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The impact of board gender diversity and national culture on corporate innovation: a multi- country analysis of multinational corporations operating in emerging economies (2020)
Journal Article
Attah-Boakye, R., Adams, K., Kimani, D., & Ullah, S. (2020). The impact of board gender diversity and national culture on corporate innovation: a multi- country analysis of multinational corporations operating in emerging economies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120247

This paper contributes to burgeoning research concerning the relationship between boardroom gender diversity and corporate innovation. The paper deploys a multi-theoretical framework comprising insights from the upper echelons, resource-dependency, a... Read More about The impact of board gender diversity and national culture on corporate innovation: a multi- country analysis of multinational corporations operating in emerging economies.

Tales from the countryside: Unpacking “passing the environmental buck” as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain (2020)
Journal Article
Glover, J., & Touboulic, A. (2020). Tales from the countryside: Unpacking “passing the environmental buck” as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain. Journal of Business Research, 121, 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.066

© 2020 Using a critical power lens and the concept of organisational hypocrisy, we explore how actors across the supply chain have been able to pass risk and responsibility for environmental impacts down the supply chain, in addition to associated ec... Read More about Tales from the countryside: Unpacking “passing the environmental buck” as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain.

Monitoring market participants, externals and financial transactions in a global financial stability environment (2020)
Journal Article
Duygun, M., Miao, J., & Östberg, P. (2020). Monitoring market participants, externals and financial transactions in a global financial stability environment. Journal of Banking and Finance, 119, Article 105937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2020.105937

The existing economic and financial literature has documented the importance of informed trades, volatility spreads and the stock market response to key financial events that can threaten domestic and global financial stability. After the Global Fina... Read More about Monitoring market participants, externals and financial transactions in a global financial stability environment.

Credit information sharing and bank loan pricing: Do concentration and governance matter? (2020)
Journal Article
Fosu, S., Danso, A., Agyei-Boapeah, H., & Ntim, C. G. (2021). Credit information sharing and bank loan pricing: Do concentration and governance matter?. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26(4), 5884-5911. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2099

The development of credit information sharing schemes in developing countries has gained significant attention in recent times along with ongoing financial sector reforms. In this paper, we provide first-hand evidence of the effect of credit informat... Read More about Credit information sharing and bank loan pricing: Do concentration and governance matter?.

Working Lives (2020)
Book Chapter
Beck, V., Fuertes, V., Kamerade, D., Lyonette, C., & Warren, T. (2020). Working Lives. In Life after Covid-19: The Other Side of Crisis. Bristol University Press

The Covid-19 crisis will have fundamental impacts on the future of working lives. Daily forecasts predict a depressing picture for the working-age population, both in the UK and abroad. This makes it difficult to identify positive outcomes from the c... Read More about Working Lives.

The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks (2020)
Journal Article
Waring, J., Roe, B., Crompton, A., & Bishop, S. (2020). The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks. Social Science and Medicine, 263, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113277

Sociologists have long-debated how health and care reforms have transformed the social organisation of medical work, especially where managerial and market interventions appear to challenge the autonomy and power of doctors (Alford 1975; Harrison and... Read More about The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks.

Foreign direct investment and the undertow of history: Nationhood and the influence of history on the Czech-German relationship (2020)
Journal Article
Soulsby, A. (2022). Foreign direct investment and the undertow of history: Nationhood and the influence of history on the Czech-German relationship. Business History, 64(4), 727-754. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1784878

Since the fall of Communism in 1989, the Czechs have received considerable foreign direct investment from Germany. But the historical relationship between the Czechs and Germans has long been a difficult one. The legacy of the past still overshadows... Read More about Foreign direct investment and the undertow of history: Nationhood and the influence of history on the Czech-German relationship.

Taxing Gambling Machines To Enhance Public and Private Revenue (2020)
Journal Article
Garrett, T. A., Paton, D., & Vaughan Williams, L. (2020). Taxing Gambling Machines To Enhance Public and Private Revenue. Kyklos, 73(4), 500-523. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12247

Electronic gambling (‘slot’) machines are a key component of the global gambling industry. We introduce a theoretical framework which shows that under reasonable assumptions, shifting from a per-machine licence fee to a gross profits tax (GPT) on ma... Read More about Taxing Gambling Machines To Enhance Public and Private Revenue.

R&D competition and the persistence of technology leadership (2020)
Journal Article
Beladi, H., & Mukherjee, A. (2022). R&D competition and the persistence of technology leadership. International Journal of Economic Theory, 18(3), 272-284. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijet.12289

We show that whether a technology leader invests more in R&D compared to a technology follower may depend on the R&D process and whether the follower is in the market. Considering Cournot competition, we show that if the firms are in the market, the... Read More about R&D competition and the persistence of technology leadership.

A Gendered Life Course Explanation of the Exit Decision in the Context of Household Dynamics (2020)
Journal Article
Jayawarna, D., Marlow, S., & Swail, J. (2021). A Gendered Life Course Explanation of the Exit Decision in the Context of Household Dynamics. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(6), 1394-1430. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720940123

Using a gendered household analysis, we explore the extent to which operating a business upon a flexible basis at specific times in the life course impacts upon an entrepreneur's exit from their business. Drawing upon UK data and a discrete-time even... Read More about A Gendered Life Course Explanation of the Exit Decision in the Context of Household Dynamics.

Modern Slavery Responses Need International Business Scholarship (2020)
Journal Article
Trautrims, A. (2020). Modern Slavery Responses Need International Business Scholarship. AIB Insights, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.13539

Modern slavery challenges our traditional approaches to business and business research. It questions a puristic focus on financial profits and some of the commonly used mechanisms in global supply chains such as outsourcing and the creation of long -... Read More about Modern Slavery Responses Need International Business Scholarship.

Vision zero: Developing proactive leading indicators for safety, health and wellbeing at work (2020)
Journal Article
Zwetsloot, G., Leka, S., Kines, P., & Jain, A. (2020). Vision zero: Developing proactive leading indicators for safety, health and wellbeing at work. Safety Science, 130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104890

The importance of leading occupational safety and health (OSH) indicators in complementing lagging indicators is an emerging topic for the promotion of a prevention culture in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development pr... Read More about Vision zero: Developing proactive leading indicators for safety, health and wellbeing at work.

Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process (2020)
Journal Article
Roscoe, S., Subramanian, N., Prifti, R., & Wu, L. (2020). Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(8), 3526-3541. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2594

The purpose of this paper is to understand how companies can transition to a sustainable sales and operations planning process to improve economic, environmental and social performance. Data are collected from a survey of 120 managers in China's manu... Read More about Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Sales and Operations Planning Process.

The adoption of open platform for container bookings in the maritime supply chain (2020)
Journal Article
Zeng, F., Chan, H. K., & Pawar, K. (2020). The adoption of open platform for container bookings in the maritime supply chain. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 141, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102019

Information systems and technologies (IST) have been playing increasingly crucial roles in supporting the smooth running of maritime supply chain operations. The degree of acceptance of IST within the maritime sector as a whole, however, remains frag... Read More about The adoption of open platform for container bookings in the maritime supply chain.

Power, supply chain integration and quality performance of agricultural products: evidence from contract farming in China (2020)
Journal Article
Fu, S., Zhan, Y., Ouyang, J., Ding, Y., Tan, K. H., & Fu, L. (2021). Power, supply chain integration and quality performance of agricultural products: evidence from contract farming in China. Production Planning and Control, 32(13), 1119-1135. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2020.1794074

Improving the quality of agricultural products is crucial for facilitating sustainable agricultural development. One widely embraced approach is contract farming, which generates guarantees – necessary for sustaining the continuous operations of vuln... Read More about Power, supply chain integration and quality performance of agricultural products: evidence from contract farming in China.

Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry (2020)
Journal Article
Choy, M. W., & Kamoche, K. (2021). Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry. Current Issues in Tourism, 24(10), 1375-1388. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1792853

This study aims to investigate and compare the congruent and incongruent perceptions of managers and frontline employees toward employee retention in Hong Kong travel agencies. An integrated model was developed using data from 32 interviews with 16 m... Read More about Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry.

Tail risk connectedness between US industries (2020)
Journal Article
Nguyen, L. H., Nguyen, L. X. D., & Tan, L. (2021). Tail risk connectedness between US industries. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26(3), 3624-3650. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1979

We use the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) quantile regression technique to construct and analyse the complete tail risk connectedness network of the whole US industry system. We also investigate the empirical relationship bet... Read More about Tail risk connectedness between US industries.

Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Idemudia, U., Kwakyewah, C., & Muthuri, J. (2020). Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(7), 2919-2926. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2581

Although the global norms meant to guide corporate environmental human rights conducts have steadily improved, there have been limited efforts directed at exploring whether business-related environmental human rights infringements have as a result re... Read More about Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective.