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Advertising and the consumer in the age of Big Tech: a new moment in the evolution of monopoly capitalism? (2022)
Journal Article
Bailey, D., Coffey, D., Thornley, C., & Tomlinson, P. R. (2022). Advertising and the consumer in the age of Big Tech: a new moment in the evolution of monopoly capitalism?. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 46(6), 1387-1406. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beac050

The monopoly capitalism literature has traditionally approached advertising from the vantage point of its role in sustaining the economic order. However, digitalised forms of advertising in contexts dominated by giant digital platform technology comp... Read More about Advertising and the consumer in the age of Big Tech: a new moment in the evolution of monopoly capitalism?.

Why Do UK Firms Repurchase Their Own Shares? (2022)
Journal Article
Dedman, E., Hua, S., & Kungwal, T. (2022). Why Do UK Firms Repurchase Their Own Shares?. International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBAAF.2022.126155

We examine the practice of share repurchases in the UK. We find that an important regulatory reform in 2003, which relaxed previously strict rules about repurchases, was followed by a significant increase in repurchase activity by UK listed firms. Ho... Read More about Why Do UK Firms Repurchase Their Own Shares?.

Default risk, macroeconomic conditions, and the market skewness risk premium (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, Z., Li, X., Chevapatrakul, T., & Gao, N. (2022). Default risk, macroeconomic conditions, and the market skewness risk premium. Journal of International Money and Finance, -. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2022.102683

Previous literature finds that stocks with low market skewness risk outperform stocks with high market skewness risk. Using the portfolio sort approach, we show that this market skewness risk premium is much more pronounced among stocks with low defa... Read More about Default risk, macroeconomic conditions, and the market skewness risk premium.

Industrial policy, productivity and place: London as a ‘role model’ and High Speed 2 (HS2) (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Industrial policy, productivity and place: London as a ‘role model’ and High Speed 2 (HS2). Regional Studies, 1 - 13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2110226

Britain’s industrial strategy, preoccupied with labour productivity, projects London as a role model because of a high gross value added (GVA) to employment ratio, an approach since followed in the national ‘levelling-up’ agenda. We demonstrate that... Read More about Industrial policy, productivity and place: London as a ‘role model’ and High Speed 2 (HS2).

Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry: Virtual Propinquity to Business (2022)
Journal Article
Singh, H., Jain, G., Kumar, N., Hashimy, L., & Shrivastava, A. (2022). Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry: Virtual Propinquity to Business. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 20(2), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.4018/JECO.300303

The concept of fashion has been coupled with technology, where technology has become the protagonist. The transparency between an organization and a customer works as a catalyst, and the customer has taken a more mainstream role. With blockchain tech... Read More about Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry: Virtual Propinquity to Business.

Perceived Selective Incivility and Relational Trust for BAME SMEs during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Olarewaju, T., & Tamvada, J. (2022). Perceived Selective Incivility and Relational Trust for BAME SMEs during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.14346abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine if perceptions of selective incivility reported by BAME SME owners were associated with a different relational trust preference compared to White SME owners, as they all engaged in external bricolage to navig... Read More about Perceived Selective Incivility and Relational Trust for BAME SMEs during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Generalised Trust and Relation Centrism for Corruption as Perceived by Firms (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Olarewaju, T., Tamvada, J., & McDowall-Emefiele, S. (2022). Generalised Trust and Relation Centrism for Corruption as Perceived by Firms. . https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.58

We investigate the role of generalised trust and relation centrism for corruption as perceived by 16,785 firms in 20 lower- and middle-income countries. This quantitative empirical research demonstrates that higher levels of family centrism and gener... Read More about Generalised Trust and Relation Centrism for Corruption as Perceived by Firms.

Blockchain for SME Clusters: An ideation using the framework of Ostrom Commons Governance (2022)
Journal Article
Jain, G., Shrivastava, A., Paul, J., & Batra, R. (2022). Blockchain for SME Clusters: An ideation using the framework of Ostrom Commons Governance. Information Systems Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10288-z

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) organize themselves into clusters by sharing a set of limited resources to achieve the holistic success of the cluster. However, these SMEs often face conflicts and deadlock situations that hinder the fundame... Read More about Blockchain for SME Clusters: An ideation using the framework of Ostrom Commons Governance.

Tracing the Sources of Contagion in the Oil-Finance Nexus (2022)
Book Chapter
Legrenzi. (2022). Tracing the Sources of Contagion in the Oil-Finance Nexus. In Applications in Energy Finance, The Energy Sector, Economic Activity, Financial Markets, and the Environment (115-143). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92957-2_5

We introduce an approach to trace the genesis of contagion occurring in the oil-finance nexus, which consolidates veteran non-linear oil price measures derived from the empirical oil literature, to construct a rule-based specification for filtering s... Read More about Tracing the Sources of Contagion in the Oil-Finance Nexus.

Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry (2022)
Journal Article
Singh, H., Jain, G., Kumar, N., & Hashimy, L. (2022). Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 1 - 21

<p>The concept of fashion has been coupled with technology, where technology has become the protagonist. The transparency between an organization and a customer works as a catalyst, and the customer has taken a more mainstream role. With blockchain t... Read More about Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry.

Assessing the impact of market logic and long-term strategic plans of top management in share buyback decisions (2022)
Journal Article
Demirag, I., Kungwal, T., & Bakkar, Y. (2022). Assessing the impact of market logic and long-term strategic plans of top management in share buyback decisions. Managerial Finance, 48(3), 392 - 408. https://doi.org/10.1108/mf-07-2021-0336

<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>This paper investigates stakeholders' perspectives of share buybacks in the context of time-horizons of investment decisions and strategy.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:s... Read More about Assessing the impact of market logic and long-term strategic plans of top management in share buyback decisions.

Contagion testing in frontier markets under alternative stressful S&P 500 market scenarios (2022)
Journal Article
Mahadeo, S. M., Heinlein, R., & Legrenzi, G. (2022). Contagion testing in frontier markets under alternative stressful S&P 500 market scenarios. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 60, Article 101629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2021.101629

We use alternative approaches to identify stable and stressful scenarios in the S&P 500 market, to offer a new perspective for constructing contagion tests in recipient frontier markets vulnerable to disturbances from this source market. The S&P 500... Read More about Contagion testing in frontier markets under alternative stressful S&P 500 market scenarios.

The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19 (2022)
Book Chapter
(2022). The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19. In Covid-19 in Southeast Asia Insights for a Post-Pandemic World. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.cov

In 2019, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry was the second largest contributor to the Philippines’ economy, providing US$26 billion to the Philippine economy in 2019 (Rosales 2020) and employing at least 1.3 million people in over 1,000... Read More about The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19.

Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond (2021)
Journal Article
Bello. (2021). Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04972-4

This study bridged the gap in the literature by exploring the overlaps between public financial accountability and religious sentiments. Previous studies have considered accountability in specific religions and religious organisations through the exp... Read More about Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond.

Linguistics and the explanatory economy (2021)
Journal Article
Dupre, G. (2021). Linguistics and the explanatory economy. Synthese, 177 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02290-x

I present a novel, collaborative, methodology for linguistics: what I call the ‘explanatory economy’. According to this picture, multiple models/theories are evaluated based on the extent to which they complement one another with respect to data cove... Read More about Linguistics and the explanatory economy.

Crude oil and stock markets in the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from oil exporters and importers (2021)
Journal Article
Heinlein, R., Legrenzi, G. D., & Mahadeo, S. M. (2021). Crude oil and stock markets in the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from oil exporters and importers. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 223 - 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2021.09.007

Financial assets tend to immediately react to the developments of a global crisis. We investigate how the relationship between crude oil and stock market returns for a heterogeneous selection of oil exporters and importers has been affected in the on... Read More about Crude oil and stock markets in the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from oil exporters and importers.

Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review (2021)
Journal Article
Olarewaju. (2021). Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review. Cities, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103406

This literature review provides a systematic review of smart city research between 2000 and 2019. The aim of the review is to provide a comprehensive picture of the state-of-the-art of research in smart cities by addressing major issues and identifyi... Read More about Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review.