This research area is concerned with the economic environment within which business operates. The research includes the examination of: macroeconomic policy choices; the legal and institutional environment; the codes of practice for corporate governance; the internal skills of business management and the ecosystems within which they operate.
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Addressing Gender Inequality through Corporate Governance
Analysis of Middle Market Firms
Analysis of the Relationship between Training & Business Performance
Assessing the Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small & Medium Sized Enterprises (SME Survey)
Bankruptcy Law & Entrepreneurship
Barriers to Innovation & Growth in High Technology SMEs: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
Building Economic Competitiveness: Lessons from Small Peripheral European States
Business Failure & Macroeconomic Instability
Capability Approach & the Implementation of EU Social Policy Directives
Capright: Resources, Rights & Capabilities in Europe
Competition, Takeovers & Investment
Competitiveness & Productivity of the UK Design Engineering Sector
Competitiveness of the UK & its Multinational Companies
Contribution of Services & Other Sectors to Australian Productivity Growth 1995-2005
Cooperation, Stakeholder Representation & Business Performance
Corporate Governance & Innovation
Corporate Governance & Investment: An International Research Network
Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance & Economic Performance in Emerging Markets
Corporate Law & Economic Performance
Corporate Rescue: Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
Corporate Responses to Macroeconomic Changes & Shocks
Design Study for a Survey of UK Management Practices
Evolution of Governance Arrangements in the Family Firm
Finance, Training & SME Performance: An Evaluation Study of the Small Business Initiative
Flexible Specialisation, Competitive Advantage & Business Structuring in the UK Computer Industry
Globalising Behaviour of UK Firms in a Comparative Context
Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
Institutional Investment & Corporate Accountability
Integrated Knowledge Centre (IKC) Commercialisation Laboratory
International Financial Regulation
International Innovation Benchmarking & the Determinants of Business Success
Knowledge Exchange between Arts & Humanities and the Private, Public & Third Sectors
Labour Market Reform & Social Inclusion: The Case of New Zealand, Ireland & Denmark
Manufacturing Strategy & Competitiveness
Modelling Business Duration & Business Failure
National Small & Medium Sized Business Surveys
New Modes of Innovation: Managerial & Strategic Business Practices & Open Innovation (UK~IRC)
New Product Development Performance in the UK & Japanese Automotive Industries
Northern Ireland SME Benchmarking Survey
Pension Fund Governance & Socially Responsible Investment
Services Innovation & Innovative Performance at the Sector Level (UK~IRC)
SME Finance & Innovation in the Current Economic Crisis
'Soft Regulation': Conforming with the Principle of 'Comply or Explain'
Spatial Variations in Innovations & Absorptive Capacity
Start-up Finance: A Study of Micro Finance amongst Soft & Hard Companies
Survey of National Health Service Reforms & the Working Lives of Midwives & Physiotherapists
UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC)
UK~IRC & CIHE Task Force: Enhancing Value: Getting the Most out of UK Research