Despite their important role in local and national activity, SMEs are widely recognised by governmental bodies and comminities to be a major source of local environmental quality degradation. This paper considers the issues surrounding the traditional applicatioon of planning instruments to...

This paper discusses Offshore Finance Centres (OFCs) in islands using Jersey as its case study. Jersey has become an increasingly important conduit for the global circulation of capital, both for Transnational Corporations and wealthy individuals.

This paper examines the nature of subcontracting in the interwar road haulage industry. This new industry was dominated by very small-sclae hauliers, requiring a market-making intermediary to arrange full and return loads so as to avoid capacity underutilisation and the duplication of services....

Management of artists is a generally neglected area of cultural economics research, despite the high profile that agent-artist relations have enjoyed in the popular media and specialist music literature. This paper identifies the specific functions of agents and draws upon transaction cost...

This paper examines the role of pre-1939 British industrial estates as new industrial districts for rapid growth industries. Closely associated with 'new' industries and highly concentrated in the South East, industrial estates rapidly expanded to accomodate plant employing around 285 000 people...

This paper examines the role of British government policy in the dramatic growth of overseas (particularly American) multinationals in Britain from the end of the Second World War to the late 1950s.

Data on New Zealand manufacturing plants are used to examine the impact of trade liberalization on plant exit. Recent theories suggest that the prospect of a declining market might cause firms to adopt stategic behaviour that causes low cost plants to exit first. This hypothesis is generally...