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Understanding firm boundaries: complementary products, supporting assets and integration

Dr Elena Novelli | Management & Business Studies | 18 March 2013

A firm intending to introduce a new product into the market has to look beyond successfully inventing a product. For the product to be successful a set of complementary products also need to be available that will enhance the focal product's value fr ...

A better way of doing business? lessons from the john lewis partnership

Professor John Storey | 08 November 2012

The point of departure for this knowledge exchange project is the extent to which the ‘john lewis model’ has come to be advocated as a possible ‘answer’ to failures in the prevailing model of what is increasingly termed ...

New cultural contradictions in modern consumer societies: a political economy perspective using multi-level analysis

Dr Christopher Deeming | Social Policy | 01 October 2012

Researchers have long been interested in promoting the social and economic arrangements for human welfare. As our societies become more complex, the challenges we face appear more profound forcing us to rethink our ideas about how we live our lives, ...

Uk data service

Dr Matthew Woollard | 01 October 2012

The uk data service will provide a "one-stop-shop" for suppliers and users of social science data. Users will come to the ukds website to search for and browse data collections created by a wide range of data suppliers, including government data, dat ...

Digital destinations: exchanging digital technology knowledge in local tourism economies

Dr Philip Alford | 21 August 2012

This proposal offers the opportunity to capture change in the adoption and use of digital technologies and to develop a strong, competitive local tourism economy. Through their increased understanding and use of emerging digital technologies, tourism ...

Uk data service-census support service (ukds-css)

Professor John Stillwell | Demography | 01 August 2012

The census support service (css) is part of a new integrated uk data service that aims to provide users, through a one-stop-shop interface, with access to and information about the large variety of social science data resources that are available to ...

The centre for microdata methods and practice

Professor Andrew Chesher | Social Stats., Comp. & Methods | 01 July 2012

The centre's mission is to advance knowledge in economic and social science through the development and application of tools for understanding human behaviour using microdata records of environment, circumstances, actions, decisions and outcomes. To ...

Essays in industrial organisation

Ms Marta Troya Martinez | Economics | 01 July 2012

This project addresses different policy relevant questions in industrial organisation, competition and consumer policy using mathematical models. The first question explores the consequences of information-sharing agreements between competition autho ...

Improving evidence sharing in the health and social care for older people through an evaluated practitioner research programme

Dr Heather Wilkinson | 01 May 2012

As western societies experience an aging population, improving, or even maintaining, the quality of health and social care of older people is a significant issue. This project is based on the premise that in order to tackle this issue there is a need ...

Talisman: geospatial data analysis and simulation

Professor Mark Birkin | Human Geography | 01 October 2011

The talisman project aims to promote a widespread appreciation of the importance of geography and spatial relationships across the social sciences, amongst both academics and informed stakeholders. Familiar examples include variations in life expecta ...

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Vague lies: how to advise consumers when they complain

Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Working paper

This paper analyzes the incentives of a seller to provide (un)biased and (im)precise advice about a complex product such as insurance, banking and telecommunication services. Misleading the buyers by biasing the advice upwards increases the revenues ...

Vertical relational contracts and trade credit

Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Seminar/workshop

This paper uses a vertical relational contract between two firms to explore the implications of trade credit when the ability to repay is not observed by the supplier. Trade credit limits the supplier's possibilities to punish the cashless downstream ...

Vertical relational contracts and trade credit

Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Seminar/workshop

Vertical relational contracts and trade credit

Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Working paper

Junior research fellow at jesus college (university of oxford)

Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Degree/other honour

Appointed as a non-stipendiary junior research fellow

Impact of 'revisting the impact of market towns and district centres' study

Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Summary of Impact

The ‘revisiting the impact of large foodstores on market towns and district centres’ - study was disseminated to the planning community via professional journals such as town & country planning and property industry/planning seminars. It has been acc ...

Modelling the future opportunities for deep discount food retailing in the uk

Christopher Thompson | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article

In the last few years, the discount retail food market in the uk has grown to record levels. This followed a period of gradual increase in store numbers and also more favourable trading characteristics for discounters given the recession and global f ...

Linked trips and town centre viability

Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article

New evidence on linked trips and town centre viability obtained from a study of the relocation of an ‘out-of-centre’ foodstore to an ‘edge-of-centre’ site

Resilience, fragility, and adaptation: new evidence on the performance of uk high streets during global economic crisis and its policy implications

Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article

At a time of increasing government concern with the economic health of uk town centres and high streets, and with an independent inquiry (led by mary portas) on revitalising the high street to report by the end of 2011, this paper seeks to make four ...

Further evidence on linked trips and foodstore developments

Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article

A study of market towns and district centres in two regions in the uk, providing much needed new evidence of the changing linked trip activity associated with contemporary foodstore developments

Case Studies

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Putting skills into business

Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools

The centre on skills, knowledge and organisational performance's research has informed the english skills strategy and policies in finland, norway and australia.

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Global summit for retail and researchers

Feature | 18 April 2013 | Business, General public, Partnerships, Press/media

The acs global summit, supported by the esrc, has provided the opportunity to encourage debate and knowledge exchange between leading practitioners and social scientists within the retail sector.

Staying safe online

Feature | 05 February 2013 | General public, Press/media, Schools

The visualisation and other methods of expression (vome) project developed new methods to raise public awareness about internet security, an issue highlighted with today's celebration of safer internet day.

Getting pig meat to the market

Feature | 25 January 2013 | Business, General public, Press/media, Schools

The current model for supplying pig meat to uk consumers is ineffective and beset by a 'trader mentality' from leading supermarkets, and would benefit from more integrated ownership where companies have a vested interest throughout the supply chain, ...

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