Business School
The University of Exeter Business School is one of the UK's leading centres of business education and research. We bring together internationally respected academics with students from over 80 countries. For more information, please visit http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk
Recent Submissions
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Inspired and appreciated by the group: The social identity approach to creativity
(Oxford University Press, 1 May 2019)The processes of creative production and creativity recognition are both understood to be central to the dynamics of creativity. Nevertheless, they are generally seen by creativity researchers as theoretically unrelated. ... -
Signal Strength, Media Attention, and Resource Mobilization: Evidence from New Private Equity Firms
(Academy of Management, 15 August 2019)Past research has shown that new firms can facilitate resource mobilization by signaling their unobservable quality to prospective resource providers. However, we know less about situations in which firms convey multiple ... -
“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. We examine the extent to which inequality is associated with a wish for a strong leader. We ... -
Management Learning in Historical Perspective: Rediscovering Rowntree and the British Interwar Management Movement
(Academy of Management, 29 July 2019)British interwar management (1918-1939) has been criticized as overly conservative, comprising a core of progressive firms amidst a mass of conservatively-run, family-dominated businesses. According to the dominant narrative, ... -
Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis
(INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences), 2019)We present a natural field experiment designed to measure other–regarding preferences in the market for taxis. We employed testers of varying ethnicity to take a number of predetermined taxi journeys. In each case we ...