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Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Gerli, P., & Whalley, J. (2021). Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK. Telecommunications Policy, 45(10), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102222

Although digitisation offers numerous opportunities for rural areas, they still lag behind cities in terms of access and adoption of Internet-based services. This divide is the result of multiple market failures in both the demand and supply of broad... Read More about Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK.

Leading Environmental Change: A Sustainable Human Resource Approach (2021)
Other
Bratton, A., & Hiemann, M. (2021). Leading Environmental Change: A Sustainable Human Resource Approach. [Edinburgh Napier University Business School]

In this paper, Andrew Bratton introduces the concept of sustainable human resource management (HRM). He then reflects on the role of environmental leadership, employee voice and organisational culture in supporting environmental sustainability, and h... Read More about Leading Environmental Change: A Sustainable Human Resource Approach.

Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2021, July). Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World. Paper presented at Negotiating a Changed World, London Metropolitan University

Aim of the research: To analyse reflexivity and decision-making amongst undergraduate language students
Research methods used: This research is based on narrative analysis – I have constructed ten narratives of my participants’ trajectories using d... Read More about Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World.

Investor sentiment and stock returns: Global evidence (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, W., Su, C., & Duxbury, D. (2021). Investor sentiment and stock returns: Global evidence. Journal of Empirical Finance, 63, 365-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2021.07.010

We assess the impact of investor sentiment on future stock returns in 50 global stock markets. Using the consumer confidence index (CCI) as the sentiment proxy, we document a negative relationship between investor sentiment and future stock returns a... Read More about Investor sentiment and stock returns: Global evidence.

Hamlet Live: the 7 I’s Experiential Strategy Framework for heritage visitor attractions (2021)
Journal Article
Lund, N. F., Holst-Beck, P., Pine II, B. J., & Leask, A. (2022). Hamlet Live: the 7 I’s Experiential Strategy Framework for heritage visitor attractions. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 17(2), 125-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2021.1951277

In an increasingly competitive market for tourist destinations, visitor attractions play a key role in enticing visitors to the destination, and as such must continually develop new extraordinary experiential offerings to keep visitors coming. The Re... Read More about Hamlet Live: the 7 I’s Experiential Strategy Framework for heritage visitor attractions.

State ownership, prior experience and performance: a comparative analysis of Chinese domestic and cross-border acquisitions (2021)
Journal Article
Du, M., Kwabi, F., & Yang, T. (2021). State ownership, prior experience and performance: a comparative analysis of Chinese domestic and cross-border acquisitions. International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, 29(3), 472-491. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijaim-01-2021-0027

Purpose
Drawing on three theoretical frameworks, this paper aims to examine the effects of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the interaction between SOEs and prior acquisition experience of Chinese domestic and cross-border acquirers.

Design/met... Read More about State ownership, prior experience and performance: a comparative analysis of Chinese domestic and cross-border acquisitions.

One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia (2021)
Journal Article
Esposito, G., Clement, J., Mora, L., & Crutzen, N. (2021). One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia. Cities, 118, Article 103329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103329

Smart city initiatives are increasingly dominating urban policy scripts worldwide, and their diffusion is centered upon different regional strategies. Adopting the Narrative Policy Framework as methodological basis, this article examines the smart ci... Read More about One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia.

Policy narrative, policy understanding and policy support intention: a survey experiment on energy conservation (2021)
Journal Article
Mu, R., Li, Y., & Cui, T. (2022). Policy narrative, policy understanding and policy support intention: a survey experiment on energy conservation. Policy Studies, 43(6), 1361-1381. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2021.1954609

Nowadays, policy narratives as a communication strategy are frequently used by governments to persuade target populations and obtain policy support. However, few studies have empirically examined whether and through what mechanisms policy narratives... Read More about Policy narrative, policy understanding and policy support intention: a survey experiment on energy conservation.

Multiple credit ratings and liquidity creation (2021)
Journal Article
Kladakis, G., Chen, L., & Bellos, S. K. (2022). Multiple credit ratings and liquidity creation. Finance Research Letters, 46(A), Article 102313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102313

We examine the relationship between multiple credit rating purchases by banks and liquidity creation using a diverse sample of 486 banks from 71 countries. We show that liquidity creation is negatively associated with the number of ratings purchased... Read More about Multiple credit ratings and liquidity creation.

Online Organising of Creative Communities (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Patrick, H. (2021, July). Online Organising of Creative Communities. Paper presented at British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference 2021, Online

‘Organising from home’: Beating the Trade Union Act 2016 in a global pandemic/recession (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richards, J., & Ellis, V. (2021, July). ‘Organising from home’: Beating the Trade Union Act 2016 in a global pandemic/recession. Paper presented at British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

In 2017, the Trade Union Act 2016 (the Act) became law in the UK, an Act extending several decades of anti-union measures, but notable for the setting of a 50% threshold in statutory ballots. Further, as there is little prospect of the Act being repe... Read More about ‘Organising from home’: Beating the Trade Union Act 2016 in a global pandemic/recession.

Effect of customer involvement on co-creation of services: A moderated mediation model (2021)
Journal Article
Cheung, M. F., & To, W. (2021). Effect of customer involvement on co-creation of services: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 63, Article 102660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102660

The study explored the influence of customer involvement on co-creation directly and indirectly through three customer engagement dimensions, namely identification, interaction, and absorption from lens of customer-dominant logic and stimulus-organis... Read More about Effect of customer involvement on co-creation of services: A moderated mediation model.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Mauritius: An Update of the Current Trends and Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Island Economy of Mauritius (2021)
Book Chapter
Hosanoo, Z., Gungadeen, S., & Gungah, V. (2021). Corporate Social Responsibility in Mauritius: An Update of the Current Trends and Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Island Economy of Mauritius. In S. O. Idowu (Ed.), Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility: In the Era of Sustainable Development Goals (493-523). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68386-3_23

Mauritius is an independent nation, a small island economy located in the Indian Ocean, off the South East Coast of Africa. Tourism, financial services, textile and sugar are central to its economy. Recent development strategies adopted by the govern... Read More about Corporate Social Responsibility in Mauritius: An Update of the Current Trends and Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Island Economy of Mauritius.

The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility (2021)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Cui, T., Zheng, D., & Du, M. (2021). The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility. Resources Policy, 73, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102220

The last two decades have witnessed a massive capital inflow into commodity markets, provoking the commodity financialization episode, which turned into a major stimulus for emerging studies of commodity market prices as financialization can impact o... Read More about The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility.

Why and how should we phase in the big lecture in post-pandemic teaching of Business courses? An ideation workshop (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chipulu, M. (2021, July). Why and how should we phase in the big lecture in post-pandemic teaching of Business courses? An ideation workshop. Presented at Advance HE's Teaching and Learning Conference 2021, Online

It is worth considering why and how we should phase in the big lecture in post-pandemic teaching. This ideation workshop intends to generate ideas of configurations of teaching modes whereby the big lecture is one of several, but not the core mode, o... Read More about Why and how should we phase in the big lecture in post-pandemic teaching of Business courses? An ideation workshop.

Organising an industrial action ballot to protect jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of a UK university and the University and Colleges Union (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richards, J., & Ellis, V. (2021, July). Organising an industrial action ballot to protect jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of a UK university and the University and Colleges Union. Paper presented at 7th Conference of the Regulating for Decent Work Network, International Labor Organisation (ILO) Geneva

The paper responds to key themes of the stream: the importance/relevance of collective bargaining in protecting high-quality jobs in the UK higher education sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper represents a case of good branch-level union o... Read More about Organising an industrial action ballot to protect jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of a UK university and the University and Colleges Union.

Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence (2021)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., Srivastava, S., Madan, P., O’Brien, F., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2022). Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 33(3), 223-247. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21454

Many employees experience work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC), multidimensional states of resource depletion. In this paper, we conceptualize Type A and B personality as resource depletion and resource gain scenarios that have i... Read More about Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence.

Determining the invoicing dates for raw material order and finish product dispatch using neural networks under exchange rate volatility (2021)
Journal Article
Weerasingha, J. P., Bandara, Y. M., & Edirisinghe, P. M. (2023). Determining the invoicing dates for raw material order and finish product dispatch using neural networks under exchange rate volatility. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 26(2), 211-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2021.1945018

The gains from international supply chains are highly affected by the exchange rate fluctuations in the foreign exchange market. Traditional forecasting methods have not been very useful, and as a result, business firms tend to use hedging or forward... Read More about Determining the invoicing dates for raw material order and finish product dispatch using neural networks under exchange rate volatility.