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- The Impact of Fair Trade on Producers and Their Organisations: A Case Study With Coocafe in Costa Rica
- Fair Trade attempts to address the poverty issues of small Southern producers through the payment of a ?Fair price? for their goods and the provision of support services for producer organisations. Although Fair Trade is overwhelmingly identified with the ?fair price? paid by participating importers and buyers, sketching the possible...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Information Technology, Organisational Change And Productivity Growth
- We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (?O) using UK firm panel data. Consistent with the small number of other micro studies we find: IT appears to have high returns in a growth accounting sense when ?O is omitted; when ?O is included the IT...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- The Productivity Of Science: A Cross Country Analysis
- This paper analyses the determinants of university research output at cross-country level. We use a sample of 14 countries for which we have information about Higher Education Research and Development HERD and its components. The outputs are taken from the Thomson ISIR National Science Indicators (2002) database on published papers...
- White papers 2004-06-14
- Organisational Change In Policy Programmes To Support Management Capabilities In Firms
- This paper aims at understanding whether policy programme organisation is similar or different according to their objectives and the type of support provided. It addresses the characteristics of possible evolution over time of policy programme organisation. It also explores the effect of the experience of policy-makers and the expertise of...
- White papers 2004-01-22
- Applying The Open Source Development Model To Knowledge Work
- This paper introduces a distinction between two different types of information goods in order to analyse the processes governing the review and integration of multi-authored contributions to information goods such as those produced through collaborations using the Internet as well as modular information goods such as open source software. It...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Organisational Memory In Innovative Project-Based Firms - A Boundary Object Perspective
- This paper provides an exploration of the dynamics of organisational remembering in firms operating through projects. The paper focuses in particular on the deliberate use of experience accumulated in the past in order to sustain innovation in the provision of services. It relies on the notions of boundary objects and...
- White papers 2003-12-05
- Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows And Spillovers
- This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and TFP Total Factor Productivity growth by using direct survey data on knowledge flows linked to firm-level TFP growth data. Our knowledge flow data correspond to the kind of information flows often argued, especially by policy-makers, as important, such as within the...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Technology Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- The conventional perspective on technology spillovers from FDI Foreign Direct Investment incorporates a view of the MNC MultiNational Corporations subsidiary as a purely passive actor in the process of spillovers. It presumes that the technological superiority that spreads from subsidiaries to local firms is initially created outside the local economy...
- White papers 2003-06-12
- Intellectual Property And Inter-Organizational Collaborative Networks
- Intellectual Property IP is a key intangible asset influencing corporate performance and its management is increasingly recognized as a central element of corporate strategy. Analysts however, have largely focused on IP management within the firm, overlooking the different and pervasive problem of how to manage IP in the context of...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Migration And Social Protection: A Concept Paper
- While social protection as an agenda for reducing vulnerability and risk of low-income households with regard to basic consumption and services has become an important part of development discourse at both national and international levels, there is little literature linking migration to social protection frameworks or policies. This paper attempts...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Diversity Of Knowledge-Sourcing Strategies For Cross-Disciplinarity In Bionanotechnology
- In this paper, we have carried five case studies looking into the extent and types of cross-disciplinary practices in a specialty of bionanotechnology. We have found that there is a consistent high degree of cross-disciplinarily in the cognitive aspects of research (i.e. references and instrumentalities), but a more erratic and...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Enablers, Outcomes, and Effets of Product Bundling: Towards an Analytical Model
- Product bundling consists of "the practice of package selling". This practice, mostly studied by economists and marketing scholars, has significant implications for monopoly power, level of welfare and marketing strategies. In recent years, product bundling has gained in importance because, especially in the capital product industries, firms are moving towards...
- White papers 2005-06-27
- Information Technology, Organisational Change And Productivity Growth: Evidence From UK Firms
- We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change DO using UK firm data. Consistent with the small number of other micro studies we find a IT appears to have high returns in a growth accounting sense when DO is omitted; when DO is included the IT...
- White papers 2006-12-01
Additional Resources
- ROCC: Virgin Atlantic, Oxford City Council and University of Sussex contract with ROCC for SEECHECK.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 April 1999-ROCC: Virgin Atlantic Airways, Oxford City Council and University of Sussex contract with ROCC for its SEECHECK systems C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:280499 ROCC has been awarded a contracts by Crawley-based Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd, Oxford City Council...
- Research articles 1999-04-28
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Improve your chances with - - Taking Chances -- Winning with Probability.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 January 1999-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Improve your chances scientifically with -- Taking Chances -- Winning with Probability C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:270199 * John Haigh, University of Sussex * Explains probability in a number of practical, everyday contexts...
- Research articles 1999-01-28
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Between Inner Space and Outer Space -- Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 January 1999-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Between Inner Space and Outer Space -- Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:270199 * John Barrow, University of Sussex In this superb collection of essays, many new and...
- Research articles 1999-01-28
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The origins of life -- from the birth of life to the origin of language.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 January 1999-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The origins of life -- from the birth of life to the origin of language C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:270199 * A major new treatise on evolution and the transference of information ...
- Research articles 1999-01-28
- PIPSC/Public Science of Canada: Strengthening Science to Protect Canadians.
- OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Aug 1, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- September 6-7, 2007 Hilton Lac -Leamy, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada Have you registered for the "Premier Science Event" of the year? Registrations are still being accepted. Symposium Highlights ...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Macbeth and Wilshaw join Sussex branch this month
- BRANCH EVENT Business relationships and CSR will be on the agenda at the next event organised by Sussex branch. Douglas Macbeth, professor of purchasing and supply chain management and director of the MSc in global supply chain management at the University of Southampton, will discuss "Joined up thinking...
- Research articles 2008-10-16
- PEOPLE.
- Buckyballs Co-Discoverer and Nanotech Pioneer Dies. Richard Smalley, a chemistry professor from Rice University died on October 28th after a long battle with cancer. During his prodigious career Smalley along with collaborators Robert Curl at Rice and Harold Kroto at the University of Sussex shared the...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
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