This research area is concerned with the economic environment within which business operates. The research includes the examination of: macroeconomic policy choices; the legal and institutional environment; the codes of practice for corporate governance; the internal skills of business management and the ecosystems within which they operate.
Associated research themes
DUPLICATE Takeovers, ownership and executive pay
Training and management practices
Associated research projects
Addressing Gender Inequality through Corporate Governance
Analysis of Middle Market Firms
Analysis of the Relationship between Training and Business Performance
Assessing the Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME Survey)
Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship
Barriers to Innovation and Growth in High Technology SMEs: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
Building Economic Competitiveness: Lessons from Small Peripheral European States
Business Failure and Macroeconomic Instability
The Capability Approach and the Implementation of EU Social Policy Directives
Capright: Resources, Rights and Capabilities in Europe
Competition, Takeovers and Investment
Competitiveness and Productivity of the UK Design Engineering Sector
The Competitiveness of the UK and its Multinational Companies
The Contribution of Services and Other Sectors to Australian Productivity Growth 1995-2005
Cooperation, Stakeholder Representation and Business Performance
Corporate Governance and Innovation
Corporate Governance and Investment: An International Research Network
Corporate Law and Economic Performance
Corporate Rescue: Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
Corporate Responses to Macroeconomic Changes and Shocks
Design Study for a Survey of UK Management Practices
Evolution of Governance Arrangements in the Family Firm
Finance, Training and SME Performance: An Evaluation Study of the Small Business Initiative
Flexible Specialisation, Competitive Advantage and Business Structuring in the UK Computer Industry
The Future of Professional Work
The Globalising Behaviour of UK Firms in a Comparative Context
Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Institutional Investment and Corporate Accountability
The Integrated Knowledge Centre (IKC) Commercialisation Laboratory
International Financial Regulation
International Innovation Benchmarking and the Determinants of Business Success
Knowledge Exchange between Arts and Humanities and the Private, Public and Third Sectors
Labour Market Reform and Social Inclusion: The Case of New Zealand, Ireland and Denmark
Manufacturing Strategy and Competitiveness
Modelling Business Duration and Business Failure
The National Small and Medium Sized Business Surveys
New Modes of Innovation: Managerial and Strategic Business Practices and Open Innovation (UK~IRC)
New Product Development Performance in the UK and Japanese Automotive Industries
Northern Ireland SME Benchmarking Survey
Pension Fund Governance and Socially Responsible Investment
Services Innovation and Innovative Performance at the Sector Level (UK~IRC)
SME Finance and Innovation in the Current Economic Crisis
"Soft Regulation": Conforming with the Principle of "Comply or Explain"
Spatial Variations in Innovations and Absorptive Capacity
Startup Finance: A Study of Micro Finance amongst Soft and Hard Companies
Survey of National Health Service Reforms and the Working Lives of Midwives and Physiotherapists
The UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC)
UK~IRC and CIHE Task Force: Enhancing Value: Getting the Most out of UK Research