Outputs (234)

COVID-19 and vision impairment: Constraints negotiation, participation, and well-being during lockdown in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Halpern, N., Rickly, J. M., Hansen, M., & Fellenor, J. (2023). COVID-19 and vision impairment: Constraints negotiation, participation, and well-being during lockdown in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 41(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/02646196211009931

In response to the Coronavirus disease, the United Kingdom (UK) government introduced lockdown measures requiring people to isolate and adhere to social distancing. This article uses Constraints Negotiation Theory to examine effects of the lockdown o... Read More about COVID-19 and vision impairment: Constraints negotiation, participation, and well-being during lockdown in the United Kingdom.

Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021)
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Boyd, D. S., Perrat, B., Li, X., Jackson, B., Landman, T., Ling, F., Bales, K., Choi-Fitzpatrick, A., Goulding, J., Marsh, S., & Foody, G. M. (2021). Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00792-z

This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the exten... Read More about Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space.

Capacity management of migrant accommodation centers using approximate dynamic programming (2021)
Journal Article
Gökalp, E., Cakir, M. S., & Kougkoulos, I. (2021). Capacity management of migrant accommodation centers using approximate dynamic programming. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2021.1907242

Irregular migration has become a major macro-economic and political challenge. Due to rising political conflicts and income inequality across the world, the number of migrants is expected to increase exponentially over the coming decade. Thus, it is... Read More about Capacity management of migrant accommodation centers using approximate dynamic programming.

The Adoption Challenge: An Analysis of Research Methods in JIBS (2021)
Journal Article
Miller, S. R., Welch, C., Chidlow, A., Nielsen, B. B., Pegoraro, D., & Karafyllia, M. (2021). The Adoption Challenge: An Analysis of Research Methods in JIBS. AIB Insights, 21(2), https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.23472

This study introduces the concepts of translational distance and complexity distance to explain challenges to adoption of research methods in JIBS. We examine three analytical techniques and data collection approaches: (1) Heckman models, (2) ethnogr... Read More about The Adoption Challenge: An Analysis of Research Methods in JIBS.

The performance of private companies in China before and during the global financial crisis: firms’ characteristics and entrepreneurs’ attributes (2021)
Journal Article
Fracasso, A., & Jiang, K. (2022). The performance of private companies in China before and during the global financial crisis: firms’ characteristics and entrepreneurs’ attributes. Economic Change and Restructuring, 55, 803–836. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-021-09329-5

This work sheds light on how firm-and entrepreneur-specific attributes covariate with Chinese private firms' growth rates before and during the global financial crisis. In order to do so, we exploit the exceptional presence of data regarding the firm... Read More about The performance of private companies in China before and during the global financial crisis: firms’ characteristics and entrepreneurs’ attributes.

Marketing ‘Literary England’ beyond the special interest tourist (2021)
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Ingram, C., Themistocleous, C., Rickly, J. M., & McCabe, S. (2021). Marketing ‘Literary England’ beyond the special interest tourist. Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2(2), 1-10

The paper examines the likelihood of mainstream (US general sample) and special interest tourists (US literary society members) travelling to English literary tourism destinations. The study applied a mixed methods approach comprising a correlational... Read More about Marketing ‘Literary England’ beyond the special interest tourist.

IT adoption and bank performance during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
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Dadoukis, A., Fiaschetti, M., & Fusi, G. (2021). IT adoption and bank performance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Economics Letters, 204, Article 109904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109904

This paper examines the impact of pre-2020 information technology (IT) adoption on bank performance during the initial stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. We show that high IT adopters performed better in terms of market returns, Tobin's q and lending.... Read More about IT adoption and bank performance during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Same Old Song with a Different Melody: The Paradox of Market Reach and Financial Performance on Digital Platforms (2021)
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Hanninen, M., & Smedlund, A. (2021). Same Old Song with a Different Melody: The Paradox of Market Reach and Financial Performance on Digital Platforms. Journal of Management Studies, 58(7), 1832-1868. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12701

In the service sector, digital platforms now enable service providers to reach customers through an online marketplace and use the value-adding complementary services offered. However, despite the widespread prevalence of digital platforms, there has... Read More about Same Old Song with a Different Melody: The Paradox of Market Reach and Financial Performance on Digital Platforms.

The influence of consumers' implicit self-theories on homestay accommodation selection (2021)
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Leung, D., Phong, L. T., Fong, L. H. N., & Zhang, C. X. (2021). The influence of consumers' implicit self-theories on homestay accommodation selection. International Journal of Tourism Research, 23(6), 1059-1072. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2462

In this study we aim to investigate whether entity and incremental theorists’ decision to choose/not choose homestay accommodation can be explained by their implicit self-theories. Drawing on data solicited from in-depth interviews with 44 travellers... Read More about The influence of consumers' implicit self-theories on homestay accommodation selection.

Fact or fiction: Implicit government guarantees in China's corporate bond market (2021)
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Walker, T., Zhang, X., Zhang, A., & Wang, Y. (2021). Fact or fiction: Implicit government guarantees in China's corporate bond market. Journal of International Money and Finance, 116, Article 102414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2021.102414

This paper explores how implicit government guarantees affect the yield spreads of Chinese corporate bonds. We argue that quasi-municipal corporate bonds ("Chengtou" bonds), issued by local government financing vehicles (LGFVs), carry an implicit gov... Read More about Fact or fiction: Implicit government guarantees in China's corporate bond market.