Still in search of organizational democracy: exploring new opportunities and constraints
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Background Moderately severe or major trauma (injury severity score (ISS) > 8) is common, often resulting in physical and psychological problems and leading to difficulties in returning to work. Vocational rehabilitation (VR) can improve return to w... Read More about Early vocational rehabilitation and psychological support for trauma patients to improve return to work (the ROWTATE trial): study protocol for an individually randomised controlled multicentre pragmatic trial.
Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment (2024)
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Underemployment is a widely discussed but complex concept. This article progresses discussions and provides a new sociological conceptualisation. It builds on a classic theory of unemployment, Jahoda et al.’s ‘latent deprivation theory’ (LDT), that i... Read More about Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment.
Loan guarantees and SMEs' investments under asymmetric information and Bayesian learning (2024)
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We develop a dynamic investment model with loan guarantees wherein insurers face information disadvantages and learn about borrower quality. Borrowers signal their qualities through investment timing, which is characterized by the investment threshol... Read More about Loan guarantees and SMEs' investments under asymmetric information and Bayesian learning.
‘Involuntary exit for personal reasons’ – A gendered critique of the business exit decision (2024)
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Women are more likely to exit from entrepreneurship for personal reasons; such exits are deemed uneventful and voluntary. We critically evaluate such assumptions by adopting a gendered critique to unpack the nature of such personal reasons arguing th... Read More about ‘Involuntary exit for personal reasons’ – A gendered critique of the business exit decision.
'A huge political experiment' - exploring the political brand positioning of political parties in Jersey from an internal-external perspective (2024)
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A political brand aims to project a differentiated and identifiable position in the minds of voters. However, there is limited understanding on the envisaged and realised positioning of political 'party' brands particularly in under-explored contexts... Read More about 'A huge political experiment' - exploring the political brand positioning of political parties in Jersey from an internal-external perspective.
Value-added Services and E-commerce Platform Competitiveness: A Game Theoretic Approach (2024)
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Purpose-In response to the intense competition in the platform economy, e-commerce platforms are actively introducing value-added services to maintain their competitiveness. However, how effective these value-added services are in fulfilling this pur... Read More about Value-added Services and E-commerce Platform Competitiveness: A Game Theoretic Approach.
A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs (2024)
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This article critically analyzes the influence of gendered ascriptions and assumptions upon support offered by female business incubation (BI) managers to female STEM entrepreneurs. We draw upon the concept of nudges to illustrate how female managers... Read More about A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs.
Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining (2024)
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We consider a bilateral monopoly where a linear input price is determined by Nash bargaining. We show with an increasing marginal cost of input production that vertical integration reduces consumer surplus and welfare compared to bilateral monopoly i... Read More about Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining.
Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost (2024)
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We provide a simple reason for export tax in a third-country model of strategic trade policy. We show that the optimal policy under Cournot competition could be export tax in the presence of convex production costs. This happens whether or not the im... Read More about Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost.
African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Trade in ICT and Digital Technologies (2024)
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This study examines the impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on regional trade in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Digital Technologies (DT) sector across 43 African countries from 2014 to 2021. Employing t... Read More about African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Trade in ICT and Digital Technologies.
Foreign direct investment and technology licensing in a polluting industry (2024)
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We consider a firm's incentive for foreign direct investment (FDI) and international technology licensing in a polluting industry. We explain the rationale and the welfare implications of complementarity between FDI and licensing, i.e., the firm's st... Read More about Foreign direct investment and technology licensing in a polluting industry.
Optimising printing fidelity of the single-nozzle based multimaterial direct ink writing for 3D food printing (2024)
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Single-nozzle based multimaterial direct ink writing enables voxel-based fabrication with superior printing efficiency than multi-nozzle protocol. This is attractive for food 3D printing process where efficiency matters for its application. However,... Read More about Optimising printing fidelity of the single-nozzle based multimaterial direct ink writing for 3D food printing.
Complementary inputs, outsourcing and vertical integration: Price versus quantity competition (2024)
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We compare the effects of price and quantity competition in an industry with complementary inputs, outsourcing and a vertically integrated firm where vertical integration occurs between a final goods producer and a subset of input suppliers. The prof... Read More about Complementary inputs, outsourcing and vertical integration: Price versus quantity competition.
Networks perceptions and job satisfaction: the mediating role of perceived organizational support for women’s work contribution (2024)
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Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between women’s networks perceptions and job satisfaction. It also examines the mediating effects of perceived organizational support (POS) for women’s work contributions on the relationship between n... Read More about Networks perceptions and job satisfaction: the mediating role of perceived organizational support for women’s work contribution.
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recovery colleges: multi-site qualitative study (2024)
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Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health problems increased as access to mental health services reduced. Recovery colleges are recovery-focused adult education initiatives delivered by people with professional and lived mental health ex... Read More about Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recovery colleges: multi-site qualitative study.
Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength (2024)
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Purpose-The call for supply chain transparency (SCT), especially the Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspect, is getting increasingly louder. Based on the signaling theory, our study investigates the operational benefit of supply chain tra... Read More about Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength.
Pro-competitive merger under R&D revisited (2024)
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Mergers may increase process innovation and become pro-competitive compared to non-cooperation if firms cannot observe rivals' R&D investments. Hence, the antitrust authorities may not need to be overly concerned about mergers when R&D investments ar... Read More about Pro-competitive merger under R&D revisited.
Key audit matters: a systematic review (2024)
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Key audit matters (KAMs) play a substantial role in financial reporting and have garnered increasing attention in recent years. This systematic review of 117 papers and reports published between 2013 and 2023 contributes to the audit and financial re... Read More about Key audit matters: a systematic review.