Happy employees and their impact on firm performance

A study finds a strong positive correlation between employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance
The Community of Advantage: A Behavioural Economist’s Defence of the Market – Book Review

The book challenges the emphasis placed on preference within behavioural economics
Without the single market, the prospects for the UK trade in services are looking bleak

Increased costs and significant effects on the volume and composition of services exports are likely
Carbon pricing is finally enjoying some momentum, despite setbacks

Carbon pricing is becoming increasingly popular among policymakers – and the general public too
Top jobs lead to divorce for women, but not for men

Even in the most gender-equal countries in the world, women pay a high price for their career success

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Economics

Happy employees and their impact on firm performance

July 15th, 2019

Without the single market, the prospects for the UK trade in services are looking bleak

July 13th, 2019

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

July 10th, 2019

Bias of screening: when noise makes your criteria perform poorly

July 8th, 2019

Management

How the corporate culture of banks affects their risk-taking behaviour

June 26th, 2019

The DNA of disruption: a nuanced view of disruptive innovation

June 21st, 2019

A dose of democracy in corporate governance may help save social media

June 14th, 2019

CEOs’ political ideology influences firms’ internal resource allocation

June 7th, 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

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

July 3rd, 2019

Market incentives are stacked against companies that try to care about climate change

June 8th, 2019

A global research network to help green the financial system

June 3rd, 2019

‘Human plus artificial’ intelligence: the future of work in the investment industry

May 10th, 2019

Career & Success

Our digital malaise: distraction is costing us more than we think

April 19th, 2019

The economics of attractiveness: teenagers with acne do better in school and later in the labour market

April 18th, 2019
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Who gets to occupy the corporate C-suite?

March 6th, 2019

Positive ways to address the gap in your CV after you take time out to raise a family

February 27th, 2019
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Information & Technology

Fake news: source ratings and better user interface design help us see deception

June 26th, 2019

Technologies of control: we have to defend our right of refusal

June 22nd, 2019

The challenge of regulating biotech in personalised healthcare

June 20th, 2019

Unpicking the components of blockchain and their possible applications

June 19th, 2019

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

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

Do we even know what ‘follower’ means?

April 10th, 2019
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Gender

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

July 11th, 2019

Women give up competing more easily than men

July 9th, 2019
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Degendering: how the conception of the ‘woman worker’ changes

July 5th, 2019

The limits of the ‘resilient woman’ ideal

July 1st, 2019
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Future of Work

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

July 10th, 2019

‘Human plus artificial’ intelligence: the future of work in the investment industry

May 10th, 2019

Exploring the debate on the future of work: the end of management?

May 1st, 2019
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Working in the ‘platform economy’: what is it really like?

March 7th, 2019
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Sustainability

Carbon pricing is finally enjoying some momentum, despite setbacks

July 12th, 2019

Circular economy: reducing symptoms or fostering radical change?

July 4th, 2019

How development banks can adapt to climate risk: the case of Mexico’s NAFIN

June 29th, 2019

‘Climate Spring’ reaches the financial sector

June 17th, 2019

Work Issues

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

July 10th, 2019

Workers would give up half their hourly wages in exchange for a steady job

July 2nd, 2019

What happens to people’s careers when demand for their occupations declines?

June 25th, 2019

The resegregation of the American workplace

June 15th, 2019

Book Reviews

The Community of Advantage: A Behavioural Economist’s Defence of the Market – Book Review

July 14th, 2019

Respawn: Gamers, Hackers and Technogenic Life – Book Review

July 7th, 2019

Corporate Governance In Contention – Book Review

June 30th, 2019

How Nations Succeed: Manufacturing, Trade, Industrial Policy and Economic Development – Book Review

June 23rd, 2019

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