Department of Economics and Marketing
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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, ... -
Long-term innovation outcomes of university-industry collaborations: the role of ‘bridging’ vs ‘blurring’ boundary spanning practices
(Article)We explore the link between the long-term innovation outcomes of university-industry collaborations (UICs) - in particular, whether the UIC has led to further exploitative or exploratory innovation - and the adoption of ... -
Knowledge and capabilities for products/services development: the UK spin-off firms context
(Article)Purpose This paper aims to explore and propose the skills and capabilities required in developing products and services within UK university spin-offs (USOs) by considering the model of products/services development ... -
Characteristics and Outputs of University Spin-offs in the United Kingdom
(Article)Research on the formal role of universities in stimulating regional economic development is relatively recent. However, the role of universities in contributing to regional technological and service variety is underresearched. ... -
To Give or Not to Give: The Roles of Narcissistic Grandiosity and Vulnerability in Gift- Giving
(Article)The present study identifies how narcissistic grandiosity, vulnerability, and their interplay collectively affect gift-giving behaviors, which is understudied in the extant literature. The results showed that these two ... -
Briefing Note: Lockdown Compliance in the UK
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The Employment and Wage Effects of Export VAT Rebates: Evidence from China
(Article)This paper studies the employment and wage effects of VAT rebates to exporters with comprehensive firm-product-level data of China. It is found that the adjustments in VAT rebates significantly and positively affect firm’s ... -
Import liberalization and export product mix
(Article)This paper develops a monopolistic competition model of multiproduct firms to explain the effect of trade liberalization on the product mix of multiproduct exporting firms. The model shows that input-tariff reduction leads ... -
The impact of ethnic diversity on the quality of exports: the case from China
(Article)The quality of exports is an important indicator of the economic development of a country. It is, therefore, important to understand its determinants. Existing literature reveals a number of determinants such as the position ... -
The Marketing of Start-Up Capital to Women Entrepreneurs in South Africa
(Book chapter)Women entrepreneurship plays a critical role in economic growth and development (Mitchelmore and Rowley 2013; Still and Timms 2000). In fact, research on economic growth is incomplete without recognising the contribution ... -
Within, in-between, out-of-bounds? Locating researcher positionalities in multicultural marketplaces
(Article)Culturally heterogenous and globally interconnected societies represent complex and fluid research fields, in which the multiple and dynamic identity affiliations of researchers intersect with those of research collaborators, ... -
Reflecting to Rebuild and Strengthen Professional Development A Collection of ‘Post-Online’ Conversations
(Article)This monograph is a multi-authored collection consisting of our faculty’s post-online reflections. The objective was to gather thoughts and discussion around teaching and research during COVID-19. We aim to build and explore ... -
Internet Adoption and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Article)Information and communication technology adoption (ICT), and its penetration and use, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have steadily grown since the turn of the century. Subsequently, studies have sought to investigate several ... -
Beyond good and bad: Challenging the suggested role of emotions in customer experience (CX) research
(Article)Our paper challenges several notions regarding emotion’s role and their influence on the customer experience (hereafter CX). Based on our analysis, we develop the following five propositions to advance our understanding ... -
Deep Learning and Implementations in Banking
(Article)Data-driven technologies have been changing every aspect of human life and the fast-developing banking sector with its data-rich nature has become the implementation field of these fast-evolving technologies. Deep learning, ... -
The impact of ICT on service trade
(Article)While trade in goods has been investigated extensively over decades, studies on trade in services are relatively new. In this paper we investigate the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) on trade ... -
Terrorism and Global Business Performance
(Article)This paper contributes to the literature on business performance by investigating the relationship between terrorism and global business performance at country level. A measure of a country’s distance from the frontier ... -
Does board gender diversity affect renewable energy consumption?
(Article)This paper examines the effect of board gender diversity on renewable energy consumption. Using a panel of 11,677 firm-year observations from the USA for 2008–2016, we find a positive relationship between board gender ... -
Globalization and infectious diseases: Evidence on the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Article)In this paper we investigated the impact of globalization on infectious diseases and found that export values contributed greatly to the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 outbreak. We collected the number of new cases and ...
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