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What will I do? Toward an existential ethics for first person action research practice
(Rainer HamppVerlag, 2013-12)
How first person practice engages with the process of valuing has not received much attention in action research. This article takes the question, `what will I do?? as the foundation for first person ethical inquiry. It ...
Intellectual Property, the Banking Crisis and the Public Interest
(Thomson Reuters / Sweet and Maxwell, 2011)
The UK Hargreaves inquiry is one more testimony to the failure of intellectual property laws to deliver the innovation that is their only justification. This parallels numerous similar investigations of the worldwide banking ...
Driving Progress for Research and Innovation in Europe: The Potential of R&I Foundations
(European Commission DG-RTD, 2018)
The objective of the Expert Group on “Foundations, Venture Philanthropy and Social Investments” is to unleash the potential of R&I foundations and other providers of capital and expertise, such as venture ...
A new attention proxy and order imbalance: Evidence from China
(2019)
In this paper, we propose a new direct proxy for investors' attention in the Chinese stock market: daily abnormal reading quantity of each stock's posts on the Eastmoney guba website. Using A-shares samples of the Shanghai ...
Immaterialism, Objects and Social Theory
(2019)
The philosopher Graham Harman argues that contemporary debates about the nature of reality as such, and about the nature of objects in particular, can be meaningfully applied to social theory and practice. With Immaterialism, ...
The determinants of IPO withdrawal - Evidence from Europe
(2019)
Why do companies not follow through with an IPO after filing for one? This question is investigated by examining common stock IPOs for the largest countries in Europe.We cover 80% of the Western European ...
Investigating the Determinants of Banking Coexceedances in Europe in the Summer of 2008
(2010)
We examine the nature, extent and possible causes of bank contagion in a high frequency setting. Looking at six major European banks in the summer and autumn of 2008, we model the lower coexceedances of these banks returns. ...
A Preliminary Scoping Review Study of the Progress of Social Media Adoption as an Educational Tool by Academics in Higher Education
(2018)
This paper presents a preliminary scoping review exploring the evidence landscape regarding academic staff experiences and perceptions of social media adoption as an educational tool in higher education. The goal of this ...
Time-variation in the relationship between white precious metals and inflation: A cross-country analysis
(2018)
In recent years, as a result of an increasing financialisation of financial markets, white precious metals have slowly transformed from mere production inputs to investment assets. In order to analyse the characteristics ...