The nature and organisation of creative industries and the creative economy has received increased attention in recent academic and policy literatures (Florida 2002; Grabher 2002; Scott 2006a). Constituted as one variant on new economy narratives, creativity, alongside knowledge, has been presented as a...

A nyugati üzleti élet elméleti szakemberei a versenyelőnyöket újabban egyre inkább az "erős kultúrájú" cégeknek ígérik. A tanulmány mindenekelőtt az e prognosztizálások mögött rejlő előfeltételeket veszi számba, majd azt vizsgálja, hogy a vállalati kultúra elmélete...

Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate edu- cation within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors...

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help reduce costs, this study considers the implications these...

While cost savings is the primary motivation for the switch to four-day school weeks in many school districts, do these school schedules save school districts any money? To answer this question, this study uses a difference-in-differences analysis using a unique, self-collected longitudinal...

Books reviewed in this article: Paul Osterman, Thomas A. Kochan, Richard Locke and Michael J. Piore, Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labour Market Brian Towers and William Brown (eds.), Employment Relations in Great Britain: 25 years of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration...

"Floodplain wetlands are the major common pool natural resource in Bangladesh. Mostly men fish, and both men and women collect aquatic plants and snails. Case studies contrast a women-only, men-only, and mixed community based organization (CBO), each of which manages a seasonal floodplain...

View looking North on North Cook St. and Railroad Ave. R.R. Ave was a short street that was parallel to the R.R. tracks from E. Main St. then going northwest down to Hager's lumber yard office then on to North Hough St. The building on the right in this photo is 203 North Cook. The sign above...