario/riassunto

Control self-assessment (CSA) has been discussed as an audit technique, but little practical guidance is available in the UK on the subject. A limited number of public sector organisations have implemented it. This paper describes a case study of CSA implementation in a Scottish Housing Association. The case study details the decision processes that led to the choice of CSA as a



favoured audit technique, and the development of CSA skills within the organisation. This paper examines the broader benefits of a CSA approach, in terms of performance management and employee empowerment. This paper a

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158566403321

Titolo

Late Holocene Research on Foragers and Farmers in the Desert West / / edited by Barbara J. Roth and Maxine E. McBrinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, Utah : , : University of Utah Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-60781-447-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations, photographs, maps, tables

Disciplina

979.00497

Soggetti

Indians of North America - West (U.S.) - Antiquities

Prehistoric peoples - West (U.S.)

Hunting and gathering societies - West (U.S.) - History

Agriculture, Prehistoric - West (U.S.)

Desert people - West (U.S.) - History

Land settlement - West (U.S.) - History

Environmental archaeology - West (U.S.)

Social archaeology - West (U.S.)

Electronic books.

Southwest, New Antiquities

Great Basin Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Foragers and Early Farmers in the Desert West / Maxine E. McBrinn and Barbara J. Roth -- 2. Early Farming and the Fate of Archaic Hunter-Gatherers in the Albuquerque Basin / Jim A. Railey -- 3. Resistant Foragers : Foraging and Maize Cultivation in the Northern Rio Grande Valley / Bradley J. Vierra and Maxine E. McBrinn -- 4.



Deconstructing the Early Agricultural Period in Southern Arizona / Stephanie M. Whittlesey -- 5. Were They Sedentary and Does It Matter? : Early Farmers in the Tucson Basin / Barbara J. Roth -- 6. Farming, Foraging, and Remote Storage in Range Creek : Shifting Strategies of Maize Cultivation, Residential Mobility, and Food Storage in Cliff Granaries among the Fremont of the Northern Colorado Plateau / K. Renee Barlow -- 7. Fremont Farming : The Nature of Cultivation in Northwestern Colorado, 2000-500 BP / A. Dudley Gardner and William R. Gardner -- 8. Farmers on the Go : A Forager-Farmer Model for the Las Vegas Valley, Southern Nevada / Heidi Roberts and Richard V.N. Ahlstrom -- 9. Late Fremont Cultural Identities and Borderland Processes / Michael T. Searcy and Richard K. Talbot -- 10. Evolving Patterns of Villages in the Southwestern Mojave Desert, California / Mark Q. Sutton.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book brings together the work of archaeologists investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherers (foragers) and early farmers in both the Southwest and the Great Basin. Most previous work on this topic has been regionally specific, with researchers from each area favoring a different theoretical approach and little shared dialogue. Here the studies of archaeologists working in both the Southwest and the Great Basin are presented side by side to illustrate the similarities in environmental challenges and cultural practices of the prehistoric peoples who lived in these areas and to explore common research questions addressed by both regions. Three main themes link these papers: the role of the environment in shaping prehistoric behavior, flexibility in foraging and farming adaptations, and diversity in settlement strategies. Contributors cover a range of topics including the varied ways hunter-gatherers adapted to arid environments, the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and the reasons for it, the variation in early farmers across the Southwest and Great Basin, and the differing paths followed as they developed settled villages"--