Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. We find the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional ...

Two reciprocally interdependent, dyadic supply relationships – one inter- organizational, the other intra-organizational - were investigated across a broad front in this study. The focus was on the logistics relationship ...

This paper represents an attempt to deconstruct how Muslims living in Britain might respond to militant Islamist propaganda, as typified by elected ‘Jihadist’ video-clips obtained from the Internet, using a discussion ...

This paper provides an intra and inter-country assessment of deregulation and industry efficiency in the European insurance industry. The impact of deregulation is expected to be magnified within an analysis of the ...

This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ...

The importance of IPR regimes for large firm innovation is well documented but less is known about their impact on self-employed entrepreneurship which is typically less innovative. The paper sets out to estimate the net ...

The paper investigates the impact of foreign equity investment flows on the integration process of emerging markets with the global markets. Daily net foreign equity investment flow and return data for the four Asian ...

Commentators suggest that between 30 and 60% of large US firms have adopted the Balanced Scorecard, first described by Bob Kaplan and David Norton in their seminal Harvard Business Review paper of 1992 (Kaplan and Norton, ...

This paper suggests that the traditional mode of knowledge production in academic institutions finds its way unquestioningly into executive education practice. By exploring alternative modes of knowledge production and ...

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced ...