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Mobile shopping behaviour: insights into attitudes, shopping process involvement and location (2014)
Journal Article
Holmes, A., Byrne, A., & Rowley, J. (2014). Mobile shopping behaviour: insights into attitudes, shopping process involvement and location. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, 42(1), 25-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijrdm-10-2012-0096

Purpose Although there is evidence that adoption of mobile shopping has been slow, the increased functionality offered by smart phones offers significant potential for the development of marketing and retailing through the mobile channel. The purpos... Read More about Mobile shopping behaviour: insights into attitudes, shopping process involvement and location.

Promoting good design (2014)
Journal Article
Burke, M., Collier, E., Haworth-Lomax, R., & Yates-Bolton, N. (2014). Promoting good design. Journal of dementia care, 22(1), 18

Do your employees use the right stress coping strategies (2014)
Journal Article
Chang, K., & Taylor, J. (2014). Do your employees use the right stress coping strategies. Shanglue xuebao, 5(2), 99-116

This study investigates the efficacy of coping strategies commonly used in the workplace to alleviate stress. The strategies included: seeking assistance, self assistance, group intervention, avoidance and changing beliefs. Data were gathered from... Read More about Do your employees use the right stress coping strategies.

Employment relationship: The study of organisational dis-identification and workplace deviance (2014)
Journal Article
Kuo, C., Su, M., & Chang, K. (2014). Employment relationship: The study of organisational dis-identification and workplace deviance. Zhōnghuá xīnlǐ xuékān, 56(1), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.6129/CJP.20131114

The current study was designed to test the relationship of negative employment relationship (psychological contract breach and abusive supervision) with workplace deviance, and to examine the mediating role of organizational disidentification. The... Read More about Employment relationship: The study of organisational dis-identification and workplace deviance.

The 2007 financial crisis and the UK residential housing market: Did the relationship between interest rates and house prices change? (2014)
Journal Article
Tse, C., Rodgers, T., & Niklewski, J. (2014). The 2007 financial crisis and the UK residential housing market: Did the relationship between interest rates and house prices change?. Economic Modelling, 37, 518-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2013.08.013

This paper investigates the impact of the 2007 financial crisis on the relationship between real mortgage interest rates and real house prices. It applies a dynamic conditional correlation based methodology that uses fractionally differenced data alo... Read More about The 2007 financial crisis and the UK residential housing market: Did the relationship between interest rates and house prices change?.

Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution (2014)
Book Chapter
Alghamdi, S., & Percy, D. (2014). Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution. In S. Wu (Ed.), Proceedings of 8th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

In this study, we discuss the reliability equivalence factors of a series-parallel system with n series subsystems connected in parallel where subsystem i has m(i) independent and identically distributed components. We assume that each component has... Read More about Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution.

Strategies for developing effective cross-cultural decision makers : investigating developments in international relationship management for learners in higher education (2014)
Journal Article
Bell, R., Ireland, S., & Swift, J. (2014). Strategies for developing effective cross-cultural decision makers : investigating developments in international relationship management for learners in higher education. International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 13(3), 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2014.064680

Future business leaders will increasingly need an appreciation of the impact of culture on international working relationships and higher education institutions have a responsibility to provide this learning environment. By adopting a systematic appr... Read More about Strategies for developing effective cross-cultural decision makers : investigating developments in international relationship management for learners in higher education.

Predictions of relative risks for dengue disease mapping in Malaysia based on stochastic SIR-SI vector-borne infectious disease transmission model (2014)
Book Chapter
Samat, N., & Percy, D. (2014). Predictions of relative risks for dengue disease mapping in Malaysia based on stochastic SIR-SI vector-borne infectious disease transmission model. In A. Kasim, W. Omar, N. Razak, N. Musa, R. Halim, & S. Mohamed (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (ICSTSS) 2012 (399-404). Singapore: Springer

The main aim of this paper is to propose a procedure for predicting relative risk in order to suggest approximate future dengue disease progression patterns for Malaysia. Firstly, we discuss the posterior predictive distributions that are used to gen... Read More about Predictions of relative risks for dengue disease mapping in Malaysia based on stochastic SIR-SI vector-borne infectious disease transmission model.

Diabetes management : the association of wealth, spending and performance in Latin American and Caribbean countries (2014)
Journal Article
Dzolkarnaini, N., & Atkins, K. (2014). Diabetes management : the association of wealth, spending and performance in Latin American and Caribbean countries. International Journal of Management Accounting Research, 4(1), 69-91

The aim of this paper is to assess the performance and outcome of health systems in managing diabetes in Latin American and Caribbean countries, with a specific focus on the influence of wealth and expenditure on outcome indicators and cost-efficienc... Read More about Diabetes management : the association of wealth, spending and performance in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

The effective enforcement of HACCP based food safety management systems in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Green, R., & Kane, K. (2014). The effective enforcement of HACCP based food safety management systems in the UK. Food Control, 37, 257-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.09.016

This paper describes the research to determine the effectiveness of Environmental Health Officers, EHOs, in identifying and controlling the significant risks of foodborne illness in small catering operations in the UK.The research refers to food insp... Read More about The effective enforcement of HACCP based food safety management systems in the UK.

Discrete-event simulation and system dynamics for management decision making (2014)
Book
Brailsford, S., Churilov, L., & Dangerfield, B. (2014). Discrete-event simulation and system dynamics for management decision making. ACS Publications. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118762745.ch01

The genesis of operational research (OR) in the Second World War was largely characterised by deterministic techniques with a nod to risk evaluations such as in establishing the optimum balance of merchant ships and naval protection vessels in Atlant... Read More about Discrete-event simulation and system dynamics for management decision making.

Revisiting the ideologies of planning law (2014)
Journal Article
Adshead, J. (2014). Revisiting the ideologies of planning law. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 6(1/2), 174-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLBE-10-2013-0038

Purpose: The aim of the research is to examine the legal ideologies of planning law proposed by Patrick McAuslan in 1980 and their operation in one key aspect of modern-day planning law in England and Wales in order to assess the balance between thes... Read More about Revisiting the ideologies of planning law.

Systems thinking and system dynamics: A primer (2014)
Book Chapter
Dangerfield, B. (2014). Systems thinking and system dynamics: A primer. In Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics for Management Decision Making (26-51). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118762745.ch03

This chapter introduces the basics of the system dynamics simulation methodology, together with the adjunct field of systems thinking which emerged subsequently. It lists the various characteristics of system dynamics models. The stock-flow diagram i... Read More about Systems thinking and system dynamics: A primer.

Can sustainability be achieved by effective branding of a place? (2014)
Book Chapter
Maheshwari, V., & Vandewalle, I. (2014). Can sustainability be achieved by effective branding of a place?. In M. Dato-On (Ed.), The Sustainable Global Marketplace : Proceedings of the 2011 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10873-5_177

The aim of this research is to examine the place brand construct and to establish its role in the sustainable development of a place. A place-specific branding campaign was considered and findings of this research suggest that place branding plays an... Read More about Can sustainability be achieved by effective branding of a place?.