Outputs (234)

Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector (2021)
Book Chapter
Jardine, A., Trautrims, A., & Gardner, A. (2021). Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector. In S. Gold, M. G. Arnold, J. N. Muthuri, & X. Rueda (Eds.), Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries: Innovation and challenges to sustainability. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Hand car washing, the process of washing a vehicle by hand, is a relatively new business activity in the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to 2004, hand car washes (HCWs) were virtually non-existent (Clark & Colling, 2018). However, it is estimated that bet... Read More about Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector.

Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan (2021)
Journal Article
Lin, Y., Kelemen, M., & Kiyomiya, T. (2021). Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan. Journal of Organization and Discourse, 2(1), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.36605/jscos.2.1_32

Post-disaster tourism is an important reconstruction strategy for communities affected by natural disasters. In shrinking rural communities that also experience depopulation and aging as general trends, the need to develop proactive resilient practic... Read More about Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan.

Non-executive female directors and earnings management using classification shifting (2021)
Journal Article
Zalata, A. M., & Abdelfattah, T. (2021). Non-executive female directors and earnings management using classification shifting. Journal of Business Research, 134, 301-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.04.063

Prior business studies have focused on the role of non-executive female directors in constraining accruals-based earnings management with relatively less attention paid to other less risky earnings management methods. In contrast to these studies, we... Read More about Non-executive female directors and earnings management using classification shifting.

Feeding A Rich Nation. Modern Slavery Reporting In UK Agriculture (2021)
Book Chapter
Trautrims, A., & Phillips, A. (2021). Feeding A Rich Nation. Modern Slavery Reporting In UK Agriculture. In S. Gold, M. Gabriele Arnold, J. N. Muthuri, & X. Rueda (Eds.), Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries Innovation and challenges to sustainability. Routledge

New Evidence on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and the Use of Equity Capital (2021)
Journal Article
Beniemlih, M., Bitar, M., Erragraui, E., & Peillex, J. (2021). New Evidence on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and the Use of Equity Capital. Management International, 25(2), 200-217. https://doi.org/10.7202/1077792ar

In this paper, we study the reverse U-shaped relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and firms’ use of equity capital. Using a large sample of U.S. publicly listed companies, we provide strong evidence that CSR is positively associ... Read More about New Evidence on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and the Use of Equity Capital.

Social efficiency of entry: implications of network externalities (2021)
Journal Article
Basak, D., & Petrakis, E. (2021). Social efficiency of entry: implications of network externalities. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 30(4), 820-829. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12431

We examine the welfare effects of entry in the presence of network externalities. We show that if network goods are fully incompatible, entry is socially insufficient as long as the entry cost is high, the goods are sufficiently differentiated, and t... Read More about Social efficiency of entry: implications of network externalities.

Organisational accreditation, workforce training and perceptions of performance (2021)
Journal Article
Haile, G. (2021). Organisational accreditation, workforce training and perceptions of performance. Industrial Relations Journal, 52(4), 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12327

The paper examines if the 'Investors in People' (IiP) organisational accreditation scheme promoted worker training and organisational performance in Britain using a panel of organisations. DID matching estimators relating to both employee and employe... Read More about Organisational accreditation, workforce training and perceptions of performance.

Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Choy, M. W., & Kamoche, K. (2022). Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis. Tourism Economics, 28(4), 1101-1128. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166211018286

This study adopts an exploratory sequential mixed method approach to examine perceptions of Hong Kong travel agencies on factors influencing recommendation of Kenya travel products. First, we conducted 32 in-depth interviews with outbound travel prac... Read More about Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis.

Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test? (2021)
Journal Article
Halie, G. (2022). Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(3), 1467-1487. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X211014258

The article examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and workplace job satisfaction (JS) using data from WERS2011. Controlling for a rich set of workplace characteristics including organisational culture, the study finds a significant nega... Read More about Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?.

Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: the technical, moral and facilitating role of management control (2021)
Journal Article
Passetti, E., Battaglia, M., Bianchi, L., & Annesi, N. (2021). Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: the technical, moral and facilitating role of management control. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(6), 1430-1444. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-08-2020-4839

Purpose: The study analyses how management control supports the organisation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Design/methodology/approach: Video interviews with top and middle-level managers who were directly involved in handling the res... Read More about Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: the technical, moral and facilitating role of management control.