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What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance (2016)
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Quantitative approaches figure prominently in social accounting and auditing. This is because of the preference among many investors for simple and ostensibly robust and comparative metrics. Social Return on Investment (SROI), which produces a moneti... Read More about What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance.

Another step up the ladder or another foot in the grave? Re-evaluating the role of formal and informal training in the career development process within Barclays Bank, 1945–80 (2016)
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This paper uses a combination of archival sources and oral testimonies to evaluate the role that training (both internal and external) played in determining the promotion prospects of those employed by Barclays Bank during the post-World War II era.... Read More about Another step up the ladder or another foot in the grave? Re-evaluating the role of formal and informal training in the career development process within Barclays Bank, 1945–80.

"The computer says no” : the demise of the traditional bank manager and the depersonalisation of British banking, 1960-2010 (2016)
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Vik, P. (2016). "The computer says no” : the demise of the traditional bank manager and the depersonalisation of British banking, 1960-2010. Business History, 59(2), 231-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2016.1177024

This article examines the role of the British bank branch manager in the context of the transformation of banking since the 1980s and discusses its implications for British banking. The analysis was based on interviews with retired bank managers and... Read More about "The computer says no” : the demise of the traditional bank manager and the depersonalisation of British banking, 1960-2010.