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Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation (2025)
Book Chapter

It is rare, but quite possible, that a mark that is low by just a few percentage points in one module can alter a student’s final degree classification. Consequently, seeking consistency across a marking team assessing a cohort of students is as much... Read More about Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation.

Artificial intelligence harm and accountability by businesses: A systematic literature review (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study reviews the literature on artificial intelligence (AI) harms caused by businesses, their impact on stakeholders, and the available remedial mechanisms. Using the PRISMA method, relevant articles were sourced from the Scopus database and cr... Read More about Artificial intelligence harm and accountability by businesses: A systematic literature review.

Understanding the dynamics of strategic renewal across domains: A work–home resources model perspective (2025)
Journal Article

This weekly diary study advances research on strategic renewal by extending its scope into the home domain and integrating the Work–Home Resources (W-HR) model. Drawing on six weeks of multilevel data from 147 matched dual-earner couples in the Unite... Read More about Understanding the dynamics of strategic renewal across domains: A work–home resources model perspective.

Trade unions and equality, diversity, and inclusion in Italy: Bread and butter, bread and roses, or just breadcrumbs? (2025)
Book Chapter

Seeking to clarify what trade unions brought to the promotion of EDI in Italy with the support of three metaphors drawn from the employment relations literature—‘bread and butter’, ‘bread and roses’, and ‘just breadcrumbs’—this chapter provides a his... Read More about Trade unions and equality, diversity, and inclusion in Italy: Bread and butter, bread and roses, or just breadcrumbs?.

Towards a rights-based approach to AI chatbot usage: Navigating ethical considerations in ChatGPT interactions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research investigates the ethical dimensions of AI chatbot usages, with a specific focus on ChatGPT. Through an exploration of user perspectives (N=20), the study examines the ethical challenges users encounter and identifies actionable strategi... Read More about Towards a rights-based approach to AI chatbot usage: Navigating ethical considerations in ChatGPT interactions.

Open data business models and financial stability in open innovation environments (2025)
Journal Article

Businesses increasingly rely on data to enhance operations, drive innovation, and create new products and services. Data has become a critical organizational asset, and the Open Innovation (OI) paradigm highlights its potential to be shared or freely... Read More about Open data business models and financial stability in open innovation environments.

A contribution to a socially-minded practice of economics (2025)
Thesis

The financial crisis in 2008 drew worldwide attention to the shortcomings of the economics profession, which up to that point had been dominated by the neo-classical tradition. In this critical commentary, I discuss my contribution towards a socially... Read More about A contribution to a socially-minded practice of economics.

Overcoming contemporary academic attachments: Developing even-mindedness in neoliberal cultures of excellence (2025)
Journal Article

While academics are aware of the drawbacks of the neoliberalist system within institutions of higher education, paradoxically they are partly complicit in perpetuating it. Drawing upon Bowlby’s (1969) attachment theory and a Buddhist perspective on a... Read More about Overcoming contemporary academic attachments: Developing even-mindedness in neoliberal cultures of excellence.

Pension funds, bonds and gilt market stability (2025)
Book Chapter

In September 2022 UK gilt yields rose by 130 basis points over the course of a couple of days. Fearing broader financial instability, the Bank of England intervened. These events showcased in spectacular fashion an irony of modern market-based financ... Read More about Pension funds, bonds and gilt market stability.

Targets and terror (2025)
Book Chapter

The concept of "targets and terror" (T&T) originates from the 1930s Soviet Union, where production targets enforced through deterrence and unpredictable punishments drove dramatic results. Similar performance metrics emerged in the 1950s U.S. militar... Read More about Targets and terror.

Egg freezing as an employment benefit? Gender, career, and reproductive health in neoliberal academia (2025)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to present an exploration of the intersection of gender, career and reproductive health within the context of Early Career Women Academics (ECA) experiencing neoliberal organizational practices in universities. It conside... Read More about Egg freezing as an employment benefit? Gender, career, and reproductive health in neoliberal academia.

A multi-level examination of performance in innovation ecosystems: Board, asset scale, technology, and government support (2025)
Journal Article

We investigate how the firm’s board structure (i.e. CEO duality or independence) and its asset scale at the micro level, the industry’s technological intensity at the meso level, and the government's initiatives at the macro level influence firms’ di... Read More about A multi-level examination of performance in innovation ecosystems: Board, asset scale, technology, and government support.

Financial market determinants of Dynamic Herding in North American energy equity market (2025)
Journal Article

This study employs state-space models and the quantile-on-quantile regression technique to examine the dynamics of intentional and fundamental herding in North American energy stocks, together with its non-linear determinants. Our findings reveal per... Read More about Financial market determinants of Dynamic Herding in North American energy equity market.

Red tape roadblocks on M&As: Emerging economies’ regulators as a source of inefficiency (2025)
Book Chapter

The regulatory agencies are critical in addressing the competition and ethical concerns in M&A transactions. Thus, they should not prolong the duration of an M&A deal while performing their duties since adverse rulings by courts and regulatory agenci... Read More about Red tape roadblocks on M&As: Emerging economies’ regulators as a source of inefficiency.

Augmented reality (AR) technique for construction site layout planning (CSLP): Using an extended technology acceptance model (ETAM) for construction experts (2025)
Thesis

The construction industry in the UK faces significant challenges in adopting technology, impacting its productivity and efficiency. Despite the potential benefits, the adoption of augmented reality (AR) in construction site layout planning (CSLP) rem... Read More about Augmented reality (AR) technique for construction site layout planning (CSLP): Using an extended technology acceptance model (ETAM) for construction experts.

Strategic organizational euthanasia: The cost of dying strategically in project management (2025)
Journal Article

This paper aims to explore the complex experience of “deadlines” in project management, highlighting how they signify both project completion and the initiation of new ones, creating repetitive cycles of dying and living. It examines emotional respon... Read More about Strategic organizational euthanasia: The cost of dying strategically in project management.

Do we have time for this?: Time and critical management education (2025)
Book Chapter

We examine what happens to critical management education (CME) and its educators where intense measurement and regulation of time in higher education leave little room for ‘temporal autonomy’ which are crucial for critical processes of management edu... Read More about Do we have time for this?: Time and critical management education.

Risk management in Chinese hotel projects: A qualitative exploratory study (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose: The objective of this research is to identify risk issues in hotel projects in China as seen through the views of hotel managers and to propose targeted recommendations. We use the lens of project management to understand the risks in the Ch... Read More about Risk management in Chinese hotel projects: A qualitative exploratory study.

The state and the labour process: Bureaucratic flexibility and constrained autonomy in the Indian information technology industry (2025)
Journal Article

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the connections between state regulation and the labour process, an underdeveloped area within labour process analysis. It explores the interaction between state employment regulation and bureaucratic control mechanisms in... Read More about The state and the labour process: Bureaucratic flexibility and constrained autonomy in the Indian information technology industry.

Regime dependence in the oil-stock market relationship: The role of oil price uncertainty (2025)
Journal Article

We compare the interaction between the crude oil and US stock markets in regimes where oil price uncertainty is high versus low, using a smooth transition vector autoregressive model. Our results show that supply- and demand-side shocks from the oil... Read More about Regime dependence in the oil-stock market relationship: The role of oil price uncertainty.