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Consumer segmentation and motives for choice of cultured meat in two Chinese cities: Shanghai and Chengdu
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Formal credit and innovation: Is there a uniform relationship across types of innovation?
(ELSEVIER, 2020-11-01)We investigate the formal credit effect on firm level innovations of small and medium enterprises in developing economies. Using the instrumental regression method, we control for potential endogeneity in innovation and ... -
Does bribery sand or grease the wheels of firm level innovation: Evidence from Latin American countries
(SPRINGER, 2021-01-06)This paper examines the effects of bribery on product and process innovation at the firm level in Latin American countries. We provide insights into the heterogeneous effects of bribery on the types of innovations across ... -
Environmental performance and firm financing during COVID-19 outbreaks: Evidence from SMEs
(Elsevier BV, 2022-06-06)The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in substantial constraints for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) worldwide. The techniques in which SMEs handle recent crises and the degree to which environmental performance is ... -
The gender gap in access to finance: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
(ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2022-05-01)Using gender as a theoretical framework, we analyse the dynamics of bank, micro and equity finance during the COVID-19 pandemic for a cross-country sample of 8,921 private firms. We provide evidence of slight female ... -
Remittance and financial inclusion in refugee migrants: Inverse probability of treatment weighting using the propensity score
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2019-08-10)This paper investigates the impact on remittances on financial inclusion of refugee migrants. While financial inclusion is gaining traction in the humanitarian and development literature, the linkage with the potential to ... -
Benefit sharing: Why inclusive provenance metadata matter
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Fair and equitable benefit sharing of genetic resources is an expectation of the Nagoya Protocol. Although the Nagoya Protocol does not yet formally apply to Digital Sequence Information (“DSI”), discussions are currently ... -
Political connections, family ownership and access to bank credit
(Elsevier BV, 2022-12-01)This study investigates how firm-level political connections (PCs) play a role in their access to bank credit. We decompose the bank loan application process into the self-selection process of firms and the selection process ... -
Bank credit, microfinance and female ownership: Are women more disadvantaged than men?
(ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2021-10)Using a comprehensive dataset on unlisted firms in 22 developing countries this paper analyses the relationship between gender, microfinance and access to bank credit. Using heckprobit to control sample selection bias, we ... -
Information communication technology and financial inclusion of innovative entrepreneurs
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2021-01-08)Financial inclusion (FI) constitutes an absolute priority for poverty alleviation and information communication technology (ICT) is an essential component of any FI strategy that aims to enable access to a wide range of ... -
Firm bribery and credit access: Evidence from Indian SMEs
(SPRINGER, 2020-06-01)This study investigates the effect of paying bribes on access to credit for small, and medium enterprises (SMEs). Bribery is variously portrayed in the literature as greasing the wheel (helping) or sand in the wheel ... -
Innovation and SME finance: Evidence from developing countries
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2019-11-01)This paper explores the relationship between firm-level innovation and external finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Our sample consists of 13,430 firms from Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries. A ... -
Corruption and innovation in private firms: Does gender matter?
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2020-07-01)In this study, we examine whether bribery impairs gender-based asymmetries in product/process innovation in developing economies. Based on firm-level data from Latin American countries, we reject the proposition that women ... -
Corruption, Gender and Credit Constraints: Evidence from South Asian SMEs
(SPRINGER, 2019-09-01)This paper provides analyses of the effect of corruption in South Asia on (1) credit access for small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), and (2) credit constraints faced by female-owned and male-owned SMEs. By addressing ... -
Making our work matter: From spectator to engagement through public organization and management studies
(Academy of Management, 2022)There are growing concerns about making our work matter in society and organizations, narrowing the theory–practice gap by doing research that has impact. In this paper, we suggest that there is more at stake than the issue ... -
Kaumatua Mana Motuhake: peer education intervention to help Maori elders during later-stage life transitions
(BMC, 2020)Background Aotearoa/New Zealand has a population that is ageing and there are challenges to health and social outcomes related to related to key life transitions (e.g., retirement, change in health conditions, loss of ... -
Can psychopathy be adaptive at work? Development and application of a work focused self- and other-report measure of the triarchic psychopathy model
(MDPI, 2020)Psychopathy may have both adaptive and maladaptive effects at work but research into workplace psychopathy is constrained by the lack of short, work-relevant measures that can be used for both self- and other-report. We ... -
Macroclimate and topography interact to influence the abundance of divaricate plants in New Zealand
(Frontiers Media SA, 2020)The abundance of the divaricate growth form in New Zealand has been interpreted as either (a) the response of an isolated flora to cool, dry, Plio-Pleistocene climates; or (b) a defense against large browsing birds (moa) ... -
Enhancing well-being and social connectedness for Maori elders through a peer education (Tuakana-Teina) programme: A cross-sectional baseline study
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Background: Māori kaumātua (elders) face stark health and social inequities compared to non-Māori New Zealanders. The tuakana-teina (older sibling-younger sibling) peer education programme is a strengths-based approach to ... -
'Training the next generation of HR practitioners': Reflecting on HRM student experiences of sexual harassment training
(Intellect, 2021)Despite prohibitive legislation and organizational policies and training, high rates of sexual harassment persist in the hospitality industry, a situation that is concerning to organizations and researchers alike. As ...
