All Outputs (195)

Institutions and managerial task allocation: evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs (2017)
Journal Article
Guo, D., Jiang, K., & Xu, C. (2017). Institutions and managerial task allocation: evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs. Journal of Human Capital, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1086/692844

This study presents theoretical and empirical analyses of the time allocation of entrepreneurs as a response to weak property rights protection. Using a nationwide random-sample survey of more than 3,000 entrepreneurs in over 100 cities in China, we... Read More about Institutions and managerial task allocation: evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs.

China's pawn-broking industry and the puzzle of losses during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009 (2017)
Journal Article
Zhou, L., Yao, S., Wang, J., & Ou, J. (2017). China's pawn-broking industry and the puzzle of losses during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. China, 13(3), 128-144

Pawnbrokers in China, like those in many other countries, not only provide financial intermediation services to individuals and households to finance the shortfall between consumption and income in the short term, but also serve as a supplementary fi... Read More about China's pawn-broking industry and the puzzle of losses during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009.

Does board independence influence financial performance in IPO firms? The moderating role of the national business system (2017)
Journal Article
Zattoni, A., Witt, M. A., Judge, W. Q., Talaulicar, T., Chen, J. J., Lewellyn, K., …Ees, H. V. (2017). Does board independence influence financial performance in IPO firms? The moderating role of the national business system. Journal of World Business, 52(5), 628-639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.04.002

Prior evidence suggests that board independence may enhance financial performance, but this relationship has been tested almost exclusively for Anglo-American countries. To explore the boundary conditions of this prominent governance mechanism, we ex... Read More about Does board independence influence financial performance in IPO firms? The moderating role of the national business system.

Network orchestration for value platform development (2017)
Journal Article
Perks, H., Kowalkowski, C., Witell, L., & Gustafsson, A. (2017). Network orchestration for value platform development. Industrial Marketing Management, 67, 106-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.08.002

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The traditional firm and product-centric view of platforms is changing. Platforms are increasingly developed around value that is co-created with a network of actors. In such settings, lead firms shape their environments and deve... Read More about Network orchestration for value platform development.

Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation and Big4 Effect on Audit Quality: Evidence from South Korea (2017)
Journal Article
Choi, J.-S., Lim, H.-J., & Mali, D. (2017). Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation and Big4 Effect on Audit Quality: Evidence from South Korea. Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, 13(1), 1-40. https://doi.org/10.21315/aamjaf2017.13.1.1

In South Korea, due to concurrent financial scandals, Korean legislators implemented two major audit policies in the 2000s; the mandatory audit ‘partner’ rotation policy in 2000 and the mandatory audit ‘firm’ rotation policy in 2006. The mandatory au... Read More about Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation and Big4 Effect on Audit Quality: Evidence from South Korea.

A falling of the veils: turning points and momentous turning points in leadership and the creation of CSR (2017)
Journal Article
Hemingway, C. A., & Starkey, K. (2018). A falling of the veils: turning points and momentous turning points in leadership and the creation of CSR. Journal of Business Ethics, 151(4), 875-890. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3659-3

This article uses the life stories approach to leadership and leadership development. Using exploratory, qualitative data from a Forbes Global 2000 and FTSE 100 company, we discuss the role of the turning point (TP) as an important antecedent of lead... Read More about A falling of the veils: turning points and momentous turning points in leadership and the creation of CSR.

Out-group peer involvement in youth alcohol consumption (2017)
Journal Article
Gallage, H. S., Tynan, C., & Heath, T. (2018). Out-group peer involvement in youth alcohol consumption. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 17(1), e42-e51. https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.1673

Recent studies of alcohol consumption among students have consistently linked in-group influence with excessive drinking. Concurrently, these studies have largely overlooked the influence of non-alcohol-consuming peers (the out-group) on the in-group... Read More about Out-group peer involvement in youth alcohol consumption.

Graduates' vocational skills for the management accountancy profession: exploring the accounting education expectation-performance gap (2017)
Journal Article
Howcroft, D. (in press). Graduates' vocational skills for the management accountancy profession: exploring the accounting education expectation-performance gap. Accounting Education, 26(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2017.1361846

This paper focuses on understanding the vocational skills required by graduates and assessing the competence of graduates for the management accountancy profession. It explores ‘expectation gaps’ by examining whether the Chartered Institute of Manage... Read More about Graduates' vocational skills for the management accountancy profession: exploring the accounting education expectation-performance gap.

The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks: Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China (2017)
Journal Article
Amdam, R. P., Bjarnar, O., & Wang, J. (2018). The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks: Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China. Asia Pacific Business Review, 24(1), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2017.1358929

This article examines the role of small- and medium-sized multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the dynamic development of global production networks (GPNs) in the maritime industry. It studies the dynamism between subsidiaries of Norwegian maritime fi... Read More about The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks: Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China.

Foreign investment, corporate governance and performance in the Chinese listed A Share companies (2017)
Journal Article
Beatson, S. A., & Chen, J. (2018). Foreign investment, corporate governance and performance in the Chinese listed A Share companies. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 16(1), 59-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2017.1346931

We present a novel lens on the presence and impact of qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) in top shareholdings of the non-financial domestically listed Chinese ‘A’ share firms. The initial results suggest that the presence of a QFII as a... Read More about Foreign investment, corporate governance and performance in the Chinese listed A Share companies.

Collecting rich qualitative data on business relationships and networks in CEE countries: Challenges and plausible solutions (2017)
Journal Article
Ivanova-Gongne, M., Koporcic, N., Dziubaniuk, O., & Mandjak, T. (2018). Collecting rich qualitative data on business relationships and networks in CEE countries: Challenges and plausible solutions. Industrial Marketing Management, 70, 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.07.007

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Collecting rich qualitative data in business-to-business market context, where respondents are more reluctant towards investing time in academic research, may impose several barriers for researchers. In particular, challenges may... Read More about Collecting rich qualitative data on business relationships and networks in CEE countries: Challenges and plausible solutions.

Organisational learning in SMEs: a process improvement perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Matthews, R. L., MacCarthy, B. L., & Braziotis, C. (2017). Organisational learning in SMEs: a process improvement perspective. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 37(7), 970-1006. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-09-2015-0580

We investigate how Organisational Learning (OL) can occur through Process Improvement (PI) activities, leading to sustained improvements over time in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We study PI practices in six engineering-o... Read More about Organisational learning in SMEs: a process improvement perspective.

Authentic assessment to prepare students for employability skills (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Le Thi Viet, H., & Bouilheres, F. (2017). Authentic assessment to prepare students for employability skills. In Proceedings of the SEAMEO RETRAC in collaboration with British Columbia Council for International Education (BCCIE) Annual International Conference 2017

Employability has become one of the biggest concerns of higher education institutions (Osborne, Dunne & Farrand, 2013). Some authors believe that there should be a focus on bridging the gap between real world and higher education through changing the... Read More about Authentic assessment to prepare students for employability skills.

Were regulatory interventions effective in lowering systemic risk during the financial crisis in Japan? (2017)
Journal Article
Shimizu, K., & Ly, K. C. (2017). Were regulatory interventions effective in lowering systemic risk during the financial crisis in Japan?. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 41, 80-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2017.07.001

This study empirically examines the effectiveness of various regulatory interventions on systemic risk during the financial crisis in Japan. Our findings generally show that the regulatory interventions worked effectively through the liquidity provis... Read More about Were regulatory interventions effective in lowering systemic risk during the financial crisis in Japan?.

Investment timing and optimal capital structure under liquidity risk (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Xu, Q., & Yang, J. (2018). Investment timing and optimal capital structure under liquidity risk. European Journal of Finance, 24(11), 889-908. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2017.1356342

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Deterioration in debt market liquidity reduces debt values and affects firms' decisions. Considering such risk, we develop an investment timing model and obtain analytic solutions. We ca... Read More about Investment timing and optimal capital structure under liquidity risk.

Interactions among High-Frequency Traders (2017)
Journal Article
Benos, E., Brugler, J., Hjalmarsson, E., & Zikes, F. (2017). Interactions among High-Frequency Traders. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52(4), 1375-1402. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109017000485

Using unique transactions data for individual high-frequency trading (HFT) firms in the U.K. equity market, we examine the extent to which the trading activity of individual HFT firms is correlated with each other and the impact on price efficiency.... Read More about Interactions among High-Frequency Traders.

The paradox of sustainable innovation: the ‘Eroom’ effect (Moore’s law backwards) (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, J., Matos, S., Gold, S., & Severino, L. S. (2018). The paradox of sustainable innovation: the ‘Eroom’ effect (Moore’s law backwards). Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.162

Innovation has been widely acknowledged as a key mechanism for addressing sustainable development concerns. However, less attention has focused on downstream commercialization challenges such as achieving increasingly complex and stringent regulatory... Read More about The paradox of sustainable innovation: the ‘Eroom’ effect (Moore’s law backwards).

Tourists’ Emotions as a Resource for Customer Value Creation, Cocreation, and Destruction: A Customer-Grounded Understanding (2017)
Journal Article
Malone, S., McKechnie, S., & Tynan, C. (2018). Tourists’ Emotions as a Resource for Customer Value Creation, Cocreation, and Destruction: A Customer-Grounded Understanding. Journal of Travel Research, 57(7), 843-855. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287517720118

© The Author(s) 2017. Research on customer value creation in a tourism setting has tended to prioritize the firm’s over the customer’s perspective. However, new understandings of customer value through the lens of customer-dominant logic emphasize th... Read More about Tourists’ Emotions as a Resource for Customer Value Creation, Cocreation, and Destruction: A Customer-Grounded Understanding.

Small and medium-sized enterprise policy: Designed to fail? (2017)
Journal Article
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2018). Small and medium-sized enterprise policy: Designed to fail?. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(4), 750-772. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417719288

Significant doubts persist over the effectiveness of government policy to increase the numbers or performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the UK economy. We analyse UK political manifestoes from 1964 to 2015 to examine the development o... Read More about Small and medium-sized enterprise policy: Designed to fail?.

Is there a gender effect on the cost of bank financing? (2017)
Journal Article
Mascia, D. V., & Rossi, S. P. (2017). Is there a gender effect on the cost of bank financing?. Journal of Financial Stability, 31, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2017.07.002

In this paper, we address the question of whether the gender of a firm’s leader affects the cost of bank funding faced by small and medium enterprises in Europe. Using a large sample of observations of non-financial firms, during the years 2009-2013,... Read More about Is there a gender effect on the cost of bank financing?.