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Elusive partnerships: gas extraction and CSR in Bangladesh

Gardner, Katy; Ahmed, Zahir; Bashir, Fatema; Rana, Masud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper examines Chevron's programme of CSR at a gas field in Bangladesh. Whilst apparently building partnerships in the villages that surround the Bibiyana Gas Field, we suggest that the corporation remains detached from the local population via their community development programmes and...

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Climate change policy and business in Europe: evidence from interviewing managers

Anderson, Barry; Leib, Jörg; Martin, Ralf; McGuigan, Marty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This report presents new evidence relating to the effects of climate policy in Europe, particularly the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The evidence is based on new data from almost 800 phone interviews we conducted with managers in manufacturing plants in six European...

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Technological innovation and economic performance in the United Kingdom

Nickell, S. J.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …

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How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

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Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …

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Does foreign environmental policy influence domestic innovation? Evidence from the wind industry

Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …

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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

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