Industrial Research Associations: III.—The British Cotton Industry Research Association

Industrial Relations Research Association

The package of increases in defined-contribution pension plan contribution limits that Congress enacted in 2001 could have benefited at most 8 percent of plan participants and 3 percent of all workers. High earners were potentially more likely to benefit than low earners, and potential beneficiaries generally had higher earnings than other participants. The increase in the percentage limit on c...

Generalization in Qualitative Research on Behalf Of: British Sociological Association

Earlier treatments of moderatum generalization (e.g. Williams, 2000a) explicitly addressed interpretivist sociology. This article extends that earlier argument by examining some of its implications for a wider range of qualitative research methods. It first adopts an empirical approach, providing concrete illustrations from the most recent volume of Sociology of what sociologists actually do wh...

"A Note on Industrial Conflict in British Columbia’s Construction Industry"

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

Medical Research Council: Investigations on Respiratory Dust Disease in Operatives in the Cotton Industry

Academic research and industrial innovation

The purpose of this study is to estimate the extent to which technological innovations in various industries have been based on recent academic research, and the time lags between the investment in recent academic research projects and the industrial utilization of their findings. Because no attempt (to my knowledge) has been made to estimate the social rate of return from academic research, ’ ...