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All credit to men? Entrepreneurship, finance, and gender

Marlow, Susan, 1956-; Patton, D. (Article)

'All they lack is a chain': lean and the new performance management in the British civil service.

Carter, Bob; Danford, A.; Howcroft, D.; Richardson, H.; Smith, A.; Taylor, P. (Article)

The All-Women Shortlist (AWS) and its place at Westminster – a sticking plaster solution or major success?

Stafford, Max (Conference)

Allocate or let? Your choice

Richardson, Joanna; Brown, Tim J.; Dearling, A.; Hunt, R.; Yates, N. (Other)

Allocations and lettings taking customer choice forward in England?

Brown, Tim J.; Yates, N. (Article)

Alternative Ecosystems in Creative Cities: the role of universities and quintuple helixes in crowded creative ecosystems

Granger, R.C. (Article)

This paper advances current debates on creative cities through a unique focus on the empirical dynamics of knowledge transfer and innovation in a creative city ecosystem. The application of a Helix Model to examine the ...

Alternatives to state-socialism in Britain: other worlds of labour in the twentieth century.

Ackers, Peter; Reid, Alistair J. (Book)

American multinationals in Europe: Managing employment relations across national borders

Almond, Phil; Ferner, A. M. (Book)

The Americanisation of the European business system?

Clark, I.; Almond, Phil; Gunnigle, P.; Wächter, H. (Article)

Analysing cultural policy: incorrigbly plural or ontologically incompatible?

Gray, Clive (Article)

Approaches to the study of cultural policy are currently tied to particular disciplines. This can lead to a failure to appreciate the real differences between these disciplines in terms of what they are investigating, and ...

Analysing parking search (‘cruising’) time using generalised multilevel structural equation modelling

Brooke, Sarah; Ison, Stephen; Quddus, Mohammed (Article)

The aim of this paper is to identify factors influencing parking search (cruising) time. A revealed-preference on-street parking survey was undertaken with individual drivers in four UK cities to investigate the influence ...

Analyzing the influence of gender upon high-technology venturing within the context of business incubation.

Marlow, Susan, 1956-; McAdam, M. (Article)

Angleterre: Maires elus et leaders de conseils. Qui elit ceux qui dirigent?

Copus, Colin; Jones, Alistair (Book chapter)

An Anti-homeless Public Space

Stevens, Simon (Other)

In this post, Dr Simon Stevens exposes the strategies used by local authorities and managers of pseudo-public spaces in English cities, to disperse, deter and dehumanise homeless residents. Seen through the eyes of a ...

A feature of English local political folk-lore is the belief among national political parties, that Independent councillors are Conservatives in disguise. Yet, little evidence is given to support this idea because little ...

Are we doing them a dis-service? Preparing students to study overseas: a case study of Chinese students and British Culture.

Jones, Alistair (Conference)

There are a number of issues around this approach. Firstly there is the issue of content. What content should be taught to these students? There are a range of topics that could be covered, but these may be constrained ...

Are we learning from the old? A case study of Welsh local government restructuring

Jones, Alistair (Conference)

Local Government in Wales has undergone restructuring in the 1970s, the 1990s, and is currently undergoing the process again. In each round of restructuring, the same arguments appear: economies of scale, rationalisation, ...

The Art of Disruption. Creative learning and disruption in the higher education sector

Granger, R.C.; Bazaz, P. (Working Paper)

In an operating environment dominated by rapid technological change, the temptation to call this disruptive is even greater. In this paper, we draw on the disruption literature and the imagery from this, to view and ...