Items where Division is "College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship" and Year is 2008

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Abdul-Majid, Mariani, Saal, David S. and Battisti, Giuliana (2008). Efficiency in Islamic and conventional banking:an international comparison. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Abdul-Majid, Mariani, Saal, David S. and Battisti, Giuliana (2008). The efficiency and productivity of Malaysian banks:an output distance function approach. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Aidis, Ruta, Korosteleva, Julia and Mickiewicz, Tomasz (2008). Entrepreneurship in Russia. Working Paper. University College London, London (UK).

Aidis, Ruta, Mickiewicz, Tomasz and Sauka, Arnis (2008). Growth expectations and financial performance of small businesses:evidence from Latvia. Working Paper. University College London, London (UK).

Aidis, Ruta, Mickiewicz, Tomasz and Sauka, Arnis (2008). Why are optimistic entrepreneurs successful? An application of the regulatory focus theory. Working Paper. William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Michigan (US).

Amess, Kevin, Du, Jun and Girma, Sourafel (2008). Full and partial privatization in China:the labor consequences. Working Paper. University of Nottingham. (Unpublished)

Armstrong, Kathy, Bailey, David, de Ruyter, Alex, Mahdon, Michelle and Thomas, Holli (2008). Auto plant closures, policy responses and labour market outcomes:a comparison of MG Rover in the UK and Mitsubishi in Australia. Policy Studies, 29 (3), pp. 343-355.

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Bailey, David, Kobayashi, Seiji and Macneill, Stewart (2008). Rover and out? Globalisation, the West Midlands auto cluster, and the end of MG Rover. Policy Studies, 29 (3), pp. 267-279.

Bailey, David and MacNeill, Stewart (2008). The Rover Task Force:a case study in proactive and reactive policy intervention? Regional science policy and practice, 1 (1), pp. 109-124.

Ball, C., Davies, Stephen, Olczak, Matthew and Wilson, Christopher (2008). An evaluation of the impact upon productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books. Technical Report. Office of fair trading.

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Davies, Stephen and Olczak, Matthew (2008). Assessing the efficacy of structural merger remedies:choosing between theories of harm? Working Paper. University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK).

Davies, Stephen and Olczak, Matthew (2008). Tacit vs. overt collusion firm asymmetries and numbers:what's the evidence? Competition Policy International, 4 (2), pp. 175-200.

Decker, S. (2008). Building up goodwill:British business, development and economic nationalism in Ghana and Nigeria, 1945-1977. Enterprise and Society, 9 (4), pp. 602-613.

Decker, Stephanie (2008). Dekolonisation der Wirtschaft? Wirtschaftsnationalismus in Afrika nach 1945. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 48 , pp. 461-486.

Decker, Stephanie (2008). Return to imperial trade? John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd. as a contemporary free-standing company, 1945-2006. IN: The empire in one city? Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past. Haggerty, Sherryllyne; Webster, Anthony and White, Nicholas (eds) Studies in imperialism . Manchester (UK): Manchester University Press.

Demetriades, Panicos O., Du, Jun, Girma, Sourafel and Xu, Chenggang (2008). Does the Chinese banking system promote the growth of firms? Working Paper. University of Leicester, Leicester (UK).

Driffield, Nigel, Du, Jun and Girma, Sourafel (2008). Optimal geographic diversification and firm performance:evidence from the U.K. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 30 (2), pp. 145-254.

Du, Jun and Girma, Sourafel (2008). Financing source and firm growth in a hybrid financial system:evidence from China United Nations World Institutes for Development Research. IN: WIDER Conference on Southern Engines of Global Growth: China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS): Financial Flows and Capital Markets. 2008-07-11 - 2008-07-12.

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Gerry, Christopher J. and Mickiewicz, Tomasz (2008). Inequality, democracy and taxation:lessons from the post-Communist transition. Europe-Asia Studies, 60 (1), pp. 89-111.

Girma, Sourafel, Gong, Yundan and Görg, Holger (2008). Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises. World Bank Economic Review, 22 (2), pp. 367-382.

Görg, Holger, Henry, Michael and Strobl, Eric (2008). Grant support and exporting activity. Review of economics and statistics, 90 (1), pp. 168-174.

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Hart, Mark, Driffield, Nigel L., Roper, Stephen and Mole, Kevin F. (2008). Evaluation of regional selective assistance (RSA) and selective finance for investment in England (SFIE) 2000-2004 Report for the DTI. Discussion Paper. Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Helmers, Christian and Rogers, Mark (2008). Innovation and the survival of new firms across British regions. Working Paper. University of Oxford. (Unpublished)

Huggins, Robert and Izushi, Hiro (2008). UK competitiveness index 2008. Cardiff (UK): Centre for International Competitiveness.

Huggins, Robert, Izushi, Hiro, Davies, Will and Shougui, Luo (2008). World knowledge competitiveness index 2008. Cardiff (UK): Centre for International Competitiveness.

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Jarzabkowski, Paula A. and Seidl, David (2008). The role of meetings in the social practice of strategy. Organization Studies, 29 (11), pp. 1391-1426.

Jarzabkowski, Paula and Whittington, Richard (2008). Directions for a troubled discipline:strategy research, teaching and practice introduction to the dialog. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17 (4), pp. 226-268.

Jarzabkowski, Paula and Whittington, Richard (2008). A strategy-as-practice approach to strategy research and education. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17 (4), pp. 282-286.

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Kelly, Josie (2008). Creating citizen-consumers::changing publics and changing public services. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 21 (1), pp. 93-94.

Korosteleva, Julia and Mickiewicz, Tomasz (2008). Start-up financing:a comparative perspective. Working Paper. University College London, London (UK).

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Love, James H., Roper, Stephen and Hewitt-Dundas, Nola (2008). Service innovation, embeddedness and business performance:UK regional evidence. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

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Malhotra, Namrata, Morris, Tim and Smets, Michael (2008). Multi-level institutional work:maintaining or disputing up-or-out tournaments in elite law firms? IN: Society for the Advancement of Management Studies: Trajectories, Paths, Patterns and Practices of Strategising and Organising. 2008-09-01.

Mansury, Mica A. and Love, James H. (2008). Innovation, productivity and growth in US business services:a firm-level analysis. Technovation, 28 (1-2), pp. 52-62.

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Rogers, Mark and Satvat, Amir (2008). Rotating the boards:corporate governance. Monash Business Review, 4 (1), pp. 38-39.

Roper, Stephen, Du, Jun and Love, James H. (2008). Modelling the innovation value chain. Research policy, 37 (6-7), pp. 961-977.

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Smets, Michael, Morris, Tim and Morris, W. (2008). Reputation and performance in large law firms. IN: 2008 Academy of Management annual meeting. 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-13.

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Temouri, Yama (2008). Multinational firms, productivity and employment. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Temouri, Yama, Driffield, Nigel L. and Añón Higón, Dolores (2008). Analysis of productivity differences among foreign and domestic firms:evidence from Germany. Review of world economics, 144 (1), pp. 32-54.

Temouri, Yama, Driffield, Nigel and Añón Higón, Dolores (2008). Offshoring:a multi-country study of FDI in high-technology sectors. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Thomas, Holli, Beer, Andrew and Bailey, David (2008). A tale of two regions:comparative versus competitive approaches to economic restructuring. Policy Studies, 29 (3), pp. 357-370.

Tolikas, Konstantinos (2008). Value-at-risk and extreme value distributions for financial returns. The Journal of Risk, 10 (3), pp. 31-77.

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Vaidya, Kirit (2008). Appropriate wage rate and related issues for employment intensive public works programmes in Timor Leste. Dili, Timor Leste: International Labour Organisation.