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Scoring environmental credentials: a review of UK conference and meetings venues using the GREENER VENUE framework (2014)
Journal Article
Webber, D. E., Whitfield, J., Dioko, L. A., & Webber, D. J. (2014). Scoring environmental credentials: a review of UK conference and meetings venues using the GREENER VENUE framework. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 22(2), 299-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2013.809090

This paper investigates frameworks to conceptualise, monitor and compare corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance at individual conference venues, and provides a new comparative framework that organises and communicates information detailing... Read More about Scoring environmental credentials: a review of UK conference and meetings venues using the GREENER VENUE framework.

Using student evaluations to improve individual and departmental teaching qualities (2014)
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Hedges, M., & Webber, D. J. (2014). Using student evaluations to improve individual and departmental teaching qualities. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 19(3), 323-339

Student evaluations can be seen as an opportunity for students to vent their views on the quality of teaching that they receive, and sometimes instructors trivialise the importance of this opportunity for dialogue with students and colleagues and ref... Read More about Using student evaluations to improve individual and departmental teaching qualities.

Attracting convention and exhibition attendance to complex MICE venues: Emerging data from Macao (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Whitfield, J., Dioko, L. D. A., Webber, D., & Zhang, L. (2014). Attracting convention and exhibition attendance to complex MICE venues: Emerging data from Macao. International Journal of Tourism Research, 16(2), 169-179. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.1911

This study presents an importance-performance analysis of multi-level attributes (event, facility and destination) evaluated by delegates attending an exhibition event in a 'complex meetings, incentive, convention or exhibition (MICE) venue' in great... Read More about Attracting convention and exhibition attendance to complex MICE venues: Emerging data from Macao.

What determines students' choices of elective modules? (2014)
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Pacheco, G. A., Hedges, M. R., & Webber, D. J. (2014). What determines students' choices of elective modules?. International Review of Economics Education, 17, 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iree.2014.05.003

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Prior literature emphasises supply side issues concerning the modularisation of university programmes such as curricula issues and enhanced learning opportunities. Comparatively little is known about the demand side, such as why... Read More about What determines students' choices of elective modules?.

Internet shopping and internet banking in sequence: An explanatory case study (2013)
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Patsiotis, A. G., Webber, D. J., & Hughes, T. (2013). Internet shopping and internet banking in sequence: An explanatory case study. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 18(4), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1057/fsm.2013.22

Adoption of Internet banking often follows on from usage of Internet shopping, but policies to increase Internet banking use typically ignore this ordering. This article presents a case study that underscores this sequence of Internet service adoptio... Read More about Internet shopping and internet banking in sequence: An explanatory case study.

Money demand stability: A case study of Nigeria (2013)
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Kumar, S., Webber, D. J., & Fargher, S. (2013). Money demand stability: A case study of Nigeria. Journal of Policy Modeling, 35(6), 978-991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.03.012

Monetary policy in Nigeria aims is to achieve price and monetary stability. During the 1980s and 1990s, monetary targeting was the dominant monetary policy framework in Nigeria. However, in 2006 the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) adopted the new monet... Read More about Money demand stability: A case study of Nigeria.

Influence at work and the desire for more influence (2013)
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Markey, R., Ravenswood, K., Webber, D. J., & Knudsen, H. (2013). Influence at work and the desire for more influence. Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(4), 507-526. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185613489393

What determines whether workers want more influence in their workplace? Much of the literature on employee voice assumes that employees desire a say in how they do their work, and that where they lack influence they are more likely to desire a greate... Read More about Influence at work and the desire for more influence.

An examination of consumers' resistance to computer-based technologies (2013)
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Patsiotis, A. G., Patsiotis, A., Hughes, T., & Webber, D. J. (2013). An examination of consumers' resistance to computer-based technologies. Journal of Services Marketing, 27(4), 294-311. https://doi.org/10.1108/08876041311330771

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a better understanding of non-adoption of technological interfaces. The majority of diffusion research on technological innovations does not distinguish clearly between non-adoption and resistance behavior and assu... Read More about An examination of consumers' resistance to computer-based technologies.

Quality of life research in economics: An introduction to the special issue (2012)
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Pacheco, G., & Webber, D. J. (2012). Quality of life research in economics: An introduction to the special issue. New Zealand Economic Papers, 46(3), 189-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/00779954.2012.725546

This special issue highlights the growing trend in applied economics research of the use and analysis of subjective concepts, such as quality of life. It contains five studies that highlight the broad range of research currently in vogue, including t... Read More about Quality of life research in economics: An introduction to the special issue.

Real wages, inflation and labour productivity in Australia (2012)
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Kumar, S., Webber, D. J., & Perry, G. (2012). Real wages, inflation and labour productivity in Australia. Applied Economics, 44(23), 2945-2954. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.568405

This article presents an analysis of real wages, inflation and labour productivity interrelationships using cointegration, Granger causality and, most importantly, structural change tests. Applications of tests to Australian data over the 1965 to 200... Read More about Real wages, inflation and labour productivity in Australia.

Culture, participative decision making and job satisfaction (2012)
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van der Westhuizen, D. W., Pacheco, G., & Webber, D. J. (2012). Culture, participative decision making and job satisfaction. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(13), 2661-2679. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.625967

This study explores the impact of culture on participatory decision making (PDM) and job satisfaction (JS) using data obtained from the European Values Study (EVS). We parameterise two different cultural variables using principal components analysis:... Read More about Culture, participative decision making and job satisfaction.

Students' perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further study (2012)
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Webber, D. J., & Mearman, A. (2012). Students' perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further study. Applied Economics, 44(9), 1121-1132. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2010.537640

Most university departments aspire to increase their quantity of students. The objective of this empirical study is to ascertain whether it is possible to identify students who would demand more economics study. Using data on student perceptions of e... Read More about Students' perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further study.

Economic performance in rural England (2012)
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Webber, D. J., & Curry, N. (2012). Economic performance in rural England. Regional Studies, 46(3), 279-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2010.505914

Curry N. and Webber D.J. Economic performance in rural England, Regional Studies. Measuring rural economic performance is obscured by the simultaneous use of two spatial platforms: the 'city-region' and the 'rural definition'. The characteristics of... Read More about Economic performance in rural England.

Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for Australia (2012)
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Kumar, S., Webber, D. J., & Fargher, S. (2012). Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for Australia. Applied Economics, 44(5), 599-605. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2010.511993

This article presents the details of an investigation into the relationship between investment and savings in Australia over the period 1960 to 2007. Using five time series techniques our results reveal that the Feldstein- Horioka puzzle exists in a... Read More about Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for Australia.

Wagner's law revisited: Cointegration and causality tests for New Zealand (2012)
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Kumar, S., Webber, D. J., & Fargher, S. (2012). Wagner's law revisited: Cointegration and causality tests for New Zealand. Applied Economics, 44(5), 607-616. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2010.511994

Wagner's Law states that the share of government expenditure in Gross National Product (GNP) will increase with economic development; many associated empirical studies substitute GNP with Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This article presents an empiric... Read More about Wagner's law revisited: Cointegration and causality tests for New Zealand.

Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note (2012)
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Shamsan, Y., White, P., & Webber, D. J. (2012). Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note. Empirical Economics Letters, 11(12),

Economists use various measures to account for the effect of poverty, welfare or health on economic growth but there is a lack of understanding of the movement of such variables over time and whether countries experiences similar trends. This paper p... Read More about Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note.

Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence (2012)
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Webber, D. J., White, P., Minondo, A., & Allen, D. O. (2012). Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence. Empirical Economics Letters, 11(6), 611-622

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties,... Read More about Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence.

Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study (2012)
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Patsiotis, A. G., Hughes, T., & Webber, D. J. (2012). Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study. International Journal of Bank Marketing, 30(1), 20-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/02652321211195686

Purpose: This study examines internet banking adoption and resistance behaviour in Greece in order to develop profiles of adopters and non-adopters of the service. The aim is to illustrate customers' resistance behaviour towards internet banking. The... Read More about Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study.