This thesis presents the findings and conclusions of research that was undertaken with the purpose of exploring the issues (or factors) that typically influence the successful, or unsuccessful, implementation of public ...

The predominant assumption in the management literature is that corporate values are internalised into organisational members' personal value systems. Corporate values, viewed in this way, perform a controlling role in ...

Objective: Public projects are used to delivery policy objectives. From a financial perspective, the Major Projects Authority (MPA) estimated a whole life investment of £488 billion for 199 major projects in 2014, only ...

The notion of Mode 2, as a shift from Mode 1 science-as-we-know-it, depicts science as practically relevant, socially distributed and democratic. Debates remain over the empirical substantiation of Mode 2. In particular, ...

The UK Higher Education sector’s emphasis on research “impact” (economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits) leads to tensions which academics are often ill-equipped to navigate. Our understanding of such ...

The emphasis in cluster theory has been in explaining how and why clustering might contribute to competitive advantage for co-located firms, and hence for the economy. While firms may be encouraged to co-locate to gain ...

The idea of business clusters has been examined and studied since the beginning of the 19th century with claims being made that they exist in every part of the world, in some form or the other. The restructuring and flexibly ...