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Acts of hidden franchisee innovation and innovation adoption within franchise systems
(2020-04-02)
Franchising, as an imitative business model, provides a challenging context to create and manage innovation, as franchisors may wish to limit their franchisees’ innovative activities to ensure network consistency. Drawing ...
Experienced professionals and doctoral study : A performative agenda
(2020-03-13)
The paper considers doctoral supervision between a candidate grounded in practice and a practice sensitive supervisor. The paper presents five autoethnographies to embellish a. conceptual argument. The contribution made ...
Pricing decisions, competition and liquidity constraints: Evidence from the UK wholesale and retail food, beverages and tobacco sector
(2020-02-27)
Purpose: This study investigates the pricing decisions of the UK wholesale and retail food, beverages and tobacco sector over 2007–2016 using 19 four-digit level NACE Rev.2 classification industries. Design/methodology/approach: ...
A novel healthcare resource allocation decision support tool: A forecasting-simulation-optimization approach
(2020-02-03)
The increasing pressures on the healthcare system in the UK are well documented. The solution lies in making best use of existing resources (e.g. beds), as additional funding is not available. Increasing demand and capacity ...
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 ...
The Interplay of Board Control with Board Configuration: Evidence from the UK
(2019-12-01)
The study aims to explore the control role that board directors undertake and understand the impact of several board characteristics on these roles. Building on existing literature a model was developed to test the ...
Modelling the neonatal system: A joint analysis of length of stay and patient pathways
(2019-11-27)
In the United Kingdom, one in seven babies require specialist neonatal care after birth, with a noticeable increase in demand. Coupled with budgeting constraints and lack of investment means that neonatal units are struggling. ...
From gloom to doom: Financial loss and negative affect prime risk averse preferences
(2019-11-12)
Previous research has shown that risk preferences are sensitive to the financial domain in which they are framed. In the present study we explore whether the effect of valence priming on risk taking is moderated by the ...
Fake Advertising? Neutrality in descriptions beside overall hotel scores
(2019-09-01)
Hotel reviews influence travellers' booking decisions. Research on this topic is focused on the scores or comments given through the reviews. However, no studies have looked into the one-word descriptions associated with ...
Pricing Decisions and Competitive Conduct Across Manufacturing Sectors: Evidence from 19 European Union Manufacturing Industries
(2019-09)
This paper investigates the pricing decisions across the manufacturing sectors of 19 EU countries over 1995–2014. The markup formulation of De Loecker and Warzynski (Am Econ Rev 102(6):2437–2471, 2012) is employed in order ...