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Keeble, David; Nachum, Lilach - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

Notwithstanding their remarkable recent growth, surprisingly little research has hitherto been conducted on the evolving geography of professional and business services in Britain. This paper analyses the results of a detailed survey of 300 small and medium-sized management and engineering...

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Competition and competition policy in emerging markets: international and developmental dimensions

Singh, Ajit - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

This paper examines the role of competition policy in emerging markets from a developmental and international perspective. Its main conclusion include: contrary to conventional wisdom, evidence suggests that the intensity of competition in leading emerging markets is certainly no less than that...

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Managing competences in entrepreneurial technology firms: a comparative institutional analysis of Germany, Sweden and the UK

Casper, Steven; Whitley, Richard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

Innovative firms face two major kinds of risks in developing new technologies: competence destruction and appropriability. High levels of technical uncertainty and radical changes in knowledge in some fields generate high technical failure risks and make it difficult to plan research and...

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The Legal Framework of Employment Relations

Deakin, Simon; Njoya, Wanjiru - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

The aim of this paper is to reassess the place of labour law in the wider area of employment relations research and to argue the case for labour law's importance to social scientists. We give an analytical account of the principal institutional features of labour law as a form of legal...

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The Management of Pay as the Influence of Collective Bargaining Diminishes.

Brown, W; Marginson, P; Welsh, J - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

The management of pay in Britain has changed substantially in recent years. The paper starts with a theoretical discussion of the extent to which individual employers can exercise discretion in the management of their employees' pay. It then examines the ways in which pay is used to secure...

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Financing Firm Start-up and Restructuring in Transition Countries: Evidence from Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia

Bilsen, Valentijn; Mitina, Elena - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 1999

Investigates how entrepreneurs in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine finance start-up and restructuring. Data from 600 de novo, privatised or state-owned firms shows the critical importance of the personal funds of the main owner(s), with a limited level of support being giving by the state.

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Lean Production and Manufacturing Performance Improvement in Japan, the UK and US 1994-2001

Oliver, Nick; Delbridge, Rick; Barton, Harry - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

This paper reports the findings of a longitudinal study into manufacturing performance, lean production principles and … productivity and quality performance were obtained, along with a series of quantitative measures indicating the extent to which …. All plants improved their quality performance during the period, but the Japanese plants retained their lead with an …

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Innovation, Investment and International Trade Performance of Russian Enterprises: A Study of St. Petersburg-Based Companies

Kapustkin, Vadim - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 1999

Investigates and compares the innovation, investment and international trade performance of Russian firms using …

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Globalisation and Its Impact on Competitiveness: the Case of the British and German Pharmaceutical Industry

Lane, Christel; Probert, Jocelyn - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

This paper assesses the degree of financial and economic globalisation of British and German pharmaceutical companies during 1990 and 2001 and explores the changing balance between globalisation and national embeddedness. It tries to explain both the much lower degree of globalisation of German...

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Will services be the new engine of economic growth in India?

Singh, Ajit; Dasgupta, Sukti - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

This paper revisits the role of manufacturing and services in economic development in the light of the following new facts: (a) a faster growth of services than that of manufacturing in many developing countries (DCs). (b) The emergence of Òde-industrialisationÓ in several DCs at low levels of...

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