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Learning on demand, at your own pace, in rapid bite-sized chunks: The future shape of management development? (2008)
Journal Article
Armstrong, S. J., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2008). Learning on demand, at your own pace, in rapid bite-sized chunks: The future shape of management development?. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7(4), 571-586. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2008.35882197

Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth In management and executive education which, paradoxically, has been accompanied by a crisis of confidence manifested in debates about its direction, relevance, and effectiveness. Outside academia... Read More about Learning on demand, at your own pace, in rapid bite-sized chunks: The future shape of management development?.

Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies (2008)
Book Chapter
Freeman, M., Pearson, R., & Taylor, J. (2008). Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies. In A. Laurence, J. Maltby, & J. Rutterford (Eds.), Women and their money, 1700-1950: Essays on women and finance (95-114). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203885994

As the pilgrims came to rest on the Enchanted Ground, Mr Stand-fast, in Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1684), told his friends of an encounter on the road. ‘As I was thus musing . . . there was one in very pleasant attire, but old, that presente... Read More about Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies.

Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800 (2008)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., & Richardson, D. (2008). Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800. Business history, 50(6), 765-780. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790802420336

The growth of the Atlantic economy during the eighteenth century has been associated with developments in business networking to mitigate the hazards of communication in long-distance trade. Such social capital-based mechanisms reduced transaction co... Read More about Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800.

Dispositional resistance to change: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations (2008)
Journal Article
González, L., Hřebíčková, M., Kordačová, J., Mlačić, B., Ferić, I., Topić, M. K., van Dam, K., Bozionelos, N., Arciniega, L., Armenakis, A., Barkauskiene, R., Bayazit, M., Fujimoto, Y., Han, J., Hetland, H., Jimmieson, N., Mitsuhashi, H., Ohly, S., Oreg, S., Saksvik, I., …Vakola, M. (2008). Dispositional resistance to change: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(4), 935-944. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.93.4.935

The concept of dispositional resistance to change has been introduced in a series of exploratory and confirmatory analyses through which the validity of the Resistance to Change (RTC) Scale has been established (S. Oreg, 2003). However, the vast majo... Read More about Dispositional resistance to change: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations.

Emotion work in the Hellenic frontline services environment: how it relates to emotional exhaustion and work attitudes (2008)
Journal Article
Bozionelos, N., & Kiamou, K. (2008). Emotion work in the Hellenic frontline services environment: how it relates to emotional exhaustion and work attitudes. The international journal of human resource management, 19(6), 1108-1130. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585190802051410

The relationship of emotional work with emotional exhaustion and a variety of attitudes towards the job and the organization was investigated in a sample of Hellenes (Greek) employees in the banking industry who were performing frontline service jobs... Read More about Emotion work in the Hellenic frontline services environment: how it relates to emotional exhaustion and work attitudes.

Experiential learning and the acquisition of managerial tacit knowledge (2008)
Journal Article
Armstrong, S. J., & Mahmud, A. (2008). Experiential learning and the acquisition of managerial tacit knowledge. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7(2), 189-208. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMLE.2008.32712617

Tacit knowledge is believed to be one factor that distinguishes successful managers from others. We sought to determine whether levels of accumulated managerial tacit knowledge (LAMTK) were associated with managers' dominant learning styles. Instrume... Read More about Experiential learning and the acquisition of managerial tacit knowledge.

Labouring and learning towards competitiveness: the future of local labour markets after Harker, Leitch and Freud (2008)
Journal Article
Nunn, A., & Johnson, S. (2008). Labouring and learning towards competitiveness: the future of local labour markets after Harker, Leitch and Freud. Local Economy, 23(2), 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690940801976190

In 1999 Geddes and Newman highlighted five key tensions in New Labour's adoption of the 'new centrist' approach to Local Economic Development (LED). This article reflects on the continuing relevance of these tensions in relation local labour markets... Read More about Labouring and learning towards competitiveness: the future of local labour markets after Harker, Leitch and Freud.

Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability for high-tech medical equipment (2008)
Journal Article
Lindgreen, A., Antioco, M., Harness, D., & van der Sloot, R. (2009). Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability for high-tech medical equipment. Journal of Business Ethics, 85(SUPPL. 2), 445-462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9740-1

As the functional capabilities of high-tech medical products converge, supplying organizations seek new opportunities to differentiate their offerings. Embracing product sustainability-related differentiators provides just such an opportunity. This s... Read More about Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability for high-tech medical equipment.

Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914 (2008)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., & Lönnborg, M. (2008). Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914. Business History Review, 82(1), 59-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000768050003751x

At the end of the twentieth century, the global diffusion of one important financial service, insurance, was encouraged by deregulation, but it also encountered difficulties where deregulation remained incomplete and where there were many nonregulato... Read More about Regulatory regimes and multinational insurers before 1914.

Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government (2008)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2008). Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government. Enterprise & society, 9(1), 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khm106

We use the tools of transaction cost politics (TCP) developed from transaction cost economics and economic analysis, to analyze the business relationship building between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), the largest and most succ... Read More about Government control, transaction costs, and commitment between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese government.

Integrated rural tourism: a border case study (2008)
Journal Article
Saxena, G., & Ilbery, B. (2008). Integrated rural tourism: a border case study. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(1), 233-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2007.07.010

Within the context of debates about integrated and territorial approaches to rural development in Europe's lagging regions, this paper introduces the notion of integrated rural tourism, theorized in relation to the concepts of embeddedness, dis-embed... Read More about Integrated rural tourism: a border case study.