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Do Relatively More Efficient Firms Demand Additional Audit Effort (Hours)? (2020)
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We examine whether firms with higher relative efficiency (operational performance) require additional audit effort (hours) to signal audit quality to demonstrate that their financial reporting systems are robust. Therefore, we use a Korean sample of... Read More about Do Relatively More Efficient Firms Demand Additional Audit Effort (Hours)?.

COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects (2020)
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It has become a truism that COVID-19 has impacted all countries and all people around the world, but in different ways. Yet this contextual diversity in the pandemic’s impacts, the responses by governments and other actors, and the prospects for reco... Read More about COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects.

Patents versus rewards: the implications of production inefficiency (2020)
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It is believed that if there is no informational asymmetry between firms and the government, firms could be remunerated for innovation using optimal taxation rather than patents. We show that under reasonable conditions (such as the government's inab... Read More about Patents versus rewards: the implications of production inefficiency.

Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures of the firm (2020)
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This paper provides a theoretical explanation as to why breakthrough innovations seem to be possible only within capitalist economies (Kornai 2013). Specifically, our theory explains why disruptive innovations are discovered and financed by large num... Read More about Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures of the firm.

Coordination and collaboration for humanitarian operational excellence: big data and modern information processing systems (2020)
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Humanitarian operational excellence depends on effective coordination and collaboration not only between supply chain partners but also among other actors such as host government, local and international non-government organizations (NGOs), and donor... Read More about Coordination and collaboration for humanitarian operational excellence: big data and modern information processing systems.

Fifty years of methodological trends in JIBS: why future IB research needs more triangulation (2020)
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We analyze methodological trends in empirical research in JIBS from 1970-2019. Our results point to the prevalence of the following patterns: there has been an increase in the use of (1) large-scale longitudinal, cross-national datasets, (2) complex... Read More about Fifty years of methodological trends in JIBS: why future IB research needs more triangulation.

Herding by corporates in the US and the Eurozone through different market conditions (2020)
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In this study, we test the herding towards a market consensus in the main financial industries of the United States and the Eurozone equity markets. We find that herding is more likely to be present in high quantiles that reflects turbulent market co... Read More about Herding by corporates in the US and the Eurozone through different market conditions.

The aesthetic pedagogies of DIY music (2020)
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Rationalising the Postfeminist Paradox: The Case of UK Women Veterinary Professionals (2020)
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This paper critically evaluates how highly qualified women veterinary surgeons make sense of their constrained professional career progression in a context of postfeminism. Postfeminism posits that agentic individualism, combined with professional ac... Read More about Rationalising the Postfeminist Paradox: The Case of UK Women Veterinary Professionals.

The impact of say on pay votes on firms' strategic policies: Insights from the Anglo- Saxon economy (2020)
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This study examines evidences of executive reactions to say-on-pay (SOP) votes in terms of strategic policies which could affect firms' long-run growth and eventual survival. We employed an unbalanced panel data from 1,932 firms taken from four count... Read More about The impact of say on pay votes on firms' strategic policies: Insights from the Anglo- Saxon economy.

Leading Through Social Distancing: The Future of Work, Corporations and Leadership from Home (2020)
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At this critical juncture when the COVID‐19 health crisis has disrupted our ways of living, working and relating to each other, we are perforce to explore and cocreate the Future we want to be part of. Drawing upon feminist theory, we introduce the n... Read More about Leading Through Social Distancing: The Future of Work, Corporations and Leadership from Home.

How internet essay mills portray the student experience of higher education (2020)
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Higher education is under mounting pressure to confront student practices of assignment outsourcing to internet services. The scale and buoyancy of this ‘essay mill’ industry has now been well documented, including its various marketing techniques fo... Read More about How internet essay mills portray the student experience of higher education.

Exogenous cognition and cognitive state theory: The plexus of consumer analytics and decision-making (2020)
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We develop the concept of exogenous cognition (ExC) as a specific manifestation of an external cognitive system (ECS). Exogenous cognition describes the technological and algorithmic extension of (and annexation of) cognition in a consumption context... Read More about Exogenous cognition and cognitive state theory: The plexus of consumer analytics and decision-making.

A Demonstration of Symbiotic Academic-Social Enterprise in Subsistence Marketplaces: Researching and Designing Customized Sustainability Literacy Education in Tanzania (2020)
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This article demonstrates symbiotic academic-social enterprise (SASE), a bottom-up approach intertwined with the subsistence marketplace research stream. The SASE approach is unique in coevolving academic and social initiatives in parallel for the ex... Read More about A Demonstration of Symbiotic Academic-Social Enterprise in Subsistence Marketplaces: Researching and Designing Customized Sustainability Literacy Education in Tanzania.

CEO overconfidence and bank systemic risk: Evidence from U.S. bank holding companies (2020)
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Following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the attention of financial regulators and academics has shifted from bank individual risk to bank systemic risk, that is, banks' exposure to future systemic crises. In this paper, we examine whether CEO overc... Read More about CEO overconfidence and bank systemic risk: Evidence from U.S. bank holding companies.

Migrants' motivations and intentions to work virtually for their country of origin (2020)
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Purpose – We investigate empirically emigrants’ intentions and motivations to work virtually for their country of origin. The study focuses on a country with substantial, persistent emigration and explores theories of diaspora investment motivation a... Read More about Migrants' motivations and intentions to work virtually for their country of origin.

Governance disclosure quality and market valuation of firms in UK and Germany (2020)
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This study develops a 'comply or explain' index which captures compliance and quality of explanations given for non-compliance with the corporate governance codes in UK and Germany. In particular, we explain, how compliance and quality of explanation... Read More about Governance disclosure quality and market valuation of firms in UK and Germany.

Developing a clinical pathway to identify and manage cognitive problems in Multiple Sclerosis: Qualitative findings from patients, family members, charity volunteers, clinicians and healthcare commissioners (2020)
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Background: Cognitive problems are a common and debilitating symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). Screening and treatment for cognitive problems are recommended, however these are not routinely delivered in UK clinics. We collected and synthesised... Read More about Developing a clinical pathway to identify and manage cognitive problems in Multiple Sclerosis: Qualitative findings from patients, family members, charity volunteers, clinicians and healthcare commissioners.

Stakeholder Orientation and Corporate Payout Policy: Insights from State Legal Shocks (2020)
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We employ a difference-in-differences estimation approach to examine the impact of stakeholder orientation on corporate payout policy. The empirical test exploits the enactment of US state-level constituency statutes, which allow directors to conside... Read More about Stakeholder Orientation and Corporate Payout Policy: Insights from State Legal Shocks.

Stakeholder dynamics of contextual ambidextrous capabilities and authenticity: A conceptual synchronisation for competitive advantage (2020)
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© The Author(s) 2020. The combined effect of strategic ambidextrous management (dynamic capabilities and contextual ambidexterity), marketing and brand communication management has been implicitly and explicitly identified as bearing critical implica... Read More about Stakeholder dynamics of contextual ambidextrous capabilities and authenticity: A conceptual synchronisation for competitive advantage.