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Towards a blockchain and machine learning-based framework for decentralised energy management (2023)
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Luo, X., & Mahdjoubi, L. (2024). Towards a blockchain and machine learning-based framework for decentralised energy management. Energy and Buildings, 303, Article 113757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113757

In most domestic buildings, gas and electricity are supplied by energy and utility companies through centralised energy systems. This often results in a high burden on central management systems and has adverse effects on energy prices. Blockchain-ba... Read More about Towards a blockchain and machine learning-based framework for decentralised energy management.

Digitalization and employment relations in the retail sector. Examining the role of trade unions in Italy and Spain (2023)
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Marcolin, A., & Gasparri, S. (2024). Digitalization and employment relations in the retail sector. Examining the role of trade unions in Italy and Spain. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 30(2), 151-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596801231213809

This article investigates trade union responses to in-store digitalization in retail in Italy and Spain. It considers critical issues often associated with the digital transformation of work including excessive work flexibility, high levels of monito... Read More about Digitalization and employment relations in the retail sector. Examining the role of trade unions in Italy and Spain.

Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings (2023)
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Yusuff, K., Whittle, A., & Mueller, F. (in press). Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2022-6165

Purpose: Existing literature has begun to identify the agonistic and contested aspects of the ongoing development of accountability systems. These “contests” are particularly important during periods of change when an accountability “deficit” has bee... Read More about Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings.

Employees’ reviews and stock price informativeness (2023)
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Kyiu, A., Tawiah, B., & Boamah, O. (2023). Employees’ reviews and stock price informativeness. Economics Letters, 233, Article 111406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111406

We investigate the relationship between employee reviews and stock price informativeness. Using a sample of US firms, we find that firms with higher employee satisfaction are associated with greater stock price informativeness in terms of idiosyncrat... Read More about Employees’ reviews and stock price informativeness.

Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: Law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005 (2023)
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Jackson, L. A., Ayada, S., Christoffersen, A., Conley, H., Galt, F. C., Mackay, F., & O’Cinneide, C. (2024). Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: Law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005. Contemporary British History, 38(2), 321-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2262930

This article examines how and in what ways workplace ‘sexual harassment’ achieved social and legal recognition in the UK news press following its importation from North America in the mid-1970s. It assesses the role of feminist campaigners working wi... Read More about Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: Law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005.

Applying artificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
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Balasubramanian, S., Shukla, V., Islam, N., Upadhyay, A., & Duong, L. (in press). Applying artificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Production Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2023.2263102

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global healthcare systems and highlighted the need for innovative, technology-driven solutions like Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, previous research on the topic has been limited and fragmented... Read More about Applying artificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Revisiting WTI–Brent spread and its drivers (2023)
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Sifat, I., Zarei, A., & Ah Mand, A. (2023). Revisiting WTI–Brent spread and its drivers. Energy Strategy Reviews, 50, Article 101206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2023.101206

We made two key contributions to energy economics and finance by revealing new insights on the WTI–Brent spread (WBS). Our first exercise engages with the stylized facts of the WBS and its role as an indicator, identifying the time around the shale o... Read More about Revisiting WTI–Brent spread and its drivers.

Accounting students’ online engagement, choice of course delivery format and their effects on academic performance (2023)
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Hu, Y., Nath, N., Zhu, Y., & Laswad, F. (in press). Accounting students’ online engagement, choice of course delivery format and their effects on academic performance. Accounting Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2023.2254298

This study examines the effects of synchronous and non-synchronous online engagement on the academic performance of accounting students at a New Zealand university based on their choice of course delivery format–either distance learning or face-to-fa... Read More about Accounting students’ online engagement, choice of course delivery format and their effects on academic performance.

Spillover of energy commodities and inflation in G7 plus Chinese economies (2023)
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Saeed, A., Chaudhry, S. M., Arif, A., & Ahmed, R. (2023). Spillover of energy commodities and inflation in G7 plus Chinese economies. Energy Economics, 127(Part A), Article 107029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.107029

We investigate the spillover trends of energy commodities and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the G-7 plus China by using the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) methodology. Our analysis spans from January 2016 to October 2022, with a division into... Read More about Spillover of energy commodities and inflation in G7 plus Chinese economies.

Determinants of microenterprise performance among microcredit clients in urban areas of Malaysia (2023)
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Sahul Hamid, F. (2023). Determinants of microenterprise performance among microcredit clients in urban areas of Malaysia. Akademika, 93(2), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.17576/akad-2023-9302-09

As one of the anti-poverty instruments, the potential of microenterprise in improving livelihoods through the promotion of self-employment activities and micro-entrepreneurship appears to have been increasing over time including in Malaysia. Therefor... Read More about Determinants of microenterprise performance among microcredit clients in urban areas of Malaysia.

The impact of fundamental factors and sentiments on the valuation of cryptocurrencies (2023)
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Bakhtiar, T., Luo, X., & Adelopo, I. (2023). The impact of fundamental factors and sentiments on the valuation of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain: Research and Applications, 4(4), Article 100154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2023.100154

The valuation of cryptocurrencies is important given the increasing significance of this potential asset class. However, most state-of-the-art cryptocurrency valuation methods only focus on one of the fundamental factors or sentiments and use out-of-... Read More about The impact of fundamental factors and sentiments on the valuation of cryptocurrencies.

Derisking developmentalism: A tale of green hydrogen (2023)
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Gabor, D., & Sylla, N. S. (2023). Derisking developmentalism: A tale of green hydrogen. Development and Change, 54(5), 1169-1196. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12779

In the global race to scale up green hydrogen, a renewed appetite for the visible hand of the state once again promises to expand developmental space for low- and middle-income countries. On the African continent, several countries have announced gre... Read More about Derisking developmentalism: A tale of green hydrogen.

When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management (2023)
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Liao, Q., & Pandeli, J. (2023). When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management. Employee Relations, 45(5), 1275-1298. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-10-2022-0464

Purpose: Although humour and conflict are popular topics in management, little attention has been paid to the negative effects of humour in terms of how workplace humour could turn into unexpected conflicts. From the perspective of conflict managemen... Read More about When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management.

Computer vision and IoT research landscape for health and safety management on construction sites (2023)
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Arshad, S., Akinade, O., Bello, S., & Bilal, M. (2023). Computer vision and IoT research landscape for health and safety management on construction sites. Journal of Building Engineering, 76, Article 107049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.107049

Aims: Perform a systematic review of current literature to evaluate and summarise the health and safety hazards on construction sites. Methods: Science Direct, SCOPUS and web of science databases were searched for research articles published from 201... Read More about Computer vision and IoT research landscape for health and safety management on construction sites.

Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies (2023)
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Rubbaniy, G., Khalid, A. A., Ali, S., & Polyzos, S. (2023). Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies. Journal of Financial Research, 46(4), 1165-1185. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12352

Using a panel smooth transition regression framework on a new proxy of the business cycle (BC) index and quarterly data of US bank holding companies from 1993Q1 to 2020Q1, our results provide empirical support for the theory that the BC has a nonline... Read More about Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies.

Covid-19 and stock market liquidity: International evidence (2022)
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Umar, M., Rubbaniy, G., Iqbal, A., Rizvi, S. K. A., & Xu, Y. (2023). Covid-19 and stock market liquidity: International evidence. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja, 36(2), Article 2142257. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2142257

This study analyzes the impact of Covid-19 on stock market liquidity of China and four worst hit countries by the pandemic. Using daily data for the stock market illiquidity spanning over July 1, 2019 to July 10, 2020 and the data for new cases and d... Read More about Covid-19 and stock market liquidity: International evidence.

Do stock market fear and economic policy uncertainty co-move with COVID-19 fear? Evidence from the US and UK (2022)
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Rubbaniy, G., Khalid, A. A., Tessema, A., & Baqrain, A. (2023). Do stock market fear and economic policy uncertainty co-move with COVID-19 fear? Evidence from the US and UK. Studies in Economics and Finance, 40(1), 192-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-10-2021-0408

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate co-movement of major implied volatility indices and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) indices with both the health-based fear index and market-based fear index of COVID-19 for the USA and the UK to... Read More about Do stock market fear and economic policy uncertainty co-move with COVID-19 fear? Evidence from the US and UK.

Teacher-perpetrated sexual harassment and student performance: Roles of emotional exhaustion and neuroticism (2022)
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Bilal, A., Laeeque, S. H., Saeed, M. A., & Mumtaz, M. (2022). Teacher-perpetrated sexual harassment and student performance: Roles of emotional exhaustion and neuroticism. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 41(5), 793-812. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-06-2021-0155

Purpose: This study examines the effects of teacher-perpetrated sexual harassment on graduate students' academic and extracurricular performance using conservation of resources theory as a framework. Further, it looks into the moderating role of trai... Read More about Teacher-perpetrated sexual harassment and student performance: Roles of emotional exhaustion and neuroticism.

Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: An experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory (2022)
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Harris Laeeque, S., Ali Saeed, M., & Bilal, A. (2022). Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: An experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory. Motivation and Emotion, 46(2), 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09925-6

Why does sibling abuse affect some adolescents more severely than others? When and how does its experience at home influence the psychosocial behavior of adolescents at school? Guided by the Conservation of Resources Theory (CoRT), the authors establ... Read More about Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: An experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory.

Investors' responses to macroeconomic news: The role of mandatory derivatives and hedging activities disclosure (2022)
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Tessema, A., & Rubbaniy, G. (2023). Investors' responses to macroeconomic news: The role of mandatory derivatives and hedging activities disclosure. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 19(1), 173-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMF-12-2020-0635

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how changes in the firm's information disclosure practices impact the way investors process macroeconomic news. Specifically, the authors examine the role of derivative instruments and hedging acti... Read More about Investors' responses to macroeconomic news: The role of mandatory derivatives and hedging activities disclosure.