All Outputs (139)

GreenPreneurs (2016)
Book Chapter

How to care for our planet; a drive to create innovative, green businesses and a 12 week intensive 'Learning by Doing' course supports unemployed and underemployed Europeans to achieve their entrepreneurial ambitions

‘We achieve the impossible’: Discourses of freedom and escape at music festivals and free parties (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. In this article, we explore the notion of freedom as a form of governance within contemporary consumer culture in a sphere where ‘freedom’ appears as a key component: outdoor music-based leisure events, notably music festivals a... Read More about ‘We achieve the impossible’: Discourses of freedom and escape at music festivals and free parties.

Gender Equality and ‘Austerity’: Vulnerabilities, Resistance and Change (2016)
Journal Article

Editorial

Transforming strategic outlook on sustainability: The case of higher education institutions in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has always been linked to developing human capital and maintaining the sustainability of societies (Wasiluk, 2013). However, globalization has fundamentally changed what is expected of HEIs. In the con... Read More about Transforming strategic outlook on sustainability: The case of higher education institutions in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries.

Identity Formation: The Wake of UK Public Sector Reform and Organisational 'Spin-out' (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction industry insolvency studies have failed to stem the industry's high insolvency tide because many focus on big civil engineering firms (CEF) when over 90% of firms in the industry are small or m... Read More about Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors.

What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this study is to present the analysis of an online survey that was conducted in order to investigate individual attitudes and requirements from an online financial awareness platform. The survey aimed to elicit users’ self-assessed financi... Read More about What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey.

Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 Published with permission by the ICE under the CC-BY licence. In addition to the traditional benefits associated with the installation of structural health monitoring systems, reductions in construction, operational and maintenance costs, and... Read More about Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM.

Situational analysis of youth unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa – the need for national entrepreneurship education policies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Situational analysis of youth unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa – the need for national entrepreneurship education policies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Family embeddedness in immigrants’ entrepreneurial opportunity creation processes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper employs an inductive case study to develop theory on the role of family relationships with the immigrant entrepreneur in the opportunity creation process. We rely on the perspective of the process of opportunity creation and family embedde... Read More about Family embeddedness in immigrants’ entrepreneurial opportunity creation processes.

Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). Whilst recent years have seen increasingly ethnographic-focussed writings in Organisation Studies, similar developments have not been mirrored within Leadership Studies, where the field is still dominated by positivistic approa... Read More about Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities.

Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative (2016)
Journal Article

Meta-analysis has proved increasingly popular in management and organization studies as a way of combining existing empirical quantitative research to generate a statistical estimate of how strongly variables are associated. Whilst a number of studie... Read More about Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative.

Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study examines the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability on career choice status (CCS) among undergraduates. Making informed and appropriate career... Read More about Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability.

Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd As a result of increasing recognition of effective site management as the strategic approach for achieving the required performance in construction projects, this study seeks to identify the key site management practices that are... Read More about Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects.

MNC subsidiaries in the Valencian Region: Location mode and features (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

MNC subsidiaries in the Valencian Region: location mode and features.

Transferring entrepreneurship education knowledge in a conflict environment: Insights from Boko Haram heartland (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we use interview data to demonstrate the efficacy of training as a mechanism of knowledge transfer of entrepreneurship education within a conflict environment. In particular, we found that entrepreneurship education is indeed a vital co... Read More about Transferring entrepreneurship education knowledge in a conflict environment: Insights from Boko Haram heartland.

SMEs, banks and the spatial differentiation of access to finance (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press. By utilizing the SME Finance Monitor and a unique dataset on the geographical location of all bank branches in 11 UK economic regions, this paper examines the relevance of spatial differentia... Read More about SMEs, banks and the spatial differentiation of access to finance.

How does sustainable HR practices influence work performance? A closer look at the processes and boundary conditions (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 European Academy of Management Adopting a multilingual perspective, this empirical paper explores the varied use and meanings of referents of leadership and management among 24 Welsh senior managers. We argue the importance of recognizing the... Read More about Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language.