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Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift (2014)
Journal Article
Palczewski, J., Poulsen, R., Schenk-Hoppé, K. R., & Wang, H. (2015). Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift. European Journal of Operational Research, 243(3), 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.12.040

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The problem of dynamic portfolio choice with transaction costs is often addressed by constructing a Markov Chain approximation of the continuous time price processes. Using this approximation, we present an e... Read More about Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs and state-dependent drift.

Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives (2014)
Journal Article
Judge, W., Hu, H., Talaulicar, T., Witt, M., Zattoni, A., Lopez-Iturriaga, F., …Kibler, B. (2014). Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives. Journal of Management Studies, 52(4), 506-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12121

Imprinting theory suggests that founding conditions are 'stamped' on organizations, and these imprinted routines often resist change. In contrast, strategic choice theory suggests that the firm can overcome organizational inertia and deliberately cho... Read More about Configurations of capacity for change in entrepreneurial threshold firms: imprinting and strategic choice perspectives.

Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach (2014)
Journal Article
Ring, P. J., Bryce, C., McKinney, R., & Webb, R. (2016). Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach. Journal of Risk Research, 19(3), 364-387. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2014.983944

Following the financial crisis and a series of mis-selling and ‘rigging’ scandals in the financial services, organisational culture, and particularly the risk culture of organisations, has come to be regarded as a key issue for both financial firms a... Read More about Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach.

Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Lucas, B., Arefin, A. S., Vries, N. J. D., Berretta, R., Carlson, J., & Moscato, P. (2015). Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics. In 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computingdoi:10.1109/bdcloud.2014.56

Using page-level metrics of a randomly selected group of 15,625 among the top 100,000 Facebook check-in locations which rank high in terms of customer engagement, we explore if the short-term dynamical information on these metrics could deliver, via... Read More about Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics.

The Role of Counterparty Risk in CHAPS Following the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (2014)
Journal Article
Benos, E., Stability, F., Garratt, R., & Zimmerman, P. (2014). The Role of Counterparty Risk in CHAPS Following the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. International Journal of Central Banking, 10(4), 143-171

We study the impact of the global financial crisis on CHAPS, the United Kingdom's large-value wholesale payments system, over the period 2006-2009. Payments data show that in the two months following the Lehman Brothers failure, banks did, on average... Read More about The Role of Counterparty Risk in CHAPS Following the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Patent protection, innovation and technology licensing (2014)
Journal Article
Wang, L. F., & Mukherjee, A. (2014). Patent protection, innovation and technology licensing. Australian Economic Papers, 53(3-4), 245-254. doi:10.1111/1467-8454.12030

We show that the common wisdom suggesting higher investment in innovation under a stronger patent protection may not be true if the innovator can license its technology ex?post innovation. If the initial cost of production is high and the slope of th... Read More about Patent protection, innovation and technology licensing.

Caring and conflicted: mothers' ethical judgments about consumption (2014)
Journal Article
Heath, T., O’Malley, L., Heath, M., & Story, V. (2014). Caring and conflicted: mothers' ethical judgments about consumption. Journal of Business Ethics, 136(2), 237-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2441-z

Literature on consumer ethics tends to focus on issues within the public sphere, such as the environment, and treats other drivers of consumption decisions, such as family, as non-moral concerns. Consequently, an attitude–behaviour gap is viewed as a... Read More about Caring and conflicted: mothers' ethical judgments about consumption.

Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing (2014)
Journal Article
Rickly, J. M. (2014). Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing. Mobilities, 12(2), 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2014.977667

The conceptualization of 'lifestyle mobilities' has yet to fully account for the diversity within and across mobile communities in terms of leisure, travel, and identity. Lifestyle rock climbers, for example, maintain minimalist, hypermobile lifestyl... Read More about Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing.

Capital Market Pressures and the Format of Intellectual Capital Disclosure in Intellectual Capital Intensive Firms (2014)
Journal Article
Li, J., & Mangena, M. (2014). Capital Market Pressures and the Format of Intellectual Capital Disclosure in Intellectual Capital Intensive Firms. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 15(3), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-12-2013-0117

Purpose-A number of studies have examined firms' intellectual capital (IC) disclosure practices. However, the presentation format of IC disclosure (text, numerical and graphs/pictures) is yet to be examined. In addition, there is little evidence on t... Read More about Capital Market Pressures and the Format of Intellectual Capital Disclosure in Intellectual Capital Intensive Firms.

Gendered Ageism and Organizational Routines at Work: The Case of Day-Parting in Television Broadcasting (2014)
Journal Article
Spedale Latimer, S., Coupland, C., & Tempest, S. (2014). Gendered Ageism and Organizational Routines at Work: The Case of Day-Parting in Television Broadcasting. Organization Studies, 35(11), 1585-1604. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614550733

This article contributes to the study of gendered ageism in the workplace by investigating how the routine of day-parting in broadcasting participates in the social construction of an ideology of ‘youthfulness’ that contributes to inequality. Critica... Read More about Gendered Ageism and Organizational Routines at Work: The Case of Day-Parting in Television Broadcasting.

Board structure and supplementary commentary on the primary financial statements (2014)
Journal Article
Tauringana, V., & Mangena, M. (2014). Board structure and supplementary commentary on the primary financial statements. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 15(3), 273-290. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-11-2013-0090

Purpose This research investigates the relationship between the extent and focus of supplementary narrative commentary (SNC) on amounts reported in the primary financial statements and board structure variables. Design/Methodology/Approach The study... Read More about Board structure and supplementary commentary on the primary financial statements.

Open innovation in services: knowledge sources, intellectual property rights and internationalisation (2014)
Journal Article
Battisti, G., Gallego, J., Rubalcaba, L., & Windrum, P. (2014). Open innovation in services: knowledge sources, intellectual property rights and internationalisation. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 25(3), 223-247

The paper investigates the direction of knowledge flows and, more generally, the pattern of open innovation that is taking place within services across Europe. Using the Eurostat CIS4 dataset, on 17 service sectors across 18 countries, we find signif... Read More about Open innovation in services: knowledge sources, intellectual property rights and internationalisation.

Entrepreneurial finance with equity-for-guarantee swap and idiosyncratic risk (2014)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Yang, Z., & Zhang, H. (2015). Entrepreneurial finance with equity-for-guarantee swap and idiosyncratic risk. European Journal of Operational Research, 241(3), 863-871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.09.013

© 2014 Elsevier B.V.All rights reserved. We consider a risk-averse entrepreneur who invests in a project with idiosyncratic risk. In contrast to the literature, we assume the entrepreneur is unable to get a loan from a bank directly because of the lo... Read More about Entrepreneurial finance with equity-for-guarantee swap and idiosyncratic risk.

Insider trading and financing constraints (2014)
Journal Article
Ataullah, A., Goergen, M., & Le, H. (in press). Insider trading and financing constraints. Financial Review, 49(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12053

Insider trading may alleviate financing constraints by conveying value‐relevant information to the market (the information effect) or may exacerbate financing constraints by impairing market liquidity and distorting insiders’ incentives to disclose v... Read More about Insider trading and financing constraints.

Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique (2014)
Journal Article
Kamoche, K., & Siebers, L. Q. (2015). Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(21), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.968185

While transforming the investment, trading and infrastructural landscape in Africa, Chinese firms are also generating much-publicised controversy about their real motives. Many of the large Chinese firms operating in Africa focus mostly but not exclu... Read More about Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-Enabling Contexts: Do institutional voids matter? (2014)
Journal Article
Amaeshi, K., Adegbite, E., & Rajwani, T. (2016). Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-Enabling Contexts: Do institutional voids matter?. Journal of Business Ethics, 134(1), 135-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2420-4

The extant literature on comparative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) often assumes functioning and enabling institutional arrangements, such as strong government, market, and civil society, as a necessary condition for responsible business prac... Read More about Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-Enabling Contexts: Do institutional voids matter?.