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Getting Disadvantaged Parents into Employment: The Working for Families Fund in Scotland (2009)
Journal Article
Bond, S., Mcquaid, R., & Fuertes, V. (2009). Getting Disadvantaged Parents into Employment: The Working for Families Fund in Scotland. Local Economy, 24(6), 487-501. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690940903314852

Between 2004 and 2008, the Scottish Government's Working for Families Fund (WFF) in Scotland offered support to parents seeking to move into, within or towards employment, education or training. Focused on disadvantaged parents, the programme had reg... Read More about Getting Disadvantaged Parents into Employment: The Working for Families Fund in Scotland.

Impacts of Agglomeration on Call Centre Operations: Evidence from North West England (2009)
Journal Article
Peck, F., & Cabras, I. (2009). Impacts of Agglomeration on Call Centre Operations: Evidence from North West England. Regional Studies, 43(7), 923-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400801968387

Impacts of agglomeration on call centre operations: evidence from North West England, Regional Studies. Call centres have until fairly recently provided a significant source of employment growth in the peripheral regions of the UK. Despite the potent... Read More about Impacts of Agglomeration on Call Centre Operations: Evidence from North West England.

Analyzing Communication in a Complex Service Process: An Application of Triangulation in a Case Study of the Scottish Prison Service (2009)
Journal Article
Hancock, P., & Raeside, R. (2009). Analyzing Communication in a Complex Service Process: An Application of Triangulation in a Case Study of the Scottish Prison Service. Journal of Applied Security Research, 4(3), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361610902930071

This article highlights the role of statistical analysis in clarifying the flow of communication embedded in a complex service process within the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). Using triangulation techniques in a case study of a selected SPS site, it... Read More about Analyzing Communication in a Complex Service Process: An Application of Triangulation in a Case Study of the Scottish Prison Service.

Off-shoring in the contact centre industry and employment in the North West of England (2009)
Journal Article
Peck, F., & Cabras, I. (2009). Off-shoring in the contact centre industry and employment in the North West of England. Service Industries Journal, 29(2), 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642060802294920

The significance of contact centre employment has recently been the subject of renewed debate in regional policy-making of late, driven by media comment on the threat of off-shoring. Despite these concerns, empirical research on the scale of such act... Read More about Off-shoring in the contact centre industry and employment in the North West of England.

Modeling Factors Central to Recidivism: An Investigation of Sentence Management in the Scottish Prison Service (2009)
Journal Article
Hancock, P. G., & Raeside, R. (2009). Modeling Factors Central to Recidivism: An Investigation of Sentence Management in the Scottish Prison Service. Prison Journal, 89(1), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032885508330445

This investigation explores the relationship of sentence management and recidivism. Data were manually gathered on a sample of more than 200 prisoners released from two facilities in Scotland. Key elements of sentence management are observed as signi... Read More about Modeling Factors Central to Recidivism: An Investigation of Sentence Management in the Scottish Prison Service.

Evaluation Of The Working For Families Fund 2004-2008 SG (2009)
Report
Mcquaid, R., Bond, S., & Fuertes, V. (2009). Evaluation Of The Working For Families Fund 2004-2008 SG. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

This report summarises the Final Evaluation Report of the Working for Families Fund (WFF) programme from 2004-08. It was carried out by the Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, for the Scottish Government over this period. Ove... Read More about Evaluation Of The Working For Families Fund 2004-2008 SG.

Inter-agency Co-operation in Activation: Comparing Experiences in Three Vanguard ‘Active’ Welfare States (2008)
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., & McQuaid, R. W. (2008). Inter-agency Co-operation in Activation: Comparing Experiences in Three Vanguard ‘Active’ Welfare States. Social Policy and Society, 7(03), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746408004326

New forms of inter-agency co-operation have gained increasing prominence in the development and delivery of activation strategies. This article compares different models of inter-agency co-operation, drawing on case study research in Denmark, the Net... Read More about Inter-agency Co-operation in Activation: Comparing Experiences in Three Vanguard ‘Active’ Welfare States.

Call Centres and Incapacity Benefit Claimants in the North West of England: A Study from the Greater Manchester Area (2008)
Journal Article
Cabras, I. (2008). Call Centres and Incapacity Benefit Claimants in the North West of England: A Study from the Greater Manchester Area. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 29(2), 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x07088543

During the last decade, several initiatives have been undertaken by the British government in an attempt to reduce the number of incapacity benefit claimants. The principal objective is to encourage long-term economically inactive people to enter int... Read More about Call Centres and Incapacity Benefit Claimants in the North West of England: A Study from the Greater Manchester Area.

Aging of the labour force and globalization. (2007)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Aging of the labour force and globalization. In R. Cooper, K. Donaghy, & G. Hewings (Eds.), Globalization and Regional Economic Modelling (69-85). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72444-5_5

The rapid aging of the population structure across most developed countries is one of the main challenges facing their economies and governments (CEC 2004a).1 These changes will have significant impacts upon pension and healthcare costs, the demand f... Read More about Aging of the labour force and globalization..

Modeling Pedestrian Walking Speeds on Sidewalks (2007)
Journal Article
Raeside, R., & Al-Azzawi, M. (2007). Modeling Pedestrian Walking Speeds on Sidewalks. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 133(3), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%290733-9488%282007%29133%3A3%28211%29

Several models have been created over the years that are used in simulation packages to predict pedestrian speed and flow on sidewalks. However, the predictive power of these models has been weak. In this paper the results of a modeling exercise in t... Read More about Modeling Pedestrian Walking Speeds on Sidewalks.

New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies? (2007)
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Dutton, M. (2007). New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies?. Journal of Social Policy, 36, 539-560. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279407001171

This article analyses recent developments in policies to promote the employability of unemployed and economically inactive people in the UK. It discusses the extent to which these policies reflect the dominant approaches of ‘Work First’, where progra... Read More about New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies?.

Coalfields and their neighbouring cities; economic regeneration, labour markets and governance. (2007)
Report
Gore, T., Fothergill, S., Hollywood, E., Lindsay, C., Morgan, K., Powell, R., & Upton, S. (2007). Coalfields and their neighbouring cities; economic regeneration, labour markets and governance

This study assesses how far the regeneration of coalfield areas relies upon their links with neighbouring cities. It draws on national statistical analysis of labour market adjustment in the British coalfields, and case studies in three contrasting a... Read More about Coalfields and their neighbouring cities; economic regeneration, labour markets and governance..

Employers' Responses to Demographic Changes in Rural Labour Markets: The Case of Dumfries and Galloway (2007)
Journal Article
Hollywood, E., & McQuaid, R. (2007). Employers' Responses to Demographic Changes in Rural Labour Markets: The Case of Dumfries and Galloway. Local Economy, 22(2), 148-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690940701390765

Employers in many rural areas are facing the problem of a declining workforce due to demographic changes in the population. These demographic changes are a result of a combination of population ageing, the in-migration of mainly retired people, out-m... Read More about Employers' Responses to Demographic Changes in Rural Labour Markets: The Case of Dumfries and Galloway.

Active labour market policy in Scotland: does it make a difference? (2007)
Journal Article
Adams, J., & Thomas, R. (2007). Active labour market policy in Scotland: does it make a difference?. International Journal of Manpower, 28(1), 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437720710733456

The paper aims to show that active labour market policies in Scotland over a nine-year period have failed to meet key policy objectives. Design/methodology/approach - The paper uses the UK national online manpower information system (NOMIS) to conduc... Read More about Active labour market policy in Scotland: does it make a difference?.

Working for Families (2007)
Report
Mcquaid, R., Bond, S., & Fuertes, V. (2007). Working for Families. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

This report presents an evaluation of Phase 1 of the Working for Families Fund (WFF) covering 2004-06. WFF was established to invest in new initiatives to improve the employability of parents who have difficulties in participating in the labour marke... Read More about Working for Families.

Understanding social enterprise: a case study of the childcare sector in Scotland (2007)
Journal Article
Hare, P., Jones, D., & Blackledge, G. (2007). Understanding social enterprise: a case study of the childcare sector in Scotland. Social enterprise journal, 3(1), 113-125. https://doi.org/10.1108/17508610780000726

Purpose – To investigate the application of the social enterprise model to the childcare sector in Scotland and develop a practical model for analysing such social enterprises.

Design/methodology/approach – A review of the literature of ideas on... Read More about Understanding social enterprise: a case study of the childcare sector in Scotland.

Fractals, complexity and chaos in supply chain networks. (2006)
Book Chapter
Pearson, M. (2006). Fractals, complexity and chaos in supply chain networks. In M. M. Novak (Ed.), Complexus Mundi: emergent patterns in nature (135-145). World Scientific Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812774217_0011

Recent work identifying an equilibrium solution in a supply chain network through cooperation and coordination along edges (links) in the network identifies the links as the stochastic modelling entities rather than the nodes of the network. This has... Read More about Fractals, complexity and chaos in supply chain networks..

Market structure and enterprise competitiveness: strategic choices facing China's organic food industry. (2006)
Journal Article
Brown, A., Orr, A., Luo, J., Dezhang, W., Lu, S., Adams, J., & Omar, M. (2006). Market structure and enterprise competitiveness: strategic choices facing China's organic food industry. World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2(1-2), 161-172. https://doi.org/10.1504/WREMSD.2006.009082

This paper presents an analysis of the current situation of the Chinese organic food industry and a discussion of options for the future in terms of market structure, reorganisation and marketing strategy. A brief comparison with the organic food ind... Read More about Market structure and enterprise competitiveness: strategic choices facing China's organic food industry..

Outsourcing in Edinburgh and the Lothians (2002)
Journal Article
Bailey, W., Masson, R., & Raeside, R. (2002). Outsourcing in Edinburgh and the Lothians. European journal of purchasing & supply management, 8(2), 83-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0969-7012%2801%2900008-9

The findings of a survey into the outsourcing activities of large organisations in the Edinburgh and Lothian region of Scotland are reported in this paper. The aim was to carry out a study of outsourcing activity against a theoretical framework of pr... Read More about Outsourcing in Edinburgh and the Lothians.