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Innovative Solutions for Implementing Global Supply Chains in Emerging Markets (2016)
Book
Dwivedi, A. (Ed.). (2016). Innovative Solutions for Implementing Global Supply Chains in Emerging Markets. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9795-9

Advancements in the field of information technology have transformed the way businesses interact with each other and their customers. Businesses now require customized products and services to reflect their constantly changing environment, yet this r... Read More about Innovative Solutions for Implementing Global Supply Chains in Emerging Markets.

Workplace accommodation for older teachers in Japan and Germany: The role of the institutional context in supporting late career options for teachers with ill health (2016)
Journal Article
Schröder, H., Higo, M., & Flynn, M. (2016). Workplace accommodation for older teachers in Japan and Germany: The role of the institutional context in supporting late career options for teachers with ill health. management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 27(1-2), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2016-1-2-63

Owing to the ageing of their respective populations, policy-makers in Japan and Germany are challenged to extend the working life of individual employees. However, conditions of physical and mental ill health tend to increase with old age, leading to... Read More about Workplace accommodation for older teachers in Japan and Germany: The role of the institutional context in supporting late career options for teachers with ill health.

Leading the Diffusion of Intellectual Capital Management Practices in Science Parks (2016)
Book Chapter
Khavandkar, E., Theodorakopoulos, N., Hart, M., & Preston, J. (2016). Leading the Diffusion of Intellectual Capital Management Practices in Science Parks. In H. Shipton, P. Budhwar, P. Sparrow, & A. Brown (Eds.), Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance (213-231). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465191_14

This chapter discusses how leadership interventions in science parks can promote the diffusion of intellectual capital management (ICM) practices. It focuses on how operationalisation of the different social interactions leads to the accommodation of... Read More about Leading the Diffusion of Intellectual Capital Management Practices in Science Parks.

Complexity and information systems: The emergent domain (2016)
Book Chapter
Merali, Y. (2016). Complexity and information systems: The emergent domain. In L. Willcocks, C. Sauer, & M. Lacity (Eds.), Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems (251-281). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29272-4_8

This paper is concerned with the emergence of the information systems (IS) domain as a central feature of the management research landscape in the networked world. It shows that the emergence of the network economy and network society (Castells, 1996... Read More about Complexity and information systems: The emergent domain.

Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise (2016)
Book
Saxena, G. (2016). Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784710880

Gunjan Saxena seeks to encourage a fuller understanding of rural tourism marketing by uncovering the lived experiences and enterprise of different actor groups as they respond to the impact of tourism on their communities and cultural identities. In... Read More about Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise.

Comprometimento organizacional: questões que cercam sua natureza e os seus limites conceituais (2016)
Journal Article
Menezes, I. G., Aguiar, C. V. N., & Bastos, A. V. B. (2016). Comprometimento organizacional: questões que cercam sua natureza e os seus limites conceituais. Psicologia em revista, 22(3), 768-789. https://doi.org/10.5752/p.1678-9523.2016v22n3p768

Organizational commitment, although one of the most investigated phenomena in the field of organizational behavior, may still be considered as a multifaceted and polysemous construct. This work aims to present the complexity and dispersion that revol... Read More about Comprometimento organizacional: questões que cercam sua natureza e os seus limites conceituais.

Welfare and distributional impacts of financial liberalization in an open economy : lessons from a multi-sectoral dynamic CGE model for Nepal (2016)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K. (2016). Welfare and distributional impacts of financial liberalization in an open economy : lessons from a multi-sectoral dynamic CGE model for Nepal. International Business Research, 10(1), 181-198. https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v10n1p181

By equalizing rates of return across sectors, financial liberalization improves efficiency and equalizes the distribution of income. Efficiency gained in the allocation of resources increases capital usage more in previously heavily repressed sectors... Read More about Welfare and distributional impacts of financial liberalization in an open economy : lessons from a multi-sectoral dynamic CGE model for Nepal.

Effects of uncertainty on a tire closed-loop supply chain network (2016)
Journal Article
Amin, S. H., Zhang, G., & Akhtar, P. (2017). Effects of uncertainty on a tire closed-loop supply chain network. Expert Systems with Applications, 73, 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.12.024

In a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) network, there are both forward and reverse supply chains. In this research, a tire remanufacturing CLSC network is designed and optimized based on tire recovery options. The objective of the optimization model is... Read More about Effects of uncertainty on a tire closed-loop supply chain network.

Building relationship innovation in global collaborative partnerships : big data analytics and traditional organizational powers (2016)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., Khan, Z., Rao-Nicholson, R., & Zhang, M. (2019). Building relationship innovation in global collaborative partnerships : big data analytics and traditional organizational powers. R&D Management, 49(1), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12253

This study examines how relationship innovation can be developed in global collaborative partnerships (alliances, joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions). The recently emerging theory of big data analytics linked with traditional organizational po... Read More about Building relationship innovation in global collaborative partnerships : big data analytics and traditional organizational powers.

What meaning for sustainability? The role of tourism academics in securing impact (2016)
Journal Article
Correia, F. (2017). What meaning for sustainability? The role of tourism academics in securing impact. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 9(2), 224-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2016.1258511

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. CONTEXT: This section of the journal encourages discussion between several authors on a policy-related topic. The same question may, therefore, be addressed from different theoretical, c... Read More about What meaning for sustainability? The role of tourism academics in securing impact.

Macroeconomic impacts of fiscal policy shocks in the UK : a DSGE analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., & Trzeciakiewicz, D. (2017). Macroeconomic impacts of fiscal policy shocks in the UK : a DSGE analysis. Economic modelling, 61, 321-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2016.10.012

This paper develops and estimates a new-Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for the analysis of fiscal policy in the UK. We find that government consumption and investment yield the highest GDP multipliers in the short-run,... Read More about Macroeconomic impacts of fiscal policy shocks in the UK : a DSGE analysis.

The Evolution of the Industry Structure (2016)
Book Chapter
Pearson, R. (2017). The Evolution of the Industry Structure. In G. Jones, & N.-V. Haueter (Eds.), Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming (70-91). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198754916.003.0003

Chapter 3 provides a historical overview of the reinsurance market and business development since its earliest days. It covers not only dedicated reinsurers but also other market participants, such as brokers and first insurers’ risk sharing through... Read More about The Evolution of the Industry Structure.

The weaker pound is a mixed bag for UK PLC as rivals move to adapt (2016)
Newspaper / Magazine
Andrikopoulos, T., & Dassiou, X. (2016). The weaker pound is a mixed bag for UK PLC as rivals move to adapt

The conventional wisdom about a falling currency and exports fails to acknowledge some fundamental points. Our research highlights that such analysis typically does not account for the existence and nature of a company’s competition, domestically and... Read More about The weaker pound is a mixed bag for UK PLC as rivals move to adapt.

Policy Implications of Achievement Testing Using Multilevel Models: The Case of Brazilian Elementary Schools (2016)
Journal Article
Menezes, I. G., Duran, V. R., Filho, E. J. M., Veloso, T. J., Sarmento, S. M. S., Paget, C. L., & Ruggeri, K. (2016). Policy Implications of Achievement Testing Using Multilevel Models: The Case of Brazilian Elementary Schools. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1727. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01727

Large-scale educational assessment has been established as source of descriptive, evaluative and interpretative information that influence educational policies worldwide throughout the last third of the twentieth century. In the 1990s the Brazilian M... Read More about Policy Implications of Achievement Testing Using Multilevel Models: The Case of Brazilian Elementary Schools.

Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations (2016)
Journal Article
Hawkins, B., Pye, A., & Correia, F. (2017). Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations. Management Learning, 48(3), 292-310. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507616677199

This article develops an understanding of the agential role of boundary objects in generating and politicizing learning in organizations, as it emerges from the entangled actions of humans and non-humans. We offer two empirical vignettes in which mid... Read More about Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations.

Herding in frontier markets: Evidence from African stock exchanges (2016)
Journal Article
Guney, Y., Kallinterakis, V., & Komba, G. (2017). Herding in frontier markets: Evidence from African stock exchanges. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 47, 152-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2016.11.001

We investigate herding in eight African frontier stock markets between January 2002 and July 2015, given the limited evidence on herding in frontier markets. Herding appears significant throughout the 2002-2015 period for all markets, with smaller st... Read More about Herding in frontier markets: Evidence from African stock exchanges.

Intellectual Capital Management Practices, Diffusion Kinetics and Adaptation Mechanisms in Knowledge Ecosystems: The Influencing Shapers of Co-Specialization in SMEs (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khavandkar, E., Theodorakopoulos, N., & Khavand Kar, J. (2016, November). Intellectual Capital Management Practices, Diffusion Kinetics and Adaptation Mechanisms in Knowledge Ecosystems: The Influencing Shapers of Co-Specialization in SMEs. Paper presented at RENT (Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business) XXX, Antwerp, Belgium

The main objective of this paper is to explore the potential dynamics of open co-specialization in science park ecosystems, being generated by a range of co-evolution opportunities among onsite SMEs and between them and other tenants as well as other... Read More about Intellectual Capital Management Practices, Diffusion Kinetics and Adaptation Mechanisms in Knowledge Ecosystems: The Influencing Shapers of Co-Specialization in SMEs.

Talent management and a dynamic view of talent in small and medium sized enterprises (2016)
Journal Article
Krishnan, T., & Scullion, H. (2017). Talent management and a dynamic view of talent in small and medium sized enterprises. Human Resource Management Review, 27(3), 431-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmj.2016.10.003

The paper attempts to address the research gap which exists in the area of talent in SMEs, and provides a theoretical rationale for the differences in approach to talent management between large firms and SMEs.

Does the concept of 'nearporting' provide a pathway to better logistics sustainability? (2016)
Journal Article
Grant, D., & Menachof, D. (2016). Does the concept of 'nearporting' provide a pathway to better logistics sustainability?. Journal of supply chain management : research & practice / Assumption University of Thailand, 10(1), 1-11

Firms are looking for innovative solutions to become greener regarding their end-to-end supply chain emissions without incurring additional costs. This paper discusses one such solution through a simple concept of ‘nearporting’, which is the explicit... Read More about Does the concept of 'nearporting' provide a pathway to better logistics sustainability?.

Systemic evaluation of a community environmental management programme (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Foote, J., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Hepi, M., Midgley, G., & Earl-Goulet, J. Systemic evaluation of a community environmental management programme

Community environmental management (CEM) involves achieving environmental objectives through the facilitation of community partnerships, local dialogues, consultations and participative decision making. This is increasingly seen as a solution to some... Read More about Systemic evaluation of a community environmental management programme.