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Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives? (2016)
Journal Article
Langmead, K. (2016). Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?. The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 5(1), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2016.005

This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resist... Read More about Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?.

The development of law schools in Japan during the Meiji period (2016)
Journal Article
Piegzik, M. (2016). The development of law schools in Japan during the Meiji period. Folia Iuridica Universitatis Wratislaviensis, 5(1), 69-84

The main goal of this paper is to describe the process of creating law schools in Japan during the codification of the Meiji period (1868-1912). After more than 200 years of isolation the Empire of Japan realized the need for modernization of the sta... Read More about The development of law schools in Japan during the Meiji period.

Exploring the viability of an emission tax policy for ships at berth in Taiwanese ports (2016)
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Tseng, P. H., & Pilcher, N. (2016). Exploring the viability of an emission tax policy for ships at berth in Taiwanese ports. International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, 8(6), 705-722. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTL.2016.079289

This paper considers an emissions tax to help limit external air pollution from ships in Taiwanese ports through a mixed methods research (MMR) approach. Through an empirical bottom-up activity-based model, external air pollution costs are estimated... Read More about Exploring the viability of an emission tax policy for ships at berth in Taiwanese ports.

Dialogues: ‘QUANT’ researchers on ‘QUAL’ methods. (2016)
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Pilcher, N., & Cortazzi, M. (2016). Dialogues: ‘QUANT’ researchers on ‘QUAL’ methods. Qualitative Report, 21(3), 450-473

Qualitative researchers commonly perceive that positivist hard-science researchers and policies of governments deprecate qualitative methods and approaches. Curiously though, we could not see anyone asking quantitative researchers ‘What do you think... Read More about Dialogues: ‘QUANT’ researchers on ‘QUAL’ methods..

Community non-participation in homestays in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India (2016)
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Sood, J., Lynch, P., & Anastasiadou, C. (2017). Community non-participation in homestays in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India. Tourism Management, 60, 332-347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2016.12.007

An upsurge in popularity of homestays has provided newer economic opportunities to remote Indian Himalayan communities. Despite the benefits homestays offer, their acceptance by mountain communities is fraught with challenges. This qualitative resear... Read More about Community non-participation in homestays in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Using food labels to evaluate the practice of nudging in a social marketing context (2016)
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Soraghan, C., Thomson, E., & Ensor, J. (2016). Using food labels to evaluate the practice of nudging in a social marketing context. Social Business, 6(3), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1362/204440816x14811339560893

Objectives Voluntary, front of pack (FoP) food labels were used to examine the practice of nudging in a social marketing context. Background With the explosion of social marketing, the goal of marketing has shifted from simply selling products,... Read More about Using food labels to evaluate the practice of nudging in a social marketing context.

Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation (2016)
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MacArthur, J., Wilkinson, H., Matthews-Smith, G., & Gray, M. A. (2017). Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation. Journal of Research in Nursing, 22(1-2), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.11

The aim of this study was to critically analyse the impact of the ‘Leadership in Compassionate Care Programme’ and offer a conceptual model of factors that can embed compassionate care in contemporary health care environments. This three-year initiat... Read More about Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation.

Administrative capacity or quality of political governance? EU Cohesion Policy in the new Europe, 2007–13 (2016)
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Surubaru, N. (2017). Administrative capacity or quality of political governance? EU Cohesion Policy in the new Europe, 2007–13. Regional Studies, 51(6), 844-856. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1246798

Administrative capacity or quality of political governance? EU Cohesion Policy in the new Europe, 2007–13. Regional Studies. The enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe offers new opportunities to examine the effectiveness of the European Unio... Read More about Administrative capacity or quality of political governance? EU Cohesion Policy in the new Europe, 2007–13.

The Value Relevance of Environmental Audits: Evidence from Japan (2016)
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Lee, K., Park, B., Song, H., & Yook, K. (2017). The Value Relevance of Environmental Audits: Evidence from Japan. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(5), 609-625. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.1940

Environmental audits are implemented internally in order to monitor compliance with environmental laws, regulations and related accounting rules, and to develop recommendations for ways in which to improve environmental accounting processes and perfo... Read More about The Value Relevance of Environmental Audits: Evidence from Japan.

The effect of organizational responses to service failures on customer satisfaction perception (2016)
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Cheung, M., & To, W. M. (2017). The effect of organizational responses to service failures on customer satisfaction perception. Service Business, 11(4), 767-784. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-016-0328-z

This paper explores how organizational responses to service failures affect perceived justice and recovery satisfaction using responses from 410 customers who experienced service failures in Hong Kong. The results indicated that the acknowledgement o... Read More about The effect of organizational responses to service failures on customer satisfaction perception.

A customer-dominant logic on service recovery and customer satisfaction (2016)
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Cheung, M., & To, W. M. (2016). A customer-dominant logic on service recovery and customer satisfaction. Management Decision, 54(10), 2524-2543. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-03-2016-0165

Purpose Service recovery is a challenge to organizations because customers will respond to recovery processes and outcomes differently. Yet, there are few studies that examine the antecedents of customer co-recovery. Hence, the purpose of this paper... Read More about A customer-dominant logic on service recovery and customer satisfaction.

Teaching legal professionalism: a comparative study of teaching professional values and lessons for legal education. (2016)
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Whitecross, R. (2016). Teaching legal professionalism: a comparative study of teaching professional values and lessons for legal education. Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education, 11(1), 3-25

The Legal Education and Training Review highlighted concerns across all sectors, from academics to practitioners over a lack of understanding of professionalism and ethics. Building on a review of two other professions, medicine and accountancy, this... Read More about Teaching legal professionalism: a comparative study of teaching professional values and lessons for legal education..

Which firms use Islamic financing? (2016)
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Minhat, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (2017). Which firms use Islamic financing?. Economics Letters, 150, 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.10.036

This study explores to what extent the Islamic financing instruments are used by non-financial firms and whether profitability influences such financing choice. Based on a panel data of firms from fourteen developing countries for the 2005-2009 perio... Read More about Which firms use Islamic financing?.

Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse (2016)
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Broadbent, J., Sonnett, J., Botetzagias, I., Carson, M., Carvalho, A., Chien, Y., …Zhengyi, S. (2016). Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2, https://doi.org/10.1177/

Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discou... Read More about Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse.

A capability approach to unemployed young people’s voice and agency in the development and implementation of eEmployment aActivation policies. (2016)
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Egdell, V., & Graham, H. (2016). A capability approach to unemployed young people’s voice and agency in the development and implementation of eEmployment aActivation policies. Social policy & administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12262

In the UK, current approaches to employment activation are primarily concerned with rapid labour market entry, with jobseekers compelled to engage in activities or be sanctioned. The Capability Approach (CA) has been proposed as an alternative framew... Read More about A capability approach to unemployed young people’s voice and agency in the development and implementation of eEmployment aActivation policies..

The Impact of Target Capital Structure and Market Mispricing on Takeover Financing: Empirical Evidence from China (2016)
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Li, J., & Gao, S. S. (2016). The Impact of Target Capital Structure and Market Mispricing on Takeover Financing: Empirical Evidence from China. Global Review of Accounting and Finance, 7(2), 80-92

The dynamic trade-off theory and the market timing theory of capital structure are applied to analyze 5,923 Chinese takeover events from 2007 to 2014 with a view to identifying the influence of target capital structure (TCS), market mispricing and th... Read More about The Impact of Target Capital Structure and Market Mispricing on Takeover Financing: Empirical Evidence from China.

Analysis of strategic pricing in the port sector: The network approach (2016)
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Nguyen, H., Chin, A., Tongzon, J., & Bandara, M. (2016). Analysis of strategic pricing in the port sector: The network approach. Maritime Economics and Logistics, 18, 264-281. https://doi.org/10.1057/mel.2015.9

This article demonstrates how interaction between ports in a network can be analysed in two stages. The first stage is the analysis of the price response functions and it examines how a port sets its prices for infrastructure services given those of... Read More about Analysis of strategic pricing in the port sector: The network approach.

Third sector independence: relations with the state in an age of austerity (2016)
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Egdell, V., & Dutton, M. (2017). Third sector independence: relations with the state in an age of austerity. Voluntary Sector Review, 8(1), 25-40. https://doi.org/10.1332/204080516x14739278719772

Third sector organisations deliver a range of public services for government. They are valued and trusted by commissioners, clients and wider society because of their independence. However, the extent to which the third sector is independent is quest... Read More about Third sector independence: relations with the state in an age of austerity.