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Tourist Choice Processing: Evaluating Decision Rules and Methods of Their Measurement (2016)
Journal Article

A detailed understanding of decision rules is essential in order to better explain consumption behavior, yet the variety of decision rules used have been somewhat neglected in tourism research. This study adopts an innovative method, greedoid analysi... Read More about Tourist Choice Processing: Evaluating Decision Rules and Methods of Their Measurement.

The cost efficiency of water utilities: when does public ownership matter? (2016)
Journal Article

This study explores the impact of different ownership types on the efficiency of water utilities. Theories and evidence have shown a puzzling relationship between ownership and performance. Moreover, relatively recent contributions (Andrews et al. 20... Read More about The cost efficiency of water utilities: when does public ownership matter?.

Differentiated Responsibilities and Prosocial Behavior in Climate Change Mitigation: Behavioral Evidence from the United States and China (2016)
Working Paper

The recent Paris agreement has increased optimism that climate change might be successfully mitigated through international agreement. However, the commitments of countries are unenforceable. Therefore domestic political will, including on the part o... Read More about Differentiated Responsibilities and Prosocial Behavior in Climate Change Mitigation: Behavioral Evidence from the United States and China.

The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In the paper, we are looking at the relationship between globalisation and the professional project, using nursing in Kerala as an exemplar. Our focus is on the intersection of the professional project, gender and globalisation pr... Read More about The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India.

Splitting hairs? (2016)
Journal Article

Setting the stage for service experience: design strategies for functional services (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose:This research identifies service design strategies to improve outcome-oriented services by enhancing consumers’ emotional experience, while overcoming customer variability. Design/methodology/approach:An abductive, multiple-case study involv... Read More about Setting the stage for service experience: design strategies for functional services.

Review of sustainable service-based business models in the Chinese truck sector (2016)
Journal Article

Growth of global sales of new trucks in emerging economies is substantial however, in China the growth of sales is expected to be only 1% for 2014–2024. The limited sales growth forecast and an intense market competition make it imperative for truck... Read More about Review of sustainable service-based business models in the Chinese truck sector.

Multi-vehicle synchronized arc routing problem to restore post-disaster network connectivity (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. After a natural disaster roads can be damaged or blocked by debris, while bridges and viaducts may collapse. This commonly observed hazard causes some road sections to be closed and may even disconnect the road network. In the im... Read More about Multi-vehicle synchronized arc routing problem to restore post-disaster network connectivity.

21st Century life and career skills: building an employability pathway in an international University in Vietnam (2016)
Conference Proceeding

The P21’s Framework for 21st Century Learning was developed to illustrate the skills that 21st Century students need to thrive in a changing world including life and career skills. Employability is ‘a set of achievements – skills, understandings and... Read More about 21st Century life and career skills: building an employability pathway in an international University in Vietnam.

A qualitative study of professional and carer perceptions of the threats to safe hospital discharge for stroke and hip fracture patients in the English National Health Service (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Hospital discharge is a vulnerable transitional stage in patient care. This qualitative study investigated the views of healthcare professionals and patients about the threats to safe hospital discharge with aim of identifying contributor... Read More about A qualitative study of professional and carer perceptions of the threats to safe hospital discharge for stroke and hip fracture patients in the English National Health Service.

Can we predict dividend cuts? (2016)
Journal Article

I examine the predictability of dividend cuts based on the time interval between dividend announcement dates using a large dataset of US firms from 1971 to 2014. The longer the time interval between dividend announcements, the larger the probability... Read More about Can we predict dividend cuts?.

Corporate taxation and productivity catch-up: evidence from European firms (2016)
Journal Article

This paper explores whether higher corporate tax rates reduce the speed with which small firms converge to the productivity frontier by lowering the after-tax returns to productivity-enhancing investments. Using data for 11 European countries we find... Read More about Corporate taxation and productivity catch-up: evidence from European firms.

Fabricating votes for Putin: new tests of fraud and electoral manipulations from Russia (2016)
Journal Article

We extend the “fraud forensics” research to systematically explain precinct-level and regional variations in electoral manipulations in Russia’s March 2012 presidential election. Parametric last-digit frequency tests (a multivariate extension of last... Read More about Fabricating votes for Putin: new tests of fraud and electoral manipulations from Russia.

Healthcare professional and patient co-design and validation of a mechanism for service users to feedback patient safety experiences following a care transfer: a qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article

Objective: To develop and validate a mechanism for patients to provide feedback on safety experiences following a care transfer between organisations. Design: Qualitative study using participatory methods (co-design workshops) and cognitive intervie... Read More about Healthcare professional and patient co-design and validation of a mechanism for service users to feedback patient safety experiences following a care transfer: a qualitative study.

Discretion in accounting for pensions under IAS 19: using the ‘magic telescope’? (2016)
Journal Article

We use a panel data set of UK-listed companies over the period 2005 to 2009 to analyse the actuarial assumptions used to value pension plan liabilities under IAS 19. The valuation process requires companies to make assumptions about financial and dem... Read More about Discretion in accounting for pensions under IAS 19: using the ‘magic telescope’?.

The predictive performance of commodity futures risk factors (2016)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the time-series predictability of commodity futures excess returns from factor models that exploit two risk factors – the equally weighted average excess return on long positions in a universe of futures contracts and the retu... Read More about The predictive performance of commodity futures risk factors.

Opening M&A strategy to investors: Predictors and outcomes of transparency during organizational transition (2016)
Journal Article

Our study theorizes and tests why organizations engage in more external transparency as an open strategy practice and the share-price related outcomes associated with these practices. Drawing from literature on information asymmetry, we suggest that... Read More about Opening M&A strategy to investors: Predictors and outcomes of transparency during organizational transition.

Impact of Short Social Training on Prosocial Behaviors: An fMRI Study (2016)
Journal Article

Efficient brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are in need of knowledge about the human brain and how it interacts, plays games, and socializes with other brains. A breakthrough can be achieved by revealing the microfoundations of sociality, an additiona... Read More about Impact of Short Social Training on Prosocial Behaviors: An fMRI Study.

Did the global financial crisis hit Africa? Insights from a multi-country firm level survey (2016)
Journal Article

In order to craft the most appropriate policy responses, it is imperative to identify the degree to which the firms in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were affected by the global financial crisis, despite the common perception amongst macro analysts that th... Read More about Did the global financial crisis hit Africa? Insights from a multi-country firm level survey.

Social and Environmental Disclosure Rating in the Libyan Oil and Gas Sector (2016)
Journal Article

Over the last two decades, as companies have become more responsive to investors' concerns about the environment and corporate social responsibility (CSR), they have started to provide information about the environmental and social impacts of their a... Read More about Social and Environmental Disclosure Rating in the Libyan Oil and Gas Sector.