The aim of the article is to show differences in the growth process that translates into growth potential in groups of enterprises listed on the main and alternative markets of the London Stock Exchange. The study covered companies included in the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index (FTSE...

Using the Employment in Britain dataset (a representative sample of employees in Britain in 1992) we analyse the determinants of learning within organizations at employee level. Questions were asked about the role of learning new skills in the respondent’s job. Various determinants of learning...

A dominant theme in the high performance HRM literature concerns complementarities among individual practices and the positive performance benefits associated with adopting simultaneously a bundle of HRM practices. While there is little consensus over what practices should be included under the...

On-going change in relation to the management of public services has led to the development of many initiatives in the control of day-to-day resources as the New Public Management (Hood, 1991, 1995) continues its reforms. In this context debates about control of capital expenditure have taken a...

In this paper we show, by means of an example of its application to the problem of house price forecasting, an approach to attribute selection and dependence modelling utilising the Gamma Test (GT), a non-linear analysis algorithm that is described. The GT is employed in a two-stage process:...

Divisia component data is used in the training of an Aggregate Feedforward Neural Network (AFFNN), a general-purpose connectionist system designed to assist with data mining activities. The neural network is able to learn the money-price relationship, defined as the relationships between the...