The paper uses recent data of financial performance drawn from a sample of manufacturing and service firms from the London Borough of Islington to assess the current position of such enterprises in a typical inner city area. Performance is found to be as good as, and in some cases better than,...

More recent UK climatic data for use in the design of naturally ventilated buildings show that passive stack ventilation alone is unlikely to maintain summertime comfort in a new University College London building within the London city heat island. A stack ventilation strategy developed by the...

In recent years, Portugal has followed the example of other Western countries, first by regulating access of private initiative into a variety of economic activities starting with banking in 1985 and lately, selling state‐owned companies in 1989. Privatization has been seen as a key issue in...

The introduction of Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) represents a unique opportunity to promote the “skills revolution” initiative of the CBI (in partnership with the Government) and the broader service framework for small business organizations. Describes some preliminary research...