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Synthesis Note: A Broader and More Long-Term Approach to Public Financial Management: Managing Fiscal Risks Associated With Climate Change (2024)
Report
Harrison, T., Ferry, L., Cheeseman, K., Lucas, B., & Zaidan, M. (2024). Synthesis Note: A Broader and More Long-Term Approach to Public Financial Management: Managing Fiscal Risks Associated With Climate Change. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies

This K4DD synthesis note draws on the material contained in five rapid evidence reviews, which provide more detailed evidence, data and references to support the points summarised here.

Managing Risks Through Government Balance Sheets. K4DD Rapid Evidence Review. (2024)
Report
Harrison, T., & Ferry, L. (2024). Managing Risks Through Government Balance Sheets. K4DD Rapid Evidence Review. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies

The first part of this review focuses on the move towards more long term budgetary and policy processes through the increased use of medium-term expenditure frameworks and national development plans. It highlights the opportunities and challenges. It... Read More about Managing Risks Through Government Balance Sheets. K4DD Rapid Evidence Review..

Governmentality, counter-conduct, and modes of governing - accounting and the pursuit of municipal sustainable waste management (2025)
Journal Article
Ahrens, T., & Ferry, L. (in press). Governmentality, counter-conduct, and modes of governing - accounting and the pursuit of municipal sustainable waste management. Contemporary Accounting Research,

Recent research into the uses of accounting as a technology of government has used Foucault’s notion of “counter-conduct” to shed light on various ways in which the governed can seek to alter the regimes to which they are subjected. This paper unpack... Read More about Governmentality, counter-conduct, and modes of governing - accounting and the pursuit of municipal sustainable waste management.

Finding the sweet spot: effects of exporting on the relationship between R&D investment and NPD performance (2024)
Journal Article
Sousa, C. M. P., Tsinopoulos, C., Yan, J., & Benito, G. R. G. (online). Finding the sweet spot: effects of exporting on the relationship between R&D investment and NPD performance. International Marketing Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/imr-02-2024-0039

Purpose
The aim of this research is twofold: (1) to investigate when the effect of R&D investment on New Product Development (NPD) performance peaks – the sweet spot and (2) to analyze the influence of firms’ export activities on where that spot is.... Read More about Finding the sweet spot: effects of exporting on the relationship between R&D investment and NPD performance.

High-Throughput Wireless Uplink Transmissions Using Self-Powered Hybrid RISs (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yuan, M., Alshaali, M., Chen, L., Huang, G., Tu, W., & Huang, Z. (2025, March). High-Throughput Wireless Uplink Transmissions Using Self-Powered Hybrid RISs. Presented at 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Milan, Italy