Theme issue: Small business policy
Papers from the ISBE Annual Conference
Guest editor: Ted Fuller
Guest editorial
Do enterprise support programmes leave women holding the baby? 5 – 19
Julia Rouse, John Kitching
Should government be stimulating start-ups? An assessment of the scope for public intervention in new venture formation 21 – 36
Andrew Atherton
A new conceptualisation of business development for SMEs: a focus on development potential 37 – 49
Claire Massey
UK Vietnamese businesses: cultural influences and intracultural differences 51 – 69
Susan Bagwell
How are SMEs financed? Evidence from the Ghanaian nontraditional export sector 71 – 81
Joshua Abor, Nicholas Biekpe
Fiscal policy and self-employment: targeting business growth 83 – 98
Brian Sloan, Francis Chittenden
The effect of the national minimum wage on the UK small business sector: a geographical analysis 99 – 116
Colin M Mason, Sara Carter, Stephen K Tagg
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A critical analysis of decentralisation and local economic development: the Turkish case 117 – 138
Gül Berna Özcan
Regional renaissance? New forms of governance in nonmetropolitan Australia 139 – 155
Jo-Anne Everingham, Lynda Cheshire, Geoffrey Lawrence
Reviews 157 – 158
Theme issue: Participatory multicriteria decision aid for river basin management
Guest editor: Frank Messner
Guest editorial
Deliberative multicriteria evaluation 169 – 190
Wendy Proctor, Martin Drechsler
Process-guided multicriteria analysis in wastewater planning 191 – 213
Karen Refsgaard
Participatory methods for water resources planning 215 – 234
Giorgos Kallis, Nuno Videira, Paula Antunes, Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Clive L Spash, Harry Coccossis, Serafin Corral Quintana, Leandro del Moral, Dionisia Hatzilacou, Gonçalo Lobo, Alexandra Mexa, Pilar Paneque, Belen Pedregal Mateos, Rui Santos
Multicriteria analysis under uncertainty with IANUS—method and empirical results 235 – 256
Bernd Klauer, Martin Drechsler, Frank Messner
Consistency of the results of different MCA methods: a critical review 257 – 277
Jaroslav Myšiak
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Devolution and the welfare state: lessons from early childhood education and care policy in Wales 279 – 295
Daniel Wincott
Path dependency and the allocation of public investment in Mexico 297 – 311
Joan Costa-Font, Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia
Referees 2005 313 – 314
Reviews 315 – 316
Clayton on Harvey: A brief history of neoliberalism
The changing geography of subregional planning in England 317 – 330
Marco Bianconi, Nick Gallent, Ian Greatbatch
The institutional limits to multifunctional agriculture: subnational governance and regional systems of innovation 331 – 349
Julian Clark
Developing leisure and cultural attractions in the regional city centre: a policy perspective 351 – 370
Andrew R Tallon, Rosemary D F Bromley, Ben Reynolds, Colin J Thomas
E-participation in planning: an analysis of cities adopting on-line citizen participation tools 371 – 384
Maria Manta Conroy, Jennifer Evans-Cowley
International innovation comparisons: insight or illusion? 385 – 401
Stephen Roper, Nola Hewitt-Dundas
Governing space: planning reform and the politics of sustainability 403 – 421
Richard Cowell, Susan Owens
When water management meets spatial planning: a policy-arrangements perspective 423 – 438
Mark Wiering, Irene Immink
Green niches in sustainable development: the case of organic food in the United Kingdom 439 – 458
Adrian Smith
The practice of government in a devolved Scotland: the case of the designation of the Cairngorms National Park 459 – 472
Nicola Thompson
Reviews 473 – 474
Nijkamp on Brandon, Lombardi: Evaluating sustainable development in the built environment
Reshaping spaces of local governance? Community strategies and the modernisation of local government in England 475 – 496
Mike Raco, Gavin Parker, Joe Doak
Environmental governance in the Information Age: the emergence of informational governance 497 – 514
Arthur P J Mol
Evaluating land-use restrictions concerning the floor area ratio of lots 515 – 532
Xiaolu Gao, Yasushi Asami, Wataru Katsumata
Monitoring spatial strategies: the case of local development documents in England 533 – 552
Cecilia Wong, Mark Baker, Sue Kidd
The planning – policy connection in US and Canadian economic development 553 – 573
Laura A Reese
Disintegrated transport policy: the multimodal studies process in England 575 – 596
Jon Shaw, Colin Hunter, David Gray
Institutional reform in the provision of public services in Hong Kong: an efficiency evaluation 597 – 614
Richard M Walker, Ling Hin Li
When frames conflict: policy dialogue on waste 615 – 630
Heli Saarikoski
Reviews 631 – 632
Harguindéguy on Church: The politics and government of Switzerland
Theme issue: Knowledge and policy in the context of urban environments
Boundary work: knowledge, policy, and the urban environment 633 – 643
Susan Owens, Judith Petts, Harriet Bulkeley
Designing urban knowledge: competing perspectives on energy and buildings 645 – 659
Simon Guy
Ecological versus social restoration? How urban river restoration challenges but also fails to challenge the science – policy nexus in the United Kingdom 661 – 680
Sally Eden, Sylvia Tunstall
The evidence – policy interface in strategic waste planning for urban environments: the ‘technical’ and the ‘social’ dimensions 681 – 700
Simin Davoudi
Bridging the science – policy divide in urban air-quality management: evaluating ways to make models more robust through public engagement 701 – 714
Steven Yearley
The science – society interface in the urban environment: a policy perspective 715 – 717
David Lewis
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Would local currencies make a good local economic development policy tool? The case of Ithaca Hours 719 – 737
David Grover
Scalar strategies in climate-change politics: debating the environmental consequences of a natural gas project 739 – 754
Gard Lindseth
Retail productivity and land-use planning: negotiating ‘joined-up’ retail planning policy 755 – 770
Cliff Guy
Do institutional arrangements make a difference to transport policy and implementation? Lessons for Britain 771 – 789
Greg Marsden, Anthony D May
Reviews 791 – 794
Burchell on Löfstedt: Risk management in post-trust societies
Wislon on Kavanagh, Butler: The British General Election of 2005
Small business policy
Papers from the ISBE Annual Conference
Guest editor: Bob Ritchie
Guest editorial
A burden on business? Reviewing the evidence base on regulation and small-business performance 799 – 814
John Kitching
The impact of sector, specialisation, and space on business birth rates in the United Kingdom: a challenge for policy? 815 – 826
Michael Anyadike-Danes, Mark Hart
Influences on small-firm compliance-related behaviour: the case of workplace health and safety 827 – 846
Robert Baldock, Philip James, David Smallbone, Ian Vickers
Delivering ICT to ethnic minority businesses: an action-research approach 847 – 867
Martin Beckinsale, Monder Ram
Can small businesses help reduce employment exclusion? 869 – 884
John Kitching
Making policy choices in nonfinancial business support: an international comparison 885 – 908
Kevin F Mole, George Bramley
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New patterns of governance in the English region: assessing their implications for spatial planning 909 – 927
Graham Pearce, Sarah Ayres
Westminster Executive meets local government ‘culture’: overview and scrutiny in three English county councils 929 – 946
Mark Sandford
