Browsing School of Business and Management by Issue Date
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The Organisation of Sociality: A Manifesto for a New Science of Multi-Agent Systems
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Which Reputations Does a Brand Owner Need? Evidence from Trade Mark Opposition
(2007-07-01)At least two: the reputation of their brand and a reputation for being tough on imitators of this brand. Sustaining a brand requires both investment in its reputation amongst consumers and the defence of the brand against ... -
The strategic use of patents and its implications for enterprise and competition policies
(European Commission, 2007-07-08)This report was commissioned as a study into the strategic use of patents. In the course of its case investigations and legislative reviews the European Commission became aware of changes in the use of intellectual property, ... -
Katrina and the Waves: Bad Organization, Natural Evil or The State
(2008)This paper considers Deleuze and Guattari's notions of the smooth and the striated as a basis for rethinking the events of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans in September 2005. It is argued here that popular ... -
Managing Clinical Research in the UK
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Social Policies in Seychelles
(Commonwealth Secretariat and United National Research Institute for Social Development, 2011)Seychelles has one of the most extensive social policy programmes in the developing world, and has been identified as a model for the rest of Africa. As a small state, however, it remains economically vulnerable and in ... -
The Functioning of the Trade Mark System in Europe
(Max Planck Institute, 2011-08-03)As an element in the comprehensive evaluation of European trade mark law currently undertaken by the European Commission, the Max Planck Institute was given the task to carry out a Study on the Overall Functioning of the ... -
How to Educate Entrepreneurs?
(2011-11-27)Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students ... -
Refining the Concept of Political Will: A Gender Perspective
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The Politics of Watching
(IGI Global, 2012) -
Trade Mark Cluttering: An Exploratory Report
(Intellectual Property Office UK, 2012-04-13)This report explores the problem of “cluttering” of trade mark registers. The report consists of two parts: the first presents a conceptual discussion of “clutte ring” of trade mark registers. The second part provides an ... -
Examining market entry mode strategies via resource-based and institutional influences: Empirical evidence from a region-within-country economy context
(2012-08-01)This research has two major purposes. The first is to develop and test a framework for market entry mode choice drawing on the resource-based theory and institutional theory in the context of region-within-country from ... -
The contingent value of marketing and social networking capabilities in firm performance
(2013-02-01)Recent research shows a continued interest by scholars in understanding the extent that firms develop and deploy marketing capability in an effort to enhance their market- and financial-based performance. In conjunction ... -
CONFLICT RESOLUTION, PUBLIC GOODS AND PATENT THICKETS
(2013-03-25)Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced ... -
Multiplex PageRank.
(2013-06-15)Many complex systems can be described as multiplex networks in which the same nodes can interact with one another in different layers, thus forming a set of interacting and co-evolving networks. Examples of such multiplex ... -
A Study of Patent Thickets
(Intellectual Property Office UK, 2013-07-30)This report analyses whether entry of UK enterprises into patenting in a technology area is affected by patent thickets in the technology area. The aim is to contribute to our understanding of the role of patent thickets ... -
Multiplex PageRank
(2013-10-30)
