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Network Equilibrium and the Spread of Innovation in Technologically Cooperating European SMEs. (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pearson, M. Network Equilibrium and the Spread of Innovation in Technologically Cooperating European SMEs

European technical cooperation data from a recent large survey on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is used to formulate a proxy network of country typical SMEs (CTSMEs) and reveal measures of centrality, bridging, density and structural equivalenc... Read More about Network Equilibrium and the Spread of Innovation in Technologically Cooperating European SMEs..

The Work Programme: a new public governance policy or a continuation of new public management? (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fuertes, V., & McQuaid, R. W. The Work Programme: a new public governance policy or a continuation of new public management?

Since the 1970s, the governance of labour market policies in the UK has been characterised by New Public Management (NPM) traits and since the late 1990s the welfare system has experienced a trend towards activation. The current Coalition Government... Read More about The Work Programme: a new public governance policy or a continuation of new public management?.

Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis. (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pearson, M. Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis

A simple value chain is modeled by a contractor (dual operator) making an agreement with a customer (primal operator) to complete a project in a number of stages monitored within a certain agreed time scale. The customer defines the demand (D) for se... Read More about Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis..

An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills (2010)
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McQuaid, R. W., Lindsay, C., & Johnson, S. (2010). An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills

This paper presents a policy framework for describing the various factors that influence the success (or otherwise) of policy interventions designed to increase individual participation in learning and skills development.

Employee demand for skills development: a research and policy review. (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Dutton, M. Employee demand for skills development: a research and policy review

Understanding what encourages and prevents individual's from developing their skills, and identifying the most effective skill development policies, is a key function of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills

Changing perceptions: an analysis of long-term unemployment in five areas of Edinburgh. (2002)
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Hollywood, E., Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Winterton, J. Changing perceptions: an analysis of long-term unemployment in five areas of Edinburgh

This project involved research into the barriers to work faced by very long-term unemployed people in five disadvantaged areas of Edinburgh. Interviews were carried out with 115 job seekers who had been out of work for more than one year and resided... Read More about Changing perceptions: an analysis of long-term unemployment in five areas of Edinburgh..