The grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to design a flexible and relevant programme for people in the workplace is in response…
The project provides access to both expertise and resources at the University of Surrey in Financial Grid computing, allowing CDO2 to innovate in the analysis…
Ninety per cent of the 67 owner-managers who have completed the Leading Enterprise and Development (LEAD) programme between October 2004 and March 2006 also…
Centre for Monetary Economics (CME) at the BI Norwegian School of Management has for the eight time invited a committee of leading economists for Norges Bank…
Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a digest of important research in business, management, operations research, and management science….
This is because keeping up with the Jones’s rather than with famous people is the main motivation behind many people’s choice of which product to buy.Researchers at the University of Bath, UK, and University of St Gallen, Switzerland, showed 298 undergraduates a magazine advertisement for a digital camera which included an endorsement by a fictional student who said the camera was “hot” and his “preferred choice”. Other students were shown the same advert, this time endorsed by an invented testimonial from a German celebrity….
A “disconnect” between inventors and investors is often cited as among the fundamental problems of the European marketplace – the so-called European Paradox,…
However, although direct deficiency payments do not directly affect production, the changed policy will lead to a strong decrease in the number of dairy farms…
Traditional approaches to bank supervision may actually hurt bank development and lead to greater corruption in lending, according to new research by Brown…
The report shows that the gross additional lifetime earnings is now approximately £160,000 or between 20 and 25% more for individuals with a higher education…
Fortunately even more jobs are created. – 2.65m jobs lost each year, but 2.76m jobs created. – Small firms more important than many previously claimed —…
An increasing number of companies are contracting out their customer services (outsourcing) to firms that specialise in dealing with customer enquiries. When…
The researchers, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, are reporting their findings to an…
The specificity of this mutual credit system is that the material guarantees (savings, mortgage, etc) required in the conventional banking system are replaced…
Good performance management is key to employee motivation and organisational success. Now, new research from Henley Management College and Hay Group identifies…
The document “Increasing the Economic Impact of the Research Councils” describes how the eight Research Councils will work with research users, public funders…
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