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Product Differentiation in a Vertical Structure (2020)
Journal Article
Han, T., Haque, M. E., & Mukherjee, A. (2022). Product Differentiation in a Vertical Structure. BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 22(1), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2020-0037

We consider final goods producers' preference for horizontal product differentiation in the presence of strategic input price determination. Final goods producers may not prefer maximal differentiation but may prefer moderate differentiation under bo... Read More about Product Differentiation in a Vertical Structure.

Recalibrating pandemic risk leadership: Thirteen crisis ready strategies for COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Wardman, J. K. (2020). Recalibrating pandemic risk leadership: Thirteen crisis ready strategies for COVID-19. Journal of Risk Research, 23(7-8), 1092-1120. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2020.1842989

Good leadership is widely regarded as a crucial component of risk and crisis management and remains an enduring theme of more than 40 years of inquiry into emergencies, disasters, and controversies. Today, the question of good leadership has come und... Read More about Recalibrating pandemic risk leadership: Thirteen crisis ready strategies for COVID-19.

Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers (2020)
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Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2020). Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(3), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joaa019

This article examines the impact of external jolts on professional women's careers. Although scholars have begun to address the role of context in career, little research has addressed the effects of unexpected and uncontrollable events. This is regr... Read More about Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers.

From the store to omnichannel retail: looking back over three decades of research (2020)
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Hanninen, M., Kwan, S. K., & Mitronen, L. (2021). From the store to omnichannel retail: looking back over three decades of research. International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 31(1), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593969.2020.1833961

The retail sector has gone through major changes over the past three decades. These changes have been made possible by advances in information and communications technology that have enabled new business models, communication tools, technologies, and... Read More about From the store to omnichannel retail: looking back over three decades of research.

Firm-productivity and cross border merger (2020)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Senalp, U. E. (2021). Firm-productivity and cross border merger. Review of International Economics, 29(4), 838-859. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12510

We examine whether higher productivity of a foreign firm increases the incentive for a cross border merger, which is a dominant form of foreign direct investment in recent decades. In line with the empirical evidence, we show that the relationship be... Read More about Firm-productivity and cross border merger.

A Daoist perspective on leadership: reputation-building in Chinese SMEs (2020)
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Li, H., Jones, O., Harvey, W. S., & Yang, J. (2021). A Daoist perspective on leadership: reputation-building in Chinese SMEs. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 27(1), 279-300. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-06-2019-0338

Purpose: This article examines the influence of Daoist nothingness on leadership in growing Chinese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Daoism is based on a “letting-go” approach through maintaining inherent openness, which challenges goal-oriented... Read More about A Daoist perspective on leadership: reputation-building in Chinese SMEs.

Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis. (2020)
Journal Article
Paskins, Z., Crawford-Manning, F., Cottrell, E., Corp, N., Wright, J., Jinks, C., …Sahota, O. (2020). Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis. BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e040634. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040634

OBJECTIVE: To explore the acceptability of different bisphosphonate regimens for the treatment of osteoporosis among patients, clinicians and managers, payers and academics. DESIGN: A systematic review of primary qualitative studies. Seven databas... Read More about Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis..

Analysing spillover between returns and volatility series of oil across major stock markets (2020)
Journal Article
Tiwari, A., Nasreen, S., Ullah, S., & Shahbaz, M. (2021). Analysing spillover between returns and volatility series of oil across major stock markets. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26(2), 2458-2490. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1916

Applying recently developed Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) spillover index, this paper investigates the oil-stocks returns and volatility connectedness with weekly data between 2000/01/14-2017/03/31. For the purpose of robustness, we have both used WTI an... Read More about Analysing spillover between returns and volatility series of oil across major stock markets.

Do Relatively More Efficient Firms Demand Additional Audit Effort (Hours)? (2020)
Journal Article
Mali, D., & Lim, H. (2021). Do Relatively More Efficient Firms Demand Additional Audit Effort (Hours)?. Australian Accounting Review, 31(2), 108-127. https://doi.org/10.1111/auar.12327

We examine whether firms with higher relative efficiency (operational performance) require additional audit effort (hours) to signal audit quality to demonstrate that their financial reporting systems are robust. Therefore, we use a Korean sample of... Read More about Do Relatively More Efficient Firms Demand Additional Audit Effort (Hours)?.

COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects (2020)
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Hamann, R., Muthuri, J. N., Nwagwu, I., Pariag-Maraye, N., Chamberlin, W., Ghai, S., …Ogbechie, C. (2020). COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 62(6), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2020.1820293

It has become a truism that COVID-19 has impacted all countries and all people around the world, but in different ways. Yet this contextual diversity in the pandemic’s impacts, the responses by governments and other actors, and the prospects for reco... Read More about COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects.

Patents versus rewards: the implications of production inefficiency (2020)
Journal Article
Bagchi, A., & Mukherjee, A. (2021). Patents versus rewards: the implications of production inefficiency. German Economic Review, 22(2), 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1515/ger-2019-0092

It is believed that if there is no informational asymmetry between firms and the government, firms could be remunerated for innovation using optimal taxation rather than patents. We show that under reasonable conditions (such as the government's inab... Read More about Patents versus rewards: the implications of production inefficiency.

Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures of the firm (2020)
Journal Article
Guo, D., Huang, H., Jiang, K., & Xu, C. (2021). Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures of the firm. Public Choice, 187, 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-020-00850-1

This paper provides a theoretical explanation as to why breakthrough innovations seem to be possible only within capitalist economies (Kornai 2013). Specifically, our theory explains why disruptive innovations are discovered and financed by large num... Read More about Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures of the firm.

Coordination and collaboration for humanitarian operational excellence: big data and modern information processing systems (2020)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., Osburg, V., Kabra, G., Ullah, S., Shabbir, H., & Kumari, S. (2022). Coordination and collaboration for humanitarian operational excellence: big data and modern information processing systems. Production Planning and Control, 33(6-7), 705-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2020.1834126

Humanitarian operational excellence depends on effective coordination and collaboration not only between supply chain partners but also among other actors such as host government, local and international non-government organizations (NGOs), and donor... Read More about Coordination and collaboration for humanitarian operational excellence: big data and modern information processing systems.

Fifty years of methodological trends in JIBS: why future IB research needs more triangulation (2020)
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Nielson, B. B., Welch, C., Chidlow, A., Miller, S. R., Aguzzoli, R., Gardner, E., …Pegoraro, D. (2020). Fifty years of methodological trends in JIBS: why future IB research needs more triangulation. Journal of International Business Studies, 51, 1478-1499. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-020-00372-4

We analyze methodological trends in empirical research in JIBS from 1970-2019. Our results point to the prevalence of the following patterns: there has been an increase in the use of (1) large-scale longitudinal, cross-national datasets, (2) complex... Read More about Fifty years of methodological trends in JIBS: why future IB research needs more triangulation.

Herding by corporates in the US and the Eurozone through different market conditions (2020)
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Duygun, M., Tunaru, R., & Vioto, D. (2021). Herding by corporates in the US and the Eurozone through different market conditions. Journal of International Money and Finance, 110, Article 102311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2020.102311

In this study, we test the herding towards a market consensus in the main financial industries of the United States and the Eurozone equity markets. We find that herding is more likely to be present in high quantiles that reflects turbulent market co... Read More about Herding by corporates in the US and the Eurozone through different market conditions.

Rationalising the Postfeminist Paradox: The Case of UK Women Veterinary Professionals (2020)
Journal Article
Treanor, L., Marlow, S., & Swail, J. (2021). Rationalising the Postfeminist Paradox: The Case of UK Women Veterinary Professionals. Gender, Work and Organization, 28(1), 337-360. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12568

This paper critically evaluates how highly qualified women veterinary surgeons make sense of their constrained professional career progression in a context of postfeminism. Postfeminism posits that agentic individualism, combined with professional ac... Read More about Rationalising the Postfeminist Paradox: The Case of UK Women Veterinary Professionals.

The impact of say on pay votes on firms' strategic policies: Insights from the Anglo- Saxon economy (2020)
Journal Article
Joura, E., Xiao, Q., & Ullah, S. (2021). The impact of say on pay votes on firms' strategic policies: Insights from the Anglo- Saxon economy. International Review of Financial Analysis, 73, Article 101606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101606

This study examines evidences of executive reactions to say-on-pay (SOP) votes in terms of strategic policies which could affect firms' long-run growth and eventual survival. We employed an unbalanced panel data from 1,932 firms taken from four count... Read More about The impact of say on pay votes on firms' strategic policies: Insights from the Anglo- Saxon economy.

Leading Through Social Distancing: The Future of Work, Corporations and Leadership from Home (2020)
Journal Article
Georgiadou, A., & Antonacopoulou, E. P. (2021). Leading Through Social Distancing: The Future of Work, Corporations and Leadership from Home. Gender, Work and Organization, 28(2), 749-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12533

At this critical juncture when the COVID‐19 health crisis has disrupted our ways of living, working and relating to each other, we are perforce to explore and cocreate the Future we want to be part of. Drawing upon feminist theory, we introduce the n... Read More about Leading Through Social Distancing: The Future of Work, Corporations and Leadership from Home.

How internet essay mills portray the student experience of higher education (2020)
Journal Article
Nixon, E., & Crook, C. (2021). How internet essay mills portray the student experience of higher education. Internet and Higher Education, 48, Article 100775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100775

Higher education is under mounting pressure to confront student practices of assignment outsourcing to internet services. The scale and buoyancy of this ‘essay mill’ industry has now been well documented, including its various marketing techniques fo... Read More about How internet essay mills portray the student experience of higher education.