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Designing the venue logistics management operations for a World Exposition (2014)
Journal Article
Creazza, A., Colicchia, C., & Dallari, F. (2015). Designing the venue logistics management operations for a World Exposition. Production planning & control, 26(7), 543-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2014.929190

World Expositions, due to their size and peculiar features, pose a number of logistics challenges. This paper aims at developing a design framework for the venue logistics management (VLM) operations to replenish food products to the event site, thro... Read More about Designing the venue logistics management operations for a World Exposition.

Spillovers from FDI and local networks: The importance of transactional linkages and vertical keiretsu in Japan (2014)
Journal Article
Kimino, S., Driffield, N., & Saal, D. (2014). Spillovers from FDI and local networks: The importance of transactional linkages and vertical keiretsu in Japan. Multinational business review, 22(2), 176-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/mbr-01-2014-0004

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of host country networks and organisation of production in the context of international technology transfer that accompanies foreign direct investment (FDI). Design/methodology/approach... Read More about Spillovers from FDI and local networks: The importance of transactional linkages and vertical keiretsu in Japan.

The choice of commodity tax base in the presence of horizontal foreign direct investment (2014)
Journal Article
McCracken, S. (2015). The choice of commodity tax base in the presence of horizontal foreign direct investment. International tax and public finance, 22(5), 811-833. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-014-9332-1

We analyse the choice of commodity tax base, when countries set their taxes non-cooperatively in a reciprocal dumping model of homogeneous goods trade with horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). We show that the consumption base (destination pri... Read More about The choice of commodity tax base in the presence of horizontal foreign direct investment.

Using systems thinking to educate for sustainability in a business school (2014)
Journal Article
Miller, S., & Gregory, A. (2014). Using systems thinking to educate for sustainability in a business school. Systems, 2(3), 313-327. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems2030313

This paper explores what it means for a business school to embed systems thinking and sustainability into the curriculum by looking at both the application of systems thinking to the design of sustainable programmes and the teaching of system thinkin... Read More about Using systems thinking to educate for sustainability in a business school.

Website design quality and usage behavior : unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (2014)
Journal Article
Al-Qeisi, K., Dennis, C., Alamanos, E., & Jayawardhena, C. (2014). Website design quality and usage behavior : unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. Journal of business research, 67(11), 2282-2290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.06.016

A well designed website brings numerous benefits to firms. Some of these benefits are well established. But what elements of the website design quality really matter and how do these elements in turn influence website usage behavior? Building upon th... Read More about Website design quality and usage behavior : unified theory of acceptance and use of technology.

The management of an ageing workforce: organisational policies in Germany and Britain (2014)
Journal Article
Schröder, H., Muller-Camen, M., & Flynn, M. (2014). The management of an ageing workforce: organisational policies in Germany and Britain. Human resource management journal, 24(4), 394-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12043

Demographic change as well as pressure from the European Union and national government are forcing organisations to change age‐discriminatory HRM approaches. Based on a qualitative analysis of eight British and German organisations, we found that com... Read More about The management of an ageing workforce: organisational policies in Germany and Britain.

Gaining access to agency and structure in industrial marketing theory: A critical pluralist approach (2014)
Journal Article
Nicholson, J. D., Brennan, R., & Midgley, G. (2014). Gaining access to agency and structure in industrial marketing theory: A critical pluralist approach. Marketing Theory, 14(4), 395-416. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593114538994

This article is concerned with gaining greater insight into the interplay between agency and structure in industrial marketing (IM) scholarship. The article’s intent is to embed Midgley’s notion of critical pluralism within this endeavour. The articl... Read More about Gaining access to agency and structure in industrial marketing theory: A critical pluralist approach.

A cross-country analysis of herd behavior in Europe (2014)
Journal Article
Mobarek, A., Mollah, S., & Keasey, K. (2014). A cross-country analysis of herd behavior in Europe. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 32, 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2014.05.008

This paper examines country specific herding behavior in European liquid constituent indices for the period of 2001-2012. While we report insignificant results for the whole period, we document significant herding behavior during crises and asymmetri... Read More about A cross-country analysis of herd behavior in Europe.

Intention to use mobile customer relationship management systems (2014)
Journal Article
Karjaluoto, H., Töllinen, A., Pirttiniemi, J., & Jayawardhena, C. (2014). Intention to use mobile customer relationship management systems. Industrial management + data systems, 114(6), 966-978. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-11-2013-0480

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the behavioral intentions of business-to-business (B2B) sales managers to use mobile customer relationship management (CRM) systems in the course of their day-t... Read More about Intention to use mobile customer relationship management systems.

Supervision environments and performance of UK dairy warehouses: A path analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., & Fischer, C. (2014). Supervision environments and performance of UK dairy warehouses: A path analysis. British food journal, 116(6), 1000-1013. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-12-2012-0313

Purpose: For team leaders or supervisors (functional coordinators (FCs)) warehouses are one of the most difficult places to supervise and manage subordinate workers. FCs themselves can be supervised by their bosses in different ways, either semi-auto... Read More about Supervision environments and performance of UK dairy warehouses: A path analysis.

Commodity futures price behaviour following large one-day price changes (2014)
Journal Article
Mazouz, K., & Wang, J. (2014). Commodity futures price behaviour following large one-day price changes. Applied financial economics, 24(14), 939-948. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603107.2014.914140

This study examines individual commodity futures price reactions to large one-day price changes, or “shocks”. The mean-adjusted abnormal return model suggests that investors in 6 of the 18 commodity futures examined in this study either underreact or... Read More about Commodity futures price behaviour following large one-day price changes.

Adaptação transcultural do Teste de Conhecimento Emocional: avaliação neuropsicolόgica das emoções (2014)
Journal Article
Andrade, N. C., Abreu, N., Menezes, I., Mello, C. B. D., Duran, V. R., & Moreira, N. D. A. (2014). Adaptação transcultural do Teste de Conhecimento Emocional: avaliação neuropsicolόgica das emoções. Psico-USF, 19(2), 297--306. https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-82712014019002001

Emotions play a central role in children's relationships. Deficits in emotional understanding have been associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders. In Brazil, however, few psychological instruments are available to assess young children's emo... Read More about Adaptação transcultural do Teste de Conhecimento Emocional: avaliação neuropsicolόgica das emoções.

Talk up or criticize? Customer responses to WOM about competitors during social interactions (2014)
Journal Article
Ranaweera, C., & Jayawardhena, C. (2014). Talk up or criticize? Customer responses to WOM about competitors during social interactions. Journal of business research, 67(12), 2645-2656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.04.002

Popular metrics such as the Net Promoter Score (NPS) highlights many benefits of word of mouth (WOM) to firms. Is WOM all it is claimed to be? Building on social identity theory, this research develops a conceptual model of WOM exchange in social set... Read More about Talk up or criticize? Customer responses to WOM about competitors during social interactions.

Efficient contracting, earnings smoothing and managerial accounting discretion (2014)
Journal Article
Khalil, M., & Simon, J. (2014). Efficient contracting, earnings smoothing and managerial accounting discretion. Journal of applied accounting research, 15(1), 100-122. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-06-2012-0050

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the contracting incentives (i.e. bonus plans, debt covenants, political costs hypotheses), and income smoothing can explain accounting choices in an emerging country, Egypt. Design/methodology... Read More about Efficient contracting, earnings smoothing and managerial accounting discretion.

Government as institutional entrepreneur: extending working life in the UK and Japan (2014)
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Flynn, M., Schröder, H., Higo, M., & Yamada, A. (2014). Government as institutional entrepreneur: extending working life in the UK and Japan. Journal of Social Policy, 43(3), 535-553. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279414000075

Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using nation... Read More about Government as institutional entrepreneur: extending working life in the UK and Japan.

Survival through networks: the 'grip' of the administrative links in the Russian post-Soviet context (2014)
Journal Article
Afanassieva, M. (2015). Survival through networks: the 'grip' of the administrative links in the Russian post-Soviet context. Public management review, 17(9), 1261-1281. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2014.906964

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Based on an analysis of the post-Soviet transformation experience of four defence sector organizations in a Russian region where the defence sector occupies a substantial part of the local economy, this article develops a t... Read More about Survival through networks: the 'grip' of the administrative links in the Russian post-Soviet context.

Corporate social responsibility enhanced control systems reducing the likelihood of fraud (2014)
Journal Article
Rodgers, W., Söderbom, A., & Guiral, A. (2015). Corporate social responsibility enhanced control systems reducing the likelihood of fraud. Journal of Business Ethics, 131(4), 871-882. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2152-5

All kinds of fraud are costly for the people engrossed both financially and often in terms of the time needed to clear their name when illegal use has been made of their personal details. The relationship among ethics, internal control, and fraud is... Read More about Corporate social responsibility enhanced control systems reducing the likelihood of fraud.

When in Rome: How Non-domestic Companies Listed in the UK May Not Comply with Accepted Norms and Principles of Good Corporate Governance. Does Home Market Culture Explain These Corporate Behaviours and Attitudes to Compliance? (2014)
Journal Article
Rejchrt, P., & Higgs, M. (2015). When in Rome: How Non-domestic Companies Listed in the UK May Not Comply with Accepted Norms and Principles of Good Corporate Governance. Does Home Market Culture Explain These Corporate Behaviours and Attitudes to Compliance?. Journal of Business Ethics, 129(1), 131-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2151-6

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Non-domestic companies are increasingly present on the London Stock Exchange. Such companies have specific governance requirements. They may seek to access capital in a more liquid market and to dive... Read More about When in Rome: How Non-domestic Companies Listed in the UK May Not Comply with Accepted Norms and Principles of Good Corporate Governance. Does Home Market Culture Explain These Corporate Behaviours and Attitudes to Compliance?.

Dynamic interaction between markets for leasing and selling automobiles (2014)
Journal Article
Andrikopoulos, A., & Markellos, R. N. (2015). Dynamic interaction between markets for leasing and selling automobiles. Journal of Banking and Finance, 50, 260-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2014.01.032

We develop a model of dynamic interactions between price variations in leasing and selling markets for automobiles. Our framework assumes a differential game between multiple Bertrand-type competing firms which offer differentiated products to forwar... Read More about Dynamic interaction between markets for leasing and selling automobiles.