The problem of monopolistic control in the UK electricity industry remains a factor today in spite of several decades of regulation by Ofgem, following privatisation in the 1980s. This would suggest that Ofgem has to focus as much on promoting…
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…
In their new book, Multi-nationals in their Communities, two British academics look at well-run CSR projects and how they help the communities where they operate. Ian W. Jones, a management lecturer at Oxford University, and Michael G. Pollitt, a reader…
CBR research casts new light on UK innovation process
25 November 2004
CBR research that was presented at a major conference in Edinburgh on November - and covered by the Financial Times the same day - has shed new light…