• Board Gender Diversity and Firm Performance: Evidence from FTSE100 companies 

  Brahma, Sunjukta; Nwafor, Chioma; Boateng, Agyenim (Article)

  This paper examines the relationship between gender diversity, selected female attributes and financial performance of FTSE 100 firms in the UK. Drawing on critical mass theory by measuring gender diversity as levels of ...

• National Culture, Corporate Governance and Corruption: A Cross-country Analysis 

  Boateng, Agyenim; Wang, Yan; Ntim, Collins; Glaister, Keith W. (Article)

  Drawing on institutional theory, we examine the impact of corporate governance (CG) on corruption. The interaction effects of national culture and CG on corruption are also examined. By employing a dataset of 149 countries, ...

• Credit information sharing and bank loan pricing: do concentration and governance matter? 

  Fosu, Samuel; Danso, Albert; Agyei-Boapeah, Henry; Ntim, Collins G. (Article)

  The development of credit information sharing schemes in developing countries has gained significant attention in recent times along with ongoing financial sector reforms. In this paper, we provide first-hand evidence of ...

• Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure? 

  Danso, Albert; Fosu, Samuel; Owusu-Agyei, Samuel; Ntim, Collins G.; Adegbite, Emmanuel (Article)

  We investigate firm-level determinants of capital structure using a large sample of 4,284 Japanese firms over a nineteen-year period (i.e., over 61,000 firm-year observations), a hitherto less examined sample for this ...

• Optimal control and simulation for production planning of network failure-prone manufacturing systems with perishable goods 

  Hatami-Marbini, A.; Sajadi, SM; Malekpour, H (Article)

  The problem of controlling the production rates of failure prone manufacturing systems has stochastic features that make it more complex and challenging. In this study, we consider a network of manufacturing machines based ...

• A Diagnostic Tool to Determine a Strategic Improvisation Readiness Index Score (IRIS) to Survive, Adapt, and Thrive in a Crisis 

  Hughes, Paul; Morgan, Robert E.; Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Kouropalatis, Yiannis; Lindgreen, Adam (Article)

  Crises for business-to-business (B2B) firms are characterized by unexpected or unanticipated severe threats that are highly uncertain where strategic response times are low in which executives are victim of overwhelming ...

• Restrictions and Resistance in The Postcolonial Periphery: Labour Power and Skilled Migrant Workers in The United Kingdom. 

  Ejiogu, Chibuzo (Book chapter)

  Central to the understanding of work in and by the Global South are processes of migration, in particular, international mobility. Work undertaken by workers originating from the Global South is often located within ...

• The impact of ICT on service trade 

  Luong, Tuan Anh; Thu Hang, Nguyen (Article)

  While trade in goods has been investigated extensively over decades, studies on trade in services are relatively new. In this paper we investigate the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) on trade ...

• Terrorism and Global Business Performance 

  Okafor, Godwin; Tauringana, Venancio; Tingbani, Ishmael; Sha'ven, Widin Bongasu (Article)

  This paper contributes to the literature on business performance by investigating the relationship between terrorism and global business performance at country level. A measure of a country’s distance from the frontier ...

• The Performative University: ‘Targets’, ‘Terror’ and ‘Taking Back Freedom’ in Academia 

  Jones, David; Visser, Max; Stokes, Peter; Ortenblad, Anders; Deem, Rosemary; Rodgers, Peter; Tarba, Shlomo (Article)

  This special issue assembles eight papers which provide insights into the working lives of early career to more senior academics, from several different countries. The first common theme which emerges is around the ...

• Does board gender diversity affect renewable energy consumption? 

  Atif, Muhammad; Hossain, Mohammed; Alam, Md Samsul; Goergen, Marc (Article)

  This paper examines the effect of board gender diversity on renewable energy consumption. Using a panel of 11,677 firm-year observations from the USA for 2008–2016, we find a positive relationship between board gender ...

• Green Human Resource Management Bundle Practices and Sustainable Manufacturing Performance: Understanding Potential Relationships 

  Zaid, Ahmed A.; Bon, Abdul Talib; Jaaron, Ayham A.M. (Conference)

  In this era of the modern business environment, organizations have to constantly adapt and react to new ecological challenges. Therefore, it is critical for organizations to adopt various eco-friendly practices and processes ...

• Word of Mouth, Viral Marketing and Open Data: A Large-Scale Simulation for Predicting Opinion Diffusion on Ethical Food Consumption 

  Bruzzone, A.G.; Agresta, M.; Hsu, Jen-Hsien (Article)

  This paper presents the first results of a large-scale-Agent-Based Simulation devoted to simulate individual behaviour inside a medium sized city (600,000 inhabitants). Humans are simulated as Intelligent Individual entities ...

• Globalization and infectious diseases: Evidence on the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Thu Hang, Nguyen; Luong, Tuan Anh (Article)

  In this paper we investigated the impact of globalization on infectious diseases and found that export values contributed greatly to the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 outbreak. We collected the number of new cases and ...

• From crisis to catastrophe: The death and viral legacies of austere neoliberalism in Europe? 

  Standring, Adam; Davies, Jonathan S. (Article)

  The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event, but what became apparent almost immediately was that while the virus seems indiscriminate, vulnerability and the capacity to mitigate its impact are not spread equally, either ...

• Looking North: the multi-level governance of economic policy 

  Giovannini, Arianna; Raikes, Luke (Book chapter)

  Debates on the state of regional inequalities in the UK date back decades. And yet, recent studies have clearly shown that these divides are widening even further, and the UK is now one of the most regionally unequal ...

• Will Africapitalism work? 

  ADEGBITE, EMMANUEL; Daodu, Olabisi; Wood, Jacob (Article)

  Africapitalism suggests a refined capitalist system aimed at achieving collective good unlike the shareholder value maximisation model of Anglo-American capitalism. It emphasises the obligations of the private sector in ...

• Exploring student’s perceptions on psychological empowerment by using a business simulation 

  Arroteia, Nuno; Hafeez, Khalid; Avramenko, Alex (Article)

  This paper introduces a study exploring the impact of computerised business simulations on student’s perceptions about their psychological empowerment. The research is focused on undergraduate business students in a Higher ...

• Supporting the needs of special assistance (including PRM) passengers: An international survey of disabled air passenger rights legislation 

  Budd, Lucy; Ison, Stephen (Article)

  Passengers who require special assistance at airports and on aircraft represent one of the fastest growing demographics for aviation worldwide. At some airports, annual growth in PRM (persons with reduced mobility) traffic ...

• Responsible Transport: A post-COVID agenda for transport policy and practice 

  Budd, Lucy; Ison, Stephen (Article)

  The unprecedented global shutdown that resulted from the COVID pandemic presents an opportunity to reconfigure future transport policy and practice for the benefit of the global environment and individual citizens alike. ...

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