Looks at the development of mail order trading in the UK and the USA, showing that there are substantial differences. Uses tables to give emphasis to the growth of UK mail order and follows this up with a similar study of the USA. Confirms that it is difficult to forecast the future of total...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to describe “resource margin accounting” (RMA) as a valuation framework in strategic analysis. Design/methodology/approach – The paper defines RMA as an improved framework for valuation in competitive strategy, relative to existing value‐added and...

This paper provides an economic analysis of the survey responses of visitors who were asked to make a “ value for money” (VFM) assessment of a museum visit. The paper first interprets the notion of VFM from an economic perspective, and distinguishes between evaluations made before and after...

JOHNSON P. and PARKER S. (1996) Spatial variations in the determinants and effects of firm births and deaths, Reg. Studies 30, 679-688. This paper models the interdependence between firm births, firm deaths and economic variables, using county level data for the UK. It examines the determinants...

At all levels, governments around the world are moving toward the provision of open data, that is, the direct provision to citizens, the private sector, and other third parties, of raw government datasets, controlled by a relatively permissible license. In tandem with this distribution of open...

In recent years the tourism industry has attracted increasing attention, particularly in relation to its employment generating potential and its impact on the balance of payments (see for example English Tourist Board (1987)). The industry is now seen, at least by policy makers, as a major...