Dr Ben Lowe is co-investigator on a research project funded by the Hong Kong Research Council on the topic television product placement, which is a … Read more
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New ESRC Big Data Centre
Professor Andrew Fearne and Dr Shaomin Wu from Kent Business School are key participants in the recently launched ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research … Read more
New ESRC Finance Project
A team of KBS finance researchers, led by Dr Ekaterini Panopoulou, has won seminar funding from the ESRC, together with a group of international collaborators … Read more
Keynote at Variable Neighbourhood Search Conference
Professor Said Salhi was a keynote speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Variable Neighbourhood Search in Tunisia in October 2014. The presentation was titles … Read more
Annual Review of Social Partnerships – 9th issue
The 9th issue of the Annual Review of Social Partnerships, edited by Dr May Seitanidi, is now available. This is a collaborative, open access resource, … Read more
Postfeminism and Inclusion Seminar
Dr Patricia Lewis is leading a seminar at the Institute for Management Research at Radboud University, Nijmegen in the Netherlands on Thursday 6 November 2014. … Read more
KBS awards six new doctorates
Congratulations to Kent Business School’s recent graduates from the PhD programme, who were all awarded their doctorates at Canterbury Cathedral on Tuesday 15 July: Dr … Read more
Benchmarking carbon emissions performance in supply chains
This study by a research team including Dr Adolf Acquaye of Kent Business School aim to develop a benchmarking framework to address issues such as … Read more
Forward futures price differences in the UK commercial property market: Arbitrage and marking-to-model explanations
In this paper by a research team including Dr Silvia Stanescu and Professor Radu Tunaru of Kent Business School and collaborators, the differences between forward … Read more
Regime-switching models for exchange rates
This study by a team including Dr Ekaterini Panopoulou of Kent Business School provides evidence of periodically collapsing bubbles in the British pound to US … Read more
Caught in the Web? Addictive behaviour in cyberspace and the role of goal-orientation
New online 3-D virtual worlds are complex and differ significantly from each other. New research from a team including Prof. Stuart Barnes of Kent Business School examines … Read more
Unbundling the differences between Psychic and Cultural Distance: An empirical examination of the existing measures
The diversity between the country-scores of Hofstede, Schwartz, GLOBE, Håkanson and Ambos and Dow and Karunaratna is the main focus of this study by PhD … Read more
Authenticity perceptions within the Chinese Marketplace
This exploratory study by a team including Dr Xuemei Bian of Kent Business School examines Chinese consumers’ perceptions of authenticity. Extended interviews reveal that Chinese … Read more
Politician personality, Machiavellianism, and political skill as predictors of performance ratings in political roles
This study by a team including Dr Maddy Wyatt of Kent Business School conceptualizes politicians as political workers. It describes a multimethod study with two … Read more
Social Power, Product Conspicuousness and the Demand for Luxury Brand Counterfeit Products
The aim of this article by a research team including Dr Xuemei Bian of Kent Business School is two-fold: 1) to achieve a better understanding … Read more
Pre-evaluating technical efficiency gains from possible mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Japanese regional banks
This study by a research team including Professor Roman Matousek of Kent Business School focuses on bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and applies a DEA … Read more
The wisdom of crowds: The potential of online communities as a tool for data analysis
Online communities have become an important source for knowledge and new ideas. This paper by Dr Marian Garcia Martinez of Kent Business School and ex-PhD … Read more
EPSRC PhD Scholarships for 2014/15
The Management Science group within Kent Business School invites applications for a three-year EPSRC-funded PhD studentship on one of two possible topics. The studentship covers … Read more
The spatiotemporal association of non-prescription retail sales with cases during the 2009 influenza pandemic in Great Britain
This study by a research team including Professor Andrew Fearne of Kent Business School assessed whether retail sales of non-prescription products can be used for … Read more
The technological evolution of food traceability systems and their impact on firm sustainable performance: A RBV approach
This paper by a team including Dr Marian Garcia Martinez of Kent Business School presents a theoretical framework grounded on the Resource Based View (RBV) … Read more