Outputs (294)

Digital transformation in SMEs: Why relationships matter as much as technology (2024)
Report

Digital transformation is increasingly recognised as the basis for driving business productivity, innovation, and growth. In the UK, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—the backbone of the economy—often face significant challenges in adopting d... Read More about Digital transformation in SMEs: Why relationships matter as much as technology.

Exploring production of social and economic value in social enterprises through a business model framework (2024)
Journal Article

This study explores how social enterprises create social and economic value through business models that support ex-offenders. The work was motivated by a request for help from an entrepreneur wishing to establish a business that supports ex-offender... Read More about Exploring production of social and economic value in social enterprises through a business model framework.

Recontextualizing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework to higher education online marking (2024)
Journal Article

The Higher Education (HE) sector has faced an exceptional period of complex and fast-moving change, meaning staff have had to quickly adjust their teaching delivery, reconsider how learning outcomes are assessed, and adopt new technologies. Despite s... Read More about Recontextualizing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework to higher education online marking.

Business incubation tenants' service needs: Implications for early firm growth (2024)
Thesis

This thesis explores the role of business incubators in supporting entrepreneurs and small business founders. While some research suggests that incubators can be effective in fostering firm survival, employment growth, and sales growth, recent work q... Read More about Business incubation tenants' service needs: Implications for early firm growth.

Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual one per cent sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. These statistics are generated using official weights designed to make the achieved... Read More about Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage.

Preventing financial ruin: how the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England (2024)
Journal Article

The statbarn: A new model for output statistical disclosure control (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A major success for research this century has been the growth of secure facilities allowing research access to detailed sensitive personal data. This has also raised awareness of the problem of output disclosure risk, where statistics may inadvertent... Read More about The statbarn: A new model for output statistical disclosure control.

Top management team characteristics and decision-making nexus post Brexit (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter investigates an international wealth management firm, deVere's top management team composition, and the impact of their observable characteristics on strategic decision-making. Concurrently, the study also determines the significance of... Read More about Top management team characteristics and decision-making nexus post Brexit.

What can microdata tell us about labour market and wage dynamics in the Western Gateway Area? (2024)
Report

This research uses microdata to analyse labour market and wage dynamics across the Western Gateway Area (WGA) and its constituent parts. It compares the performance of the WGA with national ‘control’ averages. The report covers the period 2004 to 20... Read More about What can microdata tell us about labour market and wage dynamics in the Western Gateway Area?.

Let them eat data – trusted data spaces from farm to fork (and back to the farm) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces an approach to augment the farm-to-fork value chain through thorough data consolidation and use case sharing. Capitalizing on cutting-edge data analytics and digital transformation strategies, the approach seeks to mitigate pred... Read More about Let them eat data – trusted data spaces from farm to fork (and back to the farm).