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Of shepherds, sheep and sheepdogs?: governing the adherent self through complementary and competing ‘pastorates’ (2017)
Journal Article
Waring, J., & Latif, A. (in press). Of shepherds, sheep and sheepdogs?: governing the adherent self through complementary and competing ‘pastorates’. Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517690680

Foucault’s concept of ‘pastoral power’ describes an important technique for constituting obedient subjects. Derived from his analysis of the Christian pastorate, he saw pastoral power as a prelude to contemporary technologies of governing ‘beyond the... Read More about Of shepherds, sheep and sheepdogs?: governing the adherent self through complementary and competing ‘pastorates’.

Deliberation favours social efficiency by making people disregard their relative shares: evidence from US and India (2017)
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Capraro, V., Corgnet, B., Espín, A. M., & Hernan-Gonzalez, R. (2017). Deliberation favours social efficiency by making people disregard their relative shares: evidence from US and India. Royal Society Open Science, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160605

Groups make decisions on both the production and the distribution of resources. These decisions typically involve a tension between increasing the total level of group resources (i.e. social efficiency) and distributing these resources among group me... Read More about Deliberation favours social efficiency by making people disregard their relative shares: evidence from US and India.

Operational risk and the three lines of defence in the UK financial institutions: Is three really the magic number? (2017)
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Mabwee, K., Ring, P., & Webb, R. (in press). Operational risk and the three lines of defence in the UK financial institutions: Is three really the magic number?. Journal of Operational Risk, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.21314/JOP.2017.187

There has been growing interest in the need for financial services firms to develop and implement robust systems and structures for managing operational risk. While there now appears to be some consensus in terms of definitions, quantification and mo... Read More about Operational risk and the three lines of defence in the UK financial institutions: Is three really the magic number?.

Domestic patenting systems and foreign licensing choices (2017)
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Tsai, Y., & Mukherjee, A. (in press). Domestic patenting systems and foreign licensing choices. Journal of Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-017-0523-y

This paper examines a foreign technology holder’s licensing choices between royalty and fixed-fee scheme. We emphasize that foreign licensor chooses the quality of licensed technology when the licensee country does not implement perfect intellectual... Read More about Domestic patenting systems and foreign licensing choices.

Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study (2017)
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Bhatt, P., & Ahmad, A. J. (2017). Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 29(5-6), 391-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2017.1287961

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. New sources of finance within the label of ‘impact investing’ have emerged as mechanisms to promote entrepreneurship within marginalized communities. Different vehicles for impact invest... Read More about Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study.

Unpacking the indirect effects and consequences of environmental regulation (2017)
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Tan, K. H., Chung, L., Shi, L., & Chiu, A. (2017). Unpacking the indirect effects and consequences of environmental regulation. International Journal of Production Economics, 186, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.01.017

Environmental regulation and its corresponding measures and control is an important issue but have not been fully investigated. Literature on the unintended consequences of regulation control and measures appears to be sparse. Through a series of exp... Read More about Unpacking the indirect effects and consequences of environmental regulation.

More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work (2017)
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Kelemen, M., Mangan, A., & Moffat, S. (2017). More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work. Sociology, 51(6), 1239-1256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517692512

Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collectiv... Read More about More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work.

Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks (2017)
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Busse, C., Schleper, M. C., Weilenmann, J., & Wagner, S. M. (2017). Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-02-2015-0043

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how buying firms facing low supply chain visibility can utilize their stakeholder network to identify salient supply chain sustainability risks (SCSR). Design/methodology/approach – The study empl... Read More about Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks.

A contractual analysis of state versus private ownership (2017)
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Jiang, K., & Wang, S. (2017). A contractual analysis of state versus private ownership. China Economic Review, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.01.011

We uniquely analyze the advantages and disadvantages of private ownership versus state ownership under various circumstances by focusing on three aspects: external risk, internal governance, and relative importance of owners versus managers. Our theo... Read More about A contractual analysis of state versus private ownership.

Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market revisited (2017)
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Basak, D., & Mukherjee, A. (2017). Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market revisited. Economics Letters, 153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.01.021

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics Letters, 124: 122-126) show that, in a vertically related market, Cournot competition yields higher social welfare than Bertrand compe... Read More about Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market revisited.

A study on decision-making of food supply chain based on big data (2017)
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Ji, G., Hu, L., & Tan, K. H. (2017). A study on decision-making of food supply chain based on big data. Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, 26(2), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-016-5320-6

As more and more companies have captured and analyzed huge volumes of data to improve the performance of supply chain, this paper develops a big data harvest model that uses big data as inputs to make more informed production decisions in the food su... Read More about A study on decision-making of food supply chain based on big data.

Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting (2017)
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Chesney, T., Gold, S., & Trautrims, A. (2017). Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting. Decision Support Systems, 95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.01.004

We propose the use of agent based modelling to create a shadow account, that is, a secondary account of a business which is used to audit or verify the primary ac¬count. Such a model could be used to test the claims of industries and businesses. For... Read More about Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting.

Multi-vehicle prize collecting arc routing for connectivity problem (2017)
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Akbari, V., & Salman, F. S. (2017). Multi-vehicle prize collecting arc routing for connectivity problem. Computers and Operations Research, 82, 52-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2017.01.007

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd For effective disaster response, roads should be cleared or repaired to provide accessibility and relief services to the affected people in shortest time. We study an arc routing problem that aims to regain the connectivity of the... Read More about Multi-vehicle prize collecting arc routing for connectivity problem.

Investor reaction to IFRS for financial instruments in Europe: the role of firm-specific factors (2017)
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Onali, E., Ginesti, G., & Ballestra, L. V. (2017). Investor reaction to IFRS for financial instruments in Europe: the role of firm-specific factors. Finance Research Letters, 21, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2017.01.002

We examine the market reaction to events related to the standard-setting process of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 for over 3,000 European firms that have adopted IFRS. We find that the market reaction to IFRS 9 is largely affect... Read More about Investor reaction to IFRS for financial instruments in Europe: the role of firm-specific factors.

“I’m a Red River local”: rock climbing mobilities and community hospitalities (2017)
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Rickly, J. (2017). “I’m a Red River local”: rock climbing mobilities and community hospitalities. Tourist Studies, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797616685648

With individuals continually on the move, mobility fosters constellations of places at which individuals collectively moor and perform community. By focusing on one climbing destination – the Red River Gorge – this paper works across scales to highli... Read More about “I’m a Red River local”: rock climbing mobilities and community hospitalities.

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications (2017)
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Canavan, B. (2017). Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25(9), 1322-1337. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2016.1263309

The concept of narcissism normalisation suggests that individuals and societies are becoming more narcissistic due to various cultural influences. Tourism is reviewed here as one such possible influence. Exploitative, entitled and exhibitionistic ten... Read More about Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications.

Supply chain integration strategies in fast evolving industries (2017)
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Sabet, E., Yazdani, N., & De Leeuw, S. (2017). Supply chain integration strategies in fast evolving industries. International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 28(1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-01-2015-0013

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define the “fast evolving industry” (FEI) and its supply chain management (SCM) challenges. The authors review and structure the literature regarding integration strategies and implementation methods to devel... Read More about Supply chain integration strategies in fast evolving industries.

Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach (2017)
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Lwin, K. T., Qu, R., & MacCarthy, B. L. (2017). Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 260(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.01.005

Portfolio optimization involves the optimal assignment of limited capital to different available financial assets to achieve a reasonable trade-off between profit and risk. We consider an alternative Markowitz's mean-variance model, in which the vari... Read More about Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach.