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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 ...
Doubly Disadvantaged: Gender, Spatially Concentrated Deprivation and Nascent Entrepreneurial Activity
(2019-12-02)
Drawing on human capital, intersectionality and mixed embeddedness theory, we test hypotheses on the relationship between gender differences in human capital and gender differences in nascent entrepreneurial activity across ...
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 ...
Academics at the intersection of age and gender: : A Ghanaian experience
(Routledge, 2017-08-25)
Dealing with Challenges to Methodological Pluralism: The Paradigm Problem, Psychological Resistance and Cultural Barriers
(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
(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 ...
Rethinking Project Practice : Emerging Insights From a Series of Practitioner Books
(2016-12-01)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the major trends and contributions published in the Advances in Project Management book series and place them in the context of the findings and outputs from the Rethinking ...