All Outputs (11)

Contemporary Financial Risk Management Perceptions and Practices of Small-Sized Chinese Businesses (2018)
Book Chapter
Gao, S., Oreal, S., & Zhang, J. (2018). Contemporary Financial Risk Management Perceptions and Practices of Small-Sized Chinese Businesses. In Global Business Expansion: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, (917-931). USA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5481-3.ch041

This study investigated the current perceptions and practices of financial risk management at small businesses in China. The researchers took an interpretative approach, using interviews within a case study, to collect qualitative data from Chinese b... Read More about Contemporary Financial Risk Management Perceptions and Practices of Small-Sized Chinese Businesses.

A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK. (2015)
Journal Article
Zhang, J. (2015). A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 105-110. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2015.37018

Ethnic minority entrepreneurship has been a growing research interest, however, little has been known about financial barriers to start up and run a business venture from the perspectives of UK ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs. The aim of this study is... Read More about A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK..

The Motivation and Effectiveness of Adopting EVA® in China’s Central Government-Owned Enterprises (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Gao, S. S., & Zhang, J. (2015). The Motivation and Effectiveness of Adopting EVA® in China’s Central Government-Owned Enterprises. In Proceedings of World Business Research Conference

China’s central government-owned enterprises (CGOEs) were required to implement Economic Value Added (EVA®) in 2010 as a part of introducing innovative performance evaluation and management system required by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Ad... Read More about The Motivation and Effectiveness of Adopting EVA® in China’s Central Government-Owned Enterprises.

Contemporary Financial Risk Management Perceptions and Practices of Small-Sized Chinese Businesses (2014)
Journal Article
Gao, S. S., Oreal, S., & Zhang, J. (2014). Contemporary Financial Risk Management Perceptions and Practices of Small-Sized Chinese Businesses. International journal of risk and contingency management, 3(2), 31-42. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijrcm.2014040103

This study investigated the current perceptions and practices of financial risk management at small businesses in China. The researchers took an interpretative approach, using interviews within a case study, to collect qualitative data from Chinese b... Read More about Contemporary Financial Risk Management Perceptions and Practices of Small-Sized Chinese Businesses.

Risk management capability building in SMEs: a social capital perspective (2012)
Journal Article
Gao, S. S., Sung, M. C., & Zhang, J. (2012). Risk management capability building in SMEs: a social capital perspective. International Small Business Journal, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242611431094

This article addresses the under-researched issue of risk management (RM) and risk management capability building in small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs). It draws upon theories of social capital to explain enablers and obstacles for RM capabilit... Read More about Risk management capability building in SMEs: a social capital perspective.

Corporate environmental reporting on the web-an exploratory study of Chinese listed companies (2007)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Gao, S. S., & Zhang, J. J. (2007). Corporate environmental reporting on the web-an exploratory study of Chinese listed companies. Issues in Social & Environmental Accounting, 1, 91-108

While the literature has given a considerable attention to internet financial reporting, limitedstudies mainly from developed economies have emerged to explain and predict corporate behaviorrelating to corporate environmental reporting on Websites. T... Read More about Corporate environmental reporting on the web-an exploratory study of Chinese listed companies.

Social accountability and audit in UK hospitals – an investigation of stakeholder perceptions. (2007)
Journal Article
Zhang, J. (2007). Social accountability and audit in UK hospitals – an investigation of stakeholder perceptions. Journal of finance & management in public services, 6, (57-78). ISSN 1475-1283

Social audit consists of a systematic assessment of the performance of a given organisation in meeting its declared social, community or environmental objectives through a dialogue with stakeholders. Engaging stakeholders in direct dialogue and liste... Read More about Social accountability and audit in UK hospitals – an investigation of stakeholder perceptions..

Stakeholder engagement, social auditing and corporate sustainability. (2006)
Journal Article
Gao, S. S., & Zhang, J. (2006). Stakeholder engagement, social auditing and corporate sustainability. Business Process Management Journal, 12, 722-740. doi:10.1108/14637150610710891

Purpose – To identify the applicability of social auditing as an approach of engaging stakeholders in assessing and reporting on corporate sustainability and its performance. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing upon the framework of AA1000 and... Read More about Stakeholder engagement, social auditing and corporate sustainability..

Long-term care for the aged: critical issues and challenges to China’s sustainable development. (2006)
Journal Article
Zhang, J. (2006). Long-term care for the aged: critical issues and challenges to China’s sustainable development. World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2, 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1504/WREMSD.2006.009080

How to finance Long-term Care (LTC) has become a major policy issue in China. The provision of LTC finance is vital to sustain China's long-term economic development as the ageing population has a significant impact on the Chinese economy and the soc... Read More about Long-term care for the aged: critical issues and challenges to China’s sustainable development..

A comparative study of stakeholder-oriented social audit models and reports. (2003)
Book Chapter
Zhang, J., Fraser, I., & Hill, W. Y. (2002). A comparative study of stakeholder-oriented social audit models and reports. In J. Andriof, S. Waddock, B. Husted, & S. Rahman (Eds.), Unfolding stakeholder thinking 2: relationships, communication, reporting and performance, 244-266. Greenleaf Publishing

Using curves to enhance parallel coordinate visualisations (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2003). Using curves to enhance parallel coordinate visualisations. In E. Banissi, K. Börner, C. Chen, G. Clapworthy, C. Maple, A. Lobben, …J. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003 (10-16). https://doi.org/10.1109/iv.2003.1217950

This paper introduces a number of refinements to the Parallel Coordinates visualisation metaphor for multi-dimensional data. Firstly, the traditional set of poly-lines are replaced with a collection of smooth curves across the attribute axes, allowin... Read More about Using curves to enhance parallel coordinate visualisations.