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Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning—lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature (2014)
Journal Article
Thygesen, J., & Agarwal, A. (2014). Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning—lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 39, 1012-1023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.

An increasing number of researchers stress the importance of national planning institutions׳ role with respect to promoting an “effective” decision-making process in terms of bringing about sustainable energy. Impact assessment (IA) procedures are se... Read More about Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning—lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature.

Between cooperation and competition: The organisation of employment service delivery in the UK and Germany: Cooperation and competition in employment service delivery (2014)
Journal Article
Fuertes, V., Jantz, B., Klenk, T., & McQuaid, R. W. (2014). Between cooperation and competition: The organisation of employment service delivery in the UK and Germany: Cooperation and competition in employment service delivery. International Journal of So

The increased emphasis on labour market activation in many European countries has led to new forms of governance in recent decades. Primarily through qualitative data and document analysis, this article compares the restructuring of labour market ser... Read More about Between cooperation and competition: The organisation of employment service delivery in the UK and Germany: Cooperation and competition in employment service delivery.

Skills utilisation in Scotland: exploring the views of managers and employees (2014)
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Grant, K., Maxwell, G., & Ogden, S. (2014). Skills utilisation in Scotland: exploring the views of managers and employees. Employee Relations, 36(5), 458-479. https://doi.org/10.1108/er-09-2012-0069

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically manager and employee views on employees’ skills utilisation in organisations in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaires to managers and employees, plus three case studies... Read More about Skills utilisation in Scotland: exploring the views of managers and employees.

Social capital and job satisfaction: The case of Europe in times of economic crisis (2014)
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Lange, T. (2015). Social capital and job satisfaction: The case of Europe in times of economic crisis. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 21(3), 275-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680114542907

This study uses data for 23 countries elicited from the 2010/11 wave of the European Social Survey to examine the stability of social capital as a predictor of job satisfaction at a time of economic crisis. The analysis reveals a remarkably resilient... Read More about Social capital and job satisfaction: The case of Europe in times of economic crisis.

Fans’ resistance to naming right sponsorships: Why stadium names remain the same for fans (2014)
Journal Article
Woisetschläger, D. M., Haselhoff, V. J., & Backhaus, C. (2014). Fans’ resistance to naming right sponsorships: Why stadium names remain the same for fans. European Journal of Marketing, 48(7/8), 1487-1510. https://doi.org/10.1108/ejm-03-2012-0140

Purpose The aim of this article is to contribute to the literature by analyzing potential determinants of fan resistance to naming right sponsorships. Although sports sponsorships mostly trigger neutral or positive reactions by fans, the authors fin... Read More about Fans’ resistance to naming right sponsorships: Why stadium names remain the same for fans.

Does Mood Explain the Monday Effect?: Mood and the Monday Effect (2014)
Journal Article
Abu Bakar, A., Siganos, A., & Vagenas-Nanos, E. (2014). Does Mood Explain the Monday Effect?: Mood and the Monday Effect. Journal of Forecasting, 33(6), 409-418. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2305

A number of studies have explored the sources of the Monday effect, according to which returns are on average negative on Mondays. We contribute to the literature by exploring whether a direct measure of mood explains the Monday effect. In line with... Read More about Does Mood Explain the Monday Effect?: Mood and the Monday Effect.

Retailing to the “grey pound”: Understanding the food shopping habits and preferences of consumers over 50 in Scotland (2014)
Journal Article
Omar, M., Tjandra, N. C., & Ensor, J. (2014). Retailing to the “grey pound”: Understanding the food shopping habits and preferences of consumers over 50 in Scotland. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 21(5), 753-763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j

The number of older people is growing globally and therefore there is an implication for providing products and services to facilitate access to nutritious food, considered fundamental for maintaining health and independence. Historically, older cons... Read More about Retailing to the “grey pound”: Understanding the food shopping habits and preferences of consumers over 50 in Scotland.

A mutual health service in Scotland: Do we understand fully the leadership implications? (2014)
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Howieson, B., & Fenwick, C. (2014). A mutual health service in Scotland: Do we understand fully the leadership implications?. Leadership in Health Services, 27(3), 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/lhs-12-2012-0040

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the leadership implications of a mutual health service in National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of extant government policy and suggestions of leadership cons... Read More about A mutual health service in Scotland: Do we understand fully the leadership implications?.

How branding process activities impact brand equity within Higher Education Institutions - Editorial. (2014)
Journal Article
Williams, R. J., & Omar, M. (2014). How branding process activities impact brand equity within Higher Education Institutions - Editorial. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 24(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841241.2014.920567

Editorial. No abstract available. Special issue focussing on Branding in Higher Education: Create Brand Equity by Focusing on Brand Identity, Brand Soul, and Brand Image

A comparison of the stock market reactions of convertible bond offerings between financial and non-financial institutions: Do they differ? (2014)
Journal Article
Li, H., Liu, H., & Siganos, A. (2016). A comparison of the stock market reactions of convertible bond offerings between financial and non-financial institutions: Do they differ?. International Review of Financial Analysis, 45, 356-366. https://doi.org/10.

We focus on the stock price reaction to convertible bond offering made by financial institutions and find that the cumulative abnormal return over the three day interval around convertible bond issuance is 1.41 percentage higher than that for non-fin... Read More about A comparison of the stock market reactions of convertible bond offerings between financial and non-financial institutions: Do they differ?.

The highest mountain: T-cell technology (2014)
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McIntosh, B., & Fascia, M. (2014). The highest mountain: T-cell technology. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 20(6), 281-285. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2014.20.6.281

T-lymphocytes (T-cell) therapy offers a treatment for cancers. Developing this technology in the future provides the opportunity to revolutionise treatment and to make cancer a chronic condition. T-cells in themselves are a type of lymphocytes (itsel... Read More about The highest mountain: T-cell technology.

Facebook's daily sentiment and international stock markets (2014)
Journal Article
Siganos, A., Vagenas-Nanos, E., & Verwijmeren, P. (2014). Facebook's daily sentiment and international stock markets. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 107, part B, 730-743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.06.004

We examine the relation between daily sentiment and trading behavior within 20 international markets by exploiting Facebook's Gross National Happiness Index. We find that sentiment has a positive contemporaneous relation to stock returns. Moreover, s... Read More about Facebook's daily sentiment and international stock markets.

Creativity, self-expression and leisure (2014)
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Whiting, J., & Hannam, K. (2015). Creativity, self-expression and leisure. Leisure Studies, 34(3), 372-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.923494

The links between creativity, self-expression and leisure practices are underexplored within leisure literature. Despite research that documents the centrality of leisure as a worked-at process of self-actualisation and self-identity, the practice of... Read More about Creativity, self-expression and leisure.

FT coverage and UK target price run-ups (2014)
Journal Article
Siganos, A., & Papa, M. (2015). FT coverage and UK target price run-ups. European Journal of Finance, 21(12), 1070-1089. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2014.924077

We focus on the market expectation hypothesis to explain the increase in share prices and trading volume of target firms before their merger announcements that have conventionally been attributed to either insider trading or market expectation. We us... Read More about FT coverage and UK target price run-ups.

Emerging market financial services development: the case of leasing in Poland and China (2014)
Journal Article
Jaworski, P. M., Sliwinski, A., & Gao, S. S. (2014). Emerging market financial services development: the case of leasing in Poland and China. International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 15, 365-382. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIL.2014.062473

The aim of this paper is to present Polish and Chinese developments in this area in the period of 1999–2009 for the former and 2005–2008 the latter and then to compare both markets for 2007 and 2008 using different metrics. The time horizon is limite... Read More about Emerging market financial services development: the case of leasing in Poland and China.

Evaluation and legacy of the ECoC: event owners and event hosts perspectives. (2014)
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Theodoraki, E. (2014). Evaluation and legacy of the ECoC: event owners and event hosts perspectives. Economia della cultura, XXIV, 183-193. https://doi.org/10.1446/78865

This paper focusses on the institution of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) and its evaluation as documented to have emerged in official European Commission (EC) publications that present the event owners' and event hosts' perspectives. Notions... Read More about Evaluation and legacy of the ECoC: event owners and event hosts perspectives..