Nested Identities, Nationalism, Territory and Scale
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 265-267
ISSN: 0962-6298
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In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 265-267
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Political geography, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 265-266
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Administration, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 71
ISSN: 0001-8325
In: Administration, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 246
ISSN: 0001-8325
In: Research Policy, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 299-300
In: Routledge library editions. Small business v. 13
In: Discussion paper / University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies 64
In: Regional studies, Band 17, S. 471-475
ISSN: 0034-3404
In: Environment and planning. A, Band 11, Heft 8, S. 897-918
ISSN: 1472-3409
Improvements in the quality of the waterways of England and Wales are often argued to be attributable to the cooperation between Authorities and dischargers, and that such cooperation could be jeopardized if prosecution of dischargers became more frequent. This paper, by using an economic model of law enforcement, tests whether there is any evidence of an association between enforcement policies and changes in water quality. It demonstrates the difficulty of examining problems of enforcement in isolation and then outlines a new procedure, both for allocating and for enforcing consents, designed to improve economic efficiency whilst maintaining traditional British cooperation.
In: Local government studies, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 39-57
ISSN: 1743-9388
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 161-173
ISSN: 0036-9292
THE SMALL FIRM IS INCREASINGLY VIEWED BY GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN WORLD AS A MAJOR SOURCE OF NEW JOBS. THE NEW FIRM IS THE PARTICULAR FOCUS OF ATTENTION BY POLICY-MAKERS SINCE IT IS VIEWED AS BOTH THE DYNAMIC COMPONENT OF THE SMALL FIRM SECTOR AND ONE WHICH IS AMENABLE TO PUBLIC POLICY. IT IS DEMONSTRATED IN THIS PAPER THAT SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES EXIST BETWEEN U.K. REGIONS IN TERMS OF SOME ASPECTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, WHICH IS DEFINED TO BE PARTLY REFLECTED IN DIFFERENCES IN BIRTH RATES OF NEW FIRMS. THE AUTHORS CONTEND THAT SINCE THE CURRENTLY PROSPEROUS REGIONS ARE THE MOST ENTREPRENEURIAL, EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY EXPLICIT PUBLIC POLICY TO PROMOTE SMALL FIRMS, THEN THE HIGHER THE PROPORTION OF ALL NEW JOBS WHICH ARE CREATED BY THE NEW AND SMALL FIRM SECTOR THE GREATER WILL BE THE GAP BETWEEN THE PROSPEROUS AND THE LESS PROSPEROUS REGIONS. HOWEVER, SINCE THERE IS AN INCREASINGLY ACTIVE PUBLIC POLICY DESIGNED TO CREATE JOBS IN THE SMALL FIRM SECTOR WHICH DOES NOT HAVE ANY EXPLICIT REGIONAL DIMENSION, THE PAPER SHOWS THAT CURRENT POLICY INITIATIVES SERVE TO REINFORCE EXISTING DIFFERENCES. IN SHORT SMALL FIRM POLICY INSTRUMENTS ARE REGIONALLY DIVISIVE.
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 161-173
ISSN: 1467-9485
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 37-51
ISSN: 1467-9485
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 30-40
ISSN: 1467-9485
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 253-271
ISSN: 1350-1763
THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS THE GROWING ECONOMIC ROLE AND CONTINUED ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE ATTACHED TO THE UK'S SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES (SMES), A SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY WHICH IS OVERLOOKED BY COMMENTATORS AND ECONOMISTS. THE RATIONALE UNDERLYING THE UK'S "SME POLICY" IS OUTLINED AND PLACED IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT. IN PARTICULAR, THE AUTHORS CAREFULLY SET OUT THE ARGUMENTS AND EVIDENCE APPARENTLY SUPPORTING THE VIEW THAT SMALL FIRMS, IN PARTICULAR THOSE CURRENTLY EXPANDING, ARE A KEY "ECONOMIC DRIVER", CREATING JOBS EVEN DURING RECESSIONARY PERIODS. AS SUCH, THE SME SECTOR DESERVES THE EMPHASIS CURRENTLY PLACED UPON IT BY THE RECENT CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT AS A FOCUS OF POLICY INTERVENTION. HOWEVER, WITH REINTERPRETATION OF THE EVIDENCE SUCH STATEMENTS ARE CAREFULLY DISMANTLED AND SHOWN TO BE SOMEWHAT OF A CLICHE. THE AUTHORS MAKE CLEAR THEIR VIEW THAT POLICY ATTENTION HAS FOCUSED ON THE WRONG AREAS OF THE ECONOMY. EMPHASIS ON DEVELOPING A SMALL FIRM SECTOR HAS DONE LITTLE TO IMPROVE THE UK'S LONG-TERM ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE. INDEED, POLICY HAS EXACERBATED REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN THE ECONOMY, CHOKED OFF PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS AND, ABOVE ALL, DONE LITTLE TO BRING DOWN LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND PROVIDE "QUALITY" JOBS. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES THAT IF A SMALL FIRM SECTOR IS TO REMAIN A COMPONENT OF GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY, POLICY NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF TARGETING THOSE FEW FIRMS LIKELY TO GENERATE SIGNIFICANT LEVELS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY.