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New entry, strategic diversity and efficiency in soccer betting markets: the creation and suppression of arbitrage opportunities (2018)
Journal Article

We find that prices offered by competing bookmakers within the same quote-driven soccer (football) betting market provide arbitrage opportunities. However, the management practices of bookmakers prevent informed bettors exploiting these in practice.... Read More about New entry, strategic diversity and efficiency in soccer betting markets: the creation and suppression of arbitrage opportunities.

Tackling the sustainability iceberg: a transaction cost economics approach to lower tier sustainability management (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose – This article investigates how buying firms manage their lower tier sustainability management (LTSM) in their supply networks and what contextual factors influence the choice of approaches. As most of the environmental and social burden is c... Read More about Tackling the sustainability iceberg: a transaction cost economics approach to lower tier sustainability management.

How does intellectual capital affect product innovation performance?: evidence from China and India (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose: Intellectual capital reflects the sum of existing knowledge a manufacturer is able to leverage and plays a critical role in new product development. This study aims to empirically investigate the mechanisms through which intellectual capital... Read More about How does intellectual capital affect product innovation performance?: evidence from China and India.

Managers' perceptions of modern slavery risk in a UK health-care supply network (2018)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper we argue that, to fully understand managers’ perceptions of modern slavery risk in the context of a UK health-care supply chain, it is necessary to adopt a ‘labour’ supply chain lens that puts the employment relationship at the heart of... Read More about Managers' perceptions of modern slavery risk in a UK health-care supply network.

Market reaction to bank liquidity regulation (2018)
Journal Article

We measure market reactions to announcements concerning liquidity regulation, a key innovation in the Basel framework. Our initial results show that liquidity regulation attracts negative abnormal returns. However, the price responses are less pronou... Read More about Market reaction to bank liquidity regulation.

Job demands, job resources and innovative work behaviour: a European Union study (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study aims to investigate the relationship between several job design variables and innovative work behaviour (IWB). Guided by the Job Demands Resources model, the aim was to evalua... Read More about Job demands, job resources and innovative work behaviour: a European Union study.

International Evidence on the Determinants of Organizational Ethical Vulnerability (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 British Academy of Management This paper proposes a model to explain what makes organizations ethically vulnerable. Drawing upon legitimacy, institutional, agency and individual moral reasoning theories we consider three sets of explanatory fa... Read More about International Evidence on the Determinants of Organizational Ethical Vulnerability.

Democracy in mental health care: therapeutic communities and the new recovery movement (2018)
Book Chapter

Social tourism as a modest, yet sustainable, development strategy: policy recommendations for Greece (2018)
Journal Article

Recent findings from social tourism research and evidence from its practice have shown that social tourism has multiple benefits, both for individual participants and host-communities within destinations. The latter in particular have been acknowledg... Read More about Social tourism as a modest, yet sustainable, development strategy: policy recommendations for Greece.

Involving customers in innovation: knowledgeability and agency as process variables (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose: Recent research places an increased emphasis on the inclusion of the customer in value creation, learning, and innovation processes yet there remains a gap in our understanding of just how such customer involvement may work. This paper seeks... Read More about Involving customers in innovation: knowledgeability and agency as process variables.

The Never-Ending Story: Discursive Legitimation in Social Media Dialogue (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This paper explores the dialogical dimensions of discursive legitimation in social media sites to understand how organisations produce knowledge of legitimacy in concert with their stakeholders. Drawing on the dialogical theorie... Read More about The Never-Ending Story: Discursive Legitimation in Social Media Dialogue.

Funding constraints and liquidity in two-tiered OTC markets (2018)
Journal Article

Using primary dealer transactional data from the government bond (gilt) market in the United Kingdom, we identify a new channel through which dealer funding constraints may impair liquidity in two-tiered OTC markets. The key finding is that funding c... Read More about Funding constraints and liquidity in two-tiered OTC markets.

Alienation and anxiety in tourism motivation (2018)
Journal Article

Although underexplored in tourism studies, recent work suggests theories of alienation, as the dialectic of authenticity, have much to contribute to our understanding of tourism motivation. This paper uses three major theoretical tropes (Marxism, exi... Read More about Alienation and anxiety in tourism motivation.

Financial and corporate social performance in UK listed firms: the relevance of non-linearity and lag effects (2018)
Journal Article

Using environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores compiled by Reuters Datastream for each company’s corporate social performance (CSP), we examine the relationship between CSP and corporate financial performance (CFP) of 314 UK listed companies... Read More about Financial and corporate social performance in UK listed firms: the relevance of non-linearity and lag effects.

R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience (2018)
Journal Article

External collaboration breadth is important for firms to acquire the knowledge needed to innovate. In this paper, we combine cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Spanish Panel of Technological Innovation Survey (PITEC) to examine the indire... Read More about R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience.

Managing quality risk in supply chain to drive firm's performance: the roles of control mechanisms (2018)
Journal Article

Product harm scandal can be viewed as a company’s nightmare. In many cases, the source of defective or unsafe components may not be the manufacturing firm itself; rather, there may be problems inherent in the supply network. This research aims to inv... Read More about Managing quality risk in supply chain to drive firm's performance: the roles of control mechanisms.

Dynamic cooperative advertising under manufacturer and retailer level competition (2018)
Journal Article

We study dynamic cooperative advertising decisions in a market that consists of a finite number of independent manufacturers and retailers. Each manufacturer sells its product through all retailers and can offer different levels of advertising suppor... Read More about Dynamic cooperative advertising under manufacturer and retailer level competition.

Foreign acquisitions and firm performance: The moderating role of prior foreign experience (2018)
Journal Article

This paper relies on a sample of 9,419 acquisitions by 1,443 UK firms during 1988 to 2014 to investigate the impact of foreign acquisitions on corporate performance. Moreover, the moderating role of firms' prior exposure to foreign markets on the for... Read More about Foreign acquisitions and firm performance: The moderating role of prior foreign experience.

‘It’s just not worth a damn!: investigating perceptions of the value in attending university (2018)
Journal Article

Mass expansion of the UK Higher Education (HE) sector is eroding its well-documented benefits – leading many to question whether HE remains worthwhile. Avoiding the traditional approach of estimating the returns to HE, we investigate why many now fee... Read More about ‘It’s just not worth a damn!: investigating perceptions of the value in attending university.

Productivity growth in network models: an application to banking during the financial crisis (2018)
Journal Article

We construct Malmquist Productivity indices for two-stage processes. A two-stage data envelopment analysis model with an additive efficiency decomposition is used for the modeling of the two-stage process. We incorporate prior information into the an... Read More about Productivity growth in network models: an application to banking during the financial crisis.