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Exploring MEH (Manager-Employee-Heterophily) in US-owned and managed plants in Taiwan (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we explores MEH (manager-employee-heterophily) and its organizational influence. MEH refers to a phenomenon in the workplace where managers and employees are from different ethnic backgrounds: the managers are typically expatriates f... Read More about Exploring MEH (Manager-Employee-Heterophily) in US-owned and managed plants in Taiwan.

Impact and Management Research: Exploring Relationships between Temporality, Dialogue, Reflexivity and Praxis (2017)
Journal Article

This paper introduces the special issue focusing on impact. We present the four papers in the special issue and synthesize their key themes, including dialogue, reflexivity and praxis. In addition, we expand on understandings of impact by exploring ho... Read More about Impact and Management Research: Exploring Relationships between Temporality, Dialogue, Reflexivity and Praxis.

Timing of earnings and capital structure (2017)
Journal Article
Miglo, A. (2017). Timing of earnings and capital structure. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 40, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2017.01.001

This paper shows that asymmetric information about the timing of earnings can affect capital structure. It sheds new light on the following issues: why profitable firms may be interested in issuing equity and why debt does not necessarily signal a fi... Read More about Timing of earnings and capital structure.

Creating new distributions by blunting cusps (2017)
Journal Article
Baker, R. (2017). Creating new distributions by blunting cusps. Statistics and Probability Letters, 124, 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2017.01.003

A simple method is proposed for `blunting' cusped distributions, ie removing the cusp. No additional parameters are required.
The method is applied to the asymmetric Laplace distribution, to the van Dorp and Kotz double-sided power distribution,
an... Read More about Creating new distributions by blunting cusps.

Social cues-customer behavior relationship : the mediating role of emotions and cognition (2017)
Journal Article
Nusairat, N., Akhorshaideh, A., Rashid, T., Sahadev, S., & Rembielak, G. (2017). Social cues-customer behavior relationship : the mediating role of emotions and cognition. International Journal of Marketing Studies, 9(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v9n1p1

This paper investigates the effect of social cues in a mall’s shopping environment on customer behavior. Two competing mediation scenarios are assessed: emotion-cognition and cognition-emotion in a stimulus-organism-response (SOR)-based framework. Al... Read More about Social cues-customer behavior relationship : the mediating role of emotions and cognition.

Management accounting and the shortcomings of current performance measurement systems (2017)
Journal Article

Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is one of the most talked about performance measurement systems in the management accounting literature in the past two decades. In this paper, we argue that the BSC has failed to perform as a comprehensive performance measur... Read More about Management accounting and the shortcomings of current performance measurement systems.

Service employee adaptiveness : exploring the impact of role-stress and managerial control approaches (2017)
Journal Article
Sahadev, S., Purani, K., & Panda, T. (2017). Service employee adaptiveness : exploring the impact of role-stress and managerial control approaches. Employee Relations, 39(1), 54-78. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-11-2015-0213

The research aims to explore the relationships between managerial control strategies, role stress and employee adaptiveness among call center employees.
Based on a conceptual model, a questionnaire based survey methodology is adopted. Data was colle... Read More about Service employee adaptiveness : exploring the impact of role-stress and managerial control approaches.

Turkey's refugees, Syrians and refugees from Turkey: a country of insecurity (2017)
Journal Article
Sirkeci, I. (2017). Turkey's refugees, Syrians and refugees from Turkey: a country of insecurity. Migration Letters, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v14i1.321

The European Union has faced one of its biggest crises with the rise of population inflows through its Eastern and Southern neighbours as well as movements within the Union. In 2016, the main debate that dominated Europe was on restricting migration... Read More about Turkey's refugees, Syrians and refugees from Turkey: a country of insecurity.

Key benefits of enterprise resource planning adoption within small family businesses : a ERP benefits framework for SFBs (2017)
Journal Article
Lasisi, M., Owens, J., & Udagedara, R. (2017). Key benefits of enterprise resource planning adoption within small family businesses : a ERP benefits framework for SFBs

This research mainly focused on the perceived benefits of ERP adoption for Small Family Businesses (SFB). In doing so, it explores some of the key benefits of an ERP system for SMEs. Through the exploration of the literature, a framework is constru... Read More about Key benefits of enterprise resource planning adoption within small family businesses : a ERP benefits framework for SFBs.

Emotion in organizational change : an interdisciplinary exploration (2017)
Book
Talat, U. (2017). Emotion in organizational change : an interdisciplinary exploration. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47693-3

This book constructs a multi-disciplinary interpretation of emotion, specifically applied and discussed within Organizational Change environments. Including a range of perspectives from Philosophy, Evolutionary Sciences, Psychology and Sociology, Emo... Read More about Emotion in organizational change : an interdisciplinary exploration.

Instrument for the establishment of the restructured global environmental facility (2017)
Other
Rossati, D. (2017). Instrument for the establishment of the restructured global environmental facility

Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers (2017)
Journal Article

Curiously, while tourism is cited as the world’s largest industry (UNWTO, 2016), it is simultaneously a fragile industry that is highly vulnerable to the impact of the ongoing threat of terrorism. Internationally, terrorism influences the tourist min... Read More about Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers.