Shifting of power in the value chain -- Differences between manufacturers and retailers -- The fragility of a marketing orientation -- Retailers and the marketing concept -- The battle for mindspace and shelfspace -- The battle for mindspace -- The battle for shelfspace -- Creating a sustainable...

This book's thirteen contributions bring together the results of recent research on determinants of regional specialization, growth, and convergence in the context of European integration. They offer fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures,...

Purpose – Penrose introduced the concept of “unused services” which she identified as the internal inducement to firm growth. The purpose of this paper is to explore “unused services”, insufficiently examined in the literature to date, by applying Eastern conceptual thinking to refine...

Purpose – This study presents an in‐depth investigation of non‐governmental organisations' (NGO) perceptions of CSD (corporate social disclosure) in Ireland. It commences the process of addressing a lacuna in the CSD literature, whereby the perspectives of non‐managerial stakeholders...

Bradley J. (2006) Evaluating the impact of European Union Cohesion policy in less-developed countries and regions, Regional Studies 40, 189-199. The expansion of Structural Funds since the late 1980s presented European Commission and domestic policy-makers with design and impact evaluation...

<i> Macro-regional evaluation of the Structural Funds using the HERMIN modelling framework </i> (di John Bradley, Edgar Morgenroth and Gerhard Untiedt) - ABSTRACT: A particular focus of the Structural Funds is on Objective 1 regions that lag behind in terms of their GDP per capita relative to the EU...

In Irish manufacturing, the foreign sector accounts for about one half of employment and some 60 percent of gross output. The Irish experience therefore provides the authors with a textbook case study of the effects on an EU host economy of export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). They...