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Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review (2022)
Journal Article
Faux-Nightingale, A., Kelemen, M., & Stewart, C. (2022). Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, 46(4), 351-356. https://doi.org/10.1097/PXR.0000000000000095

Background:Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are commonly supplied to children with cerebral palsy (CP) to support their gait. However, usage is reported to decrease through adolescence. Because AFOs can allow users to engage in daily activities and develop... Read More about Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review.

’All we have to do is be uncertain’: assessing the ‘amplification of institutional incertitude’ in European food safety and risk governance (2022)
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Wardman, J. K., & Bouder, F. (2022). ’All we have to do is be uncertain’: assessing the ‘amplification of institutional incertitude’ in European food safety and risk governance. Journal of Risk Research, 25(8), 1008-1022. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2022.2053391

This paper addresses efforts made by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in recent years to foreground the identification, representation, and public disclosure of scientific uncertainty in its risk assessment procedures and communications, a p... Read More about ’All we have to do is be uncertain’: assessing the ‘amplification of institutional incertitude’ in European food safety and risk governance.

The cancellation heuristic in intertemporal choice shifts people’s time preferences (2022)
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Sengupta, A., & Savani, K. (2022). The cancellation heuristic in intertemporal choice shifts people’s time preferences. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 4627. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07906-w

Building on past research in risky decision making, the present research investigated whether the cancellation heuristic is evident in intertemporal choice. Specifically, the cancellation heuristic posits that whenever choice options are partitioned... Read More about The cancellation heuristic in intertemporal choice shifts people’s time preferences.

Corporate risk disclosure and key audit matters: the egocentric theory (2022)
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Elmarzouky, M., Hussainey, K., Abdelfattah, T., & Karim, A. E. (2022). Corporate risk disclosure and key audit matters: the egocentric theory. International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, 30(2), 230-251. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJAIM-10-2021-0213

Purpose: This paper aims to provide unique interdisciplinary research evidence between the risk information disclosed by auditors and the risk information disclosed by corporate managers. In particular, it investigates the association between the lev... Read More about Corporate risk disclosure and key audit matters: the egocentric theory.

Encouraging more creativity in organizations: the importance of employees’ intrinsic motivation and work engagement (2022)
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Aldabbas, H., Pinnington, A. H., & Lahrech, A. (2023). Encouraging more creativity in organizations: the importance of employees’ intrinsic motivation and work engagement. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 31(6), 2337-2358. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-11-2021-3038

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the contribution of perceived organizational support (POS), work engagement (WE) and intrinsic motivation (IM) on employee creativity (EC). Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a questionnaire s... Read More about Encouraging more creativity in organizations: the importance of employees’ intrinsic motivation and work engagement.

Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China (2022)
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Guo, D., Jiang, K., Xu, C., & Yang, X. (2022). Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China. World Development, 154, Article 105878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105878

This study provides evidence that links industrial clusters and rural income in China. Based on a pooled cross-sectional dataset composed of rural households from 109, 121 and 313 counties in 1995, 2002 and 2007, respectively, as well as a unique den... Read More about Industrial clustering, income and inequality in rural China.

Understanding the Political Skills and Behaviours for Leading the Implementation of Health Services Change: A Qualitative Interview Study (2022)
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Waring, J., Bishop, S., Black, G., Clarke, J. M., Exworthy, M., Fulop, N. J., …Roe, B. (2022). Understanding the Political Skills and Behaviours for Leading the Implementation of Health Services Change: A Qualitative Interview Study. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(11), 2686-2697. https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6564

Background: The implementation of change in health and care services is often complicated by organisational micro-politics. There are calls for those leading change to develop and utilise political skills and behaviours to understand and mediate such... Read More about Understanding the Political Skills and Behaviours for Leading the Implementation of Health Services Change: A Qualitative Interview Study.

To be a marketer or to do what marketers do? Using a mixed methods approach to explore the aspiring marketer mind-set (2022)
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Woodall, T., Pich, C., Armannsdottir, G., Allison, S., Howarth, R., & Poorrezaei, M. (2022). To be a marketer or to do what marketers do? Using a mixed methods approach to explore the aspiring marketer mind-set. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 135, Article 103716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103716

Both anecdotal and evidential testimonies posit marketing as a “wicked” endeavor, in thrall to sales and profit and at odds with society's needs. Using social identity theory as our primary frame of reference we look to obtain some foreground underst... Read More about To be a marketer or to do what marketers do? Using a mixed methods approach to explore the aspiring marketer mind-set.

Intra-firm and arm's length export propensity and intensity of MNE foreign subsidiaries (2022)
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Nguyen, Q. T., Almodóvar, P., & Wei, Z. (2022). Intra-firm and arm's length export propensity and intensity of MNE foreign subsidiaries. Journal of Business Research, 145, 288-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.02.062

In this study, we build upon internalisation theory in the international business literature and international trade finance in the international economics literature to examine how financial capital affects the decision to export (export propensity)... Read More about Intra-firm and arm's length export propensity and intensity of MNE foreign subsidiaries.

Analysis of carbon productivity for firms in the manufacturing sector of India (2022)
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Bagchi, P., Kumar Sahu, S., Kumar, A., & Tan, K. H. (2022). Analysis of carbon productivity for firms in the manufacturing sector of India. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 178, Article 121606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121606

Emission estimation and carbon productivity at the firm level for India's manufacturing sector are scanty. We fill this gap by estimating CO2 emissions at the firm level and further determining the optimal and the actual trade-offs between emissions... Read More about Analysis of carbon productivity for firms in the manufacturing sector of India.

Assessing the influence of celebrity and government endorsements on bitcoin's price volatility (2022)
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Ullah, S., Attah-Boakye, R., Adams, K., & Zaefarian, G. (2022). Assessing the influence of celebrity and government endorsements on bitcoin's price volatility. Journal of Business Research, 145, 228-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.055

The global market capitalisation of bitcoin has exponentially increased in recent years and there are concerns that the current prices of bitcoin do not reflect the true and fair underlying value of this particular type of digital asset. Applying Cue... Read More about Assessing the influence of celebrity and government endorsements on bitcoin's price volatility.

Improving vaccination intent among skeptics through confidence in governments' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Meng Tan, C., Owuamalam, K., & Sarma, V. (2022). Improving vaccination intent among skeptics through confidence in governments' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Acta Psychologica, 225, Article 103556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103556

Scientific evidence suggests that individuals vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines are less likely to require hospitalization, possibly lowering the burden on the healthcare system. Despite such benefits, substantial segments of the world's population r... Read More about Improving vaccination intent among skeptics through confidence in governments' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case (2022)
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Wang, J. M., Sun, Y. T., & Zhang, C. (2022). How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 178, Article 121587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121587

This paper develops an integrated framework and examines how the implicit property-knowledge heterogeneity, acquisition costs and interactivity embedded in external knowledge acquisition (EKA) affect firms’ innovation performance. This is done by dis... Read More about How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case.

Participation in setting technology standards and the implied cost of equity (2022)
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Deng, X., Li, C., & Mateut, S. (2022). Participation in setting technology standards and the implied cost of equity. Research Policy, 51(5), Article 104497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104497

This study empirically investigates the financial market's reaction to firms’ participation in standard setting organizations (SSOs) in terms of firms’ implied cost of equity capital – the discount rate applied by investors to a firm's expected futur... Read More about Participation in setting technology standards and the implied cost of equity.

How does informalisation encourage or inhibit collective action by migrant workers? A comparative analysis of logistics warehouses in Italy and hand car washes in Britain (2022)
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Cioce, G., Clark, I., & Hunter, J. (2022). How does informalisation encourage or inhibit collective action by migrant workers? A comparative analysis of logistics warehouses in Italy and hand car washes in Britain. Industrial Relations Journal, 53(2), 126-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12359

Cross-national research is key to understanding the global presence of informal and non-compliant workplaces. This article comparatively examines how informalisation encourages or inhibits collective action led by migrant workers employed in Italian... Read More about How does informalisation encourage or inhibit collective action by migrant workers? A comparative analysis of logistics warehouses in Italy and hand car washes in Britain.

Social Efficiency of Entry in a Vertical Structure with Third Degree Price Discrimination (2022)
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Chen, J., Mukherjee, A., & Zeng, C. (2023). Social Efficiency of Entry in a Vertical Structure with Third Degree Price Discrimination. BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 23(1), 223-243. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2021-0069

We study social efficiency of entry in the presence of downstream cost asymmetry and upstream price discrimination. We show that entry is excessive when the entrants are highly inefficient, and it is insufficient when either the entrants are efficien... Read More about Social Efficiency of Entry in a Vertical Structure with Third Degree Price Discrimination.

Patients views on which return-to-work outcomes should be prioritised: A nominal group technique focus group (2022)
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Bridger, K., Kellezi, B., Kendrick, D., Kettlewell, J., Holmes, J., Timmons, S., …Radford, K. (2022). Patients views on which return-to-work outcomes should be prioritised: A nominal group technique focus group. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 85(9), 704-711. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226211072766

Objective: Injuries can have a long-lasting effect on ability to return to work, but there is little research on which outcomes are most important to patients. This study aims to identify and prioritise return-to-work outcomes important to patients f... Read More about Patients views on which return-to-work outcomes should be prioritised: A nominal group technique focus group.

The Dawn of the AI Robots: Towards a New Framework of AI Robot Accountability (2022)
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Tóth, Z., Caruana, R., Gruber, T., & Loebbecke, C. (2022). The Dawn of the AI Robots: Towards a New Framework of AI Robot Accountability. Journal of Business Ethics, 178, 895-916. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05050-z

Business, management and business ethics literature pay little attention to the topic of AI robots. The broad spectrum of potential ethical issues pertains to using driverless cars, AI robots in care homes, and in the military, such as Lethal Autonom... Read More about The Dawn of the AI Robots: Towards a New Framework of AI Robot Accountability.

Toward Successful Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Practice: Protocol for a Research Program (2022)
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Svedberg, P., Reed, J., Nilsen, P., Barlow, J., Macrae, C., & Nygren, J. (2022). Toward Successful Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Practice: Protocol for a Research Program. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(3), Article e34920. https://doi.org/10.2196/34920

Background: The uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care is at an early stage. Recent studies have shown a lack of AI-specific implementation theories, models, or frameworks that could provide guidance for how to translate the potential... Read More about Toward Successful Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Practice: Protocol for a Research Program.