Purpose – Improvement in productivity will not be achieved without bearing in mind that there is an enormous number of factors affecting productivity and that there is a necessity to locate the most influential ones among them. Doing so will enable researchers as well as practitioners to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of innovative workplace practices in a sample of manufacturing establishments. Design/methodology/approach – The sample comprises manufacturing establishments located in Italy and a comparable sample extracted from the British...

Examines statistical trends in production and trade in the UK clothing sector during the period 1993‐2001. Studies the areas of hats, workwear and other wearing apparel. Concludes that consumption of clothing increased during this period as did imports, therefore there was a parallel decline...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of social networking in the workplace and to assess its use as an effective business tool. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines positive and negative perceptions of social networking in the workplace and provides a critical review...

"Systemic risk" now occupies centre stage in discussions of bank regulatory reform. Systemic risk is often seen as a problem of size, operational complexity, interconnectivity and contagion. It is less often discussed in terms of the institutional framework of legal rules and principles within...