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Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy (2024)
Journal Article
Mallett, O., Wapshott, R., & Wilson, N. (2024). Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 30(7), 1950-1968. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-04-2023-0431

Purpose: This research paper generates new insights into the challenges of implementation in women’s enterprise policy. It argues that organisations involved in policy implementation need to be understood as operating in a context of institutional pl... Read More about Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy.

Optimal Consumption and Investment with Independent Stochastic Labor Income (2024)
Journal Article
Bensoussan, A., & Park, S. (2024). Optimal Consumption and Investment with Independent Stochastic Labor Income. Mathematics of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2023.0119

We develop a new dynamic continuous-time model of optimal consumption and investment to include independent stochastic labor income. We reduce the problem of solving the Bellman equation to a problem of solving an integral equation. We then explicitl... Read More about Optimal Consumption and Investment with Independent Stochastic Labor Income.

Losses from horizontal merger and collusion (2024)
Journal Article
Beladi, H., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Losses from horizontal merger and collusion. Journal of Economics, 142, 277-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-024-00857-y

We show that the implications of a merger on collusion sustainability change significantly from the extant literature if merger is not profitable in the punishment subgame where firms play non-cooperative Cournot-Nash game. Merger either does not aff... Read More about Losses from horizontal merger and collusion.

Shaping the social and work-related well-being of migrant live-in carers: the ambiguous role of labour market intermediaries in England (2024)
Book Chapter
Hussein, S., Turnpenny, A., & Emberson, C. (2024). Shaping the social and work-related well-being of migrant live-in carers: the ambiguous role of labour market intermediaries in England. In B. Aulenbacher, H. Lutz, E. Palenga-Möllenbeck, & K. Schwiter (Eds.), Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe. SAGE Publications

Live-in care is an increasingly common form of care in England. It relies, to a significant extent, on the labour of migrant women who are increasingly recruited through market intermediaries either in the UK or their home countries. The literature i... Read More about Shaping the social and work-related well-being of migrant live-in carers: the ambiguous role of labour market intermediaries in England.

Impact of board diversity on Chinese firms’ cross-border M&A performance: An artificial intelligence approach (2024)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Du, M., Cui, T., Zhang, Y., & Duygun, M. (2024). Impact of board diversity on Chinese firms’ cross-border M&A performance: An artificial intelligence approach. International Review of Economics and Finance, 92, 1321-1335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2024.02.077

In this paper, we examine the impact of board demographic characteristics on Chinese firms’ cross-border Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) performance, especially the gender diversity of the board composition. We unveil that female board proportion exhib... Read More about Impact of board diversity on Chinese firms’ cross-border M&A performance: An artificial intelligence approach.

Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda (2024)
Journal Article
Noke, H., Mosey, S., & Vere, K. (2024). Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda. Journal of Technology Transfer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-024-10072-y

Knowledge exchange (KE) is becoming a strategic imperative for universities globally. Research examining KE has tended to focus on a limited and select group of stakeholders. This paper builds on calls for a wider consideration of KE activities and o... Read More about Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda.

Energy transition: Assessing oil companies' compliance with their disclosed environmental strategic positioning (2024)
Journal Article
Berrêdo, P. D., dos Santos, O. M., Abdo, H., da Silva Macedo, M. Á., & Losekann, L. D. (2024). Energy transition: Assessing oil companies' compliance with their disclosed environmental strategic positioning. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 31(4), 3517-3534. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2760

Based on the greenwashing approach in line with legitimacy theory, we examine first whether the strategic positioning of key oil companies is addressed by their disclosed commitments in their corporate reports and, second, whether the disclosures mad... Read More about Energy transition: Assessing oil companies' compliance with their disclosed environmental strategic positioning.

Household energy price resilience in the face of gas and electricity market crises (2024)
Journal Article
Burlinson, A., Davillas, A., Giulietti, M., & Price, C. W. (2024). Household energy price resilience in the face of gas and electricity market crises. Energy Economics, 132, Article 107414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107414

Despite the provision of financial support by the Government in response to the recent energy crisis, the resilience of households to the ensuing high energy prices remains to be established. In this study we propose a new definition of resilience, s... Read More about Household energy price resilience in the face of gas and electricity market crises.

Platform success in the international marketplace: reconfiguring digital resources for marketing agility (2024)
Journal Article
Weng, C., Liu, M. J., Ye, D., Huang, J., & Liu, P. C. (2024). Platform success in the international marketplace: reconfiguring digital resources for marketing agility. International Marketing Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-08-2023-0199

Purpose
This paper explores how platforms reconfigure versatile digital resources to achieve marketing agility in international markets.

Design/methodology/approach
We draw on a case study of a Chinese digital platform to explore the processes... Read More about Platform success in the international marketplace: reconfiguring digital resources for marketing agility.

The Role of Intersectionality and Context in Measuring Gender-Based Violence in Universities and Research-Performing Organizations in Europe for the Development of Inclusive Structural Interventions (2024)
Journal Article
Humbert, A. L., Strid, S., Tanwar, J., Lipinsky, A., & Schredl, C. (2024). The Role of Intersectionality and Context in Measuring Gender-Based Violence in Universities and Research-Performing Organizations in Europe for the Development of Inclusive Structural Interventions. Violence Against Women, https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241231773

The aim of the article is to discuss how thinking about gender-based violence intersectionally and in context can not only enrich our understanding but also lead to transformative change in organizations. The article argues that to better understand... Read More about The Role of Intersectionality and Context in Measuring Gender-Based Violence in Universities and Research-Performing Organizations in Europe for the Development of Inclusive Structural Interventions.

Do ‘Lehman Sisters’ work in China? Women on boards and bank risk (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Fang, F., Fan, Y., & Ly, K. C. (2024). Do ‘Lehman Sisters’ work in China? Women on boards and bank risk. International Review of Financial Analysis, 93, 103129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103129

We investigate how women on boards impact bank risk in China. Using a merged dataset containing 83 Chinese banks for the period of 2006–2019, we find that more women on boards could reduce bank risk in China. We further provide the evidence that risk... Read More about Do ‘Lehman Sisters’ work in China? Women on boards and bank risk.

The potential for blockchain to improve small-scale agri-food business’ supply chain resilience: a systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Jellason, N. P., Ambituuni, A., Adu, D. A., Jellason, J. A., Qureshi, M. I., Olarinde, A., & Manning, L. (2024). The potential for blockchain to improve small-scale agri-food business’ supply chain resilience: a systematic review. British Food Journal, 126(5), 2061-2083. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-07-2023-0591

Purpose
We conducted a systematic review to explore the potential for the application of blockchain technologies for supply chain resilience in a small-scale agri-food business context.

Design/methodology/approach
As part of the research methodo... Read More about The potential for blockchain to improve small-scale agri-food business’ supply chain resilience: a systematic review.

Mutual Funds’ Conditional Performance Free of Data Snooping Bias (2024)
Journal Article
Hsu, P.-H., Kyriakou, I., Ma, T., & Sermpinis, G. (2024). Mutual Funds’ Conditional Performance Free of Data Snooping Bias. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109024000097

We introduce a test to assess mutual funds' "conditional" performance that is based on updated information and corrects data snooping bias. Our method, named the functional False Discovery Rate "plus" (f F DR +), incorporates fund characteristics in... Read More about Mutual Funds’ Conditional Performance Free of Data Snooping Bias.

Consumer data and price discrimination by consideration sets (2024)
Journal Article
Chioveanu, I. (2024). Consumer data and price discrimination by consideration sets. Economics Letters, 236, Article 111605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111605

In a homogeneous product oligopoly with probabilistic consideration, identical retailers compete in prices over two periods. In period two, purchase history data enables price discrimination based on consumers’ consideration patterns. Retailers discr... Read More about Consumer data and price discrimination by consideration sets.

In Pursuit of Impact: How Psychological Contract Research Can Make the Work-World a Better Place (2024)
Journal Article
Kraak, J. M., Hansen, S. D., Griep, Y., Bhattacharya, S., Bojovic, N., Diehl, M., …Tekleab, A. (in press). In Pursuit of Impact: How Psychological Contract Research Can Make the Work-World a Better Place. Group and Organization Management, https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011241233019

This paper is the result of the collective work undertaken by a group of Psychological Contract (PC) and Sustainability scholars from around the world, following the 2023 Bi-Annual PC Small Group Conference (Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France).... Read More about In Pursuit of Impact: How Psychological Contract Research Can Make the Work-World a Better Place.

Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier (2024)
Journal Article
Kao, K., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 26(1), Article e12682. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12682

It is well known that if the final goods producers adopt new technologies, the input suppliers with market power can extract more rent from the final goods producers by increasing the input prices. Higher rent extraction by the input supplier neither... Read More about Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier.

Going the distance: endurance philanthropy, spectacle, and development in Central America (2024)
Journal Article
Clouser, R., & Rickly, J. M. (2024). Going the distance: endurance philanthropy, spectacle, and development in Central America. Tourism Geographies, 26(3), 373-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2314550

The increasing popularity of fusing adventure, humanitarianism, and travel has received attention from scholars within the fields of leisure and tourism studies, particularly regarding widespread activities such as volunteer tourism. Fewer have exami... Read More about Going the distance: endurance philanthropy, spectacle, and development in Central America.

How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors (2024)
Journal Article
Vedi, P., Korczynski, M., & Bishop, S. (in press). How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231225615

Sociological analysis of emotional labour can be aided by considering how institutional logics inform the performance of emotional labour. We consider the link between institutional logics and emotional labour by conducting an in-depth case study of... Read More about How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors.