School of Management Working Papers

The School of Management Research Paper Series is published to circulate the results on ongoing research to a wider audience, and to facilitate intellectual exchange and debate. The papers have been through a refereeing process and will subsequently be published in a revised form.
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Brendan McSweeney and Bill Ryan SoMWP0910
From the ‘Frying-Pan’ into the ‘Fire’? Antidotes to Confirmatory Bias in Case-Study Research
December 2009

Christopher J Napier SoMWP0909
Accounting at the London School of Economics: Opportunity Lost?
November 2009

Laura J. Spence and Michael Bourlakis SoMWP0908
Unilateral Standards for Social Responsibility: Corporations as Social Watchdogs?
August 2009

Sameer Hosany and David Gilbert SoMWP0907
Dimensions of Tourists’ Emotional Experiences towards Hedonic Holiday Destinations
July 2009

Alice Lam  SoMWP0906
From ‘ivory tower traditionalists’ to ‘entrepreneurial scientists’? Academic scientists in fuzzy university-industry boundaries
May 2009

Sameer Hosany and Mark Witham  SoMWP0905
Dimensions of Cruisers’ Experiences, Satisfaction and Intention to Recommend
May 2009

Shuchi Sinha and Yiannis Gabriel  SoMWP0904
'Delhi Belly': Coping With Toxicity And Immunizing Identities In Indian Call Centres
May 2009

Yiannis Gabriel, David E. Gray and Harshita Goregaokar  SoMWP0903
Temporary Derailment or the End of the Line? Unemployed Managers at 50
April 2009

Brendan McSweeney  SoMWP0902
Is Denial of the Possibility of Financial Asset Market Failure Responsible for an Economic Holocaust
February 2009

G. D. Carnegie and C. J. Napier  SoMWP0901
Traditional Accountants and Business Professionals: Portraying the Accounting Profession after Enron
January 2009

Gloria Agyemang  SoMWP0809
Accounting for Needs? Formula Funding in the UK School Sector
December 2008

Chong Wu and David Barnes  SoMWP0808
A Four-phase Conceptual Model for Supplier Selection in Agile Supply Chains
December 2008

Christopher Napier  SoMWP0807
The Logic of Pension Accounting
December 2008

José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón  SoMWP0806
Enabling Collaborations In Information Systems Practice
October 2008

Alice Lam  SoMWP0805
The Tacit Knowledge Problem in Multinational Corporations: Japanese and US Offshore Knowledge Incubators
August 2008

Ewan Ferlie, Gerry McGivern and Ailson De Moraes  SoMWP0804
Developing a Public Interest School of Management
August 2008

Jos Gamble  SoMWP0803
The Diffusion of HRM Practices in East Asia: Chinese Workers in Multinational Retail Firms From Japan 
July 2008

Marco Nappolini & Chris Hackley  SoMWP0802
Moviegoers’ Response to Product Placement: A Mise-en-Scene Analysis
July 2008

Alice Lam & Jean-Paul Lambermont-Ford  SoMWP0801
Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Organisational Contexts: A Motivation-based Perspective
July 2008

Alan Pilkington  SoMWP0605
Key Inventors and Key Firms in Fuel Cell Development: A Patent Analysis
October 2006

Alan Pilkington & Thorsten Teichert  SoMWP0604
A Citation/Co-citation of Research Policy
August 2006

Gloria Agyemang  SoMWP0603
The Organisational Steering Processes of Two UK Education Departments
August 2006

Yang-Im Lee  SoMWP0602
Retailing Strategy and the Importance of Clearly Defined Partnership Arrangements
April 2006

Bill Ryan  SoMWP0601
Budgeting, the Individual and the Capital Markets: A Case of Fiscal Stress?
April 2006

Lutz Preuss  SoMWP0504
Middle managers and the environment: the perspective of the purchasing and supply function
July 2005

Donna Brown & Michael Gold  SoMWP0503
Non-standard academics: a profile across ten UK universities
July 2005

Rungpaka Tiwsakul & Chris Hackley  SoMWP0502
Ethics and regulation of contemporary marketing communication practices: an exploration of the perceptions of UK-based consumers towards the ethical issues raised by product placement in British TV shows
June 2005

Norman Peng & Chris Hackley  SoMWP0501
A qualitative case exploration of the use of image political advertising in the Taiwanese presidential election of 2000
June 2005