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Early stage assessment of the impact of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) on recipient firms (2009)
Report
Allinson, G., Stone, I., Braidford, P., & Houston, M. (2009). Early stage assessment of the impact of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) on recipient firms. Department for Business Innovation & Skills

Report on research giving an early stage assessment of the impact of the EFG, associated with recipient businesses being able to access finance that otherwise would have not been available. It found high levels of satisfaction with EFG, which improve... Read More about Early stage assessment of the impact of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) on recipient firms.

Transaction Based Cross-Enterprise Risk Management (2009)
Book Chapter
Grody, A., & Hughes, P. (2009). Transaction Based Cross-Enterprise Risk Management. In A. Tarantino, & D. Cernauskas (Eds.), Risk Management in Finance - Six Sigma and Other Next-Generation Techniques. John Wiley and Sons

Building project management communities: exploring the contribution of patterns supported by web 2.0 technologies (2009)
Journal Article
Burd, E., Hatch, A., Ashurst, C., & Jessop, A. (2009). Building project management communities: exploring the contribution of patterns supported by web 2.0 technologies. Computer Science Education, 19(4), 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993400903384901

This article describes an approach whereby patterns are used to describe management issues and solutions to be used during the project management of team-based software development. The work describes how web 2.0 technologies have been employed to su... Read More about Building project management communities: exploring the contribution of patterns supported by web 2.0 technologies.

Whose skill is it anyway? Soft skills and polarization (2009)
Journal Article
Grugulis, I., & Vincent, S. (2009). Whose skill is it anyway? Soft skills and polarization. Work, Employment and Society, 23(4), 597-615. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017009344862

The skills that employers require are changing, with soft skills replacing technical ones. This article draws on two detailed case studies of outsourced public sector work, where these changes were particularly marked. Here, the new skills polarized... Read More about Whose skill is it anyway? Soft skills and polarization.

Employability management practices in the Polish ICT sector (2009)
Journal Article
Marzec, I., Van der Heijden, B., Scholarios, D., Van der Schoot, E., Jędrzejowicz, P., Bozionelos, N., …Van der Heijde, C. (2009). Employability management practices in the Polish ICT sector. Human Resource Development International, 12(5), 471-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678860903274539

This article examines current career thinking and employability management practices within the Polish Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. The aim of this contribution is to identify career management problems and to determine obst... Read More about Employability management practices in the Polish ICT sector.

Science-based R&D in Schumpeterian Growth (2009)
Journal Article
Cozzi, G., & Galli, S. (2009). Science-based R&D in Schumpeterian Growth. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 56(4), 474-491. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.2009.00494.x

Firm success is often associated with the development of better products. Private firms undertake applied R&D seeking market advantage, by capitalizing on the freely accessible results of basic research. But unpatentable basic research often fails to... Read More about Science-based R&D in Schumpeterian Growth.

Marketing Management (2009)
Book
Kotler, P., Keller, K., Brady, M., Goodman, M., & Hansen, T. (Eds.). (2009). Marketing Management. Prentice-Hall

The American edition of Marketing Management is the world's leading marketing text because its content and organization consistently reflect changes in marketing theory and practice . This new European Edition of Marketing Management has been inspire... Read More about Marketing Management.

A critical evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of radon protection methods in new homes in a radon affected area of England (2009)
Journal Article
Coskeran, T., Denman, A., Phillips, P., & Tornberg, R. (2009). A critical evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of radon protection methods in new homes in a radon affected area of England. Environment International, 3(6), 943-951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2009.04.004

In the UK, building new homes in areas prone to radon gas is currently subject to regulations that require installation of radon-proof membranes. These membranes are not, however, the only way to protect residents of new homes against radon's potenti... Read More about A critical evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of radon protection methods in new homes in a radon affected area of England.

Implementing the Iakoubovski-Merino spectral factorization algorithm using state-space methods (2009)
Journal Article
Taub, B. (2009). Implementing the Iakoubovski-Merino spectral factorization algorithm using state-space methods. Systems and Control Letters, 58(6), 445-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2009.02.008

The necessity of factoring spectral matrices arises in stationary control settings. The optimality conditions for quadratic optimization of stochastic objectives are Wiener-Hopf equations that cannot be solved algebraically because of the asymmetry i... Read More about Implementing the Iakoubovski-Merino spectral factorization algorithm using state-space methods.

Investor Sentiment as Conditioning Information in Asset Pricing (2009)
Journal Article
Ho, C., & Hung, C. (2009). Investor Sentiment as Conditioning Information in Asset Pricing. Journal of Banking and Finance, 33(5), 892-903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2008.10.004

This paper assesses whether incorporating investor sentiment as conditioning information in asset-pricing models helps capture the impacts of the size, value, liquidity and momentum effects on risk-adjusted returns of individual stocks. We use survey... Read More about Investor Sentiment as Conditioning Information in Asset Pricing.

Enclosure (2009)
Journal Article
Taub, B., & Zhao, R. (2009). Enclosure. Economic Inquiry, 47(2), 377-393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2007.00119.x

We model the development of property rights as an endogenous process, driven by capital accumulation. Property rights internalize the portion of the return to capital that is otherwise treated as common property. This enclosure further encourages cap... Read More about Enclosure.

China’s Leadership in the World ICT Industry: A Successful Story of its ‘Attracting-in’ and ‘Walking-out’ Strategy? (China’s Outward and Inward Foreign Direct Investment Policies) (2009)
Journal Article
Ning, L. (2009). China’s Leadership in the World ICT Industry: A Successful Story of its ‘Attracting-in’ and ‘Walking-out’ Strategy? (China’s Outward and Inward Foreign Direct Investment Policies). Pacific Affairs, 82(1), 67-91

This paper questions whether China’s “attracting-in” (selective introduction of inward foreign direct investment, foreign technologies and import) and “walking-out” (export and outward investment expansion) strategies have enabled it to achieve a lea... Read More about China’s Leadership in the World ICT Industry: A Successful Story of its ‘Attracting-in’ and ‘Walking-out’ Strategy? (China’s Outward and Inward Foreign Direct Investment Policies).