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Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda (2018)
Journal Article
Gaggero, A., Appleton, S., & Song, L. (2018). Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda. Journal- Economic Science Association, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-018-0049-2

In this study we investigate the effect of framing on bribery behaviour. To do this, we replicate Barr and Serra (Exp Econ, 12(4):488–503, (2009) and carry out a simple one-shot bribery game that mimics corruption. In one treatment, we presented the... Read More about Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda.

On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective (2018)
Journal Article
Touboulic, A., Matthews, L., & Marques, L. (2018). On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective. Supply Chain Management, 23(4), 313-335. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-06-2017-0214

Purpose: In acknowledging the reality of climate change, large firms have set internal and external (supplier oriented) targets to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study explores the complex processes behind the evolution and diffusi... Read More about On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective.

Navigating sexualised visibility: A study of British women engineers (2018)
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Fernando, D., Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2019). Navigating sexualised visibility: A study of British women engineers. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 113, 6-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.001

In this article we use the term 'sexualised visibility' to describe how in male dominated work settings such as engineering, women are inscribed with sexual attributes that overshadow and obscure other attributes and values. From a career point of vi... Read More about Navigating sexualised visibility: A study of British women engineers.

Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania (2018)
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Bridges, S., Gaggero, A., & Owens, T. (2018). Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania

While a large body of literature documents the existence of informal arrangements to share risk across and within households, there has been little research on the various coping strategies through which risk sharing takes place, and how these strate... Read More about Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania.

The fool, the hero, and the sage: narratives of non-consumption as role distance from an urban consumer-self (2018)
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Nixon, E. (2020). The fool, the hero, and the sage: narratives of non-consumption as role distance from an urban consumer-self. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 20(1), 44-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2018.1467317

One fruitful perspective with which to think differently about the consuming subject in affluent capitalist societies can be found in the field of non-consumption. Whilst ‘choices’ not to buy, own and use are often tacit in analyses of social class d... Read More about The fool, the hero, and the sage: narratives of non-consumption as role distance from an urban consumer-self.

Sharing vocabularies: towards horizontal alignment of values-driven business functions (2018)
Journal Article
Painter-Morland, M., Pouryousefi, S., Hibbert, S., & Russon, J. (2019). Sharing vocabularies: towards horizontal alignment of values-driven business functions. Journal of Business Ethics, 155(4), 965–979. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3901-7

This paper highlights the emergence of different ‘vocabularies’ that describe various values-driven business functions within large organisations and argues for improved horizontal alignment between them. We investigate two established functions that... Read More about Sharing vocabularies: towards horizontal alignment of values-driven business functions.

Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects (2018)
Journal Article
Lam, B., Philips, M., Kelemen, M., Zamenopoulos, T., Moffat, S., & de Sousa, S. (2018). Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects. Design Journal, 21(4), 605-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2018.1469329

This paper aims to explore the types of spaces and experiences that are created by design and creative practices. More specifically, it focuses on how design and creative practices can engender transformations in the mindset, knowledge, emotions and... Read More about Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects.

Nerlovian revenue inefficiency in a bank production context: evidence from Shinkin banks (2018)
Journal Article
Fukuyama, H., & Matousek, R. (2018). Nerlovian revenue inefficiency in a bank production context: evidence from Shinkin banks. European Journal of Operational Research, 271(1), 317-330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.05.008

The paper further advances the contemporary methodological and empirical research on bank efficiency. We introduce a bank two-stage network revenue decomposition analysis based on the slack-based directional inefficiency measurement framework, by bui... Read More about Nerlovian revenue inefficiency in a bank production context: evidence from Shinkin banks.

New digital infrastructure, cross-border e-commerce and global vision of creating Electronic World Trade Platform (2018)
Journal Article
Ma, S., Chai, Y., Wang, J., & Duan, Y. (2018). New digital infrastructure, cross-border e-commerce and global vision of creating Electronic World Trade Platform. Global Trade and Customs Journal, 13(4), 157-167

The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce has integrated with the global economy more closely in the past decade. How to create global digital customs to facilitate cross-border e-commerce on the basis of national Single Window system has beco... Read More about New digital infrastructure, cross-border e-commerce and global vision of creating Electronic World Trade Platform.

The effects of online reviews on service expectations: do cultural value orientations matter? (2018)
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Nath, P., Devlin, J., & Reid, V. (2018). The effects of online reviews on service expectations: do cultural value orientations matter?. Journal of Business Research, 90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.05.001

This study aims to explore the moderating influence of cultural value orientations of consumers on their use of positive and negative electronic word of mouth eWOM (PWOM and NWOM) to develop service expectations. It uses two experimental studies. Stu... Read More about The effects of online reviews on service expectations: do cultural value orientations matter?.

Can parents protect their children? Risk comparison analysis between affiliates of multi- and single-bank holding companies (2018)
Journal Article
Ly, K. C., Liu, F. H., & Opong, K. (2018). Can parents protect their children? Risk comparison analysis between affiliates of multi- and single-bank holding companies. Journal of Financial Stability, 37, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2018.05.001

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. We find that multi-bank holding companies (MBHCs) in the U.S. have lower insolvency risk than single-bank holding companies (SBHCs) at the parent level, but have significantly higher insolvency risk than the latter at the subsidi... Read More about Can parents protect their children? Risk comparison analysis between affiliates of multi- and single-bank holding companies.

Anticipating or accommodating to public concern?: risk amplification and the politics of precaution re-examined (2018)
Journal Article
Wardman, J. K., & Lofstedt, R. (2018). Anticipating or accommodating to public concern?: risk amplification and the politics of precaution re-examined. Risk Analysis, 38(9), 1802-1819. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12997

Regulatory use of the Precautionary Principle (PP) tends to be broadly characterized either as a responsible approach for safeguarding against health and environmental risks in the face of scientific uncertainties, or as ‘state mismanagement’ driven... Read More about Anticipating or accommodating to public concern?: risk amplification and the politics of precaution re-examined.

Managing health, safety and well-being: ethics, responsibility and sustainability (2018)
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Jain, A., Leka, S., & Zwetsloot, G. I. (2018). Managing health, safety and well-being: ethics, responsibility and sustainability. Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1261-1

To achieve sustainable progress in workplace and societal functioning and development, it is essential to align perspectives for the management of health, safety and well-being. Employers are responsible for providing every individual with a working... Read More about Managing health, safety and well-being: ethics, responsibility and sustainability.

Developing human capital in Africa: carving a role for human resource professionals and practitioners (2018)
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Mamman, A., Kamoche, K., Zakaria, H. B., & Agbedi, M. (2018). Developing human capital in Africa: carving a role for human resource professionals and practitioners. Human Resource Development International, 21(5), 444-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2018.1464290

Africa is a continent with remarkable economic potential yet the least developed largely due to its inadequate human capital to transform this potential into social and economic development. The focus on provision of classroom education as the corner... Read More about Developing human capital in Africa: carving a role for human resource professionals and practitioners.

Governance and effects of public R&D subsidies: evidence from China (2018)
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Guo, D., Guo, Y., & Jiang, K. (2018). Governance and effects of public R&D subsidies: evidence from China. Technovation, 74-75, 18-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2018.04.001

This study examines the effects of public research and development (R&D) subsidies and the governance of such subsidies on firm productivity based on the analysis of a firm-level panel dataset between 1998 and 2007 in China. It is found that public R... Read More about Governance and effects of public R&D subsidies: evidence from China.

Analyzing key influences of tourists’ acceptance of online reviews in travel decisions (2018)
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Chong, A. Y. L., Khong, K. W., Ma, T., McCabe, S., & Wang, Y. (2018). Analyzing key influences of tourists’ acceptance of online reviews in travel decisions. Internet Research, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/IntR-05-2017-0212

Purpose: This study aims to examine what influence travelers’ adoption of online reviews, and whether the online reviews will influence their travel planning decisions. Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected from 193 respondents from eWOM w... Read More about Analyzing key influences of tourists’ acceptance of online reviews in travel decisions.

What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on (2018)
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Fernando, D., Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2018). What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on. Human Resource Management Journal, 28(3), 479-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12192

We have considerable understanding of the obstacles that women engineers encounter and the reasons that they leave the field, but we know less about what enables them to remain. Adopting an interpretivist approach, this article examines how a group o... Read More about What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on.

Deconstructing the 'older worker': exploring the complexities of subject positioning at the intersection of multiple discourses (2018)
Journal Article
Spedale, S. (2019). Deconstructing the 'older worker': exploring the complexities of subject positioning at the intersection of multiple discourses. Organization, 26(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418768072

This study adopts an intersectional approach to explore the complexities and contingencies of subject positioning in the case of an individual older worker. Five deconstruction strategies are applied to an older worker’s account of his experience of... Read More about Deconstructing the 'older worker': exploring the complexities of subject positioning at the intersection of multiple discourses.

Foreign direct investment, unionised labour markets and welfare (2018)
Journal Article
Cao, J., & Mukherjee, A. (2018). Foreign direct investment, unionised labour markets and welfare. International Review of Economics and Finance, 58, 330-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2018.04.004

Although empirical evidence on the relationship between labour union and foreign direct investment (FDI) is mixed, the theoretical literature mainly explains the negative relationship between labour union and FDI. We show that a multinational firm ma... Read More about Foreign direct investment, unionised labour markets and welfare.