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Perceptions of justice and organisational commitment in international mergers and acquisitions (2017)
Journal Article
Gomes, E., Mellahi, K., Sahadev, S., & Harvey, A. (2017). Perceptions of justice and organisational commitment in international mergers and acquisitions. International Marketing Review, 34(5), 582-605. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-02-2014-0046

Purpose: Although there is substantial and accumulating evidence on the link between market entry modes and performance, evidence regarding their impact on employee
perceptions and thereby their commitment is scarce. This is more so in mergers and a... Read More about Perceptions of justice and organisational commitment in international mergers and acquisitions.

Degree and higher level apprenticeships : an empirical investigation of stakeholder perceptions of challenges and opportunities (2017)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper is to explore the challenges and opportunities of designing and delivering Degree and Higher Level Apprenticeships (D&HLAs) at levels 4 - 7 from a multi-stakeholder perspective namely employers, Universities, independent trainin... Read More about Degree and higher level apprenticeships : an empirical investigation of stakeholder perceptions of challenges and opportunities.

Can knowledge be retained in organisational networks? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Abualqumboz, M., Reid, I., Papalexi, M., & Bamford, D. (2017, September). Can knowledge be retained in organisational networks?. Presented at ECKM2017 - European Conference on Knowledge Management, Barcelona, Spain

Taking a constructivist view of knowledge where knowledge is viewed as a process of knowing, the literature on knowledge sharing assumes that knowledge can be retained through being embedded in institutional routines, structures, and systems. However... Read More about Can knowledge be retained in organisational networks?.

e-Agriculture revisited : a systematic literature review of theories, concept, practices, methods, and future trends (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agriculture is one of the dominant fields that shape the socioeconomic development of any country. Technological advancements and innovations served as tools to share knowledge and practices of agricultural activities and make better lives for farmer... Read More about e-Agriculture revisited : a systematic literature review of theories, concept, practices, methods, and future trends.

Predicting numbers of successful new products to launch using soft computing techniques : a case of firms from manufacturing sector industries (2017)
Journal Article
Bhatnagar, V., Majhi, R., & Sahadev, S. (2020). Predicting numbers of successful new products to launch using soft computing techniques : a case of firms from manufacturing sector industries. Journal of King Saud University (Computer and Information Sciences), 32(2), 254-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2017.08.006

Predicting numbers of new products to be launched by the firms in a particular time period is considered as the most mystified and strategically important decision. Importance of this aspect could be realized by looking at the low success rate of new... Read More about Predicting numbers of successful new products to launch using soft computing techniques : a case of firms from manufacturing sector industries.

Coping with demand volatility in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data exploration (2017)
Journal Article
aid of big data exploration. Computers and Operations Research, 98, 343-354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2017.08.009

Data management tools and analytics have provided managers with the opportunity to contemplate inventory performance as an ongoing activity by no longer examining
only data agglomerated from ERP systems, but also, considering internet information de... Read More about Coping with demand volatility in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data exploration.

The spillover effects of innovative ideas on human capital (2017)
Journal Article
Alpaslan, B., & Ali, A. (2017). The spillover effects of innovative ideas on human capital. Review of Development Economics, 22(1), 333-360. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12344

This paper extends a two-period overlapping generations model of endogenous growth where the interactions between public infrastructure and human capital with research and development (R&D) activities and growth are studied. The paper makes two impor... Read More about The spillover effects of innovative ideas on human capital.

Normalising jurisdictional heterotopias through place branding : the cases of Christiania and Metelkova (2017)
Journal Article

This paper explores the political dimensions of place branding as a path to normalisation for areas where
a paradoxical relationship with the law exists, places that we coin “jurisdictional heterotopias” borrowing
from Foucauldian literature. We po... Read More about Normalising jurisdictional heterotopias through place branding : the cases of Christiania and Metelkova.

Institutions and the Diversity and Prevalence of Multinationals’ Knowledge‐Augmenting Subsidiaries (2017)
Journal Article

Multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly seek to gain access to, and exploit, locationally specific sources of advanced knowledge and technological capabilities, creating a need to explain (1) the diversity among these facilities and (2) how ins... Read More about Institutions and the Diversity and Prevalence of Multinationals’ Knowledge‐Augmenting Subsidiaries.

Customer relationship management processes in the Nigerian retail banking sector (2017)
Thesis
Abubakar, M. Customer relationship management processes in the Nigerian retail banking sector. (Thesis). University of Salford

The acceptance and wide adoption of relationship management strategies stem from the strategic competitive advantage(s) associated with an excellent customer-bank relationship. Similarly, its acceptance by big organisations and its subsequent perform... Read More about Customer relationship management processes in the Nigerian retail banking sector.

Event count distributions from renewal processes : fast computation of probabilities (2017)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & Kharrat, T. (2017). Event count distributions from renewal processes : fast computation of probabilities. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 29(4), 415-433. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpx008

Discrete distributions derived from renewal processes, i.e. distributions of the number of events by some time t are beginning to be used in management science, econometrics and health sciences. A new fast method is presented for computation of the p... Read More about Event count distributions from renewal processes : fast computation of probabilities.

Meta-analysis of tumour burden in pre-operative axillary ultrasound positive and negative breast cancer patients (2017)
Journal Article
Ahmed, M., Jozsa, F., Baker, R., Rubio, I., Benson, J., & Douek, M. (2017). Meta-analysis of tumour burden in pre-operative axillary ultrasound positive and negative breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 166(2), 329-336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-017-4405-3

Management of the axilla in breast cancer is becoming increasingly conservative. Patients identified with a low axillary nodal burden (two or fewer involved nodes) at sentinel node biopsy (SNB) can avoid completion axillary node clearance (cANC). 'Fa... Read More about Meta-analysis of tumour burden in pre-operative axillary ultrasound positive and negative breast cancer patients.

An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Papanagnou, C., & Matthews-Amune, O. (2017, July). An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics. Presented at 19th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece

The unpredictability of consumer preference observed
in the last few years has coincided with the global digital
data explosion as consumers are increasingly relying on internet
information to guide their buying behaviour. The emergence of
this t... Read More about An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics.

Credit supply constraints and financial policies of listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Akbar, S., Rehman, S., Liu, J., & Shah, S. (2017). Credit supply constraints and financial policies of listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. Research in International Business and Finance, 42, 559-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.001

This study examines the effects of lending constraints on the financial policies of UK publicly listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. Using a sample of 2039 publicly listed firms, the results of our
analysis indicate that financial... Read More about Credit supply constraints and financial policies of listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis.

CEO compensation and banks’ risk-taking during pre and post financial crisis periods (2017)
Journal Article
Shah, S., Akbar, S., Liu, J., Liu, Z., & Cao, S. (2017). CEO compensation and banks’ risk-taking during pre and post financial crisis periods. Research in International Business and Finance, 42, 1489-1503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.089

This study examines the impact of CEO compensation on banks’ risk during both pre and post-financial crisis periods. Our results suggest a negative relationship between CEO bonuses and banks’ risk in the pre-financial crisis period. Similarly, restri... Read More about CEO compensation and banks’ risk-taking during pre and post financial crisis periods.

Social media in a Corbyn led Labour Party : some discussion points (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Reeves, P. (2017, July). Social media in a Corbyn led Labour Party : some discussion points. Presented at Academy of Marketing Conference 2017, Hull University, UK

This working paper acts a discussion piece to inform a conceptual paper currently under
development. The research purpose is to explore how effectively (with the election of Jeremy
Corbyn as leader) social media strategy is being used by the Labour... Read More about Social media in a Corbyn led Labour Party : some discussion points.

Data analytic approach for manipulation detection in stock market (2017)
Journal Article
Zhai, J., Cao, Y., & Ding, X. (2018). Data analytic approach for manipulation detection in stock market. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 50(3), 897-932. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-017-0650-0

The term “price manipulation” is used to describe the actions of “rogue” traders who employ carefully designed trading tactics to incur equity prices up or down to make profit. Such activities damage the proper functioning, integrity, and stability o... Read More about Data analytic approach for manipulation detection in stock market.