It is maintained that processes such as lean construction can arguably reduce costs within theconstruction process. These costs primarily arise due to a lack of harmonisation betweencontracting parties. Historically, this relationship has been transactional in nature, with bothparties seeking to...

Entrepreneurship and small business development has been subject to a considerable amount ofacademic speculation. Historically, a wide range of studies have reported that the organisationaland managerial dynamics of an entrepreneurial firm change as it develops and grows. It iscommonly...

Enterprise College Wales (ECW), designed by the University of Glamorgan, is an on-line, webbaseddegree in Enterprise, aimed at creating and improving entrepreneurial and managerialcapacity in the EU Objective One Areas of Wales, where such activity has been deficient. Thisdistance learning (with...

Heritage is the key to the success of the tourism industry in Wales. Tourism itself is one of thelargest and most important industries in the Principality contributing £2.0 billion in spendingfrom overnight and day visitors, 7% to GDP and 10% of jobs to the economy (100,000 jobs).Following a...

Pharmaceutical policy in the UK involves a trade-off between the interest of the National HealthService in controlling expenditure on drugs and the interest of the pharmaceutical industry inproviding an incentive for research and development. Since 1957, the Pharmaceutical PriceRegulation Scheme...

Accounting is frequently described and recognized as the language of business because theexternal financial reporting function is extensively used as a principal means of communicatingresults of corporate economic activity to interested external parties. However, deficiencies withrespect to the...

The GP fundholding scheme was introduced as part of the Conservative government’s 1991NHS reforms and abolished by the Labour government in 1998. This paper presents theargument that very little was learnt about the effectiveness of the scheme before its abolition.This was because there was no...

The regulation of drug prices is an excellent example of the type of tensions that are emerging inthe UK's new system of multi-level governance. Both the benefits and regulatory burden of thePharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) are regionally concentrated. However, thoseregional...

The empirical data for this paper emerged from a one year ERDF funded study, "WelshEntrepreneuses on the Web". The project was set up to identify the needs of entrepreneuses inIndustrial South Wales and the extent to which they are being met by the current businesssupport sector. The project...

The paper considers technology diffusion and develops a model at the level of theSME. Technology diffusion in the form of new or improved technology, thetransmission of knowledge or technical expertise is investigated. This involves spilloversthrough formal and informal networks enabling...