The defence industry in Scotland [PDF]
, 2009 “The defence industry is vital to Scotland”1 The above quote from the recent House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee report concerns the volume of economic activity that the defence industry supports in Scotland.
Dunlop, Stewart
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The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1285-1345, November 2025.Abstract This study advances a new approach to investigating the resilience of regional banking systems by reconstructing the co‐evolving branch and interbank networks in post‐Confederation Canada (1879–1900). By digitizing annual banking registers, this study employed a microgeographic approach to constructing a novel longitudinal dataset on city ...
Alena V. Pivavarava
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European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 28, Issue 30, October 22, 2025.As the reduction of transition metal oxides by coal poses a significant climate risk, the use of alternative reducing agents such as hydrogen is becoming increasingly important. This review summarizes the current knowledge of the reduction pathways of transition metal oxides from groups 6 to 8.
Michael Häger +2 more
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The international ocean transport industry in crisis : assessing the reasons and outlook [PDF]
Until 1980, the world merchant fleet expanded rapidly in response to thriving seatrade markets. Since then, it has not grown much. The industry did not adjust effectively to periodic global recession, and the fleet's earnings deteriorated as the gap ...
Peters, Hans Jurgen
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The Shipbuilding Industry in East and West: Industry Dynamics, Science and Technology Policies and Emerging Patterns of Cooperation [PDF]
Shipbuilding has changed from a "heavy industry" to become a capital- and technologyintensive activity over the last decades. While Japanese, South Korean and Western European yards dominate the merchant shipbuilding market so far, Eastern European yards
Christian von Hirschhausen +1 more
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How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study [PDF]
This paper uses previously unavailable historical records to show that several assumptions central to a learning by doing explanation of productivity growth in the construction of Liberty ships during World War II are mistaken.
Peter Thompson
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‘Public-spirited men’: economic unionist nationalism in inter-war Scotland [PDF]
, 2017 The prolonged economic slump which overshadowed much of the inter-war period encouraged a small number of Clydeside industrialists to intervene with bold plans to restructure and revive the Scottish economy.
Mackenzie, Angus
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Better Auditing for Better Contracting: Eight Recommendations to Reform the Defense Contract Audit Agency and Other Federal Government Audit [PDF]
, 2012 Examines why the DCAA's audits of government contractors sometimes fail. Proposes reforms to strengthen oversight, including giving auditors authority to subpoena contractor records and shifting from limited to risk-based audits and random ...
Pratap Chatterjee
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Are "outsiders" in? Exploring the impact of outsourced workers' perceived insider status and job value status on job performance. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Yang JF +6 more
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The Iron and Steel Shipbuilding Data Set, 1825-1914: Sources, Coverage, and Coding Decisions [PDF]
This article is a supporting document to my paper “Selection and Firm Survival. Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 1825-1914”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1):26-36, February 2005. The article provides a basic description of data sources,
Peter Thompson
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