All Outputs (200)

Peer effects in the adoption of solar energy technologies in the United States: An urban case study (2018)
Journal Article
Graziano, M., Fiaschetti, M., & Atkinson-Palombo, C. (2019). Peer effects in the adoption of solar energy technologies in the United States: An urban case study. Energy Research and Social Science, 48, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.09.002

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Building upon recent literature, we combine a novel spatiotemporal variable with spatial methods to investigate and quantify the influence of the built environment and jurisdictional boundaries on spatial peer-effects (SPEs) in in... Read More about Peer effects in the adoption of solar energy technologies in the United States: An urban case study.

Western Bankers in China: Institutional Change and Corporate Governance (2018)
Book
Nolan, J. (2018). Western Bankers in China: Institutional Change and Corporate Governance. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

When China’s economic reforms were beginning, there was an expectation in the west that China’s financial markets would be opened to western banks and that China’s banks would be reformed along western lines. Joint ventures between Chinese banks and... Read More about Western Bankers in China: Institutional Change and Corporate Governance.

Exploration of capability and role development in an emerging technology network (2018)
Journal Article
Salehi, F., Zolkiewski, J., Perks, H., & Bahreini, M. A. (2018). Exploration of capability and role development in an emerging technology network. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 33(7), 931-944. https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-09-2017-0211

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the capabilities and roles of three types of actors, specifically technology-based start-ups, incumbent firms and intermediaries, in co-constructing a network for development and commercializatio... Read More about Exploration of capability and role development in an emerging technology network.

Pricing and obfuscation with complexity averse consumers (2018)
Journal Article
Edwards, R. (2019). Pricing and obfuscation with complexity averse consumers. Oxford Economic Papers, 71(3), 777-798. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy053

Competition models typically assume that consumers who cannot compare prices, buy randomly. This paper models the idea that firms may obfuscate product information to confuse consumers, but confused consumers prefer simple alternatives. We show that... Read More about Pricing and obfuscation with complexity averse consumers.

Politics of memories: Identity construction in museums (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, C. X., Xiao, H., Morgan, N., & Ly, T. P. (2018). Politics of memories: Identity construction in museums. Annals of Tourism Research, 73, 116-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2018.09.011

This paper adopts collective memory theory to reveal processes through which heritage tourism stakeholders (re)construct contested national identity. Theoretically sensitised to identity crisis, the study analyses how Hong Kong and Macao heritage man... Read More about Politics of memories: Identity construction in museums.

Resource integration Processes: The Dialectic of Presence and Absence (2018)
Book Chapter
Peters, L. (2018). Resource integration Processes: The Dialectic of Presence and Absence. In The SAGE Handbook of Service-Dominant Logic. London, UK: SAGE Publications

Mapping tax strategies in the FDI decision process (2018)
Journal Article
Hong, J., Glaister, K. W., & Frecknall-Hughes, J. (2018). Mapping tax strategies in the FDI decision process. Global Review of Accounting and Finance, 9(1), 15-34

This study proposes a framework for mapping tax strategies in the developmental and sequential FDI decision process. The authors examined the relative importance of the stages of the FDI decision process with and without tax considerations for a sam... Read More about Mapping tax strategies in the FDI decision process.

Export cartel and consumer welfare (2018)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (2019). Export cartel and consumer welfare. Review of International Economics, 27(1), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12362

The purpose of this paper is to show that export cartels are not necessarily harmful for consumers in the importing countries. Using the strategic trade policy model of Brander and Spencer (1985a), we show that, contrary to the harmful effect, produc... Read More about Export cartel and consumer welfare.

Risk perception and decision making in the supply chain: theory and practice (2018)
Journal Article
Tse, Y., Chung, C., & Pawar, K. (2018). Risk perception and decision making in the supply chain: theory and practice. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 118(7), 1322-1326. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-08-2018-605

For over sixty years, academics and practitioners from different backgrounds, including psychology, sociology, and management, have studied the perception of risk and how different decision making affects daily life and business activities. Although... Read More about Risk perception and decision making in the supply chain: theory and practice.

The impact of tail risk on stock market returns: the role of market sentiment (2018)
Journal Article
Chevaptrakul, T., Xu, Z., & Yao, K. (2019). The impact of tail risk on stock market returns: the role of market sentiment. International Review of Economics and Finance, 59, 289-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2018.09.005

We examine the return predictability of time-varying extreme-event risk at the different points on the return distribution using quantile regression. We find evidence of strong predictive power at the lower quantiles for forecast horizons of up to on... Read More about The impact of tail risk on stock market returns: the role of market sentiment.

Wholesale Price Discrimination: Innovation Incentives and Upstream Competition (2018)
Journal Article
Akgun, U., & Chioveanu, I. (2019). Wholesale Price Discrimination: Innovation Incentives and Upstream Competition. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(3), 510-519. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12284

In intermediate good markets where there are alternative supply sources, wholesale price discrimination may enhance innovation incentives downstream. We consider a vertical chain where a dominant …rm and a competitive fringe supply imperfect substitu... Read More about Wholesale Price Discrimination: Innovation Incentives and Upstream Competition.

Risk perceptions and risk management approaches of Chinese overseas investors: An empirical investigation (2018)
Journal Article
Ullah, S., Wang, Z., Stokes, P., & Xiao, W. (2019). Risk perceptions and risk management approaches of Chinese overseas investors: An empirical investigation. Research in International Business and Finance, 47, 470-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.09.008

This paper presents empirical evidence on how Chinese firms perceive and tackle risks associated with their overseas investments. Using a first-hand survey dataset of Chinese firms who invest abroad, we depict variations in (1) the levels of differen... Read More about Risk perceptions and risk management approaches of Chinese overseas investors: An empirical investigation.

Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan (2018)
Journal Article
Lin, Y., Kelemen, M., & Tresidder, R. (2018). Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26(10), 1766-1783. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1511720

Post-disaster tourism is often perceived as a form of Dark Tourism associated with death, loss and destruction. In Japan, the term Dark Tourism has gained prominence following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. This paper focuses on a... Read More about Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan.

Some innovative methods of the civil service personnel management in the Republic of Kazakhstan (2018)
Journal Article
Abdo, H., Salymova, M., & Pilipenko, E. (2018). Some innovative methods of the civil service personnel management in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Journal of Economic Research & Business Administration, 125(3), 35-46

Personnel management is the main factor of modern society economic success. This significantly changes the very concept of "human resources management"-it goes from a simple prompt solution to the determination of problems arising the definition of p... Read More about Some innovative methods of the civil service personnel management in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

An analytic infrastructure for harvesting big data to enhance supply chain performance (2018)
Journal Article
Zhan, Y., & Tan, K. H. (2020). An analytic infrastructure for harvesting big data to enhance supply chain performance. European Journal of Operational Research, 281(3), 559-574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.09.018

Big data has already received a tremendous amount of attention from managers in every industry, policy and decision makers in governments, and researchers in many different areas. However, the current big data analytics have conspicuous limitations,... Read More about An analytic infrastructure for harvesting big data to enhance supply chain performance.

Wilderness state of mind: expanding authenticity (2018)
Journal Article
Vidon, E. S., Rickly, J. M., & Knudsen, D. C. (2018). Wilderness state of mind: expanding authenticity. Annals of Tourism Research, 73, 62-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2018.09.006

This paper challenges the overuse of existential authenticity as a categorical umbrella encapsulating touristic experience and contributes new insights to the way postmodern authenticity is defined in tourism research. To date, studies associated wit... Read More about Wilderness state of mind: expanding authenticity.

Playing with your future: Who gambles in defined-contribution pension plans? (2018)
Journal Article
Clark, G. L., Fiaschetti, M., Tufano, P., & Viehs, M. (2018). Playing with your future: Who gambles in defined-contribution pension plans?. International Review of Financial Analysis, 60, 213-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.09.007

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. In this article, we investigate the relationship between volatility in the stock market and the trading behaviour of employees in defined-contribution (DC) pension schemes. We found that 10% of our sample exhibited compulsive gam... Read More about Playing with your future: Who gambles in defined-contribution pension plans?.

Does derivatives use reduce the cost of equity? (2018)
Journal Article
Ahmed, S., Judge, A., & Mahmud, S. E. (2018). Does derivatives use reduce the cost of equity?. International Review of Financial Analysis, 60, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.09.004

This paper examines the impact of hedging on the cost of equity capital. Using handcollected data on derivatives use for a sample of German non-financial firms, we find that user firms have a 109 basis point lower industry-adjusted cost of equity tha... Read More about Does derivatives use reduce the cost of equity?.

A bi-objective programming model for carbon emission quota allocation: evidence from the Pearl River Delta region (2018)
Journal Article
Li, L., Ye, F., Li, Y., & Tan, K. H. (2018). A bi-objective programming model for carbon emission quota allocation: evidence from the Pearl River Delta region. Journal of Cleaner Production, 205, 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.069

As a core component of the emission trading scheme (ETS), the initial allocation of carbon quotas is extremely important. Currently, most allocation methods mainly focus on the realization of a single performance goal, which will result in conflicts... Read More about A bi-objective programming model for carbon emission quota allocation: evidence from the Pearl River Delta region.

Testing the self-selection theory in high corruption environments: evidence from African SMEs (2018)
Journal Article
Gomes, E., Mellahi, K., & Angwin, D. (2018). Testing the self-selection theory in high corruption environments: evidence from African SMEs. International Marketing Review, 35(5), 733-759. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-03-2017-0054

Purpose: Whilst substantial evidence from low corruption, developed market environments supports the view that more productive firms are more likely to export, there has been little research into analysing the link between productivity and exports in... Read More about Testing the self-selection theory in high corruption environments: evidence from African SMEs.