The Psychology of Fashion – Book Review

Fashion is not only inseparable from the body but also highly associated with our mind and behaviour
Behind every successful man…

A study of a renowned Canadian couple shows women’s hidden labour behind men’s academic prestige
The efficiency of the IPO market: homo economicus lives

A consensus that this market cannot be efficient doesn’t hold; behavioural finance has led researchers astray
Bitcoin: from currency to investment

After wealthy figures from Silicon Valley and Wall Street entered the space, it’s no longer treated as a currency
The potential dark side of teamwork

It improves the firm’s overall performance, but leads to stress and anxiety among employees

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Economics

Why are some executives paid mostly in salary, while others in bonus?

September 16th, 2019

What would Weitzman say?

September 13th, 2019

The row over the Irish backstop reveals a lot about the contradictions of Brexit

September 12th, 2019

Income inequality among different ethnic groups: the case of Malaysia

September 11th, 2019
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Management

The potential dark side of teamwork

September 18th, 2019

Why are some executives paid mostly in salary, while others in bonus?

September 16th, 2019

Can organisational culture explain the labour market discrimination of ethnic minorities?

September 10th, 2019

How management structures can help firms hire and keep their best people

September 9th, 2019

Accounting

The challenge of regulating biotech in personalised healthcare

June 20th, 2019

Fundraising and crowdfunding platforms operate in a regulatory void

June 11th, 2019

Automation and disruption in the professional business model

June 6th, 2019

Disclosure helps project creators get crowdfunding on Kickstarter

May 15th, 2019

Finance

The efficiency of the IPO market: homo economicus lives

September 20th, 2019

Bitcoin: from currency to investment

September 19th, 2019

Why investors should not attach too much meaning to daily changes in the stock market

September 4th, 2019

Crises in the financial markets tend to bring liberalisation to a temporary halt

July 3rd, 2019

Career & Success

On trying, failing and persisting

September 6th, 2019

Happiness: what professional success looks like

September 2nd, 2019

Why entrepreneurs need a positive professional time perspective

August 14th, 2019

How to avoid a demotion

August 13th, 2019

Information & Technology

Bitcoin: from currency to investment

September 19th, 2019

Screen size matters: people understand the news less when they read it on their phones

August 31st, 2019
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We need to appreciate privacy as a value that protects social goods

August 28th, 2019

Are you allowed to augment my reality?

August 22nd, 2019
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Business Research Impact

When EU university researchers lost the full rights to their innovations

August 14th, 2018
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Why an open mind on open science could reshape human knowledge

January 8th, 2018
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Why much of academic business research remains irrelevant for business

November 21st, 2017

Is leadership research betraying leaders?

October 24th, 2017
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Business History

Portrait of a lady: the female entrepreneur in England and Wales, 1851-1911

May 17th, 2019

How railways aided early democratic social movements

May 14th, 2019

Canada’s supply management system: lessons from Britain’s Corn Laws

March 20th, 2019

Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution

March 19th, 2019
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Leadership

Change when the clock is ticking

August 6th, 2019
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The culture of overconfidence

May 16th, 2019

How change helpers succeed: pay attention to your own process

May 2nd, 2019

Change leaders can either create solutions or help people find their own

April 22nd, 2019

Gender

Behind every successful man…

September 21st, 2019

Why people of colour are on their guard in the workplace

August 29th, 2019

Gender equality improves life satisfaction for men and women

August 24th, 2019

Top jobs lead to divorce for women, but not for men

July 11th, 2019
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Future of Work

Lessons from the uberisation of lawyers in China

September 3rd, 2019

To tackle precarity in the platform economy, shift the narrative

August 16th, 2019

We are heading towards a skills-based, rather than degree-based labour market

August 5th, 2019

Not the gig economy: on the immense value of the growing freelancer ‘project economy’

July 10th, 2019
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Sustainability

The road to zero emissions

September 17th, 2019

Floods of money may not be the most effective tool against fires in the Amazon

September 14th, 2019

Compact cities have many advantages – clean air isn’t one of them

August 23rd, 2019

War rhetoric is rarely the best way to communicate about climate change

August 1st, 2019

Work Issues

Lessons from the uberisation of lawyers in China

September 3rd, 2019

To tackle precarity in the platform economy, shift the narrative

August 16th, 2019

We are heading towards a skills-based, rather than degree-based labour market

August 5th, 2019

Not the gig economy: on the immense value of the growing freelancer ‘project economy’

July 10th, 2019
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Book Reviews

The Psychology of Fashion – Book Review

September 22nd, 2019

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation – Book Review

September 15th, 2019

Re-Engineering Humanity – Book Review

September 8th, 2019

Measuring Poverty Around the World – Book Review

September 1st, 2019

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