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How feedback about leadership potential impacts ambition, organizational commitment, and performance
(Elsevier, 2018-06-28)In the present research we report results from two experimental studies that examine how feedback about leadership potential impacts leadership ambition, organizational commitment, and performance. Study 1 used an experimental ... -
Response to viewpoint: whither problem structuring methods (PSMs)?
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Internationalisation of the Indian telecommunication industry (1947-2004): a firm-level perspective
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-07-17)While the importance of the telecom revolution in India has been recognised, little attention has been paid to the diverse international influences at the firm level. This paper addresses this gap by developing a firm-level ... -
Relational and Contractual Governance for Innovation
(Springer, 2018-05-08)While the early years of Information Technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) were mainly characterized by a quest for cost savings (Loh and Venkatraman 1992; Lacity and Hirschheim 1993) and a focus on core ... -
A customer journey perspective on service delivery system design: insights from healthcare
(Emerald, 2018)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide novel theoretical insight into service delivery system (SDS) design. To do so, this paper adopts a customer journey perspective, using it as a frame to explore dimensions of ... -
What drives corporate insurance demand?: Evidence from directors’ and officers’ liability insurance in Korea
(Elsevier, 2018-06-21)This paper provides empirical evidence that increasing risk results in higher demand for hedging among firms. Through a natural experiment exploring the Korean Government’s legislative change on shareholder class action, ... -
Navigating the Anthropocene: insights from the wisdom of the Corpus Hermeticum.
(Prometheus Trust, 2018)What is nature? And what is humanity‘s role in the world? Such questions have been asked for millennia and constitute major themes of philosophical enquiry. However, they take on a special urgency for leaders in the context ... -
The Mindful Promise: Leading with Integrity for a Sustainable Future
(Routledge, 2017-11-03)This paper examines the notion that “mindfulness has the power to change the world, one person at a time, from the inside out”. It explores the benefits and challenges of adopting mindfulness practices, and how change ... -
Environmental and Social Matters in Mandatory Corporate Reporting: an Academic Note
(Canadian Academic Accounting Association / Wiley, 2018)This note provides an overview of mandatory corporate reporting for environmental and social matters in Canada, the United States and the European Union. When researchers and educators consider reporting on these matters, ... -
The impact of accounting standards on pension investment decisions
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-05-02)This study analyzes the ‘real’ effects of accounting standards in the context of defined benefit pension plans. Specifically, we examine the impact of IAS 19R, which increases expected pension-induced equity volatility by ... -
‘To invite disappointment or worse’: governance, audit and due diligence in the Ferranti–ISC merger
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-09-15)Mergers and acquisitions frequently destroy shareholder value, and UK companies have a particularly poor record in US deals. But outcomes are rarely as calamitous as in the case of the British electronics group Ferranti ... -
Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods: Subjectivities and Resistance
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Destination readiness for dementia-friendly visitor experiences: A scoping study
(Elsevier, 2018)Ageing and dementia are major societal challenges affecting many countries, with around 46.8 million people worldwide estimated to be living with dementia. These estimates suggest that the worldwide population of people ... -
A practical guide to setting up your Tax Evasion Game
(Journal of Tax Administration, 2018-05-01)Over the last four decades, an important stream of literature has studied tax compliance behaviour in the laboratory through tax evasion games. In this review of over 70 papers, the main results are summarised, highlighting ... -
Contests with ambiguity
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-06-09)The paper examines contests where players perceive ambiguity about their opponents' strategies and determine how perceptions of ambiguity and attitudes to ambiguity affect equilibrium choice. Behaviour in our contest is ... -
Complexities, challenges and implications of collaborative work within a regime of performance measurement: the case of management and organisation studies
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03-26)The current demands on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become more efficient and effective have led to increasing performance pressures on researchers, and consequently on the practices and outcomes of researcher ... -
Consumer Search, Incomplete Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Optimal Interest Rate Policy
(Wiley, 2018-06-05)This paper studies utility-maximizing monetary policy in a two-country economy with consumer search frictions. Search frictions provide a micro-foundation for incomplete exchange rate pass-through and international ... -
Bringing the ugly back: a dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-21)In this paper we adopt a dialogic approach to examining narratives on ethics in leadership. We do this through an ethno-narrative re-reading of writing on the Enron case informed by Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogue. Employing ... -
Self-employment income gap in Great Britain: How much and who?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-06-02)This paper utilises an expenditure survey-based data set that is rich in terms of observable characteristics to estimate the ‘income gap’ (defined to be one minus the proportion of reported to true income) of the ... -
Leading diversity in the boardroom: board evaluation project 2017
(2017)Listed companies are obligated to conduct annual internal evaluations and triennial external board evaluations. The board evaluation industry is concentrated in a small number of organisations conducting the majority of ...