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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.

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.

Seeing and Being Seen as a Management Learning and Education Scholar: Rejoinder to "Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Seeing and Being Seen as a Management Learning and Education Scholar: Rejoinder to "Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory. Journal of Management Education, 692-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562916662103

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Dockworkers’ resistance and union reform within China’s globalised seaport industry (2016)
Journal Article
Cao, X., & Meng, Q. (2016). Dockworkers’ resistance and union reform within China’s globalised seaport industry. Globalizations, 14(2), 272-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1203131

This study examines the prominent 2013 Yantian dock strike in China and analyses the main factors contributing to the dockers’ successful campaign. It finds that the dockers’ capacity to take strike action mainly derives from their bargaining power,... Read More about Dockworkers’ resistance and union reform within China’s globalised seaport industry.

Bodies, Sexualities and Women Leaders in Popular Culture: From Spectacle to Metapicture (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Bodies, Sexualities and Women Leaders in Popular Culture: From Spectacle to Metapicture. Gender in Management: An International Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-10-2014-0096

Purpose
This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways.

Design/methodology/approach
The arguments are based on a reading of the Danish television... Read More about Bodies, Sexualities and Women Leaders in Popular Culture: From Spectacle to Metapicture.

Targets and resources: a screening perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Sikdar. (2016). Targets and resources: a screening perspective. Managerial and Decision Economics, 471-489. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.2798

To secure funding for a project, an agent (informed about the project's type) announces a target output. The principal provides more generous resources for high targets but makes compensation tied to performance relative to the projection. The incent... Read More about Targets and resources: a screening perspective.

Can trade be good for the environment? (2016)
Journal Article
Lapan, H., & Sikdar, S. (2016). Can trade be good for the environment?. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19(2), 267-288. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12176

We analyze the impact of trade in a differentiated good on environmental policy when there is local and transboundary pollution. In autarky, the (equivalent) pollution tax is set equal to the marginal damage from own emissions. If the strategic polic... Read More about Can trade be good for the environment?.

Modelling conditions and health care processes in electronic health records: an application to severe mental illness with the clinical practice research datalink (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Modelling conditions and health care processes in electronic health records: an application to severe mental illness with the clinical practice research datalink. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146715

Background
The use of Electronic Health Records databases for medical research has become mainstream. In the UK, increasing use of Primary Care Databases is largely driven by almost complete computerisation and uniform standards within the National... Read More about Modelling conditions and health care processes in electronic health records: an application to severe mental illness with the clinical practice research datalink.

The banality of bad leadership and followership (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The banality of bad leadership and followership. Society and Business Review, 12 - 23. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-09-2015-0049

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the loss of moral capital incurred by an organization from indifferent or deferential followers of bad leaders. Despite the proliferation of codes of conduct and ethics and compliance programs throughout the... Read More about The banality of bad leadership and followership.