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The role of hedonism in ethical tourism (2013)
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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)
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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.

Intellectual property rights, southern innovation and foreign direct investment (2013)
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Patent protection under endogenous product differentiation (2013)
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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.

Indian bank efficiency and productivity changes with undesirable outputs: A disaggregated approach (2013)
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Did Bank Indonesia cause the credit crunch of 2006–2008? (2013)
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© 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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets (2013)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Western Financial Agents and Islamic Ethics (2013)
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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.

The gendering of entrepreneurship: theoretical and empirical insights (2013)
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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.

Networked individuals predict a community wide outcome from their local information (2013)
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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.

Innovation and survival of exporters: A contingency perspective (2013)
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We challenge the traditional view that innovations always help exporters prosper in competitive international market, by developing and testing the premise that the relationship between innovation and export performance is contingent on some importan... Read More about Innovation and survival of exporters: A contingency perspective.

The influence of university departments on the evolution of entrepreneurial competencies in spin-off ventures (2013)
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The influence of the university department upon spin-off venture evolution is complex and dynamic. We examine how the university department context influences the spin-off process from the perspectives of both the spin-off venture and the department.... Read More about The influence of university departments on the evolution of entrepreneurial competencies in spin-off ventures.

Bank governance, regulation, supervision, and risk reporting: Evidence from operational risk disclosures in European banks (2013)
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This paper investigates the direct and joint effects of bank governance, regulation, and supervision on the quality of risk reporting in the banking industry, as proxied for by operational risk disclosure (ORD) quality in European banks. After contro... Read More about Bank governance, regulation, supervision, and risk reporting: Evidence from operational risk disclosures in European banks.

New Model Introductions, Cannibalization and Market Stealing: Evidence from Shopbot Data: New Model Introductions, Cannibalization and Market Stealing (2013)
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Incremental innovation plays an important role in competitive conduct in high-tech industries. This paper explores the impact of new model introduction by employing a nested logit specification to investigate the determination of market shares across... Read More about New Model Introductions, Cannibalization and Market Stealing: Evidence from Shopbot Data: New Model Introductions, Cannibalization and Market Stealing.