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Global relevance of scaling African indigenous entrepreneurship
(Article)This research focuses on the way African indigenous entrepreneurs (IEs) use at hand resources and strategies to overcome challenges in resource constrained and munificent environments. Although there have been considerable ... -
Fusing Nature with Computational Science for Optimal Signal Extraction
(Article)Fusing nature with computational science has been proved paramount importance and researchers have also shown growing enthusiasm on inventing and developing nature inspired algorithms for solving complex problems across ... -
Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts: Comparative insights on authority and claim-making from Papua New Guinea, Mongolia and El Salvador
(Article)This article challenges simplified and idealised representation of conflicts between corporations, states and impacted populations in the context of extractive industries. Through comparative discussion of mineral extraction ... -
The Antecedents of Corporate Entrepreneurship: Multilevel, Multisource Evidence
(Article)This study employed a resource-based view to develop a multilevel model of firm-level high-performance work systems, dyad-level human capital, firm-level bridging ties and unit-level corporate entrepreneurship. We collected ... -
Risk governance, market competition and operational risk disclosure quality: a study of ASEAN-5 banking sector
(Article)This paper investigates the impact of risk governance and market competition on banks’ operational risk disclosure (ORD) quality (total and voluntary), in ASEAN-5 (Association of South East Asia Nations) banking sector. ... -
Import Competition and Firm Innovation: Evidence from China
(Article)This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China's WTO accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is consistent ... -
Reopening the economy and food security
(Article)The COVID-19 pandemic has posed major challenges, of which food insecurity is one, to countries across the world. A number of policies have been put in place in response to the development of the outbreak. In this paper, ... -
Levelling up
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Does the quality of country-level governance have an impact on corporate environmental disclosure? Evidence from GCC countries
(Article)Despite the growth in corporate environmental disclosure (CED) across the world, there remains considerable heterogeneity in the extent to which firms disclose their environmental impacts. To better understand these changes ... -
In the eye of the storm: English local government and the COVID-19 crisis
(Book chapter)The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the problematic nature of centre-local relations in the UK. This is particularly true in England, where the centre maintains a strong hold over the subnational governance. The aim of this ... -
Legal and social aspects of the state participation in the governance of the large corporations in Russia
(Conference)This paper evaluates the legal status of the Russian federal government as a corporate governance participant using the example of large sectorial companies. The state commonly regulates economic processes and focuses on ... -
Implementation of the Territories with Special Economic Regimes in the Far East of Russia
(Article)In the Far East of Russia, economic development has dramatically slowed down for the past 30 years. The federal government seeks new methods to attract investments into the regions, stimulate entrepreneurial activity, and ... -
Footloose Multinationals: Extending Internalisation Theory
(Article)Internalization theory explains how the multinational enterprise (MNE) makes decisions on new investments but does not explicitly address the restructuring (i.e. unbundling) processes that can take place within the MNE ... -
Japanese CEOs Cross-Cultural Management of Customer Value Orientation in India
(Article)The purpose of this paper is to develop understanding of cross-cultural issues relating to the experience and implications of an elite grouping of Japanese CEOs customer value orientations (CVO) within Japanese firms ... -
What Agglomeration Externalities Impact the Development of the Hi-tech Industry Sector? Evidence from the Russian Regions
(Article)This paper continues the ongoing debate on the importance of agglomeration externalities that may impact innovation development and the high-technology sector in regional economies. Previous studies suggest that the evidence ... -
Factors affecting environmental practice adoption at small European airports: an investigation
(Article)The majority of the world’s 3,759 commercial airports handle under 5 million passengers a year and these small airports rarely employ practices to address their environmental externalities. The aim of this research is to ... -
The Internationalisation of Technolatinas from a Resource-based Perspective
(Working Paper)Purpose - This paper investigates how entrepreneurs in an emerging economy in Latin Ameri-ca bundle resources to develop capabilities related to entering new markets whilst creating value for their firms. In particular, ... -
Negotiating the Delivery of Gypsy & Traveller Sites through Local Planning
(Technical Report)The 20 page report “Negotiating the delivery of Gypsy &Traveller sites through local planning” has found no substantive evidence to support the assertions made by some developers that the inclusion of pitches in housing ...