• Institutional Voids and Innovation Governance: A Conceptual Exposition of the Open versus Closed Architecture Choice 

  Liedong, Tahiru; Peprah, Augustine; Eyong, J.E. (Article)

  The choice of open versus closed innovation is shaped by the interplay between firms' analytical orientation and the institutional conditions within firms' operating environments. Whereas there is a plethora of research ...

• The impact of governmental intervention on the association between initial public offering and future stock issuance 

  Gounopoulos, Dimitrios; Guney, Yilmaz; Patsika, Victoria; Leng, J. (Article)

  We examine the effect of initial public offering (IPO) characteristics on seasoned equity offering (SEO) decisions in relation to governmental intervention in China. Our results confirm the process of underpriced IPOs in ...

• Social capital's role in humanitarian crises 

  Aldrich, Daniel; Kolade, Oluwaseun; McMahon, Kate; Smith, Robert (Article)

  The growing scale and persistence of humanitarian crises constitute a critical problem for nation-states, aid organizations, and crisis-affected people around the world. Many in the fields of disaster response and ...

• Should Charity Begin at Home? An Empirical Investigation of Consumers’ Responses to Companies’ Varying Geographic Allocations of Donation Budgets. 

  Schons, Laura Marie; Cadogan, John; Tsakona, Roumpini (Article)

  In our globalized and interconnected world, companies are increasingly donating substantial amounts to good causes around the globe. Many companies choose to donate “at home” while others give to causes in faraway places ...

• Manifestations of Social Class and Agency in Cultural Capital Development Processes: An Empirical Study of Turkish Migrant Women Entrepreneurs in Sweden 

  Yeroz, H. (Article)

  Purpose While migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of gender and ethnicity, social class, as an axis of difference, received scant attention in entrepreneurship and migrant ...

• Shared leadership: a place-based leadership analysis of voluntary organisations 

  Mumbi, Henry; Mumbi (Conference)

  Positivistic and neo-positivistic approaches to research have dominated the way leadership is studied. It has been argued that leadership is a relational concept (Vallance et al, 2019; Bouden and Liddle, 2018) and the ...

• Democratic innovations and the policy process 

  Bua, Adrian (Book chapter)

  This chapter situates democratic innovation within broader processes of institutional change in public administration and develops the argument that they have vulnerable potential to act as a democratising force, through ...

• Cultural Antecedents of Sustainability and Regional Economic Development - A Study of SME ‘Mittelstand’ Firms in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) 

  Kraus, P; Cooper, Cary; Stokes, Peter; Liu, Yipeng; Moore, Neil; Britzelmaier, Bernd; Tarba, Shlomo (Article)

  This paper examines behavioural and regional/geographic cultural antecedents of sustainability in SME contexts. The study identifies prevailing macro-representations of sustainability in the literature and highlights an ...

• Talent management and the HR function in cross-cultural mergers and acquisitions: the role and impact of bi-cultural identity 

  Liu, Yipeng; Vrontis, Demetris; Visser, Max; Stokes, Peter; Smith, Simon; Moore, Neil; Thrassou, Alkis; Ashta, Ashok (Article)

  This paper examines bi-cultural talent in relation to human resource management (HRM) practices in cross-cultural merger and acquisitions (M&A). The intersection of HRM, bi-cultural talent management and cross-cultural M&A ...

• CSR disclosure and corporate sustainability: evidence from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange 

  Yekini, Kemi; Li, Han; Ohalehi, Paschal; Chijoke Mgbame, Aruoriwo M. (Article)

  In this paper, we examined the relationship between CSR and corporate sustainability of Chinese companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. This is necessitated by the high demand and increase in CSR activities and ...

• Conversando con Goliat. Participación, movilización y represión en torno a conflictos neoextractivistas y ambientales [Conversing with Goliath: Partcipation , mobilization and repression in neoextractivist and environmental conflicts] 

  Zaremberg, Gisela; Guarneros-Meza, Valeria; Gallardo Robles, Lourdes; Ortuno Martinez, Ivonne (Working Paper)

  This working paper/report provides the initial findings of the first phase of the project entitled 'Conversing with Goliath', funded by the British Academy (2017-2020). The findings are mostly based on a legal analysis of ...

• How Can National Governance affect Education Quality in Western Europe? 

  Gerged, Ali; Elheddad, Mohamed (Article)

  Purpose – As the international society faces unprecedented challenges associated with resource scarcity, governance scandals, increasing injustice and inequality, new opportunities for higher education institutions are ...

• ESG disclosure and firm performance before and after IR: The moderating role of governance mechanisms 

  Albitar, Khaldonn; Hussainey, Khaled; Kolade, Nas; Gerged, Ali (Article)

  Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of environmental, social, and governance disclosure (ESGD) on firm performance (FP) before and after the introduction of integrated reporting (IR) further to exploring a ...

• Impact of Ownership Structure and Ownership Concentration on Credit Risk of Chinese Commercial Banks 

  Liu, Yang; Brahma, Sanjukta; Boateng, Agyenim (Article)

  Purpose- The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of bank ownership structure and ownership concentration on credit risk. Design/methodology/approach- Using panel data on a sample of 88 Chinese commercial ...

• Participating in Critical Discourse: A Critical Research Study of Clinicians’ Concerns for a Ghanaian Hospital E-mail System 

  Nyame-Asiamah, Frank; Kawalek, Peter (Article)

  A growing body of information systems (IS) literature advocates the explicit use of suitable critical theories to explore power issues in developing countries and make IS research findings more accessible to systems’ users ...

• Diaspora Entrepreneurs’ Push and Pull Institutional Factors for Investing in Africa: Insights from African Returnees from the United Kingdom 

  Nyame-Asiamah, Frank; Amoako, Isaac Oduro; Debrah, Yaw; Amankwaah-Amoah, J. (Article)

  Applying the institution-based views, this article conceptualises how diaspora entrepreneurs take stimuli from the push and pull institutional factors to develop business enterprises in their countries of origin. Using ...

• An omnichannel approach to retailing: demystifying and identifying the factors influencing an omnichannel experience 

  Hickman, Ellie; Kharouf, Husni; Sekhon, Harjit (Article)

  The purpose of this research is to identify the factors that influence an omnichannel experience. Omnichannel is an emerging approach to retailing that responds to the changing nature of how customers shop in alternation ...

• Teaching politics in an era of Trump 

  Blair, Alasdair; Stockemer, Daniel (Article)

  One of the most important challenges facing Political Science Faculty is the way in which the curriculum engages with, and responds to, the populist tide that has spread across a significant number of countries in recent ...

• Why is austerity governable? A Gramscian urban regime analysis of Leicester, UK 

  Bua, Adrian; Davies, Jonathan; Cortina-Oriol, Mercè; Thompson, Ed (Article)

  Austerity has been delivered in the UK without durably effective resistance. Read through a dialogue between urban regime theory and Gramsci’s theory of the integral state, the article considers how austerity was normalized ...

• Research proposals: a practical guide 

  Denscombe, Martyn (Book)

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