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Methodology-as-Technique and the Meaning of Rigor in Globalized Management Research (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Methodology-as-Technique and the Meaning of Rigor in Globalized Management Research. British Journal of Management, 534-550. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12205

his paper analyses the genre of ‘methodology-as-technique’, which we suggest provides the underpinning logic for a particular conception of scientific rigour that is increasingly regarded as normal in globalized management research. Based on a qualit... Read More about Methodology-as-Technique and the Meaning of Rigor in Globalized Management Research.

Economic crisis and youth unemployment: Comparing Greece and Ireland (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Economic crisis and youth unemployment: Comparing Greece and Ireland. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 409-426. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680116632326

Both Greece and Ireland have long suffered high youth unemployment rates and have been pressured to restructure their employment and social systems under the European Employment Strategy. Problems were aggravated by the harsh conditions imposed by th... Read More about Economic crisis and youth unemployment: Comparing Greece and Ireland.

Using risk sharing contracts for supply chain risk mitigation: A buyer-supplier power and dependence perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Dani. (2016). Using risk sharing contracts for supply chain risk mitigation: A buyer-supplier power and dependence perspective. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 262 - 270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2016.11.034

The paper aims to understand buyer-supplier power and dependence scenarios following a risk sharing contract. The study develops a supply chain risk sharing contract to mitigate demand uncertainty and price volatility related risks in a globalised bu... Read More about Using risk sharing contracts for supply chain risk mitigation: A buyer-supplier power and dependence perspective.

Asset price formation and behavioral biases (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Asset price formation and behavioral biases. Review of Behavioural Finance, 137 -155. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-05-2015-0020

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the debate on whether psychology affects asset prices using agent-based modeling. Design/methodology/approach The authors set up three simulation regimes where the first regime contains fundamental... Read More about Asset price formation and behavioral biases.

Consumer product preferences of organisations that use cause-related marketing - taking the less travelled road (2016)
Journal Article
Jain, G., & Singh, R. (2016). Consumer product preferences of organisations that use cause-related marketing - taking the less travelled road. International Journal of Business Competition and Growth, 5(1/2/3), 137. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbcg.2016.079945

Due to immense competition, organisations are trying to do something different from the other organisations as a part of their strategic initiative. It has been seen that every organisation takes various initiative to do 'something good' towards the... Read More about Consumer product preferences of organisations that use cause-related marketing - taking the less travelled road.

Power, corruption and lies: mis-selling, misconduct and the production of culture in financial services (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Power, corruption and lies: mis-selling, misconduct and the production of culture in financial services. Human Relations, 641-667. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726716673441

The extent of recent misconduct in retail financial services questions assumptions that mis-selling is perpetrated by rogue traders dealing in sub-prime markets. Yet we know little about the organizational dimensions of mis-selling and specifically h... Read More about Power, corruption and lies: mis-selling, misconduct and the production of culture in financial services.

Steps in Moving Evidence-Based Health Informatics from Theory to Practice. (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Steps in Moving Evidence-Based Health Informatics from Theory to Practice. https://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2016.22.4.255

OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate and promote the importance of applying a scientific process to health IT design and implementation, and of basing this on research principles and techniques. METHODS: A review by international experts linked to the IMIA Wor... Read More about Steps in Moving Evidence-Based Health Informatics from Theory to Practice..

To debt or not to debt: Are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks? (2016)
Journal Article
Sorwar, G., Pappas, V., Pereira, J., & Nurullah, M. (2016). To debt or not to debt: Are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks?. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 113 - 126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.10.012

We empirically analyze the market risk profiles of Islamic banks with two sets of conventional banks taken from the same geographical locations as Islamic banks and from a random global sample respectively for the period 2000–2013. Moreover, we divid... Read More about To debt or not to debt: Are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks?.

Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services (2016)
Journal Article
Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2016). Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services. Capital and Class, 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816667423

This article examines the impact on staff of state-imposed public sector reforms alongside austerity cuts since 2010 in the emergency services of England. We discuss the contextual imperatives for change in the police, fire and ambulance services whi... Read More about Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services.

Understand the Frequency of Application Usage by Smartphone Users: Door Is Open, but Closes Quickly (2016)
Book Chapter
Jain, G., & Rakesh, S. (2017). Understand the Frequency of Application Usage by Smartphone Users: Door Is Open, but Closes Quickly. In Handbook of Research on Intelligent Techniques and Modeling Applications in Marketing Analytics (291-303). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0997-4.ch016

Smartphone users download the apps after the enormous popularity in this mobile world and then eventually delete those apps. There are various factors like frequency, relevance and space it consumes in the phone, which decide a user's preference for... Read More about Understand the Frequency of Application Usage by Smartphone Users: Door Is Open, but Closes Quickly.

Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-07-2016-0013

Purpose: This paper seeks to explore how organizations operate in the absence of a clear regulatory authority in a self-regulating environment. Significant moves toward self-regulation by various political administrations, together with successive wa... Read More about Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry.

"Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). "Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 287-303. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-07-2016-0013

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how organizations operate in the absence of a clear regulatory authority in a self-regulating environment. Significant moves towards self-regulation by various political administrations, together with... Read More about "Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry.

The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan. International Journal of Project Management, 913-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.09.005

While project management has been effectively applied to many fields and sectors, disaster management has yet to see its full benefits. This inductive study generates insights about the nature and role of ‘active leadership’ (LaBrosse, 2007) in the c... Read More about The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan.

University Website Design in International Student Recruitment: Some Reflections (2016)
Book Chapter
Mogaji, E. (2016). University Website Design in International Student Recruitment: Some Reflections. In International Marketing of Higher Education (99-117). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54291-5_5

This chapter proposes a new conceptual framework of university website design as a communication tool in marketing higher education to international students. It provides some perspectives as to why current web advertising may not be an effective mar... Read More about University Website Design in International Student Recruitment: Some Reflections.

The Effectiveness of Supply Chain Risk Information Processing Capability: An Information Processing Perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Fan, H., Cheng, T. C. E., Li, G., & Lee, P. K. C. (2016). The Effectiveness of Supply Chain Risk Information Processing Capability: An Information Processing Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 63(4), 414-425. https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2016.2598814

To mitigate and respond to supply chain risks, previous research usually views supply chain risk management as the management of various activities concerning risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and responses. While supply chain risk informa... Read More about The Effectiveness of Supply Chain Risk Information Processing Capability: An Information Processing Perspective.