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e-Agriculture revisited : a systematic literature review of theories, concept, practices, methods, and future trends (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Mohamad, M., & Gombe, M. (2017, September). e-Agriculture revisited : a systematic literature review of theories, concept, practices, methods, and future trends. Presented at British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Warwick Business School, UK

Agriculture is one of the dominant fields that shape the socioeconomic development of any country. Technological advancements and innovations served as tools to share knowledge and practices of agricultural activities and make better lives for farmer... Read More about e-Agriculture revisited : a systematic literature review of theories, concept, practices, methods, and future trends.

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

Customer relationship management processes in the Nigerian retail banking sector (2017)
Thesis
Abubakar, M. Customer relationship management processes in the Nigerian retail banking sector. (Thesis). University of Salford

The acceptance and wide adoption of relationship management strategies stem from the strategic competitive advantage(s) associated with an excellent customer-bank relationship. Similarly, its acceptance by big organisations and its subsequent perform... Read More about Customer relationship management processes in the Nigerian retail banking sector.

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

An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Papanagnou, C., & Matthews-Amune, O. (2017, July). An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics. Presented at 19th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece

The unpredictability of consumer preference observed in the last few years has coincided with the global digital data explosion as consumers are increasingly relying on internet information to guide their buying behaviour. The emergence of this t... Read More about An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics.

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

Social media in a Corbyn led Labour Party : some discussion points (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Reeves, P. (2017, July). Social media in a Corbyn led Labour Party : some discussion points. Presented at Academy of Marketing Conference 2017, Hull University, UK

This working paper acts a discussion piece to inform a conceptual paper currently under development. The research purpose is to explore how effectively (with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader) social media strategy is being used by the Labour... Read More about Social media in a Corbyn led Labour Party : some discussion points.

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

Industrial clusters in Russia: the development of Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks (2017)
Journal Article
Sosnovskikh, S. (2017). Industrial clusters in Russia: the development of Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks. Russian Journal of Economics, 3(2), 174-199. https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2925165

This paper investigates the process of developing and implementing special economic zones (SEZs) and industrial parks in Russia. Governments commonly use SEZ policies to develop and diversify exports, create jobs and launch technology/knowledge shari... Read More about Industrial clusters in Russia: the development of Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks.

Sponsorship programmes and corruption in sport : management responses to a growing threat (2017)
Journal Article
Roberts, S., Chadwick, S., & Anagnostopoulos, C. (2017). Sponsorship programmes and corruption in sport : management responses to a growing threat. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 26(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/0965254x.2017.1344292

Sponsorship programmes are increasingly being exposed to the threat of corruption in sport. Several recent notable cases of corruption have exposed sponsors and their investments to significant perceived pressures including negative consumer associat... Read More about Sponsorship programmes and corruption in sport : management responses to a growing threat.

Pro-industry policies, sustainability, and industrial growth (2017)
Book Chapter
Ali, A., & Alpaslan, B. (2017). Pro-industry policies, sustainability, and industrial growth. In M. Yülek (Ed.), Industrial Policy and Sustainable Growth (1-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3964-5_8-2

This study examines how pro-industry policies and environmental sustainability relate to industrial growth in countries with varying environmental records using a large panel dataset on 104 developing and developed countries over the period 2002–2012... Read More about Pro-industry policies, sustainability, and industrial growth.

Paule-Mandel estimators for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects (2017)
Journal Article
Jackson, D., Veroniki, A., Law, M., Tricco, A., & Baker, R. (2017). Paule-Mandel estimators for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects. Research Synthesis Methods, 8(4), 416-434. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1244

Network meta-analysis is used to simultaneously compare multiple treatments in a single analysis. However, network meta-analyses may exhibit inconsistency, where direct and different forms of indirect evidence are not in agreement with each other, ev... Read More about Paule-Mandel estimators for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects.

Social media based sponsorship activation – a typology of content (2017)
Journal Article
content. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 7(3), 293-314. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-04-2016-0016

This paper thematically categorises sports sponsorship-linked Twitter content and, by drawing on uses & gratifications (U&G) theory, maps the extent to which these categories cohere with known user motivations for consuming social media. Methodolo... Read More about Social media based sponsorship activation – a typology of content.