John Stanworth

Biographic Data

ID259595
NAMEJohn Stanworth
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEStanworth
SIGNATURESTANWORTH J
AFFILIATIONSSchool of Management Studies, Polytechnic of Central London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS62
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
H-INDEX4

  • Self-Employment Career Dynamics: The Case of 'Unemployment Push' in UK Book Publishing

    Open AccessBill Granger, John Stanworth et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society1995Cited by: 35References: 7

    The recent revival of self-employment in the UK and other advanced industrialized economies has been viewed contrastingly as an indication of economic vitality and, alternatively, as a form of labour market deficiency. These different perceptions rest essentially on two opposing processes of entry into self-employment -'entrepreneurial pull' and `unemployment push'. The research reported here, into freelancing in book publishing, reveals patterns…

  • Perspectives on a Decade of Small Business Research. Bolton Ten Years On

    N J Kavanagh, John Stanworth et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1984

    Journal Article Perspectives on a Decade of Small Business Research. Bolton Ten Years On Get access Perspectives on a Decade of Small Business Research. Bolton Ten Years On. Edited by JOHN STANWORTH, AVA WESTRIP, DAVID WATKINS et at. (Aldershot: Gower, 1982. Pp. xiii + 199. £14.50.)Stimulating Small Firms. Edited by DAVID WATKINS, JOHN STANWORTH and AVA WESTRIP. (Aldershot: Gower, 1982. Pp. vii + 273. £16.50.) N. J. Kavanagh N. J. Kavanagh Univer…

  • The Social Dynamics of the Small Manufacturing Enterprise

    Open AccessJames Curran, John StanworthARTICLEJournal of Management Studies1981

  • A New Look at Job Satisfaction in the Small Firm

    Open AccessJames Curran, John StanworthARTICLEHuman Relations1981Cited by: 9References: 19

    The widely accepted view that job satisfaction is higher among workers in small firms than their large-firm counterparts, especially in terms of non-monetary and expressive aspects of work, is critically examined. Workers employed in small and large firms in the printing and electronics industries were surveyed using a semistructured interview strategy. Job satisfaction was related to work environment and also nonwork influences such as family li…

  • Worker Involvement and Social Relations in the Small Firm

    Open AccessJames Curran, John StanworthARTICLEThe Sociological Review1979Cited by: 10

  • Self-Selection and the Small Firm Worker-A Critique and an Alternative View

    Open AccessJames Curran, John StanworthARTICLESociology1979Cited by: 8References: 9

    The thesis that some manual workers gradually develop a stable set of orientations which leads them to choose to work for small rather than large firms is tested against data from a study of small and large firm workers in the printing and electronics industries. Little support is found for the thesis and an alternative view is presented which suggests that the main reasons why some manual workers come to work in small firms are connected with th…