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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 Advice, Public Support & the Supply Chain
Business Failure & Macroeconomic Instability
Capability Approach & the Implementation of EU Social Policy Directives
Capright: Resources, Rights & Capabilities in Europe
China Engineering Scoping Study
CIS4 & Oslo Manual Revision: Early Stage Pilot
Comparative Study of Knowledge Exchange in the United States & the United Kingdom
Competition, Takeovers & Investment
Competitiveness & Productivity of the UK Design Engineering Sector
Competitiveness of the UK & its Multinational Companies
Connectivity of the Arts & Humanities: New Analysis of Missing Links
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
Dynamics of Institutions & Markets in Europe (DIME)
Ethics, Regulation & Globalisation
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of HEFCE/OSI Third Stream Funding
Evidence Base for Innovation Policy (UK~IRC)
Evolution of Governance Arrangements in the Family Firm
Experiences of UK Mid-corporate Companies in Accessing & Working in the Emerging Asian Economies
Finance, Training & SME Performance: An Evaluation Study of the Small Business Initiative
FINNOV – Finance, Innovation & Growth: Changing Patterns & Policy Implications
Flexible Specialisation, Competitive Advantage & Business Structuring in the UK Computer Industry
From Employability to Capability: An Exploratory Approach on the Quality of Employment
Funding Breakthrough Technology
Funding Models, Research Performance & the Effects of the UK National Science System
Future of Collectivism in the Regulation of Pay & Employment in Britain
Globalising Behaviour of UK Firms in a Comparative Context
Government Support for Small Business Innovation and the SBIR
High Tech CEOs & Their Businesses
Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
Implementation of the Working Time Directive in the UK
Institutional Investment & Corporate Accountability
Integrated Knowledge Centre (IKC) Commercialisation Laboratory
International Financial Regulation
International Innovation Benchmarking & the Determinants of Business Success
International Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances for the Development of British Management
Job Insecurity, Polarisation, Social Exclusion & Flexibility
Knowledge Exchange between Arts & Humanities and the Private, Public & Third Sectors
Labour Law & Poverty Alleviation in Low- & Middle-Income Countries
Labour Market Reform & Social Inclusion: The Case of New Zealand, Ireland & Denmark
Law & Finance in Emerging Markets
Law, Development & Finance in Rising Powers
Legal Framework Governing Business Firms & its Implications for Manufacturing Scale & Performance
Manufacturing Strategy & Competitiveness
Missing Observations in Survey Data: An Experimental Approach
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
Organisation of Entrepreneurial Technology Firms in Several European Countries
Pension Fund Governance & Socially Responsible Investment
Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest
Reflexive Law & Democratic Governance
Research Using UK Innovation Survey 2005 Data
Role of Banks versus Venture Capital in Financing Small Enterprises in Successful European Regions
Role of "Soft Companies" & Government R&D Contracts in Development of SMEs
Role of Technology Policy in Incubating European New Technology-Based Firms
Services Innovation & Innovative Performance at the Sector Level (UK~IRC)
SME Finance & Innovation in the Current Economic Crisis
Social Dialogue, Employment & Territories: Towards a European Politics of Capabilities
'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
Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property (SABIP) Review
Structural Change, Competitive Advantage & the Regulation of the Media
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