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A Hermeneutic Phenomenological study of Online Community Participation Applications of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (2015)
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Galehbakhtiari, S., & Pouryasouri, T. (2015). A Hermeneutic Phenomenological study of Online Community Participation Applications of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 637-643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.005

Online communities are increasingly playing a major role in the internet market. They have become an integrated part of internet users' interests and achievements. Understanding the factors which encourage individuals to participate in such communiti... Read More about A Hermeneutic Phenomenological study of Online Community Participation Applications of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.

Towards Exporting Renewable Energy from MENA Region to Europe: An Investigation into Domestic Energy Use and Householders' Energy Behaviour in Libya (2015)
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Mohamed, A. M. A., Al-Habaibeh, A., Abdo, H., & Elabar, S. (2015). Towards Exporting Renewable Energy from MENA Region to Europe: An Investigation into Domestic Energy Use and Householders' Energy Behaviour in Libya. Applied Energy, 146, 247-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.02.008

Renewable energy in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, particular solar energy, can be connected to Europe to provide the Northern neighbouring countries with electricity. To achieve this long term objective, it is necessary to understand th... Read More about Towards Exporting Renewable Energy from MENA Region to Europe: An Investigation into Domestic Energy Use and Householders' Energy Behaviour in Libya.

Borrower's moral hazard, risk premium, and welfare: a comparison of universal and stand-alone banking systems (2015)
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Banerji, S., & Basu, P. (in press). Borrower's moral hazard, risk premium, and welfare: a comparison of universal and stand-alone banking systems. Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2015.01.003

Does the unification of retail and investment banking necessarily heighten risk in financial markets? Using a simple two period intertemporal model with borrower's moral hazard and uninsured risk, we argue that the integration in financial service ma... Read More about Borrower's moral hazard, risk premium, and welfare: a comparison of universal and stand-alone banking systems.

HRD Programs in the United Kingdom (2015)
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Stewart, J., & Mills, S. (2015). HRD Programs in the United Kingdom. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 17(2), 162-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422315572619

The Problem. Very little research has examined the current state of human resource development (HRD) education in the United Kingdom, or the factors influencing its genesis and development. The Solution. We analyze historical and contemporary factors... Read More about HRD Programs in the United Kingdom.

Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform (2015)
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Hobson-West, P., & Timmons, S. (2016). Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform. Sociological Review, 64(1), 47-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12254

The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966.... Read More about Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform.

The Community In-Reach and Care Transition (CIRACT) clinical and cost-effectiveness study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
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Watson, A., Charlesworth, L., Jacob, R., Kendrick, D., Logan, P., Marshall, F., …Sahota, O. (2015). The Community In-Reach and Care Transition (CIRACT) clinical and cost-effectiveness study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16(41), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0551-2

Background Older people represent a significant proportion of patients admitted to hospital. Their care compared to younger patients is more challenging, length of stay is longer, risk of hospital-acquired problems higher and the risk of being re-... Read More about The Community In-Reach and Care Transition (CIRACT) clinical and cost-effectiveness study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

The value relevance and information content of cash and stock dividends in China (2015)
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Dedman, E., Jiang, W., & Stark, A. (2017). The value relevance and information content of cash and stock dividends in China. European Journal of Finance, 23(7-9), 648-673. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2014.996658

Due to their unique institutional features, the Chinese stock markets provide an interesting experimental setting in which to examine how cash and stock dividends convey value-relevant information about future performance and future cash dividends. A... Read More about The value relevance and information content of cash and stock dividends in China.

Mapping the public sector diaspora: towards a model of inter-sectoral cultural hybridity using evidence from the English healthcare reforms (2015)
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Waring, J. (in press). Mapping the public sector diaspora: towards a model of inter-sectoral cultural hybridity using evidence from the English healthcare reforms. Public Administration, 93(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12116

Public service reforms increasingly blur the boundaries between public and private sectors, involving hybrid modes of service organization. With growing numbers of public services being transferred to private or mutual ownership, the article interpre... Read More about Mapping the public sector diaspora: towards a model of inter-sectoral cultural hybridity using evidence from the English healthcare reforms.

The performance of US equity mutual funds (2015)
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Babalos, V., Mamatzakis, E. C., & Matousek, R. (2015). The performance of US equity mutual funds. Journal of Banking and Finance, 52, 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2014.12.008

The paper examines the performance of US no-load equity mutual funds. Fund performance is derived using stochastic frontier analysis for a flexible functional form. This analysis allows us to derive paramet-ric estimates of efficiency scores for each... Read More about The performance of US equity mutual funds.

Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs (2015)
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Mallett, O., & Wapshott, R. (2015). Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs. Work, Employment and Society, 29(2), 250-266. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014546666

The enterprise culture is a pervasive socio-historical discourse. This article adopts a narrative identity work approach to explore how individuals may exert agency to make sense of and negotiate with the structuring features of such discourses. Olde... Read More about Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs.

Harvesting big data to enhance supply chain innovation capabilities: an analytic infrastructure based on deduction graph (2015)
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Tan, K. H., Zhan, Y., Ji, G., Ye, F., & Chang, C. (2015). Harvesting big data to enhance supply chain innovation capabilities: an analytic infrastructure based on deduction graph. International Journal of Production Economics, 165, 223-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.12.034

Today, firms can access to big data (tweets, videos, click streams, and other unstructured sources) to extract new ideas or understanding about their products, customers, and markets. Thus, managers increasingly view data as an important driver of in... Read More about Harvesting big data to enhance supply chain innovation capabilities: an analytic infrastructure based on deduction graph.

Is psychosocial risk prevention possible? Deconstructing common presumptions (2015)
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Leka, S., Van Wassenhove, W., & Jain, A. K. (2015). Is psychosocial risk prevention possible? Deconstructing common presumptions. Safety Science, 71(A), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2014.03.014

This paper tackles a much debated and often misunderstood issue in the modern world of work, psychosocial risks. Although the prevalence and impact of psychosocial risks is now widely acknowledged as a priority in health and safety in Europe, there r... Read More about Is psychosocial risk prevention possible? Deconstructing common presumptions.

An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future (2015)
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Leka, S., Jain, A. K., Iavicoli, S., & Di Tecco, C. (2015). An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future. BioMed Research International, 2015(213089), https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/213089

Despite the developments both in hard and soft law policies in the European Union in relation to mental health and psychosocial risks in the workplace, a review of these policies at EU level has not been conducted to identify strengths, weaknesses, a... Read More about An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future.

Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives (2014)
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Judge, W., Hu, H., Talaulicar, T., Witt, M., Zattoni, A., Lopez-Iturriaga, F., …Kibler, B. (2014). Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives. Journal of Management Studies, 52(4), 506-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12121

Imprinting theory suggests that founding conditions are 'stamped' on organizations, and these imprinted routines often resist change. In contrast, strategic choice theory suggests that the firm can overcome organizational inertia and deliberately cho... Read More about Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives.

Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift (2014)
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Palczewski, J., Poulsen, R., Schenk-Hoppé, K. R., & Wang, H. (2015). Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift. European Journal of Operational Research, 243(3), 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.12.040

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The problem of dynamic portfolio choice with transaction costs is often addressed by constructing a Markov Chain approximation of the continuous time price processes. Using this approximation, we present an e... Read More about Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift.

Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach (2014)
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Ring, P. J., Bryce, C., McKinney, R., & Webb, R. (2016). Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach. Journal of Risk Research, 19(3), 364-387. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2014.983944

Following the financial crisis and a series of mis-selling and ‘rigging’ scandals in the financial services, organisational culture, and particularly the risk culture of organisations, has come to be regarded as a key issue for both financial firms a... Read More about Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach.