The nature and organisation of creative industries and the creative economy has received increased attention in recent academic and policy literatures (Florida 2002; Grabher 2002; Scott 2006a). Constituted as one variant on new economy narratives, creativity, alongside knowledge, has been presented as a...

Recently bankers have come to realise that banking operations, especially corporate lending, affect and are affected by the natural environment and that consequently the banks might have an important role to play in helping to raise environmental standards. Although the environment presents...

Companies increasingly seek solutions to the corporate/local dichotomies perceived to be a feature of more traditional approaches to managing across national boundaries. At the human resource level, the rhetoric of transnationalism emphasizes integration being achieved through 'soft' mechanisms,...

A nyugati üzleti élet elméleti szakemberei a versenyelőnyöket újabban egyre inkább az "erős kultúrájú" cégeknek ígérik. A tanulmány mindenekelőtt az e prognosztizálások mögött rejlő előfeltételeket veszi számba, majd azt vizsgálja, hogy a vállalati kultúra elmélete...

Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate edu- cation within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors...

Introduction : labour process theory in retrospect and prospect -- Debating labour process theory and the sociology of work -- Developing labour process analysis : themes from industrial sociology and future directions -- Labour process theory and critical realism -- The core theory : critiques,...