There is a widely held assumption that product market strategies, skill and pay are linked. Supportive evidence is typically drawn from manufacturing and using quantitative analyses. Emergent research of the link in services is ambivalent and has methodological limitations. This article...

The voluntary sector in Scotland, as across the globe, is becoming increasingly business like. Resultantly, there is an increasing demand for graduates to work in business and support functions. In Scotland, however, despite an oversupply of graduates in the labor market, the voluntary sector...

Retail is now a significant part of the UK economy, accounting for £256 billion in sales and one-third of all consumer spending (Skillsmart, 2007). Indeed, it is the largest private sector employer in the UK, employing three million workers, or 1 in 10 of the working population. Retail though...

If, as Adam Smith once famously suggested, Britain was a nation of shopkeepers then it is now a nation of shopworkers. Retail is now a significant part of the UK economy, accounting for £256 billion in sales and one-third of all consumer spending (Skillsmart, 2007). It is the largest private...

In the style labour market, employers require a matrix of skills - technical, social and aesthetic. The first is provided ,,in-house”, the middle and thedast filtered into companies through recruitment and selection processes. It is the middle and last skills that are encompassed by the term...

A globalizáció minden térnyerése ellenére a nemzetközi üzleti élet inkább multinacionális, mint transznacionális (globális) jellegű. Ezen sem a kereskedelem nemzetközi, sem a beruházások határokon átnyúló volta lényegében nem sokat változtat.