556 datasets found

The Third Sector Research Centre carried out research on the key issues affecting charities and voluntary organisations, community groups, social enterprises, cooperatives and...

There is a pressing need amongst various stakeholders, including practitioners, academics and policy makers to create a credible mechanism that enables the assessment of...

In 2001 Kofi Annan stated that 'trade not aid' is the long-term route out of poverty for Africa. This research project identifies examples of social and environmental...

This Fellowship seeks to generate new forms of critical knowledge with a focus on the ideas and beliefs of private military contractors in regard to security. Its first goal is...

What caused the financial crisis of 2007-10? Many, including the British Chancellor Alistair Darling, have blamed the 'irresponsibility' of investment bank managers. Such an...

Architecture and urban design have become increasingly concerned with creating recognisable, 'branded' products in the form of buildings and public spaces. Architects today view...

This project will comprise a London workshop bringing together policy-makers and practitioners to explore Iran sanctions in the specific context of the insurance industry. The...

The research agenda will focus on the importance that effective leadership can have on the success of companies as they grow and transform into larger enterprises. Small...

Firms employ a variety of means to protect their Intellectual Property (IP), including formal methods (eg patents, trademarks, copyrights), contractual agreements...

Professional service firms (PSFs) have been largely neglected by leadership scholars yet they pose many distinctive leadership challenges. In PSFs (such as accounting and law...

Over the past five years mutuals and other forms of employee or user owned organisations have been portrayed and promoted as vehicles for innovation and the improvement of...

Nationwide survey of sexuality and experience of discrimination, bullying and harassment. Qualitative data sample interviews - Interviews with LGBs and other key informants An...

This dataset is constructed from merger decisions of the European Commision which were notified between 1999 and 2006 inclusive. The primary source of data is the standardised...

Our research adopted an interpretivist approach which encourages exploration, theory generation and the collection of rich qualitative data about individual entrepreneur’s...

The SPSS data file (RES-062-23-1831 FBS data for ESRC archive.sav) contains 215 variables entered either directly from Farm Management Survey (FMS) Field Books or derived from...

This data is the result of a decision-making experiment, showing that, if managers are deferential towards an authority, firms can induce more collusion by delegating production...

Data collection of search data retrieved from Google Trends for brands of car manufacturers and their car brands as well as data for the brands of listed companies active in...

The dataset contains data on prices, supported platforms, features, development history and popularity of software selected in four license categories (Proprietary, GPL, BSD,...

This research aimed to explore differences and similarities in how organisations in two distinct business systems - Britain and Germany - deal with the challenge of an ageing...

To select the group of UK firms we initially searched in the FAME database (available from the University of Manchester Library) with keywords relating to the green goods...