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Quarterly Research Highlights

Published: 13 July 2016

This page provides a spotlight on some of the most recent activity in Southampton Business School, with news about publications, speaking engagements and funded research over the last few months.

View a selection of current and recent research activity in Southampton Business School. More details about these and other researchers, projects, publications, events, etc. and about the work of our research centres, can be found via the Southampton Business School research page and the academic staff pages .

Papers accepted:

Baden, D. (in press). A reconstruction of Carroll's Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility for the 21st century. International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Holland, K., Lindop, S., Zainudin, F. Tax avoidance: a threat to corporate legitimacy? An examination of companies’ Financial and CSR Reports., Business Tax Review. [ABS 3*]

Hsu, M-W., Lessmann, S., Sung, M., Ma, T., and Johnson, J.E.V. , Bridging the Divide in Financial Market Forecasting: Machine Learners vs. Financial Economists. Expert Systems with Applications, 2016, 61, 215-234 [ABS 3*]

Tzabbar, D. Tzafrir, S. S. & Baruch, Y . (2016). A Bridge Over Trouble Waters: Replication, Integration and Extension of the Relationship between HRM Practices and ¬¬Organizational Performance Using Moderating Meta-Analysis. Human Resource Management Review, [ABS 3*]

Urquhart, A. (2016) . "How Predictable Are Precious Metal Returns?" European Journal of Finance, forthcoming. [ABS 3*]

Urquhart, A., McGroarty, F. (2016). “Are stock markets really efficient? Evidence of the Adaptive Market Hypothesis”. International Review of Financial Analysis, forthcoming. [ABS 3*]

Papers published:

Baruch, Y. & Altman, Y. (2016). The ecosystem of labor markets and their careers. HR People & Strategy, 39 (3), 32-34.

Ramoglou, S & Tsang , EWK 2016. A realist perspective of entrepreneurship: Opportunities as propensities. Academy of Management Review, 41(3): 410-434. [ABS 4**]

Vaughan Williams, L., Sung, M., Fraser-Mackenzie, P.A.F., Peirson, J. and Johnson, J.E.V . “Towards an understanding of the origins of the favourite–longshot bias: Evidence from online poker markets, a real-money natural laboratory”, Economica, June 2016. doi:10.1111/ecca.12200 [ABS 3*]

Nguyen S and Wolfe S (2016) Determinants of Successful Access to bank Loans by Vietnamese SMEs: New Evidence from the Red River Delta. Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 21:1.

Conference papers:

María Oskarsdottir, Cristián Bravo, Wouter Verbeke, Carlos Sarraute, Bart Baesens, Jan Vanthienen (2016) A comparative study of social network classifiers for predicting churn in the telecommunication industry In: Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining San Francisco (US): IEEE.

Stefan Cantore presented a workshop at the national NHS Confederation Conference in Manchester 17th June on the topic of ‘Culture change through conversations: How to transform organisational effectiveness’.

Dawson, I.G.J. (2016) Portraits of a Future World: An Empirical Assessment of How Different Narrative, Photographic and Graphical Representations of Global Population Growth Might Influence Perceived Risk. 25th Society for Risk Analysis – Europe – Conference, Bath, UK, June 20-22.

Green, L., Ma, T, Johnson, J.E.V., Sung, M and Tiropanis, T . “The economic value of information derived from a new web-based technology and its rate of diffusion in a financial market”, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, 19-22 November, 2016

Lawrence, W., Sung M., Ma, T., Johnson, J.E.V. and Tiropanis, T . 'The role of mobile app use in the decision making behavior of spread traders’.60,16,42,61 International Conference on Advanced Computing, Communication and Information Sciences (ICACCI), May 27-9, Cebu, Philippines, 2016.

Liu S. and Han J. (2016) "What does media tone premium tell about expected stock returns?” The European Financial Management Association Annual Conference, 29 June – 2 July, Switzerland.

Gebka, B., Hudson, R., McGee, R., Urquhart, A. “Profitability from adapting technical trading rules: Evidence from the moving average rule”. 14th INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, Ireland, June 2016.

Rasolofoarison Dina, Stephanie Feiereisen, Cristel Russell and Hope Jensen Schau , "Navigating Narratives and Altering Time: Consumption Practices in the Digital Age" accepted for the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) conference in Berlin (Germany) from 27 to 30 October 2016

Restocchi, V., Mcgroarty, F., Gerding, E. and Johnson, J.E.V. “The impact of transaction costs in sports betting markets”. Social Simulation Conference SSC2016, Rome, Italy, 19- 23 Sep 2016.

Restocchi, V., Mcgroarty, F., Gerding, E. and Johnson, J.E.V. “Explaining the favourite-longshot bias with heterogeneous interacting agents.” WEHIA2016, XXI Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, Castellòn de la Plana, Spain, 22 – 23 Jun 2016.

Restocchi, V., McGroarty,F., Gerding, E., Johnson, J.E.V. “Explaining the favourite-longshot bias with heterogeneous interacting agents". WEHIA2016, XXI Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, June 22-23, Castellòn de la Plana, Spain, 2016

Restocchi, V., McGroarty,F., Gerding, E., Johnson, J.E.V. ‘’The Impact of transaction costs in sports betting markets”. Social Simulation Conference SSC2016, Sept 19-23, Rome, 2016.

Baker,T., Sung, M., Ma, T., Johnson, J.E.V. “Well I’ll be damned - Insights into the predictive value of pedigree information in horse racing”. 16th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, Las Vegas, USA, 6-10 June, 2016.

Sha’ven W.B., Tsamenyi M. and Rowbottom N. (2016). “Changes in Accountability Practices in a Micro Finance Institution: An Institutional Entrepreneurship Perspective” In African Accounting and Finance Association. Nairobi, Kenya.

A. Eross, A. Urquhart and S. Wolfe (2016) Liquidity Risk Contagion in the Interbank Market. Presented at the 14th INFINITI Conference 13-14 June.

Hudson, R., Urquhart, A., Wang, J. “Investigating the Profitability of Technical Analysis Using Cross-Sectional Country Data”. 20th Financial Management Association (FMA) European Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 2016.

Hudson, R., Urquhart, A., Wang, J. “Investigating the Profitability of Technical Analysis Using Cross-Sectional Country Data”. 14th INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, Ireland, June 2016.

Vahidi, R. (2016) ‘Application of the AHP in analysing decision making process in projects: Case study of a major project decision’. ISAHP - International Symposium of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2016, London, UK, August 4-7.

Vahidi, R. (2016) ‘Research on Contemporary Project Management through an Engineering Lens – Challenges and Opportunities’. 16th Doctoral Research Seminar in Project & Programme Management - Special EDEN Doctoral Seminar. SKEMA Business School, Lille, August 22-24.

Wolny, J. (2016)Multichannel Customer Journey as a Service System, 2nd Service System Forum, University of Warwick, Venice, June

Wolny, J. (2016) Designing Immersive Experiences in Fashion and the Arts, Augmented & Virtual Reality Applications in Retail and e-Commerce Marketing Conference, London, June

Book chapters/reports:

Wolny, J. (2016) Marketing Communications in a Digital Age, In: Baker, M; Saren, M. (Eds.) Marketing Theory, 3rd ed, Sage

Other special achievements:

Professor Johnnie Johnson elected Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Association for Gambling Studies (APAGS): an international academic network consisting of scholars, professionals, regulators, and policy makers focussed on gambling research and the gaming business around the world. APAGS is dedicated to promoting multi-disciplinary gambling studies through consultancy, scientific research and international conferences and via the publication of scholarly journals.

Liu.S and Kearney C. have been awarded the Tom Fetherstone best paper in IRFA (International Review of Financial Analysis) award for 2014 for the paper titled “Textual Sentiment in Finance: A Survey of Methods and Models”.

Dr Andrew Urquhart received the best paper in 2013 in International Review of Financial Analysis at the 14th INFINITI Conference on International Finance in Dublin, Ireland for Urquhart, A., Hudson, R. (2013). “Efficient or Adaptive Markets? Evidence from major stock markets using very long historic data.” International Review of Financial Analysis, 28, 130-142.

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