This paper considers the ‘market failures' that can block standardisation and recommends actions to overcome these barriers and so ensure greater realisation of the efficiency and risk-reduction benefits of standardisation in global financial markets. It first reviews the economic benefits of...

This paper reviews peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, its development in the UK and other countries, and assesses the business and economic policy issues surrounding this new form of intermediation. P2P platform technology allows direct matching of borrowers and lenders diversification over a large...

The global legal entity identifier (LEI) system is a recently launched standard for unique, universal and unambiguous identification of financial market participants endorsed by the leadership of the G20 and supported by the Financial Stability Board and financial regulators in all the major...

Operational Research (OR) techniques in sport have primarily focused on fixture timetabling, officials scheduling, and result forecasting. Emerging novel approaches to micro-level analysis of sport participation data is vital in providing sport management and the public health sector with...

Purpose – The aim of the autopoietic model of knowledge is to act as a common foundation for KM to overcome the numerous knowledge management failures highlighted by the literature attributed to inaccurate or constantly debated definitions of knowledge. This paper seeks to evaluate such a...