Staff Profile:
- Name:
- Dr Lynda Porter
- Job Title:
- Lecturer
- Responsibilities:
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Convenor and lecturer of the third year module European Economic Integration; lecturer of third year module Business Economics; Lecturer (and tutor) of first year module Introduction to Economic Institutions & Policy in Britain; lecturer on the Masters module Microeconomic Analysis for Industrial Development. Responsibilities for organising Economics department Open and Visit days.
- Areas of Interest:
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My research has primarily focussed upon game-theoretic modelling of the effect of taxation systems on the location decisions of multinational firms, taking into account asymmetries both between firms and between national tax-setters. Another current research interest is the role of the geographical diversification of firms in determining corporate social performance (CSP). More specifically, recent empirical work has sought to investigate the effect on CSP, and its various components, on the extent and character of the dispersion of a firm's operations across the globe. Of particular interest is the potential role of a firm's presence in controversial countries.
- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
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- "Corporate charitable giving, multinational companies and countries of concern." Journal of Management Studies, 2009, 46, 575-96 (with S.J. Brammer and S. Pavelin).
- "The corporate social performance content of innovation in the UK." Journal of Business Ethics, 2008, 80, 711-25 (with S. Pavelin).
- "Corporate social performance and geographical diversification." Journal of Business Research, 2006, 59, 1025-34 (with S.J. Brammer and S. Pavelin).
- "Asymmetric oligopoly and the new trade theory." Submitted to the Review of International Economics.
- "Strategic tax setting with repeated interactions between footloose firms and rent seeking governments." Submitted to Regional Studies.
- "Asymmetric oligopoly and the new trade theory." Submitted to the Journal of Public Economics.
- "Corporate social performance, multinational companies and countries of concern." Submitted to the Journal of International Business Studies (with S.J. Brammer and S. Pavelin).
Awards/scholarships:
- 1998-1999: Open postgraduate award from University College Dublin, Ireland.
- 2000-2003: Scholarship from the Higher Education, Ireland.
- 2003-2004: Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.
