Sustainable development remains a formidable challenge for the societies of the 21st century. A number of concepts have been put forward on how to reach sustainability at a macro-economic level. These concepts are based on different points of view of economic, social and environmental systems...

The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...

Whether HRM is perceived to be a ‘problem’ for smaller firms is explored in this paper usinglogistic regression. We analyse data from 523 responses to a survey of smaller firms in southeastMelbourne (Victoria, Australia), and consider the antecedents of a range of issues ofconcern reported...

The concept of “relatedness” between industries plays an increasingly central role in economics andstrategic management. However, relatedness has remained rather elusive in empirical terms. In thisarticle, we investigate relatedness between industries in terms of the extent to which the same...

Sustainable development remains a formidable challenge for the societies of the 21st century. A number of concepts have been put forward on how to reach sustainability at a macro-economic level. These concepts are based on different points of view of economic, social and environmental systems...