`Casual Fridays' are an increasingly popular phenomenon, which allows employees to lose the suit, ties and other corporate wear to don more relaxed attire. However it appears to have differing affects on individuals as ...

A recent series of papers attempting to estimate the fundamental or deep determinants of cross-country income levels finds that the quality of institutions 'trumps' all other possible deep determinants. This dissertation ...

Business incubation represents a popular and growing economic development tool worldwide. It has various applications in both the profit and not-for- profit sectors and as such can operate on a number of different ...

My research was based around skilled Generation X employees and what they value in long-term employment relationships. Initially my research was looking at employee retention in organisations, I began an initial literature ...

Management and decision-making are functions that enable an organisation to perform effectively and efficiently. In addition, performance measures are the means for determining how effective and efficient the organisation ...

Corporate social disclosure is the provision of information regarding the impact of an organisation upon the natural environment and society. There is no consensus in the literature as to why some organisations voluntarily ...

Global sourcing is a resource acquisition strategy that has created much interest in recent years. As firms strive to remain competitive in an increasingly challenging business environment, many have looked for suppliers ...

This dissertation investigates the effects that economic development and the level of openness have on the income and price elasticities of demand for imports. In particular it tests hypotheses proposed by Melo and Vogt ...

Two problems have occurred in the recent literature with regard to the empirical testing of the Balassa-Samuelson productivity based explanation of deviations from Purchasing Power Parity. First, empirical work has commonly ...

The argument at the centre of this dissertation is that dominant discourses inform the practice of workplace drug testing. These discourses produce drug-testing knowledge in specific ways that impose restraints on the way ...