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Gender and the Workplace (2019)
Book Chapter
Macnaughtan, H. (2019). Gender and the Workplace. In J. Coates, L. Fraser, & M. Pendleton (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179582-17

This chapter argues that the Japanese workplace remains deeply gendered despite increasing calls for gender equality and the incremental development of employment equality legislation since the mid-1980s. Japanese institutions continue to draw social... Read More about Gender and the Workplace.

Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Emerging Market Following the Revised CG Code (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Abbasi, K., Babajide, B., & Yekini, K. (2019). Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Emerging Market Following the Revised CG Code. Corporate Governance, 20(1), 158-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-07-2018-0244

PURPOSE: This study examines the extent to which board characteristics and ownership structure affect firm performance with specific focus on providing new empirical insights following the revised Corporate Governance (CG) code 2012.

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Dividend Policy and Investor Pressure (2019)
Journal Article
Driver, C., Grosman, A., & Scaramozzino, P. (2020). Dividend Policy and Investor Pressure. Economic Modelling, 89, 559-576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.11.016

The economics of dividend policy has focused on the single tight narrative that dividends keep managers honest, mitigating concerns that they over-invest. This article provides a critique of that agency narrative, arguing that pressure from short-ter... Read More about Dividend Policy and Investor Pressure.

Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator (2019)
Journal Article
Ying, Q., Hansen, M. C., Sun, L., Wang, L., & Steininger, M. (2019). Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab443e

Leading indicators of future economic activity include measures such as new housing starts, managers purchasing index, money supply, and bond yields. Such macroeconomic and financial indicators hold predictive power in signaling recessionary periods.... Read More about Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator.

How Do We Know Anything? Philosophical Issues in the Collection and Interpretation of Operational Research Data (2019)
Book Chapter
Hardy, B., & Stiles, P. (2020). How Do We Know Anything? Philosophical Issues in the Collection and Interpretation of Operational Research Data. In L. White, K. Martin, B. Katharina, & M. Jonathan (Eds.), Behavioral Operational Research: A Capabilities Approach (341-360). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25405-6_18

Measurement is a fundamental activity of science, but if we fail to make allowances for imponderables then we are simply generating data which may not, necessarily, tell us anything about the world. This chapter examines some of the philosophical und... Read More about How Do We Know Anything? Philosophical Issues in the Collection and Interpretation of Operational Research Data.

Stein’s Lemma for generalized skew-elliptical random vectors (2019)
Journal Article
Adcock, C., Landsman, Z., & Shushi, T. (2019). Stein’s Lemma for generalized skew-elliptical random vectors. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 50(13), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2019.1678642

This paper generalizes Stein's Lemma recently obtained for elliptical class distributions to the generalized skew-elliptical family of distributions. Stein's Lemma provides a useful tool for deriving covariances between functions of component random... Read More about Stein’s Lemma for generalized skew-elliptical random vectors.

Agro-ecological suitability assessment of Chinese Medicinal Yam under future climate change (2019)
Journal Article
Fan, D., Zhong, H., Hu, B., Tian, Z., Sun, L., Fischer, G., Wang, X., & Jiang, Z. (2019). Agro-ecological suitability assessment of Chinese Medicinal Yam under future climate change. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 42(3), 987-1000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00437-w

Chinese Medicinal Yam (CMY) has been prescribed as medicinal food for thousand years in China by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners. Its medical benefits include nourishing the stomach and spleen to improve digestion, replenishing lung... Read More about Agro-ecological suitability assessment of Chinese Medicinal Yam under future climate change.

Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms (2019)
Journal Article
Yekini, K., Adelopo, I., Wang, Y., & Song, S. (2019). Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms. Accounting Research Journal, 32(3), 477-495. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARJ-01-2017-0018

PURPOSE: This study re-examines the factors that affect the level of Environmental Information
Disclosures (EID) following the issuance of the “Environmental Information Disclosure Guidelines
for Chinese Listed Companies”.

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Synthesized trade-off analysis of flood control solutions under future deep uncertainty: An application to the central business district of Shanghai. (2019)
Journal Article
Hu, H., Tian, Z., Sun, L., Wen, J., Liang, Z., Dong, G., & Liu, J. (2019). Synthesized trade-off analysis of flood control solutions under future deep uncertainty: An application to the central business district of Shanghai. Water Research, 166, Article 115067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115067

Coastal mega-cities will face increasing flood risk under the current protection standard because of future climate change. Previous studies seldom evaluate the comparative effectiveness of alternative options in reducing flood risk under the uncerta... Read More about Synthesized trade-off analysis of flood control solutions under future deep uncertainty: An application to the central business district of Shanghai..

Developing IJVs Absorptive Capacity for Promoting Low Carbon Technology Transfer The Role of Intermediaries and External Channels (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huang, L., & Zou, H. (2019, September). Developing IJVs Absorptive Capacity for Promoting Low Carbon Technology Transfer The Role of Intermediaries and External Channels. Presented at The British Academy of Management 2019 Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

One of the perquisites of a successful technology transfer is that the firm should have sufficient absorptive capacity. Such capacity is not a take-for-granted product but go through a sophisticated development process. While most studies highlight t... Read More about Developing IJVs Absorptive Capacity for Promoting Low Carbon Technology Transfer The Role of Intermediaries and External Channels.

Corruption and Bank Profitability: Understanding Sustainable Financial Inclusiveness in ECOWAS Region (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yekini, K., Adelopo, I., & Lloydking, R. (2019, August). Corruption and Bank Profitability: Understanding Sustainable Financial Inclusiveness in ECOWAS Region. Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2019, Boston, MA, USA

This study examines the effects of corruption on banks profitability and the impact this may have on banks effectiveness in achieving their role in economic development through organizational inclusiveness. Using a dynamic panel model of all the comm... Read More about Corruption and Bank Profitability: Understanding Sustainable Financial Inclusiveness in ECOWAS Region.

Oil booms, bank productivity and natural resource curse in finance (2019)
Journal Article
Adetutu, M. O., Odusanya, K. A., Ebireri, J. E., & Murinde, V. (2020). Oil booms, bank productivity and natural resource curse in finance. Economics Letters, 186, Article 108517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.07.002

Using a rich monthly microdata, this study is the first one to investigate the effect of commodity booms on bank productivity in the context of resource-endowed economies. Consistent with the axiom of a natural resource curse in finance, we find sign... Read More about Oil booms, bank productivity and natural resource curse in finance.

Internal Migration Is an Effective Risk Management Strategy for Households in Rural Tanzania (2019)
Other
Pietrelli, R., & Scaramozzino, P. (2019). Internal Migration Is an Effective Risk Management Strategy for Households in Rural Tanzania

Various explanations have been put forward to shed light on individual decisions to migrate and the effects of migration on the household of origin. Using panel data from migrants and original households living in Tanzania, Rebecca Pietrelli and Pasq... Read More about Internal Migration Is an Effective Risk Management Strategy for Households in Rural Tanzania.

Fraud interpretation and disclaimer audit opinion: Evidence from the Solomon Islands public sector (SIPS) (2019)
Journal Article
Malau, W. C., Ohalehi, P., Badr, E. S., & Yekini, K. (2021). Fraud interpretation and disclaimer audit opinion: Evidence from the Solomon Islands public sector (SIPS). Managerial Auditing Journal, 36(2), 240-260. https://doi.org/10.1108/MAJ-04-2018-1867

PURPOSE:
Financial transactions fraud (FTF) and financial statements fraud (FSF) grew exponentially during the past decades coupled with complex and sophisticated technological developments. This study aims to investigate the practitioners’ interpre... Read More about Fraud interpretation and disclaimer audit opinion: Evidence from the Solomon Islands public sector (SIPS).

Determinants of transnational social capital: opportunity–investment–ability perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Levy, O., Jonsen, K., Peiperl, M., Bouquet, C., & Humbert, A. L. (2021). Determinants of transnational social capital: opportunity–investment–ability perspective. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(16), 3370-3401. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2019.1629984

This study suggests that it is critical for executives todeveloptransnational social capital(TSC), or professionalrelationships and ties that span national borders. We firstprovide a conceptual framework and careful operationaliza-tion of TSC tha... Read More about Determinants of transnational social capital: opportunity–investment–ability perspective.