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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Firms’ Contribution to Regional Economic Development: Unravelling Some Explanatory and Moderating Variables
(Conference)Drawing on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), family business, strategic decision-making (SDM) and social capital (SC) theories, we investigated whether the family and non-family firms contribute differently to regional ... -
Extreme downside risk and market turbulence
(Article)We investigate the dynamics of the relationship between returns and extreme downside risk in different states of the market by combining the framework of Bali, Demirtas, and Levy (2009) with a Markov switching mechanism. ... -
Managing earnings using classification shifting: Novel evidence from Jordan
(Article)In response to McVay calls for more research to provide additional cross-sectional tests of classification shifting, the current paper examines whether Jordanian public companies engage in earnings management through ... -
Measuring performance with common weights: network DEA
(Article)In conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA), a production system has been seen as a black box for measuring the efficiency without any attention to what is happening inside the system. However, in practice, performance ... -
The efficiency of private and public schools in urban and rural areas: moving beyond the development goals
(Article)Data from the Young Lives study are used to evaluate the efficiency of education systems in four low and middle income countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. A meta-frontier variant of data envelopment analysis is ... -
Evidence for Gross Domestic Product growth time delay dependence over Foreign Direct Investment. A time-lag dependent correlation study
(Article)This paper considers an often forgotten relationship, the time delay between a cause and its effect in economies and finance. We treat the case of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth, - measured through a ... -
High frequency trading, price discovery and market efficiency in the FTSE100
(Article)This study examines the role of high frequency trading in price discovery and efficiency in the FTSE100 index tick changes. Using a unique data set, we find that there is no random walk when investors extract information ... -
Getting Lost Into the Wild: Exploring the Role of Narrative Transportation in the Experiential Consumption of Movies
(Conference)Although it is obvious that consumers enjoy watching movies for many reasons that range from mere short-term entertainment to the complete personal immersion into the movie narrative, a full understanding of the experiential ... -
The Book of Stars: Some Alternative Insights into Celebrity Fandom
(Conference)While consumers have had a keen interest in the works and private lives of celebrities since the dawn of the Hollywood star system in the early 1920s, some consumers experience a significantly more intensive level of ... -
There Is Something about Jena Malone: New Insights into How Celebrities Appeal to Consumers
(Conference)Although the public demand for celebrities has grown so strong these days that they have without any doubt become an essential part of our everyday lives and contemporary market economy, the marketing literature has paid ... -
Identity changes and well-being gains of spending money on material and experiential consumer products
(Article)Recent research determined that buying experiences, rather than material items, leads to higher levels of well-being, perhaps because experiences are more connected to the sense of self. However, little is known about which ... -
The mediation between participative leadership and employee exploratory innovation: Examining intermediate knowledge mechanisms
(Article)We examine mediation effects of coworker knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity on the participative leadership–employee exploratory innovation relationship in R&D units of Taiwanese technology firms. Deploying a ... -
Business, Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Financial Crisis: The Global Challenge of Embedding Human Rights in Organizations and Human Resource Management Practices
(Book chapter)The relationship between business and human rights is important and complex. The social responsibility of business is evolving as Multinational Corporations become more pervasive and powerful; their global footprint can ... -
Integrating Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of a Global Financial Crisis: Enabling Sustainability through Executive Remuneration and Reward Strategy
(Book chapter)In spite of the potential synergies and mutual interdependence of corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), they have developed and been practiced independently of each other. The Global Financial ... -
Precariousness in Unlikely Places: The Role of High-Skilled Migrant Worker Networks in Resisting and Reproducing Precarity
(Book chapter)Research on changes to work and employment in the European Union (EU) have highlighted the increase in precarious forms of work (ILO 2012; McKay et al. 2012) especially among migrant workers (Anderson 2010; Potter and ... -
Operational dilemmas in safety-critical industries: the tension between organizational reputational concerns and the effective communication of risk
(Article)Organizations involved in safety-critical operations often deal with operational tensions especially when involved in safety-critical incidents that is likely to violate safety. In this paper, we set out to understand ... -
Determinants of Informal Entrepreneurship in Africa
(Article)This study investigates the determinants of informal entrepreneurship in Africa. Using a crosssection of 21,954 firms from 47 African countries, the study estimates several multivariate models to examine the factors that ... -
The dark side of transparency: Problematising the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as a Public Sector Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption Initiative
(Article)This study explores the dark side of transparency by problematizing the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) as a transparency, accountability and anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria. It does ... -
Accounting for Accounting’s Role in the Neoliberalisation Processes of Social Housing in England: A Bourdieusian Perspective
(Article)Abstract This paper seeks to account for how accounting is implicated in the neoliberalization processes of social housing in England. It adopts a processual view which instead of conceptualizing neoliberalism as static ... -
Augmenting Talent Management for Sustainable Development in Africa
(Article)Purpose With the steady overall development of the continent, the African business landscape over the last decade has witnessed increased growth through numerous avenues. Growth has been through the emergence of formalised ...
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