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Using law and licences to supply accessible books to visually impaired students at the University of Chester (2015)
Journal Article
Peters, L., & Smith, C. (2015). Using law and licences to supply accessible books to visually impaired students at the University of Chester. Library and Information Research, 39(121), 12-21. https://doi.org/10.29173/lirg679

Provision of accessible copies of textbooks to visually impaired students has an important role to play in supporting them in their studies, including at university. Recent legislative and copyright licence developments have allowed libraries to supp... Read More about Using law and licences to supply accessible books to visually impaired students at the University of Chester.

Attributes of adopters and the diffusion of benchmarking (2015)
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Askarany, D., & Yazdifar, H. (2015). Attributes of adopters and the diffusion of benchmarking

To take advantage of the most recent advances, organisations may need to proceed with the adoption of benchmarking. However, the extant literature suggests that benchmarking is not widely adopted by many organisations. Contributing to the literature... Read More about Attributes of adopters and the diffusion of benchmarking.

Globalisation and sticky prices : “Con” or conundrum? (2015)
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Albertson, K., Simister, J., & Syme, R. (2015). Globalisation and sticky prices : “Con” or conundrum?

With reference to a case study which illustrates the existence of segmented markets and international price discrimination, this paper develops a theoretical model of comparative advantage in which domestic prices may be sticky. We show, when domesti... Read More about Globalisation and sticky prices : “Con” or conundrum?.

The key factors affecting B2C acceptance in Egypt : an empirical investigation (2015)
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Al-Sahouly, I., & Rashid, T. (2015). The key factors affecting B2C acceptance in Egypt : an empirical investigation. International journal of research in management & technology (Print), 5(6), 385-399

This research aims at investigating the effect of interrelated micro-variables (level of trust, perceived security and perceived self-efficacy) and macro-variables (availability of active legislations and technological level) on the acceptance of E-c... Read More about The key factors affecting B2C acceptance in Egypt : an empirical investigation.

Resurrecting information technology adoption models : a theoretic foundation (2015)
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a theoretic foundation. International journal of research in management & technology (Print), 5(6), 400-408

The Information Technology (IT) has generated competing models, each of which has a different set of
adoption and acceptance determinants. This paper includes an overview of the models and theories of
predicting, explaining and understanding the hu... Read More about Resurrecting information technology adoption models : a theoretic foundation.

Does traditional advertising theory apply to the digital world? (2015)
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Kerr, G., Schultz, D., Kitchen, P., Mulhern, F., & Beede, P. (2015). Does traditional advertising theory apply to the digital world?. Journal of Advertising Research, 55(4), 390-400. https://doi.org/10.2501/JAR-2015-001

All theory is based on a set of seminal concepts and empirical research that are assumed to be replicable and inviolate over time. Recent changes in technology, consumer habits, demographics, and marketplaces, however, have raised questions about the... Read More about Does traditional advertising theory apply to the digital world?.

Sustainability and differentiation : understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms (2015)
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Nishant, R., Goh, M., & Kitchen, P. (2016). Sustainability and differentiation : understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms. Journal of Business Research, 69(5), 1892-1897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.075

Managers do not see all environmental sustainability practices as equally important. Thus, this study seeks to
integrate the natural resource based view (NRBV) and materiality perspective to explore environmental sustainability
practices that firms... Read More about Sustainability and differentiation : understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms.

New models for describing outliers in meta-analysis (2015)
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Baker, R., & Jackson, D. (2015). New models for describing outliers in meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 7(3), 314-328. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1191

An unobserved random effect is often used to describe the between-study variation that is apparent in
meta-analysis datasets. A normally distributed random effect is conventionally used for this purpose. When
outliers or other unusual estimates are... Read More about New models for describing outliers in meta-analysis.

Reverse dependency : a longitudinal case study investigation into headquarter-subsidiary relationship in the context of an emerging country (2015)
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This study provides a conceptual framework and typology to measure headquarter and subsidiary dependency on capabilities and resources. Using an in-depth longitudinal case study approach, it highlights a novel phenomenon called ‘reverse dependency’ w... Read More about Reverse dependency : a longitudinal case study investigation into headquarter-subsidiary relationship in the context of an emerging country.

Can the development of a conceptual model for UK engineering companies help understand what the customer wants from new products? (2015)
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Owens, J., & Atherton, A. (2015). Can the development of a conceptual model for UK engineering companies help understand what the customer wants from new products?

The long-term survival of a business often hinges upon its ability to successfully introduce new products into the market place. These new products and their successful development can be the lifeblood of a company. Thus, New Product Development (N... Read More about Can the development of a conceptual model for UK engineering companies help understand what the customer wants from new products?.

Is executive compensation a substitute governance mechanism to debt financing and leasing? (2015)
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Minhat, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (2015). Is executive compensation a substitute governance mechanism to debt financing and leasing?. Applied Economics, 48(14), 1293-1302. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2015.1100247

This study examines whether and how CEO equity incentives relate to financing choices (i.e., debt and leases). Using manually collected CEO compensation and lease data for a sample of large UK firms, we found evidence of a negative relationship betwe... Read More about Is executive compensation a substitute governance mechanism to debt financing and leasing?.

How to promote relationship-building leadership at work? A comparative exploration of leader humor behavior between North America and China (2015)
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Yang, I., Kitchen, P., & Bacouel-Jentjens, S. (2017). How to promote relationship-building leadership at work? A comparative exploration of leader humor behavior between North America and China. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(10), 1454-1474. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1089065

There is a growing consensus that humor could be one of the most important competencies of a leader. This impression seems to be especially so under the clan controls where relationship-building between a leader and employees become crucial in managi... Read More about How to promote relationship-building leadership at work? A comparative exploration of leader humor behavior between North America and China.

How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia (2015)
Journal Article

Crowd control is a growing problem in the tourism industry that is flourishing in many western and eastern countries. The “pilgrimage” or “Hajj” to Makkah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), offers the biggest tourism revenues in the world. Regret... Read More about How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate (2015)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of salespeople when selling new products (namely, electronic goods) in a business-to-business context by incorporating the organizations’ perceived psychological climate into goal orien... Read More about Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate.

Measuring impact and the most influential works in Migration Studies (2015)
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Sirkeci, I., & Cohen, J. (2015). Measuring impact and the most influential works in Migration Studies. Migration Letters, 12(3), 336-345. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v12i3.284

Our paper offers an independent measure of the citation of published research in the field of migration studies. Using the Google Scholar citation database and Ann Harzing ranking software, we have created a list of the 100 most cited articles, books... Read More about Measuring impact and the most influential works in Migration Studies.

In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model (2015)
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Asif, M., & McHale, I. (2016). In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model. International Journal of Forecasting, 32(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.02.005

The paper presents a model for forecasting the outcomes of One-Day International cricket matches whilst the game is in progress. Our ‘in-play’ model is dynamic, in the sense that the parameters of the underlying logistic regression model are allowed... Read More about In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model.