Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups (2021)
Journal Article
Pearson. (2021). Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups. Legal Studies, 1 - 19. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.51

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The recent advances in information technology now allow millions of people to trade and invest in an array of financial assets with the help of online brokerage platforms. This allows retail investors to have... Read More about Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups.

Strike ballots under the 2016 Trade Union Act: Unions mobilise to counter the latest legal onslaught (2021)
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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.

Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK (2021)
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Foden, M., Head, E., Katz-Gerro, T., & Martens, L. (2021). Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK. Sociology, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211043679

<jats:p> Recent years have seen the emergence of calls for the transformation of food systems to make these more responsive to environmental, access and health challenges. Addressing how the UK food system may best meet these challenges, this article... Read More about Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK.

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)
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(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.

Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks (2021)
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Jones, S. H., & Talbott, S. (2022). Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks. Enterprise and Society, 23(4), 1092-1121. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.15

Despite significant developments in understanding the role of women in early-modern business, more is needed to fully understand women’s impact on eighteenth-century trading networks. Further, much less is known about the role of wider family members... Read More about Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks.

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.

Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems (2021)
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Martens. (2021). Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(38), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00714-z

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate cl... Read More about Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems.

The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation (2021)
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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.