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An exploration into student associations of communications to service quality and source credibility
(Working Paper)The purpose of this working paper is to investigate student perceptions towards communications in relation to service quality expectations and source credibility when selecting universities. Adopting a programme of qualitative ... -
Mumpreneurship matters: In search of alternative conceptualisation and contextualisation
(Conference)Objectives In this paper we explore the nature of support that entrepreneurs derive from participation in an online community of parents www.mumsnet.com. We aim to respond to calls for research on entrepreneurship that ... -
Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China's anti-bribery blacklist
(Article)This article empirically investigates why in a corruption-pervasive country only a minority of the firms get caught for bribery while the majority get away with it. By matching manufacturing firms to a blacklist of bribers ... -
Volatility and diversification of exports: Firm-level theory and evidence
(Article)We show using detailed firm-level Chinese data that, among small exporters, firms selling to a more diversified set of countries have more volatile exports, while the opposite holds among large exporters. This a priori ... -
From one to many central plans: Drug advertising inspections and intra-national protectionism in China
(Article)This paper provides the first micro-level evidence for the existence and patterns of intra-national protectionism in China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate ... -
Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations: Evidence from Chinese exports to the US
(Article)We study how Chinese textile and clothing firms adjusted the product structure of their exports to the US, as triggered by the termination of Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) quotas. We find that the removal of MFA quotas ... -
Empirical evidence on the impact of tuition fees on students’ satisfaction, value, service quality and recommendation
(Conference)More than ever before, HEIs are under pressure to compete for students and provide quality educational experiences and value for money as a result of government funding cuts in HE and the increase in student tuition fees. ... -
A review of data mining applications in crime
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