The tourism gender gap and its potential impact on the development of the emerging countries

Quality & Quantity - Tourism offers both incredible opportunities and huge challenges for gender equality. During the last decades, tourism grew almost steadily, and, since it is a labour...     

Environmental technical and administrative innovations in the Canadian manufacturing industry

This paper explores whether the adoption of an EMS and/or TQM, both administrative innovations, lead to the development of cleaner technological innovations. We draw on the stakeholder influence literature and Daft's (1978) dual core model of organizational innovation to determine the factors affecting a facility's decision to undertake cleaner technological innovations. Using Canadian facility level manufacturing data, we find that an EMS reduces the likelihood that a facility will implement environmental technologies that change the production process (clean technologies) while TQM increases the likelihood that the facility will implement clean technologies. We also find that administrative pressures (corporate headquarters and shareholders/investors) have no impact on technological innovations while external stakeholders such as regulators, community groups and environmental groups as well as customers and suppliers each increase the likelihood that facilities will use cleaner technologies. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.     

The Rise of Manufacturing Towns: Externally Driven Industrialization and Urban Development in the Pearl River Delta of China

This paper examines the forces that are shaping recent urban development in the economically most prosperous region of China — the Pearl River Delta. It shows that economic reform since 1978 has accelerated the pace of industrialization in the region and thereby led to the rise of a growing number of new urban centers. While public policies of the government continue to play a central role in defining the patterns of urbanization, they are increasingly localized and heavily influenced by the imperative of promoting externally-oriented economic growth. As a result, the prioritization of resource allocation for urban development is tilted toward the need of attracting and retaining foreign investment, and the formation of the emergent urban social space follows closely the interplay between the interests of dominant players in the increasingly marketized economic process. A major consequence of this is a segregation of urban life along the lines of international and domestic division of labor, where the benefits of urban development accrue differentially to various urban residents according to the relative scarcity of the economic factors that they possess. Cet article examine les forces qui façonnent le développement urbain récent dans la région la plus prospère de Chine — le delta de la rivière Pearl. Il démontre que la réforme économique depuis 1978 a accéléré le rythme de l’industrialisation dans la région et, de ce fait, a produit l’essor d’un nombre croissant de nouveaux centres urbains. Bien que la politique d’intérêt public du gouvernement continue à jouer un rôle central dans le choix des modèles d’industrialisation, ils sont de plus en plus localisés et fortement influencés par la nécessité de promouvoir la croissance économique orientée vers l’extérieur. Conséquemment, les priorités dans l’affectation des ressources pour le développement urbain sont influencées par le besoin d’attirer et de conserver les investissements étrangers, et la création d’un nouvel espace social urbain suit de près les effets réciproques des intérêts des partis dominants dans un processus économique de plus en plus commercialisé. Une conséquence importante est la ségrégation de la vie urbaine suivant une division du travail internationale et domestique, dans laquelle les avantages du développement urbain s’accroient différentiellement pour les résidents urbains selon leur manque relatif de facteurs économiques.     

Siegfried Weischenberg an die Universit?t Hamburg berufen

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Remote working—altering the spatial contours of work and home in the new economy

The temporal pattern of work has changed in its daily, weekly and monthly rhythms, but so has the 'spatiality' of work: for some paid work is undertaken at home, or in cyberspace. Telecommuting can be used to 'improve' the lifestyles of long distance weekly commuters and their families.     

Reviews

PRIVATISM AND URBAN POLICY.

Barnekov, I, Boyle, R. and Rich, D. 1989:Privatism and Urban Policy in Britain and the United States.Oxford University Press.

THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE.

Robinson, P. 1989: What Can Britain Learn from Sweden's Commitment to Full Employment?Campaign for Work, Research Report 1, March 1989, £4.00 inc p&p, paper.

NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE.

Lewis. J. and Townsend, A. 1989: The North-South Divide. Regional Change in Britain in the 1980s. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Limited, £12.95.     

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ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND GENDER.

Wheelock, J. 1990: Husbands at Home. London: Routledge, £10.99.

Stubbs, C. and Wheelock, J. 1990: A Woman's Work in the Changing Local Economy. Aldershot: AveburyfGower, £27.50 cloth.

INDUSTRIAL REGENERATION POLICY.

Totterdill, P., Farrands, C., Gawaith, M. and Gillingwater, D. 1989: Industrial Policy and Regeneration of British Manufacturing Industry: The Case of Clothing. Local Economic Policy Review 1. Loughborough: University of Technology, £5.00 paper.

Totterdill, P., with Durucan, C., Farrands, C., Gawaith, M. and Gillingwater, D. 1990: Sunset Industries: Industrial Policy and the Regeneration of British Manufacturing. Local Economic Policy Review 2. Loughborough: University of Technology, £5.00 paper.

WHO BENEFITED IN THE LATE 1980S BOOM?

Robinson, P. 1990: Racial Disadvantage and the Economic Cycle. Research Report No 2. London: Campaign for Work, £4.00 pamphlet.     

The Moderating Effect of Environmental Munificence and Dynamism on the Relationship Between Discretionary Social Responsibility and Firm Performance

This study examines the relationships between a company's emphasis on discretionary social responsibility, environment, and firm performance. It tests the proposition that environmental munificence and dynamism moderate the relationship between discretionary social responsibility and financial performance. Social responsibility was measured with a three-item scale in a sample of 62 firms using a questionnaire. Environmental munificence and dynamism were measured using archival sources as was financial performance (return on assets and return on sales). The results of moderated regression analyses and subgroup analyses found a significant moderating effect of environment on the social responsibility-firm performance relationship. Discretionary social responsibility contributes to firm performance in environments that are dynamic and munificent.