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Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process (2020)
Journal Article
Roscoe, S., Subramanian, N., Prifti, R., & Wu, L. (2020). Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(8), 3526-3541. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2594

The purpose of this paper is to understand how companies can transition to a sustainable sales and operations planning process to improve economic, environmental and social performance. Data are collected from a survey of 120 managers in China's manu... Read More about Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process.

The adoption of open platform for container bookings in the maritime supply chain (2020)
Journal Article
Zeng, F., Chan, H. K., & Pawar, K. (2020). The adoption of open platform for container bookings in the maritime supply chain. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 141, Article 102019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102019

Information systems and technologies (IST) have been playing increasingly crucial roles in supporting the smooth running of maritime supply chain operations. The degree of acceptance of IST within the maritime sector as a whole, however, remains frag... Read More about The adoption of open platform for container bookings in the maritime supply chain.

Power, supply chain integration and quality performance of agricultural products: evidence from contract farming in China (2020)
Journal Article
Fu, S., Zhan, Y., Ouyang, J., Ding, Y., Tan, K. H., & Fu, L. (2021). Power, supply chain integration and quality performance of agricultural products: evidence from contract farming in China. Production Planning and Control, 32(13), 1119-1135. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2020.1794074

Improving the quality of agricultural products is crucial for facilitating sustainable agricultural development. One widely embraced approach is contract farming, which generates guarantees – necessary for sustaining the continuous operations of vuln... Read More about Power, supply chain integration and quality performance of agricultural products: evidence from contract farming in China.

Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry (2020)
Journal Article
Choy, M. W., & Kamoche, K. (2021). Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry. Current Issues in Tourism, 24(10), 1375-1388. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1792853

This study aims to investigate and compare the congruent and incongruent perceptions of managers and frontline employees toward employee retention in Hong Kong travel agencies. An integrated model was developed using data from 32 interviews with 16 m... Read More about Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry.

Land titling as a conflict remedy or driver? Analyzing institutional outcomes through latent and manifest conflicts in China’s forest sector (2020)
Journal Article
Krul, K., Ho, P., & Yang, X. (2021). Land titling as a conflict remedy or driver? Analyzing institutional outcomes through latent and manifest conflicts in China’s forest sector. Land Use Policy, 100, 104880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104880

Land titling programs are introduced to create a stable and secure institutional environment that effectively resolves land conflicts. However, the process of land registration may also exacerbate latent conflicts or trigger new contestation, causing... Read More about Land titling as a conflict remedy or driver? Analyzing institutional outcomes through latent and manifest conflicts in China’s forest sector.

Tail risk connectedness between US industries (2020)
Journal Article
Nguyen, L. H., Nguyen, L. X. D., & Tan, L. (2021). Tail risk connectedness between US industries. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26(3), 3624-3650. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1979

We use the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) quantile regression technique to construct and analyse the complete tail risk connectedness network of the whole US industry system. We also investigate the empirical relationship bet... Read More about Tail risk connectedness between US industries.

Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Idemudia, U., Kwakyewah, C., & Muthuri, J. (2020). Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(7), 2919-2926. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2581

Although the global norms meant to guide corporate environmental human rights conducts have steadily improved, there have been limited efforts directed at exploring whether business-related environmental human rights infringements have as a result re... Read More about Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective.

Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure? (2020)
Journal Article
Danso, A., Fosu, S., Owusu-Agyei, S., Ntim, C. G., & Adegbite, E. (2020). Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure?. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26(4), 5073-5092. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2055

We investigate firm-level determinants of capital structure using a large sample of 4,284 Japanese firms over a nineteen-year period (i.e., over 61,000 firm-year observations), a hitherto less examined sample for this purpose. We conduct our analysis... Read More about Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure?.

Increase in cash holdings of U.S. firms: The role of healthcare and technology industries (2020)
Journal Article
Li, X., & Luo, D. (2020). Increase in cash holdings of U.S. firms: The role of healthcare and technology industries. Journal of Business Research, 118, 286-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.034

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. We examine whether the high cash ratio and the secular increase in cash holdings of U.S. firms are driven by healthcare and technology industries. We find that these two industries have significantly increased their cash holdings... Read More about Increase in cash holdings of U.S. firms: The role of healthcare and technology industries.

Workforce diversity, diversity training and ethnic minorities: The case of the UK National Health Service (2020)
Journal Article
Hussain, B., Shelkh, A., Timmons, S., Stickley, T., & Repper, J. (2020). Workforce diversity, diversity training and ethnic minorities: The case of the UK National Health Service. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 20(2), 201-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470595820938412

National equality legislation in the UK entitles people of all ethnic backgrounds to be treated equally. However, public sector organisations in the UK consistently underperform in terms of experience and outcome for ethnic minority service users. Th... Read More about Workforce diversity, diversity training and ethnic minorities: The case of the UK National Health Service.