Birkbeck Working Paper Series in Management

The Working Paper Series of the Department of Management disseminates research papers produced by research students, junior and senior research scholars.

We welcome works promoting discourse on different research areas including, but not limited to, management, business, industry, development economics, social economics, institutional and political economics, corporate governance, business ethics, marketing, accounting and finance.

For further details please contact Luca Andriani.

Issues of the Working Paper Series

• WP1: Social capital: a road map of theoretical frameworks and empirical limitations, Luca Andriani
• WP2: Small, local and cheap? Walkable and car-oriented retail in competition, Frederick Guy
• WP3: Testing the foreign aid-led growth hypothesis in West Africa, Yakama Manty Jones
• WP4: Is acting prosocially beneficial for the credit market?, Luca Andriani
• WP5: Networked by design: can policy constraints support the development of capabilities for collaborative innovation?, Federica Rossi, Annalisa Caloffi, Margherita Russo
• WP6: Trust and prosocial behaviour in a process of state capacity building: the case of the Palestinian territories, Luca Andriani, Fabio Sabatini
• WP7: The role of trust-control mechanisms in operations processes: mitigating mission drift in a microfinance institution in Gujarat, India, Viresh Amin
• WP8: Fighting corruption and the use of bribes in the Palestinian territories: with or without social capital?, Luca Andriani
• WP9: Relative age effect on labor market outcomes for high skilled workers – evidence from soccer, Luca Fumarco, Giambattista Rossi
• WP10: The shaky start of the UK Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) in comparison to the US Small Business Innovation Research Programme (SBIR), Emma Tredgett, Alex Coad
• WP11: Institutional conformity and regional credit market failures: evidence from the Italian industrial districts, Luca Andriani
• WP12: Science fiction and economic cycles. A dialogue on technological expectations, Daniele Archibugi, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Edward Steinmueller
• WP13: Why does social capital increase government performance? The role of local elections across Italian municipalities, Luca Andriani, Alberto Batinti, Andrea Filippetti
• WP14: Does discussion lead to opinion change? An experiment in deliberative democracy, Daniele Archibugi, Martina Bavastrelli, Marco Cellini
• WP15: Does diversity undermine the provision of local public services in European regions?, Andrea Filippetti
• WP16: Investment in innovation for European recovery: a public policy priority, Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti, Marion Frenz
• WP17: Refugees in the European Union: from emergency alarmism to common management, Daniele Archibugi, Marco Cellini, Mattia Vitiello
• WP18: Decomposing total factor productivity while treating for misspecification, Emmanuel Mamatzakis and Efthymios Tsionas
• WP19: Network configuration as a measure of power in global production networks, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Giorgos Galanis, Ashok Kumar and Lilit Popoyan