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Onwards and upwards: why companies change their executive remuneration schemes, and why this leads to increases in pay

Bender, Ruth (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006-10-01)

Much has been written about the phenomenon of ever-increasing executive pay in listed companies. This paper examines some of the underlying reasons for this continued increase in executive directors’ remuneration. It ...
Tension management in logistics service innovation projects

Kohler, Thomas; Harrison, Alan (2006-11-01)

Innovation projects create tensions, which may be envisaged as conflicts between different perspectives on how such projects should be managed. Such tensions have been described in such terms as autonomy versus ...
Muslim voices: The British Muslim response to Islamic video-polemic - An exploratory study

Baines, Paul R.; O'Shaughnessy, Nicholas J.; Moloney, Kevin; Richards, Barry; Butler, Sara; Gill, Mark (2006-12-01)

This paper represents an attempt to deconstruct how Muslims living in Britain might respond to militant Islamist propaganda, as typified by elected ‘Jihadist’ video-clips obtained from the Internet, using a discussion ...
Infrastructure regulation and poverty reduction in developing countries: a review of the evidence and a research agenda

Parker, David; Kirkpatrick, Colin; Figueira, Catarina (Cranfield University School of Management, 2007-02)

Poverty reduction is a primary goal of development policy. In large parts of the World people have to live on meagre incomes and have limited access to infrastructure services, such as mains water, safe sanitation, mains ...
Coordinating supply relationships: rhetoric and reality

Harrison, Alan; Koulikoff-Souviron, Marie (2007-02-01)

Two reciprocally interdependent, dyadic supply relationships – one inter- organizational, the other intra-organizational - were investigated across a broad front in this study. The focus was on the logistics relationship ...
The impact of deregulation on the German and UK life insurance markets: an analysis of efficiency and productivity between 1991-2002

Hussels, Stephanie; Ward, Damian R. (Cranfield University School of Management, 2007-03)

This paper provides an intra and inter-country assessment of deregulation and industry efficiency in the European insurance industry. The impact of deregulation is expected to be magnified within an analysis of the ...
Is there a North-South divide in self-employment in England?

Burke, Andrew; FitzRoy, Felix R; Nolan, Michael A (2007-07-01)

Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. We find the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional ...
Polish banking industry efficiency: a DEA window analysis approach

Kisielewska, Magdalena; Guzowska, Malgorzata; Nellis, Joseph G.; Zarzecki, Dariusz (Cranfield University School of Management, 2007-08)

The Polish banking industry has been transformed since the country’s transition to a market economy which began at the end of the 1980s. The industry has now developed and expanded to encompass more than 60 participants ...
The relationship between economic development and business ownership revisited

Carree, Martin; van Stel, André; Thurik, A. Roy; Wennekers, Sander (Cranfield University School of Management, 2007-08)

This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ...
Market concentration, market dynamism and business survival

Burke, Andrew; Gorg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife (Cranfield University School of Management, 2007-09)

The paper uses a unique dataset comprising the population of new ventures that enter the UK market in 1998. We argue that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to ...
The impact of intellectual property right regimes on self employed entrepreneurship: an international analysis

Burke, Andrew; Fraser, Stuart (Cranfield University School of Management, 2007-10)

The importance of IPR regimes for large firm innovation is well documented but less is known about their impact on self-employed entrepreneurship which is typically less innovative. The paper sets out to estimate the net ...
Does the balance scorecard work: an empirical investigation

Neely, Andrew (Cranfield University School of Management, 2008-01)

Commentators suggest that between 30 and 60% of large US firms have adopted the Balanced Scorecard, first described by Bob Kaplan and David Norton in their seminal Harvard Business Review paper of 1992 (Kaplan and Norton, ...
Incentives and Managerial Experience in Multi-task Teams: Evidence from within a Firm

Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew (Cranfield School of Management, 2008-02)

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced ...
The UK code of corporate governance: link between compliance and firm performance

Shabbir, Amama; Padgett, Carol (Cranfield University School of Management, 2008-02)

We investigate the relation between a detailed index of non-compliance with the UK corporate governance code, and firm performance for a panel of FTSE 350 companies from 2000 to 2003. The inverse relation between the ...
To Comply or not to Comply: Evidence on Changes and Factors associated with the Changes in Compliance with the UK Code of Corporate Governance

Shabbir, Amama (Cranfield University School of Management, 2008-03)

In the UK, listed companies are required to comply or explain reasons for non-compliance with the UK code of corporate governance. In this paper, using detailed compliance data for a panel of FTSE 350 companies, I first ...
UK farming post reform: the key marketing challenges

Rickard, Sean; Roberts, Deborah (Cranfield University School of Management, 2008-03)

The 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy largely replaced the European Union’s production orientated system of price support with a decoupled, single farm payment (SFP) system that freed farmers to choose what ...
Making business schools relevant: Impacting management practice through appropriate modes of learning

James, Kim Turnbull; Denyer, David (Cranfield University School of Management, 2008-04)

This paper suggests that the traditional mode of knowledge production in academic institutions finds its way unquestioningly into executive education practice. By exploring alternative modes of knowledge production and ...
The impact of foreign equity investment flows on integration of Asian emerging equity markets

Poshakwale, Sunil S.; Thapa, Chandra (Cranfield University School of Management, 2009-01)

The paper investigates the impact of foreign equity investment flows on the integration process of emerging markets with the global markets. Daily net foreign equity investment flow and return data for the four Asian ...
Multiple effects of business plans on new ventures

Burke, Andrew; Fraser, Stuart; Green, Francis (Cranfield University School of Management, 2009-02)

We investigate the impact of writing a business plan prior to start-up on new venture performance. Our analysis makes new contributions by examining multiple effects of business plans. This approach allows the impacts ...

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