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Too little, too late? Brexit Day, transitional periods and the implications of MIB v Lewis (2020)
Journal Article
Mason, J., & Ferris, K. (2020). Too little, too late? Brexit Day, transitional periods and the implications of MIB v Lewis. European Law Review, 2020(3), 415-426

For several decades the UK has been in breach of key aspects of the Motor Vehicle Insurance Directives (MVID). This has been observed through academic commentary and confirmed in successful state liability claims. There has also been a manifestly inc... Read More about Too little, too late? Brexit Day, transitional periods and the implications of MIB v Lewis.

Model Class Reliance for Random Forests (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, G., Mansilla, R., & Goulding, J. (2020). Model Class Reliance for Random Forests. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2020)

Variable Importance (VI) has traditionally been cast as the process of estimating each variable's contribution to a predictive model's overall performance. Analysis of a single model instance, however, guarantees no insight into a variables relevance... Read More about Model Class Reliance for Random Forests.

Analysing corporate governance and accountability practices from an African neo-patrimonialism perspective: Insights from Kenya (2020)
Journal Article
Kimani, D., Ullah, S., Kodwani, D., & Akhtar, P. (2021). Analysing corporate governance and accountability practices from an African neo-patrimonialism perspective: Insights from Kenya. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 78, Article 102260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102260

This paper examines corporate governance (CG) and corporate accountability practices in the African context, by focusing on the case of Kenya. Our data comprises a combination of 29 semi-structured interviews, field observations and archival evidence... Read More about Analysing corporate governance and accountability practices from an African neo-patrimonialism perspective: Insights from Kenya.

Identifying food insecurity in food sharing networks via machine learning (2020)
Journal Article
Nica-Avram, G., Harvey, J., Smith, G., Smith, A., & Goulding, J. (2021). Identifying food insecurity in food sharing networks via machine learning. Journal of Business Research, 131, 469-484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.09.028

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Food insecurity in the UK has captured public attention. However, estimates of its prevalence are deeply contentious. The lack of precision on the volume of emergency food assistance currently provided to those in need is made ev... Read More about Identifying food insecurity in food sharing networks via machine learning.

Introduction to the special section: the impact of Covid-19 and post-pandemic recovery: China and the world economy (2020)
Journal Article
Fu, X., Zhang, J., & Wang, L. (2020). Introduction to the special section: the impact of Covid-19 and post-pandemic recovery: China and the world economy. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 18(4), 311-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2020.1855939

It is indisputable that the Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world economy and indeed panglobal society in many dimensions. In this Introduction to our Special Section, we examine the dynamics involved, particularly in relation to China and the world... Read More about Introduction to the special section: the impact of Covid-19 and post-pandemic recovery: China and the world economy.

Labour market outcomes of different institutional regimes: evidence from the OECD countries (2020)
Journal Article
Le, H., Wood, G., & Yin, S. (2021). Labour market outcomes of different institutional regimes: evidence from the OECD countries. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 45(1), 85-108. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beaa021

The rise of populism has been widely ascribed, at least in part, to an inability of national systems to generate decent employment or, indeed, stem its decline. This article explores the basis and nature of variations in labour market outcomes of dif... Read More about Labour market outcomes of different institutional regimes: evidence from the OECD countries.

Sustainable packaged food and beverage consumption transition in Indonesia: Persuasive communication to affect consumer behavior (2020)
Journal Article
Tseng, M., Sujanto, R. Y., Iranmanesh, M., Tan, K., & Chiu, A. S. (2020). Sustainable packaged food and beverage consumption transition in Indonesia: Persuasive communication to affect consumer behavior. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104933

Sustainable consumption transition in relation to consumers’ environmental behavior and manufacturers’ governance of sustainability and persuasive communication has not been adequately addressed by prior studies. This study presents theory on ecologi... Read More about Sustainable packaged food and beverage consumption transition in Indonesia: Persuasive communication to affect consumer behavior.

The Smart Home: How Consumers Craft New Service Networks by Combining Heterogeneous Smart Domestic Products (2020)
Journal Article
Harvey, J., Poorrezaei, M., Woodall, T., Nica-Avram, G., Smith, G., Ajiboye, T., …Zhu, K. (2020). The Smart Home: How Consumers Craft New Service Networks by Combining Heterogeneous Smart Domestic Products. Journal of Service Research, 23(4), 504-526. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094670520929095

Service research suggests homes are becoming increasingly connected as consumers automate and personalize new forms of service provision. Yet large-scale empirical evidence on how and why consumers automate smart domestic products is lacking. To addr... Read More about The Smart Home: How Consumers Craft New Service Networks by Combining Heterogeneous Smart Domestic Products.

Cooperative Innovation Behavior Based on Big Data (2020)
Journal Article
Ji, G., Yu, M., & Tan, K. H. (2020). Cooperative Innovation Behavior Based on Big Data. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2020, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4385810

With the rapid change of technology, cooperative innovation based on data sharing has become an imminent tactic for enterprises to gain competitive advantages. This paper adopted a mixed method approach (case study-modelling-case study) to study firm... Read More about Cooperative Innovation Behavior Based on Big Data.

Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity (2020)
Journal Article
Chemmanur, T. J., Gupta, M., & Simonyan, K. (2020). Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720918827

Using hand-collected data on top management team human capital (“top management quality”) of a large venture-backed private firm sample, we analyze the relation between top management team quality and pre-initial public offering (IPO) innovation prod... Read More about Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity.

What Do Fund Flows Reveal about Asset Pricing Models and Investor Sophistication? (2020)
Journal Article
Jegadeesh, N., & Mangipudi, C. S. (2020). What Do Fund Flows Reveal about Asset Pricing Models and Investor Sophistication?. Review of Financial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhaa045

Recent evidence indicates that market model alphas are stronger predictors of mutual fund flows than alphas with other models. Some recent papers have interpreted this evidence to mean that CAPM is the best asset pricing model, but some others have i... Read More about What Do Fund Flows Reveal about Asset Pricing Models and Investor Sophistication?.

Orchestrating Governmental Corporate Social Responsibility Interventions through Financial Markets: The Case of French Socially Responsible Investment (2020)
Journal Article
Giamporcaro, S., Gond, J., & O'Sullivan, N. (2020). Orchestrating Governmental Corporate Social Responsibility Interventions through Financial Markets: The Case of French Socially Responsible Investment. Business Ethics Quarterly, 30(3), 288-334. https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2019.40

Although a growing stream of research investigates the role of government in corporate social responsibility (CSR), little is known about how governmental CSR interventions interact in financial markets. This article addresses this gap through a long... Read More about Orchestrating Governmental Corporate Social Responsibility Interventions through Financial Markets: The Case of French Socially Responsible Investment.

Redesigning safety regulation in the NHS (2020)
Journal Article
Vincent, C., Oikonomou, E., Carthey, J., & Macrae, C. (2020). Redesigning safety regulation in the NHS. BMJ, 368, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m760

Healthcare relies on a variety of regulatory activities to manage risks to the public and drive improvement. However, the regulation of patient safety in healthcare, and in the NHS in particular, is ‘bewildering in its complexity and prone to both ov... Read More about Redesigning safety regulation in the NHS.

Does changing contexts affect linkages throughout the mergers and acquisition process? A multiphasic investigation of motives, pre‐ and post‐acquisition and performance (2020)
Journal Article
Thanos, I. C., Papadakis, V. M., & Angwin, D. (2020). Does changing contexts affect linkages throughout the mergers and acquisition process? A multiphasic investigation of motives, pre‐ and post‐acquisition and performance. Strategic Change, 29(2), 149-164. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2318

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) is an important organizational change phenomena that has attracted significant research focus to many of its aspects but only recently has attention begun to investigate its complex multi-phasic nature and its embeddedn... Read More about Does changing contexts affect linkages throughout the mergers and acquisition process? A multiphasic investigation of motives, pre‐ and post‐acquisition and performance.

Exploring Green Innovation Practices: Content Analysis of the Fortune Global 500 Companies (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Zhao, S., Cui, L., & Wu, L. (2020). Exploring Green Innovation Practices: Content Analysis of the Fortune Global 500 Companies. SAGE Open, 10(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020914640

Green innovation has been attracting increasing attention due to its contributions to the conservation of resources and environmental protection. However, in the process of exploring green innovation, the allocation of resources and the direction of... Read More about Exploring Green Innovation Practices: Content Analysis of the Fortune Global 500 Companies.