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Salesperson improvisation: Antecedents, performance outcomes, and boundary conditions
(Article)Premised on the idea that not all salesperson behaviors can be pre-scripted and that, increasingly, salespersons must find ways to respond to unexpected but urgent market conditions, this study theorizes the drivers, ... -
"Saved!" by Jena Malone: An Introspective Study of a Consumer’s Fan Relationship with a Film Actress
(Article)While consumers have always been fascinated by the works and private lives of celebrities, some consumers experience a significantly more intensive level of admiration for a particular celebrity and, subsequently, become ... -
Saving the Pound? Britain’s Road to Monetary Union
(Article)This book examines Britain’s position on monetary union through an examination as to how negotiating positions evolved within government and provides a micro-history of Britain’s negotiating stance on this important subject. ... -
Scaling Sustainability: Regulation and Resilience in Managerial Responses to Climate Change
(Article)This paper introduces the special issue of the British Journal of Management on ‘Scaling Sustainability: Regulation and Resilience inManagerial Responses to Climate Change’, providing an overview of the key issues in ... -
The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics: Placement Learning, Citizenship and Employability
(Book)The concern to develop opportunities for active learning and engagement of one form or another have become increasingly prevalent in higher education institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. In particular, recent years ... -
The scope and challenges of the financial crisis.
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The Search for ‘Real’ Farmers- Questions of Social Identity in Farmer-Based Organizations
(Conference)This paper studies the social identity of farmers in the small and medium scale agricultural networks of Zambia. It particularly explores the impact of the social identity of ‘real’ farmers on individual and collective ... -
Security of Property Rights and Transition in Land Use
(Article)Price and yield uncertainty are traditional considerations in agricultural markets and their impact on development. Agricultural producers in transition economies face an additional risk factor – changes in the institutional ... -
Seeking asylum from poverty: Contesting the refugee/migrant paradigm
(Book chapter)Media coverage of people trying to enter the EU from the Middle East, South-East Asia and Africa has, over the last year, made much of the difference between ‘refugees’ or ‘asylum seekers’ on the one hand, and ‘economic ... -
Selecting data envelopment analysis models: A data-driven application to EU countries
(Article)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric data-driven approach for evaluating the efficiency of a set of homogeneous decision-making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The number of performance ...