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Inspirational tales: propagating the entrepreneurial narrative amongst children. (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SMITH, R. 2002. Inspirational tales: propagating the entrepreneurial narrative amongst children. In Bygrave, W.D., Brush, C.G., Davidsson, P., Fiet, J., Greene, P.G., Harrison, R.T., Lerner, M., Meyer, G.D., Sohl, J. and Zacharakis, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Babson College entrepreneurship research conference (BCERC 2002), June 2002, Boulder, USA. Babson Park: Babson College [online]. Available from: http://fusionmx.babson.edu/entrep/fer/Babson2002/III/III_P2/III_P2.htm

Many entrepreneurial narratives act as inspirational tales, propagating valued stories at an ideological and mythological level. By participating in them we expose others to the inspirational power of the narrative and encourage the process of emulat... Read More about Inspirational tales: propagating the entrepreneurial narrative amongst children..

Communication audits and the effects of increased information: a follow-up study. (2002)
Journal Article
HARGIE, O., TOURISH, D. and WILSON, N. 2002. Communication audits and the effects of increased information: a follow-up study. Journal of business communication [online], 39(4), pages 414-436. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/002194360203900402

Communication audits have now been featured in the literature for 50 years, and many audit approaches have been evaluated. However, follow-up studies designed to chart the actual impact that an audit makes upon communication performance have not been... Read More about Communication audits and the effects of increased information: a follow-up study..

The articulation of social capital in entrepreneurial networks: a glue or a lubricant? (2002)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R. and JACK, S.L. 2002. The articulation of social capital in entrepreneurial networks: a glue or a lubricant? Entrepreneurship and regional development [online], 14(3), pages 193-210. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985620110112079

Whilst social capital has been applied in a variety of contexts the nature, role and application of social capital in an entrepreneurial context have not been extensively explored. The nature of social capital presents a conceptual puzzle in that it... Read More about The articulation of social capital in entrepreneurial networks: a glue or a lubricant?.

Internal and external governance mechanisms: their impact on the performance of large UK public companies. (2002)
Journal Article
WEIR, C., LAING, D. and McKNIGHT, P.J. 2002. Internal and external governance mechanisms: their impact on the performance of large UK public companies. Journal of business finance and accounting [online], 29(5-6), pages 579-611. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5957.00444

This paper analyses the relationship between internal and external corporate governance mechanisms and the performance of UK companies within the context of the Cadbury Committee's Code of Best Practice. The results show, first, that the market for c... Read More about Internal and external governance mechanisms: their impact on the performance of large UK public companies..

Scottish entrepreneurial networks in the international context. (2002)
Journal Article
DRAKOPOULOU DODD, S.L., JACK, S.L., and ANDERSON, A.R. 2002. Scottish entrepreneurial networks in the international context. International small business journal: researching entrepreneurship [online], 20(2), pages 213-219. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242602202005

The research note reports findings of a study into the personal contact networks of Scottish entrepreneurs, and compares these to results already published for other countries (Canada, Greece, Japan, Italy, Northern Ireland, Sweden and the United Sta... Read More about Scottish entrepreneurial networks in the international context..

Tourism in peripheral areas: the use of causal networks and lesson drawing as analytical methods. (2002)
Thesis
NASH, R. 2002. Tourism in peripheral areas: the use of causal networks and lesson drawing as analytical methods. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The thesis sets out to evaluate the use of Causal Networks as a methodology and as a means of highlighting the problems associated with tourism in peripheral areas. Once these problems were identified through this process, the research findings are r... Read More about Tourism in peripheral areas: the use of causal networks and lesson drawing as analytical methods..

Transformational leadership, corporate cultism and the spirituality paradigm: an unholy trinity in the workplace? (2002)
Journal Article
TOURISH, D. and PINNINGTON, A. 2002. Transformational leadership, corporate cultism and the spirituality paradigm: an unholy trinity in the workplace? Human relations [online], 55(2), pages 147-172. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726702055002181

Leadership is a perennially popular topic in the academic and practitioner literature on management. In particular, the past twenty years have witnessed an explosive growth of interest in what has been termed 'transformational leadership' (henceforth... Read More about Transformational leadership, corporate cultism and the spirituality paradigm: an unholy trinity in the workplace?.

Electricity liberalization. (2002)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2002. Electricity liberalization. In Pedler, R. (ed.). European Union lobbying: changes in the arena. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan [online], pages 269-294. Available from: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780333971529

Electricity was an obvious candidate in the renewed drive to complete a European Single Market in the Delors years. Despite the energy sector being the first candidate for European integration in 1951, electricity consumption remained, in the mid-198... Read More about Electricity liberalization..

Periphery? What periphery? Marketing to a state of mind. (2001)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R., JACK, S.L. and MCAULEY, S. 2001. Periphery? What periphery? Marketing to a state of mind. Irish marketing review [online], 14(1), pages 26-34. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21427/D7DN1V

Businesses, especially small business, which are located in the periphery are traditionally viewed as being disadvantaged. The condition of peripherality is viewed as creating disadvantage in terms of limited customer base, distance from markets and... Read More about Periphery? What periphery? Marketing to a state of mind..

Agent-based simulation: an application to the new electricity trading arrangements of England and Wales. (2001)
Journal Article
BUNN, D.W. and OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2001. Agent-based simulation: an application to the new electricity trading arrangements of England and Wales. IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation [online], 5(5), pages 493-503. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/4235.956713

This paper presents a large-scale application of multiagent evolutionary modeling to the proposed new electricity trading arrangements (NETA) in the U.K. This is a detailed plant-by-plant model with an active specification of the demand side of the m... Read More about Agent-based simulation: an application to the new electricity trading arrangements of England and Wales..

Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms. (2001)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R. and ATKINS, M.H. 2001. Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms. Strategic change [online], 10(6), pages 311-324. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.554

This paper addresses the issue of the nature of business strategies in entrepreneurial small firms. It examines a number of existing models of strategic planning and suggests that they cannot adequately cope with environmental uncertainty. Developing... Read More about Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms..

Zur Kierkegaardrezeption Hermann Brochs. (2001)
Book Chapter
HALSALL, R. 2001. Zur Kierkegaardrezeption Hermann Brochs. In Krobb, F. and Strümper-Krobb, S. (eds.) Literaturvermittlung um 1900. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pages 131-146.

Can one rightly speak of a Kierkegaard reception of Hermann Broch? The category 'influence' in the desk research on Hermann Broch has been a very controversial one. The attempt to determine Broch's theoretical position by researching the direct influ... Read More about Zur Kierkegaardrezeption Hermann Brochs..

The welfare state: a general theory. (2000)
Book
SPICKER, P. 2000. The welfare state: a general theory. London: Sage. Hosted on Paul Spicker's blog [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/yxl44olq

A major orginal work of social theory, this book presents a distinctive and tightly argued theoretical model for understanding the basis of welfare in society. The author develops a theory of welfare based on a series of basic propositions: that peop... Read More about The welfare state: a general theory..

GDR architecture and town planning in post-unification Germany: 'Geschichtsaufarbeitung' or aesthetic autonomy? (2000)
Book Chapter
HALSALL, R. 2000. GDR architecture and town planning in post-unification Germany: 'Geschichtsaufarbeitung' or aesthetic autonomy? In Barker, P. (ed.) The GDR and its history: ruckblick und revision; die DDR im spiegel der enquete-kommissionen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pages 185-214.

“Von meinem Übergangsburo im ehemaligen Staatsratsgebäude muß ich immer auf den Palast der Republik gucken. Der ist so monströs, daß ich da lieber ein Schloß hätte. [...] Den Befürwortern (des Schlosses) wird ja unterstellt, sie wollten – weil dann d... Read More about GDR architecture and town planning in post-unification Germany: 'Geschichtsaufarbeitung' or aesthetic autonomy?.

The performance-governance relationship: the effects of Cadbury compliance on UK quoted companies. (2000)
Journal Article
WEIR, C. and LAING, D. 2000. The performance-governance relationship: the effects of Cadbury compliance on UK quoted companies. Journal of management and governance [online], 4(4), pages 265-281. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009950903720

This paper investigates the extent to which recommendations made by the Cadbury Committee have affected UK company performance. The Committee recommended that certain internal monitoring mechanisms should be adopted by quoted firms because they were... Read More about The performance-governance relationship: the effects of Cadbury compliance on UK quoted companies..

The protean entrepreneur: the entrepreneurial process as fitting self and circumstance. (2000)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R. 2000. The protean entrepreneur: the entrepreneurial process as fitting self and circumstance. Journal of enterprising culture [online], 8(3), pages 201-234. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218495800000127

This paper is an ethnographic study of rural entrepreneurship. It explores the relationship between small business and the rural environment and is intended to contribute to the development of entrepreneurial theory. The major findings are that the e... Read More about The protean entrepreneur: the entrepreneurial process as fitting self and circumstance..

Power, mastery and organizational learning. (2000)
Journal Article
BLACKLER, F. and MCDONALD, S. 2000. Power, mastery and organizational learning. Journal of management studies [online], 37(6), pages 833-852. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6486.00206

The topic of power has not featured strongly in debates about organizational learning, a point that is illustrated in a discussion of influential studies of teamworking. Despite the insights that such studies have provided into the nature of expertis... Read More about Power, mastery and organizational learning..

The UK children's publishing house: adapting to change for the multimedia market. (2000)
Journal Article
ANTHONEY, A., ROYLE, J.M. and JOHNSON, I.M. 2000. The UK children's publishing house: adapting to change for the multimedia market. Electronic library [online], 18(4), pages 269-278. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005366

Reports the results of the first stage of research (in progress, 1997-2000), which aims to develop an understanding of the challenges facing publishers who have entered the children's multimedia market in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. The findings o... Read More about The UK children's publishing house: adapting to change for the multimedia market..

The production of prestige: an entrepreneurial viagra. (2000)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R. and JACK, S.L. 2000. The production of prestige: an entrepreneurial viagra. International journal of entrepreneurship and innovation [online], 1(1), pages 45-56. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5367/000000000101298504

The social context plays a role in entrepreneurial activity. It shapes the perception and evaluation of opportunities and the generation of status. At a deeper level peer group perceptions influence and shape how businesses are run; they stimulate ac... Read More about The production of prestige: an entrepreneurial viagra..

Are EU business associations governable? (2000)
Journal Article
GREENWOOD, J. and WEBSTER, R. 2000. Are EU business associations governable? European integration online papers [online], 4(3), article ID 003a. Available from: http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2000-003a.htm.

Business Interest Associations vary widely in their governability – defined as their ability to unify members’ interests and ensure goal compliance. How can these variations be explained? To what extent is associational ‘effectiveness’ governed by fa... Read More about Are EU business associations governable?.