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Do Board CSR Strategy and Orientation Influence Corporate Environmental Disclosures of UK firms. (2017)
Journal Article
Helfaya, E., & Moussa, T. (2017). Do Board CSR Strategy and Orientation Influence Corporate Environmental Disclosures of UK firms. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(8), 1061-1077. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.1960

The environmental implications of corporate economic activities have led to growing demands for firms and their boards to adopt sustainable strategies and to disseminate more useful information about their activities and impacts on environment. This... Read More about Do Board CSR Strategy and Orientation Influence Corporate Environmental Disclosures of UK firms..

The Translator as Agent in Talent Management Knowledge Transfer (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Translator as Agent in Talent Management Knowledge Transfer. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470595817701509

We investigate the transfer of talent management knowledge into a Slovak manufacturing setting from a translation perspective. The translator is shown to be the key agent in the cross-national, cross-language knowledge transfer process, who not only... Read More about The Translator as Agent in Talent Management Knowledge Transfer.

Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative (2017)
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(2017). Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative. Human Relations, 11-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726716674063

Meta-analysis has proved increasingly popular in management and organization studies as a way of combining existing empirical quantitative research to generate a statistical estimate of how strongly variables are associated. Whilst a number of studie... Read More about Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative.

Methodology-as-Technique and the Meaning of Rigor in Globalized Management Research (2016)
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(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)
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(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.

Organizational Misbehavior and Management Control in China’s Public Hospitals: Doctors’ Red Packets (2015)
Journal Article
Cao, X. (2015). Organizational Misbehavior and Management Control in China’s Public Hospitals: Doctors’ Red Packets. Frontiers of Business Research in China, 110 -134. https://doi.org/10.3868/s070-004-015-0006-3

This paper investigates Chinese doctors’ informal payment, known as red packets, with reference to the debate on organizational misbehavior, fiddles and control. It aims to examine the internal and external factors that have contributed to the emerge... Read More about Organizational Misbehavior and Management Control in China’s Public Hospitals: Doctors’ Red Packets.

A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010 (2015)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D., Cao, X., Meng, Q., & Lu, J. (2015). A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010. Industrial Relations Journal, 46(2), 134 -152. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12089

This strike in a Chinese factory of the Japanese multinational Honda in 2010 received worldwide coverage. A young workforce sustained an on–off strike, with varying numbers of workers involved, for 19 days. Academic interest has focused on prospects... Read More about A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010.

The Aurora Women's Leadership Programme: reflections from the inaugural Keele cohort (2015)
Journal Article
Szkornik, K., Beardmore, R., Boylan, J., Hider, S., Hunter, S., Montana-Williams, K., …Watts, J. (2015). The Aurora Women's Leadership Programme: reflections from the inaugural Keele cohort. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, 54 -57

The Aurora programme is a leadership initiative for women in academic and professional roles and is designed to address the lack of women in senior positions within UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). In October 2013, 13 female staff from academ... Read More about The Aurora Women's Leadership Programme: reflections from the inaugural Keele cohort.