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Publikováno v:
New Technologies and the Firm ISBN: 9781351120586
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Industrial clusters can be characterised by high levels of personal interaction between the owners/managers of firms. It has been argued that within industrial clusters community and firm tend to merge. One result of the notion of a cluster as a comm
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Publikováno v:
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship. 24:496-514
This article explores the ways in which the characteristics of the owner-managers of small firms influence whether or not those firms have a business plan. The focus is primarily on antecedent influences on owner-managers such as education and prior
Publikováno v:
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. 18:185-205
The primary objective of this paper is to explore the ways in which the characteristics of owner-managers influence the extent to which their firms are embedded within local clusters of economic activity. Data are drawn from an interview survey of a
Publikováno v:
Growth and Change. 35:419-433
Clusters now form a central element in many regional economic development policies. Location within a cluster of related industries is thought to increase a firm's competitive advantage resulting in higher output and productivity growth rates than in
Autor:
H. Doug Watts, Mike Crone
Publikováno v:
European Planning Studies. 11:717-737
An examination of the factors influencing the extent of regional sourcing by multinational manufacturing firms using data collected by interview from 50 foreign- and UK-owned plants in Yorkshire and Humberside. The evidence shows that higher levels o
Autor:
Mike Crone, H. Doug Watts
Publikováno v:
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. 93:287-301
High levels of stability over the five-year period 1991–96 are observed in the supply chains of plants in Yorkshire and Humberside in the UK owned by multinational enterprises (MNEs). Stability is explained by a lack of alternative suppliers, satis
Autor:
Suzanne Richbell, H. Doug Watts
Publikováno v:
Employee Relations. 23:498-511
Reviews the concept of a “greenfield site” within human resource management (HRM) and shows that the ways in which distance is conceptualised or measured in describing greenfield sites needs to be made explicit. This is particularly important whe
Autor:
H. Doug Watts
Publikováno v:
European Urban and Regional Studies. 8:265-271
Cross-border closures are defined as arising when a firm ceases production of a commodity in one EU country but maintains production of the same commodity in another EU country. Analysis of a new data set drawn from a comprehensive review of press re
Autor:
H. Doug Watts, Janet D. Kirkham
Publikováno v:
Growth and Change. 28:459-474
This paper explores the effect of plant profitability on the closure decision in multi-locational manufacturing firms where the firm is selecting between different sites undertaking similar production activities. The paper draws upon a new interview