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Perceived regulator/ burden, institutional ties, financial resource capability and corporate social performance in a sub-Saharan African economy.
(Article)This study adopts the institutional, slack resource and social capital theories to examine the perceived regulatory burden-corporate social performance (CSP) link and the moderating effects of this relationship. The ... -
Personalisation of power, neoliberalism and the production of corruption
(Article)This paper utilises a political lens in considering the cause for the production of corruption and the role of political leadership. Specifically, the notion of personalisation of power as advocated by Slater (2003) is ... -
Plug-able intelligent tutoring and authoring: an integrated approach to problem-based learning
(Article)Intelligent tutoring systems are sought to ease the imbalance created by higher demand of multi-disciplinary knowledge/skill transfer, and increasingly scarce resources in education. Configurable, Incremental and Re-structurable ... -
The politics of shareholder activism in Nigeria
(Article)Shareholder activism has become a force for good in the extant corporate governance literature. In this article, we present a case study of Nigeria to show how shareholder activism, as a corporate governance mechanism, can ... -
Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures amongst Chinese listed firms
(Article)Purpose: This study examines the factors that affect the level of Environmental Information Disclosures (EID) following the issuance of the “Environmental Information Disclosure Guidelines for Chinese Listed Companies”. ... -
Predictability of Stock Returns based on the Partial Least Squares Methodology
(Working Paper)Empirical evidence on the predictability of aggregate stock returns has shown that many commonly used predictor variables have little power to predict the market out-of-sample. However, a recent paper by Kelly and Pruitt ... -
Prediction of financial strength ratings using machine learning and conventional techniques
(Article)Financial strength ratings (FSRs) have become more significant particularly since the recent financial crisis of 2007-09 where rating agencies failed to forecast defaults and the downgrade of some banks. The aim of this ... -
A Principal Component Analysis of Project Management Competencies for the Ghanaian Construction Industry
(Article)The study adopts a data reduction technique to examine the presence of any complex structure among a set of project management competency variables. A structured survey questionnaire was administered to 100 project managers ... -
The prospects for environmental accounting and accountability in China
(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 ... -
Psychoanalysis and the myths of corporate communication.
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Psychological violence at work: where does the human dignity lie?
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A Qual-Quant (Q2) method for exploring and appraising project management competency requirements for managing large projects in Ghana.
(Article)This research aims to explore project management competency requirements specific to managing large and complex projects in the context of the Ghanaian construction industry. It adopted a Focus Group Discussion to identify ... -
R&D intensity, knowledge creation process and new product performance: the mediating role of international R&D teams
(Article)Although previous studies have shown the positive effect of research and development (R&D) intensity on new product performance (NPP), our understanding about the mechanisms through which R&D intensity influence NPP is ... -
R&D investment, firm performance and moderating role of system and safeguard: Evidence from emerging markets
(Article)The relationship between R&D and firm performance is highly dependent on the external environment. Therefore, this paper examined the effects of country level investor protection (safeguards) and governance mechanisms ...