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Contextualising Organised Labour in Expansion and Crisis : The Case of the US
Moody, Kim (2012)While, as Marx argued, periods of expanded accumulation present the best conditions for increasing working-class living standards, the expansion that began in 1982 was based in large part on the rapid fall in the value of ... -
Contextualising work life balance in self-employment
Forson, Cynthia (2009) -
Contradictions and power play in service encounters : An activity theory approach
Oliveros, Mario Eduardo Giraldo; Halliday, Sue; Posada, Maria Mercedes Botero; Bachmann, Reinhard (2010-06)We present a perspective on the interpersonal element of service in which economic and social collaboration takes place in real time: the service encounter. We view it as a site of conflict for power and control where ... -
Convergence and Divergence of Influences on Career Choice : A Comparative Analysis of Influences on Career Choices of MBA Students in China, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Korea, North Cyprus, Turkey and UK
Dexter, Barbara; Forson, Cynthia; Inal, Gozde; Karatas-Ozkan, Mine; Kusku, Fatma; Ozbilgin, Mustafa; Malach-Pines, Ayala; Tanova, Cem; Yoon, Jeongkoo (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007) -
Convert, Defend and Acquire : Evaluating consumer preference through brand mindspace.
Cooray, Muditha; Duus, Rikke (2010) -
Corporate social responsibility in Ukraine : cynical utilitarianism or Aristotelian 'Common Good'?
Filosof, Jana; Hollinshead, Graham; Kurinko, Rostislav (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been researched extensively in Western Europe (Steurer and Konrad, 2009), and to some extent in Central and Eastern Europe (e.g. Furrer et al., 2010). Empirical research in the ... -
Corporate strategy financialized : Conjuncture, arbitrage and earnings capacity in the S&P500
Andersson, T.; Haslam, C.; Katechos, G.; Tsitsianis, N.; Lee, Edward (2010-09-01)The conjuncture that ushered in the era of shareholder value served to embed capital market expectations into corporate governance aligning management and shareholder interests. Market arbitrage focussed on modifying ... -
Craft as a Tool for Multidisciplinary Collaboration and Design Practice
Niedderer, Kristina; Imani, Yassaman; Overton, Matthew G. (2011)This research investigates how craft, as a way of thinking, can facilitate the successful integration of knowledge in multidisciplinary design teams. A review of the process of design thinking and design management elicits ... -
Creating Innovative Regions: The role of universities in local growth and productivity
Culkin, Nigel (University Alliance, 2016-06-02)Our latest report aims to bust a myth – that the main contribution of universities to innovation is through the commercialisation of their research. Universities contribute so much more, particularly in their regions. ... -
Creative accounting practice and business performance : evidence from Pakistan
Malik, Ali; Liu, J.; Kyriacou, O. (2011)This paper explores the issue of creative accounting and evidence of its use in Pakistan. The financial characteristics of Pakistani companies, officially or publically identified for using some form of creative accounting ... -
Credit market structure and bank screening : an indirect test on Italian data
Agostino, M.; Gagliardi, F.; Trivieri, F. (2010)Based on a large panel of Italian SMEs, this paper focuses on the relationship between firms' default probability and the amount of bank debt they obtain, evaluating whether and to what extent this link is affected by the ... -
Crisis and Change in Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe
Soulsby, Anna; Hollinshead, Graham; Steger, Thomas (2017-03-01)This article introduces the special issue on industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe since the financial and economic crisis. Already dependent economically on funding from the west, and lacking the robust ... -
Crisis and recession in Central and Eastern Europe
Hardy, Jane (2010) -
Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity : new accumulation through public service commodification
Huws, Ursula (2011-10)This essay argues that 2008 marked a turning point for international capital, with the financial crisis providing an unprecedented opportunity to embark on a new phase of accumulation based, not on what might be called ... -
Crisis, sustainability of electricity prices and state interventions in Argentina
Dagdeviren, Hulya (2012-04)This article examines the sustainability of wholesale power prices following the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina. We depart from the contractual disputes between the multinational power generating companies and the state ... -
Critical Accounts and Perspectives on Financialization
Gleadle, Pauline; Haslam, Colin; Yin, Ya (2014-02-28)This special issue presents a series of papers about financialization and it follows on from a concern, expressed within CPA, about clarifying the ‘problematics of financialization’ (Haslam, 2010). This critical challenge ... -
A Critical Assessment of Transaction Cost Theory and Governance of Public Services with Special Reference to Water and Sanitation
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Robertson, Simon Andrew (2016-01-06)This paper aims to provide a critical assessment of Oliver Williamson’s work on the choice between public and private governance by focusing on his central proposition that public governance should be considered as an ... -
A critical asssessment of incomplete contracts theory for private participation in public services : The case of water sector in Ghana
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Robertson, Simon A. (2013-08-30)This paper provides a critical analysis of the recent developments in the incomplete contracts theory and its conclusions for privatisation of public services. Drawing upon a case study of management contract for urban ... -
Critical Innovations in the UK Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Equity Alternative Finance Markets for Small Firm Growth
Culkin, Nigel; Murzacheva, Ekaterina; Davis, Andy (2016-08-01)This paper examines the disruptive nature of financial innovations available to small firms by the growing range of online platforms that have emerged in the UK since the financial crisis. It is unveiled that finance ... -
Crowd Work in Europe : Preliminary results from a survey in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands
Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil; Joyce, Simon (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, 2016-12-02)