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Accounting for the failures of islamic legal theory at public administration: political economy of historical institution of hisbah as a regulatory body (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avdukić, A., & Khaleel, F. (2019, October). Accounting for the failures of islamic legal theory at public administration: political economy of historical institution of hisbah as a regulatory body. Presented at Sarajevo Islamic Finance and Economics Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The aim in this paper is to examine the implementation and working of market regulations within the Muslim world with the objective of investigating the political economy of institution of hisbah, and examining the process of construction of regulati... Read More about Accounting for the failures of islamic legal theory at public administration: political economy of historical institution of hisbah as a regulatory body.

Impact of Board Structure on Chinese Firms' Cross- Border M&A Performance (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ding, S., Du, M., Cui, T., Zhang, Y., & Duygun, M. (2019, October). Impact of Board Structure on Chinese Firms' Cross- Border M&A Performance. Paper presented at Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance, Hanoi, Vietnam

The impact of corporate board characteristics on firm performance continues to be an issue that has given risen to a set of polarizing corporate governance doctrines. In this paper, we identify the impact of corporate board characteristics on Chinese... Read More about Impact of Board Structure on Chinese Firms' Cross- Border M&A Performance.

Do Conforming to State-Directed Investment Policies in Emerging Countries Create Value for Acquiring Firms (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boateng, A., & Du, M. (2019, October). Do Conforming to State-Directed Investment Policies in Emerging Countries Create Value for Acquiring Firms. Paper presented at Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance, Hanoi, Vietnam

In this paper we explore whether firms conforming to state-directed investment policy creates value in the short-term for emerging market acquiring firms. Employing a sample of 468 Chinese cross-border acquisitions (CBA) over the period of 1998-2011,... Read More about Do Conforming to State-Directed Investment Policies in Emerging Countries Create Value for Acquiring Firms.

Capturing the role of societal affinity in cross-border mergers with the Eurovision Song Contest (2019)
Journal Article
Siganos, A., & Tabner, I. T. (2020). Capturing the role of societal affinity in cross-border mergers with the Eurovision Song Contest. Journal of International Business Studies, 51(2), 263-273. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-019-00271-3

This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of voting bias in the Eurovision Song Contest as a means of capturing societal affinity. More than 180 million viewers from more than 40 countries watch the Eurovision Song Contest every year and vote for the... Read More about Capturing the role of societal affinity in cross-border mergers with the Eurovision Song Contest.

A Procedure for Implementing Exploratory Mixed Methods Research into Dry Port Management (2019)
Journal Article
Jeevan, J., Bandara, Y. M., Mohd Saleh, N. H., Ngah, A. H., & Hanafiah, R. (2019). A Procedure for Implementing Exploratory Mixed Methods Research into Dry Port Management. Transactions on Maritime Science, 8(2), 157-170. https://doi.org/10.7225/toms.v08.n02.001

Qualitative approach has become the main method of exploring significant dimensions in dry port research. Quantitative approach has also been employed to examine empirical evidence in this research area. The application of mixed methods has been pro... Read More about A Procedure for Implementing Exploratory Mixed Methods Research into Dry Port Management.

Understanding the influence of airport servicescape on traveler dissatisfaction and misbehavior (2019)
Journal Article
Taheri, B., Olya, H., Ali, F., & Gannon, M. (2020). Understanding the influence of airport servicescape on traveler dissatisfaction and misbehavior. Journal of Travel Research, 59(6), 1008-1028. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287519877257

Underpinned by complexity theory, this study investigates whether the influence of social and physical servicescape on international travelers’ dissatisfaction and misbehavior differs between two characteristically different international airports in... Read More about Understanding the influence of airport servicescape on traveler dissatisfaction and misbehavior.

How Much Is Hidden? Pay for Elites in Government-Linked Entities (2019)
Book
Minhat, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (2019). How Much Is Hidden? Pay for Elites in Government-Linked Entities. Penang, Malaysia: Consumers Association of Penang

The presence of government-linked entities as influential players in the financial markets and economy sets Malaysia’s business ecosystem apart from competitive market-based systems. Ownership and control of these entities give the government conside... Read More about How Much Is Hidden? Pay for Elites in Government-Linked Entities.

Norme Tecniche, Concorrenza ed Innovazione Finanziaria (2019)
Book Chapter
Torti, V. (2019). Norme Tecniche, Concorrenza ed Innovazione Finanziaria. In G. Finocchiaro, & V. Falce (Eds.), Fintech: Diritti, Concorrenza, Regole. Le Operazioni di Finanziamento Tecnologico (99-116). Bologna: Zanichelli

Affirming free movement of services and the scope of international jurisdiction of a cross-border consumer credit agreement: C-630/17 Milivojevic v Raiffeisenbank St Stefan-Jagerberg-Wolfsberg eGen (2019)
Journal Article
Gillies, L. (2019). Affirming free movement of services and the scope of international jurisdiction of a cross-border consumer credit agreement: C-630/17 Milivojevic v Raiffeisenbank St Stefan-Jagerberg-Wolfsberg eGen. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 8(5), 202-204

At the heart of the recent CJEU case C-630/17 Milivojevic v Raiffeisenbank St Stefan-Jagerberg-Wolfsberg eGen, was the principle of free movement of services (Article 56) and shared competence in consumer protection law between the EU and Member Stat... Read More about Affirming free movement of services and the scope of international jurisdiction of a cross-border consumer credit agreement: C-630/17 Milivojevic v Raiffeisenbank St Stefan-Jagerberg-Wolfsberg eGen.

Twenty Years of the Scottish Parliament in Child and Family Law (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnes Macfarlane, L. (2019, October). Twenty Years of the Scottish Parliament in Child and Family Law. Presented at Twenty Years of the Scottish Parliament in Child and Family Law, Edinburgh

Three funded workshops celebrating the work of the Scottish Parliament in the field of Child and Family Law. I co-organised and co-chaired each of the three day-long workshops.

Perfect Essays Easy Peasy (2019)
Report
Berberich, R. (2019). Perfect Essays Easy Peasy

Essays are unavoidable as a student and more often than not the source of concerns , pains and even fear. One common assumption is that markers are mean demons whose only aim is to trash a student's work. This could not be further from the truth. How... Read More about Perfect Essays Easy Peasy.

Beer Brand Word-of-Mouth Drivers in Colombia: A Qualitative Exploration (2019)
Journal Article
Stahl, P. G., Tjandra, N. C., Feri, A., & Marshall, K. (2019). Beer Brand Word-of-Mouth Drivers in Colombia: A Qualitative Exploration. Transnational Marketing Journal, 7(2), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.33182/tmj.v7i2.813

This paper explores which motivational drivers incline consumers to engage in word-of-mouth (WOM) communication within the Colombian beer market, forecast to be among the most important beer markets during the coming years. Colombian consumers are pr... Read More about Beer Brand Word-of-Mouth Drivers in Colombia: A Qualitative Exploration.

Another sleepless night: Does a leader's poor sleep lead to subordinate's poor sleep? A spillover/crossover perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Tariq, H., Weng, Q. (., Garavan, T. N., Obaid, A., & Hassan, W. (2020). Another sleepless night: Does a leader's poor sleep lead to subordinate's poor sleep? A spillover/crossover perspective. Journal of Sleep Research, 29(1), Article e12904. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12904

Given the importance of sleep to an individual's health and well‐being, relatively little research has been conducted in the management and organizational behaviour literature on the relationship between sleep and work behaviour. Using spillover/cros... Read More about Another sleepless night: Does a leader's poor sleep lead to subordinate's poor sleep? A spillover/crossover perspective.

The Politics of Meat Consumption (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, R. (2019, October). The Politics of Meat Consumption. Presented at Thoughts for Europe, European University Institute

Domestic Abuse in Civil and Criminal Proceedings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Whitecross, R., & Mair, J. (2019, October). Domestic Abuse in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. Paper presented at Reforming the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, Edinburgh

Whitecross, R., & Mair, J. (2019, October). Domestic Abuse in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. Paper presented at Reforming the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, Edinburgh.

Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past? (2019)
Book Chapter
Holland, P., Grant, K., & Tham, T. L. (2019). Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past?. In Contemporary HRM Issues in the 21st Century (173-182). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-457-720191020

With the accelerated changes we have seen in the 21st century, in many cases driven by technology, the importance of how work is organised is central to the development of effective organisations. On the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution, exis... Read More about Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past?.

Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation (2019)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation. Scienze Regionali-The Italian Journal of Regional Science, 18(3), 397-422. https://doi.org/10.14650/94657

This paper describes current trends in scientific research on Smart Specialisation by answering the following questions: (1) How many scientific publications on Smart Specialisation have been produced since this concept emerged and what are their cha... Read More about Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation.