All Outputs (252)

The cross-section of industry equity returns and global tactical asset allocation across regions and industries (2020)
Journal Article
Umutlu, M., & Bengitöz, P. (2020). The cross-section of industry equity returns and global tactical asset allocation across regions and industries. International Review of Financial Analysis, 72, Article 101574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101574

This study investigates which index characteristics predict returns in the cross-section of local industry indexes in six regions. The results show that geographical origin and market capitalization of indexes critically determine the predictive abil... Read More about The cross-section of industry equity returns and global tactical asset allocation across regions and industries.

Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2020, September). Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism. Paper presented at ATLAS annual conference 2020: Tourism as a driver of regio

This paper presents emerging themes from our study of the semiotics that sustain the visual culture, consumption and place myth of Edinburgh, as the ‘world’s leading festival city’ (Festivals Edinburgh, 2020). Today Edinburgh hosts eleven internation... Read More about Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism.

Transport Policy Review: Where does Ireland Stand on Climate Change for Transport and Logistics Sectors? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Plant, E., & Zhang, X. (2020, September). Transport Policy Review: Where does Ireland Stand on Climate Change for Transport and Logistics Sectors?. Paper presented at e-LRN 2020 Special Web Conference: Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains During Times

Purpose - In response to the increasing climate disruption and global effort to the low-carbon transition, the Irish Government has set out the national carbon emissions reduction target. The transport sector in Ireland is the second-largest contribu... Read More about Transport Policy Review: Where does Ireland Stand on Climate Change for Transport and Logistics Sectors?.

Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2022). Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city. Annals of Leisure Research, 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1809478

We explore the case for a Deaf festival in Edinburgh, the self-proclaimed 'world leading Festival City'. The formal recognition of British Sign Language in the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 is paramount to the cultural and political context. Joining Englis... Read More about Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city.

International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency (2020)
Journal Article
Ghio, E. (2020). International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency. Juris Poiesis, 23(32), 576-581. https://doi.org/10.5935/2448-0517.20200026

This project assesses how harmonisation can be promoted and achieved in the EU without a completely uniform legal system in place. The project focuses on international legal cooperation as a means to promote harmonisation throughout the EU. It uses t... Read More about International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium spo

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders.

The effects of customer involvement on perceived service performance and word-of-mouth: The mediating role of service co-creation (2020)
Journal Article
Cheung, M., & To, W. M. (2021). The effects of customer involvement on perceived service performance and word-of-mouth: The mediating role of service co-creation. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 33(4), 1014-1032. https://doi.org/10.1108/A

Purpose This study aims to use the framework of customer dominant logic to explore the mediating role of service co-creation on the relationships between customer involvement and perceived service performance and between customer involvement and wor... Read More about The effects of customer involvement on perceived service performance and word-of-mouth: The mediating role of service co-creation.

Strengthening the Principle of Non-Refoulement (2020)
Journal Article
Moran, C. F. (2021). Strengthening the Principle of Non-Refoulement. International Journal of Human Rights, 25(6), 1032-1052. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1811690

This work examines the origins of the principle of non-refoulement and how it has evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Non-refoulement, or the right not to be repelled or returned, was agreed upon by States as a narrow protection... Read More about Strengthening the Principle of Non-Refoulement.

The UK private housebuilding sector: social media perspectives (2020)
Journal Article
Craig, N., Pilcher, N., MacKenzie, R., & Boothman, C. (2021). The UK private housebuilding sector: social media perspectives. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-05-2020-0051

Purpose The UK private housebuilding sector is the key supplier of new-build homes for customers, constituting a fifth of the entire UK construction industry. Yet, despite the high average cost of houses, and official reports advocating improvement,... Read More about The UK private housebuilding sector: social media perspectives.

The rising importance of the "Smart territory" concept: definition and implications (2020)
Journal Article
Navío-Marco, J., Rodrigo-Moya, B., & Gerli, P. (2020). The rising importance of the "Smart territory" concept: definition and implications. Land Use Policy, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105003

The “Smart territory” concept emerges strongly not only as an extension of the smart city concept but also in opposition to it. The “smartization” of cities can produce a digital gap in the territories, particularly in rural areas that do not have th... Read More about The rising importance of the "Smart territory" concept: definition and implications.

The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities (2020)
Journal Article
Schiavone, F., Appio, F. P., Mora, L., & Risitano, M. (2020). The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 16, 1155–1165 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-0

This present editorial illustrates the recent evolution of strategy, organization and entrepreneurship in smart city. Referring to strategy, integrated smart city strategies aim to connect the physical space of cities with the economic and social sph... Read More about The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities.

Education Reform in England and the Transformation of School Teachers' Working Lives: a Labour Process Perspective (2020)
Thesis
Morrell, S. Education Reform in England and the Transformation of School Teachers' Working Lives: a Labour Process Perspective. (Thesis). University of Bradford. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2753644

Sentiment-Apt investors and UK sector returns (2020)
Journal Article
Sakariyahu, R., Sherif, M., Paterson, A., & Chatzivgeri, E. (2021). Sentiment-Apt investors and UK sector returns. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26(3), 3321-3351. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1964

This paper examines the relationship between sentiment-apt investors and UK stock returns at industry level over the period January 1988 to December 2017. Using two new sentiment proxies (laggards to leaders and growth opportunity index) for 10 discr... Read More about Sentiment-Apt investors and UK sector returns.

All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm? (2020)
Journal Article
Brito, M., Chipulu, M., Dawson, I. G., Hanoch, Y., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2021). All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm?. Mind and Society, 20, 119-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-020-00251-3

The five of us research and teach risk analysis with an eye towards decision support. Our work has been dedicated to taming risks and helping to make challenging decisions. But nothing had prepared us for the Covid-19 pandemic. We first had to grappl... Read More about All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm?.

UK trading patterns within and between regions in the automotive sector—A network analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & Sarabi, Y. (2021). UK trading patterns within and between regions in the automotive sector—A network analysis. World Economy, 44(2), 510-529. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13006

This study provides an analysis of the UK's role in the automotive sector, focusing on the trading relationship of the UK within and between regions. It additionally provides an examination of the countries that hold equivalent trading positions to t... Read More about UK trading patterns within and between regions in the automotive sector—A network analysis.

'In courts we don't trust': Institutional framework in the context of developing economy (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Omeihe, K. O., Gustavsson, V., Omeihe, I., Amoako, I. O., & Saud Khan, M. (2020, August). 'In courts we don't trust': Institutional framework in the context of developing economy. Paper presented at 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancou

In this paper, we examine with particular interest the mechanism of trust in Nigeria's unique socioeconomic landscape. This becomes pertinent as formalised institutional arrangements such as courts and legal structures appear to be underdeveloped. We... Read More about 'In courts we don't trust': Institutional framework in the context of developing economy.

Trade union responses to precarious employment: the role of power resources in defending precarious flight attendants in Ryanair (2020)
Journal Article
Mendonça, P. (2020). Trade union responses to precarious employment: the role of power resources in defending precarious flight attendants in Ryanair. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 26(4), 431-445. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258920944

Drawing on a case study on the civil airline industry in Portugal, this article addresses the impact of precarious employment on trade union action and examines the conditions under which trade unions defend precarious workers’ interests. Using a pow... Read More about Trade union responses to precarious employment: the role of power resources in defending precarious flight attendants in Ryanair.

The Limits and Logic of the EU Harmonisation Process in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Ghio, E., Boon, G., Ehmke, D., Gant, J., Langkjaer, L., & Vaccari, E. (2020). The Limits and Logic of the EU Harmonisation Process in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://www.insol-europe.org/download/documents/1820

Digital contact-tracing and pandemics: Institutional and technological preparedness in Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Arakpogun, E. O., Elsahn, Z., Prime, K. S., Gerli, P., & Olan, F. (2020). Digital contact-tracing and pandemics: Institutional and technological preparedness in Africa. World Development, 136, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105105

Several countries in Africa have either deployed or considering using digital contact-tracing (DCT) as part of their Covid-19 containment strategy, amidst calls for the use of technology to improve the efficiency of traditional contact-tracing. We di... Read More about Digital contact-tracing and pandemics: Institutional and technological preparedness in Africa.