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Accounting for the Extractive Industries: Controversies and a Need for Harmonisation (2018)
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The oil and gas industry is international in nature and being operated, in most, by multinational companies. However, accounting for the activities of the oil and gas industry is being practiced by using different methods. These methods produce incom... Read More about Accounting for the Extractive Industries: Controversies and a Need for Harmonisation.

Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach (2018)
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Using an agent-based model we explore the model of slavery in modern business developed by Crane (2013). Taking the Spanish agricultural sector—specifically the area of Campo de Dalías in Almería where much of Europe's vegetables are grown—as a case,... Read More about Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach.

Resilience orchestration and resilience facilitation: how government can orchestrate the whole UK ports market with limited resources: the case of UK ports resilience (2018)
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Government departments have limited resources but they are responsible for the healthy functioning of whole markets. This tension is amplified by the opportunities to generate, share and use information from new data sources and digital technologies.... Read More about Resilience orchestration and resilience facilitation: how government can orchestrate the whole UK ports market with limited resources: the case of UK ports resilience.

Spectacle and adventure philanthropy (2018)
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While humanitarian tourism is increasingly examined from critical theory perspectives (see Ingram, 2011; Mostafanezhad, 2013, 2104; Simpson, 2004), less attention has been given to the role of media and spectacle in the enactment of this type of tour... Read More about Spectacle and adventure philanthropy.

The benefits of international volunteering in a low-resource setting: development of a core outcome set (2018)
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Background: Qualitative narrative analysis and case studies form the majority of the current peer-reviewed literature about the benefits of professional volunteering or international placements for healthcare professionals. These often describe gener... Read More about The benefits of international volunteering in a low-resource setting: development of a core outcome set.

Portfolio sales and signaling (2018)
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This paper extends the DeMarzo and Duffie (1999) signaling model from single sales to portfolio sales. It shows that the extended model can account for retention of low quality assets and help explain why retained assets may be of varying quality.

The passing of the postmodern in pop? Epochal consumption and marketing from Madonna, through Gaga, to Taylor (2018)
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Using the literature-in-marketing approach this study explores the transition said to be occurring in contemporary culture, society and philosophy between the waning postmodern and the ascendant post-postmodern. Research gauges a complex unfolding so... Read More about The passing of the postmodern in pop? Epochal consumption and marketing from Madonna, through Gaga, to Taylor.

What are the main drivers for public policies to prevent healthcare-associated infections? (2018)
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Creditor rights and bank capital decisions: Conventional vs. Islamic banking (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Using a sample of banks operating in 24 countries, we provide robust evidence that stronger creditor rights are associated with higher capital adequacy ratios for conventional banks but not for Islamic banks. Such results suggest... Read More about Creditor rights and bank capital decisions: Conventional vs. Islamic banking.

Quadratic effects of dynamic decision-making capability on innovation orientation and performance: Evidence from Chinese exporters (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Inc. This study examines quadratic effects of three export decision-making approaches (planning, creativity and spontaneity) on innovation orientation, and the direct effect of innovation orientation on export market performance. The... Read More about Quadratic effects of dynamic decision-making capability on innovation orientation and performance: Evidence from Chinese exporters.

Centralized Trading, Transparency, and Interest Rate Swap Market Liquidity: Evidence from the Implementation of the Dodd–Frank Act (2018)
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We use proprietary transaction data on interest rate swaps to assess the effects of centralized trading, as mandated by Dodd-Frank, on market quality. Contracts with the most extensive centralized trading see liquidity metrics improve by between 12%... Read More about Centralized Trading, Transparency, and Interest Rate Swap Market Liquidity: Evidence from the Implementation of the Dodd–Frank Act.

Regards critiques en supply chain management (2018)
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Cet article se propose d'approfondir la réflexion en Supply Chain Management (SCM) sur les contributions potentielles des Critical Management Studies (CMS). Celles-ci invitent à une réflexivité radicale interrogeant les fondements ontologiques et épi... Read More about Regards critiques en supply chain management.

Shareholder voting in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from the UK (2018)
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This paper examines the determinants and consequences of shareholder voting on mergers and acquisitions using a sample of resolutions approved by shareholders of UK publicly listed firms from 1997 to 2015. We find that dissent on M&A resolutions is n... Read More about Shareholder voting in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from the UK.

Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire (2018)
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Eating ethically involves a plethora of activities, being both a contingent and a challenging practice (Williams et al, 2015). The desire to be more ethical in our food choices is connected to anxieties over food consumption, including how and what w... Read More about Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire.

International Perspectives on Securing Human and Social Rights and Diversity Gains at Work in the Aftermath of the Global Economic Crisis and in Times of Austerity (2018)
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© 2018 European Academy of Management This editorial illuminates the evidence of how human and social rights and diversity gains at work are under attack in the aftermath of the global economic crisis and in times of austerity. We provide a brief ove... Read More about International Perspectives on Securing Human and Social Rights and Diversity Gains at Work in the Aftermath of the Global Economic Crisis and in Times of Austerity.

Investigating behavioural and computational approaches for defining imprecise regions (2018)
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People often communicate with reference to informally agreed places, such as ‘the city centre’. However, views of the spatial extent of such areas may vary and result in imprecise regions. We compare perceptions of Sheffield’s City Centre from a stre... Read More about Investigating behavioural and computational approaches for defining imprecise regions.

Complementarity versus substitutability of dynamic and operational capabilities in B2B firms: A configurational approach (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Despite extensive research into dynamic and operational capabilities, understanding of their interplay is still scant. Both complementary and substitutive roles have been proposed in prior conceptual studies, but only limited sys... Read More about Complementarity versus substitutability of dynamic and operational capabilities in B2B firms: A configurational approach.

The challenge of inclusive coproduction: the importance of situated rituals and emotional inclusivity in the coproduction of health research projects (2018)
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Previous studies highlight that coproduced research initiatives are influenced by how individuals interact together, and that group inclusivity amongst diverse members is crucial. However, it not fully understood how inclusivity is sustained over tim... Read More about The challenge of inclusive coproduction: the importance of situated rituals and emotional inclusivity in the coproduction of health research projects.

Introducing national healthcare safety investigation bodies (2018)
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Seasonality in the cross section of stock returns: Advanced markets versus emerging markets (2018)
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We extend the studies of stock return seasonality by Heston and Sadka (2008, 2010) to a comprehensive sample of 42 international markets, including 21 advanced markets and 21 emerging markets. The empirical results show a large variation in stock sea... Read More about Seasonality in the cross section of stock returns: Advanced markets versus emerging markets.