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Perceptions of fair treatment in financial services: Development, validation and application of a fairness measurement scale (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this article is to derive, test and validate a comprehensive, inclusive measure of perceptions of fairness in consumers of financial services, as current attempts to measure fairness in a broad-based multi-dimensional manner a... Read More about Perceptions of fair treatment in financial services: Development, validation and application of a fairness measurement scale.

Employee productivity, employment growth, and the cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms (2014)
Journal Article

We examine the impact of the cross‐border acquisitions made by firms from emerging markets on employee productivity and employment growth. The literature suggests that cross‐border acquisitions enable emerging market firms to obtain new skills and kn... Read More about Employee productivity, employment growth, and the cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms.

Disentangling the Effects of Corporate Disclosure on the Cost of Equity Capital: A Study of the Role of Intellectual Capital Disclosure (2014)
Journal Article

In this paper, we investigate whether intellectual capital (IC) and financial disclosures jointly affect the firm’s cost of equity capital. In contrast to prior research, we disaggregate disclosures into IC and financial disclosures and examine wheth... Read More about Disentangling the Effects of Corporate Disclosure on the Cost of Equity Capital: A Study of the Role of Intellectual Capital Disclosure.

Academics in pursuit of the part-time doctorate: pressures and support issues associated with the career development of business and management academics (2014)
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This article poses the question, how might the application of human resource development, career development (CD) and critical management studies perspectives cast light on the development of doctoral student? Nine part-time students took part in a l... Read More about Academics in pursuit of the part-time doctorate: pressures and support issues associated with the career development of business and management academics.

An empirical examination of the lead–lag relationship between spot and futures markets: evidence from Thailand (2014)
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This study investigates whether a lead–lag relationship exists between the spot market and the futures market in Thailand during the period 2006 through 2012. In a rational, efficient market, returns on derivative securities and their underlying asse... Read More about An empirical examination of the lead–lag relationship between spot and futures markets: evidence from Thailand.

Pre-evaluating technical efficiency gains from possible mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Japanese regional banks (2014)
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This study focuses on bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and applies a DEA based procedure that allows us to pre-evaluate technical efficiency gains from possible M&As in the Japanese regional banking sector. This approach provides a strategic tool... Read More about Pre-evaluating technical efficiency gains from possible mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Japanese regional banks.

Who's acquiring whom? — Experimental evidence of firm size effect on B2B mergers and marketing/sales tasks (2014)
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A recent study has revealed a marked growth in global mergers and acquisitions between firms from developed and developing countries. Unlike previous merger waves, however, companies in emerging markets are playing an increasingly important role. Thi... Read More about Who's acquiring whom? — Experimental evidence of firm size effect on B2B mergers and marketing/sales tasks.

Sustainability reporting and corporate identity: action research evidences in an Italian Retailing Cooperative (2014)
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Cooperatives are facing the challenge to be competitive in the market, without losing their traditional values of mutuality and democracy. To do that, they need to re?construct open and participative dialogue with their employees and members based on... Read More about Sustainability reporting and corporate identity: action research evidences in an Italian Retailing Cooperative.