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Animating The Classroom Pedagogical Responses To Internationlisation (2015)
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Internationalisation of the postgraduate classroom has become a feature of UK business schools, but traditional seminar-led learning often does not suit international students' learning needs. This article reports on a pilot project that used experie... Read More about Animating The Classroom Pedagogical Responses To Internationlisation.

How relevant is the choice of risk management control variable to non-parametric bank profit efficiency analysis? The case of South Korean banks (2015)
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Adopting a profit-based approach to the estimation of the technical efficiency of South Korean banks over the 2007Q3 to 2011Q2 period, we systematically analyse, within a non-parametric DEA analysis, how the choice of risk management control variable... Read More about How relevant is the choice of risk management control variable to non-parametric bank profit efficiency analysis? The case of South Korean banks.

An integrated marginal analysis approach for build-to-order products (2015)
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This paper proposes an integrated Marginal Analysis Directed Branch and Bound (MA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach to support managerial decision making. MA was developed in the 1990s to direct the design process of a complex material h... Read More about An integrated marginal analysis approach for build-to-order products.

Politics and tourism promotion: Hong Kong's myth making (2015)
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By using “crisis of identity” as background, this study analyses how post-colonial Hong Kong relies on myths that are grounded in its complex, centuries-old socio-cultural political heritage to convey through tourism an identity different and separat... Read More about Politics and tourism promotion: Hong Kong's myth making.

Global trends in the choice of exchange rate regime (2015)
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The raw data suggest that the global trend towards greater exchange rate flexibility that was evident before 1990 has since stopped. An optimum currency area (OCA) model of exchange rate regime choice is estimated. Four different schemes for classify... Read More about Global trends in the choice of exchange rate regime.

The transposition and efficacy of EU rights: indirect effect and a coming of age of state liability? (2015)
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Throughout the duration of the UK's membership of the European Union (EU), non-implementation and incorrect transposition of Directives has been commonplace. Coupled with the Court of Justice of the European Union's refusal to extend the direct effec... Read More about The transposition and efficacy of EU rights: indirect effect and a coming of age of state liability?.

Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship (2015)
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Access to finance is seen as a binding constraint on the growth of household enterprises in developing countries. We develop a principal-agent model of a household enterprise and show that limited access to finance and monitoring costs constrain the... Read More about Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship.

Co-Creation with Customers: An Evolving Innovation Research Field: Virtual Issue Editorial (2015)
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Graduate views on access to higher education: is it really a case of pulling up the ladder? (2015)
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Using as a starting point in the recent work of Mountford-Zimdars et al., the authors analyse attitudes towards expanding higher education (HE) opportunities in the UK. The authors propose that the approach of Mountford-Zimdars et al. is flawed not o... Read More about Graduate views on access to higher education: is it really a case of pulling up the ladder?.

Modern slavery challenges to supply chain management (2015)
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Purpose – This paper aims to draw attention to the challenges modern slavery poses to supply chain management. Although many international supply chains are (most often unknowingly) connected to slave labour activities, supply chain managers and res... Read More about Modern slavery challenges to supply chain management.

Incubation or induction?: gendered identity work in the context of technology business incubation (2015)
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On the adoption of personal health records: some problematic issues for patient empowerment (2015)
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Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports (2015)
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This study investigates the link between board independence and the quality of community disclosures in annual reports. Using content analysis and a panel dataset from UK FTSE350 companies the results indicate a statistically significant relationship... Read More about Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports.

Stock market dispersion, the business cycle and expected factor returns (2015)
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We provide evidence using data from the G7 countries suggesting that return dispersion may serve as an economic state variable in that it reliably predicts time-variation in economic activity, market returns, the value and momentum premia and market... Read More about Stock market dispersion, the business cycle and expected factor returns.

Modelling of building interiors with mobile phone sensor data (2015)
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Creating as-built plans of building interiors is a challenging task. In this paper we present a semi-automatic modelling system for creating residential building interior plans and their integration with existing map data to produce building models.... Read More about Modelling of building interiors with mobile phone sensor data.

How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks’ productivity: an application to emerging economies (2015)
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This paper presents a novel approach to measure efficiency and productivity decomposition in the banking systems of emerging economies with a special focus on the role of equity capital. We model the requirement to hold levels of a fixed input, i.e.... Read More about How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks’ productivity: an application to emerging economies.

Decentralized subcontractor scheduling with divisible jobs (2015)
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Subcontracting allows manufacturer agents to reduce completion times of their jobs and thus obtain savings. This paper addresses the coordination of decentralized scheduling systems with a single subcontractor and several agents having divisible jobs... Read More about Decentralized subcontractor scheduling with divisible jobs.

Towards a general theory of tax practice (2015)
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This article works towards developing a general theory of tax practice by identifying the type of individuals who provide tax services and examining the nature of the fragmented market in which they operate. The empirical studies in the tax practitio... Read More about Towards a general theory of tax practice.

Spillover effects of unionisation on non-members' wellbeing (2015)
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We investigate whether unionisation has a spillover wellbeing effect on non-members. To this end, we adapt the Social Custom Model of trade unions and conduct empirical analyses using linked employer–employee data on private establishments in Britain... Read More about Spillover effects of unionisation on non-members' wellbeing.

Contradictory yet coherent?: inconsistency in performance feedback and R&D investment change (2015)
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In this paper, we study to what extent inconsistent feedback signals about performance affect firm adaptive behavior in terms of changes made to research-and-development (R&D) investments. We argue that inconsistency in performance feedback—based on... Read More about Contradictory yet coherent?: inconsistency in performance feedback and R&D investment change.