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Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal (2018)
Journal Article
He, X.-Z., Li, K., & Li, Y. (2018). Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 91, 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2018.02.004

To capture the well documented time series momentum and reversal in asset price, we develop a continuous-time asset price model, derive the optimal investment strategy theoretically, and test the strategy empirically. We show that, by combining marke... Read More about Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal.

Selecting decision-relevant ethical product attributes for grocery shopping (2018)
Journal Article
Hasanzade, V., Osburg, V.-S., & Toporowski, W. (2018). Selecting decision-relevant ethical product attributes for grocery shopping. Management Decision, 56(3), 591-609. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-12-2016-0946

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Despite the existence of various approaches for promoting ethical consumption, it remains a challenge to determine which ethical product features are actually decision relevant for consumers. Based on the... Read More about Selecting decision-relevant ethical product attributes for grocery shopping.

A review of service quality and service delivery: Towards a customer co-production and customer-integration approach (2018)
Journal Article
Alzaydi, Z. M., Al-Hajla, A., Nguyen, B., & Jayawardhena, C. (2018). A review of service quality and service delivery: Towards a customer co-production and customer-integration approach. Business process management journal, 24(1), 295-328. https://doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-09-2016-0185

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide researchers with an overview of the service quality and delivery domain, focussing on the inclusion of customer co-production and customer integration. Specifically,... Read More about A review of service quality and service delivery: Towards a customer co-production and customer-integration approach.

Questionable research practices in academia: antecedents and consequences (2018)
Journal Article
Grant, D. B., Kovács, G., & Spens, K. (2018). Questionable research practices in academia: antecedents and consequences. European Business Review, 30(2), 101-127. https://doi.org/10.1108/ebr-12-2016-0155

Purpose This paper is a viewpoint and its objective is to discuss questionable research practices in business research, particularly in the logistics and supply chain management discipline, in light of antecedents influenced by the current academic e... Read More about Questionable research practices in academia: antecedents and consequences.

Exploring perceptions of advertising ethics: an informant-derived approach (2018)
Journal Article
Shabbir, H. A., Maalouf, H., Griessmair, M., Colmekcioglu, N., & Akhtar, P. (2018). Exploring perceptions of advertising ethics: an informant-derived approach. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3784-7

Whilst considerable research exists on determining consumer responses to pre-determined statements within numerous ad ethics contexts, our understanding of consumer thoughts regarding ad ethics in general remains lacking. The purpose of our study the... Read More about Exploring perceptions of advertising ethics: an informant-derived approach.

Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data (2018)
Journal Article
Ullah, S., Akhtar, P., & Zaefarian, G. (2018). Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data. Industrial marketing management, 71, 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.11.010

Endogeneity bias can lead to inconsistent estimates and incorrect inferences, which may provide misleading conclusions and inappropriate theoretical interpretations. Sometimes such bias can even lead to coefficients having the wrong sign. Although th... Read More about Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data.

Financial stress relationships among Euro area countries: an R-vine copula approach (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, D., Yan, M., & Tsopanakis, A. (2018). Financial stress relationships among Euro area countries: an R-vine copula approach. The European journal of finance, 24(17), 1587-1608. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2017.1419273

One of the biggest challenges of keeping Euro area financial stability is the negative co-movement between the vulnerability of public finance, the financial sector, security markets stresses as well as economic growth, especially in peripheral econo... Read More about Financial stress relationships among Euro area countries: an R-vine copula approach.

Risk adjusted momentum strategies: A comparison between constant and dynamic volatility scaling approaches (2018)
Journal Article
Fan, M., Li, Y., & Liu, J. (2018). Risk adjusted momentum strategies: A comparison between constant and dynamic volatility scaling approaches. Research in international business and finance, 46, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.12.004

We compare the performance of two volatility scaling methods in momentum strategies: (i) the constant volatility scaling approach of Barroso and Santa-Clara (2015), and (ii) the dynamic volatility scaling method of Daniel and Moskowitz (2016). We per... Read More about Risk adjusted momentum strategies: A comparison between constant and dynamic volatility scaling approaches.

Lost in delegation? (Dis)organizing for sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
Allen, S., Brigham, M., & Marshall, J. (2018). Lost in delegation? (Dis)organizing for sustainability. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 34(1), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2017.11.002

Using actor-networks as our conceptual lens for appreciating complex sociomaterial interdependencies, we explore how a vision to “do things differently” for sustainability becomes enacted and significantly diluted at a major brownfield development pr... Read More about Lost in delegation? (Dis)organizing for sustainability.

The culpability of accounting practice in promoting bribery and corruption in developing countries (2017)
Journal Article
Khair, A. H. A., Lauwo, S., & Otusanya, O. J. (2017). The culpability of accounting practice in promoting bribery and corruption in developing countries. International Journal of Economics and Accounting, 8(2), 106. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijea.2017.089387

Bribery and corruption are increasing in the developing countries. It has been estimated that some $400 billion of bribe is paid to political elite in developing countries. Such huge amounts of money cannot be successfully executed without the active... Read More about The culpability of accounting practice in promoting bribery and corruption in developing countries.

Attitude of nurses and predisposition to occurrence of adverse events in intensive care units (2017)
Journal Article
Lobão, W., & Menezes, I. G. (2017). Attitude of nurses and predisposition to occurrence of adverse events in intensive care units. Journal of Nursing UFPE on line, 11(5), 1971-1979. https://doi.org/10.5205/1981-8963-v11i5a23350p1971-1979-2017

Objective: to evaluate the attitudes of nurses towards conditions that may predispose to the occurrence of adverse events in the ICU. Method: exploratory, analytical, descriptive, cross-sectional study with quantitative approach performed in six high... Read More about Attitude of nurses and predisposition to occurrence of adverse events in intensive care units.

U.S. stocks in the presence of oil price risk: Large cap vs. small cap (2017)
Journal Article
Swaray, R., Salisu, A. A., & Oloko, T. (2017). U.S. stocks in the presence of oil price risk: Large cap vs. small cap. Economics and business letters, 6(4), 116-124. https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.6.4.2017.116-124

This study queries the act of making generalization about the dynamics of returns and volatility spillovers between oil price and U.S. stocks by merely considering only large cap stocks. It argues that this kind of generalization may be misleading, a... Read More about U.S. stocks in the presence of oil price risk: Large cap vs. small cap.

Decision making for personal investment: Real estate financing, foreclosures and other issues (2017)
Book
Rodgers, W., & McFarlin, T. G. (2017). Decision making for personal investment: Real estate financing, foreclosures and other issues. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47849-4

This book presents a personal financial decision making model based on six dominant decision making pathways. It outlines each pathway in detail before focusing on real estate investments in the second part of the book. Based on the authors extensive... Read More about Decision making for personal investment: Real estate financing, foreclosures and other issues.

Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research (2017)
Journal Article
Fazey, I., Schäpke, N., Caniglia, G., Patterson, J., Hultman, J., van Mierlo, B., Säwe, F., Wiek, A., Wittmayer, J., Aldunce, P., Al Waer, H., Battacharya, N., Bradbury, H., Carmen, E., Colvin, J., Cvitanovic, C., D'Souza, M., Gopel, M., Goldstein, B., Hämäläinen, T., …Wyborn, C. (2018). Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research. Energy research & social science ERSS, 40, 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.026

The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, however, will require massive ups... Read More about Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research.

Tinker, tailor, policy-maker: can the UK government’s teaching excellence framework deliver its objectives? (2017)
Journal Article
Barkas, L. A., Scott, J. M., Poppitt, N. J., & Smith, P. J. (2019). Tinker, tailor, policy-maker: can the UK government’s teaching excellence framework deliver its objectives?. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(6), 801-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2017.1408789

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), originally proposed in the UK government’s Higher Education White Paper, now the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, is a national mechanism to assess teaching quality in universities. This article provide... Read More about Tinker, tailor, policy-maker: can the UK government’s teaching excellence framework deliver its objectives?.

Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange (2017)
Journal Article
Hsieh, T. H., Li, Y., McKillop, D. G., & Wu, Y. (2018). Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange. International review of financial analysis, 56, 12-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.006

We study liquidity on the London Stock Exchange. We find that the average bid-ask spread declines, but that the skewness of the spread increases. These results are robust to firm size, trading volume and price level. Our findings hold when the bid-as... Read More about Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange.

Founders and board structure: evidence from UK IPO firms (2017)
Journal Article
Wu, C. Y.-H., & Hsu, H. H. (2018). Founders and board structure: evidence from UK IPO firms. International review of financial analysis, 56, 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.002

This study investigates whether a company's founders affect the combination of executive, grey and independent directors on its board at the time of initial public offering (IPO) in the UK. Particularly, we analyse how venture capitalists are associa... Read More about Founders and board structure: evidence from UK IPO firms.

Critical performativity in the field: Methodological principles for activist ethnographers (2017)
Journal Article
Reedy, P. C., & King, D. R. (2019). Critical performativity in the field: Methodological principles for activist ethnographers. Organizational Research Methods, 22(2), 564-589. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428117744881

© The Author(s) 2017. It has been proposed that engagement with activism might make critical organizational scholarship more relevant to practitioners. However, there is a lack of systematic inquiry into how such engagement might be undertaken, which... Read More about Critical performativity in the field: Methodological principles for activist ethnographers.

Fighting money laundering with technology: a case study of Bank X in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Demetis, D. S. (2018). Fighting money laundering with technology: a case study of Bank X in the UK. Decision Support Systems, 105, 96-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.11.005

This paper presents a longitudinal interpretive case study of a UK bank’s efforts to combat Money Laundering (ML) by expanding the scope of its profiling of ML behaviour. The concept of structural coupling, taken from systems theory, is used to refle... Read More about Fighting money laundering with technology: a case study of Bank X in the UK.