Diversity training is a significant topic in human resource development literature and one that merits theoretical and practical attention. Over the past 20 years, a considerable body of research has been accumulated. ...

Tourism plays an important role in many countries around the globe by creating foreign exchange and generating employment, and by contributing to a more balanced spread of economic activity in areas with few alternative ...

Firm performance is important for a number of reasons related to job creation, firm survival, innovation, competiveness and overall economic performance; motivating a large body of research on its determining factors. It ...

Governments everywhere are under pressure to deliver service to the community in a situation where the expectation of the population is growing and the public finances are static or falling. To address this problem many ...

While the Higher Education literature is replete with studies investigating the effects the work environment has on the employment relationship and job-related attitudes of academics, there is a paucity of empirical research ...

China’s economic achievement over the past three decades has been remarkable. It has managed to maintain a sustained period of unprecedented growth since its reform and “opening-up” policies of 1978. As China is now as ...

In this study, I empirically examine the determinants of firms’ derivatives usage. Theory suggests that market exposure, manager-shareholder agency conflicts, and the threats of financial distress and underinvestment can ...

Business networks are used by firms as a tool for organising interdependent business activities, where such networks are defined as a cooperative arrangement between independent business organisations that can vary from ...

The objective of this thesis is to explore the under-researched area of corporate governance in small firms with an explicit focus on the potential value of a nonexecutive director (NED) on the small firm board and ...

This thesis is concerned with the predictability of equity market performance in China while accounting for the possibility of model instability. The study of return predictability, particularly that on time-varying ...