The purpose of this paper is to determine which particular organizational and managerial factors contribute to the propensity to export in a declining sector. For this purpose the textile and clothing sector in Portugal and the United Kingdom is chosen for investigation. This study analyses...

Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to provide comparative data on the nature of labour resourcing strategies in the UK and Australia. Design/methodology/approach – The approach used in this research is of one case study grocery retailer in each country. The methodology adopted included...

This paper analyses the privatisation of Britain’s railways, starting with the original legislation and ending with the insolvency of the infrastructure owner, Railtrack. It examines the performance of the privatised system, focusing on the three key benefits which the Major Government claimed...

This report presents findings from the Employer Perspectives Survey which involved 1,114 interviews with senior managers in establishments where individuals from the 2001 Skills Survey were employed. The aim of the Employer Perspectives Survey was to investigate the relationship between the...

This paper provides the first analysis of the relationship between farm financial structure and technical efficiency in Central and Eastern European farming during the transition to a market economy. First, technical efficiency scores for a sample of Czech farms are computed with data...

This paper represents an attempt to make visible the impact of enterprise culture on small business enterprise activity. In doing this it sets out to explore understandings of the enterprise culture phenomenon, by subjecting the conventional conceptualization to critical scrutiny. In particular...

The emergence of Web based ventures in 2000 offering person-to-person (P2P) betting represented a genuine revolution in the oligopolistic United Kingdom betting industry. The radical innovation of P2P betting was that it enabled punters (the term for betting customers) to lay (accept) bets, a...

During the last two decades Greece has emerged as a key regional player and one of the largest investors in the Central and Eastern and South-Eastern European Countries (CESEE) [Bastian, J. (2004). Knowing your way in the Balkans: Greek foreign direct investment in Southeast Europe. Southeast...

This paper seeks to illuminate how the emphasis on quality dimensions differs in service firms dependent on the size of their back-room activity. It examines how that emphasis differs with Quality Certification (QCert). The research examines the relative importance attached by the chief...

The article examines the usage and relative importance of quality measurements in the UK’s largest service companies. The authors analyse the relationship of both internal and customer-based quality measurements to the importance placed on accreditation to an ISO 9000 standard. The effect of...