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Working Papers

2024

1. Private equity financing & firm productivity
   Working Papers, The Productivity Institute

2013

2. Family Business Survival and the Role of Boards
   Research Papers, Enterprise Research Centre View citations (49)
   See also Journal Article Family Business Survival and the Role of Boards, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2013) View citations (44) (2013)
3. Private Equity, Buy-outs, and Insolvency Risk
   Research Papers, Enterprise Research Centre View citations (11)
   See also Journal Article Private Equity, Buy-outs and Insolvency Risk, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell (2013) View citations (11) (2013)

1995

4. Patterns of Employee Particpation and Industrial Democracy in UK ESOPs
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (1995)

1993

5. Failure Buy-outs and Buy-Out Failure
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

1988

6. PROFIT-SHARING AND PRODUCTIVITY: AN ANALYSIS OF UK ENGINEERING FIRMS
   The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics
   Also in Economic Research Papers, University of Warwick - Department of Economics (1988)
   See also Journal Article Profit-Sharing and Productivity: An Analysis of UK Engineering Firms, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (1989) View citations (37) (1989)
7. PROFIT-SHARING AND PRODUCTIVITY: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
   Economic Research Papers, University of Warwick - Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics (1988) View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Audit Market Measures in Audit Pricing Studies: The Issue of Mechanical Correlation
   European Accounting Review, 2024, 33, (5), 1981-2013
2. Defaults on government guaranteed loans by potential high growth firms: Evidence from the COVID-19 period
   Economics Letters, 2024, 243, (C)
3. Does inflation trigger early repayment on Covid-19 UK guaranteed loans?
   Applied Economics Letters, 2024, 31, (17), 1651-1655
4. Exit routes, investor type, and the Covid-19 crisis: Insights from UK equity-funded companies
   Economics Letters, 2024, 243, (C)
5. How does a small firm end up with a more expensive loan guarantee when a cheaper and safer one was on offer? The intriguing case of two UK Covid-19 guarantee schemes
   Finance Research Letters, 2024, 67, (PB)
6. The performance of private equity portfolio companies during the COVID-19 pandemic
   Journal of Corporate Finance, 2024, 89, (C)

2023

7. COVID-19 lending support and regional levelling up: evidence from UK loan guarantee schemes
   Regional Studies, 2023, 57, (11), 2323-2338 View citations (1)

2022

8. Impact of venture capital holding on firm life cycle: Evidence from IPO firms
   Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022, 74, (C) View citations (2)
9. When the going gets tough: Private equity firms’ role as agents and the resolution of financial distress in buyouts
   Journal of Small Business Management, 2022, 60, (3), 513-540

2019

10. Gender Diversity and Educational Attainment in Non-Listed Private Firms: Evidence from Slovakia
    Acta Oeconomica, 2019, 69, (2), 131-159 View citations (1)

2018

11. On the persistence and dynamics of Big 4 real audit fees: Evidence from the UK
    Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2018, 45, (5-6), 714-727 View citations (9)
12. Polytomous response financial distress models: The role of accounting, market and macroeconomic variables
    International Review of Financial Analysis, 2018, 59, (C), 276-289 View citations (10)
13. The equity gap and knowledge-based firms
    Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018, 50, (C), 626-649 View citations (19)

2015

14. Systemic Sovereign Risk and Asset Prices: Evidence from the CDS Market, Stressed European Economies and Nonlinear Causality Tests
    Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver), 2015, 65, (2), 144-166
15. The evolution of private equity: corporate restructuring in the UK, c.1945-2010
    Business History, 2015, 57, (5), 736-768 View citations (1)

2014

16. Company failure prediction with limited information: newly incorporated companies
    Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2014, 65, (2), 252-264 View citations (5)
17. Financial restructuring and recovery in private equity buyouts: the UK evidence
    Venture Capital, 2014, 16, (2), 109-129
18. The Effects of Alternative Investments on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Growth
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2014, 35, (2), 67-72 View citations (2)
19. The Importance of Family Firm Trusts in Family Firm Governance
    Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2014, 38, (6), 1285-1293 View citations (4)
20. The effect of internationalisation on modelling credit risk for SMEs: Evidence from UK market
    Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2014, 31, (C), 397-413 View citations (12)
21. The value of operating cash flow in modelling credit risk for SMEs
    Applied Financial Economics, 2014, 24, (9), 649-660 View citations (11)

2013

22. Family Business Survival and the Role of Boards
    Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2013, 37, (6), 1369-1389 View citations (44)
    See also Working Paper Family Business Survival and the Role of Boards, Research Papers (2013) View citations (49) (2013)
23. Financial distress and bankruptcy prediction among listed companies using accounting, market and macroeconomic variables
    International Review of Financial Analysis, 2013, 30, (C), 394-419 View citations (112)
24. Private Equity, Buy-outs and Insolvency Risk
    Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2013, 40, (7-8), 949-990 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Private Equity, Buy-outs, and Insolvency Risk, Research Papers (2013) View citations (11) (2013)

2012

25. Private equity portfolio company performance during the global recession
    Journal of Corporate Finance, 2012, 18, (1), 193-205 View citations (33)

2006

26. Employee Financial Participation and Productivity: An Empirical Reappraisal
    British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2006, 44, (1), 31-50 View citations (27)
27. Financial Participation and Productivity: Insights from Stochastic Frontier Estimation
    Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2006, 27, (4), 609-635
28. Value Gains on Flotation and IPO Underpricing
    Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2006, 33, (9‐10), 1435-1459 View citations (3)

2005

29. Board Pay and the Separation of Ownership from Control in U.K. SMEs
    Small Business Economics, 2005, 24, (5), 465-476 View citations (3)

2004

30. Disequilibrium in the UK corporate loan market
    Journal of Banking & Finance, 2004, 28, (3), 595-614 View citations (78)

2003

31. An Examination of the Factors Associated with Bank Switching in the U.K. Small Firm Sector
    Small Business Economics, 2003, 20, (4), 305-17 View citations (17)
32. Bank borrowing constraints and the demand for trade credit: evidence from panel data
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2003, 24, (6-7), 503-514 View citations (31)
33. Trade credit and customer relationships
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2003, 24, (6-7), 439-455 View citations (16)

2002

34. An Empirical Investigation of Trade Credit Demand
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2002, 9, (2), 257-270 View citations (18)
35. Small and Medium Size Enterprise Financing: A Note on Some of the Empirical Implications of a Pecking Order
    Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2002, 29, (3‐4), 557-578 View citations (62)
36. Trade Credit Terms Offered by Small Firms: Survey Evidence and Empirical Analysis
    Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2002, 29, (3‐4), 317-351 View citations (104)

2000

37. Trade Credit Management and the Decision to Use Factoring: An Empirical Study
    Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2000, 27, (1‐2), 37-68 View citations (18)
38. Using Payment Behaviour Data for Credit Risk Modelling
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2000, 7, (3), 333-346 View citations (5)

1998

39. The Perception and Effects of Share Ownership: Empirical Evidence from Employee Buy-Outs
    British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1998, 36, (1), 99-123 View citations (25)

1996

40. Employee Participation and Corporate Governance in Employee-Owned Firms
    Work, Employment & Society, 1996, 10, (2), 205-226 View citations (1)
41. The Longer-Term Effects of Management-Led Buy-Outs
    Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 1996, 5, (3), 213-34 View citations (7)

1995

42. Does Employee Ownership Weaken Trade Unions? Recent Evidence from the UK Bus Industry
    Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1995, 16, (4), 577-605
43. Neural Network Simulation and the Prediction of Corporate Outcomes: Some Empirical Findings
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 1995, 2, (1), 31-50 View citations (11)

1993

44. Co-operative vs private firms: An empirical comparison of co-operative and private small firms in Britain
    International Business Review, 1993, 2, (3), 281-296 View citations (2)
45. Emerging forms of organisation and ownership in Europe
    International Business Review, 1993, 2, (3), 221-222

1991

46. The Impact on Absenteeism and Quits of Profit-Sharing and other Forms of Employee Participation
    ILR Review, 1991, 44, (3), 454-468 View citations (46)

1990

47. Labour Absenteeism: The Impact of Profit Sharing, Voice and Participation
    International Journal of Manpower, 1990, 11, (7), 17-24
48. Profit-Sharing and Productivity: Some Further Evidence
    Economic Journal, 1990, 100, (401), 550-55 View citations (17)
49. Quit Rates and the Impact of Participation, Profit-Sharing and Unionization: Empirical Evidence from UK Engineering Firms
    British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1990, 28, (2), 197-213 View citations (6)

1989

50. Profit-Sharing and Productivity: An Analysis of UK Engineering Firms
    Economic Journal, 1989, 99, (396), 366-75 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper PROFIT-SHARING AND PRODUCTIVITY: AN ANALYSIS OF UK ENGINEERING FIRMS, The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) (1988) (1988)

Undated

51. Sovereign credit ratings and the new European Union member states
    Journal of Credit Risk
52. The value of non-financial information in SME risk management
    Journal of Credit Risk

Chapters

1999

1. Small business demand for trade credit, credit rationing and the late payment of commercial debt: an empirical study*
   Chapter 8 in Management Buy-outs and Venture Capital, 1999 View citations (9)