• Ofsted v Al-Hijrah, The Case of Segregated Schools and Sex Discrimination. 

  Akhtar, Rajnaara (Article)

  This case of HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills v The Interim Executive Board of Al-Hijrah School was the unfortunate outcome of an Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and ...

• Beyond the farm gate: can social capital help small-holders to overcome constraints in the agricultural value chain? 

  Kolade, Oluwaseun; Mafimisebi, Oluwasoye; Aluko, Oluwakayode (Book chapter)

  The agricultural sector is typically the biggest employer of labour in most African countries, yet it is also typically the most under-capitalised and most neglected by policy makers. While a number of studies have highlighted ...

• Universal basic education in Nigeria: can non-state actors make a difference? 

  Kolade, Oluwaseun (Article)

  Against the backdrop of falling standards and failing government policies in the education sector in Nigeria, this paper investigates how and why non-state actors can make significant impact towards the achievement of ...

• Environmental sustainability orientation and performance of family and nonfamily firms 

  Adomako, Samuel; Amankwah-Amoah, J.; Danso, Albert; Konadu, R.; Owusu-Agyei, Samuel (Article)

  Despite the growing research evidence on the effect of environmental sustainability orientation (ESO) on firm outcomes, contingent factors that may influence the strength of this relationship have received little scholarly ...

• Organization and Product Design Pairings: A Review of Product Innovation Capabilities, Conceptualization and Future Directions 

  Mafimisebi, Oluwasoye; Obembe, Demola; Aluko Oluwakayode (Article)

  Drawing on the Resource-based view of firms and market orientation theory, this paper presents a complementary view of the influence of product innovation capabilities (PICs) on organization and product design pairings. ...

• EU aggregate demand as a way out of crisis? Engaging the post-Keynesian critique 

  Bieler, Andreas; Jordan, Jamie; Morton, Adan David (Article)

  Post-Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone Crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively ...

• The Structure of Attitudes Towards Shale Gas Extraction in the United Kingdom 

  Anderson-Hudson, J.; Rose, Jonathan; Humphry, M.; Knight, W.; O'Hara, S. (Article)

  Shale gas extraction is a highly controversial process. Despite significant proven or potential reserves, public reaction to extraction have often been negative. In some cases, this has prevented exploration. In this paper, ...

• Principles of Festival Management 

  Newbold, Chris; Jordan, Jennie; Kelly, P.; Diaz, K. (Book)

• The Conceptualisation And Measurement Of Perceived Value In Social Media: The Case Of Facebook Brand Pages 

  Tsimonis, Georgios; Dimitriadis, Sergios (Conference)

  The paper focuses on online consumer-brand relationships and explores how perceived value can be conceptualized and measured in social media brand pages, by identifying the benefits and costs consumers-members of Facebook ...

• Commodification and ‘the commons’: The politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis 

  Bieler, A.; Jordan, J. (Article)

  In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding for essential ...

• Stakeholder integration, environmental sustainability orientation and financial performance 

  Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel; Lartey, Theophilus; Amankwah-Amoah, J.; Owusu-Yirenkyi, Diana (Article)

  Despite the growing research on the influence of stakeholder integration on organizational outcomes, our understanding of the specific firm-level conditions that may mediate the relationship between stakeholder integration ...

• Trust Deficit and Anti-corruption Initiatives 

  Rufai, Ibrahim; Adelopo, Ismail (Article)

  This study explores the ways in which trust deficit undermines anti-corruption initiatives in a context with systemic corruption. Anti-corruption measures as panacea to systemic corruption are not new, but their effectiveness ...

• Regulating sport for the non-human athlete: horses for courses 

  Merritt, Jonathan (Book)

• Examining an integrative model of resilience, subjective well-being and commitment as predictors of organizational citizenship behaviors 

  Bamel, U.; Stokes, Peter; Happy, P.; Ashok Ashta (Article)

  Purpose: A review of the emerging scholarly literature on positive organizational scholarship indicates a need to pursue cognitive, emotional and motivational mechanisms, which translate into positive states and outcomes ...

• Impulse balance and framing effects in threshold public good games 

  Cartwright, Edward; Stepanova, A.; xue, Lian (Article)

  In this paper, we revisit the evidence for framing effects in threshold public good games. Our particular focus is on why the probability of providing the public good appears to be higher in positive, give frames compared ...

• Learning Groups: The Effects of Group Diversity on the Quality of Group Reflection 

  Rufai, Ibrahim; Adelopo, Ismail; Asante, J.; Dart, E. (Article)

  This study explores the quality of reflection, and how group diversity affects group reflection by final-year accounting and finance undergraduates using Mezirow’s [(1991). Transformative dimensions of adult learning. ...

• A Critical Reflection on Oyu Tolgoi and the Risk of a Resource Trap in Mongolia: Troubling the "Resource Nationalism" Frame 

  Lander, Jennifer (Article)

  Commonly depicted as one of the final frontiers, Mongolia has gained international notoriety since the turn of the millennium for the discovery of an extensive mineral resource base, estimated to hold over U.S. $1 trillion ...

• The Impact of Communication Technologies on the Performance of SMEs in a Developing Economy: Nigeria as a Case Study 

  Rufai, Ibrahim (Article)

  Informed by Social Shaping Theory (modified), this paper presents a research that examines the impact of communication technologies (mobile telephony, personal computer and internet facilities) on the performance of small ...

• The Impacts of Multiple Large Ownership Structure on Board Independence 

  Rufai, Ibrahim; Adelopo, Ismail; Yinusa, Ganiyu (Article)

  The determinants of the composition of corporate boards remain inconclusive. This study investigates the impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence for a sample of UK listed companies. Using multiple ...

• Cultural Distance and Value Creation of Cross-border M&A: The Moderating Role of Acquirer Characteristics 

  Boateng, Agyenim; Du, Min; Bi, Xiaogang; Lodorfos, George (Article)

  This paper examines the effects of culture and the interaction between cultural distance and salient acquirer characteristics on value creation of acquiring firms based on a sample of 209 firms over the period of 1998-2012. ...

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