This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation andproduction strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integratedarchetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses....

There is no doubt that innovation is nowadays the main determinant ofeconomic growth and that the human resource is as a crucial factor of the process ofinnovation.As the role played by this factor the mainstream viewpoint emphasizes labourmarket rigidities in the explanation of cross-countries...

There is agreement within industrial organisation economics that an inverted U-shaperelationship exists between the level of competition in an industry and the level of innovation inthat industry. Thus, when consolidation changes the level of competition in an industry wemight expect this to...

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey series is a tremendously useful source of datafor industrial relations researchers. But, like all large-scale secondary datasets, it has anumber of design problems. These have not been articulated previously in much depth.Looking at the 2004 instalment...

The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economiesand changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they developdistinctive organisational capabilities vary between institutional regimes and their supportingpolitical-economic...

The governance and organisation of scientific research undertaken for publication have alteredsignificantly since the end of the Second World War in many industrialised economies. Thesechanges have had significant effects on authority relations governing research goals, approachesand the...

Recent changes in the funding and governance of research universities have attempted tomake them more strategically active in contributing to national goals. However, the ability ofuniversities to develop strategic capabilities as cohesive organisations is limited by the inherentuncertainty of...

Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness,effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety ofpolicy areas, especially in environmental policy making and governance.Central to stakeholder participation is the identification and engagement...

This study explores the information content of HML and SMB by linking the Fama-French factors toshocks in the state variables which predict future investment opportunities. It shows that the HMLfactor contains information about shocks to default spread. Moreover, the Fama-French modelexplains...

This paper explores the sources of agglomeration externalities in enhancing firmperformance, in particular, the pecuniary externality that supports firms’ bottom line.The fundamental argument on increasing returns leads to the premise that cluster sizehas beneficial influence to firm...