Purpose: Although a supportive workplace is increasingly considered important for employees' performance, much of the evidence remains speculative, for example, it lacks offsetting mechanisms. This study addresses circumstances when perceived support helps and when it hurts work performance,...

The skill mismatch between the pool of long‐term unemployed and job vacancies in the Hull travel to work area is focused on, with data provided by a survey, the Training Agency and the National On‐line Manpower Information Service (NOMIS). A brief account of the industrial and employment...

The Beginning Farmer Center (BFC) was established by the 1994 General Assembly. Objectives include: - coordinating educational programs and services for beginning farmers, - assessing needs of beginning and retiring farmers to identify opportunities for programs and services, and - developing...

A panel data analysis was used to delineate the effects of selected team and marketplace variables on attendance in the English Premier League (EPL). The results confirmed that (a) winning percentage remained a determinant for increasing attendance; (b) soccer consumers of EPL are from the middle...

Mexico's recent Energy Reform sent a shock to upend its seventy-five-year-old petroleum monopoly, hoping to cure the ailing industry with injections of foreign investment. Mexico sought to undo a history of state control overnight, but present challenges show that history cannot be undone so...