Online scams are a huge problem in many industries and the emerging Bitcoin space is no exception.

Last week, CoinCorner was the target of an aggressive phishing scam on Facebook, with fraudsters creating more than 100 new business pages (https://www.facebook.com/search/pages/?q=coincorner) claiming to be the Bitcoin exchange and tagging genuine followers/friends/family of the company in misleadi...

Countries must rethink how they manage their foreign economic relations, reveals new report from LSE IDEAS, The London School of Economics’ foreign policy think tank.

According to the report, authored by Professor Linda Yueh, a leading economist and Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS, challenges stemming from the changed global economy, US-China tensions, as well as a backlash against globalisation,...

According to research from Professor Andrew Burke, Chair of Business Studies and Dean at Trinity Business School, and Marc Cowling, Professor of Business Economics at the College of Business, Law, and Social Sciences University of Derby, the use of freelancers enhances employment growth by improving productivity.

Using data from a random survey of 1,028 SME owner-managers and Senior Executives in...

Asset owners looking to prioritise sustainability should ensure their investments are not supporting asset management firms that undermine CSR, according to new research from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

Activist hedge funds are becoming increasingly influential in the economy as they prioritise maximising shareholder value and focus on minimising corporate spending t...

Lockdown has changed the way millennials work, as new research from Trinity Business School reveals how the pandemic has created a new state of working that makes resumption challenging for organisations.

Semi-structured interviews with a sample of millennials were used to explain how sensemaking tactics mediate the relationship between transactional distancing and work performance. “While millen...

Using data leaked by hackers from a major Bitcoin exchange, new research has found that more than 2% and up to 33% of all transactions are wash trades.

A wash trade is a form of market manipulation in which an investor simultaneously sells and buys the same financial instruments to create misleading, artificial activity in the bitcoin marketplace.

Over the years there have been many suspicions t...

Globalisation provides opportunities for gender equality in employment, according to new research by Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

The study, conducted by WU’s researchers Alyssa Schneebaum and Carolina Lennon, found that there is a correlation between global economic interaction and the gender distribution among a firm’s employees.

Firms that export or are owned by parent co...

Crowdwork platforms present barriers to those with low-income and enable those who are better-off financially to dominate income opportunities, finds new research from the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society, BI Norwegian Business School.

Crowdwork platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, enable globally distributed workers to earn additional income from small online tasks. Such tasks includ...

As workforce strategies make a dramatic shift from hours-based to output-based performance metrics as Covid alters business models, investing in the right technology will be the crucial lever for success. That’s according to insight from multiple industry experts as part of a recent panel debate hosted by leader in talent acquisition and managed workforce solutions, Guidant Global.

During the web...