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Crude oil risk forecasting : new evidence from multiscale analysis approach (2018)
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He, K., Tso, G., Zou, Y., & Liu, J. (2018). Crude oil risk forecasting : new evidence from multiscale analysis approach. Energy Economics, 76, 574-583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.10.001

Fluctuations in the crude oil price allied to risk have increased significantly over the last decade frequently varying at different risk levels. Although existing models partially predict such variations, so far, they have been unable to predict oil... Read More about Crude oil risk forecasting : new evidence from multiscale analysis approach.

Is hub-based pricing a better choice than oil indexation for natural gas? Evidence from a multiple bubble test (2018)
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Zhang, D., Wang, T., Shi, X., & Liu, J. (2018). Is hub-based pricing a better choice than oil indexation for natural gas? Evidence from a multiple bubble test. Energy Economics, 76, 495-503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.11.001

Oil indexation and hub-based pricing are two competing pricing mechanisms in the international natural gas markets. The debates over whether hub-based pricing is preferable to oil indexation have become intense among academics and practitioners, for... Read More about Is hub-based pricing a better choice than oil indexation for natural gas? Evidence from a multiple bubble test.

Explaining the mutual relationship between board gender diversity and corporate social responsibility using the simultaneous equations system (2018)
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Kazempour, M., Kashanipour, M., Yazdifar, H., & Hamidizadeh, A. (2018). Explaining the mutual relationship between board gender diversity and corporate social responsibility using the simultaneous equations system. International journal of finance and managerial accounting, 3(11), 1-10

One of the issues that have gained a lot of attention in recent years is the board gender diversity. Many researchers believe that gender diversity in the board reinforces corporate social responsibility and on the other hand, gender diversity is one... Read More about Explaining the mutual relationship between board gender diversity and corporate social responsibility using the simultaneous equations system.

Diaspora marketing revisited: the nexus of entrepreneurs and consumers (2018)
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Sirkeci, I., & Zeren, F. (2018). Diaspora marketing revisited: the nexus of entrepreneurs and consumers. Transnational Marketing Journal, 6(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.33182/tmj.v6i2.588

In this article, we discuss the role of diaspora as a business network and an opportunity window for foreign market entry according to the concept of diaspora market entry or transnational market entry mode. As sources of information on both home and... Read More about Diaspora marketing revisited: the nexus of entrepreneurs and consumers.

The impact of remittances on food security status in the global south (2018)
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Ebadi, N., Ahmadi, D., Sirkeci, I., & Melgar-Quinonez, H. (2018). The impact of remittances on food security status in the global south. Remittances Review, 3(2), 135-150. https://doi.org/10.33182/rr.v3i2.543

International remittances to developing countries attract increasing attention because of their rise in volume and their impact on the recipient countries. Receiving remittances from outside the country has become a household coping strategy that mig... Read More about The impact of remittances on food security status in the global south.

How much do conditional cash transfers increase the utilization of maternal and child health care services? New evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India (2018)
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Rahman, M., & Palliakdavath, S. (2018). How much do conditional cash transfers increase the utilization of maternal and child health care services? New evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India. Economics and Human Biology, 31, 164-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.08.007

Janani Suraksha Yojana (safe motherhood scheme, or JSY) provides cash incentives to marginal pregnant women in India conditional on having mainly institutional delivery. Using the fourth round of district level household survey (DLHS-4), we have esti... Read More about How much do conditional cash transfers increase the utilization of maternal and child health care services? New evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India.

Opportunism in buyer--supplier exchange: a critical examination of the concept and its implications for theory and practice (2018)
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Kelly, S., Wagner, B., & Ramsey, J. (2018). Opportunism in buyer--supplier exchange: a critical examination of the concept and its implications for theory and practice. Production Planning and Control, 29(12), https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2018.1495772

Claims that opportunism is widespread in the process of buyer–supplier exchange are commonplace, but direct supporting evidence for such claims is largely absent from the relevant literature. This article offers a critique of the treatment of opportu... Read More about Opportunism in buyer--supplier exchange: a critical examination of the concept and its implications for theory and practice.

Institutional determinants of R&D investment : evidence from emerging markets (2018)
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Alam, M., Uddin, M., & Yazdifar, H. (2019). Institutional determinants of R&D investment : evidence from emerging markets. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 138, 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.08.007

Institutional environment of a country plays an important role for innovation activities. Our results confirm that external environment of emerging countries influence the R&D investment. Using Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation of pa... Read More about Institutional determinants of R&D investment : evidence from emerging markets.

On outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in sport : the case of international rugby union (2018)
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Scarf, P., Parma, R., & McHale, I. (2019). On outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in sport : the case of international rugby union. European Journal of Operational Research, 273(2), 721-730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.08.021

In this paper we investigate the relationship between outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in the framework of a “Poisson match”. We argue that increasing scoring rates in the hope of increasing entertainment may have a detrimental impact on the pop... Read More about On outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in sport : the case of international rugby union.

European football supporter attitudes toward ambush marketing (2018)
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Burton, N., & Chadwick, S. (2019). European football supporter attitudes toward ambush marketing. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 20(1), 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijsms-10-2017-0107

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore attitudes towards ambush marketing at the 2016 Union of European Football Associations European Championships, seeking to examine fan affect towards ambush marketing. Design/methodology/approach... Read More about European football supporter attitudes toward ambush marketing.

Do seasoned offerings improve the performance of issuing firms? Evidence from China (2018)
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Zhang, D., Wu, Y., Ye, Q., & Liu, J. (2019). Do seasoned offerings improve the performance of issuing firms? Evidence from China. International Review of Financial Analysis, 62(Mar 19), 104-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.08.001

This study provides new evidence that the performance of issuing firms varies by issue type, based on survival analysis methods. Our non-parametric results show that firms raising capital through rights issues, and notably through cash offers, experi... Read More about Do seasoned offerings improve the performance of issuing firms? Evidence from China.

A paired neural network model for tourist arrival forecasting (2018)
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Yao, Y., Cao, Y., Ding, X., Zhai, J., Liu, J., Luo, Y., …Zou, K. (2018). A paired neural network model for tourist arrival forecasting. Expert systems with applications, 114, 588-614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.08.025

Tourist arrival and tourist demand forecasting are a crucial issue in tourism economy and the community economic development as well. Tourist demand forecasting has attracted much attention from tourism academics as well as industries. In recent year... Read More about A paired neural network model for tourist arrival forecasting.

Wear rate-state interactions within a multi-component system : a study of a gearbox accelerated life testing platform (2018)
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Assaf, R., Do, P., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Scarf, P. (2018). Wear rate-state interactions within a multi-component system : a study of a gearbox accelerated life testing platform. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 232(4), 425-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X18764061

The degradation process of complex multi-component systems is highly stochastic in nature. A major side effect of this complexity is that components of such systems may have unexpected reduced life and faults and failures that decrease the reliabil... Read More about Wear rate-state interactions within a multi-component system : a study of a gearbox accelerated life testing platform.

The effects of gamified customer benefits and characteristics on behavioral engagement and purchase : evidence from mobile exercise application uses (2018)
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Jang, S., Kitchen, P., & Kim, J. (2018). The effects of gamified customer benefits and characteristics on behavioral engagement and purchase : evidence from mobile exercise application uses. Journal of Business Research, 92, 250-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.07.056

This study investigates how gamified customer benefits (epistemic, social integrative, and personal integrative) and customer characteristics (age and experience) influence marketing outcomes, behavioral engagement and purchase, in exercise context.... Read More about The effects of gamified customer benefits and characteristics on behavioral engagement and purchase : evidence from mobile exercise application uses.

The leadership component of Kelly’s Mobilisation Theory : contribution, tensions, limitations and further development (2018)
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contribution, tensions, limitations and further development. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 39(4), 617-638. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X18777609

This reassessment of Kelly’s analysis of the relationship of activist leadership to collective action within the overall jigsaw of mobilisation theory draws on social movement literature, studies by industrial relations scholars utilising aspects of... Read More about The leadership component of Kelly’s Mobilisation Theory : contribution, tensions, limitations and further development.

What to do and what works? Exploring how work groups cope with understaffing (2018)
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Shen, W., Chang, K., Cheng, K., & Kim, Y. (2018). What to do and what works? Exploring how work groups cope with understaffing. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 24(3), 346-358. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000129

Complaints regarding understaffing are common in the workplace and research has begun to document some of the potential ill effects that can result from understaffing conditions. Despite evidence that understaffing is a relatively prevalent and conse... Read More about What to do and what works? Exploring how work groups cope with understaffing.

Barriers to the development of smart cities in Indian context (2018)
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Rana, N., Luthra, S., Mangla, S., Islam, R., Roderick, S., & Dwivedi, Y. (2019). Barriers to the development of smart cities in Indian context. Information Systems Frontiers, 21, 503-525. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-018-9873-4

Smart city development is gaining considerable recognition in the systematic literature and international policies throughout the world. The study aims to identify the key barriers of smart cities from a review of existing literature and views of exp... Read More about Barriers to the development of smart cities in Indian context.

Communicating a social agenda within HEIs : the role of the social enterprise mark (2018)
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Sutton, E., McEachern, M., & Kane, K. (2018). Communicating a social agenda within HEIs : the role of the social enterprise mark. Social Enterprise Journal, 14(3), 328-347. https://doi.org/10.1108/sej-01-2018-0004

Purpose: By using the lens of the social enterprise mark (SEM) accreditation which enables social enterprises to “prove” that the interests of people and planet are put before shareholder gain, this study aims to enhance the knowledge of how effectiv... Read More about Communicating a social agenda within HEIs : the role of the social enterprise mark.

Modeling doctoral population growth in premier technology institutions in India (2018)
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Menon, B., Ghatak, S., Mahanty, B., & Sahadev, S. (2018). Modeling doctoral population growth in premier technology institutions in India. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 35(6), 738-745. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2515

The present study utilizes the basic reproductive number ‘R0’ to make sense of the Indian Institute of Technologies’ (IITs) doctoral population growth. The analysis shows that the R0 for seven IITs under study, and for the engineering disciplines in... Read More about Modeling doctoral population growth in premier technology institutions in India.

Joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of parallel production systems (2018)
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Zahedi-Hosseini, F., Scarf, P., & Syntetos, A. (2018). Joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of parallel production systems. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 48(Part A), 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2018.06.002

We model a joint inspection and spare parts inventory policy for maintaining machines in a parallel system, where simultaneous downtime seriously impacts upon production performance and has a significant financial consequence. This dependency between... Read More about Joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of parallel production systems.