Dr Liam Cullinane's book analyses the fortunes of three Cork's now defunct major industrial employers: Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and Ford Marina Plant. The workplaces, Ireland's only...

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the effects of industrial cluster on innovation capacity, and second, to study the impact of external resources on firms’ innovation capacity especially under Chinese regional economic policy. This is a critical subject that lacks sufficient analysis. Through years of investment and effort, several IT industrial clusters have developed in Chin...

Using data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors investigate processes of job creation and job destruction in Britain. They find that rates of employment growth, job creation, and job destruction were higher at the end of the 1980s than at the beginning. Bothjob creation and job destruction were extremely concentrated: about 50% of each was account...

Many organizations still fail to make a return from the huge investments they make in implementing complex Information Technology (IT). This is usually due to cultural forces that inhibit the level of usage required to facilitate IT Diffusion. An emerging stream of research highlights the IT culture perspective, a perspective vital for understanding individuals’ social practices when they inter...

one of the most important steps in policy making process is the implementation phase. unsuccessful implementation of complied policies especially industrial policies is one of the problems that almost all developing countries and developed ones, face with and they have paid irreparable costs for this problem too. the model for implementation of industrial policies in qom province presented in t...

The authors argue that the nature and importance of innovative change in automotive industry began to alter and grew in importance. According the authors this article is important the structure of innovation management. This structure consists of 3 elements and relationships between them Methodology, Management innovation activities and Management innovation behavior. The authors shows on ten s...