• Benchmarking with network DEA in a fuzzy environment 

  Hatami-Marbini, A. (Article)

  Benchmarking is a powerful and thriving tool to enhance the performance and profitabilities of organizations in business engineering. Though performance benchmarking has practically and theoretically developed in distinct ...
• Dual-role factors for imprecise data envelopment analysis 

  Hatami-Marbini, A. (Conference)

  In conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA), the observed inputs, outputs and dual-factors are assumed to be precise. However, we often observe imprecise and ambiguous data in practice. In this paper, we present an ...
• Quantity Restrictions and Price Adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the U.S. 

  Bernhofen, Daniel ; Upward, Richard ; Wang, Zheng (Article)

  The elimination of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 provides an unusual opportunity to examine the effects of a trade policy shock on export prices and firm behaviour. It was massive in scale, discrete in timing ...
• Network DEA with common weights 

  Hatami-Marbini, A. (Conference)

  Data envelopment analysis (DEA) generally includes two properties. First, DEA is based upon the overall efficiency without observing the internal structure of a production system. Second, a multiplier DEA model allows a ...
• The Effect of Export Marketing Capabilities on Export Performance: Moderating Role of Dysfunctional Competition 

  Boso, Nathaniel ; Adeola, Ogechi ; Danso, Albert ; Assadinia, Shahin (Article)

  This study utilizes multiple-informant and time-lagged primary data from 162 industrial exporting firms in Sub-Saharan Africa to contribute to an understanding of when export marketing capabilities can be deployed to drive ...
• Big Data and Causality 

  Hassani, Hossein ; Huang, Xu ; Ghodsi, Mansi (Article)

  Causality analysis continues to remain one of the fundamental research questions and the ultimate objective for a tremendous amount of scientific studies. In line with the rapid progress of science and technology, the age ...
• The meaning of corruption: testing the coherence and adequacy of corruption definitions 

  Rose, Jonathan (Article)

  Corruption is one of the most important issues facing the world today, yet despite its importance there remains significant confusion about exactly what corruption is. A multitude of definitions have been advanced, but ...
• Bank Lending Channel and Monetary Policy in Nigeria 

  Matousek, Roman ; Solomon, O. Helen (Article)

  We find that the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) policy of consolidation and restructuring from 2002 to 2008 strengthened the bank lending channel (BLC). We use the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) two step estimator ...
• Explaining the entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in emerging economies: The intermediate roles of absorptive capacity and improvisation 

  Hughes, Paul ; Hodgkinson, Ian R. ; Hughes, Mathew ; Arshad, Darwina (Article)

  Research has established the relevance of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to firm performance but skepticism remains because of the ambiguity surrounding how EO might improve firm performance. We examine the key concepts ...
• Public Service Performance: Exploring Strategy Configurations between Ownership Types 

  Hodgkinson, Ian R. ; Hughes, Paul (Article)

  We focus on ownership as a critical issue for service delivery and examine under which strategy configurations ownership types realize performance. Examining different ownership types that coexist in service delivery ...
• A Focus Group Content Analysis Study Exploring Cultural and Faith Based Values at End of Life 

  Samanta, Jo ; Samanta, Ash (Article)

  This case explores the values that were considered to be centrally important by South Asian migrants at end of life. A qualitative approach was used with focus groups as the data collection tool. South Asians were selected ...
• Biases in International Portfolio Allocation and Investor Protection Standards 

  Kwabi, Frank ; Thapa, Chandra ; Paudyal, Krishna ; Adegbite, E. (Article)

  Economic reasoning suggests that financial globalization that encourages optimal international portfolio investments should improve investor protection standards (IPS) of a country. In practice, however, investors manifest ...
• Enticing case study or celebrated anomaly? Policy learning from the Cuban health system 

  Baggott, Rob ; Lambie, George (Article)

  Abstract Cuba is regarded as having achieved very good health outcomes for its level of economic development. It has adopted policies and programmes that focus on prevention, universal access to healthcare, a strong ...
• Does financial resource slack drive sustainability expenditure in developing economy small and medium-sized enterprises? 

  Boso, Nathaniel ; Danso, Albert ; Leonidou, Constantinos ; Uddin, Moshfique ; Adeola, Ogechi ; Hultman, Magnus (Article)

  While firms continue to commit slack financial resources to sustainability causes, knowledge is lacking on how financial resource slack drives sustainability expenditure under varying conditions of market pressure and ...
• Young Offenders' Right to Integration post Human Rights Act 1998: Work as punishment, rehabilitation and enabler 

  Antonopoulos, Irene ; Dingwall, Gavin (Article)

  A combination of international children's rights instruments and regional human rights protection framework has ensured the protection of children in custody. Whilst the United Kingdom has ratified the Convention on the ...
• Governing in and Against Austerity: International Lessons from Eight Cities 

  Davies, Jonathan S. (Technical Report)

  This report, mainly for non-academic users, summarises the interim conclusions from our ESRC study of austerity governance in eight cities. It also provides an overview of the eight case study cities: Athens, Baltimore, ...
• Questioning the Validity of Cross-Cultural Frameworks in a Digital Era: The Emergence of New Approaches to Culture in the Online Environment 

  Lichy, Jessica ; Stokes, Peter (Article)

  Abstract: Cross-cultural management research has consistently employed a number of well-cited frameworks that categorize organizational behavior within national contexts. While popular, these frameworks have also been ...
• Dimensions of Role Efficacy and Managerial Effectiveness: Evidence from India 

  Bamel, U. ; Stokes, Peter ; Budhwar, P. (Article)

  Purpose: While a range of studies have been undertaken on Role Efficacy (RE) and Managerial Effectiveness (ME), understanding of the link between RE and ME in the extant literature remains underdeveloped and, in particular, ...
• Doing the plastic fantastic: ‘artificial’ adventure and older adult climbers 

  Hickman, Mark ; Stokes, Peter ; Beard, Colin ; Inkster, Allison (Article)

  The aim of this paper is to determine the perceptions and experiences of climbing at artificial climbing walls (ACWs) as undertaken by a cohort of ‘young-old’ people (circa 65-75). The engagement of older people in outdoor ...
• The Performative University: ‘Targets and Terror’ in Academia (Stream18), 

  Visser, M. ; Stokes, Peter ; Ortenblad, A. ; Tarba, Shlomo Y. (Conference)

  The performative university: ‘targets and terror’ in academia Stream proposal, 10th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Liverpool, 3-5 July 2017 The year 1917 saw the advent of the Russian Revolution, ...

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