HF Commerce

The Influence of Buyers' Time Orientation on Online Shopping Behavior: A Typology (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Influence of Buyers' Time Orientation on Online Shopping Behavior: A Typology. International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 299-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/10864415.2016.1319206

This research investigates the influence of buyers’ time orientations (measured as polychronic–monochronic and past–future time orientations) on four major variables of online shopping: trust, social interaction, browsing, and locus of control, which... Read More about The Influence of Buyers' Time Orientation on Online Shopping Behavior: A Typology.

"Pre-launch prediction of market performance for short lifecycle products using online community data" (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). "Pre-launch prediction of market performance for short lifecycle products using online community data". Journal of Interactive Marketing, 12-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intmar.2016.10.004

Prediction of sales for short life-cycle products can be problematic. Generic predictive models based on past launches may provide only crude historic data which are unsuited for distinctive, innovative products. This paper investigates the role of o... Read More about "Pre-launch prediction of market performance for short lifecycle products using online community data".

Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity. Marketing Theory, 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593117692021

This study discusses netnographic findings involving 472 YouTube postings categorized to identify themes regarding consumers’ experience of music in advertisements. Key themes relate to musical taste, musical indexicality, musical repetition and musi... Read More about Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity.

A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains (2017)
Journal Article
Fassam, L., & Dani, S. (2017). A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains. British Food Journal, 119(1), 67 - 83. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-07-2016-0314

Purpose: Business, consumers and governmental organisations are harbouring a growing need to gain an appreciation of behaviours connected to food criminality. In order to acquire a cross-functional understanding of these thematic areas (crime and fra... Read More about A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains.

Power, corruption and lies: mis-selling, misconduct and the production of culture in financial services (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Power, corruption and lies: mis-selling, misconduct and the production of culture in financial services. Human Relations, 641-667. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726716673441

The extent of recent misconduct in retail financial services questions assumptions that mis-selling is perpetrated by rogue traders dealing in sub-prime markets. Yet we know little about the organizational dimensions of mis-selling and specifically h... Read More about Power, corruption and lies: mis-selling, misconduct and the production of culture in financial services.

Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners. In Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization (50-79). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch003

The recent association agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are meant to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreements between the EU and the three Eastern Partners. Their purpose is to deepen the political and economic ties bet... Read More about Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners.

Retrospective: service failure and loyalty: an exploratory empirical study of airline customers (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Retrospective: service failure and loyalty: an exploratory empirical study of airline customers. Journal of Services Marketing, 480-484. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSM-04-2016-0137

Purpose
This paper aims to reflect on the paper “Service failure and loyalty: an exploratory empirical study of airline customers” published 18 years ago. It positions it in the evolving literature on relationship marketing and suggests directions f... Read More about Retrospective: service failure and loyalty: an exploratory empirical study of airline customers.

The effect of web advertising visual design on online purchase intention: An examination across gender (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The effect of web advertising visual design on online purchase intention: An examination across gender. Computers in Human Behavior, 622 - 634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.090

With web advertising growing to be a huge industry, it is important to understand the effectiveness of web advertisement. In this study we investigate the effects of web advertising visual design (WAVD) purchasing intention within the framework of an... Read More about The effect of web advertising visual design on online purchase intention: An examination across gender.

Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry (2016)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., & Enright, B. (2016). Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry. Geoforum, 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.05.005

This paper examines the increasing complexity of interactions between temporary staffing agencies and their client firms within the local labour market of Birmingham, UK. Temporary Staffing Agencies have been identified as active and influential agen... Read More about Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry.

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?.

"Getting the right people on the bus": recruitment, selection and integration for the branded organisation (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). "Getting the right people on the bus": recruitment, selection and integration for the branded organisation. European Management Journal, 114-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2016.01.001

This paper examines how employer branding is used and embedded through the organizational HR practices; specifically recruitment, selection and integration. The paper adds to the growing literature on employer branding by specifically focussing upon... Read More about "Getting the right people on the bus": recruitment, selection and integration for the branded organisation.

Trading Patterns and Market Integration in Overlapping Experimental Asset Markets (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Trading Patterns and Market Integration in Overlapping Experimental Asset Markets. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1473-1499. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109015000563

This paper examines trading patterns and market integration using laboratory asset markets. Our markets are designed to approximately correspond to the trading day for stocks cross-listed in markets in Europe and North America. Some of our markets fe... Read More about Trading Patterns and Market Integration in Overlapping Experimental Asset Markets.

The Fine Jewellery Industry: Corporate Responsibility Challenges and Institutional Forces Facing SMEs (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Fine Jewellery Industry: Corporate Responsibility Challenges and Institutional Forces Facing SMEs. Journal of Business Ethics, 681 - 699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3071-4

There has been limited coverage of the corporate responsibility (CR) practices of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the mainstream CR literature. Furthermore, there has been no systematic analysis of the responsibilities of the high value... Read More about The Fine Jewellery Industry: Corporate Responsibility Challenges and Institutional Forces Facing SMEs.

Targeting leisure and business passengers with unsegmented pricing (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Targeting leisure and business passengers with unsegmented pricing. Tourism Management, 502-512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2015.12.014

We analyse the fare setting strategy of a leading European low-cost carrier, Ryanair, which, until recently, adopted an unsegmented pricing policy (all tickets belong to a single fare class). We show that, to account for different demand characterist... Read More about Targeting leisure and business passengers with unsegmented pricing.

Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City (2015)
Journal Article
Parish, J. (2015). Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City. Anthropology Southern Africa, 68(3-4), 290-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2015.1100520

Among Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to an understanding... Read More about Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City.

Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value. Journal of Marketing Management, 652-672. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2015.1117517

Teenage mothers find themselves caught between two discourses: the irresponsibility of youth and the responsibility of motherhood. We unravel some of the complexities surrounding the performance of socially approved ‘good mothering’, from a social po... Read More about Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value.

The effects of non-trading on the illiquidity ratio (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The effects of non-trading on the illiquidity ratio. Journal of Empirical Finance, 204 -228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2015.05.004

Using a simulation analysis we show that non-trading can cause an overstatement of the observed illiquidity ratio. Our paper shows how this overstatement can be eliminated with a very simple adjustment to the Amihud illiquidity ratio. We find that th... Read More about The effects of non-trading on the illiquidity ratio.

Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance (2015)
Journal Article
Catney. (2015). Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15613357

The paper uses a case study of urban regeneration policy in Sheffield, UK, to explore local public entrepreneurship in a system of multi-level governance. Recent analyses of public entrepreneurs have directed attention to the macro-political structur... Read More about Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance.

Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles (2015)
Journal Article
Parish. (2015). Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5(2), 101-120. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.2.009

While it has been extensively recorded how the West African occult economy allows for a metanarrative critique of modernity, this article analyzes a convergence between witchcraft discourses and the capitalist market, looking through the local lens o... Read More about Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles.