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Impact of the Financial Crisis on Banking Acquisitions: A Look at Shareholder Wealth (2015)
Journal Article
Rao-Nicholson, R., & Salaber, J. (2015). Impact of the Financial Crisis on Banking Acquisitions: A Look at Shareholder Wealth. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 22(1), 87-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2014.982901

© 2015, © 2015 International Journal of the Economics of Business. Abstract: This paper examines the influence of the 2007–08 financial crisis on value creation for acquirer’s shareholders in the banking industry using a sample of 883 deals over 2004... Read More about Impact of the Financial Crisis on Banking Acquisitions: A Look at Shareholder Wealth.

Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning (2015)
Journal Article
Hawkins, B., & Edwards, G. (2015). Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning. Management Learning, 46(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507613501736

© The Author(s) 2013. In this article, we argue that management and business undergraduate students who are engaged in learning about leadership occupy a liminal space or state of between-ness. Drawing on anthropological conceptualisations of liminal... Read More about Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning.

A multi-criteria inventory management system for perishable & substitutable products (2015)
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Duong, L. N. K., Wood, L. C., & Wang, W. Y. C. (2015). A multi-criteria inventory management system for perishable & substitutable products. Procedia Manufacturing, 2, 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.012

Perishable products represent a vital area in the retail industry and our daily lives. However, when considered with product substitution (which provides more choices) the short lifetime of perishable products creates significant challenges for the i... Read More about A multi-criteria inventory management system for perishable & substitutable products.

Sustainable packaging: Regulations and operational challenges in a manufacturing SME (2015)
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White, G., Sarpong, D., & Ndrecaj, V. (2015). Sustainable packaging: Regulations and operational challenges in a manufacturing SME. International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 6(3), 31-40. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSESD.2015070103

Copyright © 2015, IGI Global. The issue of sustainability has attracted considerable attention over the last decade and has been accompanied by the development of stringent packaging material legislation for firms. Drawing on a single case approach,... Read More about Sustainable packaging: Regulations and operational challenges in a manufacturing SME.

The epistemological foundations of music piracy in the digital marketplace (2015)
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Kepple-Palmer, M., Carruthers, J., Davies, C., Parry, G., & Keppel-Palmer, M. (2015). The epistemological foundations of music piracy in the digital marketplace. Foresight and STI Governance, 9(4), 42-53. https://doi.org/10.17323/1995-459X.2015.4.42.53

This paper examines the fundamental epistemological gap between the consumers and producers of digitally based products. Using the music industry and the significance of digital products in this arena as a case study of evolving relationships between... Read More about The epistemological foundations of music piracy in the digital marketplace.

Institutional entrepreneurship, governance, and poverty: Insights from emergency medical response servicesin India (2015)
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George, G., Rao-Nicholson, R., Corbishley, C., & Bansal, R. (2015). Institutional entrepreneurship, governance, and poverty: Insights from emergency medical response servicesin India. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 32(1), 39-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-014-9377-9

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We present an in-depth case study of GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute, an Indian public–private partnership (PPP), which successfully brought emergency medical response to remote and ur... Read More about Institutional entrepreneurship, governance, and poverty: Insights from emergency medical response servicesin India.

Price based demand side management: A persuasive smart energy management system for low/medium income earners (2015)
Journal Article
Monyei, C. G., Ogunjuyigbe, A. S., Monyei, C., & Ayodele, T. R. (2015). Price based demand side management: A persuasive smart energy management system for low/medium income earners. Sustainable Cities and Society, 17, 80-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2015.04.004

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper presents a persuasive smart energy management system (PSEMS) which incorporates the peculiarities of the developing economies, for low/medium income earners, under the flat pricing regime. The PSEM... Read More about Price based demand side management: A persuasive smart energy management system for low/medium income earners.

Leadership development: A place for storytelling and Greek mythology? (2015)
Journal Article
Schedlitzki, D., Jarvis, C., & MacInnes, J. (2015). Leadership development: A place for storytelling and Greek mythology?. Management Learning, 46(4), 412-426. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507614560303

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within classroom-based leadership development may facilitate learning to deal with ambiguity and social construction in leadership practice. We aim to show how u... Read More about Leadership development: A place for storytelling and Greek mythology?.

Unwaged posts in UK Universities: Controversies and campaigns (2015)
Journal Article
Forkert, K., & Lopes, A. (2015). Unwaged posts in UK Universities: Controversies and campaigns. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 13(2), 533-553

The article examines unwaged posts at UK universities, using recent examples of advertised posts. While unpaid work is common in the UK higher education system, unwaged posts are not. The posts under scrutiny in this article differed from traditional... Read More about Unwaged posts in UK Universities: Controversies and campaigns.

The special topic of organisational disruption: An editorial (2015)
Journal Article
Grisoni, L., & Page, M. (2015). The special topic of organisational disruption: An editorial

In August 2014 we ran a stream on The Disruptive Potential of Arts Based Approaches at the Art of Management and Organisation Conference held at Copenhagen Business School. We were curious about trends in organization studies literature that are enco... Read More about The special topic of organisational disruption: An editorial.

“Obviously in the cool group they wear designer things”: A social practice theory perspective on children’s consumption (2015)
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Nairn, A., & Spotswood, F. (2015). “Obviously in the cool group they wear designer things”: A social practice theory perspective on children’s consumption. European Journal of Marketing, 49(9-10), 1460-1483. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-10-2013-0557

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to propose the lens of social practice theory (SPT) as a means of deepening insights into childhood consumer culture. Design/methodology/approach – The data comprise four qualitative... Read More about “Obviously in the cool group they wear designer things”: A social practice theory perspective on children’s consumption.

Requisition of labour and constitutional legitimacy: Thoughts on Article 1 Law 4325/2015 - Πολιτική Επιστράτευση και Συνταγματική Νομιμότητα: Σκέψεις επί του άρθρου 1 του ν.4325/2015 (2015)
Journal Article
Kapotas, P., & Voskeritsian, H. (2015). Requisition of labour and constitutional legitimacy: Thoughts on Article 1 Law 4325/2015 - Πολιτική Επιστράτευση και Συνταγματική Νομιμότητα: Σκέψεις επί του άρθρου 1 του ν.4325/2015

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Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape? (2015)
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Chalcraft, D., Hilton, T., & Hughes, T. (2015). Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape?. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 25(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841241.2015.1044790

Across the globe, higher education (HE) is experiencing ever increasing turbulence. The more established markets are dealing with pressure on budgets, coupled with government intervention to steer HE in particular directions. In contrast, institution... Read More about Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape?.

On the influence of organisational routines on strategic foresight (2015)
Journal Article
Appiah, G., & Sarpong, D. (2015). On the influence of organisational routines on strategic foresight. Foresight, 17(5), 512-527. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-11-2014-0067

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual model to unpack the relationship between organisational routines and strategic foresight integration. Design/methodology/approach – Three moderat... Read More about On the influence of organisational routines on strategic foresight.