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Emancipation through digital entrepreneurship: a critical realist analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Martinez Dy, A. C., Marlow, S., & Martin, L. (2018). Emancipation through digital entrepreneurship: a critical realist analysis. Organization, 25(5), 585-608. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418777891

Digital entrepreneurship is presented in popular discourse as a means to empowerment and greater economic participation for under-resourced and socially marginalised people. However, this emancipatory rhetoric relies on a flat ontology that does not... Read More about Emancipation through digital entrepreneurship: a critical realist analysis.

The role of transaction costs and risk aversion when selecting between one and two regimes for portfolio models (2018)
Journal Article
Platanakis, E., Sakkas, A., & Sutcliffe, C. (2019). The role of transaction costs and risk aversion when selecting between one and two regimes for portfolio models. Applied Economics Letters, 26(6), 516-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1486984

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Estimation of the inputs is the main problem when applying portfolio analysis, and Markov regime-switching models have been shown to improve these estimates. We investigate wheth... Read More about The role of transaction costs and risk aversion when selecting between one and two regimes for portfolio models.

Reframing informal tourism entrepreneurial practices: Capital and field relations structuring the informal tourism economy of Chiang Mai (2018)
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Çakmak, E., Lie, R., & McCabe, S. (2018). Reframing informal tourism entrepreneurial practices: Capital and field relations structuring the informal tourism economy of Chiang Mai. Annals of Tourism Research, 72, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2018.06.003

This article examines the types of capitals possessed by informal tourism entrepreneurs and locates their value within the field relations that orders their contribution to the tourism system. Bourdieu’s theory on fields and capitals was applied to e... Read More about Reframing informal tourism entrepreneurial practices: Capital and field relations structuring the informal tourism economy of Chiang Mai.

What managers can do to keep women in engineering (2018)
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Fernando, D., Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2018). What managers can do to keep women in engineering. Harvard Business Review,

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. Much has been written about why women in the field leave,... Read More about What managers can do to keep women in engineering.

Interactive Network Branding: Creating corporate identity and reputation through interpersonal interaction (2018)
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Koporcic, N., & Halinen, A. (2018). Interactive Network Branding: Creating corporate identity and reputation through interpersonal interaction. IMP Journal, 12(2), 392-408. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMP-05-2017-0026

Purpose – This study examines Interactive Network Branding (INB) as an emergent process where the corporate identity and reputation of a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) are created through interpersonal interaction. The INB process is sociall... Read More about Interactive Network Branding: Creating corporate identity and reputation through interpersonal interaction.

Move over Nelly: lessons from 30 years of employment-based initial teacher education in England (2018)
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Youens, B., Smethem, L., & Simmons, M. (in press). Move over Nelly: lessons from 30 years of employment-based initial teacher education in England. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 24(7), https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2018.1481025

Recruiting, preparing and retaining high-quality teachers are recurrent themes of local, national and international education agendas. Traditional university-led forms of teacher education continue to be challenged, and defended, as nations strive to... Read More about Move over Nelly: lessons from 30 years of employment-based initial teacher education in England.

Common Threats and Managing Reputation in Executive Search Firms (2018)
Journal Article
Harvey, W. S., Beaverstock, J. V., & Li, H. (2019). Common Threats and Managing Reputation in Executive Search Firms. British Journal of Management, 30(4), 847-868. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12312

A free video abstract to accompany this article can be found online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziwDorbeGU. This paper provides important insights into how executive search firms can successfully manage their reputations to overcome major th... Read More about Common Threats and Managing Reputation in Executive Search Firms.

Creating value: value co-creation and value destruction (2018)
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Stokes, P., Mahajan, G., Lucas, G. J., & Hughes, P. (2018). Creating value: value co-creation and value destruction. Global Focus - the EFMD Business Magazine, 12(2), 44-47

Historically, value has been understood largely in economic terms centred on, for example, notions of price, cost, profits and shareholder wealth. However, contemporary understandings of value also point at value being created through and around prod... Read More about Creating value: value co-creation and value destruction.

Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda (2018)
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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)
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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)
Journal Article
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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?.