All Outputs (195)

The scope and limits of accounting and judicial courts intervention in inefficient public procurement (2017)
Journal Article

Cost inefficiencies in public procurement tend to come from two sources: corruption (moral hazard) and incompetence (adverse selection). In most countries, audit authorities are responsible for monitoring costs but do not distinguish both sources of... Read More about The scope and limits of accounting and judicial courts intervention in inefficient public procurement.

An exploration of solutions for improving access to affordable fresh food with disadvantaged Welsh communities (2017)
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Our research is rooted in community operational research (community OR) and adopts a qualitative problem structuring approach to exploring potential solutions for addressing inequality in access to affordable healthy food in disadvantaged communities... Read More about An exploration of solutions for improving access to affordable fresh food with disadvantaged Welsh communities.

Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China (2017)
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As the business arena becomes more global and therefore dynamic, organizations must balance their capabilities with the demands and the conditions of the international marketplace. This leads firms to trade off the development of more capabilities wi... Read More about Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China.

Innovations and technological comebacks (2017)
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Motivated by the comeback of the vinyl, we explore the idea that the success of a third-generation technology (digital music) can have adverse effects on the second generation (CD) but positive effects on the first one (vinyl). This phenomenon arises... Read More about Innovations and technological comebacks.

'Embrace the masculine; attenuate the feminine': gender, identity work and entrepreneurial legitimation in the nascent context (2017)
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This paper critically analyses how gender bias impacts upon women’s efforts to legitimate nascent ventures. Given the importance of founder identity as a proxy for entrepreneurial legitimacy at nascency, we explore the identity work women undertake w... Read More about 'Embrace the masculine; attenuate the feminine': gender, identity work and entrepreneurial legitimation in the nascent context.

The case for ‘fluid’ hierarchies in therapeutic communities (2017)
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Purpose: Democratic therapeutic communities, use a ‘flattened hierarchy’ model whereby staff and clients are considered to have an equal voice, sharing administrative and some therapeutic responsibility. Using the sociological framework of interactio... Read More about The case for ‘fluid’ hierarchies in therapeutic communities.

Collective action for tackling “wicked” social problems: a system dynamics model for corporate community involvement (2017)
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Although corporations have been often accused of exacerbating social and environmental conditions in developing world regions where they operate, there are companies that sincerely engage in community development initiatives and aim for the delivery... Read More about Collective action for tackling “wicked” social problems: a system dynamics model for corporate community involvement.

Self-care for the researcher: dark tourism in Varanasi, India (2017)
Journal Article

Dark tourism is a popular niche of tourism that allows tourists to come into close proximity with death, atrocity, and the macabre, and therefore has the potential to be an emotional and even traumatic encounter for tourists. While this context has i... Read More about Self-care for the researcher: dark tourism in Varanasi, India.

Conservative Reporting and the Incremental Effect of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Audit Partner Rotation vs Audit Firm Rotation in South Korea (2017)
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In this paper, we take advantage of Korea’s unique experiment with mandatory audit firm rotation (MAFR) and mandatory audit partner rotation (MAPR) to ascertain their influence on audit quality, proxied by conditional conservatism. Overall, we find t... Read More about Conservative Reporting and the Incremental Effect of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Audit Partner Rotation vs Audit Firm Rotation in South Korea.

Development and evaluation of an educational training package to promote health and wellbeing (2017)
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Background: Supporting the health and wellbeing of healthcare employees is a UK national priority. Aims: To design, deliver and evaluate an educational package to promote health and wellbeing for nurses and midwives Methods: An online training pack... Read More about Development and evaluation of an educational training package to promote health and wellbeing.

Patient safety culture in care homes for older people: a scoping review (2017)
Journal Article

Background: In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the role of safety culture in preventing incidents such as medication errors and falls. However, research and developments in safety culture has predominantly taken place in hospital... Read More about Patient safety culture in care homes for older people: a scoping review.

Corporate governance and elites (2017)
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Using a qualitative methodology (interviews), we examine the relationship between the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms and elitist interventions. In doing this, we identify three elitist groups – political, cultural and religious, and... Read More about Corporate governance and elites.

Generating vague neighbourhoods through data mining of passive web data (2017)
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Neighbourhoods have been described as \the building blocks of public services society". Their subjective nature, however, and the resulting difficulties in collecting data, means that in many countries there are no officially defined neighbourhoods e... Read More about Generating vague neighbourhoods through data mining of passive web data.

Special issue on 3D printing: opportunities and applications for supply chain management (2017)
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Considering risk: placing the work of Ulrich Beck in context (2017)
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Financial centres' competitiveness and economic convergence: evidence from the European Union regions (2017)
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This study analyses the gaps in financial centres' competitiveness and their impact on regional economic convergence in 23 European Union Member States during the period of the Global Financial Crisis. In particular, we explore the economic convergen... Read More about Financial centres' competitiveness and economic convergence: evidence from the European Union regions.

Outward FDI, location choices and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises (2017)
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Although prior research conceptualizes how knowledge-seeking motivates the internationalization of emerging-market enterprises (EMEs), whether outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) indeed leads to enhanced innovation performance has received limit... Read More about Outward FDI, location choices and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises.

Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research? (2017)
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This article develops a critique of contemporary approaches to analysing the impact of gender upon entrepreneurial propensity and activity. Since the 1990s, increasing attention has been afforded to the influence of gender upon women’s entrepreneuria... Read More about Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?.

The impacts of independent director and CEO duality onperformance in the Chinese post-institutional-transition era (2017)
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This paper investigates the influence of corporate governance on performance of modern Chinese firms. Prior studies reveal inconclusive results about the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. Little research investigates the... Read More about The impacts of independent director and CEO duality onperformance in the Chinese post-institutional-transition era.

Easing Financing and M&A Investment Constraints: The Role of Corporate Industrial Diversification (2017)
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Based on a sample of 10,951 mergers and acquisitions (M&As), this article examines how corporate industrial diversification could ease, or even eliminate firms' financing and investment constraints, as measured by the link between borrowing ability a... Read More about Easing Financing and M&A Investment Constraints: The Role of Corporate Industrial Diversification.