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China's place in global divisions of labour: a combined and uneven development perspective
Hardy, Jane (2017-02-23)By examining the contradictions in China’s model of growth and the shifting dynamics of its place in the global division of labour, the aim of this paper is to understand the tensions in the class relations that underpin ... -
Chiny po kryzysie
Hardy, Jane (2011) -
Choice, habit and evolution
Hodgson, G.M. (2010)Several leading mainstream economists including Gary Becker have treated habit as serially correlated behaviour resulting from deliberate choices. This approach puts choice before habit but involves assumptions of extensive ... -
Class and Exclusion at Work : The Case of UK Film and Television
Randle, K.R. (Routledge, 2015) -
Closing down a means of collective voice for workers : Victimisation of union activists in Britain’
Gall, Gregor (2011)This article examines the incidence and nature of employer victimisation of labour union activists in Britain between 1998 and 2009. It finds that the incidence is higher than is expected, shows signs of rising, and is ... -
Co-evolution of firm’s capability and environment : a multinational hotel case study
Quek, Mary (2011)This paper is a preliminary attempt to integrating co-evolutionary and dynamic capabilities concepts to evaluate the historical evolution of a multinational hotel firm. By examining Hilton Hotel International’s initial ... -
Co-management in urban regeneration : New perspectives on transferable collaborative practice
Schlappa, Hans (Routledge, 2012-01)To illustrate the advantages of the co-production concept in comparative analysis and to develop a deeper understanding of the co-management process in regeneration contexts this chapter analyses two cases where staff ... -
Co-producing responses to urban shrinkage
Schlappa, Hans (Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-01-14)At a time of unprecedented budgetary austerity shrinking cities need to find strategies to tackle growing problems related to public services, employment, social cohesion and the environment in ways which differ from those ... -
Co-producing the cities of tomorrow: Fostering collaborative action to tackle decline in Europe’s shrinking cities
Schlappa, Hans (2017-04-01)Investments through the 2014–2020 European structural funds pursue goals of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth, while many towns and cities in Europe are shrinking rather than growing. Policy makers and practitioners ... -
Co-Production: A new perspective on partnership
Schlappa, Hans; Ramsden, Peter (URBACT Secretariat, Paris, 2011)A growing number of practitioners and policy makers use the term ‘co-production’ to describe collaborative processes through which different actors are engaged in regeneration. Quite often we use ‘co-production’ as a ... -
Come back Marshall, all is forgiven? : Complexity, evolution, mathematics and Marshallian exceptionalism
Hodgson, G.M. (2013-12-01)Marshall was the great synthesiser of neoclassical economics. Yet with his qualified assumption of self-interest, his emphasis on variation in economic evolution and his cautious attitude to the use of mathematics, Marshall ... -
Commissioners or co-producers of services? Challenges and opportunities for public sector organisations in the delivery of urban regeneration initiatives
Schlappa, Hans (2008)This paper builds on a doctoral study which examined the benefits and challenges encountered by third sector organisations (TSOs) in the implementation of European Union (EU) funded urban renewal programmes. The purpose ... -
Common Territory? : Comparing the IMP Approach with Economic Geography
Nicholson, John; Brennan, Ross; Tsagdis, Dimitrios (2013-08)The IMP research tradition has always been open to the cross-fertilisation of ideas with other social science disciplines that study similar phenomena. Recent years have seen a growing interest among IMP researchers in ... -
Communities of Practice in the Public-Private-Partnership Sector for Neglected Diseases Drug Development: the Importance of Mindset Mapping
Brown, C.J.; Frame, P. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)This research article explores the mindsets of Public-Private Partnerships and Clinical Trials Organizations (CTOs) and the potential conflicts when working on drug discovery and development in the Third World global ... -
‘Communities of resistance’ and the use of newspaper discussion boards Polish workers in Japanese foreign investments
Bancarzewski, Maciej; Hardy, Jane (2017-07-25)This article examines the content of two hundred posts on newspaper discussion boards by workers in a cluster of Japanese foreign investments in Poland. The conclusions are first, that the material experiences of workers ... -
Comparative historical analysis of four UK hotel companies, 1979 - 2004
Quek, M. (2011)Purpose – This paper seeks to examine why and how M&A activity has been used by UK hotel companies over a 26-year period and aims to provide a preliminary exploration of its relative success, given that the M&A literature ... -
Comparing Chinese and Arab Cultural Constructs: Guanxi and Wasta
Houjeir, Roudaina; Khan, Amna; Brennan, David (2017-09-05)We start from the premise that cultural considerations are important both to understand inter-firm relationships and networks (from the scientific perspective), and to manage relationships and networks (from the managerial ... -
Comparing the Adopters and Non-Adopters of Online Social Networks : A UK perspective
Choudrie, Jyoti; Vyas, Amit; Voros, Tibor; Tsitsianis, N. (2013-01-06)This paper aims to identify, explain and understand the adoption, use and diffusion of OSNs within UK’s older population. This was achieved using a quantitative online survey questionnaire. Results from a sample population ... -
Comparison of six different intubation aids for use while wearing CBRN-PPE : A manikin study
Castle, Nick; Pillay, Yugan; Spencer, Neil (2011)INTRODUCTION: Respiratory failure following chemical exposure can be fatal and although supraglottic airway devices have been evaluated for use in the management of CBRN casualties' intubation remains the gold standard ...