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Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience (2017)
Book Chapter
Lowe, D., Oliver, P., Midgley, G., & Yearworth, M. (2018). Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience. In A. M. Madni, B. Boehm, R. G. Ghanem, D. Erwin, & M. J. Wheaton (Eds.), Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research (765-776). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_53

© Springer International Publishing AG 2018. All rights are reserved. In 2014, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory developed and implemented a novel approach to assess the system by which the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence delivers infr... Read More about Evaluating how system health assessment can trigger anticipatory action for resilience.

CEO compensation and sustainability reporting assurance: Evidence from the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Shaer, H., & Zaman, M. (2017). CEO compensation and sustainability reporting assurance: Evidence from the UK. Journal of Business Ethics, 158(1), 233–252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3735-8

© 2017 The Author(s) Companies are expected to monitor sustainable behaviour to help improve performance, enhance reputation and increase chances of survival. This paper examines the relationship between sustainability committees and independent exte... Read More about CEO compensation and sustainability reporting assurance: Evidence from the UK.

Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research (2017)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research. European journal of operational research, 268(3), 1178-1191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.032

Community Operational Research (Community OR), and its disciplinary relation, Community-Based Operations Research, has an increasingly high profile within multiple domains that benefit from empirical and analytic approaches to problem solving. These... Read More about Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research.

An examination of the ‘rule of law’ and ‘justice’ implications in Online Dispute Resolution in construction projects (2017)
Journal Article
Ojiako, U., Chipulu, M., Marshall, A., & Williams, T. (2018). An examination of the ‘rule of law’ and ‘justice’ implications in Online Dispute Resolution in construction projects. International journal of project management, 36(2), 301-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.10.002

This paper examines the ‘rule of law’ and ‘justice’ implications of using Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platforms as technology-mediated interfaces for small claim dispute resolution in construction projects. Data is obtained from a questionnaire s... Read More about An examination of the ‘rule of law’ and ‘justice’ implications in Online Dispute Resolution in construction projects.

The role of aesthetics and design in hotelscape: A phenomenological investigation of cosmopolitan consumers (2017)
Journal Article
Alfakhri, D., Harness, D., Nicholson, J., & Harness, T. (2018). The role of aesthetics and design in hotelscape: A phenomenological investigation of cosmopolitan consumers. Journal of business research, 85, 523-531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.031

Should aesthetics and design be viewed as strategic marketing tools? We argue in this paper there are currently limited frameworks and empirical evidence to help - should this be the ambition of marketers? We propose a hotelscape as a holistic evolut... Read More about The role of aesthetics and design in hotelscape: A phenomenological investigation of cosmopolitan consumers.

Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt (2017)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., Haughton, J. H., & Tuerck, D. (2017). Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt. 00 Journal not listed, 20-21

Reforming the tax system of the US has become a major policy agenda of the Trump administration. After months of negotiations the “Big Six”, including the Treasury Secretary, National Economic Director, Republicans in the House and the Senate are gra... Read More about Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt.

Service multinational enterprises and linkages development in Pakistan (2017)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Park, J.-Y., & Akhtar, P. (2018). Service multinational enterprises and linkages development in Pakistan. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 35(3), 473-487. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1457

The development of various types of linkages is key for understanding the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on the economic development of host markets. By utilizing qualitative research approach, this paper investigates the linkages creatio... Read More about Service multinational enterprises and linkages development in Pakistan.

Bridging the gaps in employee colunteering: Why the third sector doesn't always win (2017)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Burchell, J. (2018). Bridging the gaps in employee colunteering: Why the third sector doesn't always win. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(1), 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764017734649

Employee Volunteering (EV) schemes represent a cornerstone of many company Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies, being identified as a classic “win-win” situation in which businesses contribute significant resources into local communities... Read More about Bridging the gaps in employee colunteering: Why the third sector doesn't always win.

Modelling the factors that influence the acceptance of digital technologies in e-government services in the UAE: a PLS-SEM approach (2017)
Journal Article
Jasimuddin, S. M., Mishra, N., & A. Saif Almuraqab, N. (2017). Modelling the factors that influence the acceptance of digital technologies in e-government services in the UAE: a PLS-SEM approach. Production planning & control, 28(16), 1307-1317. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2017.1375144

The digital technologies such as internet play a crucial role in the management of operations of organizations in both public and private sectors. Such technologies support the implementation of effective digital business strategies. By reviewing the... Read More about Modelling the factors that influence the acceptance of digital technologies in e-government services in the UAE: a PLS-SEM approach.

Firm performance, corporate governance and executive compensation in Pakistan (2017)
Journal Article
Sheikh, M. F., Shah, S. Z. A., & Akbar, S. (2018). Firm performance, corporate governance and executive compensation in Pakistan. Applied economics, 50(18), 2012-2027. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1386277

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This study examines the effects of firm performance and corporate governance on chief executive officer (CEO) compensation in an emerging market, Pakistan. Using a more robust Generalized... Read More about Firm performance, corporate governance and executive compensation in Pakistan.

Cyclical co-movements of private real estate, public real estate and equity markets: a cross-continental spectrum (2017)
Journal Article
Devaney, S., & Xiao, Q. (2017). Cyclical co-movements of private real estate, public real estate and equity markets: a cross-continental spectrum. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 42-43, 132-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2017.10.002

Whether returns from investing in real estate shares reflect equity market or real estate market trends is an important question for investors seeking liquid, low cost exposure to real estate. We consider the relationship between real estate shares,... Read More about Cyclical co-movements of private real estate, public real estate and equity markets: a cross-continental spectrum.

Transition towards sustainability in Hull University Business School: A study of curricular sustainability in the teaching processes (2017)
Book Chapter
Murga-Menoyo, M. Á., Correia, F., & Espinosa, Á. (2018). Transition towards sustainability in Hull University Business School: A study of curricular sustainability in the teaching processes. In W. Leal Filho (Ed.), Handbook of sustainability science and research (783-802). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63007-6_48

The transition to sustainable development has become a strategic line of action that increasingly finds links to the quality of higher education (HE). A growing number of HE accreditation agencies include sustainability as a criterion for their stand... Read More about Transition towards sustainability in Hull University Business School: A study of curricular sustainability in the teaching processes.

Test of recent advances in extracting information from option prices (2017)
Journal Article
Healy, J. V., Gregoriou, A., & Hudson, R. (2018). Test of recent advances in extracting information from option prices. International review of financial analysis, 56, 292-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.09.011

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. A large literature exists on techniques for extracting probability distributions for future asset prices from option prices. No definitive method has been developed however. The parametric 'mixture of normals', and non-parametric... Read More about Test of recent advances in extracting information from option prices.

Fitness voter model: damped oscillations and anomalous consensus (2017)
Journal Article
Woolcock, A., Connaughton, C., Merali, Y., & Vazquez, F. (2017). Fitness voter model: damped oscillations and anomalous consensus. Physical Review E, 96(3), Article 032144. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.96.032313

We study the dynamics of opinion formation in a heterogeneous voter model on a complete graph, in which each agent is endowed with an integer fitness parameter k ≥ 0, in addition to its + or − opinion state. The evolution of the distribution of k–val... Read More about Fitness voter model: damped oscillations and anomalous consensus.

The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals (2017)
Journal Article
Haughton, J., Bachman, P., Bhattarai, K., & Tuerck, D. G. (2017). The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals. Atlantic Economic Journal, 45(4), 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-017-9554-6

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the Democratic and Republican candidates for President of the U.S. in 2016, proposed several changes in the federal tax code. Hillary Clinton would add a personal income tax surcharge of 4% on high annual incomes, li... Read More about The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals.

The core value compass: visually evaluating the goodness of brands that do good (2017)
Journal Article
Yoganathan, V., McLeay, F., Osburg, V.-S., & Hart, D. (2018). The core value compass: visually evaluating the goodness of brands that do good. Journal of Brand Management, 25(1), 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41262-017-0074-0

Brands that do good for the society as well as for themselves are motivated by the core values they espouse, which necessitates a better understanding of what qualities a true core value must possess. The inherent tension within brands that do good,... Read More about The core value compass: visually evaluating the goodness of brands that do good.

Tax plan debates in the US presidential election : a dynamic CGE analysis of growth and redistribution trade-offs (2017)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., Bachman, P., Conte, F., Haughton, J., Head, M., & Tuerck, D. G. (2018). Tax plan debates in the US presidential election : a dynamic CGE analysis of growth and redistribution trade-offs. Economic modelling, 68, 529-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.08.031

The two major candidates in the 2016 presidential election made sharply different proposals for reforming the Federal tax code. Donald Trump proposed cutting taxes to provide “tax relief for middle-class Americans”, and lowering corporation taxes to... Read More about Tax plan debates in the US presidential election : a dynamic CGE analysis of growth and redistribution trade-offs.

Academic activism, radical ethnography and the critical scholar (2017)
Journal Article
Reedy, P., & King, D. (2017). Academic activism, radical ethnography and the critical scholar. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 13499. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.13499abstract

It has been proposed that engagement with activism might make critical organizational scholarship more relevant to practitioners. However, there are few examples of such engagement and thus a lack of systematic inquiry into how it might be undertaken... Read More about Academic activism, radical ethnography and the critical scholar.

Archaeological tourism : a creative approach (2017)
Journal Article
Ross, D., Saxena, G., Correia, F., & Deutz, P. (2017). Archaeological tourism : a creative approach. Annals of Tourism Research, 67, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.08.001

This theoretical paper conceptualises the role of tourism providers in facilitating creative tourism experiences by focusing on their ingenious enterprise, which we argue can help capture the tourism potential of intangible archaeological heritage. I... Read More about Archaeological tourism : a creative approach.

Chain coordinators’ strategic leadership and coordination effectiveness: New Zealand-Euro agri-food supply chains (2017)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., Kaur, S., & Punjaisri, K. (2017). Chain coordinators’ strategic leadership and coordination effectiveness: New Zealand-Euro agri-food supply chains. European Business Review, 29(5), 515-533. https://doi.org/10.1108/ebr-08-2015-0082

Purpose – Although suitable leadership is crucial for chain coordinators (CEOs, managing directors and heads of departments) to achieve the effectiveness of supply chain coordination (operational and social performances contributing to financial perf... Read More about Chain coordinators’ strategic leadership and coordination effectiveness: New Zealand-Euro agri-food supply chains.