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Can non-profit boards adequately constrain earnings management? The case of UK charities (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper aims to investigate the monitoring ability of a typically unpaid board of directors (or trustees) in the context of not-for-profit organizations (NFPOs). More specifically, since it has been found that NFPOs may be involved in managing the... Read More about Can non-profit boards adequately constrain earnings management? The case of UK charities.

Collective redress: broadening EU enforcement through state liability? (2016)
Journal Article

This article advances an argument that private enforcement of European Union (EU) rights has largely been stunted due to a series of blocking tactics by Member States, enabled through a form of tacitic subservience of the Court of Justice of the Euro... Read More about Collective redress: broadening EU enforcement through state liability?.

Local engagement of Chinese international students in host societies: a perspective of diasporic Chinese community building (CCB) in the UK (2016)
Journal Article

Social changes in diasporic Chinese communities in the 21st century calls for a new approach to understand new dynamics, resources and opportunities to bring together all stakeholders, both Chinese and non-Chinese, toward mutual trust, effective comm... Read More about Local engagement of Chinese international students in host societies: a perspective of diasporic Chinese community building (CCB) in the UK.

Employer’s civil liability for work-related accidents: A comparison of non-economic loss in Chile and England (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Employers’ civil liability for work injuries and subsequent compensation for non-economic losses represent challenges for many countries. Several countries in Latin America and Europe still do not apply non-economic damage standar... Read More about Employer’s civil liability for work-related accidents: A comparison of non-economic loss in Chile and England.

Strategic and operational considerations for the Extended Enterprise: insights from the aerospace industry (2016)
Journal Article

The extended enterprise (EE) paradigm has been adopted in the civil aerospace industry to enhance collaboration and product innovation among supply chain partners. Nevertheless, key aspects of this collaborative form remain poorly understood. In part... Read More about Strategic and operational considerations for the Extended Enterprise: insights from the aerospace industry.

Political connections, bailout in financial markets and firm value (2016)
Journal Article

The paper shows that politically motivated interventions in the financial market in the form of bailing out borrowing firms reduce banks’ incentives to gather valuable information about firms’ projects. This loss of information is a hidden cost which... Read More about Political connections, bailout in financial markets and firm value.

Investment performance analysis of industrial products: Case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company (2016)
Journal Article

This paper proposes an approach to a multi-criteria investment performance analysis of industrial products. Manufacturers must determine the necessary and sufficient specification of products they use. Such an analysis, however, involves a broad ra... Read More about Investment performance analysis of industrial products: Case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company.

Shifting the Goalposts? Analysing Changes to Performance Peer Groups Used to Determine the Remuneration of FTSE 100 CEOs (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 British Academy of Management This paper examines year-on-year changes to the composition of performance peer groups used for relative performance evaluation in setting CEO pay in FTSE 100 companies and finds evidence of peer selection bias. T... Read More about Shifting the Goalposts? Analysing Changes to Performance Peer Groups Used to Determine the Remuneration of FTSE 100 CEOs.

Client Abuse to Public Welfare Workers: Theoretical Framework and Critical Incident Case Study (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. We analyse a case study of workers’ experience of client abuse in a Danish public welfare organisation. We make an original contribution by putting forward two different theoretical expectations of the case. One expectation is t... Read More about Client Abuse to Public Welfare Workers: Theoretical Framework and Critical Incident Case Study.

Communicating risk under high uncertainty: developing cross-disciplinary knowledge (2016)
Journal Article

The primary purpose of this Special Issue is to coalesce different perspectives on the theme of ‘Communicating Risk Under High Uncertainty’ from across a range of subject areas. These areas include environmental studies, international relations, engi... Read More about Communicating risk under high uncertainty: developing cross-disciplinary knowledge.

Risk communication: against the gods or against all odds?: problems and prospects of accounting for black swans (2016)
Journal Article

Recent academic and policy preoccupations with ‘Black Swans’ underscore the predicament of capturing and communicating risk events when information is absent, partial, incomplete or contingent. In this article we wish to articulate some key thematic... Read More about Risk communication: against the gods or against all odds?: problems and prospects of accounting for black swans.

Studying innovation ecosystems using ecology theory (2016)
Journal Article

This paper proposes a set of perspectives for studying innovation ecosystems that are based on ecological research. Our perspectives are based on fundamental similarities between natural and business systems. We suggest that innovation ecosystems can... Read More about Studying innovation ecosystems using ecology theory.

Labor unionization structure, innovation and welfare (2016)
Journal Article

We show the effects of cooperation among the labour unions with complementary workers on innovation, consumer surplus and welfare. Although cooperation among the unions reduces wage, it may either increase or decrease the firm’s incentive for innovat... Read More about Labor unionization structure, innovation and welfare.

Comparative evidence on the value relevance of IFRS-based accounting information in Germany and the UK (2016)
Journal Article

This paper uses panel cointegration with a corresponding vector error correction model (VECM) to investigate the changes in the value relevance of accounting information before and after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Germany and the UK under thre... Read More about Comparative evidence on the value relevance of IFRS-based accounting information in Germany and the UK.

The regional heterogeneity of wellbeing ‘expenditure’ preferences: evidence from a simulated allocation choice on the BES indicators (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press. With an online survey on major Italian newspapers we ask respondents to simulate the typical policymaker decision, that is, the dilemma of allocating scarce financial resources among alternat... Read More about The regional heterogeneity of wellbeing ‘expenditure’ preferences: evidence from a simulated allocation choice on the BES indicators.

Finding common ground: architects, end-users, and decision-makers in the renovation of the Arts Tower, Sheffield (2016)
Journal Article

The Arts Tower at the University of Sheffield was completed in 1961 to designs by Gollins Melvin and Ward and it has been dubbed by English Heritage ‘the most elegant University tower block of its period’. Its renovation, finished in 2012, can be und... Read More about Finding common ground: architects, end-users, and decision-makers in the renovation of the Arts Tower, Sheffield.

Understanding personal change through storytelling in a therapeutic community (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose: This article explores the potential for personal and community transformation through storytelling within a therapeutic community through the analysis of one narrative case study. Design/Methodology: The article uses a narrative research de... Read More about Understanding personal change through storytelling in a therapeutic community.

Supporting underserved patients with their medicines: a study protocol for a patient/professional coproduced education intervention for community pharmacy staff to improve the provision and delivery of Medicine Use Reviews (MURs) (2016)
Journal Article

Introduction Community pharmacy increasingly features in global strategies to modernise the delivery of primary healthcare. Medicine Use Reviews (MURs) form part of the English Government's medicines management strategy to improve adherence and r... Read More about Supporting underserved patients with their medicines: a study protocol for a patient/professional coproduced education intervention for community pharmacy staff to improve the provision and delivery of Medicine Use Reviews (MURs).

Unlocking the power of big data in new product development (2016)
Journal Article

This study explores how big data can be used to enable customers to express unrecognised needs. By acquiring this information, managers can gain opportunities to develop customer-centred products. Big data can be defined as multimedia-rich and intera... Read More about Unlocking the power of big data in new product development.

Regional protest and electoral fraud: evidence from analysis of new data on Russian protest (2016)
Journal Article

Does electoral fraud encourage post-electoral protests? To explore the likelihood that citizens would pick up on electoral irregularities perpetrated in their region and engage in post-electoral protest we analyse regional protest event data and voti... Read More about Regional protest and electoral fraud: evidence from analysis of new data on Russian protest.