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The life cycle of initial public offering companies in China (2014)
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which the company’s
post- initial public offering (IPO) outcome varies, along with the determinants of the post-IPO
outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors use Cox propor... Read More about The life cycle of initial public offering companies in China.

Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011 (2014)
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This paper examines the factors determining the citation success of authors who have published via the Internet on the economic and business history of Spain. It departs from the dominant cross-sectional approach to the quantitative assessment of cit... Read More about Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011.

Estimation of productivity in Korean electric power plants : a semiparametric smooth coefficient model (2014)
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This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth co... Read More about Estimation of productivity in Korean electric power plants : a semiparametric smooth coefficient model.

Exploring the effects of financial and fiscal vulnerabilities on G7 economies : evidence from SVAR analysis (2014)
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We examine the possible interactions of the financial cycle and fiscal position for G7 economies. We employ the innovative aggregate financial and fiscal stress indexes which are able to depict the perplexed nature of modern economies. A SVAR model i... Read More about Exploring the effects of financial and fiscal vulnerabilities on G7 economies : evidence from SVAR analysis.

Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920 (2014)
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Gerald Friedman's Reigniting the Labor Movement was a highly ambitious, unashamedly partisan, historical and transnational comparative analysis of the rise and demise of the labour movement, which identified the way in which rank-and-file workers' sp... Read More about Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920.

Virtual special issue : The concept of place in marketing theory and research (2014)
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Laboring online : Are there “new” labor processes in virtual game worlds? (2013)
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As unemployment figures rise in the developed world, questions regarding the meaning of “labor” and the intrinsic ”value” of work re-emerge. This paper examines labor practices in virtual game worlds to extend existing theoretical explorations regard... Read More about Laboring online : Are there “new” labor processes in virtual game worlds?.

Making Madlab : a creative space for innovation and creating prototypes (2013)
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This paper presents Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab) as an “organisation as prototype” in terms of its innovation; emphasising its permeability to external collaboration and internal structure. We present the accumulation of experience and insp... Read More about Making Madlab : a creative space for innovation and creating prototypes.

Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party (2013)
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Local political marketing can be defined as marketing related strategy, activities, and tactics implemented by a political party in a local geographic constituency, in order to attempt to maximise aggregate potential voter satisfaction, and therefo... Read More about Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party.

Some results from a system dynamics model of construction sector competitiveness (2013)
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Despite government-led good practice initiatives aimed to improve competitiveness in the U.K. construction sector, fluctuations in growth-driven demand, investment and constant regulatory revisions make it very difficult for an enterprise to plan str... Read More about Some results from a system dynamics model of construction sector competitiveness.

Partisan, scholarly and active : arguments for an organic public sociology of work (2013)
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Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in UK-based sociology of work, Burawoy’s call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of ‘a social movement beyond the academy’ and Bourdieu’s plea for committed scholarship in the ser... Read More about Partisan, scholarly and active : arguments for an organic public sociology of work.

Reducing hospital associated infection : a role for social marketing (2013)
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Purpose: Although hand hygiene is seen as the most important method to prevent the transmission of hospital associated infection in the UK, hand hygiene compliance rates appear to remain poor. This research aims to assess the degree to which social... Read More about Reducing hospital associated infection : a role for social marketing.

Taking dogs to tourism activities : Testing a pet-related constraint-negotiation model (2013)
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This research's purpose is to examine the factors that affect pet owners' decisions when taking pets to participate in tourism activities. Unlike tourist traveling alone, pet owners must consider their own circumstances as well as the constraints the... Read More about Taking dogs to tourism activities : Testing a pet-related constraint-negotiation model.

Book review: How brands grow what marketers dont know by Byron Sharp (2013)
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Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War (2012)
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It has been argued that support for the First World War by the important French syndicalist organisation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) has tended to obscure the fact that other national syndicalist organisations remained faithful to th... Read More about Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War.

A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology (2012)
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seen as a key technology to tackle climate change. The principal idea of CCS is to remove carbon from the flue gases arising from burning fuels for electricity generation or industrial applications and to store the... Read More about A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology.

International business research and risky investments, an analysis of FDI in conflict zones (2012)
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of a firm’s strategy to invest in a conflict location. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been done before. We examine this using a standard model of international business, overlaid wi... Read More about International business research and risky investments, an analysis of FDI in conflict zones.

Entertainment — The painful process of rethinking consent (2012)
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Peer mentoring to secure student placements (2012)
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Purpose
This paper describes a case study where student peer mentors were employed to motivate and assist undergraduates to secure optional professional placement positions.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper describes the reasons for establis... Read More about Peer mentoring to secure student placements.

Credit scoring, statistical techniques and evaluation criteria: A review of the literature (2011)
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Credit scoring has been regarded as a core appraisal tool of different institutions during the last few decades and has been widely investigated in different areas, such as finance and accounting. Different scoring techniques are being used in areas... Read More about Credit scoring, statistical techniques and evaluation criteria: A review of the literature.