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Group Decision Support and Social Software Techniques for PLM Decision Making (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Pasley, R., & MaCarthy, B. (2013). Group Decision Support and Social Software Techniques for PLM Decision Making

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a common concern in industry. The whole cycle view allows faster product development with more control of risks and processes. Through PLM quality and effectiveness of product development and planning can be impr... Read More about Group Decision Support and Social Software Techniques for PLM Decision Making.

Creating a Corpus of Geospatial Natural Language (2013)
Book Chapter
Stock, K., Pasley, R. C., Gardner, Z., Brindley, P., Morley, J., & Cialone, C. (2013). Creating a Corpus of Geospatial Natural Language. In T. Tenbrink, J. Stell, A. Galton, & Z. Wood (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory: 11th International Conference, COSIT 2013, Scarborough, UK, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings (279-298). Spatial Information Theory: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7_16

The description of location using natural language is of interest for a number of research activities including the automated interpretation and generation of natural language to ease interaction with geographic information systems. For such activiti... Read More about Creating a Corpus of Geospatial Natural Language.

The role of hedonism in ethical tourism (2013)
Journal Article
Malone, S., Smith, A., & McCabe, S. (2014). The role of hedonism in ethical tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 44, 241-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2013.10.005

This paper investigates the role of emotion in the ethical choice processes of tourists. Specifically, it explores how hedonism is experienced and the links between hedonic experiences and intentions for future ethical behaviour. It adopts an interpr... Read More about The role of hedonism in ethical tourism.

Managerial Delegation, Cost Asymmetry and Social Efficiency of Entry (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Tsai, Y. (2014). Managerial Delegation, Cost Asymmetry and Social Efficiency of Entry. Economic Record, 90(288), 90-97. doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12079

This article examines the welfare implications of entry in oligopolistic markets with separation of management from ownership. In the presence of strategic managerial delegation and cost asymmetry, entry is socially insufficient unless the degree of... Read More about Managerial Delegation, Cost Asymmetry and Social Efficiency of Entry.

Towards optimal symbolization for time series comparisons (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, G., Goulding, J., & Barrack, D. (2013). Towards optimal symbolization for time series comparisons. In 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2013.59

The abundance and value of mining large time series data sets has long been acknowledged. Ubiquitous in fields ranging from astronomy, biology and web science the size and number of these datasets continues to increase, a situation exacerbated by the... Read More about Towards optimal symbolization for time series comparisons.

Patent protection under endogenous product differentiation (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (2014). Patent protection under endogenous product differentiation. Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, 21(1), 78-93. doi:10.1080/16081625.2014.858389

It is generally believed that, if weak patent protection does not affect innovation, it makes consumers and society better off compared to strong patent protection by increasing the intensity of competition. We show that this conclusion may not be va... Read More about Patent protection under endogenous product differentiation.

Did Bank Indonesia cause the credit crunch of 2006–2008? (2013)
Journal Article
Mustikaa, G., Suryatin, E., Djaafara, R., Hall, M. J. B., & Simper, R. (2015). Did Bank Indonesia cause the credit crunch of 2006–2008?. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 44(2), 269-298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-013-0406-4

© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Bank lending in Indonesia slowed dramatically during the period 2006–2008 while, at the same time, the banks’ holdings of short-term public sector (and other riskless) securities increased substantial... Read More about Did Bank Indonesia cause the credit crunch of 2006–2008?.

The Wage and Employment Consequences of Ownership Change (2013)
Journal Article
Amess, K., Girma, S., & Wright, M. (2014). The Wage and Employment Consequences of Ownership Change. Managerial and Decision Economics, 35(2), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.2650

This paper provides a comparative examination of the consequences of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and corporate takeovers on employment growth and wage growth. Employing both difference-in-differences combined with propensity score matching and the contr... Read More about The Wage and Employment Consequences of Ownership Change.

Developing a performance indicator for psychosocial risk in the oil and gas industry (2013)
Journal Article
Vestly Bergh, L. I., Hinna, S., Leka, S., & Jain, A. (2014). Developing a performance indicator for psychosocial risk in the oil and gas industry. Safety Science, 62, 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2013.08.005

Psychosocial risks in the oil and gas industry can have a significant impact on health and safety outcomes and must be handled in the same manner as other operational risks. A sustainable and comprehensive system for psychosocial risk management shou... Read More about Developing a performance indicator for psychosocial risk in the oil and gas industry.

Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures (2013)
Journal Article
Park, J., & Harris, S. (2014). Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures. International Business Review, 23(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.08.011

IJV research highlights the importance of learning in international joint ventures (IJVs) but has not indicated how to achieve it. We combine organizational learning and internationalization process research within a microfoundations framework to und... Read More about Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures.

Decision making and decision support within new product development (2013)
Book Chapter
MacCarthy, B. L., & Pasley, R. (2013). Decision making and decision support within new product development. In E. Nikoi, & K. Boateng (Eds.), Collaborative Communication Processes and Decision Making in Organizations (258-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4478-6.ch014

© 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. There is an extensive literature on new product and process development (NPD). However, the analysis of decision-making and decision support requirements in this area is less well researched. The authors dis... Read More about Decision making and decision support within new product development.

Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets (2013)
Journal Article
Wang, J., & Gooderham, P. (2013). Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1068/c11254b

With this paper we explore how institutional changes have influenced the regional development of Yiwu City, East China. The regional development in Yiwu City can be regarded as constituting a specific model in transitional China, which revolves aroun... Read More about Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets.

Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Ray, A. (2014). Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare. Manchester School, 82(3), 284-295. doi:10.1111/manc.12015

We show the effects of entry of a new firm on the profits and welfare when the firms share the same initial cost of production but differ in terms of the costs of undertaking R&D. Considering a Cournot oligopoly model with innovation and linear deman... Read More about Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare.

Hard and soft law approaches to addressing psychosocial risks in Europe: lessons learned in the development of the Italian approach (2013)
Journal Article
Iavicoli, S., Leka, S., Jain, A., Persechino, B., Rondinone, B. M., Ronchetti, M., & Valenti, A. (2014). Hard and soft law approaches to addressing psychosocial risks in Europe: lessons learned in the development of the Italian approach. Journal of Risk Research, 17(7), 855-869. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2013.822911

Psychosocial risks in the workplace have been identified as some of the most significant emerging risks, particularly since issues such as work-related stress, which is closely linked to psychosocial risks, are widely recognised as major challenges i... Read More about Hard and soft law approaches to addressing psychosocial risks in Europe: lessons learned in the development of the Italian approach.

An investigation into minimising total energy consumption and total weighted tardiness in job shops (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Dong, H., Lohse, N., Petrovic, S., & Gindy, N. (2014). An investigation into minimising total energy consumption and total weighted tardiness in job shops. Journal of Cleaner Production, 65, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.060

Manufacturing enterprises nowadays face the challenge of increasing energy prices and requirements to reduce their emissions. Most reported work on reducing manufacturing energy consumption today focuses on the need to improve the efficiency of resou... Read More about An investigation into minimising total energy consumption and total weighted tardiness in job shops.

The gendering of entrepreneurship: theoretical and empirical insights (2013)
Journal Article
Rouse, J., Treanor, L., & Fleck, E. (2013). The gendering of entrepreneurship: theoretical and empirical insights. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 19(5), 452-459. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-06-2013-0083

Purpose This extended Editorial outlines the genesis and theoretical interests of the Gender and Enterprise Network from which this special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research emerged. In the call for papers, r... Read More about The gendering of entrepreneurship: theoretical and empirical insights.

Western Financial Agents and Islamic Ethics (2013)
Journal Article
Fang, E. S., & Foucart, R. (2014). Western Financial Agents and Islamic Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 123(3), 475-491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1850-8

This paper investigates Western professional bankers' perceptions of Islamic finance. Exploiting data from an original survey, we carry out a principal component analysis (PCA) to characterize the main dimensions on which financial agents diverge. Th... Read More about Western Financial Agents and Islamic Ethics.

Networked individuals predict a community wide outcome from their local information (2013)
Journal Article
Chesney, T. (2014). Networked individuals predict a community wide outcome from their local information. Decision Support Systems, 57, 11-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2013.07.006

The term ‘viral’ is used to describe a phenomenon that tends to be shared by those who encounter it. This paper considers the act of responding positively to a phenomenon by sharing it with others, something exemplified by the online social media act... Read More about Networked individuals predict a community wide outcome from their local information.