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Guanxi, a two-edged sword! How Australian accounting professionals view the process within a moral framework

Fan, Ying Han; Woodbine, Gordon; Scully, Glennda - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 29 (2014), pp. 695-716

Purpose –The purpose of this study is to determine how Western business practitioners, specifically Australian accounting professionals, identify with the Chinese value concept of guanxi and the impact of their perceptions of guanxi on their ethical decision-making. This objective is...

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Domain theory and method theory in management accounting research

Lukka, Kari; Vinnari, Eija - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 27 (2014), pp. 1308-1338

theoretical arguments with examples from management accounting studies employing Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as their method theory …

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Re-conceptualising holism in the contemporary nursing mandate: From individual to organisational relationships

Allen, Davina - In: Social Science & Medicine 119 (2014) C, pp. 131-138

’ and insights from practice-based approaches and actor network theory, this paper lays the foundations for a re …

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An addendum and correction to “Mathematical properties of Q-measures” (vol. 7, issue 3, pp. 737–745)

Rousseau, Ronald; Liu, Yuxian; Guns, Raf - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 486-490

A correction is provided for the proof of a theorem announced in (Rousseau et al., 2013). We show, moreover, that in a network subdivided into three or more subgroups there is at most one node with global Q-measure equal to one. In case there are two subgroups then it is possible to have two...

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THE INFLUENCE OF THE RELATIONAL MARKETING PARADIGM ON THE GOVERNANCE OF THE NOVEL CHANNEL FORMAT NAMED SOCIAL FRANCHISING: AN EXPLORATORY QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOUR SOCIAL FRANCHISES FROM THE UK

ZAFEIROPOULOU, FIORI A.; KOUFOPOULOS, DIMITRIOS - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 19 (2014) 02, pp. 1450013-1

reduce fiscal deficits and satisfy social needs. We explore the issue of social franchising from a social network theory …

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Network efficiency and the banking system

Giocoli, Nicola - In: International Review of Economics 61 (2014) 3, pp. 203-218

of network cost and network efficiency as developed in complex network theory. Network analysis is relevant for every …

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Competition, transmission and pattern evolution: A network analysis of global oil trade

Zhang, Hai-Ying; Ji, Qiang; Fan, Ying - In: Energy Policy 73 (2014) C, pp. 312-322

This paper studies the competition among oil importers using complex network theory, combined with several alternative …

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An evaluation of the practice based approach to understanding the adoption and use of information systems

Rivera, Gibran; Cox, Andrew - In: Journal of Documentation 70 (2014) 5, pp. 878-901

benefit from Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This will be relevant to the field of praxeological studies. …

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The rise and fall of a dot-com pioneer in a developing country

Effah, John - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 27 (2014) 2, pp. 228-239

/methodology/approach – The study follows interpretive case study methodology and actor-network theory to understand the formation, initial …

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The Australian accounting academic in the 1950s : R.J. Chambers and networks of accounting research

E. Persson, Martin; J. Napier, Christopher - In: Meditari Accountancy Research 22 (2014) 1, pp. 54-76

/methodology/approach – The article uses actor-network theory to provide an analytical structure for a “counter-narrative” history firmly grounded …

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