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Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society (2015)
Journal Article
Kreps, D., & Kimppa, K. (2015). Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society. Information Technology and People, 28(4), 726-741. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-09-2015-0223

Purpose: In this Editorial introduction the broad phases of web development – the read-only Web 1.0, the read-write Web 2.0, and the collaborative and Internet of Things Web 3.0 – are examined for the theoretical lenses through which they have been... Read More about Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society.

Is executive compensation a substitute governance mechanism to debt financing and leasing? (2015)
Journal Article
Minhat, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (2015). Is executive compensation a substitute governance mechanism to debt financing and leasing?. Applied Economics, 48(14), 1293-1302. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2015.1100247

This study examines whether and how CEO equity incentives relate to financing choices (i.e., debt and leases). Using manually collected CEO compensation and lease data for a sample of large UK firms, we found evidence of a negative relationship betwe... Read More about Is executive compensation a substitute governance mechanism to debt financing and leasing?.

Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, A., Peng, N., & Hung, K. (2015). Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate. European Journal of Marketing, 49(9/10), 1616-1644. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-03-2014-0181

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of salespeople when selling new products (namely, electronic goods) in a business-to-business context by incorporating the organizations’ perceived psychological climate into goal orien... Read More about Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate.

In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model (2015)
Journal Article
Asif, M., & McHale, I. (2016). In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model. International Journal of Forecasting, 32(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.02.005

The paper presents a model for forecasting the outcomes of One-Day International cricket matches whilst the game is in progress. Our ‘in-play’ model is dynamic, in the sense that the parameters of the underlying logistic regression model are allowed... Read More about In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model.

Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility (2015)
Journal Article
Kreps, D., & Goff, M. (2015). Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility. First Monday, 20(9), 6166-6166. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i9.6166

The focus of much academic work on Web accessibility has been concerned with the lack of implementation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. There seems, as yet, however, to have been little critical reflection on the Guidelines themselves —... Read More about Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility.

Brunel or Becks : will the future blueprint for education make aspiring to become an engineer as attractive an option as becoming a footballer? (2015)
Journal Article
Owens, J. D. (2015). Brunel or Becks : will the future blueprint for education make aspiring to become an engineer as attractive an option as becoming a footballer?

With all the media hype coming from Westminster perhaps the Great British public could be forgiven for assuming that UK Engineering is well on the road to recovery. The truth is it has never really left us, but perhaps it is the traditional face of... Read More about Brunel or Becks : will the future blueprint for education make aspiring to become an engineer as attractive an option as becoming a footballer?.

Approximate confidence intervals for moment-based estimators of the between-study variance in random effects meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
effects meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 6(4), 372-382. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1162

Moment-based estimators of the between-study variance are very popular when performing random effects meta-analyses. This type of estimation has many advantages including computational and conceptual simplicity. Furthermore, by using these estimato... Read More about Approximate confidence intervals for moment-based estimators of the between-study variance in random effects meta-analysis.

Distinguishing traditional from commercial trusts : a dangerous precedent or necessary complication? (2015)
Journal Article
Carn, M. (2015). Distinguishing traditional from commercial trusts : a dangerous precedent or necessary complication?. Trusts and Trustees, 21(8), 868-888

AIB Group (UK) plc v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors examined the issue of appropriate remedies available to a beneficiary for breach of trust. This article examines the Supreme Court’s appraisal of the leading case in this area: Target Holdings Ltd v... Read More about Distinguishing traditional from commercial trusts : a dangerous precedent or necessary complication?.

An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & McHale, I. (2015). An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf. Journal of Applied Statistics, 43(3), 387-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2015.1043869

We describe a model to obtain strengths and rankings of players appearing in golf's Ryder Cup. Obtaining rankings is complicated because of two reasons. First, competitors do not compete on an equal number of occasions, with some competitors appearin... Read More about An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf.

Unleashing corporate communications via social media : a UK study of brand management and conversations with customers (2015)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., & McLean, R. (2015). Unleashing corporate communications via social media : a UK study of brand management and conversations with customers. Journal of Customer Behaviour, 14(2), 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1362/147539215X14373846805789

This paper reports on a small-scale UK based study that explores the impact of social media adoption and use on corporate communications and brand image. The study was structured around an empirical research study including discourse and textual anal... Read More about Unleashing corporate communications via social media : a UK study of brand management and conversations with customers.

CRM in a German multichannel retailing company : investigating and evaluating the sales people’s roles (2015)
Journal Article
Rashid, T., & Patten, E. CRM in a German multichannel retailing company : investigating and evaluating the sales people’s roles. Manuscript submitted for publication

2013 is the 20th birth-year of the World Wide Web, probably the most important technological invention since Gutenberg’s letterpress. It has enormous impact on people’s lives. In Germany, where bricks and mortar sales have stagnated over the last few... Read More about CRM in a German multichannel retailing company : investigating and evaluating the sales people’s roles.

Crises, economic integration and growth collapses in African countries (2015)
Journal Article
Ali, A., & Imai, K. (2015). Crises, economic integration and growth collapses in African countries. Journal of African Economies, 24(4), 471-501. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejv010

The objective of this article is to explore the effects of crises and openness on a large sample of African countries. Focusing on sudden stops, currency, twin and sovereign debt crises, the article shows that crises are associated with growth collap... Read More about Crises, economic integration and growth collapses in African countries.

Does the factor theory of satisfaction explain political voting behaviour? (2015)
Journal Article
Schofield, P., & Reeves, P. (2015). Does the factor theory of satisfaction explain political voting behaviour?. European Journal of Marketing, 49(5/6), 968-992. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-08-2014-0524

Purpose: This paper aims to explain voter perceptions and voting behaviour in the 2010 UK General Election on the basis of this theory, by evaluating the differential impact of government performance on key political issues defined as hierarchical vo... Read More about Does the factor theory of satisfaction explain political voting behaviour?.

Enterprise cultural heritage : The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival for food sector SMEs (2015)
Journal Article
Aaltonen, S., Heinze, A., Ielpa, G., & De Tommaso, D. (2015). Enterprise cultural heritage : The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival for food sector SMEs. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 16(2), 73-83. https://doi.org/10.5367/ijei.2015.0178

Remaining in business and growing is a challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the food sector. The focus of this paper is the internal innovation avenue for SMEs that have been trading for decades and have developed the asset of e... Read More about Enterprise cultural heritage : The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival for food sector SMEs.

Some insights into the effect of maintenance quality for a protection system (2015)
Journal Article
Berrade, M., Scarf, P., & Cavalcante, C. (2015). Some insights into the effect of maintenance quality for a protection system. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 64(2), 661-672. https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.2015.2417431

This paper considers an inspection and preventive replacement policy for a one-component protection or cold standby system. Inspection is imperfect, and subject to false positives and negatives; preventive replacement may also be of poor quality. W... Read More about Some insights into the effect of maintenance quality for a protection system.

Diners’ loyalty toward luxury restaurants : The moderating role of product knowledge (2015)
Journal Article
Peng, N., & Chen, A. (2015). Diners’ loyalty toward luxury restaurants : The moderating role of product knowledge. Marketing Intelligence and Planning, 33(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1108/MIP-03-2014-0049

Purpose: Consumers dine at luxury restaurants for reasons beyond fulfilling basic needs; however, little is known about the factors that contribute to diners’ loyalty. The purpose of this paper is to examine diners’ luxury restaurant consumption beha... Read More about Diners’ loyalty toward luxury restaurants : The moderating role of product knowledge.

Beyond completion rate : evaluating the passing ability of footballers (2015)
Journal Article
Szczepański, Ł., & McHale, I. (2016). Beyond completion rate : evaluating the passing ability of footballers. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 179(2), 513-533. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12115

Passing the ball is one of the key skills of a football player yet the metrics commonly used to evaluate passing ability are crude and largely limited to various forms of a pass completion rate. These metrics can be misleading for two general reasons... Read More about Beyond completion rate : evaluating the passing ability of footballers.

Obelix vs. Asterix : size of US commercial banks and its regulatory challenge (2015)
Journal Article
Restrepo-Tobón, D., Kumbhakar, S., & Sun, K. (2015). Obelix vs. Asterix : size of US commercial banks and its regulatory challenge. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 48(2), 125-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11149-015-9275-1

Big banks pose substantial costs to society in the form of increased systemic risk and government bailouts during crises. So the question is: Should regulators limit the size of banks? To answer this question, regulators need to assess the potential... Read More about Obelix vs. Asterix : size of US commercial banks and its regulatory challenge.