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The Community In-Reach and Care Transition (CIRACT) clinical and cost-effectiveness study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article

Background Older people represent a significant proportion of patients admitted to hospital. Their care compared to younger patients is more challenging, length of stay is longer, risk of hospital-acquired problems higher and the risk of being re-... Read More about The Community In-Reach and Care Transition (CIRACT) clinical and cost-effectiveness study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

The value relevance and information content of cash and stock dividends in China (2015)
Journal Article

Due to their unique institutional features, the Chinese stock markets provide an interesting experimental setting in which to examine how cash and stock dividends convey value-relevant information about future performance and future cash dividends. A... Read More about The value relevance and information content of cash and stock dividends in China.

Mapping the public sector diaspora: towards a model of inter-sectoral cultural hybridity using evidence from the English healthcare reforms (2015)
Journal Article

Public service reforms increasingly blur the boundaries between public and private sectors, involving hybrid modes of service organization. With growing numbers of public services being transferred to private or mutual ownership, the article interpre... Read More about Mapping the public sector diaspora: towards a model of inter-sectoral cultural hybridity using evidence from the English healthcare reforms.

The performance of US equity mutual funds (2015)
Journal Article

The paper examines the performance of US no-load equity mutual funds. Fund performance is derived using stochastic frontier analysis for a flexible functional form. This analysis allows us to derive paramet-ric estimates of efficiency scores for each... Read More about The performance of US equity mutual funds.

Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs (2015)
Journal Article

The enterprise culture is a pervasive socio-historical discourse. This article adopts a narrative identity work approach to explore how individuals may exert agency to make sense of and negotiate with the structuring features of such discourses. Olde... Read More about Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs.

Harvesting big data to enhance supply chain innovation capabilities: an analytic infrastructure based on deduction graph (2015)
Journal Article

Today, firms can access to big data (tweets, videos, click streams, and other unstructured sources) to extract new ideas or understanding about their products, customers, and markets. Thus, managers increasingly view data as an important driver of in... Read More about Harvesting big data to enhance supply chain innovation capabilities: an analytic infrastructure based on deduction graph.

The impact of the Impact Agenda (2015)
Journal Article

Is psychosocial risk prevention possible? Deconstructing common presumptions (2015)
Journal Article

This paper tackles a much debated and often misunderstood issue in the modern world of work, psychosocial risks. Although the prevalence and impact of psychosocial risks is now widely acknowledged as a priority in health and safety in Europe, there r... Read More about Is psychosocial risk prevention possible? Deconstructing common presumptions.

An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future (2015)
Journal Article

Despite the developments both in hard and soft law policies in the European Union in relation to mental health and psychosocial risks in the workplace, a review of these policies at EU level has not been conducted to identify strengths, weaknesses, a... Read More about An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future.

Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives (2014)
Journal Article

Imprinting theory suggests that founding conditions are 'stamped' on organizations, and these imprinted routines often resist change. In contrast, strategic choice theory suggests that the firm can overcome organizational inertia and deliberately cho... Read More about Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives.

Consumption and repression (2014)
Journal Article

Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift (2014)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The problem of dynamic portfolio choice with transaction costs is often addressed by constructing a Markov Chain approximation of the continuous time price processes. Using this approximation, we present an e... Read More about Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift.

Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach (2014)
Journal Article

Following the financial crisis and a series of mis-selling and ‘rigging’ scandals in the financial services, organisational culture, and particularly the risk culture of organisations, has come to be regarded as a key issue for both financial firms a... Read More about Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach.

Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Using page-level metrics of a randomly selected group of 15,625 among the top 100,000 Facebook check-in locations which rank high in terms of customer engagement, we explore if the short-term dynamical information on these metrics could deliver, via... Read More about Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics.

Patent protection, innovation and technology licensing (2014)
Journal Article

We show that the common wisdom suggesting higher investment in innovation under a stronger patent protection may not be true if the innovator can license its technology ex?post innovation. If the initial cost of production is high and the slope of th... Read More about Patent protection, innovation and technology licensing.

The Role of Counterparty Risk in CHAPS Following the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (2014)
Journal Article

We study the impact of the global financial crisis on CHAPS, the United Kingdom's large-value wholesale payments system, over the period 2006-2009. Payments data show that in the two months following the Lehman Brothers failure, banks did, on average... Read More about The Role of Counterparty Risk in CHAPS Following the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Changing bank income structure: evidence from large UK banks? (2014)
Journal Article

Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture and Resistance (2014)
Book

Caring and conflicted: mothers' ethical judgments about consumption (2014)
Journal Article

Literature on consumer ethics tends to focus on issues within the public sphere, such as the environment, and treats other drivers of consumption decisions, such as family, as non-moral concerns. Consequently, an attitude–behaviour gap is viewed as a... Read More about Caring and conflicted: mothers' ethical judgments about consumption.

Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing (2014)
Journal Article

The conceptualization of 'lifestyle mobilities' has yet to fully account for the diversity within and across mobile communities in terms of leisure, travel, and identity. Lifestyle rock climbers, for example, maintain minimalist, hypermobile lifestyl... Read More about Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing.