• Ransomware and Reputation 

  Cartwright, Edward; Cartwright, Anna (Article)

  Ransomware is a particular form of cyber-attack in which a victim loses access to either his electronic device or files unless he pays a ransom to criminals. A criminal’s ability to make money from ransomware critically ...

• From Social Interactions to Interpersonal Relationships: Influences on Ultra-runners’ race experience 

  Harman, Brian; Kosirnik, Céline; Philippe, Roberta Antonini (Working Paper)

  Ultra-running’s psychological and physiological dimensions have been widely studied. However, the social dimensions of ultra-racing have been largely overlooked. This study aims to identify the different types of ...

• An exploration into the use of the digital platform Slack to support group assessments and feedback and the impact on engagement - Working Paper 

  Cook, Julia; Mabe, Rachael; Harman, Brian (Working Paper)

  Assessment and feedback is consistently highlighted as an area where students feel Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) could improve and regularly scores lowest of the key criteria for student satisfaction (Grove, 2014). ...

• Hidden Culture 

  Granger, R. C.; Parsons, L. (Technical Report)

  Urban leaders globally have shown increasing interest in the city as a site for artistic and culture-led regeneration, and as such attempts to measure the value of culture and the impact of cultural growth have increasingly ...

• Driven to Excess: An analysis of the causes of young male driver deaths and injuries 

  Harman, Brian; Murphy, Maurice (Conference)

  2009 was the safest year on record on Irish roads since records began in 1959. There were 240 deaths on Irish roads, which represent a 14% reduction from 2008 figures. Despite these improvements, 40% of all road deaths ...

• Loosening the Imaginary Purse Strings – The Bolstering Mindset 

  Harman, Brian; Bosak, J.; Fennis, B. (Conference)

  Resistance is defined as the ability to withstand a persuasion attempt (McGuire, 1964). The “bolstering mindset” erodes resistance and makes consumers more vulnerable to persuasive appeals. This mindset occurs when ...

• The Application of Social Marketing in Reducing Road Traffic Accidents among Young Male Drivers: An Investigation Using Physical Fear Threat Appeals. 

  Harman, Brian; Murphy, Maurice (Article)

  There were 338 road fatalities on Irish roads in 2007. Research in 2007 by the Road Safety Authority in Ireland states that young male drivers (17 – 25 years) are seven times more likely to be killed on Irish roads than ...

• How to avoid overspending: uncover the psychology behind why people buy. 

  Harman, Brian; Bosak, J. (Other)

• Book review of Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology 

  Harman, Brian (Article)

• High Performance in African Public Services: Can Ubuntu Leadership save the day? 

  Eyong, J.E. (Article)

  Emerging from indigenous communities in South Africa, the philosophy of Ubuntu has been heralded as a context-resonant leadership model befitting the African context. Ubuntu privileges moral and humanistic approaches to ...

• The prospects for environmental accounting and accountability in China 

  Margerison, John; Fan, Mingyue; Birkin, Frank (Article)

  Foucault’s ideas on episteme change are used to help understand change taking place in China from the “industrial civilization” to an “ecological civilization”. If episteme change is taking place this could be reflected ...

• Crisis y Retos de la Democracia 

  Cortina-Oriol, Mercè; Engelken-Jorge, Marcos (Book)

• Nuevos Movimientos Sociales: de la calle a los ayuntamientos. 

  Cortina-Oriol, Mercè; Ibarra, Pedro; Martí, Salvador; Sribman, Ariel (Book)

  Los días 24 y 25 de noviembre de 2016 se celebró en la Univer-sitat de Girona un Seminario Internacional sobre movimientos sociales. En este, en el que colaboraron tanto la propia universidad (Facultad de Derecho) como la ...

• Retos y Respuestas Actuales de la Democracia. Presentación. 

  Engelken-Jorge, Marcos; Cortina-Oriol, Mercè (Article)

  El presente monográfi co se aproxima a algunos de los principales fenómenos que afectan a las democracias actuales, particularmente a las europeas, así como a algunas de las respuestas ofrecidas – desde el mundo académico, ...

• Movimientos de okupación y políticas públicas urbanas: los casos de Madrid, Barcelona y Bilbao 

  Gonzalez, Robert; Cortina-Oriol, Mercè; Aguilera, Thomas (Article)

  The aim of the article is to identify the impacts of the squatting movement on public policies in Spain (1984-2018). Through the hermeneutics of social processes, three cases are compared (Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao). ...

• How Corporate Governance affect Firm Value and profitability? Evidence from Saudi Financial and Non-Financial Listed Firms 

  Gerged, Ali; Agwili, Ahmed (Article)

  This paper investigates the possible effects of corporate governance (CG) mechanisms on the firm market and accounting value (FV) in Saudi Arabia after the 2011 CG reforms using a sample of 300 annual reports of financial ...

• Making Decisions for Small Business Growth: A Cognitive Style Approach 

  Evans, Marian (Conference)

  Aim: The aim of this study is to explore how novice entrepreneurial owner-managers process information when making business decisions and how this process is influenced by environmental factors. Prior work: There is very ...

• Ecological civilization - China's emerging ecological civilization 

  Zhen, Liu; Fan, Mingyue; Margerison, John (Book chapter)

• Agenda Setting and Democratic Innovation: The Case of the Sustainable Communities Act (2007) 

  Bua, Adrian (Article)

  This article suggests that a common feature among democratic innovations is the lack of an agenda setting function. First, it argues that a lack of control over their own agendas opens democratic innovations to manipulation ...

• Cultural and Creative Districts as Spaces for Value Change 

  Granger, R.C.; Garcia-Carrizo, J. (Book chapter)

  This chapter considers the notion of value appropriation embodied in physical space, as well as the process through which value is constructed through space. Drawing on the case study of the Ouseburn Valley in the North ...

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