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The importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for branding and business success in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in a business-to-distributor (B2D) context (2017)
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Ben Youssef, K., Leicht, T., Pellicelli, M., & Kitchen, P. (2017). The importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for branding and business success in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in a business-to-distributor (B2D) context. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 26(8), 723-739. https://doi.org/10.1080/0965254X.2017.1384038

Integrating corporate social responsibility into brand positioning strategies has become a key concept for the brand marketing of many companies. There is a wealth of studies focusing on the effects of CSR for large international brands and companies... Read More about The importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for branding and business success in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in a business-to-distributor (B2D) context.

The role of the procurement function in realising sustainable development goals : an empirical study of an emerging economy’s oil & gas sector (2017)
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an emerging economy’s oil & gas sector. European journal of sustainable development (Online), 6(3), 166-180. https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n3p166

This research is motivated by the unsustainable nature of some oil and gas (O&G) firms’ activities, especially in developing countries and the dearth of research works about sustainable procurement (SP) within these countries. The O&G sector is cha... Read More about The role of the procurement function in realising sustainable development goals : an empirical study of an emerging economy’s oil & gas sector.

Examining potential benefits and challenges associated with the Internet of Things integration in supply chains (2017)
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Haddud, A., DeSouza, A., Khare, A., & Lee, H. (2017). Examining potential benefits and challenges associated with the Internet of Things integration in supply chains. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 28(8), 1055-1085. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmtm-05-2017-0094

Purpose The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to have a huge impact on businesses and, especially, the way we think about supply chain management. However, there is still a paucity of studies on the impact of IoT adoption on supply chains and on... Read More about Examining potential benefits and challenges associated with the Internet of Things integration in supply chains.

Decision and intuition during organizational change : an evolutionary critique of dual process theory (2017)
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Talat, U., Chang, K., & Nguyen, B. (2017). Decision and intuition during organizational change : an evolutionary critique of dual process theory. Bottom Line, 30(3), 236-254. https://doi.org/10.1108/BL-08-2017-0016

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review intuition in the context of organizational change. We argue that intuition as a concept requires attention and its formulation is necessary prior to its application in organizations. The paper provides... Read More about Decision and intuition during organizational change : an evolutionary critique of dual process theory.

Employee imagination and its implication for entrepreneurs : inspiration from Chinese business enterprises (2017)
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Talat, U., & Chang, K. (2017). Employee imagination and its implication for entrepreneurs : inspiration from Chinese business enterprises. Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management, 8(2), 129-152. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHRM-06-2017-0012

Purpose: In 2015 the European Group of Organisation Studies released a call for papers highlighting poor knowledge of employee imagination in organisations. To address this need, the current study hypothesises employee imagination consisting of seven... Read More about Employee imagination and its implication for entrepreneurs : inspiration from Chinese business enterprises.

Towards a migration letters index: the most influential works and authors in migration studies (2017)
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Sirkeci, I., Cohen, J., & Privara, A. (2017). Towards a migration letters index: the most influential works and authors in migration studies. Migration Letters, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v14i3.352

In this review paper, we refresh and update our earlier ranking list based on citations in the field of migration studies. The results are categorised and presented separately for the books and reports, articles and book chapters and for authors of t... Read More about Towards a migration letters index: the most influential works and authors in migration studies.

Perceptions of justice and organisational commitment in international mergers and acquisitions (2017)
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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)
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Mulkeen, J., Abdou, H., Leigh, J., & Ward, P. (2017). Degree and higher level apprenticeships : an empirical investigation of stakeholder perceptions of challenges and opportunities. Studies in Higher Education, 44(2), 333-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1365357

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.

A multipath model of salesperson performance in the financial services industry (2017)
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Varghese, J., Edward, M., & Sahadev, S. (2017). A multipath model of salesperson performance in the financial services industry. South Asian Journal of Business Studies, 6(3), 195-213. https://doi.org/10.1108/SAJBS-02-2017-0017

Purpose The study looks at how salesperson’s customer orientation (SCO) mediates the impact of a host of organisational, job-related and personality-related factors on salesperson performance. Previous studies that have considered the impact of cus... Read More about A multipath model of salesperson performance in the financial services industry.

Predicting numbers of successful new products to launch using soft computing techniques : a case of firms from manufacturing sector industries (2017)
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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.

High intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of breast fibroadenomata (HIFU-F trial) (2017)
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Peek, M., Ahmed, M., Scudder, J., Baker, R., Charalampoudis, P., Pinder, S., & Douek, M. (2017). High intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of breast fibroadenomata (HIFU-F trial). International Journal of Hyperthermia, 34(7), 1002-1009. https://doi.org/10.1080/02656736.2017.1373865

Background: High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a non-invasive ablative technique utilising the application of high frequency ultrasound (US) pressure waves to cause tissue necrosis. This emerging technology is currently limited by prolonged... Read More about High intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of breast fibroadenomata (HIFU-F trial).

Coping with demand volatility in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data exploration (2017)
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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)
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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)
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branding : the cases of Christiania and Metelkova. Environment and Planning A, 49(10), 2223-2240. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17725753

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.

Event count distributions from renewal processes : fast computation of probabilities (2017)
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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)
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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.

Credit supply constraints and financial policies of listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis (2017)
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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)
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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.

Data analytic approach for manipulation detection in stock market (2017)
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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.