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Access to water in the slums of sub-Saharan Africa
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Robertson, S.A. (2011)This article reviews the changing perspectives for improving access to water in the slums of developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. While much of the literature continues to maintain an aversion to state-led ... -
Access to Water in the Slums of the Developing World
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Robertson, Simon A. (International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009-06)The discussion reveals the failure of public policies as well as markets to provide satisfactory solutions to the problems of access to a safe, affordable and continuous water supply. In many countries, especially those ... -
Andalucia : An emerging regional economy in Europe
Salmon, Keith (Junta de Andalucia, 1992) -
Assessing the potential for effective cross-cultural working between “new” Russian managers and western expatriates
Camiah, N.; Hollinshead, Graham (2003)This article addresses the issue of relationship building between young Russian managers, and their expatriate counterparts from western countries. The paper constructs an argument as follows; Firstly, with reference to ... -
Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services
Hollinshead, Graham; Capik, Pawel; Micek, Grzegorz (2011-08) -
Blockbusters or Bridge-Builders? The Role of Western Trainers in Developing New Entrepreneurialism in Eastern Europe
Hollinshead, Graham; Michailova, S. (2001)Since the start of the transformation in Eastern Europe in late 1989, there has been a marked increase in training programmes and activities designed to modernize human capital in the region. Many of the initiatives are ... -
Boom to Bust - Reconstructing the Spanish Economy Part 2: : Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis
Salmon, Keith (2010-12-01)Recession in Spain led to intervention by the government to stimulate the economy, a response that was replicated around the world. But as public finances deteriorated, financial markets and some policy makers demanded ... -
Boom to bust reconstructing the Spanish economy
Salmon, Keith (2010-10-01)In 2008, a decade of strong and sustained growth in Spain came to an end as the economy fell into recession. This article charts the passage of the economy into recession and examines conditions in the financial system, ... -
Cathedrals in the desert? : Transnationals, corporate strategy and locality in Wroclaw
Hardy, Jane (1998)This paper examines the relationship between the strategy and restructuring of transnational corporations, patterns of foreign direct investment and the transformation of the regions of East and Central Europe. Different ... -
Changing workplace relations in foreign investment firms in Poland
Hardy, Jane; Kozek, Wiesia (2011)The article aims to consider the relationship between foreign investors and trade unions in forging new labour relations and workplace institutions in Polish firms. The research focuses on the role of foreign investment ... -
China's capitalism and the crisis
Hardy, Jane; Budd, Adrian (2012)Major wars and economic crises force the pace of change within and between capitalist states, giving rise to new alignments and shifts in the geopolitics of world capitalism. At the time of writing this article, turmoil ... -
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) -
Conclusion: The 'Crash' in Central and Eastern Europe
Hardy, Jane; Dale, Gareth (Pluto, 2011) -
Contesting social space in the Balkan Region : the social dimensions of a 'red' joint venture
Maclean, M.; Hollinshead, Graham (Cambridge University Press, 2011) -
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 ... -
Crisis and recession in Central and Eastern Europe
Hardy, Jane (2010) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cultural and political embeddedness, foreign investment in transforming economies
Hardy, Jane; Currie, Frank; Ye, Zhen (2005)The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for ...