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Working capital management and firm performance in the hospitality and tourism industry
(2022-04-01)
The aim of this study is to provide empirical evidence concerning the effects of working capital on firm performance in the hospitality and tourism industry. We identify an inverted U-shaped relationship between working ...
Entrepreneurial Competence and Alliance Success: The Role Knowledge Absorption Effectiveness and Mutual Trust
(2021-06-16)
SMEs in similar markets form alliances to enable them to share common resource resources that will increase their ability to innovate and respond to the opportunities and threats in the environment. Existing studies suggest ...
How the health-seeking behaviour of pregnant women affects neonatal outcomes: findings of system dynamics modelling in Pakistan
(2019-03-30)
Background Limited studies have explored how health seeking behaviour during pregnancy through to delivery affect neonatal outcomes. We modelled health-seeking behaviour across urban and rural settings in Pakistan, where ...
Sustainability reporting and the professional accountant in Nigeria
(Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, 2018-10-01)
Sustainability reporting is increasingly being mandated internationally, including in the emerging markets. The latest effort has been a proposal by International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) to integrate sustainability ...
Job design, employment practices and well-being: : a systematic review of intervention studies
(2017-09-02)
There is inconsistent evidence that deliberate attempts to improve job design realise improvements in well-being. We investigated the role of other employment practices, either as instruments for job redesign or as instruments ...
Impact of Materialism on Consumers’ Ethical Evaluation and Acceptance of Product Placement in Movies
(2016-03-01)
Purpose Business organisations have been using product placement in movies as a marketing communications tool for a long time. Yet, concerns have been raised about consumers' perceptions of the ethicality and acceptability ...
Getting in, getting on, getting out? : Women as career scramblers in the UK film and television industries
(2015-05-01)
This paper looks at the predominance of freelancing in the film and television industries as a lens to examine the persistence of gender inequalities within these fields. Previous research has indicated that women fare ...
Destination Marketing Organizations and destination marketing : A narrative analysis of the literature
(2014-04-30)
This article presents the first narrative analysis of the areas of research that have developed within the destination marketing field since its commencement in 1973. Given the broad extent of the field, and the absence ...
The evolution of morality and the end of economic man
(2014-01-01)
1871 saw the publication of two major treatises in economics, with self-seeking economic man at their center. In the same year Darwin published The Descent of Man, which emphasized sympathy and cooperation as well as ...
Common Territory? : Comparing the IMP Approach with Economic Geography
(2013-08)
The IMP research tradition has always been open to the cross-fertilisation of ideas with other social science disciplines that study similar phenomena. Recent years have seen a growing interest among IMP researchers in ...