Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability (2024)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D., & Cao, X. (2024). Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability. Employee Relations, https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-09-2023-0486

Purpose
This study investigates the origins and elaboration of the managerial “unitary” frame of reference associated with Alan Fox, focusing on unionised firms: the industrial relations context, intellectual roots, elaboration, adaptation by other... Read More about Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability.

Fundamentals, real-time uncertainty and CDS index spreads (2023)
Journal Article
Audzeyeva, A., & Wang, X. (2023). Fundamentals, real-time uncertainty and CDS index spreads. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 61(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-023-01127-6

The high level of economic uncertainty linked to the pace of the recovery process can persist after a crisis and has implications for the market pricing of firms’ credit risk reflected in credit default swap (CDS) spreads. This paper examines the rol... Read More about Fundamentals, real-time uncertainty and CDS index spreads.

Exploring human resources management in merger and acquisition: a case study of a foreign multinational company in China (2022)
Thesis
Liu, Z. Exploring human resources management in merger and acquisition: a case study of a foreign multinational company in China. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/425035

Few studies have systematically evaluated how the key dimensions of human resource management can facilitate successful mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in emerging economies. This research addresses this significant gap by exploring the role of train... Read More about Exploring human resources management in merger and acquisition: a case study of a foreign multinational company in China.

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?.

Antecedents of Blockchain-Enabled E-commerce Platforms (BEEP) adoption by customers – A study of second-hand small and medium apparel retailers (2022)
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Jain, G., Kamble, S. S., Oly Ndubisi, N., Shrivastava, A., Belhadi, A., & Venkatesh, M. (2022). Antecedents of Blockchain-Enabled E-commerce Platforms (BEEP) adoption by customers – A study of second-hand small and medium apparel retailers. Journal of Business Research, 576 - 588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.05.041

Increasingly, the apparel industry generates enormous waste and pollution causing extreme water scarcity in emerging economies, where circular economy (CE) adoption can help to alleviate these pressing issues of this century. Environmentally consciou... Read More about Antecedents of Blockchain-Enabled E-commerce Platforms (BEEP) adoption by customers – A study of second-hand small and medium apparel retailers.

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)
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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.

Strike ballots under the 2016 Trade Union Act: Unions mobilise to counter the latest legal onslaught (2021)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D. (2021). Strike ballots under the 2016 Trade Union Act: Unions mobilise to counter the latest legal onslaught. Industrial Relations Journal, 52(6), 479-501. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12349

The 2016 Trade Union Act (TUA) added ‘draconian’ restrictions to the already tortuous postal balloting regime for holding lawful strikes. The government predicted that 29–35% of ballots would lose. Using data from trade union returns to the Certifica... Read More about Strike ballots under the 2016 Trade Union Act: Unions mobilise to counter the latest legal onslaught.

Crude oil and stock markets in the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from oil exporters and importers (2021)
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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.

From panic to dispassionate rationality - Organizational responses in procurement after the initial COVID-19 pandemic peak (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). From panic to dispassionate rationality - Organizational responses in procurement after the initial COVID-19 pandemic peak. IEEE Engineering Management Review, -. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2021.3079630

Lockdowns and social distancing from the COVID19 crisis took many by surprise. Panic grew about the implications. Supply chains became center stage. We consider decision making in large multinational companies and whether COVID19 responses focused on... Read More about From panic to dispassionate rationality - Organizational responses in procurement after the initial COVID-19 pandemic peak.

Distributed ledger technology as a catalyst for open innovation adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises (2021)
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Jain, G., Hashimy, L., & Treiblmaier, H. (2021). Distributed ledger technology as a catalyst for open innovation adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises. Journal of High Technology Management Research, 32(1), 100405 - 100405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2021.100405

Open innovation and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are both based on the underlying principles of distribution and sharing. While open innovation is about sharing knowledge to improve innovation processes and performance, DLT is a distributed da... Read More about Distributed ledger technology as a catalyst for open innovation adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises.

An Empirical Investigation of U.K. Environmental Targets Disclosure: The Role of Environmental Governance and Performance (2021)
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Moussa, T., Kotb, A., & Helfaya, A. (2021). An Empirical Investigation of U.K. Environmental Targets Disclosure: The Role of Environmental Governance and Performance. European Accounting Review, 31(4), 1 - 35. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2021.1890173

Although an increasing number of companies have publicly declared environmental targets (ETs), scant research has been conducted in this area. This study, therefore, investigates the extent of corporate environmental targets disclosure (ETD) and empi... Read More about An Empirical Investigation of U.K. Environmental Targets Disclosure: The Role of Environmental Governance and Performance.

The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation (2021)
Journal Article
Liang, L., Alam, A., Sorwar, G., Yazdifar, H., & Eskandari, R. (2021). The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 120488 - 120488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120488

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the structures of inter-organizational connections and innovation results in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Existing literature shows that inter-organization connections can ben... Read More about The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation.

News, fiscal rules and the Keynesian multiplier in a DSGE model (2020)
Journal Article
Tsoukis, C. (2020). News, fiscal rules and the Keynesian multiplier in a DSGE model

We extend the standard Smets-Wouters (2007) medium-sized DSGE model to analyse the effects of news and the Keynesian multiplier. News is modelled in a novel way compared to the literature, as revisions of expectations regarding future fundamentals. N... Read More about News, fiscal rules and the Keynesian multiplier in a DSGE model.

Producers responding to environmental turbulence in the Greek agricultural supply chain: does buyer type matter? (2020)
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Despoudia, S., Papaioannou, G., & Dani, S. (2020). Producers responding to environmental turbulence in the Greek agricultural supply chain: does buyer type matter?. Production Planning and Control, 32(14), 1223–1236. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2020.1796138

There are many changes in the EU Agricultural Supply Chain (ASC). These changes cause environmental turbulence for supply chain entities operating in this sector. In the Greek ASC, there is a significant decline in its performance in particular at pr... Read More about Producers responding to environmental turbulence in the Greek agricultural supply chain: does buyer type matter?.

A Brave New World: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transitioning to Sustainable Supply and Production. (2020)
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(2020). A Brave New World: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transitioning to Sustainable Supply and Production. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104894

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Overcoming the Arrogance of Ignorance: Supply-Chain Lessons from COVID-19 for Climate Shocks (2020)
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(2020). Overcoming the Arrogance of Ignorance: Supply-Chain Lessons from COVID-19 for Climate Shocks. One Earth, 9 - 12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.017

The effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remind us of our arrogance of ignorance. Society has suffered. We are emerging scarred but enlightened. Can COVID-19 lessons help us avoid repeating the same mistakes with future climate... Read More about Overcoming the Arrogance of Ignorance: Supply-Chain Lessons from COVID-19 for Climate Shocks.

Influence of Organisational Culture on Supply Chain Resilience: A Power and Situational Strength Conceptual Perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Whiteside, J., & Dani, S. (2020). Influence of Organisational Culture on Supply Chain Resilience: A Power and Situational Strength Conceptual Perspective. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13070147

<jats:p>The purpose of this paper is to explore how organisational culture, represented by the competing values framework (CVF), and the relationship mechanisms of situational strength and power influence an organisation’s approach to supply chain re... Read More about Influence of Organisational Culture on Supply Chain Resilience: A Power and Situational Strength Conceptual Perspective.

Blowing in the Wind? An investigation into the effect of advertising music on consumer habitus (2020)
Thesis
Wright, C. W. Blowing in the Wind? An investigation into the effect of advertising music on consumer habitus. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/417215

The potential rewards of utilising music within an industrial environment has gained a good level of academic traction within recent years with studies exploring music as a potential facilitator in consumer experience, creating first impressions and... Read More about Blowing in the Wind? An investigation into the effect of advertising music on consumer habitus.