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Cross-border acquisitions by Chinese enterprises: The benefits and disadvantages of political connections (2017)
Journal Article
Schweizer, D., Walker, T., & Zhang, A. (2019). Cross-border acquisitions by Chinese enterprises: The benefits and disadvantages of political connections. Journal of Corporate Finance, 57, 63-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.12.023

This paper explores whether and how political connections affect the likelihood of completing a cross-border M&A deal for Chinese publicly listed, but privately-owned enterprises (POEs) and the resulting firm performance. In line with our proposed po... Read More about Cross-border acquisitions by Chinese enterprises: The benefits and disadvantages of political connections.

When no news is bad news: communication failures and the hidden assumptions that threaten safety (2017)
Journal Article
Macrae, C. (2018). When no news is bad news: communication failures and the hidden assumptions that threaten safety. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 111(1), 5-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076817738503

Communication failures in healthcare can be catastrophic. Lost test results, delayed diagnoses, missing handover information: all can have serious impacts on the safety of care with tragic consequences for patients. Even seemingly trivial mishaps can... Read More about When no news is bad news: communication failures and the hidden assumptions that threaten safety.

The Stakeholder Experience of a large scale final year undergraduate social community research project (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Mann, C., & Boyd, M. (2017). The Stakeholder Experience of a large scale final year undergraduate social community research project.

Objective: In 2014 The School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham needed to deliver individual research methods supervision by a small number of academic staff to a large number of final year students. There are limited opportunities for stud... Read More about The Stakeholder Experience of a large scale final year undergraduate social community research project.

Subsidiary strategy of emerging market multinationals: A home country institutional perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Wei, Z., & Nguyen, Q. T. K. (2017). Subsidiary strategy of emerging market multinationals: A home country institutional perspective. International Business Review, 26(5), 1009-1021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.03.007

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd We examine the effects of home country institutional factors, namely, home country government support, domestic institutional weaknesses, and state ownership on the subsidiary-level strategy of global integration (I) and local res... Read More about Subsidiary strategy of emerging market multinationals: A home country institutional perspective.

Making sense of tourists' photographs using canonical variate analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Balomenou, N., Garrod, B., & Georgiadou, A. (2017). Making sense of tourists' photographs using canonical variate analysis. Tourism Management, 61, 173-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.02.010

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Tourists' photographs can serve as a rich database for researchers wishing to study tourists' perceptions and attitudes towards destinations. Such data can also be useful in examining how tourists behave, where, when, with whom an... Read More about Making sense of tourists' photographs using canonical variate analysis.

Expertons and uncertain averaging operators versus correlational approaches: A case study on corporate social responsibility and effectiveness (2017)
Journal Article
Yepes-Baldo, M., Boria-Reverter, S., Romeo, M., & Torres-Retamal, L. (2017). Expertons and uncertain averaging operators versus correlational approaches: A case study on corporate social responsibility and effectiveness. Kybernetes, 46(1), 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-06-2016-0127

Purpose Our purpose is to explore the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), work-life balance (WLB) and effectiveness comparing (a) a correlational approach, (b) expertons method, and (c) uncertain averaging operators (UA, UWA... Read More about Expertons and uncertain averaging operators versus correlational approaches: A case study on corporate social responsibility and effectiveness.