The recent collapse of the sub-prime mortgages in the US has highlighted the intertwined nature of our worldís systems (Farshchi and Rafferty, 2009). The detrimental effects of the exceptional growth of the housing market in the Anglo-Saxon world (i.e., the US and the UK) in the late 2000s...

Knowledge resides in many teams/parties who are involved in the creation or production process. Large engineering organisations within the industry play an important role for their contribution to innovation and creation of new knowledge. Firms driven by the desire to earn economic rent are...

An examination has been made of the performance of a range of medium-size publicly quoted construction firms over the five-year period 1990-1994 including evidence on the competitive nature of construction markets. The results suggest that construction markets are price competitive with mark-ups...

This article examines the evolution of the industrial structure of local technological development by U.S.-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and over the more recent period 1969-1995. Using a survey of U.S. subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and more...

This paper examines the subnational, regional, aspects of the multinational corporations' (MNCs) increasingly global innovative networks in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Using patents granted in the US to the largest industrial firms, attention is restricted to the main European MNCs...