Purpose This chapter addresses two main questions; firstly, whether the public sector should seek to play an entrepreneurial role in its local economy and, secondly, what kinds of roles it could undertake. This chapter addresses these questions through an engagement with Cooke and Morgan’s...

1. Introduction -- 2. Philosophical underpinnings -- 3. Components of text in documents -- 4. Collection and compilation of text in documentary research -- 5. Examples of published studies using documentary evidence -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Sources of documents -- Index.

<italic>This paper examines the factors that affect market dominance in a standards competition by comparing the VHS--Beta war in the 1980s with that between Blu-ray and HD-DVD in the 2000s. We first look at the changing home video market in terms of technological development. Then we move on to discuss...</italic>