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Deregulation and institutional conversion in the Greek hotel industry: an employment relations model in transition (2020)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, O., & Lyddon, D. (2020). Deregulation and institutional conversion in the Greek hotel industry: an employment relations model in transition. Industrial Relations Journal, 51(1-2), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12282

Before the debt crisis of 2010 forced Greece into almost permanent austerity, its hotel workers enjoyed wages and conditions (through a sector collective agreement) similar to those in other economic sectors. This was against the international trend... Read More about Deregulation and institutional conversion in the Greek hotel industry: an employment relations model in transition.

Spatial disparities in SMEs productivity in England (2020)
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Maioli, S., Tiwasing, P., Gorton, M., Phillipson, J., & Newbery, R. (2020). Spatial disparities in SMEs productivity in England. ERC, ESRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, the British Business Bank, the Intellectual Property Office

A conceptual framework for improving effectiveness of risk management in supply networks (2020)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Ghadge, A., Gaudenzi, B., & Dani, S. (2020). A conceptual framework for improving effectiveness of risk management in supply networks. International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 31(1), 77 - 98. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-11-2018-0289

Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to develop a conceptual framework for improving the effectiveness of risk management in supply networks following a critical literature review. Design/methodology/approach - A critical review of 91 scholarly jou... Read More about A conceptual framework for improving effectiveness of risk management in supply networks.

Testing for causality between FDI and economic growth using heterogeneous panel data (2020)
Journal Article
Tsoukis, C. (2020). Testing for causality between FDI and economic growth using heterogeneous panel data. The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 1 - 20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2019.1704843

The causal relationship between FDI inflows and growth is of great policy interest, yet the state of concrete knowledge on the issue is rather poor. Our contribution is to investigate the causal relationship between the ratio of FDI to GDP (FDIG) and... Read More about Testing for causality between FDI and economic growth using heterogeneous panel data.

Multiday expected shortfall under generalized t distributions: evidence from global stock market (2020)
Journal Article
Iqbal, R., Sorwar, G., Baker, R., & Choudhry, T. (2020). Multiday expected shortfall under generalized t distributions: evidence from global stock market. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 55(3), 803-825. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-019-00860-1

We apply seven alternative t-distributions to estimate the market risk measures Value at Risk (VaR) and its extension Expected Shortfall (ES). Of these seven, the twin t-distribution (TT) of Baker and Jackson (in Twin t distribution, University of Sa... Read More about Multiday expected shortfall under generalized t distributions: evidence from global stock market.

New venture evolution of migrants under institutional voids: Lessons from Shonga Farms in Nigeria (2020)
Journal Article
Olarewaju, T., & Mickiewicz, T. (2020). New venture evolution of migrants under institutional voids: Lessons from Shonga Farms in Nigeria. International Small Business Journal, 38(5), 404 - 423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242619896266

This article inductively builds theory on how transaction costs may be alleviated and institutional voids bridged in developing economies, based on the case study of successful migrant entrepreneurial involvement in Nigerian agriculture: Shonga Farm... Read More about New venture evolution of migrants under institutional voids: Lessons from Shonga Farms in Nigeria.

How are we tempted into debt? Emotional appeals in loan advertisements in UK newspapers (2020)
Journal Article
Czarnecka, B., & Mogaji, E. (2020). How are we tempted into debt? Emotional appeals in loan advertisements in UK newspapers. International Journal of Bank Marketing, 38(3), 756-776. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijbm-07-2019-0249

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of emotional appeals in advertisements for loans and explored consumers’ perceptions of advertisements featuring such appeals in order to explore how emotional meanings are transferred to consu... Read More about How are we tempted into debt? Emotional appeals in loan advertisements in UK newspapers.

Tackling rural-urban inequalities through educational mobilities: Rural-origin Chinese academics from impoverished backgrounds navigating higher education (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Tackling rural-urban inequalities through educational mobilities: Rural-origin Chinese academics from impoverished backgrounds navigating higher education. Policy Reviews in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/23322969.2020.1783697

Existing scholarship on marginalised academics are mostly western-based and concerned with inequalities caused by class, gender and/or racial and ethnic differences. This article adds to this literature by highlighting how inequalities caused by the... Read More about Tackling rural-urban inequalities through educational mobilities: Rural-origin Chinese academics from impoverished backgrounds navigating higher education.

Spatial disparities in SME productivity: evidence from the service sector in England (2020)
Journal Article
Tiwasing, P., Ri Kim, Y., & Akinremi, T. (2020). Spatial disparities in SME productivity: evidence from the service sector in England. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2020.1854111

This paper identifies the key determinants of spatial variability of productivity, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the service sector across England. Due to the hierarchically structured data, multilevel analysis is applied t... Read More about Spatial disparities in SME productivity: evidence from the service sector in England.