Dr Maria Allen's Outputs (15)

An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability (2024)
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Assumptions about fostering human capital for national competitiveness underpin higher education policy drivers regarding employability. Departing from this focus on human capital development, research has highlighted the importance of relationality... Read More about An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability.

Multinational enterprises' R&D commitments in Chinese provinces: A configurational approach (2024)
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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly off-shoring some of their R&D to emerging markets, including China. Much of the extant literature on MNEs' investments in R&D facilities abroad analyses technological and institutional factors at the... Read More about Multinational enterprises' R&D commitments in Chinese provinces: A configurational approach.

Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan (2023)
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Forging solidarity among seemingly privileged white-collar professionals has been seen as a challenging process. However, many banking employees in Pakistan feel marginalized and lack formal collective mechanisms to voice their concerns, leading some... Read More about Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan.

State-Permeated Capitalism and the Solar PV Industry in China and India (2020)
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Much of the existing business and management research on how ‘state capitalism’ influences industry outcomes focuses on the state as 1) the owner of companies, 2) a provider of key resources, such as financial support, to favoured companies and/or 3) a... Read More about State-Permeated Capitalism and the Solar PV Industry in China and India.

Comparative Capitalisms and Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy in the European Union (2020)
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We develop new theory pertaining to the institutional determinants of renewable energy usage across countries and over time. Building on key strands of the comparative capitalisms literature, we introduce new hypotheses relating to the 2009 Directive... Read More about Comparative Capitalisms and Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy in the European Union.

The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions (2019)
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The discussion on ‘The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions’ gives us a state-of-the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the field of political economy. It invites us to broaden our knowledge on... Read More about The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions.

Home-country measures to support outward foreign direct investment: variation and consequences (2019)
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The state, especially in emerging economies, plays a key role in influencing firm behaviour, including outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Often literature on the state’s influence on OFDI stresses direct state ownership. However, the state can... Read More about Home-country measures to support outward foreign direct investment: variation and consequences.

Institutions and the Diversity and Prevalence of Multinationals’ Knowledge‐Augmenting Subsidiaries (2017)
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Multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly seek to gain access to, and exploit, locationally specific sources of advanced knowledge and technological capabilities, creating a need to explain (1) the diversity among these facilities and (2) how ins... Read More about Institutions and the Diversity and Prevalence of Multinationals’ Knowledge‐Augmenting Subsidiaries.

Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies (2016)
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Comparative institutional analyses have added much to our understanding of HRM in different countries, providing powerful arguments against the need for flexible labour markets to boost economic performance. However, existing research has tended to d... Read More about Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies.

Companies’ Access to Finance, Co-operative Industrial Relations, and Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of the States of South Eastern Europe (2014)
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This paper examines the links between corporate funding, cooperative industrial relations, and wage flexibility, on the one hand, and economic growth, on the other, in 11 countries in South Eastern Europe. These links have been downplayed in previou... Read More about Companies’ Access to Finance, Co-operative Industrial Relations, and Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of the States of South Eastern Europe.

Business regulation, inward foreign direct investment, and economic growth in the new European Union member states (2013)
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which institutional convergence has taken place in the new European Union (EU) member states. It does so by contrasting arguments that
are inspired by transaction-cost economics within t... Read More about Business regulation, inward foreign direct investment, and economic growth in the new European Union member states.

Institutional frameworks and radical innovation: an analysis of high- and medium-high-technology industries in Germany (2011)
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Radical innovation is increasingly becoming the focus of attention of
both policy makers and senior corporate managers. However, debates within the varieties of capitalism literature on the ease with which radical innovation can be achieved within... Read More about Institutional frameworks and radical innovation: an analysis of high- and medium-high-technology industries in Germany.

Varieties of capitalism, governance, and high‐tech export performance: A fuzzy‐set analysis of the new EU member states (2011)
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Purpose – This paper aims to assess the extent to which convergence in institutional regimes is likely to occur, by examining all ten new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of their
development of comparative advantages in high-... Read More about Varieties of capitalism, governance, and high‐tech export performance: A fuzzy‐set analysis of the new EU member states.

Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Innovation? A Comparison of Old and New EU Member States (2009)
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This article seeks, firstly, to shed light on the main claim of the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) framework that socio-economic institutions can help to shape comparative advantage, and,
secondly, to complement existing assessments that have relied... Read More about Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Innovation? A Comparison of Old and New EU Member States.

Business Systems and the Open Method of Co-ordination: The EU and Employee Share Ownership in Germany and in the UK (2009)
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Die offene Methode der Koordinierung (OMK) ist ein wichtiger Mechanismus der europäischen Integration. Die PEPPER-Berichte zur Förderung der Gewinn- und Betriebsergebnisbeteiligung der Arbeitnehmer, die von der Europäischen Kommission vorangetrieben... Read More about Business Systems and the Open Method of Co-ordination: The EU and Employee Share Ownership in Germany and in the UK.