All Outputs (6)

The creative SME: A cautionary tale (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

The aim of this paper is to explore the debate about defining a small firm, or a small and mediumsized enterprise (SME), and examining the relevance of this concern to the creative industries and creative businesses. The first part of this paper navi... Read More about The creative SME: A cautionary tale.

Re-articulating the creative hub concept as a model for business support in the local creative economy: the case of Mare Street in Hackney (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

The literature on ‘creative hubs’is scarce. Although the term is currently in wide use in policy circles, its actual meaning is not always clear. Accordingly, this paper aims to clarify what is meant bythe ‘creative hub’through the use of ethnographi... Read More about Re-articulating the creative hub concept as a model for business support in the local creative economy: the case of Mare Street in Hackney.

Can indeterminacy and self-fulfilling expectations help explain international business cycles? A preliminary investigation (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

We introduce equilibrium indeterminacy into a two-country incomplete asset model with imperfect competition and analyze whether self-fulfilling, belief-driven fluctuations (i.e., sunspot shocks) can help resolve the major puzzles of international bus... Read More about Can indeterminacy and self-fulfilling expectations help explain international business cycles? A preliminary investigation.

Climate change, the environment and armed conflict (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

Asking attitude, intention and prediction questions as a social influence technique: A meta-analysis of the question-behavior effect (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

The question-behavior effect, how asking attitude, intention and prediction questions influences behavior, has been widely examined since its discovery by Sherman (1980). In the present study, a meta-analysis is carried out to examine the effectivene... Read More about Asking attitude, intention and prediction questions as a social influence technique: A meta-analysis of the question-behavior effect.

Do voucher schemes matter in the long run? A brief comparison of Nesta's Creative Credits and Creativeworks London's Creative Voucher schemes (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

In policy circles, the common consensus about voucher schemes aimed at the creative sector is that they have short term but no real lasting impact. This short position paper queries this notion. This is mainly because these schemes are notoriously va... Read More about Do voucher schemes matter in the long run? A brief comparison of Nesta's Creative Credits and Creativeworks London's Creative Voucher schemes.