The on-going impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has reiterated the existence of regional inequalities across the World. The United Nations (UN) underlines the importance of reducing inequalities and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone and for the... Read More about The dynamics of convergence, disparity, mobility, and persistence of output gaps across economies: A pairwise comparative study.
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¿Hacia dónde se mueve el péndulo? El caso de México en perspectiva histórica (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers (2020)
Journal Article
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show how the business model of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry has evolved and the general differences that evolution has made to information management. Design/methodology/approac... Read More about The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers.
Development of business schools in emerging markets: Learning through adoption and adaptation (2020)
Journal Article
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the critical resources and capabilities that business schools (BS) have developed to achieve sustainable development. Framed within the resource-based theory, it analyzes seven of the... Read More about Development of business schools in emerging markets: Learning through adoption and adaptation.
Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
The Five Safes framework is increasingly widely used for data governance. Since its conception in 2003, it has influenced data management in many ways, particularly in the public sector. As it has become established, both the advantages and limitatio... Read More about Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management.
Students’ engagement with eLearning tools: their impact on academic performance (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
This study examines the effect of synchronous and asynchronous online activities on students’ academic performance. Using student usage data captured in the log files of an adaptive Moodle learning platform, we find students’ total synchronous and as... Read More about Students’ engagement with eLearning tools: their impact on academic performance.
Corporate social (Ir)responsibility and corporate hypocrisy: Warmth, motive and the protective value of corporate social responsibility (2020)
Journal Article
This article examines how a firm’s prior record on corporate social responsibility (CSR) influences individual stakeholders’ perceptions of corporate hypocrisy in the wake of a corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) event. Our research extends extan... Read More about Corporate social (Ir)responsibility and corporate hypocrisy: Warmth, motive and the protective value of corporate social responsibility.
Can a poetic economy cure evil?: Lessons from the Kapp-Wiechert correspondance (2020)
Book Chapter
This article deals with the (socio-economic) causes of evil and potential solutions.
Bribery, motivations for bribery and life satisfaction in transitional countries (2020)
Journal Article
The focus on bribery and corruption and its impact on life satisfaction is relatively new in the economics and development studies literature. This paper contributes to this emerging field by asking whether reasons for making informal payments are c... Read More about Bribery, motivations for bribery and life satisfaction in transitional countries.
MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies (2019)
Journal Article
The purpose of this paper is to compare two of the most commonly employed methods employed to measure the Intellectual Capital (IC) value: Market to Book (MtB) ratio and the VAIC, in order to determine the most suitable in the context of Italian list... Read More about MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies.
10 is the safest number that there’s ever been (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
When checking frequency and magnitude tables for disclosure risk, the cell threshold (the minimum number of observations in each cell) is the crucial statistic. In rules-based environments, this is a hard limit on what can or can’t be published. In p... Read More about 10 is the safest number that there’s ever been.
User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata (2019)
Journal Article
© 2019 - IOS Press and the authors. When producing anonymised microdata for research, national statistics institutes (NSIs) identify a number of 'risk scenarios' of how intruders might seek to attack a confidential dataset. This approach has been cri... Read More about User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata.
The long-term effect of economic value added adoption on the firm’s business decision (2019)
Journal Article
© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This study aims to examine the long-term effects of adopting economic value added (EVA) as a compensation tool on managers’ behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The authors extend the sample used in pri... Read More about The long-term effect of economic value added adoption on the firm’s business decision.
Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms (2019)
Journal Article
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to re-examine the factors that affect the level of environmental information disclosures (EID) following the issuance of the “Environmental Information Disclosure Guidelines for Chinese Listed Companies”.
Des... Read More about Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms.
A Present of Things to Come (2019)
Thesis
This thesis investigates whether individual discount rates are predictive of life satisfaction, career satisfaction and career success. A review of the literature as it stands led me to believe that there is a gap in the literature at the intersectio... Read More about A Present of Things to Come.
This thesis responds to calls from prominent academics for research on the so-called investment management ‘black box’ of decision-making practices in capital markets.
Motivated by four overarching research objectives, the study examines the followi... Read More about Decision-making in the fund management industry: Empirical evidence from European fund managers, buy-side analysts and sell-side analysts.
Government Say-on-Pay, Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Evidence from China (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In the backdrop of a serial of regulations issued by the Chinese government in an effort to rein in top executives’ compensation in the state-owned enterprises, this study finds that the pay restriction on top executives adversely affects the CSR per... Read More about Government Say-on-Pay, Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Evidence from China.
Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients (2019)
Journal Article
A major growth area in social science research this century has been access to highly sensitive confidential microdata, often via restricted-access remote facilities. These allow researchers highly unlimited access to manipulate the data but with che... Read More about Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients.