Business Law (Books and Journals)

• Patricia Pearl
• Tim Parker

• Elspeth Berry

• Neal Geach
• Christopher Monaghan

• Elspeth Berry
• Rebecca Parry

• John B. Kirkwood

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

This study focuses on the consequences of the use of computerized work equipment (hereafter: computer use) on the content and quality of work. It investigates, first, the relationship between computer use and both job tasks and task discretion and, second, their mediating role for the relationship between computer use and job satisfaction. With our German‐UK comparison, we contribute to the long‐s

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

How bad are mass layoffs politically? We study this question across both regional and individual‐level datasets. Using a difference‐in‐difference framework with differential timing on constituency‐level data for the UK, we find no evidence that mass layoff announcements negatively affect incumbents – either locally or nationally – in the General Elections 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019. Using...

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

Prior research has shown that the well‐being of employees engaged in intensive work can vary with the discretion their jobs afford regarding how and when to carry out the work. This article explores a different avenue. It argues that well‐being also varies with employees’ individual motives for working intensively. The article introduces self‐determination theory to the domain of work intensity...

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

We examined the recent occupational regulation changes in China and their labour market impacts. Using data from the China Labor‐Force Dynamic Survey from 2014 to 2018, we found an earning premium of approximately 10 per cent, as well as more employment‐based benefits, for those with an occupational license compared to those without one. Licensed workers reported higher skill‐job task match than...

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

Drawing on comparative employment relations literature, this article explores how employment relations (ER) institutions support the ‘care coordinator’, a new role tasked with aiding the exchange of information between health and social services in the United States and the UK. Findings show that in both countries, multi‐employer collective bargaining facilitated this role by providing good...

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

This article examines whether participation in employer‐sponsored training has a causal impact on job satisfaction by accounting for individual fixed effects, individual‐by‐employer fixed effects and controlling for promotions in a sub‐sample of the data to address the endogeneity of participation arising from within employer job changes. The estimates show a consistent, positive effect of...

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

• British Journal of Industrial Relations

We study the impact of work from home (WFH) on subjective well‐being during the Covid period, where self‐selection of individuals into telework is ruled out, at least part of the time, by stay‐at‐home orders. We use a difference‐in‐differences approach with individual fixed effects and identify the specific impact of switching to telecommuting, separately from any other confounding factor. In...

• British Journal of Management

How the choice of more risk‐sensitive capital requirements by some banks influences average borrowing costs for their customers remains an open question. By exploiting cross‐country manually collected capital requirement data, we find higher portfolio loan spreads in banks that compute a larger share of these requirements for the loan portfolio through internal rating‐based (IRB) models. This...

• British Journal of Management

This paper examines imperfect matching between venture capital (VC) firms and entrepreneurial firms in the VC market. We find an anomaly of imperfect matching evidenced by an inflection point of the matching structure in the Chinese VC market. When the market capacity is within a specific critical range, the greater the market capacity, the greater the degree of matching; when the market capacity

• British Journal of Management

Firms can earn rents not only from their own intangible assets (FIAs), but also from the intangible assets of their owner organizations (OIAs). Although the literature has established that rent creation from FIAs depends on the quality of institutions, it remains unclear how institutional quality influences rents from OIAs. This study examines how the rents from OIAs and FIAs change when they are

• British Journal of Management

This paper investigates the intertemporal dynamics of borrower discouragement. Using a cross‐country panel of firms that were resurveyed across the waves of the Survey on Access to Finance of Enterprises, we find that the probability of transitioning into discouragement changes over the business cycle and across bank financing products: term loans and credit lines. Past credit experiences and...

• British Journal of Management

In recent years, the global business environment has witnessed a wave of de‐internationalization not only among multinationals but also among small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). This disengagement of cross‐border activities is deemed to be driven by various firm‐specific factors, as well as by external factors. Building on the premise of the non‐linear internationalization debate and...

• British Journal of Management

We examine the impact of climate risk on firm performance with a focus on the moderating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Further, we explore how the interaction between climate risk and CSR changes with national culture and religion. Our findings show that firms in countries with greater climate risks are associated with higher levels of CSR activities, possibly suggesting that...

• British Journal of Management

Using a panel of unlisted Italian banks over the period 2006–2018, we examine the extent to which a law that mandatorily introduced female quotas in the boards of Italian listed companies in 2012 had spillover effects on the boards of unlisted banks, which were not required to comply with the quota. Our results show that both the probability of having at least one woman on the board and the...

• British Journal of Management

Using policy‐related uncertainty as a shock to firms’ internal and external financing frictions, we find significantly lower repurchase likelihoods, short‐term market reactions, and post‐announcement completion rates of open market share repurchases during periods of high policy uncertainty. Firms are more likely to switch from a high‐ to a low‐commitment repurchase technique when policy...

• British Journal of Management

The performance feedback theory (PFT) proposes that organizations compare their performance to other organizations (i.e. their social reference group) and initiate responses based on this comparison. While social comparison represents a core element of the PFT, it is not well understood how organizations select social reference groups and how this selection may affect organizational responses (e.g

• British Journal of Management

Due to the high importance and severe consequences of credit ratings, we investigate the effect inter‐firm coopetition—simultaneous cooperation and competition—has on credit ratings. So far, coopetition research has disregarded its effect on the debt market and research on credit ratings has not considered this evermore occurring mode of alliance. Given the combination of debtholders’ high risk...

• British Journal of Management

We investigate how community social capital, captured by the strength of cooperative norms and social networks within a geographical community, affects the internal structure of corporate boards. We find that firms headquartered in high‐social‐capital US counties have a more advising‐intensive board structure, as they are more likely to set up specialized advisory committees and appoint more...

• British Journal of Management

This paper explores how Guanxi shapes different levels of entrepreneurial behaviour of family businesses in China. Extant research draws on network theory, suggesting that firms focusing on less intimate social relationships are more entrepreneurial than those focusing on intimate social networks. However, this notion of networks neglects Guanxi’s indigenous cultural roots that promote intimacy...

• British Journal of Management

• British Journal of Management

Privacy is a fundamental right, with humans often wanting to keep their information private. Technological advancements are now challenging this right by reducing our control and creating enhanced privacy risks. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law introduced to protect this right. The aim of this paper is to analyse how privacy‐enhancing factors can influence consumer privacy...