Faculty of Business and Law
Justifiably proud of its strength for combining academic excellence with practical application, the Faculty of Business and Law has earned an international reputation for its dynamic research across a wide range of fields. Many of its departments earned prestigious 5 and 4 grades in the last RAE.
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Performance evaluation in education under uncertainty: A robust optimization approach
(Conference)Analysing and enhancing education system performance is of importance to local authorities and policy makers because education improves the human capital, which, in turn, leads to economic growth. This study draws on the ... -
Data envelopment analysis with ratio data: Challenges and opportunities
(Conference)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a well-established technique for performance measurement, which has been regularly applied to both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations to significantly streamline performance ... -
Where Less is More: Institutional Voids and Business Families in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Article)Purpose- The article offers a conceptual interpretation of the role business families play in the institutional context of sub-Saharan Africa, characterised by voids within the formal institutional setting. Responding to ... -
Worth a Thousand Words: The Unwritten History of Law as a Jurisprudence of Text and Pictures
(Article)Founded on the tripartite emblematic tradition of 'inscriptio' (word as title or motto), 'pictura' (image) and 'subscriptio' (explanatory text or epigram), the image above all else is shown to be the archetype of governance. ... -
Does using latest technology impact new venture innovation? A contingency based view of institutional environments
(Article)Drawing on resourced based theory and institutional theory, we develop a multi-level model on the outcomes of early-stage entrepreneurs employing latest technologies in their ventures. Essentially, we argue that the effects ... -
Market Sentiment and Firm Investment Decision-Making
(Article)While research on factors driving corporate investment decisions has blossomed, knowledge related to the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) market sentiment on investment decision outcomes is lacking. In this study, we ... -
Fake News in Context: Truth and Untruths
(Article)Fake News appears to be the most modern of social problems. After bursting onto the scene in 2016, spurred in no small part by then Presidential candidate Trump and his commitment to a post-truth style of politics, Fake ... -
Evolutionary and Ecological conceptualization of dynamic capabilities: Identifying elements of the Teece and Eisenhardt schools
(Article)Research on dynamic capabilities has been one of the most prolific research streams of the last two decades. Peteraf et al. (2013) show that the research stream has suffered from a divide into two schools: One school ... -
Entrepreneurship and creativity education in China: Reflections from an experience-based approach to an introductory module in entrepreneurship
(Book chapter)Building a competent and creative workforce is one of the greatest challenges of modern and future economies. However, fostering creativity and complex problem-solving capability has traditionally not been high on the ... -
Hear it straight from the horse’s mouth: Policy-induced opportunities, entrepreneurs, and governments
(Article)What types of entrepreneurs are more likely to ‘stay tuned’ to government policies and does it pay? Integrating work on opportunity recognition and the institution-based view, this study examines the link between the ... -
Displaced, excluded, moving on: a study of refugee entrepreneurship in Kenya
(Conference)The global refugee crisis has grown in scale over the last 30 years. There are currently 25.4million refugees worldwide of whom 85 percent reside in developing countries (UNHCR, 2019). As a result of the protracted violence ... -
Picking up the pieces: social capital and entrepreneurship for livelihood recovery among displaced populations in Northeast Nigeria
(Conference)In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the rate of forced displacement, often precipitated by persecution, civil wars, terrorism, transborder conflicts, as well as natural disasters. The United ... -
Tax compliance cost: the hidden effect on international trade in Africa
(Conference)International trade in Africa could be one of the antidotes to the precarious poverty and economic deficiency in which the continent finds itself. An outward orientation towards international trade opens the continent to ... -
Plural approaches to faith-based dispute resolution by Britain’s Muslim communities
(Article)The role of Muslim faith-based dispute resolution forums in family matters continues to be fiercely contested in British legal and political debate. Questions concerning compatibly with state law in England and Wales led ... -
Ransomware and Reputation
(Article)Ransomware is a particular form of cyber-attack in which a victim loses access to either his electronic device or files unless he pays a ransom to criminals. A criminal’s ability to make money from ransomware critically ... -
From Social Interactions to Interpersonal Relationships: Influences on Ultra-runners’ race experience
(Working Paper)Ultra-running’s psychological and physiological dimensions have been widely studied. However, the social dimensions of ultra-racing have been largely overlooked. This study aims to identify the different types of ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Operation Bluestone: A Specialist Rape Investigation Unit - Summary Report
(Other)This summary report sets out the findings of an evaluation into the performance of a specialist rape investigation unit and a non-specialist comparator. -
Torturing Terrorists: Exploring the Limits of Law, Human Rights and Academic Freedom
(Book)This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture. Torturing Terrorists examines, as part of a consequentialist analysis, the ...
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