Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions explicitly adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to analysing the structural transformation of mature regions. The major focus of the book is from an economics perspective, but it also employs sociological analyses, business history approaches...

This paper reports on a new initiative aimed at creating an integrated approach to encouraging the formation of a new cluster of Arts, Crafts and Technology (ACT) in London around the London Bridge area by emphasising the importance of identity and branding in urban centres. Here we present the...

Purpose – The production of the built environment, as any other industrial production, is a knowledge-intensive process. Knowledge resides in many teams/parties who are involved in the creation or production process. This paper seeks to discuss the feasibility of social network analysis as a...

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...