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An emotional business : a guide to understanding the motivations of small business decision takers
Culkin, N. (2000)Argues that the way in which the UK Government, through its various departments and quangos, approaches designed to approve the effectiveness of the small business sector, is based on a flawed understanding of how small ... -
Emotional intelligence in knowledge intensive work groups : an empirical study
Dodourova, Mariana; Gunsel, Ayse (2011)Organizations become more and more dependent on the performance of small, autonomous, knowledge-intensive work groups. In line with the rise of the workgroups and teams, the scope of emotional intelligence moves from ... -
The Empirics of the National Minimum Wage and Employment in the U.K.
Thomas, David; Luz, Sheilla (University of Hertfordshire, 2016) -
Enabling better management of patients: discrete event simulation combined with the STAR approach
Demir, Eren; Southern, David (2017-12-21)Squeezed budgets and funding cuts are expected to become a feature of the healthcare landscape in the future, forcing decision makers such as service managers, clinicians and commissioners to find effective ways of allocating ... -
Enhancing learning and teaching using Electronic Voting Systems : the development of a framework for an institutional approach for their introduction
Jefferies, Amanda; Cubric, Marija; Russell, Mark (Emerald Publishing, 2013-02) -
Enhancing performance : Bringing trust commitment and motivation together in organisations
Gilbert, David; Halliday, Sue; Heavey, Colm; Murphy, Eamonn (2011)This paper analyses the concepts of trust, commitment, motivation and performance. In specific terms, the authors ascertain what are the key components of trust in the workplace. The paper provides a deeper understanding ... -
Enriching the values of micro and small business research projects : two sides of a story
Brown, Christopher; Thatcher, James; Alao, Hanan; Choudhary, Shahriar (University of Hertfordshire, 2014)The research aim was to critically examine the two sides of co-creation from the small business and GCU researcher perspectives. The interest is in the value created and delivered. Previous studies have suggested the ... -
Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Franchise System : Organisational Antecedents and Performance Outcomes
Dada, O.; Watson, Anna (2013-05-24)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the franchisor’s perception of the role of entrepreneurial strategic orientation (EO)–innovative, risk-taking, and proactive actions–within the special case of franchised ... -
Entrepreneurial orientation rhetoric in franchise organizations: The impact of national culture
Watson, Anna; Dada, O.; Wright, Owen; Perrigot, Rozenn (2017-11-22)This study examines the role of national culture on the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) rhetoric contained within franchisee recruitment promotional materials, where EO rhetoric is defined as the strategic use of words ... -
Entrepreneurial tendencies in franchising: : evidence from the UK
Dada, Olufunmilola (Lola); Watson, Anna; Kirby, D.A. (2015-02-16)In spite of the important contributions of franchising to many economies, it remains unclear whether it truly provides a scope for entrepreneurial tendencies to flourish amongst franchisees. The purpose of this paper is ... -
Entrepreneurial universities in the region: the force awakens?
Culkin, N. (2016-03-01)The growth in popularity of the Regional innovation System (RIS) approach has, in part, been driven by the need for economies to respond to the after shocks of the global financial crisis. At the same time, we see the term ... -
Entrepreneurs forge ahead in chaos and uncertainty : The story of SMEs in Sri Lanka
Duus, Rikke; Cooray, Muditha (2011) -
Epistemological beliefs: Issues for marketing educators
Brennan, David; Vos, Lynn (Northumbria University, 2016-07-04)While considerable attention has been paid to epistemological issues in relation to marketing and consumer research (Anderson, 1986, 1988; Easton, 2002; Hunt, 1991, 1992; Kavanagh, 1994), epistemology does not figure as a ... -
Equal pay - or what? : Economics, politics and the 1968 Ford sewing machinists' strike
Cohen, Sheila (2012-02)The 40-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act in 2010 brought a new notoriety to what was once an obscure dispute – the Ford sewing machinists’ strike of 1968. Even a film, Made In Dagenham, has now been released in Britain ... -
The Equality Effects of the 'Hyper-formalization' of Selection
Noon, Mike; Healy, Geraldine; Forson, Cynthia; Oikelome, Franklin (2013-09)This paper explores how formalization of employee selection procedures for the purpose of ensuring equality of opportunity can become so extensive that the intended outcome of fairness is undermined. Drawing on empirical ... -
Ernst Freund as Precursor of the Rational Study of Corporate Law
Gindis, David (2020-09-02)The rise of large business corporations in the late 19th century compelled many American observers to admit that the nature of the corporation had yet to be understood. Published in this context, Ernst Freund's little-known ... -
Espana en la economia internacional
Salmon, Keith (Alianza, 1995) -
Essentials of Multivariate Data Analysis
Spencer, Neil (CRC Press, 2014) -
Estimating Invariant Principal Components Using Diagonal Regression
Leznik, M.; Tofallis, C. (University of Hertfordshire, 2005)In this work we apply the method of diagonal regression to derive an alternative version of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Diagonal regression was introduced by Ragnar Frisch (the first economics Nobel laureate) in ... -
Ethnic Minorities and Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups in Engineering: A Research Report
Forson, Cynthia; Calveley, Moira; Smith, Paul (University of Hertfordshire, 2015-07)The main aim of this study was to develop a better understanding of the issues and challenges faced by black and minority ethnic (BME) people and those from socio-economically disadvantaged (SED) backgrounds in engineering ...