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Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges (2019)
Journal Article
Whelan, G., De Bakker, F., & Muthuri, J. (2019). Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges. Management, 22(4), 636-663

Organizations need legitimacy to be able to operate effectively. Consequently, and just like their participants, Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) need to respond when faced with legitimacy challenges from external parties. We build on current the... Read More about Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges.

Opportunities, Challenges And Risks Of Transition Into Renewable Energy : The Case Study Of Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (2019)
Journal Article
Darwish, S., Abdo, H., & Alsabuwaiee, W. (2019). Opportunities, Challenges And Risks Of Transition Into Renewable Energy : The Case Study Of Arab Gulf Cooperation Council. International Energy Journal, 18(4), 391-400

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states have abounded underground fossil fuel resources and high potentials for renewable energy (RE). However, given the Peak Oil Theory and the international climate change regulations and protocols, investments... Read More about Opportunities, Challenges And Risks Of Transition Into Renewable Energy : The Case Study Of Arab Gulf Cooperation Council.

Organizational justice in Chinese banks: understanding the variable influence of guanxi on perceptions of fairness in performance appraisal (2019)
Journal Article
Gu, F., Nolan, J., & Rowley, C. (2020). Organizational justice in Chinese banks: understanding the variable influence of guanxi on perceptions of fairness in performance appraisal. Asia Pacific Business Review, 26(2), 168-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2019.1700622

Drawing on survey (n = 308) and interview (n = 22) data from three different types of banks in China, we found significant differences in perceptions of organizational justice in performance appraisal processes. The state-owned bank was perceived as... Read More about Organizational justice in Chinese banks: understanding the variable influence of guanxi on perceptions of fairness in performance appraisal.

Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review (2019)
Journal Article
Bjiboye, T., Harvey, J., & Resnick, S. (2019). Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review. Journal of Customer Behaviour, 18(3), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.1362/147539219X15774563471801

Customer engagement behaviours (CEB) on social media have the potential to strengthen relationships between firms and customers. However, there have been no systematic attempts to review the antecedents of CEB on social media despite wide recognition... Read More about Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review.

The importance of Interactive Network Branding for business relationship development: insights from emerging markets (2019)
Journal Article
Koporcic, N., & Ivanova-Gongne, M. (2020). The importance of Interactive Network Branding for business relationship development: insights from emerging markets. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 35(1), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-10-2018-0294

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the meaning of Interactive Network Branding (INB) and demonstrate its importance for business relationship development, within a cross-cultural context of emerging markets (EM). More specifically, it integrates th... Read More about The importance of Interactive Network Branding for business relationship development: insights from emerging markets.

Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms (2019)
Journal Article
Yekini, K. C., Adelopo, I., Wang, Y., & Song, S. (2019). Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms. Accounting Research Journal, 32(3), 477-495. https://doi.org/10.1108/arj-01-2017-0018

This study re-examines the factors that affect the level of Environmental Information Disclosures (EID) following the issuance of the “Environmental Information Disclosure Guidelines for Chinese Listed Companies”. The study is underpinned by stakehol... Read More about Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms.

Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ingram, C., Themistocleous, C., Rickly, J., & McCabe, S. (2019). Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller. In 12th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business: Business Management Theories and Practices in a Dynamic Competitive Environment. , (1673-1674)

England is the birthplace of many literature's well-know authors and their characters; be that Jane Austen and Elizabeth Bennet; Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist; or Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the UK has con... Read More about Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller.

Marketing literary England to the US traveller (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Themistocleous, C., Ingram, C., Rickly, J., & Mccabe, S. (2019). Marketing literary England to the US traveller

This paper examines English literary tourism through the eyes of the bibliophile and non-bibliophile. It adopts an inductive between-subjects experimental design to investigate the likelihood of a general sample of the US population visiting literary... Read More about Marketing literary England to the US traveller.

Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers (2019)
Journal Article
Barrientos, S., Bianchi, L., & Berman, C. (2019). Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers. International Labour Review, 158(4), 729-752. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12150

Private governance channelled through social compliance programmes and gender initiatives of multinational companies (MNC) are ineffective in tackling gender discrimination in global value chains. The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and... Read More about Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers.

Review of studies on digital transaction platforms in marketing journals (2019)
Journal Article
Hänninen, M. (2019). Review of studies on digital transaction platforms in marketing journals. International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 30(2), 164-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593969.2019.1651380

© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Digital transaction platforms now intermediate a large number of transactions between end-customers and independent sellers and service providers in many parts of the economy. In retail,... Read More about Review of studies on digital transaction platforms in marketing journals.

Conceptualizing Interactive Network Branding in business markets: developing roles and positions of firms in business networks (2019)
Journal Article
Koporcic, N., & Tornroos, J. (2019). Conceptualizing Interactive Network Branding in business markets: developing roles and positions of firms in business networks. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 34(8), 1681-1691. https://doi.org/10.1108/jbim-11-2018-0332

Purpose – The paper presents the concept of Interactive Network Branding (INB) in business markets. The INB conceptualization offers an understanding of corporate branding processes as an inherent part of business networking. More specifically, the p... Read More about Conceptualizing Interactive Network Branding in business markets: developing roles and positions of firms in business networks.

What is an advert? : a sociological perspective on marketing media (2019)
Journal Article
Cluley, R., & Nixon, E. (2019). What is an advert? : a sociological perspective on marketing media. Marketing Theory, 19(4), 405-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593119856645

This paper draws on a conceptual vocabulary developed in science and technology studies to advance a sociological theory of objects in marketing. Analysing a single advertising medium, it shows that marketing objects can exist simultaneously in multi... Read More about What is an advert? : a sociological perspective on marketing media.

Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States (2019)
Journal Article
Millimet, D. L., Millimet, D. L., Li, H., & Roychowdhury, P. (2019). Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 38(4), 732-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2019.1569527

The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However, estimation of tra... Read More about Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States.

Do rating agencies exhibit herding behaviour?: evidence from sovereign ratings (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, Z., Matousek, R., Stewart, C., & Webb, R. (2019). Do rating agencies exhibit herding behaviour?: evidence from sovereign ratings. International Review of Financial Analysis, 64, 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.04.011

We assess the presence of herding by considering the lead-lag relationship of sovereign ratings assigned by the three main rating agencies at the individual country level. Given that different rating agencies may have different levels of expertise (r... Read More about Do rating agencies exhibit herding behaviour?: evidence from sovereign ratings.

Comparison of AR and physical experiential learning environment in supporting product innovation (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Lu, J., Kao, Y., Chung, L., & Tan, K. (2019). Comparison of AR and physical experiential learning environment in supporting product innovation. International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 11, https://doi.org/10.1177/1847979019839578

This article compares how virtual and physical learning aids enhance learners’ product innovation capability, i.e., design experiences and domain knowledge. The virtual aid utilises augmented reality (AR) allowing learners to experience a range of an... Read More about Comparison of AR and physical experiential learning environment in supporting product innovation.

The impact of business schools: increasing the range of strategic choices (2019)
Journal Article
Lejeune, C., Starkey, K., Kalika, M., & Tempest, S. (2019). The impact of business schools: increasing the range of strategic choices. Management International, 23(2), 88-98

The notion of impact is becoming important for international business schools, which are under increasing pressures related to their legitimacy. Although the term impact has gained in popularity, common approaches to business school impact rely eithe... Read More about The impact of business schools: increasing the range of strategic choices.

Combating slave labour in productive chains: capability developments in Brazilian-UK timber and beef supply chains (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Emberson, C., Pinheiro, S., & Trautrims, A. (2019). Combating slave labour in productive chains: capability developments in Brazilian-UK timber and beef supply chains

This paper presents an analysis of four supply chain initiatives that exemplify the development of capabilities in the detection and remediation of the risk of slave labour in the upstream supply chains of Brazilian companies supplying Brazilian timb... Read More about Combating slave labour in productive chains: capability developments in Brazilian-UK timber and beef supply chains.