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How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced? (2020)
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UK legislation, in the form of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 (hereafter SVA) and more recently the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (hereafter MSA) has begun to acknowledge the role public procurement can play in improving social sustainability.... Read More about How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced?.

Picture or Text Superiority? The Two Forces of Element Size on Communication Effectiveness (2020)
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A framework for differentiation in composed digital-physical products (2020)
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Product-service systems (PSS) composed of physical products and digital services are emerging as an important new product category. In this paper we suggest that the established metaphor of 'layering' is insufficient to capture the diverse ways in wh... Read More about A framework for differentiation in composed digital-physical products.

Further tests of asset pricing models: Liquidity risk matters (2020)
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The recent asset pricing literature has largely neglected liquidity risk since the price-impact-based factor shows limited pricing ability. Using different liquidity factors, this paper evaluates the liquidity-risk-based models together with the non-... Read More about Further tests of asset pricing models: Liquidity risk matters.

The strategic role of corporate online references: building social capital through signaling in business networks (2020)
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Purpose: This paper conceptualizes corporate reference management as a strategic signaling activity in business networks. While research has extensively outlined how firms develop and maintain social capital through B2B relationships, less is known a... Read More about The strategic role of corporate online references: building social capital through signaling in business networks.

Dodgy labour market dichotomy: the repercussions of sneaky labour intermediaries on employees’ constitutional rights (2020)
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Purpose: The flexibility inherent in temporary agency work allows employers to cut labour cost in a variety of ways. Recurring themes in the employment literature draw attention to the duality of the labour market rooted in type-of-contract segmentat... Read More about Dodgy labour market dichotomy: the repercussions of sneaky labour intermediaries on employees’ constitutional rights.

Social listening, modern slavery, and COVID-19 (2020)
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In addition to the public health crisis visited upon the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has created unique uncertainties for organisations engaged with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), spanning a range of matters, such as mainta... Read More about Social listening, modern slavery, and COVID-19.

The Challenge of Building a Scalable Postcapitalist Commons: The Limits of FairCoin as a Commons-Based Cryptocurrency (2020)
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Postcapitalist commons are a growing area of interest in the efforts to generate alternatives to capitalism in the present. Commons are understood as self-organised collectives based around shared resources; yet postcapitalist commons have an additio... Read More about The Challenge of Building a Scalable Postcapitalist Commons: The Limits of FairCoin as a Commons-Based Cryptocurrency.

Multinational corporations and human rights violations in emerging economies: Does commitment to social and environmental responsibility matter? (2020)
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With the surge in economic growth in the global-north visa -vis social and economic inequalities in the global-south (north-south dichotomy), there is an increasing requirement for critical research and an examination of the policy implications with... Read More about Multinational corporations and human rights violations in emerging economies: Does commitment to social and environmental responsibility matter?.

A call to action to change the communication skills curriculum for pharmacy undergraduates in Turkey: A comparison with the United Kingdom (2020)
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Introduction: Globally, pharmacy undergraduate programs are evolving to reflect a more patient-centered approach to clinical practice. The importance of teaching communication skills in any undergraduate pharmacy curriculum cannot be overstated. This... Read More about A call to action to change the communication skills curriculum for pharmacy undergraduates in Turkey: A comparison with the United Kingdom.

Adopting and sustaining responsible drinking: reconciling selves amidst conflicting messages (2020)
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This paper draws on theories of identity to examine challenges that former excessive drinkers experience in adopting and maintaining responsible drinking. Narratives were collected using in-depth interviews and eight-week diaries from twenty-five for... Read More about Adopting and sustaining responsible drinking: reconciling selves amidst conflicting messages.

The implications of liquidity ratios: Evidence from Pakistan stock exchange limited (2020)
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In this paper we test two recently developed liquidity measures the Return-to-Turnover (hereafter RtoTR) proposed by Florackis et al. (2011) and Return-to-Volume (hereafter RtoV) recommended by Amihud, 2002, for 386 companies listed on the Pakistani... Read More about The implications of liquidity ratios: Evidence from Pakistan stock exchange limited.

Impact of institutional and contingent factors on adopting environmental management accounting systems: the case of manufacturing companies in Libya (2020)
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Purpose: Environmental management accounting (EMA) has received increasing interest since 2000 and is now regarded as an effective tool to deal with environmental issues and the economic performance of companies and countries. This study aims to exam... Read More about Impact of institutional and contingent factors on adopting environmental management accounting systems: the case of manufacturing companies in Libya.

Understanding The Role Of Frontline Employee Felt Obligation In Services (2020)
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Drawing on social exchange theory, this study investigates the mechanism of felt obligation underpinning the link between three key forms of perceived support (organization, supervisor, and team) and three key frontline employee work outcomes. The st... Read More about Understanding The Role Of Frontline Employee Felt Obligation In Services.

Taxing Gambling Machines to Enhance Tourism (2020)
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Gambling machines are a key component of global gambling tourism. The taxation of these machines is a highly controversial area of policy debate involving tensions between industry profitability, economic growth and government revenue. We present the... Read More about Taxing Gambling Machines to Enhance Tourism.

Investigating the motivations and constraints of Chinese peer-to-peer accommodation hosts (2020)
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Purpose – This research aims to identify peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation hosts’ perceived motivations and constraints, to examine the prediction of the motivation and constraint factors on hosts’ intention to continue business based on hosts’ attitu... Read More about Investigating the motivations and constraints of Chinese peer-to-peer accommodation hosts.

False hopes and blind beliefs: How political connections affect China's corporate bond market (2020)
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This paper explores whether and how political connections affect the market for corporate bonds issued by privately owned enterprises (POEs) in China. We test two competing theories – the zero-default myth and the borrower channel theory – that offer... Read More about False hopes and blind beliefs: How political connections affect China's corporate bond market.

From resistance and control to normative orders: The Wire’s Cedric Daniels as an ethical bureaucrat (2020)
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While the categories of control and resistance have provided important frames of reference to understand workplace relations, we argue that they offer a limited analytical range when investigating conduct in public institutions where work still has s... Read More about From resistance and control to normative orders: The Wire’s Cedric Daniels as an ethical bureaucrat.

Hospital managers’ perspectives with implementing quality improvement measures and a new regulatory framework: a qualitative case study (2020)
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© A new regulatory framework to support local quality and safety efforts in hospitals was introduced to the Norwegian healthcare system in 2017. This study aimed to investigate hospital managers' perspectives on implementation efforts and the result... Read More about Hospital managers’ perspectives with implementing quality improvement measures and a new regulatory framework: a qualitative case study.

The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Business Strategy and Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd The United Kingdom's Modern Slavery Act exposed companies to a new ethical challenge in their supply chains. An estimated 40.3 million peop... Read More about The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery.