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Do Keiretsu Really Hinder FDI into Japanese Manufacturing? (2012)
Journal Article
Kimino, S., Driffield, N., & Saal, D. (2012). Do Keiretsu Really Hinder FDI into Japanese Manufacturing?. International journal of the economics of business, 19(3), 377-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2012.715273

This paper examines an issue that has received considerable comment but little analysis. It has often been argued that the presence of the keiretsu in Japan has been instrumental in deterring multinational firms from entering Japan, though evidence f... Read More about Do Keiretsu Really Hinder FDI into Japanese Manufacturing?.

Interlocking directorships and firm performance in highly regulated sectors: The moderating impact of board diversity (2012)
Journal Article
Kaczmarek, S., Kimino, S., & Pye, A. (2014). Interlocking directorships and firm performance in highly regulated sectors: The moderating impact of board diversity. Journal of Management and Governance, 18(2), 347-372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-012-9228-3

Interlocking directorships are a pervasive element of the corporate landscape. Academic literature documents many examples of spreading business practices and strategic outcomes through this form of inter-organizational connectedness. Yet, the findin... Read More about Interlocking directorships and firm performance in highly regulated sectors: The moderating impact of board diversity.

Leadership through action learning: a bottom-up approach to ‘best practice’ in ‘infection prevention and control’ in a UK NHS trust (2012)
Journal Article
Kellie, J., Milsom, B., & Henderson, E. (2012). Leadership through action learning: a bottom-up approach to ‘best practice’ in ‘infection prevention and control’ in a UK NHS trust. Public money & management, 32(4), 289-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2012.691308

This article reports on the outcomes of an action learning leadership intervention in a National Health Service (NHS) acute trust in partnership with a UK business school. This contribution provides an empirical example of the potential benefits of n... Read More about Leadership through action learning: a bottom-up approach to ‘best practice’ in ‘infection prevention and control’ in a UK NHS trust.

Antecedents of board composition: The role of nomination committees (2012)
Journal Article
Kaczmarek, S., Kimino, S., & Pye, A. (2012). Antecedents of board composition: The role of nomination committees. Corporate governance, 20(5), 474-489. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2012.00913.x

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: The global financial crisis in 2008 has generated increasing recognition of the importance of board diversity reflected amidst the capabilities and skills of directors on a board. As the primary... Read More about Antecedents of board composition: The role of nomination committees.

Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue (2012)
Journal Article
Burchell, J., & Cook, J. (2013). Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue. Journal of Business Ethics, 113(3), 505-518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1319-1

Campaigning activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have increased public awareness and concern regarding the alleged unethical and environmentally damaging practices of many major multinational companies. Companies have responded by deve... Read More about Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue.

Um estudo sobre a validade de construto da Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) em uma amostra populacional urbana do Nordeste Brasileiro (2011)
Journal Article
Bonfim, C., Santos, D., Menezes, I., Reichenheim, M., & Barreto, M. (2011). Um estudo sobre a validade de construto da Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) em uma amostra populacional urbana do Nordeste Brasileiro. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 27(11), 2215-2226

A Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) tem sido um dos instrumentos mais utilizados internacionalmente para investigação da violência doméstica contra a criança, porém o uso segmentado de suas escalas tem se mostrado inadequado devido à comple... Read More about Um estudo sobre a validade de construto da Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) em uma amostra populacional urbana do Nordeste Brasileiro.

Comprometimento organizacional atitudinal: um estudo empírico sobre a dimensionalidade do construto (2011)
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Menezes, I. G., & Bastos, A. V. B. (2011). Comprometimento organizacional atitudinal: um estudo empírico sobre a dimensionalidade do construto. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 28(4), 463-474. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0103-166x2011000400007

A falta de precisão acerca da dimensionalidade do comprometimento organizacional contribui para torná-lo um construtocomplexo e multifacetado. Com o objetivo de identificar a melhor estrutura fatorial para o comprometiment... Read More about Comprometimento organizacional atitudinal: um estudo empírico sobre a dimensionalidade do construto.

Estudos sobre a dimensionalidade da empatia: tradução e adaptação do Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) (2011)
Journal Article
Rodrigues Sampaio, L., Rocha Bagano Guimarães, P., Pereira dos Santos Camino, C., Soares Formiga, N., & Gomes Menezes, I. (2011). Estudos sobre a dimensionalidade da empatia: tradução e adaptação do Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Psico, 42(1), 67-76

RESUMO Ao longo dos anos diversos métodos foram propostos para avaliar a empatia, sendo que os mais utilizados são escalas autoavaliativas. Dentre estas, destaca-se o Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) de Davis (1983), que avalia componentes cognit... Read More about Estudos sobre a dimensionalidade da empatia: tradução e adaptação do Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI).

Board task-related faultlines and firm performance: A decade of evidence (2011)
Journal Article
Kaczmarek, S., Kimino, S., & Pye, A. (2012). Board task-related faultlines and firm performance: A decade of evidence. Corporate governance, 20(4), 337-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2011.00895.x

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: To what extent can group faultlines and their potential value‐destroying effects be detected on corporate boards? Task‐related attributes of the type of directorship, education, board tenure, and... Read More about Board task-related faultlines and firm performance: A decade of evidence.

Banging on open doors? Stakeholder dialogue and the challenge of business engagement for UK NGOs (2011)
Journal Article
Burchell, J., & Cook, J. (2011). Banging on open doors? Stakeholder dialogue and the challenge of business engagement for UK NGOs. Environmental Politics, 20(6), 918-937. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2011.617176

In recent years, increased pressure from civil society and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has heightened the need for companies to engage with their critics. As the notion of corporate social responsibility has come to the fore in the business... Read More about Banging on open doors? Stakeholder dialogue and the challenge of business engagement for UK NGOs.

Accession 8 migration and the proactive and defensive engagement of social citizenship (2011)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Dwyer, P., & Waite, L. (2012). Accession 8 migration and the proactive and defensive engagement of social citizenship. Journal of Social Policy, 41(2), 329-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279411000766

Following the expansion of the European Union in 2004 unprecedented numbers of Accession 8 migrants from Central and Eastern Europe entered the UK. These migrants are often concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods, which are already routinely... Read More about Accession 8 migration and the proactive and defensive engagement of social citizenship.

Safety cameras and road accidents: effectiveness in local authority areas in England (2011)
Journal Article
Hindle, G. A., & Hindle, T. (2011). Safety cameras and road accidents: effectiveness in local authority areas in England. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62(7), 1181-1188. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2010.43

Safety cameras have been central to strategy for improving road safety in the UK (and other countries) over the past decade and a National Safety Camera (NSC) programme was introduced in the year 2000 to fund and guide the expansion of camera sites.... Read More about Safety cameras and road accidents: effectiveness in local authority areas in England.

Relationship quality and giving behaviour in the UK fundraising sector: Exploring the antecedent roles of religiosity and self-construal (2011)
Journal Article
Shabbir, H. A., & Skarmeas, D. (2011). Relationship quality and giving behaviour in the UK fundraising sector: Exploring the antecedent roles of religiosity and self-construal. European Journal of Marketing, 45(5), 720-738. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090561111120000

Purpose– The current study aims to examine the extent to which donor religiosity and self-construal encourage the development of donor-perceived relationship quality and intention to give in the future. Donor-perceived relationship quality is concept... Read More about Relationship quality and giving behaviour in the UK fundraising sector: Exploring the antecedent roles of religiosity and self-construal.

Construção, desenvolvimento e validação da Escala de Intenções Comportamentais de Comprometimento Organizacional (EICCO) (2010)
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Gomes Menezes, I., & Bittencourt Bastos, A. V. (2010). Construção, desenvolvimento e validação da Escala de Intenções Comportamentais de Comprometimento Organizacional (EICCO). Avaliação Psicológica, 9(1), 119-127

Tendo em vista a inexistência de uma medida para avaliação do comprometimento organizacional que integre as perspectivas atitudinal e comportamental, o presente trabalho buscou desenvolver e validar a Escala de Intenções Comportamentais de Comprometi... Read More about Construção, desenvolvimento e validação da Escala de Intenções Comportamentais de Comprometimento Organizacional (EICCO).

Propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Intenções Comportamentais de Permanência na Organização (EICPO) (2010)
Journal Article
Gomes Menezes, I., & Bittencourt Bastos, A. V. (2010). Propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Intenções Comportamentais de Permanência na Organização (EICPO). Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia, 10(3), 800-817. https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2010.8916

RESUMO Um elevado nível de rotatividade (turnover) dos trabalhadores gera custos de recrutamento, treinamento e desenvolvimento. Diferentes modelos teóricos foram desenvolvidos para explicar o turnover, e várias medidas atitudinais de intenções de pe... Read More about Propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Intenções Comportamentais de Permanência na Organização (EICPO).

Intenção de permanência na organização: um constituinte ou consequente do comprometimento organizacional? (2010)
Journal Article
Bastos, A. V., & Menezes, I. G. (2010). Intenção de permanência na organização: um constituinte ou consequente do comprometimento organizacional?. Estudos de Psicologia (Natal), 15(3), 299-307. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1413-294x2010000300010

O desejo de permanecer na organização tem sido considerado ora um componente constituinte, ora um consequente do comprometimento organizacional. A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo testar a influência de variáveis atitudinais (bases afetiva e inst... Read More about Intenção de permanência na organização: um constituinte ou consequente do comprometimento organizacional?.

EC competition policy: is the role of the substantial part of the common market in determining jurisdictional subsidiarity redundant? (2010)
Journal Article
Davison, L. M., & Johnson, D. (2010). EC competition policy: is the role of the substantial part of the common market in determining jurisdictional subsidiarity redundant?. Liverpool Law Review, 31(3), 273-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-010-9081-x

The importance of the principle of subsidiarity lies in its role in drawing the demarcation line between EU and member state responsibility for policy formulation and implementation. In theory, the application of the principle of subsidiarity appears... Read More about EC competition policy: is the role of the substantial part of the common market in determining jurisdictional subsidiarity redundant?.

A neurocognitive approach to brand memory (2010)
Journal Article
Ratnayake, N., Broderick, A. J., & Mitchell, R. L. C. (2010). A neurocognitive approach to brand memory. Journal of marketing management, 26(13-14), 1295-1318. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2010.522531

Consumer decisions are largely influenced by prior experiences via memory, and the episodic (autobiographical)/semantic dichotomy has particular relevance to the cognitive versus emotional decision-making models. Yet, consumer research is limited in... Read More about A neurocognitive approach to brand memory.

Ageing skills and participation in work-related training in Britain : assessing the position of older workers (2010)
Journal Article
Canduela, J., Dutton, M., Johnson, S., Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R., & Raeside, R. (in press). Ageing skills and participation in work-related training in Britain : assessing the position of older workers. Work, employment & society : a journal of the British Sociological Association, 26(1), 42-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017011426303

Policy makers have introduced a number of measures to encourage older workers to stay in the labour market, with improving access to training a particular priority. Policy action appeared justified by evidence that older workers are less likely to pa... Read More about Ageing skills and participation in work-related training in Britain : assessing the position of older workers.