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Identifying the adopters and non-adopters of broadband amongst silver surfers : using the BHPS
Tsitsianis, N.; Choudrie, Jyoti; Grey, S.; Haslam, C. (2011)The aim of this paper is to identify the adopters and non-adopters of Broadband within the silver surfer group. This was achieved using the British Household Panel Survey, a large scale survey used to collect data from UK ... -
Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?
Caporale, G.M.; Georgellis, Y.; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Y.P. (2009)Using cross-sectional data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the relationship between income, relative income and happiness across 19 European countries. We find that a positive and ... -
Inflation, expectations and growth in real money in the United States
Yin, Ya; Thomas, David (University of Hertfordshire, 2011)This paper aims to explain the change in the rate of inflation within the United States economy by following a new Classical–Keynesian synthesis view and by incorporating private inflation expectations directly into the ... -
NPM is dead, long live NPM : The strategic shift in public sector discourse
Shah, Syed; Malik, Ali (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)Strategic performance measurement (SPM) is an important tool of New Public Management (NPM) which found great currency during the previous New Labour Government in the U.K. A discourse analysis of the official publications ... -
Off-shoring and out-sourcing for shareholder value : promise versus reality
Yin, Ya Ping; Lee, Edward (2012-03)Corporate restructuring through off-shoring and out-sourcing is widely regarded as necessary for transforming cost structure and return on capital, particularly in situations of severe price erosion in globally competitive ... -
On the relationship between exchange rates and equity returns : A new approach
Katechos, G. (2011-10-01)This paper employs a new approach in order to investigate the underlying relationship between stock markets and exchange rates. Current approaches suggest that the relative equity market performance of two countries is ... -
Personal values as mitigating factors in the link between income and life satisfaction : evidence from the European Social Survey
Georgellis, Y.; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Y.P. (2009)Using data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey, we examine the link between income, reference income and life satisfaction across Western Europe. We find that whilst there is a strong positive relationship ... -
The perspectives of Greek population in establishing and operating palliative care units (hospices) in Greece
Theodosopoulos, Grigorios; Chousmerioti, E.; Efthimiou, , M.; Chatzopoulou, M.; Igoumenidis, M.; Kokkinopoulou, M.; Theodosopoulou, E. (2011-03) -
Perspectives on accounting, commonalities & the public sphere
Lehman, G. (2010-11)This paper examines the role accounting could perform in the public sphere. The public sphere is the arena where different values are examined, explored and determined. Through an examination of critical, liberal and ... -
The Private Equity Business Model : On terra firma or shifting sands?
Haslam, Colin; Andersson, Tord (2012-02-12)This paper reveals how the financial crisis undermined the performance of Private Equity Partnerships (PEPs). The private equity business model depends upon leveraged finance coupled with corporate transformation from ... -
Redefining Business Models : Strategies for a Financialized World
Haslam, Colin; Andersson, Tord; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Ya (Routledge, 2012-07-05)This text re-works business models for a financialised world. It reveals how the world has moved on in the advanced economies where credit based financial systems coupled with malleable accounting systems disconnect ... -
A rejoinder on the new Keynesian Phillips curve in the United States
Gareth Thomas, David; Yin, Ya (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)This paper examines the nexus between money, output and inflation in the United States during the period from 1974 to 2010. The theoretical framework is underpinned by a new Classical–Keynesian synthesis view of inflation, ... -
Relative income gains and losses and subjective well-being in Europe
Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Ya (University of Hertfordshire, 2013)This study aims to shed further light on the mechanisms of how relative income influences people’s subjective wellbeing using four waves of data in the European Social Survey (ESS). The correspondents to the ESS are ... -
Social capital and windfalls : empirical evidence
Georgellis, Y.; Sessions, J.; Tsitsianis, N. (2008)We examine the correlates of windfall gains amongst a sample of British respondents. Our results suggest that such gains are not random, but are significantly related to a variety of individual characteristics and traits. ... -
Transformation and reform after the financial crisis
Lehman, Glen; Haslam, Colin (2012-03)In this special issue of Accounting Forum, we present a series of papers that address the general issue of economic reform and regulation in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The first three papers in this issue share ... -
UK bio pharma : Innovation re invention and capital at risk
Haslam, Colin; Tsitsianis, N.; Gleadle, Pauline (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, 2011-07)Small and medium enterprise (SME) bio-pharmas play a significant role in the development of a knowledge-based competitive economy because they act as an incubator of creativity for the development of pharmabased products ... -
Unemployment and life satisfaction : A non-linear adaptation process
Georgellis, Yannis; Gregoriou, Andros; Healy, Jerome; Tsitsianis, N. (2008)Purpose - The aim of this paper is to model the dynamic path of adjustment towards pre-unemployment levels of wellbeing for a group of full-time workers who experienced job loss. Design/methodology/approach - Based on data ... -
Voluntary hospices in England : a viable business model?
Theodosopoulos, G. (2011)This article is concerned with how the UK Government's End of Life Care Strategy seeks to draw upon the capacity and additional choice provided by voluntary charitable hospices in England. Constructing a hospice financial ... -
When it comes to the crunch : What are the drivers of the US banking crisis?
Heilpern, E.; Haslam, C.; Andersson, T. (2009)This article considers how permissive regulatory conditions helped change the size and scope of the US mortgage market. Asset backed securitization facilitated an expansion of the US mortgage market and modified the structure ...