Abstract The statement discusses Jonathan Parry’s recent monograph, Classes of Labour , and in particular his “labour aristocracy” thesis the most privileged sections India’s workforces that had been widely accepted social sciences 1970s but later discarded. It is argued ethnography an industrial town Central India he presents monograph convincingly demonstrates relative privileges public-secto...

Problems of action and structure underpin key issues in research on innovation processes. The question of entrepreneurial activity is an enduring one, from the risk-taking actor debate right through to recent discussions of strategic leadership and new venturing for wealth creation. But we can also detect deterministic tendencies in those arguments that find innovation activity defined by the s...

We describe in this paper GIPSE, a model based system that is specialised in CAD systems. GIPSE facilitates the design and the development of applications using structured dialogues. From a functional core and some initialisation files describing the user interface properties such as the tasks, their structuration and the presentation, GIPSE allows the online construction of self-running applic...