HP Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe will launch a new award to encourage young entrepreneurs to…
That is the finding of a study by Christopher Collins, Cornell associate professor of human resource studies at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Collins found that small businesses that follow such strategies reap 22 percent more revenue growth, 23 percent more profit growth and have 67 percent less employee turnover than companies that do not have such hiring criteria….
The pressure is being felt not only by major international groups but also by the small and medium-size enterprises that fuel the job market in Germany. To…
Author Jim Lee finds that family firms tend to experience higher employment and revenue growth over time and are overall more profitable than nonfamily…
Natural disasters can take a tremendous toll on life when infrastructure fails, particularly in developing countries. Ryan Orr, executive director of the…
However, victories do not show a corresponding rise.Øyvind Norli, an associate professor at BI Norwegian School of Management, Diego Garcia from the Tuck…
What actually happens when the rate for the US dollar goes up or down by one krone in the course of a year?, asks Geir Høidal Bjønnes, associate professor at BI Norwegian School of Management.
This is a puzzle in which economists world-wide are constantly searching for the missing pieces and where macroeconomic models are of no assistance.
However what if, instead of looking at macroeconomic conditions, we study the players in this game, the large banks’ foreign exchan
Europe, and particularly France, are in a unique position in terms of the diversity of their overseas communities, outermost regions (ORs) and overseas countries and territories (OCTs). These regions, which may be islands or continental and are often in the tropics, are home to an exceptional degree of biodiversity, but it is under great threat. They also shed light on and are of use in assessing the impact of human activity on biodiversity.
Our understanding of the interactions between b
The latest survey of robot sales in the UK produced by British Automation and Robot Association (BARA), based at the University of Warwick, reveals UK small businesses are failing to exploit a significant fall in price of industrial robots at a time when US figures are showing record sales of robots to US small businesses.
The BARA/ University of Warwick survey shows continuing trend for robot prices to fall. The majority of units installed last year cost less than £30k. There is also an in
Dutch researcher Joost Beuving concludes that the gambling behaviour of car traders has played an important role in the rapid growth of the West African second-hand car trade. This uneconomic behaviour emerges from the belief that they will one day make a fortune.
European second-hand cars flooded onto the West African car market in the 1990s. The port-town of Cotonou in Benin became an important operating base for this Euro-African car trade. At its peak in about 2000, se
A major review published today in The Lancet has revealed the enormous burden of road traffic injuries in countries that can least afford to meet the health and economic costs.
The authors of the review, from The George Institute for International Health in Sydney, the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, believe that while motorisation has enhanced the lives of many individuals and societies, the benefits have come with
New research led by economists at the University of Warwick reveals that many Western societies that pride themselves on being lands of opportunity are anything but. The reality is that most countries show a strong connection between a father and son’s earnings and this factor is more important in the United States than in any of the other country studied.
The new research led by Professor Robin Naylor, an economist at the University of Warwick, shows a strong link between the earnings of
What does it cost a company when a manager neglects to improve a supply-chain or other manufacturing process over a three-year period? According to conventional management wisdom, such sins of omission are commonplace but difficult, if not impossible, to quantify in dollars and cents.
Until now.
A new method for putting a price tag on the cost of “managerial neglect” has been developed by two industrial engineers in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering Applie
The development of a new innovative drill bit could change the way in which oil and gas exploration and production takes place, thanks to support from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts).
Bristol-based Meciria have received a £300,000 investment from NESTA and Oxford Technology VCT.
Directional drilling, or targeting a particular area to avoid difficult drilling conditions, can be undertaken by one of two methods, positive displacement moto
Open source software capability key to ’technological self-determination’
The growth of free, open-source software presents developing countries with an opportunity to escape from technological dependence on developed countries, but also a challenge to build up local expertise, United Nations University experts say.
Open source software, which includes the freely-shared Linux operating system, represent a phenomenon changing the information technologies wo
Clearstream, the international central securities depository within the Deutsche Börse Group, announces the launch of the Central Facility for Funds (CFF). CFF is an innovative initiative to offer a more efficient post trade solution for investment funds domiciled in Luxembourg, the largest market in Europe for international funds. The launch of the new service is planned for the second half of 2007 and a pilot will begin end of 2006. CFF will provide DVP (delivery versus payment) facilitie
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