The contribution of services and other sectors to Australian productivity growth 1980-2004
30 November 2007
A new report by the CBR, commissioned by the Australian Business Foundation, looks at Australia's productivity performance from 1980 to 2004.
There has been a…
What helps business absorb knowledge and does this capacity vary across the regions of the UK?
1 December 2006
New research findings will be presented by Michael Kitson, Research Associate of the Centre for Business Research and University Lecturer in…
The Wal-Mart model: is it sustainable?
1 December 2005
Wal-Mart has just been the subject of a week of events in the US run by a campaign group concerned about Wal-Mart's corporate citizenship and its treatment of employees. Now new…
"Spend, spend, spend." The consumer has to be thanked for stopping, or at least delaying, a recession [writes Michael Kitson, with co-author Nicholas Fawcett].
Read the full article [theguardian.com]…
Without a minimum wage, "the good employers are undercut by the bad, and the bad are undercut by the worst". So said Winston Churchill in 1909 when the Liberal government introduced wages councils to represent the 'sweated' trades [write Mike…
