Publication

Publications

Abosag, I., Baker, T., Lindsey, K., Voulgari A. and Zheng, X. “Antecedents and Consequences of Liking in Retail Service Relationships in China and Greece”, International of Business Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 566-578.

Abosag, I. and Brennan, R. "Understanding Marketing Innovativeness in Asia: A Research Agenda", Asian Business & Management, (Forthcoming).

Yen, D., Abosag, I., Huang, Y. and Nguyen, B. “Guanxi GRX (ganqing, renqing, xinren) and conflict management in Sino-US business relationships”, Industrial Marketing Management, (Forthcoming).

Adcock, C. “Using Parametric Classification Trees For Model Selection with Applications to Financial Risk Management”, with Nigel Meade, The European Journal of Operational Research, 259, pp. 746-765.

____ “Derivative activities and Chinese banks’ exposures to exchange rate and interest rate movements”, with Xiuping Hua, Khelifa Mazouz and Shuxing Yin, The European Journal of Finance, 23, pp. 727-751.

____ “The Performance of Socially Responsible Equity Mutual Funds: Evidence from Sweden”, with Carlos Leite, Maria Cortez and Florinda Silva. To appear in Business Ethics: A European Review.

Alexander, R. Duty to Promote the ‘Success of the Company’: time for greater emphasis on all factors, Editorial, Company Lawyer, Issue 9, July.

____ Case note for Lloyds Law Reports, Financial Crime, Part 8, p.447.

Asquer, A. Public Sector Revenue: principles, policies, and management, Routledge.

Scaramozzino, P. “Discretionary Enforcement and Strategic Interactions between Enforcement Agencies and Firms: A Theoretical and Laboratory Investigation” (with Anna Rita Germani, Andrea Morone and Piergiuseppe Morone), Journal of Regulatory Economics, forthcoming.

____ “The Importance of Being Remembered: Prices for Cemetery Plots in the US” (with Paolo Canofari and Giancarlo Marini), Economic Modelling, Vol. 64, August, pp. 638-645.

Taghdisi Rad, S. “Libya and Europe: imperialism, crisis and migration” (with Pradella, L.), Third World Quarterly, Vol. 38, Iss. 11, pp. 2411-2427.

____ “Introduction” in Caracciolo, B. et al. (eds.) Progressive Lab for Sustainable Development: from vision to action, Foundation for European Progressives Studies, Brussels.

SFM Newsletter No.1

Summer 2017

Contents • Publications • Conferences & seminars • Projects & grants • Collaboration updates • Consultancy & advisory • In other news…

Conferences and seminars

Conference/seminar Activity

Reinhard Bachmann ‘Finding Trust in Social Sciences’ Workshop, Institute for Conflict Cooperation and Security, University of Birmingham, 21 September

Roundtable discussion

Richard Alexander 35th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, 3-10 September The “One Belt, One Road: Risks and Responsibilities” conference held as part of the Symposium

Delivered three presentations. Richard welcomes interest in presenting an SFM workshop at the 36th Symposium (2-9 September 2018).

Sahar Rad International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy’s (IIPPE) 8th Annual Conference, Berlin, 13-15 September

Pres: “With Gramsci in Palestine: Donor hegemony and the manufacturing of consent”; “Libya and Europe: Imperialism, crisis and migration” (with Lucia Pradella, King’s College London)

Alberto Asquer Public Management Research Conference, Washington, 8-10 June

Pres: “How Do Physician Executives Understand Performance Review and Assessment? A Longitudinal Q-methodology Analysis in a Public Health Organization”

International Conference on Public Policy, Singapore, 28-30 June

Pres: “How Do Physician Executives Understand Performance Review and Assessment? A Longitudinal Q-methodology Analysis in a Public Health Organization”; “Explaining Neoliberal Reforms in Neo-Patrimonial Systems: The Commercialization of Health and Education in Saudi Arabia”; and “The Regulation of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS): Facing the Rise of Sensor Networks, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics”

Chris Adcock MidWest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1-4 March

Pres: “Short Sales and Price Discovery in the Hong Kong Stock Market” (Xiang, W., S. Yin and C. J. Adcock)

7th Financial Engineering and Banking Society International Meeting, University of Strathclyde, 1-3 June

Pres: “Short Sales and Price Discovery in the Hong Kong Stock Market” (Xiang, W., S. Yin and C. J. Adcock).

Banks and Financial Markets in Times of Uncertainty, Essex Business School, 7 July

Pres: “Market Crashes and the Capital Asset Pricing Model”

Ibrahim Abosag The Academy of Marketing Conference, Hull, UK, 5-7 July

Pres: “Satisfaction with Social Network Sites: The Paradox of Brand Similarity and Customer Uniqueness” (with Ramadan, Z. and Baker, T.)

Global Brand Conference, Kalmar, Sweden, 26-27 April

Pres: “The Paradox of Friend Likability with Customer Uniqueness, Brand Similarity and Social Network Sites’ Satisfaction” (with Ramadan, Z.)

Lecture at the United Arab Emirates University, 3 May

Pres: “Understanding Et-Moone (میننھ) Concept in Business Relationships in the Gulf States”

Research seminar at Ljubljana University, Slovenia, 15 March

Pres: “Understanding Counterarguments in Managing Consumer Boycotting Behaviour”

Christine Oughton South African Reserve Bank (SARB) biennial Financial Stability Research Conference, 26-27 October, Pretoria, South Africa

Key note: “Key issues for effective macro prudential policymaking” https://www.resbank.co.za/Financial%20Stability/FinStab_Research_Conference/Pages/default.aspx

IIT Delhi, India, 2nd December 2017 IIT-BHU Kerela, Univ. of Hyderabad, 4th December 2017

Key note: “The Role of Innovation and Technology to address the needs of developing societies, and their transformation, empowerment and enrichment”

Victor Murinde and his co-researchers on the ESRC 'Inclusive Finance' research project

Joint 8th African Business and Entrepreneurship and the 14th Makerere Leadership and Entrepreneurship Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA, 4-7 October

Pres: “The interbank market and monetary policy: Evidence from Kenya' (with Ye Bai, University of Nottingham; Christopher Green, Loughborough University; and, Kethi Ngoka, Central Bank of Kenya). “Fragility of African Banks” (with Abbi Kedir, University of Sheffield). Issouf Soumare of Laval University (who is a Co-I on the research project and recently elected to become an External Fellow at SFM) organised a special Session 8-1C (Financial Inclusion and Growth), on Thursday 5 October, attended by researchers, policy makers, and private sector practitioners.

Research projects, grants and fieldwork updates Christine Oughton is currently the 1) co-investigator on ESRC-DFID funded project on Financial Inclusion and Growth (PI – Professor Victor Murinde), (£2m, 2016-2020); 2) co-investigator on ESRC-NSCF funded project on Financial Systems in China (PI- Professor Gerhard Kling), (£345K, 2017-2020). She is also a member of the core research team of the Research

Programme of the AXA research fund Centre for Global Finance (£1m, 2017-2027).

Ricahard Alexander is preparing an application, together with Senija Čaušević and colleagues at the University of Nairobi, for a research grant under the British Academy’s Anti-Corruption Evidence Partnership. It is anticipated that the University of Rwanda will also be part of the consortium.

Collaboration updates

Alberto Asquer is working with a colleague at Bocconi University, Milan, on a paper on ethical principles and practices in NGO multi-stakeholder initiatives, and with a colleague at the National University of Singapore on a paper on regulatory constructivism in the water sector. Chris Adcock is working on a number of collaborative projects with colleagues from Imperial College London, Brunel University, Coventry Business School, Sheffield, Minho, Haifa and Negev universities.

Consultancy and advisory activities Richard Alexander gave a seminar on the UK anti-money laundering measures to the Qingdao office of Zhong Lun Law Firm and some of their banking clients on 17 August. Christine Oughton is engaged in a consultancy/research project on Financial System Resilience in South Africa. Sahar Taghdisi Rad delivered two training sessions (May and July) on “Infrastructural Developments and Projects in West Asia” for the Bank of China’s “One Belt, One Road” executive team.

Qingdao office of Zhonglun Law Firm

In other news… Richard Alexander was appointed as a Director of the UK-Sichuan Business Association in September 2017. Chris Adcock is the current editor of The European Journal of Finance Ibrahim Abosag wrote a column on “nation branding” in Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz. He also examined one DBA at the United Arab Emirates University, and one PhD at Strathclyde University.

Though the summer feels long gone, its fond memories remain… Alberto Asquer enjoyed sailing and snorkelling at the Geremeas beach, Sardinia! J In memory of Lenin's journey, Federico Mucciarelli took a trip across Europe to Russia via train, while Sahar Rad spent a couple of weeks hiking in the western Pyrenees mountains.

The Pyrenees National Park

Geremeas beach, Sardinia