This paper reports on a comprehensive study of the role of SMEs for job creation and regional economic well-being in Sweden during the 1990-93 recession period as well as the years immediately preceding and following that period. It is found that SMEs were over-represented as job creators across business cycle stages and industries. Relatively litt...
Creative workers are employed in sectors outside the Creative Industries often in greater numbers than within. This is the first book to explore the phenomena of the embedded creative and creative services through a range of sectors, disciplines, and perspectives. Despite the emergence of these creative workers, very little is known about their wor...
Microsoft Word - INS_Eprints Cover Sheet_Apr08.doc QUT Digital Repository: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/ Cunningham, Stuart D. (2008) Creative destruction : lessons for science and innovation policy from the rise of the creative industries. Cultural Science, 1(1). © Copyright 2008 Queensland University of Technology Creative Destruction : Lessons for ...
In this paper, a Macromarketing perspective is adopted to examine the relevance of marketing systems, notably product management and innovation, to urban development challenges. The author examines the city as a product and begins the application of the innovation process in urban management following the steps of innovation in product management. ...
Recent studies show that firms in the knowledge economy develop new services as well as new products, thus providing solutions, experiences and creating value with, as well as for, their customers (Prahalad & Ramaswarmy, 2004). The paper briefly reviews literatures on multiple forms of innovation, including innovation in services. Characteristics o...
This paper establishes the importance of emission standards for the decision making during the process of procurement of new public transport buses. Frequent changes in the emission standards add to the uncertainty during the decision making for fleet management. A bus has a life expectancy of about 20 years. During its lifespan if the emission sta...
Management processes have evolved to meet changing internal and external environments through different organisational forms, systems and processes. The emerging phenomena of the knowledge based economy challenges not only the strategic management of a firm but also the understandings and competencies of managers, both individually and collectively...
In the context of international business, it is generally agreed that innovation in services contributes to the sustainable competitive advantage of service firms, and in part, such innovations may lead to new business models or solutions. Firms in the knowledge economy develop new services as well as new products, providing solutions (Howells, 200...
The rapid advance of digital technologies and globalisation of networks have made cultural products such as art, fashion, music and film one of the fastest growing sectors in the world. For the film industry, the changing technological environment requires production houses to constantly re-invent themselves in order to survive and prosper. To stay...
