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Are Online Social Networks, Leading to a ‘Better World in the Omani Public Sector? A Qualitative Study
Choudrie, Jyoti; Zamani, Efpraxia; Al-Bulushi, Ali (Springer Nature, 2018-01-30)Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) penetration is growing at exponential rates and affecting societies, countries and organizations, which has led to a need for understanding whether they contribute to ... -
Assessing the potential for effective cross-cultural working between “new” Russian managers and western expatriates
Camiah, N.; Hollinshead, Graham (2003)This article addresses the issue of relationship building between young Russian managers, and their expatriate counterparts from western countries. The paper constructs an argument as follows; Firstly, with reference to ... -
Assessment Centres for Judicial Appointments and Diversity
Healy, Geraldine; Kirton, G.; Ozbilgin, M.F.; Calveley, Moira; Forson, Cynthia; Oikelome, Franklin; Tatli, A. (Department of Constitutional Affairs, 2006) -
Association Between Experiencing Relational Bullying and Adolescent Health Related Quality of Life
Chester, Kayleigh; Spencer, Neil; Whiting, Lisa; Brooks, Fiona (2017-11-01)BACKGROUND Bullying is a public health concern for the school-aged population, however, the health outcomes associated with the subtype of relational bullying are less understood. The purpose of this study was to examine ... -
Associations between physical activity in adolescence and health behaviours, well-being, family and social relations.
Brooks, F.; Smeeton, N.C.; Chester, Kayleigh; Spencer, Neil; Klemera, Ellen (2014-09-16)Across Europe and North America, few young people meet the recommended levels of physical activity (PA) of 1 hour of moderate to vigorous PA per day. However, the lives of young people cannot simply be polarised as either ... -
An automatic-democratic approach to weight setting for the new human development index
Tofallis, C. (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)Perhaps the most difficult aspect of constructing a multi-dimensional index is that of choosing weights for the components. This problem is often bypassed by adopting the ‘agnostic’ option of equal weights, as in the Human ... -
An automatic-democratic approach to weight setting for the new human development index.
Tofallis, C. (2013)Perhaps the most difficult aspect of constructing a multi-dimensional index is that of choosing weights for the components. This problem is often bypassed by adopting the ‘agnostic’ option of equal weights, as in the Human ... -
Balanced budget multipliers for small open regions within a federal system : evidence from the Scottish variable rate of income tax
Lecca, Patrizio; McGregor, Peter; Swales, Kim; Yin, Ya (2014-06-02)This paper explores the impact on aggregate economic activity in a small, open region of an income tax funded expansion in public consumption that has no direct supply-side effects. The conventional balanced budget multiplier ... -
Bank Competition, Lending Relationships and Firm Default Risk : An Investigation of Italian SMEs
Agostino, Maria Rosaria; Gagliardi, Francesca; Trivieri, Francesco (2012-12)Building on the literature relating to bank market structure and on the research analysing costs and benefits of concentrated credit relationships, this article aims to empirically assess whether, and to what extent, local ... -
Banking market structure, creation and activity of firms : Early evidence for co-operatives in the Italian case
Gagliardi, F. (2009)This paper investigates whether local differences in banking competition impact on the creation and activity of firms, with a special focus on cooperatives. The empirical analysis, implemented on a sample of Italian firms, ... -
Beating the Union : Union Avoidance in the US 1945 to the Present
Moody, Kim (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-08)Chapter 8 -
Becoming an academic for the twenty-first century : What will count as teaching quality in higher education
Jasman, Anne; Blass, Eddie; Shelley, Steven (2013-12-01)This article explores quality in university teaching using a 'futures' perspective. In a recent article by Blass and colleagues, a number of scenarios were developed to explore the type of higher education workforce that ... -
The Benefits and Challenges of Developing Collaborative Writing Skills to Support Students’ Learning
Cubric, Marija; Luz, S. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)While the 2008 Educause Horizon report states that collaboration webs and collective intelligence tools, such as wikis, are one of the key emergent technologies that are likely to enter the mainstream use in education ... -
The benefits and challenges of large-scale deployment of electronic voting systems : University student views from across different subject groups
Cubric, Marija; Jefferies, Amanda (2015-09-01)Electronic Voting System (EVS) is a classroom technology that provides a means to increase students’ engagement, attention and attendance. The purpose of this paper is to provide a deeper insight into students’ views on ... -
A better measure of relative prediction accuracy for model selection and model estimation
Tofallis, C. (2015-08-01)Surveys show that the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is the most widely used measure of forecast accuracy in businesses and organizations. It is however, biased: When used to select among competing prediction methods ... -
Between a rock and a hard place : the shaping of employment in a global economy
Huws, Ursula (2010-05-13)Introducing this volume, this article discusses how employment practices are shaped in a global economy, asking to what extent national policies and institutions still play a role and the importance of other social, economic, ... -
Beyond Being A Student : An Exploration of Student & Graduate Start-Up’s (SGSU’s) Operating From University Incubators
Culkin, N. (2013)The purpose of this paper is to explore, evaluate and share the motivations and behaviours of student and graduate entrepreneurs (referred to as SGSUs) operating from university incubators. The study aims to understand the ... -
Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services
Hollinshead, Graham; Capik, Pawel; Micek, Grzegorz (2011-08) -
Bio-pharma: a financialized business model
Andersson, T.; Gleadle, P.; Haslam, C.; Tsitsianis, N. (2010)In this paper, we construct a complementary financialized business model of SME bio-pharma that reveals how the product innovation and development process conjoins with speculative forces in capital markets. To conceptualise ... -
Blockbusters or Bridge-Builders? The Role of Western Trainers in Developing New Entrepreneurialism in Eastern Europe
Hollinshead, Graham; Michailova, S. (2001)Since the start of the transformation in Eastern Europe in late 1989, there has been a marked increase in training programmes and activities designed to modernize human capital in the region. Many of the initiatives are ...