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Exploring Decision-making: An Information Processing Perspective
(Book chapter)Adopting a dual processing cognitive perspective, this study explores the decision-making processes past the start-up stage that small entrepreneurial businesses employ to grow. The author examines how entrepreneurs evaluate ... -
England: The North-South Divide
(Book chapter)The aim of this contribution is to explain and assess the relevance of the North-South divide in England. To achieve this, we start by tracing the roots of the North-South divide discourse, in historical, economic and ... -
Online Communities and Entrepreneuring Mothers
(Conference)Although entrepreneurship is well recognised as a gendered phenomenon which is embedded within the family domain, less is known about the interplay of individual, communal and social influences on women’s entrepreneurship ... -
Credit Information Sharing and Loan Default in Developing Countries: The Moderating Effect of Banking Market Concentration and National Governance Quality
(Article)Departing from the existing literature, which associates credit information sharing with improved access to credit in advanced economies, we examine whether credit information sharing can also reduce loan default rate for ... -
“Ethical capitalism” in the city: Embedded economy or marketization? The case of social impact bonds
(Article)Translator disclaimer Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Get access ABSTRACT This paper offers a cultural political economy approach to efforts to advance the “social ... -
The broken promises of the social investment market
(Article)The United Kingdom is pioneering a new model for the delivery of public services, based around the device of a social investment market. At the heart of this social investment market is an innovative new financial instrument, ... -
The Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Situational Abnormality in Satisfaction-Trust-Loyalty Link
(Article)Purpose – The relational link between satisfaction-trust-loyalty is rather complex and dynamic. This paper examines the effect of situational abnormality (SA) and uncertainty avoidance (UA) variables as moderators to trust ... -
The Institute for Fiscal Studies Report: English Council Funding: What’s Happened and What’s Next?
(Article)The article reviews the recent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IfFS) report, English Council Funding: What’s Happened and What’s Next. The article provides an overview of the main themesand findings of the report which examines ... -
Measuring Performance of Non-profit organisations: Evidence from Large Charities,
(Article)How to measure performance in charitable organisations continues to excite interest among academics and practitioners. Despite the intellectual interest, little consensus has emerged as to what are the best measures of ... -
“I never needed eyes to see”: Leveraging extreme challenges for successful venture creation
(Article)Challenge-based entrepreneurship is a nascent research area that has sought to tackle a longstanding issue of how entrepreneurs may overcome extreme challenges. We seek fresh insights into this issue by researching ... -
Board-CEO friendship ties and firm value: Evidence from US firms
(Article)This study examines the impact of board-CEO friendship ties on firm value and explores potential channels through which changes in firm value may be conveyed, based on a sample of 1,696 publicly listed firms in U.S. over ... -
When the “well-oiled machine” meets the “pyramid of people”: Role perceptions and hybrid working practices of middle managers in a bi-national organization - ARTE
(Article)This article examines the middle management representations of organization and managerial roles within a specific bicultural organizational context. The argument explores the extant cross-cultural management literature ... -
Performance evaluation in education under uncertainty: A robust optimization approach
(Conference)Analysing and enhancing education system performance is of importance to local authorities and policy makers because education improves the human capital, which, in turn, leads to economic growth. This study draws on the ... -
Data envelopment analysis with ratio data: Challenges and opportunities
(Conference)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a well-established technique for performance measurement, which has been regularly applied to both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations to significantly streamline performance ... -
Where Less is More: Institutional Voids and Business Families in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Article)Purpose- The article offers a conceptual interpretation of the role business families play in the institutional context of sub-Saharan Africa, characterised by voids within the formal institutional setting. Responding to ... -
Does using latest technology impact new venture innovation? A contingency based view of institutional environments
(Article)Drawing on resourced based theory and institutional theory, we develop a multi-level model on the outcomes of early-stage entrepreneurs employing latest technologies in their ventures. Essentially, we argue that the effects ... -
Market Sentiment and Firm Investment Decision-Making
(Article)While research on factors driving corporate investment decisions has blossomed, knowledge related to the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) market sentiment on investment decision outcomes is lacking. In this study, we ... -
Fake News in Context: Truth and Untruths
(Article)Fake News appears to be the most modern of social problems. After bursting onto the scene in 2016, spurred in no small part by then Presidential candidate Trump and his commitment to a post-truth style of politics, Fake ... -
Evolutionary and Ecological conceptualization of dynamic capabilities: Identifying elements of the Teece and Eisenhardt schools
(Article)Research on dynamic capabilities has been one of the most prolific research streams of the last two decades. Peteraf et al. (2013) show that the research stream has suffered from a divide into two schools: One school ...
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