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A facility location model using DEA
(Conference)In general, facility location problems target at finding the optimal location among a set of candidate facility locations (e.g., plants and warehouses) where the objective is to minimize the total cost of the siting ... -
Factors affecting corporate environmental disclosure in emerging economies – the role of corporate governance structures
(Article)This study seeks to examine whether internal corporate governance (CG) mechanisms affect Corporate Environmental Disclosure (CED) in emerging economies. Using a sample of 500 firm-year observations, this study distinctively ... -
Factors affecting environmental practice adoption at small European airports: an investigation
(Article)The majority of the world’s 3,759 commercial airports handle under 5 million passengers a year and these small airports rarely employ practices to address their environmental externalities. The aim of this research is to ... -
Factors Affecting the Investment Climate, SMEs Productivity and Entrepreneurship in Nigeria
(Article)In Nigeria, most of businesses operate in the form of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). SMEs play a significant role in the economic development of many nations. This paper employs current perspectives to examine the ... -
Factors influenceing the share of ownership sought in cross- border acquisitions - UK perspectives
(Conference)The aim of the paper is to investigate the factors influencing share of ownership sought in cross border acquisitions (CBAs). Drawing on multiple theoretical explanations, we develop and test hypotheses on factors influencing ... -
Faith based voluntary action
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Faith in the public realm: controversies, policies and practices
(Book)Based on primary research, this book explores the controversies, policies and practices of ‘public faith’, questioning perceptions of a fixed divide between religious and secular participants in public life and challenging ... -
Faith, hope and clarity: faith groups and civil renewal
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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 ... -
Farewell (again) to the working class.
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Farmers’ mobilisation of social capital for beneficial uptake of technological innovations in southwest Nigeria
(Article)Social capital has been identified as an important factor influencing successful uptake of technological innovations among small-scale, rural farmers in developing countries. This study draws on descriptive statistics and ... -
A FDH super-efficiency model
(Conference)The free disposal hull (FDH) model, developed by Deprins et al. [The Performance of Public Enterprises Concepts and Measurements, Elsevier, 1984], is derived from a representation of the production technology where production ... -
FDI Determinants in Least Recipient Regions: The Case of Sub‐Saharan Africa and MENA.
(Article)This paper explores the determinants of FDI into FDI least recipient regions. Panel data for 20 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and 11 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are used for the period 2000 – 2012. Findings ... -
Feedback trading and the ramadan effect in frontier markets
(Article)We examine the presence of the Ramadan effect in feedback trading drawing on a sample of eleven majority Muslim markets for the period of 29/6/2001 to 1/8/2016. Feedback trading is significant in several of these markets, ... -
Feedback-Dialogues: Exploring the student perspective
(Article)There have been many recommendations for dialogue to be part of the feedback process for students in higher education. In this paper we report on the findings of feedback-dialogue practices among 17 History, Politics and ...