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Latest research news
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Children from the poorest families are twice as likely to contract malaria than the least poor
New research has found that wherever malaria occurs, the poorest children within the world’s most impoverished communities are twice as likely to contract malaria than the least poor, suggesting that poverty alleviation will protect children from malaria.*
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Are women judges different to men? Durham University law students find out in a groundbreaking experiment for BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action
Durham Law School Professor Erika Rackley said law students asked to determine if gender affected judges’ rulings were unable to establish a discernible difference.
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Failing the test: major review discovers serious problems with citizenship test
Research into the new Life in the UK citizenship test has exposed major flaws in the exam.
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Queen’s Campus celebrates twenty years of achievement with Robert Winston lecture
Durham University is marking the 20th anniversary of its Queen’s Campus site in Stockton on Monday June 17th with a visit from Professor Lord Robert Winston, who will be delivering a lecture that is open and free to the public at 3pm.
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Forthcoming research seminars
Dr Xinming He (Newcastle University Business School): Resource-Based and Institutional Perspectives on Export Channel Selection and Export Performance
Abstract: Exporting is a critically important strategy for firms to grow, yet research in this area has tended to ignore how firms can leverage resource-based capabilities to improve export performance.
Building on the resource-based view and institutional theory we develop a novel perspective to explain how a firm can improve export performance by aligning its export channel with its level of market orientation capabilities, contingent on the institutional distance between home and export market. Using a unique database of Chinese exporters we find that exporters with strong market orientation capabilities prefer hierarchical export channels while those with weak market orientation capabilities prefer hybrid channels. Our analysis also indicates that the institutional distance between China and the export market moderates this relation. Moreover, we find that aligning export channel choice with firm level market orientation capabilities and institutional distance yields better export performance.
A Business and Management Research Seminar.
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