• Reflecting to Rebuild and Strengthen Professional Development A Collection of ‘Post-Online’ Conversations 

  Cartwright, Edward; Chapman, Gary; Davies, Jonathan; Gordon, Genevieve; Harman, Brian; Koenig, Brett; Lancastle, Neil; Lishman, Ros; Malan, Karen; Guarneros-Meza, Valeria; Nizalov, Denys; Orazgani, Ali; Orr, Russell; Omar, Paul; Saunders, Roger; Virmani, Swati; Allen, Thomas (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 

  Okafor, Godwin (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 

  Hickman, Ellie; Manthiou, Aikaterini; Klaus, Phil (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 

  Hassani, Hossein; Huang, Xu; Silva, Emmanuel; Ghodsi, Mansi (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 

  Luong, Tuan Anh; Thu Hang, Nguyen (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 

  Okafor, Godwin; Tauringana, Venancio; Tingbani, Ishmael; Sha'ven, Widin Bongasu (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? 

  Atif, Muhammad; Hossain, Mohammed; Alam, Md Samsul; Goergen, Marc (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 

  Thu Hang, Nguyen; Luong, Tuan Anh (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 ...

• Mediation effect of financial attitude on financial knowledge and financial behavior: The case of university students 

  Coskun, Ali; Dalziel, Nurdilek (Article)

  In this study, we aim to look into the relation among different aspects of an individual’s attribute with financial issues, namely financial knowledge, attitude and behavior and to examine whether the relationship between ...

• Own experience bias in evaluating the efforts of others 

  Cartwright, Edward; Wooders, Myrna (Article)

  We develop a model with which to explore how an individuals own experience in the labor market may influence her assessment of the efforts of other individuals. Specifically, we consider a two stage process in which ...

• Entropic Analysis of Votes Expressed in Italian Elections between 1948 and 2018 

  Marmani, Stefano; Ficcandenti, Valerio; Kaur, Parmjit; Dhesi, Gurjeet (Article)

  In Italy, the elections occur often, indeed almost every year the citizens are involved in a democratic choice for deciding leaders of different administrative entities. Sometimes the citizens are called to vote for filling ...

• Intra-industry firm heterogeneity, myopic adaptation and exit hazard: A fitness landscape approach to firm survival and learning 

  Trushin, Eshref; Ugur, Mehmet (Article)

  We draw on insights from the fitness landscape literature and from models of firm dynamics with learning to hypothesize that: (i) firms in industries with higher company age or size heterogeneity have higher exit hazard ...

• Visual Mapping of Identity: Negotiating Ethnic Identity 

  Dekel-Dachs, Ofer; Moorlock, E. (Article)

  Abstract Purpose — the paper offers a novel participatory visual research method, the Mapping Of Identity (MOI) protocol that embraces the complex nature of contemporary consumers’ lived reality. Design/methodology/approach ...

• Revisiting the Mediating Effect of Normative Commitment Relationships in Nigeria 

  Ojeme, Mark; Robson, Julie (Article)

  Purpose: This study examines the mediating effect of normative commitment, that is, a customer’s feeling of moral obligation to stay in a relationship based on the psychological feeling that it is the right thing to do. ...

• Financial Development, Trade and Growth Triangle: The Case of India 

  Katircioglu, Salih; Kahyalar, Neslihan; Benar, Hasret (Article)

  This paper aims to investigate the possible co‐integration and the direction of causality between financial development, international trade, and economic growth in India. Annual data covering the 1965‐2004 period have ...

• Performance and efficiency in Indian universities 

  Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill; Virmani, Swati (Article)

  While the evaluation of university efficiency has become commonplace in developed countries, exercises of this kind have rarely been conducted in the context of developing economies. We use frontier methods to analyse the ...

• An economic analysis of ransomware and its welfare consequences 

  Cartwright, Anna; Hernandez-Castro, Julio; Cartwright, Edward (Article)

  We present in this work an economic analysis of ransomware, a relatively new form of cyber-enabled extortion. We look at how the illegal gains of the criminals will depend on the strategies they use, examining uniform ...

• Time-Varying Risk Aversion and the Profitability of Carry Trades: Evidence from the Cross-Quantilogram 

  Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan; Hassani, Hossein; Huang, Xu (Article)

  This paper examines the predictive power of time-varying risk aversion over payoffs to the carry trade strategy via the cross-quantilogram methodology. Our analysis yields significant evidence of directional predictability ...

• Determinants of the informal economy of an emerging economy: a multiple indicator, multiple causes (MIMIC) approach 

  Igudia, Eghosa; Ackrill, Robert; COLEMAN, SIMEON; Dobson, Carlyn (Article)

  Positing the implementation of evidenced-based policies to manage the informal economy, our paper employs, in a novel way, the multiple-cause, multiple-indicator model and primary data, to identify the determinants of the ...

• Understanding Small Business Entrepreneurial Activity in the Nigerian Bottom of The Pyramid (BoP) and Informal Economy 

  Igudia, Eghosa; Uba, Chijioke Dike; Wale-Oshinowo, Bamidele (Article)

  Despite a significant and rapid evolution of the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) and Informal Economy concepts, there is still a lack of clarity by researchers on the definition and nature of the BoP populations being studied ...

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