This article examines European telecommunications through the conceptual lenses of the 'competition' and the 'regulatory' state, exploring their complementarities and tensions. It analyses the EU's electronic communications regulatory framework, exposing contradictions in the EU-level...

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between technological change, globalisation, ‘Europeanisation’, national institutional structures, and the transfer of ideas in the reform of European telecommunications regulation.

The time period bridging the years 2007 to 2012 will be remembered as one characterized by dramatic changes in the Irish and UK construction industries. Construction companies witnessed unprecedented changes in the environment, namely the coincidence of a sharp economic downturn, the significant...

This article examines whether economic performance could affect EID and how the relationship is determined by the form of ownership from voluntarism to regulation under the current Chinese context. In this study, our empirical results show that the relationship between firms’ performance and...

We have empirically examined the relationship between top executives’ turnover and the corporate environmental responsibility by identifying the influence of ten specific turnover reasons resulting in the chairman’s departure and two important types of chairman’s succession. Using a sample...

This paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council funded project designed to encrease our understanding of labour mobility and its determinants and , in particular, to trace the importance, strength and the effects of technological change on sectoral, occupational and inter-regional...