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From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends (2025)
Journal Article

This aim of this article is to trace the concept of ‘social value’ in public procurement (purchasing by the public sector from private and third sector contractors of goods, services and works) in the UK through four decades of the incorporation of s... Read More about From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends.

The use of ChatGPT in essay writing: A literature review on the role of instructors and institutions in preventing academic misconduct (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The research explored student-related factors influencing the increase of academic misconduct through the utilisation of AI tools like ChatGPT in academia, alongside the roles of educators and institutions in deterring such behaviour. By reviewing ex... Read More about The use of ChatGPT in essay writing: A literature review on the role of instructors and institutions in preventing academic misconduct.

Custodian entrepreneurship: An examination of entrepreneurial activities in English country houses (2025)
Journal Article

English country houses are unique institutions that form an essential fabric in the country’s landscape. They highlight British history and are a significant element in the country heritage sector. The literature on country houses has examined variou... Read More about Custodian entrepreneurship: An examination of entrepreneurial activities in English country houses.

HR have the final ‘No’: Advising, persuading and overruling to navigate the institutional logics in HR practice (2025)
Journal Article

Institutional logics of the market, profession, and state act upon and define success in HR practitioners' work. We examine how HR professionals respond to these co‐existing logics in their day‐to‐day interactions with line managers. Findings based o... Read More about HR have the final ‘No’: Advising, persuading and overruling to navigate the institutional logics in HR practice.

Empirical research on green jobs: A review and reflection with practitioners (2025)
Journal Article

Green jobs is a priority area in advancing socio-economic transitions to enhance an environmentally sustainable economy, particularly in democracies. This paper firstly provides a review of different focuses of empirical research on green jobs and th... Read More about Empirical research on green jobs: A review and reflection with practitioners.

Enhancing performance of agri-business through sustainable project management and technological orientation: Institutional theory perspective (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose-The agribusiness sector faces mounting pressure due to a persistently challenging business environment, rapidly increasing population and rising food demand. Drawing on institutional theory, this study aims to explore the role of sustainable... Read More about Enhancing performance of agri-business through sustainable project management and technological orientation: Institutional theory perspective.

Editorial announcement: Editorial board members and associate editor news (2025)
Journal Article

Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England (2025)
Journal Article

This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce... Read More about Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England.

Asymmetric relationship between diversification and liquidity creation: Empirical evidence from GCC (2025)
Journal Article

This study examines how bank diversification affects liquidity creation by using the bank level data of GCC countries. We use data from 205 banks in GCC over the period of 2005–2019. To test the hypothesized relationship, we employ the GMM methodolog... Read More about Asymmetric relationship between diversification and liquidity creation: Empirical evidence from GCC.

Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women (2025)
Book Chapter

Vulnerability has become a focal point of ethical, philosophical, social, and environmental debates, with its usage extending across various fields of inquiry to describe both human and non-humans. Often, "vulnerable" is used to refer to others —whet... Read More about Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women.

Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
Book Chapter

The chapter examines the labelling of pregnant women as vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, examining its implications and the broader concept of vulnerability. While the labelling aimed to protect pregnant women, it also reinforced ge... Read More about Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter

The book you are about to read focuses on examining women’s organizational vulnerability both conceptually and empirically, contributing to theory, methods, and cross-disciplinary knowledge. Understanding “vulnerability” is conceptually rich and comp... Read More about Introduction.

Women, Organizations and Vulnerability: Global Archetypes (2025)
Book

Why are women, despite being resilient, adaptable, and persistent, often constructed and perceived as weak and vulnerable? Women’s vulnerability is not a neutral concept but is organizationally defined and understood. Organizations are discursive spa... Read More about Women, Organizations and Vulnerability: Global Archetypes.

Women, ageing and wellbeing at work: Exploring vulnerabilities across the life course (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the vulnerabilities women face in respect of gendered inequalities that are demonstrated to exist in society including the gender health gap, with evidence from the UK showing how women are disproportionately predisposed to cert... Read More about Women, ageing and wellbeing at work: Exploring vulnerabilities across the life course.

Reviving from the pandemic: Harnessing the power of social media reviews in sustainable tourism management of group package tours (2025)
Journal Article

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism sector encountered multiple challenges. Numerous governments chose to lock down their cities and countries. Despite this, many companies found their online businesses making the greatest leaps in their portfo... Read More about Reviving from the pandemic: Harnessing the power of social media reviews in sustainable tourism management of group package tours.

An examination of alternative LQ-based approaches to computing regional inputoutput coefficients (2025)
Journal Article

In this paper, we examine alternative methods of computing regional inputoutput (IO) coefficients, with an emphasis on their relative accuracy and the complexity of the computations required. Our focus is on the well-known FLQ (Flegg’s location quoti... Read More about An examination of alternative LQ-based approaches to computing regional inputoutput coefficients.

Litigation risk, universal demand laws, and corporate financial decisions: Evidence on debt and dividend policies (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper investigates how litigation risk and the adoption of Universal Demand (UD) laws affect corporate debt and dividend policies in the presence of managerial risk-taking and cash constraints. Using a sample of S&P 500 non-financial firms, we e... Read More about Litigation risk, universal demand laws, and corporate financial decisions: Evidence on debt and dividend policies.

How do cryptocurrency features determine their dynamic volatility and co-movements with stocks? (2025)
Journal Article

Whilst previous studies have primarily focused on the hedge effects and co-movements between cryptos and traditional assets, cryptos’ features that are associated with hedge effects and co-movements have often been neglected in extant studies. This r... Read More about How do cryptocurrency features determine their dynamic volatility and co-movements with stocks?.

What happens when you give an entrepreneur a camera? Illuminating spatial, embodied and affective aspects of entrepreneurship (2025)
Journal Article

The use of video to unlock the minutiae of everyday entrepreneurship is growing in response to calls for more creative research methods in studying entrepreneurship. In this paper, we explore the value and relevance of participant-generated video dia... Read More about What happens when you give an entrepreneur a camera? Illuminating spatial, embodied and affective aspects of entrepreneurship.

Higher education matters vodcast: Exploring AI in higher education (2025)
Digital Artefact

In this thought-provoking episode, host Antony Hill is joined by Michal Bobula and Jim Smith to explore:

•How AI is reshaping teaching and learning practices
•The benefits and challenges of integrating AI into education
•Ethical considerations a... Read More about Higher education matters vodcast: Exploring AI in higher education.