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Backtesting trading risk of commercial banks using expected shortfall (2008)
Journal Article
Wong, W. K. (2008). Backtesting trading risk of commercial banks using expected shortfall. Journal of Banking and Finance, 32(7), 1404-1415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.11.012

This paper uses saddlepoint technique to backtest the trading risk of commercial banks using expected shortfall. It is found that four out of six US commercial banks have excessive trading risks. Monte Carlo simulation studies show that the proposed... Read More about Backtesting trading risk of commercial banks using expected shortfall.

Identifying high technology small firms: A sectoral analysis (2008)
Journal Article
O'Regan, N., & Sims, M. A. (2008). Identifying high technology small firms: A sectoral analysis. Technovation, 28(7), 408-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2008.02.010

This study explores the use of existing categorizations in classifying high and low technology firms such as the standard industrial classification (SIC). Such classifications tend to be applied to firms in a blanket fashion rather than on a systemat... Read More about Identifying high technology small firms: A sectoral analysis.

Tourism and the sexualisation of the gaze: Solo female tourists' experiences of gendered power, surveillance and embodiment (2008)
Journal Article
Aitchison, C., & Jordan, F. (2008). Tourism and the sexualisation of the gaze: Solo female tourists' experiences of gendered power, surveillance and embodiment. Leisure Studies, 27(3), 329-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614360802125080

This article investigates the exercise of power through the sexualisation of women as both subjects and objects of the gaze(s) of men in tourism. More specifically, the research addresses ways in which this surveillance impacts on the embodied experi... Read More about Tourism and the sexualisation of the gaze: Solo female tourists' experiences of gendered power, surveillance and embodiment.

The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria (2008)
Journal Article
Saad, M., Zawdie, G., & Malairaja, C. (2008). The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria. Science and Public Policy, 35(6), 431-443. https://doi.org/10.3152/030234208X323316

This article addresses issues relating to the policy shift in developing countries aimed at making universities increasingly relevant to the socio-economic milieu by promoting the 'triple helix culture' as a sustainable basis for innovation and techn... Read More about The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria.

The conditions of our freedom: Foucault, organization and ethics (2008)
Journal Article
Crane, A., Knights, D., & Starkey, K. (2008). The conditions of our freedom: Foucault, organization and ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly, 18(3), 299-320

The paper examines the contribution of the French philosopher Michel Foucault to the subject of ethics in organizations. The paper combines an analysis of Foucault’s work on discipline and control, with an examination of his later work on the ethical... Read More about The conditions of our freedom: Foucault, organization and ethics.

Why not teach "diversity" to public sector managers? (2008)
Journal Article
Page, M., Oldfield, C., & Urstad, B. (2008). Why not teach "diversity" to public sector managers?. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 21(4), 368-382. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550810880241

Purpose - Equality and diversity are generally positioned as special interests, marginal to the mainstream of social policy teaching and learning. The purpose of this paper is to make the case for shifting equality and diversity out of the margins an... Read More about Why not teach "diversity" to public sector managers?.