Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (5)

An exploration of institutional approaches in pursuing sustainable development (2021)
Journal Article
Bradley, P. (2022). An exploration of institutional approaches in pursuing sustainable development. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 30, 623-639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.12.010

The institutional setting within which consumption and production occurs has profound influence on preferences and forms of production, and substantially shapes resource throughput of economies, pollution and land use. Institutional economics is argu... Read More about An exploration of institutional approaches in pursuing sustainable development.

COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs (2021)
Journal Article
Gardner, M., Webber, D. J., Parry, G., & Bradley, P. (2021). COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs. Local Economy, 36(6), 524-540. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942211056034

Economic policies tend to downplay social and community considerations in favour of market-led and business-focussed support. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for greater and deeper social cohesion and local social support networks while hi... Read More about COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs.

Helping ensure survival: Digitally enhanced advanced services in community businesses (2021)
Report
Bradley, P., Gardner, M., Parry, G., & Webber, D. (in press). Helping ensure survival: Digitally enhanced advanced services in community businesses. Repository: Power to Change and DEAS

This study arose out of a three-year longitudinal study exploring the values held by community business leaders and how these values impact on the financial and social sustainability of their businesses. The final wave of interviews with leaders took... Read More about Helping ensure survival: Digitally enhanced advanced services in community businesses.

An institutional economics framework to explore sustainable production and consumption (2021)
Journal Article
Bradley, P. (2021). An institutional economics framework to explore sustainable production and consumption. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 27, 1317-1339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.02.035

Although policy actions are being taken by many governments around the world on sustainable development, the application of institutional economics to sustainable development is still in its infancy. In the literature, there are a wide range of insti... Read More about An institutional economics framework to explore sustainable production and consumption.

Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities (2021)
Journal Article
Green, E., Ritchie, F., Bradley, P., & Parry, G. (2021). Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 32, 992–1008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-020-00311-9

The financial well-being of the charity sector has important social implications. Numerous studies have analysed whether the concentration of income in a few sources increases financial vulnerability. However, few studies have systematically consider... Read More about Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities.