All Outputs (252)

Teaching legal professionalism: a comparative study of teaching professional values and lessons for legal education. (2016)
Journal Article
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..

Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’ (2016)
Thesis
Kranert, M. Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’. (Thesis). University College London. Retrieved from http://researchreposi

This thesis undertakes a comparison of the discursive strategies of New Labour and the German SPD at the turn of the twenty-first century, when both parties engaged in a discourse of the Third Way in order to win over ‘the middle ground of the electo... Read More about Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’.

Which firms use Islamic financing? (2016)
Journal Article
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?.

The German automotive industry’s strategic sustainability management - dealing with the ongoing global carbon crisis through sustainable-value creation (2016)
Thesis
Legl, C. The German automotive industry’s strategic sustainability management - dealing with the ongoing global carbon crisis through sustainable-value creation. (Dissertation). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output

The importance of leading German automotive industry’s low/non-carbon transition is set upon a collaborative-undertaking approach towards sustainable-value creation. By discussing single corporation’s strategic environmental and social sustainability... Read More about The German automotive industry’s strategic sustainability management - dealing with the ongoing global carbon crisis through sustainable-value creation.

Governance of Protected Areas: The Case of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park (2016)
Thesis
Taylor, S. Governance of Protected Areas: The Case of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1191293

Administrative and political embeddedness: how to improve the institutional environments dealing with the management and implementation of EU Structural and Investment Funds? The experience of new member states (2016)
Book Chapter
Surubaru, C. (2016). Administrative and political embeddedness: how to improve the institutional environments dealing with the management and implementation of EU Structural and Investment Funds? The experience of new member states. In J. Bachtler, P. Ber

Time and time again, administrative capacity has been identified as a key feature of the successful management and implementation of EU funds. This chapter investigates the extent to which domestic governance interferes with the development of admini... Read More about Administrative and political embeddedness: how to improve the institutional environments dealing with the management and implementation of EU Structural and Investment Funds? The experience of new member states.

Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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..

Management Accounting: “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” (L P Hartley) But perhaps they did them better? (2016)
Other
Steven, G. (2016). Management Accounting: “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” (L P Hartley) But perhaps they did them better?. https://connect.cimaglobal.com/resources/management-accounting?group=4141

Management accounting: the past is a foreign country, they do things.

‘Non-payment affected by money laundering under a letter of credit – How would English courts approach it?’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chhina, R. K. (2016, October). ‘Non-payment affected by money laundering under a letter of credit – How would English courts approach it?’. Paper presented at Annual International Conference on Law, Economics and Politics, Newnham College, Universit

No abstract available.

Balancing rigour and relevance: Higher education researchers and policymakers need to be more open to each other (2016)
Digital Artefact
Smith, K., Fernie, S., & Pilcher, N. (2016). Balancing rigour and relevance: Higher education researchers and policymakers need to be more open to each other. [Research Professional website]

No abstract available.

Review of Cap, Piotr & Urszula Okulska, eds. 2013. Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice (2016)
Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2016). Review of Cap, Piotr & Urszula Okulska, eds. 2013. Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice. Journal of Language and Politics, 15(4), 500-503. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.15.4.08kra

Piotr Cap & Urszula Okulska (eds). (2013)Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice

Entrepreneurial behaviour and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems under uncertainty: Essays on regenerative medicine venturing at the university-industry boundary (2016)
Thesis
Johnson, D. Entrepreneurial behaviour and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems under uncertainty: Essays on regenerative medicine venturing at the university-industry boundary. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://researchrepo

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are an important economic consideration but remain an understudied phenomenon. In particular, research emphasising the role of the entrepreneur within entrepreneurial ecosystems is scant. Entrepreneurial universities, parti... Read More about Entrepreneurial behaviour and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems under uncertainty: Essays on regenerative medicine venturing at the university-industry boundary.

Pop-ups, Meetups and Supper Clubs: An exploration into Online Mediated Commensality and its role and significance within contemporary hospitality provision (2016)
Thesis
Urie, G. J. Pop-ups, Meetups and Supper Clubs: An exploration into Online Mediated Commensality and its role and significance within contemporary hospitality provision. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier

This thesis introduces the concept of Online Mediated Commensality (OMC) as an example of contemporary hospitality provision. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century an increase of exchanges of hospitality being mediated using online technolo... Read More about Pop-ups, Meetups and Supper Clubs: An exploration into Online Mediated Commensality and its role and significance within contemporary hospitality provision.

The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, M., Gorgoni, S., & Cronin, B. (2016, September). The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach. Paper presented at 5th Annual CIRANO-Sam M. Walton College of Business Workshop on Ne

In recent decades the organisation of production has changed, with production and manufacturing activities no longer taking place in a single location, with lower transportation and communication costs leading to production activities geographically... Read More about The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach.

Recent developments in the approximation of EU private international laws: towards mutual trust, mutual recognition and enhancing social justice in civil and commercial matters (2016)
Book Chapter
Gillies, L. (2016). Recent developments in the approximation of EU private international laws: towards mutual trust, mutual recognition and enhancing social justice in civil and commercial matters. In C. Twigg-Flesner (Ed.), Research Handbook on EU Consum

"The growing visibility of the social-policy provisions [in the Treaty] requires the definition of the notion of rights and principles and their implications for private parties." The last 15 years have witnessed the development of a particular set... Read More about Recent developments in the approximation of EU private international laws: towards mutual trust, mutual recognition and enhancing social justice in civil and commercial matters.

Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line (2016)
Thesis
Cook, M. C. Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978802

The study aim was to investigate the perceptions of senior leaders within the sector to determine their views of the key challenges in contemporary academic leadership and to inform practice for the future. Academic leadership is a key component o... Read More about Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line.

Methods and Techniques for Qualitative Data Gathering (2016)
Book Chapter
Ogharanduku, B., Jubb, D., Lochrie, S., Curran, R., & O'Gorman, K. D. (2016). Methods and Techniques for Qualitative Data Gathering. In A. Paterson, D. Leung, W. Jackson, R. MacIntosh, & K. D. O'Gorman (Eds.), Research Methods for Accounting and Finance (

No abstract available.

The Impact of Target Capital Structure and Market Mispricing on Takeover Financing: Empirical Evidence from China (2016)
Journal Article
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.

A Scottish Approach to Taxation: Some Observations (2016)
Report
Steven, G. (2016). A Scottish Approach to Taxation: Some Observations. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

Evidence submitted to the Scottish Parliament Finance Committee for its inquiry on a Scottish Approach to Taxation.