United Kingdom Trade Research Articles

Trade union responses to ageing workforces in the UK and Germany

Ageing workforces are placing conflicting pressures on European trade unions in order to, on the one hand, protect pensions and early retirement routes, and, on the other, promote human resource management (HRM) policies geared towards enabling their older members to extend working life. Using interviews from German and United Kingdom (UK) trade unions, we discuss how unions are both constrained and enabled by pre-existing institutional structures in advocating approaches to age management. In Germany, some unions use their strong institutional role to affect public policy and industrial change at national and sectoral levels. UK unions have taken a more defensive approach, focused on protecting pension rights. The contrasting varieties of capitalism, welfare systems and trade unions’ own orientations are creating different pressures and mechanisms to which unions need to respond. While the German inclusive system is providing unions with mechanisms for negotiating collectively at the national level, UK unions’ activism remains localized.

Information and Communication Technology‐Enabled Low Carbon Technologies

SummaryThis article outlines the subsector of the information and communication technology (ICT) industry concerned with reducing the economy's environmental impact, dubbed ICT‐enabled low carbon technologies (ICTeLCTs). The article is based on a study funded by United Kingdom (UK) Trade and Investment, a division of the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. ICTeLCTs can be segmented into specialist and generalist operators. Specialists focus on one or two ICT applications to monitor or reduce environmental issues, while generalists supply products and services enabling a firm or a private household to reduce the environmental impact of its activities. The subsector can be further segmented into green ICT, energy management, building management, carbon accounting, waste management, intelligent transport systems (ITSs), and water management. The main factors driving ICTeLCTs include legislation, voluntary environmental standards, corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, customer demand, and competitive market factors. Policy makers should continue to drive the growth of ICTeLCTs with the introduction and refinement of environmental legislation regulating energy use and markets.

When trade mark oppositions over-succeed

Applicants should be afforded an opportunity to restrict the class of goods originally applied for in the event of a successful limited opposition brought in the United Kingdom Trade Mark Registry.

Corrections

In a recent News article,[1][1] we quoted John Bridle as an asbestos expert but were not aware that he had received a conditional discharge on 2 counts of making false claims under the United Kingdom Trade Descriptions Act (1968) in relation to his business qualifications and was fined £4000 (Can$

A Book Publisher's Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century: How Traditional Publishers Can Position Themselves in the Changing Media Flows of a Networked Era

In this challenging call to arms, Sara Lloyd, head of digital publishing at the United Kingdom trade publishing house, Pan Macmillan, explores whether there will be a role for publishers in a digital future and discusses the radical changes in culture and approach publishers will need to make if they are to evolve quickly enough to embrace the change from a linear content creation and delivery chain in which a publisher's role is definitive and fixed, to a circular, networked, Web-based one. This is a broad-ranging piece including coverage of the creative directions in which content creation and delivery might develop, new ways in which publishers will need to engage with authors, readers, and other distributors in the content creation chain and the interface between publishers and nontraditional competitors emerging in the digital marketplace.

Exchange rate volatility and United Kingdom trade: evidence from Canada, Japan and New Zealand

This paper investigates the influence of exchange rate volatility on the real imports of the United Kingdom from Canada, Japan and New Zealand during the period 1980–2003. The Johansen multivariate cointegration method and the constrained error correction (general-to-specific) method are applied to study the relationship between real imports and its determinants (including exchange rate volatility). Conditional variance from the GARCH(1,1) model is applied as exchange rate volatility. Both nominal and real exchange rates are employed in the empirical study. Results indicate a significant effect of the exchange rate volatility on real imports. These exchange rate volatility effects are mostly positive.

Trade Associations: An Appropriate Channel for Developing Sustainable Practice in SMEs?

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly the micro-enterprise, dominate the tourism industry numerically, and play a key role in delivering quality experiences to the tourist. Yet research by Hillary (2000) suggested that SMEs from all the economic sectors are responsible for around 70% of total industrial pollution. Strategic papers for the tourism sector in the United Kingdom refer to the promotion of emerging trade association activity in influencing SMEs' environmental behaviour. This paper examines the results of a postal survey of United Kingdom trade associations to assess their role in developing sustainable practice amongst SME tourism businesses. Responses from 17 national trade associations with a tourism-related membership coverage of around 12,500 SMEs suggested that only a small minority regarded meeting environmental criteria or signing up to an environmental code of conduct as compulsory requirements of membership, whereas there was more activity for different types of voluntary initiative, often through the aid of partnerships. Overall, there was less leadership from trade associations than was seemingly portrayed in the strategic documents.

Liner shipping between East and West Europe: competitive developments in the Poland–United Kingdom trade

This paper provides an analysis of the development of the liner route between the UK and Poland and the activities of the two main operators—EuroAfrica of Poland and United Baltic Corporation of London. The most significant factors driving the development of this trade are analysed using a combination of an industrial survey and government statistics for the route, before going on to examine the threat to the trade presented by the growth of the trucking mode.

The new United Kingdom Trade Marks Law

The U.K. Trade Marks Law has been revised to implement the EC harmonizing directive on trade marks and to make ratification of the Madrid Protocol possible by the U.K. The major changes which the new Act introduces, and the reasons for these, are outlined and explained.

Legal update: Review of the Trade Marks Act 1994

The ‘Legal Update’ in this issue of The Journal of Brand Management is devoted to a comprehensive review of the new United Kingdom Trade Marks Act 1994. The review will be concluded in Volume 2, Number 3 of the Journal, which will also contain the usual international round-up. The review starts by listing points that require immediate action.

Tradition and Progress:

Examines provisions of the 1992 Regulation on the registration of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs. Also examines protection of such names under the United Kingdom Trade Marks Act and the law of passing off.

A New United Kingdom Trade Marks Law

A New United Kingdom Trade Marks Law

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND THE STRUCTURE OF UNITED KINGDOM TRADE

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND THE STRUCTURE OF UNITED KINGDOM TRADE

United Kingdom Trade with Europe

United Kingdom Trade with Europe

United Kingdom Trade with Europe. F. V. Meyer

<i>United Kingdom Trade with Europe</i>. F. V. Meyer

United Kingdom Trade with Europe.

United Kingdom Trade with Europe.

United Kingdom Trade with Europe

United Kingdom Trade with Europe

Burma. Burma Round Table Conference, November 27th, 1931– January 12th, 1932, India. Indian Round Table Conference, September 7th– December 1st, 1931, — : Indian Round Table Conference (second session), September 7th, 1931–December 1st, 1931. Proceedings, —: Indian Round Table Conference (second session). Proceedings of the Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee [70–260], — : Conditions and Prospects of United Kingdom

Burma. Burma Round Table Conference, November 27th, 1931– January 12th, 1932, India. Indian Round Table Conference, September 7th– December 1st, 1931, — : Indian Round Table Conference (second session), September 7th, 1931–December 1st, 1931. Proceedings, —: Indian Round Table Conference (second session). Proceedings of the Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee [70–260], — : Conditions and Prospects of United Kingdom

Development of United Kingdom trade with Canada

Development of United Kingdom trade with Canada