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Reflections and reflective practice to advance responsible management education for sustainability: the case of an Australian MBA programme (2021)
Journal Article
Lee, K., & Hales, R. (2022). Reflections and reflective practice to advance responsible management education for sustainability: the case of an Australian MBA programme. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 23(5), 1158-1172. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-04-2021-0135

Purpose
This paper aims to explore Master of Business Administration (MBA) students’ “reflections” and/or “reflection on practice” of sustainability into responsible management education using Bain et al.’s (2002) 5Rs (reporting, responding, relatin... Read More about Reflections and reflective practice to advance responsible management education for sustainability: the case of an Australian MBA programme.

Tourist socio-cultural aversions: A holistic conceptual framework (2021)
Journal Article
Holder, A., Ruhanen, L., Mkono, M., & Walters, G. (2021). Tourist socio-cultural aversions: A holistic conceptual framework. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 49, 439-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.09.025

Socio-cultural sensitivities such as xenophobia, racism, and other forms of prejudice impact demand for tourism products and experiences. Existing studies on these phenomena have tended to be framed through singular or binary lenses, and a holistic e... Read More about Tourist socio-cultural aversions: A holistic conceptual framework.

A study of entrepreneurial action within the social enterprise sector of Scotland (2021)
Thesis
Anderson, M. A. A study of entrepreneurial action within the social enterprise sector of Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2855273

Social enterprises exist to deliver a specific social or environmental mission. In Scotland they operate in a diverse range of sectors including housing, health and community development. It is both their diversity and contribution that provided the... Read More about A study of entrepreneurial action within the social enterprise sector of Scotland.

The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2021, October). The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts. Paper presented at Witches' Stories: Folk healers and midwives accused and persecuted for helping others (1563-1736), Edinburgh [Online]

An examination of the religious and legal contexts for the witch hunts of 16th and 17th century Scotland.

Structured Groups Make More Accurate Veracity Judgments Than Individuals (2021)
Journal Article
Hamlin, I., Bolger, F., Vasilichi, A., Belton, I., Crawford, M. M., Sissons, A., Taylor Browne Lūka, C., & Wright, G. (2021). Structured Groups Make More Accurate Veracity Judgments Than Individuals. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1600-1607. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3892

Groups often make better judgments than individuals, and recent research suggests that this phenomenon extends to the deception detection domain. The present research investigated whether the influence of groups enhances the accuracy of judgments, an... Read More about Structured Groups Make More Accurate Veracity Judgments Than Individuals.

Ethical Issues in Financial Stress Testing (2021)
Book Chapter
Gauer, K. (2021). Ethical Issues in Financial Stress Testing. In M. Minhat, & N. Dzolkarnaini (Eds.), Ethical Discourse in Finance (223-246). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81596-7_11

This chapter provides insights on ethical issues inherent in financial stress testing. A simple normative framework is developed based on a set of normative principles. The framework serves as an analytical lens for the ethical discussion of differen... Read More about Ethical Issues in Financial Stress Testing.

Regulating Islamic Finance in the UK: Issues and Possible Solutions (2021)
Book Chapter
Minhat, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (2021). Regulating Islamic Finance in the UK: Issues and Possible Solutions. In M. Minhat, & N. Dzolkarnaini (Eds.), Ethical Discourse in Finance - Interdisciplinary and Diverse Perspectives (171-200). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81596-7_9

This chapter reveals critical issues and risks in relation to the regulatory strategies for Islamic financial market in the UK. It is argued that improper regulation would expose the Islamic financial market to (1) sharia compliance risk, (2) restric... Read More about Regulating Islamic Finance in the UK: Issues and Possible Solutions.

The Integrity of Islamic Finance (2021)
Book Chapter
Minhat, M., Dzolkarnaini, N., & Abdullah, M. (2021). The Integrity of Islamic Finance. In M. Minhat, & N. Dzolkarnaini (Eds.), Ethical Discourse in Finance - Interdisciplinary and Diverse Perspectives (103-123). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81596-7_6

This chapter provides a critical account of popularly used Islamic financial instruments and discusses the gap between theory and practice in Islamic financial industry. The critical discussion is mainly related to financial innovations, which were d... Read More about The Integrity of Islamic Finance.

Ethical Discourse in Finance: Interdisciplinary and Diverse Perspectives (2021)
Book
Minhat, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (Eds.). (2021). Ethical Discourse in Finance: Interdisciplinary and Diverse Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81596-7

Ethical discourse is commonly not a priority in a conventional finance syllabus. Moral sentiments often take a back seat to market sentiments, even in shaping the direction of ethical finance business. This anomaly persists despite growing interest i... Read More about Ethical Discourse in Finance: Interdisciplinary and Diverse Perspectives.

Municipal 5G bans during the Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Italy (2021)
Journal Article
Gerli, P. (2021). Municipal 5G bans during the Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Italy. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 23(6), 553-573. https://doi.org/10.1108/dprg-07-2020-0091

Purpose
Several sources have reported an increase in the opposition to the fifth-generation (5G) amongst local communities following the outbreak of Covid-19. In Italy, more than 300 municipalities banned 5G rollout from their territory between Apri... Read More about Municipal 5G bans during the Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Italy.

Exploring the Brand Effect of Islamic Bank on the General Population of Scotland (2021)
Journal Article
Jackson, J., & Khaleel, F. (2021). Exploring the Brand Effect of Islamic Bank on the General Population of Scotland. Global Review of Islamic Economics and Business, 9(1), 119-138. https://doi.org/10.14421/grieb.2021.091-09

The United Kingdom (UK) currently has one of the most attractive regulatory and tax systems in the world for Islamic finance, as well as being far ahead of other western nations for provision of Islamic finance, with five sharia-compliant banks. Yet... Read More about Exploring the Brand Effect of Islamic Bank on the General Population of Scotland.

From gen Xers to millennials: Transformation of self through tourism (2021)
Book Chapter
Polus, R., & Carr, N. (2021). From gen Xers to millennials: Transformation of self through tourism. In Millennials, Spirituality and Tourism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170631

Studies on generation cohorts and tourism have been an ongoing and active subject in the academic world. Whilst links between generation cohorts and tourism are emerging, there seems little work that discusses generational change and its influence on... Read More about From gen Xers to millennials: Transformation of self through tourism.

Sales is not just about action but interaction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mackenzie, C. (2021, October). Sales is not just about action but interaction. Presented at Turku University of Applied Science, Online

An explanation about how sales is not simply about talking but about the process of interacting.

Gender diversity and financial statement fraud (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Yu, M., & Gao, S. (2022). Gender diversity and financial statement fraud. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 41(2), Article 106903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2021.106903

This study investigates the role of gender diversity in fraud commission and detection with a view to identifying whether companies with more female corporate leaders are less likely
to be involved in financial statement fraud. Using a bivariate pro... Read More about Gender diversity and financial statement fraud.

Institutional investor sentiment and the mean-variance relationship: Global evidence (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, W., & Duxbury, D. (2021). Institutional investor sentiment and the mean-variance relationship: Global evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 191, 415-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.08.029

Although a cornerstone of traditional finance theory, empirical evidence in support of a positive mean-variance relation is far from conclusive, with the behavior of retail investors commonly thought to be one of the root causes of departures from th... Read More about Institutional investor sentiment and the mean-variance relationship: Global evidence.

A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2021, September). A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times. Paper presented at 6th Critical Autoethnography Conference, Melbourne, Australia and online

In these pandemic times there are couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there is me, uncoupled, unchilded, in a bubble of one. (Four if you count the cats.)

In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my t... Read More about A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times.

Air connectivity for leisure tourism the way forward (2021)
Book Chapter
Arvanitis, P. (2021). Air connectivity for leisure tourism the way forward. In N. Pappas, & A. Farmaki (Eds.), Tourism Dynamics. Goodfellow Publishers. https://doi.org/10.23912/9781911635932-4961

International tourism arrivals by air account for almost 60% of all tourism arrivals. Despite the spectacular increase in air connectivity there are distinct differences between connectivity types, with direct and indirect connectivity, airport conne... Read More about Air connectivity for leisure tourism the way forward.

A comprehensive scenario intervention typology (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M. (2021, September). A comprehensive scenario intervention typology. Presented at YouTube series: Futures and Foresight Papers Explained, Online

Megan Crawford, presents her 2020 paper, "A comprehensive scenario intervention typology" published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Megan talks about how the paper was sparked by a need for clearer directions in scenario planning impl... Read More about A comprehensive scenario intervention typology.