Faculty of Business and Law

The culpability of accounting practice in promoting bribery and corruption in developing countries

Ahmad Khair, Amal; Otusanya, H.; Lauwo, S. (Article)

Bribery and corruption are increasing in the developing countries. It has been estimated that some $400 billion of bribe is paid to political elite in developing countries. Such huge amounts of money cannot be successfully ...

Personalisation of power, neoliberalism and the production of corruption

Ahmad Khair, Amal; Haniffa, R.; Hudaib, M.; Abd Karim, M. (Article)

This paper utilises a political lens in considering the cause for the production of corruption and the role of political leadership. Specifically, the notion of personalisation of power as advocated by Slater (2003) is ...

'Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are': Brexit, a chance to acknowledge animal sentience in law.

Merritt, Jonathan; Horton, Jessica (Article)

The ‘Great Repeal Bill’ was designed to bring all existing European Union (EU) law into UK law at the point of the country’s departure from the EU on 29th March 2019. At this time a so called ‘Hard Brexit’, with no agreement ...

Is the impact of social distancing on coronavirus growth rates effective across different settings? A non-parametric and local regression approach to test and compare the‘doubling rate

Lancastle, Neil (Preprint)

Epidemiologists use mathematical models to predict epidemic trends, and these results are inherently uncertain when parameters are unknown or changing. In other contexts, such as climate, modellers use multi-model ensembles ...

Financial Development, Trade and Growth Triangle: The Case of India

Katircioglu, Salih; Kahyalar, Neslihan; Benar, Hasret (Article)

This paper aims to investigate the possible co‐integration and the direction of causality between financial development, international trade, and economic growth in India. Annual data covering the 1965‐2004 period have ...

Impact in networks and ecosystems: building case studies that make a difference

Koria, Mikko; Meriton, Roy; Telalbasic, Ida; Kolade, Oluwaseun; Ahmed, Karim; Lindy, I; Tibazarwa, F (Technical Report)

This toolkit aims to support the building up of case studies that show the impact of project activities aiming to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. The case studies respond to the challenge of understanding what ...

Elected Officials in an Era of Austerity: Stewards, Mediators, and Catalysts

Needham, Catherine; Mangan, Catherine; Bottom, Karin; Parker, Steven (Book chapter)

The distribution of authors and reviewers in EPS

Stockemer, Daniel; Blair, Alasdair; Rashkova, Ekaterina (Article)

Gender inequality as a phenomenon is also present in academic writing and publishing. In this article, we review the gender imbalance in the percentage of authors and reviewers in EPS from 2015 to 2019. At the submissions ...

CEO reputation, quality management and environmental innovation: the roles of stakeholder pressure and resource commitment

Konadu, Renata; Owusu-Agyei, Samuel; Lartey, Theophilus; Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph (Article)

In this paper, we examine how and when chief executive offers’ (CEOs’) reputation enhances environmental innovation by considering quality management as a mediating mechanism of this relationship. In addition, we introduce ...

A Tool for Business Innovation and Transformative Growth

Hafeez, K; Hatami-Marbini, A. (Presentation)

Innovation is the engine for productivity, growth and sustainability of every business. Post-Brexit Britain needs to become highly innovative and productive to compete and maintain staff retention, quality, speed, flexibility ...

Selecting data envelopment analysis models: A data-driven application to EU countries

Toloo, M.; Keshavarz, E.; Hatami-Marbini, A. (Article)

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric data-driven approach for evaluating the efficiency of a set of homogeneous decision-making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The number of performance ...

Early Career Researchers’ Experiences of Post-Maternity and Parental Leave Provision in UK Politics and International Studies Departments: A Heads of Department and ECR Survey

Akram, Sadiya; Pflaeger, Zoe (Article)

Supporting increasing equality and diversity in the recruitment and retention of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from the widest pool of talent available is high on the agenda of universities and policy makers. Notwithstanding ...

Performance and efficiency in Indian universities

Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill; Virmani, Swati (Article)

While the evaluation of university efficiency has become commonplace in developed countries, exercises of this kind have rarely been conducted in the context of developing economies. We use frontier methods to analyse the ...

Personal values, social capital and higher education student career decidedness: a new ‘protean’ informed model.

Fearon, Colm; Nachmias, Stefanos; McLaughlin, Heather; Jackson, Stephen (Article)

This study investigates the role of personal values as motivational antecedents for understanding higher education (HE) student career decidedness among university business school (UBS) students. We propose a new ...

Container Transport Network for Sustainable Development in South Korea.

Li, K; Park, T J; Lee, P T-W; Shi, W; McLaughlin, Heather (Article)

The ever-increasing tendency toward economic globalization highlights the importance of sustainable container transport networks to a country’s international trade, especially for an economy that is highly dependent on ...

Graduate employability, skills development and the UK’s Universities Business Challenge (UBC) competition: A self-determined learning perspective

Fearon, C; Van Vuuren, W; Nachmias, S; McLaughlin, Heather (Article)

Drawing on elements of self-determined learning or heutagogy, the graduate employability impact of the UK’s leading Universities Business Challenge (UBC) competition is investigated over a five year period of from 2012–17. ...