• Achieving Strategic Consensus through Individuals’ Social Practice: The Perspective of Kuwaiti Managers 

  Al Mansour, Jarrah ; Obembe, Demola (Conference)

  It has been established that successful communication and implementation of organisational strategies is highly relevant to the understanding and commitment of internal stakeholders to this strategy. Termed strategic ...
• Jurisprudence, 3rd edition 

  Shaw, Julia J. A. (Book)

  Jurisprudence is founded on the assumption that the foundations of legal knowledge are not fixed; rather, laws are contingent and so constitute the proper object of inquiry as to their underlying motivations and justifications. ...
• Efficiency Evaluation in Two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis under a Fuzzy Environment: A Common-Weights Approach 

  Hatami-Marbini, A. ; Saati, S. (Article)

  Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been genuinely known as an impeccable technique for efficiency measurement. In practice, since many production systems such as broadcasting companies, banking and R&D activities include ...
• Reviewing a Parole Board Decision to Release 

  Dingwall, Gavin (Article)

  This note examines the implications of the High Court challenge to the Parole Board decision to release the serial sex offender John Worboys (now known as John Radford). Three central issues emerged: (1) that the Parole ...
• The Continuing Chronology of Confusion: Crime Prevention, Welfare and the Why of Youth Justice 

  Antonopoulos, Irene ; Dingwall, Gavin ; Hillier, Tim (Article)

  International human rights law states that child well-being must be paramount. The aims of the Youth Justice System in England and Wales should reflect this, but the present system fails to do so as its aims are various ...
• The unbearable anxiety of being: Ideological fantasies of British Muslims beyond the politics of security 

  Whitham, Ben ; Ali, Nadya (Article)

  A succession of media scandals and policy arguments in the UK in recent years has been integral to the construction of a so-called Muslim Problem. Media and political attention paid to Muslims in British public life, across ...
• Fuzzy Performance Evaluation for Network Structures 

  Hatami-Marbini, A. ; Sajadi, S. M. (Conference)

  The objective of two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) models is to assess the performance of a group of production systems with two operational stages. This internal structure can be typically found in numerous ...
• Benchmarking In Supply Chain Management Using DEA 

  Hatami-Marbini, A. ; Sajadi, S. M. (Conference)

  This paper explores a general model for supply chain performance assessment where the decomposition of productive efficiency is introduced in the entire supply chain vs chain level effects. Moreover, we provide a synopsis ...
• A Malmquist Productivity Index for Assessing Photovoltaic program in Belgium 

  Hatami-Marbini, A. ; Sajadi, S. M. ; Alibeik, M. (Conference)

  In recent years, solar energy from rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems has significantly contributed to renewable energy in European Union (EU). On the other hand, the Belgian policy makers have lately decided to phase out ...
• Criminal Enforcement of Directors' Occupational Crimes in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges 

  Akanmidu, Oludara (Article)

  The issue of enforcement has concerned economists, legal practitioners and criminologists over the years. Where criminal conduct is concerned, enforcement is often considered necessary to punish current offenders and deter ...
• Institutional Environments and Youths Entrepreneurial Orientation: Evidence from Nigeria 

  Ogunsade, Isaac A. ; Obembe, Demola ; Woldesenbet Beta, Kassa ; Vershinina, Natalia (Conference)

  Entrepreneurial activities and venture creation among youths represent one of the key drivers of job creation and economic growth (OECD, 2016; Acs, 2006). What influences individual entrepreneur to business start-up remains ...
• Employers’ Organisations as Social Movements: Political power and identity-work. 

  Sezer, Lisa A. (Article)

  The literature on employers’ and business organisations (EOs) has failed to analyse them as contentious organisations that apply identity-work as a power resource to mobilise resources and members. This article is based ...
• International equity portfolio investment and enforcement of insider trading laws: a cross-country analysis 

  Kwabi, Frank ; Boateng, Agyenim ; Adegbite, Emmanuel (Article)

  In this study, we examine the effects of stringent insider trading laws’ enforcement, institutions and stock market development on international equity portfolio allocation using data from 44 countries over the period ...
• Human capital, international standards of: 

  Stokes, Peter ; Wall Tony ; Wall, Tony (Book chapter)

  The drive for progress is a central underlying tenet of the development of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDG), and any form of progress will involve resources, structures and protocols. Yet it is also recognised ...
• The Logics and Limits of 'Collaborative Governance' in Nantes: Myth, Ideology and the Politics of New Urban Regimes 

  Griggs, Steven ; Howarth, David ; Feandeiro, A. (Article)

  This article characterizes and evaluates a paradigm case of urban collaborative governance: the so-called ‘Nantes model’. Stressing its positioning in the particular tradition of French politics, and drawing on poststructuralist ...
• The Jewel of the Crown: Co-optive capacity and participation during austerity in Cardiff and San Sebastian-Donostia 

  Guarneros-Meza, Valeria ; Telleria, Imanol ; Blas, Asier ; Pill, Madeleine (Article)

  By comparing qualitatively Cardiff and San Sebastián-Donostia (Donostia), the paper argues that local governments’ capacity to co-opt provides a relevant approach to understanding changes in citizen participation under ...
• Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers 

  Ahiabor, Frederick ; James, G. A. ; Kwabi, Frank ; Siems, Mathias (Article)

  This paper is the first one that uses a panel data of different types of shareholder protection in order to examine (i) the effect of such laws on stock market development and (ii) the convergence of shareholder protection ...
• Local Government Size and Political Efficacy: Do Citizen Panels Make a Difference? 

  Andrews, Rhys ; Entwistle, Tom ; Guarneros-Meza, Valeria (Article)

  Democratic theorists suggest that the size of local government is an important influence on citizens’ political efficacy. Typically, it is argued that small is beautiful for efficacy, because residents in areas served by ...
• Digitalisation and Big Data Mining in Banking 

  Hassani, Hossein ; Huang, Xu ; Silva, Emmanuel (Article)

  Banking as a data-intensive subject has been progressing continuously under the promoting influences of the era of big data. Exploring the advanced big data analytic tools like Data Mining (DM) techniques is key for the ...
• The impact of stringent insider trading laws and institutional quality on the cost of capital 

  Kwabi, Frank ; Boateng, Agyenim ; Adegbite, Emmanuel (Article)

  This paper examines the effects of interaction between stringent insider trading laws, institutional quality and equity portfolio allocation on the cost of capital. Using a dataset drawn from 44 countries over the period ...

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