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Logistics and supply chain education and jobs: A study of UK markets (2014)
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Wong, C. Y., Grant, D. B., Allan, B., & Jasiuvian, I. (2014). Logistics and supply chain education and jobs: A study of UK markets. The international journal of logistics management, 25(3), 537-552. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-01-2013-0003

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the curriculum design of logistics and supply chain management (LSCM) undergraduate courses offered by selected UK higher education (HE) institutions and compares them with employers’ job requirements... Read More about Logistics and supply chain education and jobs: A study of UK markets.

Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice: Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice (2014)
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FitzRoy, F., & Nolan, M. (2016). Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice: Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice. The Manchester school, 84(1), 81-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12083

In a model with heterogeneous workers, quasi‐linear utility and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we investigate welfare with optimal linear taxes and wage subsidies under Rawlsian and utilitarian objectives, and the effects of conc... Read More about Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice: Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice.

Effectiveness of performance appraisal: An integrated framework (2014)
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Iqbal, M. Z., Akbar, S., & Budhwar, P. (2015). Effectiveness of performance appraisal: An integrated framework. International Journal of Management Reviews, 17(4), 510-533. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12050

© 2015 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Based on a robust analysis of the existing literature on performance appraisal (PA), this paper makes a case for an integrated framework of effectiveness of performance appraisal (EPA)... Read More about Effectiveness of performance appraisal: An integrated framework.

Marine ecosystem services: Linking indicators to their classification (2014)
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Hattam, C., Atkins, J. P., Beaumont, N., Börger, T., Böhnke-Henrichs, A., Burdon, D., de Groot, R., Hoefnagel, E., Nunes, P. A. L. D., Piwowarczyk, J., Sastre, S., & Austen, M. C. (2015). Marine ecosystem services: Linking indicators to their classification. Ecological Indicators, 49, 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.09.026

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. There is a multitude of ecosystem service classifications available within the literature, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. Elements of them have been used to tailor a generic ecosystem service cla... Read More about Marine ecosystem services: Linking indicators to their classification.

Is Africa actually developing? (2014)
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King, A., & Ramlogan-Dobson, C. (2015). Is Africa actually developing?. World Development, 66, 598-613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.09.023

The results of previous time-series studies of the income convergence hypothesis indicate that practically no African economies are systematically closing their income gap with the rich world. This implies that almost the entire continent is not ‘dev... Read More about Is Africa actually developing?.

'Leaning against an open door' : ideology and the cyclicality of public expenditure (2014)
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Abbott, A., & Jones, P. (2014). 'Leaning against an open door' : ideology and the cyclicality of public expenditure. Journal of policy modeling, 36(6), 957-969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2014.09.003

When is government expenditure likely to be procyclical? While economists tend to anticipate counter-cyclical expenditure, recent studies report procyclical expenditure. This paper explores the impact of political ideology on the cyclicality of gover... Read More about 'Leaning against an open door' : ideology and the cyclicality of public expenditure.

Board composition, grey directors and corporate failure in the UK (2014)
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Wu, C. Y.-H., & Hsu, H.-H. (2014). Board composition, grey directors and corporate failure in the UK. The British accounting review, 46(3), 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2013.12.002

This study examines the effect of board composition on the likelihood of corporate failure in the UK. We consider both independent and non-independent (grey) non-executive directors (NEDs) to enhance our understanding of the impact of NEDs’ personal... Read More about Board composition, grey directors and corporate failure in the UK.

Pressures to increase public expenditure and patterns of procyclical expenditure (2014)
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Abbott, A., & Jones, P. (2014). Pressures to increase public expenditure and patterns of procyclical expenditure. Economic issues, 19(2), 39-53

This paper draws on the literature that explains why governments spend procyclically, to predict the pattern of cyclical expenditure across government budgets. Procyclical expenditure increases at a faster rate than income in economic upturns and fal... Read More about Pressures to increase public expenditure and patterns of procyclical expenditure.

Informative content of insider purchases: evidence from the financial crisis (2014)
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Ozkan, A., & Trzeciakiewicz, A. (2014). Informative content of insider purchases: evidence from the financial crisis. Review of Behavioural Finance, 6(1), 26-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-01-2014-0008

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of insider trading on subsequent stock returns in the UK, with a specific focus on the impact of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 on the relation between CEO and CFO stock purch... Read More about Informative content of insider purchases: evidence from the financial crisis.

Equilibrium unemployment in a general equilibrium model with taxes (2014)
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Bhattarai, K., & Dixon, H. (2014). Equilibrium unemployment in a general equilibrium model with taxes. The Manchester school, 82(Supplement S1), 90-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12066

The ratio of unemployed to vacancies has risen sharply in the UK after the recession of 2008/09. How harmful is it for the long run growth, equity and efficiency and what sorts of long run cycles does it generate in the economy? With a dynamic comput... Read More about Equilibrium unemployment in a general equilibrium model with taxes.