Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (39)

Vernacular mourning and corporate memorialization in framing the death of Steve Jobs (2015)
Journal Article
Taylor. (2015). Vernacular mourning and corporate memorialization in framing the death of Steve Jobs. Organization, 114-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508415605109

This article explores the role of vernacular mourning in framing the death of Apple co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs. Using the concept of heterotopia to explore the spatio-temporal power relations of contemporary organizational memor... Read More about Vernacular mourning and corporate memorialization in framing the death of Steve Jobs.

Government size, institutions and export performance among OECD economies (2015)
Journal Article
Tsoukis. (2015). Government size, institutions and export performance among OECD economies. Economic Modelling, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2015.11.011

With a panel of 18 OECD countries, 1980–2005, we investigate the determinants of export performance, in particular the effects of the size of government and institutional features. In a model of endogenous extent of domestically-produced goods, gover... Read More about Government size, institutions and export performance among OECD economies.

The welfare state, institutions and export performance (2015)
Journal Article
Bournakis, I., & Tsoukis, C. (2016). The welfare state, institutions and export performance. Economic Modelling, 53, 37 - 47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2015.11.011

With a panel of 18 OECD countries, 1980–2005, we investigate the determinants of export performance, in particular the effects of the size of government and institutional features. In a model of endogenous extent of domestically-produced goods, gover... Read More about The welfare state, institutions and export performance.

The effects of non-trading on the illiquidity ratio (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The effects of non-trading on the illiquidity ratio. Journal of Empirical Finance, 204 -228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2015.05.004

Using a simulation analysis we show that non-trading can cause an overstatement of the observed illiquidity ratio. Our paper shows how this overstatement can be eliminated with a very simple adjustment to the Amihud illiquidity ratio. We find that th... Read More about The effects of non-trading on the illiquidity ratio.

The Corporation Ten Years On: An Interview and an Audience with Joel Bakan (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The Corporation Ten Years On: An Interview and an Audience with Joel Bakan. Journal of Management Inquiry, 344-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492615616872

More than 10 years ago, the Canadian documentary film The Corporation, written by University of British Columbia professor of law Joel Bakan, significantly challenged the way we think about the modern corporation by unraveling its legal status as a p... Read More about The Corporation Ten Years On: An Interview and an Audience with Joel Bakan.

An analysis of business phenomena and austerity narratives in the arts sector from a new materialist perspective (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). An analysis of business phenomena and austerity narratives in the arts sector from a new materialist perspective. Accounting and business research, 738-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2015.1081555

The paper adopts a lens of new materialism to analyse narratives of managers in the arts sector in response to the master narrative of austerity and proposed‘solutions’ using business models(including accounting). It explores the complex trajectories... Read More about An analysis of business phenomena and austerity narratives in the arts sector from a new materialist perspective.

Understanding ethical luxury consumption through practice theories: A study of fine jewellery purchases (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Understanding ethical luxury consumption through practice theories: A study of fine jewellery purchases. Journal of Business Ethics, 525-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2893-9

This paper builds on existing research investigating CSR and ethical consumption within luxury contexts, and makes several contributions to the literature. First, it addresses existing knowledge gaps by exploring the ways in which consumers perform e... Read More about Understanding ethical luxury consumption through practice theories: A study of fine jewellery purchases.

On the Prediction of Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Spreads (2015)
Journal Article
Audzeyeva, A., & Fuertes, A. (2015). On the Prediction of Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Spreads. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2649216

This paper examines the quarter-ahead out-of-sample predictability of Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey credit spreads before and after the Lehman Brothers' default. A model based on the country-specific credit spread curve factors predicts... Read More about On the Prediction of Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Spreads.

The changing pattern of UK strikes, 1964-2014 (2015)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D. (2015). The changing pattern of UK strikes, 1964-2014. Employee Relations, 37(6), 733-745. https://doi.org/10.1108/er-05-2015-0084

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the changing strike activity in the UK over the last 50 years. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a wide literature on UK strikes and an extensive trawl of newspaper sour... Read More about The changing pattern of UK strikes, 1964-2014.

Combined Effects of Capacity and Time on Fares: Insights from the Yield Management of a Low-Cost Airline (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Combined Effects of Capacity and Time on Fares: Insights from the Yield Management of a Low-Cost Airline. Review of Economics and Statistics, 900-915. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00451

Based on two strands of theoretical research, this paper provides new evidence on how fares are jointly affected by in-flight seat availability and purchasing date. As capacity-based theories predict, it emerges that fares monotonically and substanti... Read More about Combined Effects of Capacity and Time on Fares: Insights from the Yield Management of a Low-Cost Airline.

Reflecting a diversified country: a content analysis of newspaper advertisements in Great Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Mogaji, E. (2015). Reflecting a diversified country: a content analysis of newspaper advertisements in Great Britain. Marketing Intelligence and Planning, 33(6), 908-926. https://doi.org/10.1108/MIP-07-2014-0129

Purpose Identifying the protected characteristics under the Equality Act of the UK, the purpose of this paper is to discover the extent to which the protected characteristics are featured in British newspaper advertisements, as evidence of diversity... Read More about Reflecting a diversified country: a content analysis of newspaper advertisements in Great Britain.

"You're not going anywhere" Employee Retention, Symbolic Violence and the Experience of Participation and the Structuring of Subordination in a UK-based Call Centre (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). "You're not going anywhere" Employee Retention, Symbolic Violence and the Experience of Participation and the Structuring of Subordination in a UK-based Call Centre. Sociological Review, 801-819. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12312

This article explores practices that produce and reproduce domination in and through organizational hierarchies and shows how high levels of employee turnover were managed within a UK-based call centre through the use of culturally bound employment p... Read More about "You're not going anywhere" Employee Retention, Symbolic Violence and the Experience of Participation and the Structuring of Subordination in a UK-based Call Centre.

A changing market for PFI financing: Evidence from the financiers (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). A changing market for PFI financing: Evidence from the financiers. Accounting forum, 187-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2015.05.001

Responses to a questionnaire survey received from PFI financiers, and interviews with senior managers, show that as the credit crunch took hold banks became more risk averse. The prediction of Toms et al. that collusion between the state and the priv... Read More about A changing market for PFI financing: Evidence from the financiers.

Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Spreads: In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Predictability (2015)
Journal Article
Audzeyeva, A., & Fuertes, A. (2015). Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Spreads: In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Predictability. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2649216

This paper investigates the quarter-ahead predictability of Brazil, Mexico, Philippines and Turkey credit spreads for short and long maturity bonds during two separate periods preceding and following the Lehman Brothers' default. A model based on the... Read More about Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Spreads: In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Predictability.

Continuous improvement competence, employee creativity, and new service development performance: A frontline employee perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Yang, Y., Lee, P. K., & Cheng, T. C. E. (2016). Continuous improvement competence, employee creativity, and new service development performance: A frontline employee perspective. International Journal of Production Economics, 171, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.08.006

As an important source of competitive advantage, new service development (NSD) is widely used by service firms for new developments. Since creative ideas are crucial to NSD and service firms commonly involve frontline employees in the process of NSD,... Read More about Continuous improvement competence, employee creativity, and new service development performance: A frontline employee perspective.

Building Contacts and Widening Circles (2015)
Journal Article
Mcluskie, P. (2015). Building Contacts and Widening Circles. Experiential Entrepreneurship Exercises Journal, 1(SI-ETC), 21-25

The Kill Programme: an ethnographic study of the Dirty Work of meat inspectors in a slaughterhouse (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The Kill Programme: an ethnographic study of the Dirty Work of meat inspectors in a slaughterhouse. New Technology, Work and Employment, 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12046

It has been argued that ‘dirty work’ is characterised by strong occupational and workgroup cultures. This literature has mainly focused on direct workers, but this article largely attends to indirect ‘dirty’ workers, specifically meat inspectors, thr... Read More about The Kill Programme: an ethnographic study of the Dirty Work of meat inspectors in a slaughterhouse.