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Internationalisation, crisis and sustainability: opportunities to reinforce corporate social responsibility strategies (2013)
Journal Article
Fernandez, R. M. (2013). Internationalisation, crisis and sustainability: opportunities to reinforce corporate social responsibility strategies. International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 1(3), 267-277. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2013.055920

There are many factors influencing companies’ decisions about the adoption of corporate social responsibility strategies. International competition is one of them, and those strategies can contribute to improve business results. But the crisis can af... Read More about Internationalisation, crisis and sustainability: opportunities to reinforce corporate social responsibility strategies.

Idiosyncratic volatility and the pricing of poorly-diversified portfolios (2013)
Journal Article
Miffre, J., Brooks, C., & Li, X. (2013). Idiosyncratic volatility and the pricing of poorly-diversified portfolios. International Review of Financial Analysis, 30, 78-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2013.05.007

This article examines the role of idiosyncratic volatility in explaining the cross-sectional variation of size- and value-sorted portfolio returns. We show that the premium for bearing idiosyncratic volatility varies inversely with the number of stoc... Read More about Idiosyncratic volatility and the pricing of poorly-diversified portfolios.

Submerged discontent and patterns of accommodation: a case study of doctors' pay in two public hospitals in China: Chinese hospital doctors' discontent over pay (2013)
Journal Article
Cao, X. (2014). Submerged discontent and patterns of accommodation: a case study of doctors' pay in two public hospitals in China: Chinese hospital doctors' discontent over pay. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 29(2), 124-140. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2196

The article evaluates submerged discontent among Chinese public hospital doctors (Note1) regarding their pay and patterns of accommodation, including doctors' responses through formal and informal actions in the context of health service marketizatio... Read More about Submerged discontent and patterns of accommodation: a case study of doctors' pay in two public hospitals in China: Chinese hospital doctors' discontent over pay.

Market competitiveness and quality performance in high‐contact service industries (2013)
Journal Article
Yee, R. W., Yeung, A. C., Edwin Cheng, T., & Lee, P. K. (2013). Market competitiveness and quality performance in high‐contact service industries. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 113(4), 573-588. https://doi.org/10.1108/02635571311322801

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore conceptually and examine empirically the impact of market competitiveness on employee satisfaction, service quality, and customer satisfaction in high‐contact service industries.

Design/methodology/... Read More about Market competitiveness and quality performance in high‐contact service industries.

The economy of Greece (2013)
Book Chapter
Tsoukis, C. (2013). The economy of Greece. In The Europa Regional Surveys of the World 2013 9-Volume Set

Titles in the series: Africa South of the Sahara; Central and South-Eastern Europe; Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia; The Far East and Australasia; The Middle East and North Africa; South America, Central America and the Caribbean; ...

Beasts, burrowers and birds: the enactment of researcher identities in UK business schools (2013)
Journal Article
(2013). Beasts, burrowers and birds: the enactment of researcher identities in UK business schools. Management Learning, 249 - 266. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507613478890

In this article, we suggest that management research constitutes a field of practice that is made practically intelligible through embodied enactment. This relies on imagination, constructing modes of belonging within communities of management resear... Read More about Beasts, burrowers and birds: the enactment of researcher identities in UK business schools.

Neo-Liberalism at Work: A Case Study of the Reform of the Emergency Services in the UK (2013)
Journal Article
Seifert, R., & Mather, K. (2013). Neo-Liberalism at Work: A Case Study of the Reform of the Emergency Services in the UK. Review of Radical Political Economics, 45(4), 456-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613412475185

This paper examines changes in labor management of workers in UK emergency services under a regime of budget cuts and neoliberal state strategies. It takes an extreme case study, the emergency services, as an example of the limits of privatization an... Read More about Neo-Liberalism at Work: A Case Study of the Reform of the Emergency Services in the UK.