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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.

The effects of luxury restaurant environments on diners’ emotions and loyalty : incorporating diner expectations into an extended Mehrabian-Russell model (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, A., Peng, N., & Hung, K. (2015). The effects of luxury restaurant environments on diners’ emotions and loyalty : incorporating diner expectations into an extended Mehrabian-Russell model. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 27(2), 236-260. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-07-2013-0280

Purpose: This paper aims to examine diners’ luxury restaurant consumption behavior by incorporating diner expectations into a modified Mehrabian–Russell model. Consumers dine at luxury restaurants for reasons beyond fulfilling basic needs. However, l... Read More about The effects of luxury restaurant environments on diners’ emotions and loyalty : incorporating diner expectations into an extended Mehrabian-Russell model.

Productivity and efficiency estimation : a semiparametric stochastic cost frontier approach (2015)
Journal Article
Sun, K., Kumbhakar, S., & Tveterås, R. (2015). Productivity and efficiency estimation : a semiparametric stochastic cost frontier approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 245(1), 194-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.03.003

This paper proposes a flexible stochastic cost frontier panel data model where the technology parameters are unknown smooth functions of firm- and time-effects, which non-neutrally shift the cost frontier. The model decomposes inefficiency into firm... Read More about Productivity and efficiency estimation : a semiparametric stochastic cost frontier approach.

Managing salespeople strategically when promoting new products : incorporating market orientation into a sales management control framework (2015)
Journal Article
products : incorporating market orientation into a sales management control framework. Industrial Marketing Management, 47, 147-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.02.041

Salespeople play a pivotal role in promoting new products. Therefore, managers need to know what control mechanism (i.e., output-based control, behavior-based control, or knowledge-based control) can improve their salespeople's new product sales perf... Read More about Managing salespeople strategically when promoting new products : incorporating market orientation into a sales management control framework.

Ecstasi project : Using technology to encourage creativity in the assessment process (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kutar, M., Griffiths, M., & Wood, J. (2015, March). Ecstasi project : Using technology to encourage creativity in the assessment process. Presented at UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) 2015, Oxford, UK

The notion of creativity has attracted increasing attention in Higher Education in recent years, and is seen to be of importance in a variety of disciplines, not just those which are closely associated with the creative industries. This provides a ch... Read More about Ecstasi project : Using technology to encourage creativity in the assessment process.

Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2015). Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction. In D. Kreps (Ed.), Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (1-9). Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing

In this introduction, by way of presenting a review of the scant pre-existing literature I have been able to find which considers the work of Gramsci and Foucault together, I attempt firstly to set out a conceptual framework by which the reader may s... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction.

Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment (2015)
Book
Kreps, D., Demirovic, A., Sum, N., Schulzke, M., Gagnon, J., Sarker, S., …Gill, S. (2015). D. Kreps (Ed.), Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment. UK and US: Ashgate Publishing

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is in... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment.

The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual? (2015)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2015). The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual?. In D. Kreps (Ed.), Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (171-181). Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing

What if there were a suitably Gramscian totalizing – and scientific– approach to understanding social systems, which nonetheless escaped all the reductionist, scientistic pitfalls a deconstructive and poststructuralist Foucauldian would be wont to po... Read More about The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual?.

Impact of the shadow banking system on monetary policy in China (2015)
Journal Article
Haisen, H., & Yazdifar, H. (2015). Impact of the shadow banking system on monetary policy in China. ICTACT journal on management studies (Online), 1(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.21917/ijms.2015.0001

The shadow banking system in China has its own characteristics compared to conventional commercial banks and the foreign shadow banking system. Its emergence is important to the economic development and financial system in China. However, it also cha... Read More about Impact of the shadow banking system on monetary policy in China.

Decline and repair and covariate effects (2015)
Journal Article
Wu, S., & Scarf, P. (2015). Decline and repair and covariate effects. European Journal of Operational Research, 244(1), 219-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.01.041

The failure processes of repairable systems may be impacted by operational and environmental stress factors. To accommodate such factors, reliability can be modelled using a multiplicative intensity function. In the proportional intensity model, the... Read More about Decline and repair and covariate effects.

Reliability equivalence factors for a series–parallel system of components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes (2015)
Journal Article
Alghamdi, S., & Percy, D. (2015). Reliability equivalence factors for a series–parallel system of components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 28(3), 339-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpv001

We study reliability equivalence factors of a system of independent and identical components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes. The system has n subsystems connected in parallel and subsystem i has m_i components connected in series, i=1,...,n. We... Read More about Reliability equivalence factors for a series–parallel system of components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes.

Examining Chinese tourists’ nature-based tourism participation behavior: Incorporating environmental concern into a constraint-negotiation model (2015)
Journal Article
Peng, N., & Chen, A. (2016). Examining Chinese tourists’ nature-based tourism participation behavior: Incorporating environmental concern into a constraint-negotiation model. Tourism Analysis, 21(2-3), 189-202. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354216X14559233984737

Finding the balance between economic development and preservation of the natural environment is a challenging yet important task. This is a particularly pressing issue in the case of China, as it is the largest and fastest-growing market for tourism.... Read More about Examining Chinese tourists’ nature-based tourism participation behavior: Incorporating environmental concern into a constraint-negotiation model.