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Cultural and political embeddedness, foreign investment in transforming economies
Hardy, Jane; Currie, Frank; Ye, Zhen (2005)The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for ... -
Cultural factors Impacting on the Selection of Black and Minority Ethnic People in the BBC
Healy, G.; Forson, Cynthia; Noon, Mike; Oikelome, Franklin (Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, 2010)This is an independent report produced by academics and associates from the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, School of Business and Management, at Queen Mary, University of London. The research was commissioned ... -
Cultural Influences on the Antecedents of Trust in B2B Relationships : A Study of Financial Services in the United Arab Emirates
Houjeir, Roudaina; Brennan, Ross (2014-09)This study investigates the impact of cultural values on trust in the corporate banking industry in the United Arab Emirates. A substantial literature exists concerning trust in inter-firm relationships, and considerable ... -
Cultural Meaning, Advertising, and National Culture: A Four-Country Study
Czarnecka, Barbara; Brennan, David; Keles, Serap (2018-01-01)Cultural meaning transfer theory and GLOBE dimensions were employed in this comparative study to examine the extent to which cultural meaning presented in advertisements reflected national cultures of the target countries. ... -
Cutting across diversity : trade union learning initiatives and migrant workers in the Communication Workers' Union in the United Kingdom
Calveley, Moira; Shelley, Steven; Hardy, Jane (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)This article examines trade union learning activities and migrant workers in the communications industry. The key research questions focus on how far this learning meets the needs and aspiration of migrant workers, whether ... -
Damaged by Democracy : The National Union of Mineworkers and the 1984-85 Strike
Allsop, D.; Wray, D. (2011-06-01)This paper explores the democratic tensions within the National Union of Mineworkers that split the union during the 1984-85 strike over mine closures. In seeking to understand the conflict over the failure to hold a ... -
Darwinian coevolution of organizations and the environment
Hodgson, G. (2010)Darwinism offers a highly abstract and general meta-theoretical framework to help understand both natural and social evolution. This framework is of significance for ecological economics because it addresses the evolution ... -
Darwinism and Organizational Ecology: A Reply to Reydon and Scholz
Dollimore, Denise E. (2014-06-03)In an earlier article published in this journal I challenge Reydon and Scholz's (2009) claim that Organizational Ecology is a non-Darwinian program. In this replay to Reydon and Scholz's subsequent response, I clarify the ... -
Data preparation for clinical data mining to identify patients at risk of readmission
Demir, Eren (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)Steadily rising numbers of emergency (unplanned) inpatient admissions have been the major source of pressure on the NHS over the past twenty years. There is currently still a strong need for a consistent predictive tool ... -
Dealing with Challenges to Methodological Pluralism: The Paradigm Problem, Psychological Resistance and Cultural Barriers
Midgley, Gerald; Nicholson, John; Brennan, David (2017-04-30)This paper calls for methodological pluralism in industrial marketing research. We discuss three challenges that proponents of methodological pluralism have to address if their practice is to be seen as credible: the ... -
A Decade of Lost Growth: Economic Policy in Spain through the Great Recession
Salmon, Keith (2017-04-03)In 2008 the Spanish economy sank into recession, returning to growth in 2014. This paper explores the policies that were pursued by two successive governments to escape the recession. It comments on one of the most contentious ... -
A Decision Support Tool for Health Service Re-design
Demir, Eren; Chahed, Salma; Chaussalet, Thierry; Toffa, Sam; Fouladinajed, Farid (2012)Many of the outpatient services are currently only available in hospitals, however there are plans to provide some of these services alongside with General Practitioners. Consequently, General Practitioners could soon be ... -
A decision support tool for predicting patients at risk of readmission : a comparison of classification trees, logistic regression, generalized additive models and multivariate adaptive regression splines
Demir, Eren (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)The number of emergency (or unplanned) readmissions in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) has been rising for many years. This trend, which is possibly related to poor patient care, places financial pressures ... -
A decision support tool for predicting patients at risk of readmission : a comparison of classification trees, logistic regression, generalized additive models, and multivariate adaptive regression splines
Demir, Eren (2014-10-28)The number of emergency (or unplanned) readmissions in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) has been rising for many years. This trend, which is possibly related to poor patient care, places financial pressures ... -
Decomposition, Classification and Evaluation of Business Models : the Case of Chinese Retailing
Xiang, Guopeng; Yin, Ya Ping (University of Hertfordshire, 2013)This study attempts to provide a systematic approach to the decomposition, classification and evaluation of business models. We propose an internally consistent hierarchical classification scheme for decomposing a generic ... -
Defeated but defiant : The continued resilience of the National Union Mineworkers within the Nottinghamshire Coalfield
Allsop, David (2005-04)This article provides new empirical data on a case study colliery in Nottinghamshire, supporting the union resilience/renewal argument. It highlights the hostile environment in which the NUM operates, and the importance ... -
Delivering patient choice in English acute hospital trusts
Dent, M.; Haslam, Colin (2006-12-01)The role of the patient within the NHS has changed from supplicant to consumer to active participant. A demand-side patient-led approach is combining quasi-consumerism and participative democracy to inform and facilitate ... -
Demand and Capacity Modelling for Acute Services using Discrete Event Simulation
Demir, Eren; Gunal, Murat; Southern, David (2017-03-01)Increasing demand for services in England with limited healthcare budget has put hospitals under immense pressure. Given that almost all National Health Service (NHS) hospitals have severe capacity constraints (beds and ... -
Desperately seeking capitalism : Solidarity and Polish industrial relations in the 1990s
Rainnie, Al; Hardy, Jane (1995)This article examines the contradictory and complex role played by Solidarity in the transformation of Poland since 1989. The organisational and ideological development of Solidarity is traced from 1980 through to 1994 in ... -
Determinants of customer continuance intention of online shopping : The case of Saudi Arabia
Al-maghrabi, Talal; Dennis, Charles; Halliday, Sue; BinAli, Abeer (2011)The purpose of this study is to clarify theory and identify factors that could explain the level of continuance intention of e-shopping. A revised technology acceptance model integrates expectation confirmation theory and ...