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Labouring and learning towards competitiveness: the future of local labour markets after Harker, Leitch and Freud (2008)
Journal Article
Nunn, A., & Johnson, S. (2008). Labouring and learning towards competitiveness: the future of local labour markets after Harker, Leitch and Freud. Local Economy, 23(2), 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690940801976190

In 1999 Geddes and Newman highlighted five key tensions in New Labour's adoption of the 'new centrist' approach to Local Economic Development (LED). This article reflects on the continuing relevance of these tensions in relation local labour markets... Read More about Labouring and learning towards competitiveness: the future of local labour markets after Harker, Leitch and Freud.

Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability for high-tech medical equipment (2008)
Journal Article
Lindgreen, A., Antioco, M., Harness, D., & van der Sloot, R. (2009). Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability for high-tech medical equipment. Journal of Business Ethics, 85(SUPPL. 2), 445-462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9740-1

As the functional capabilities of high-tech medical products converge, supplying organizations seek new opportunities to differentiate their offerings. Embracing product sustainability-related differentiators provides just such an opportunity. This s... Read More about Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability for high-tech medical equipment.

Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914 (2008)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., & Lönnborg, M. (2008). Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914. Business History Review, 82(1), 59-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000768050003751x

At the end of the twentieth century, the global diffusion of one important financial service, insurance, was encouraged by deregulation, but it also encountered difficulties where deregulation remained incomplete and where there were many nonregulato... Read More about Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914.

Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government (2008)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2008). Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government. Enterprise & society, 9(1), 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khm106

We use the tools of transaction cost politics (TCP) developed from transaction cost economics and economic analysis, to analyze the business relationship building between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), the largest and most succ... Read More about Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government.

Integrated rural tourism: a border case study (2008)
Journal Article
Saxena, G., & Ilbery, B. (2008). Integrated rural tourism: a border case study. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(1), 233-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2007.07.010

Within the context of debates about integrated and territorial approaches to rural development in Europe's lagging regions, this paper introduces the notion of integrated rural tourism, theorized in relation to the concepts of embeddedness, dis-embed... Read More about Integrated rural tourism: a border case study.

Teoria implícita de organização e padrões de inovação nos processos de gestão (2007)
Journal Article
Bastos, A. V. B., Souza, J. J. D., Menezes, I. G., Neris, J. S., Melo, L. C. T. D., & Brandão, L. A. G. (2007). Teoria implícita de organização e padrões de inovação nos processos de gestão. Psicologia: reflexão e crítica, 20(1), 157-166. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-79722007000100020

A pesquisa explora o conceito do que é uma organização bem-sucedida segundo a percepção de atores organizacionais inseridos em empresas com diferentes padrões de adoção de novas práticas de gestão do trabalho e da produção. Para tanto, utilizou-se um... Read More about Teoria implícita de organização e padrões de inovação nos processos de gestão.

Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China (2007)
Journal Article
Lu, Q., & Dewhurst, J. (2007). Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 16(52), 517-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670560701314487

Because of the excess demand for branch licences and the Chinese government’s policy to effectively ration banking licences, this paper suggests explaining the allocation of branch licences by the objectives of the Chinese government rather than by t... Read More about Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China.

Men at work and at home: Managing emotion in telework (2007)
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Marsh, K., & Musson, G. (2008). Men at work and at home: Managing emotion in telework. Gender, work, and organization, 15(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00353.x

Home-based telework, as one of the flexible working options available today, is unique in its ability to blur physically and emotionally the boundaries between work and home. This article explores how men experience working from home, how they constr... Read More about Men at work and at home: Managing emotion in telework.

Macro determinants of FDIn inflows to Japan: An analysis of source country characteristics (2007)
Journal Article
Kimino, S., Saal, D. S., & Driffield, N. (2007). Macro determinants of FDIn inflows to Japan: An analysis of source country characteristics. The World economy, 30(3), 446-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.01001.x

This paper examines the source country determinants of FDI into Japan. The paper highlights certain methodological and theoretical weaknesses in the previous literature and offers some explanations for hitherto ambiguous results. Specifically, the pa... Read More about Macro determinants of FDIn inflows to Japan: An analysis of source country characteristics.

Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850 (2004)
Book
Pearson, R. (Ed.). (2004). Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315252193

© Robin Pearson 2004. Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken serious... Read More about Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850.