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The impact of bank mergers on corporate tax aggressiveness (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Mishra, T., Song, W., Zhang, Q., & Zhang, Z. (2024). The impact of bank mergers on corporate tax aggressiveness. Journal of Corporate Finance, 84, Article 102540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102540

We study whether borrowers’ opaque practices, such as tax aggressiveness, are affected by their lenders’ engagement in mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Our findings suggest that borrowers’ tax aggressiveness is negatively associated with bank mergers... Read More about The impact of bank mergers on corporate tax aggressiveness.

Young Voters’ Engagement: A Customer Journeys Perspective (2024)
Journal Article
Poorrezaei, M., Pich, C., Armannsdottir, G., Branco-Illodo, I., & Harvey, J. (in press). Young Voters’ Engagement: A Customer Journeys Perspective. International Journal of Market Research,

This interdisciplinary study aims to explore the lived experiences and engagement of young voters from a customer journey perspective. To achieve this, the present study investigates voter engagement journey with various political events (2015 UK Gen... Read More about Young Voters’ Engagement: A Customer Journeys Perspective.

Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (2024)
Book
Matthews, L., Bianchi, L., & Ingram, C. (Eds.). (2024). Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Edward Elgar Publishing

This Concise Encyclopedia is an interdisciplinary overview of the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It not only incorporates well-established concepts proffered by highly influential voices, but also captures the perspectives of tomorro... Read More about Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Double Your Price: The Strategy and Tactics of Smart Pricing (2023)
Book
Falzani, D. (2023). Double Your Price: The Strategy and Tactics of Smart Pricing. FT Publishing International

Getting your pricing strategy right is the difference between sustainable growth, investing in product development, and happy, engaged customers and stakeholders. Harvard Business Review research shows that pricing has almost 4 times as much influenc... Read More about Double Your Price: The Strategy and Tactics of Smart Pricing.

Surveillance system for Healthcare-associated endophthalmitis at state level in a middle-income country: preliminary results (2023)
Journal Article
Luz, R., Brandão de Assis, D., Madalosso, G., Timmons, S., & Padoveze, M. C. (2023). Surveillance system for Healthcare-associated endophthalmitis at state level in a middle-income country: preliminary results. Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, 87(4), https://doi.org/10.5935/0004-2749.2022-0181

Purpose: To describe the implementation process and the preliminary results of a surveillance system for healthcare-associated endophthalmitis. Methods: This is a case study of the implementation of a surveillance system for healthcare-associated end... Read More about Surveillance system for Healthcare-associated endophthalmitis at state level in a middle-income country: preliminary results.

IASB'S Recent Update on the Extractive Activities Project: A Comment (2023)
Journal Article
Abdo, H., & Owusu, F. B. (2023). IASB'S Recent Update on the Extractive Activities Project: A Comment. Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, 71(3), 443-452

In January 2022, the IASB published an article on the Extractive Activities project where Tadeu Cendon explains the IASB's decision on the project. Although the IASB acknowledges the existence of the problem of diversity in accounting practices in th... Read More about IASB'S Recent Update on the Extractive Activities Project: A Comment.

The problem of Vnuk and the EU response: a critique of the law on compulsory motor vehicle insurance (2023)
Journal Article
Marson, J., & Ferris, K. (2023). The problem of Vnuk and the EU response: a critique of the law on compulsory motor vehicle insurance. Journal of Business Law, 2023(8), 639-660

In 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its ruling in the case Vnuk v Zavarovalnica Triglav, extending the scope of compulsory motor vehicle insurance. The relevant EU legislation, the Motor Vehicle Insurance Directive, imposed a duty o... Read More about The problem of Vnuk and the EU response: a critique of the law on compulsory motor vehicle insurance.

Intergroup Identity Conflict in Tourism: The Voice of the Tourist (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, C. X., Fong, L., & McCabe, S. (in press). Intergroup Identity Conflict in Tourism: The Voice of the Tourist. Journal of Travel Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231217898

Over the last decade, political tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China over the territory’s status, culminating with the 2019/20 pro-democracy demonstrations, spilled over into tourism, with rising antagonism among “HongKongers” toward Chinese... Read More about Intergroup Identity Conflict in Tourism: The Voice of the Tourist.

Operational Research: Methods and Applications (2023)
Journal Article
Petropoulos, F., Laporte, G., Aktas, E., Alumur, S. A., Archetti, C., Ayhan, H., …Zhao, X. (2023). Operational Research: Methods and Applications. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2253852

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include a variety of methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a diverse and wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: methods and appli... Read More about Operational Research: Methods and Applications.

Political affiliation, cash flow volatility, and debt maturity in China (2023)
Journal Article
Caglayan, M., Mateut, S., & Zanchettin, P. (2023). Political affiliation, cash flow volatility, and debt maturity in China. British Accounting Review, Article 101299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2023.101299

Using a large dataset with over half a million observations for 161 thousand Chinese firms, we examine the role of political affiliation on the debt maturity of firms experiencing varying levels of financial volatility. Our findings indicate that pol... Read More about Political affiliation, cash flow volatility, and debt maturity in China.

Mutual Funds' Conditional Performance Free of Data Snooping Bias (2023)
Journal Article
Hsu, P., Kyriakou, I., Ma, T., & Sermpinis, G. (in press). Mutual Funds' Conditional Performance Free of Data Snooping Bias. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,

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.

Strategic trade policy in a vertical structure with cross ownership (2023)
Book Chapter
Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (in press). Strategic trade policy in a vertical structure with cross ownership. In S. Marjit, & B. Mandal (Eds.), International Trade, Resource Mobility and Adjustments in a Changing World : Essays in Memory of Ronald W. Jones. Springer

We consider an economy where the final goods producers use a key input supplied by a foreign monopolist. We show how different types of passive cross ownership affects export tax/subsidy policies in the final goods industry. In this respect, we show... Read More about Strategic trade policy in a vertical structure with cross ownership.

Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience (2023)
Journal Article
Tian, S., Wu, L., Pia Ciano, M., Ardolino, M., & Pawar, K. S. (2024). Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 188, Article 109841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109841

The Covid-19 pandemic has extremely affected the manufacturing supply chain (SC) highlighting the need to deploy dynamic capabilities (DCs) such as supply chain resilience (SCRes) that enable companies to react rapidly and exploit intangible assets t... Read More about Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience.

Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Harvey, J., Long, G., Welham, S., Mansilla, R., Rose, P., Thomas, M., …Goulding, J. (2023). Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake. In Proceedings: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (4530-4538). https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386220

Anthocyanins are a class of polyphenols that have received widespread recent attention due to their potential health benefits. However, estimating the dietary intake of anthocyanins at a population level is a challenging task, due to the difficulty o... Read More about Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake.

Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Milligan, G., Harvey, J., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., Nica-Avram, G., & Goulding, J. (2023). Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data. In Proceedings: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data: Dec 15 - Dec 18, 2023 Sorrento, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386740

Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbe-ing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individua... Read More about Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data.

The effective nature of projective techniques in political brand image research (2023)
Journal Article
Khan, D., Pich, C., & Spry, L. (2024). The effective nature of projective techniques in political brand image research. International Journal of Market Research, 66(1), 115-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/14707853231220301

This study explores the effectiveness of qualitative projective techniques to explore the corporate political brand image of Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf party [PTI] from a multiple-stakeholder perspective. This study addresses core gaps in projective te... Read More about The effective nature of projective techniques in political brand image research.

Calculative trust, relational trust, and organizational performance: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach (2023)
Journal Article
Bai, J., Xin, Z., Su, J., & Wang, C. (2024). Calculative trust, relational trust, and organizational performance: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Business Research, 172, Article 114435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114435

We draw on transaction cost economics and social exchange theory to explore how two different types of inter-organizational trust, namely, calculative trust and relational trust, affect organizational performance. Our meta-analysis of 60 empirical st... Read More about Calculative trust, relational trust, and organizational performance: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.

Authenticity: The state-of-the-art in Tourism Geographies (2023)
Journal Article
Rickly, J., Sharma, N., & Canavan, B. (2023). Authenticity: The state-of-the-art in Tourism Geographies. Tourism Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2023.2290017

A leading concept in the field of tourism studies, authenticity has a unique relationship with tourism geographies. This state-of-the-art review focuses on this relationship. First, we identity key themes of authenticity research in tourism geographi... Read More about Authenticity: The state-of-the-art in Tourism Geographies.

Law, Ethics and Lockdowns: impacts on life, liberty and the economy (2023)
Journal Article
Keown, J., & Paton, D. (2023). Law, Ethics and Lockdowns: impacts on life, liberty and the economy. Issues in Law & Medicine, 38(2), Article 1

Many people worldwide, particularly those with disabilities and the elderly, suffered greatly not only as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic but also as a result of the lockdowns. In this article we set out widely-accepted ethical criteria for assessi... Read More about Law, Ethics and Lockdowns: impacts on life, liberty and the economy.