All Outputs (139)

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The recent Eurozone crisis has reinvigorated neoliberal policies and brought to the fore an academic and policy debate over the deregulation of employment relations’ institutions ‘in the... Read More about How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?.

Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Unprecedented changes in the nature and prevalence of digital technology have significant implications for leadership theory, practice, and development that, as yet, remain largely unexplored in mainstream academic liter... Read More about Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard.

Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). Universities are no longer considered to be isolated islands of knowledge, but as institutions increasingly engaged with a range of external partners through entrepreneurial activities. This paper examines the associations betw... Read More about Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level.

Teach a man to fish: A case study of entrepreneurship education in conflict-ridden Maiduguri Nigeria (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The abduction in April 2014 of more than 250 school girls in Chibok, a small town near Maiduguri Nigeria, drew international attention to the scale of terror unleashed by the dreaded Boko Haram in the region. Stakeholders have recognised the urgent n... Read More about Teach a man to fish: A case study of entrepreneurship education in conflict-ridden Maiduguri Nigeria.

Ensemble of one-class classifiers for personal risk detection based on wearable sensor data (2016)
Journal Article

This study introduces the One-Class K-means with Randomly-projected features Algorithm (OCKRA). OCKRA is an ensemble of one-class classifiers built over multiple projections of a dataset according to random feature subsets. Algorithms found in the li... Read More about Ensemble of one-class classifiers for personal risk detection based on wearable sensor data.

Social Change Conference International Foundation for Action Learning (IFAL) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Rapporteur

Festival hooligans: Using social marketing to tackle littering at festivals (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Poster presentation.

Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 HERDSA. Underemployment, continued growth in the supply of graduates and seemingly perpetual instability are dominant trends in graduate labour markets. In order to negotiate an increasingly complex career terrain, graduates require sharpened... Read More about Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics.

Bridging the divide: Valuing critical practice in entrepreneurship education (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Much of the literature suggests that entrepreneurship education tends to take one of two paths: the ‘traditional’ classroom based, academic theory led approaches that are perceived as more critical and academically rigorous or practice-led ‘learning... Read More about Bridging the divide: Valuing critical practice in entrepreneurship education.

Between class and society. The role of ideas in union strategies in the Italian retail sector (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Work in progress

Acquirer ownership concentration and foreign ownership structure: A study of Brazilian firms (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Weak governance conditions prevailing in emerging and developing economies tend to encourage concentrated over diffused ownership structures in firms. In this paper we investigate whether the ownership structures in the home market are also replicate... Read More about Acquirer ownership concentration and foreign ownership structure: A study of Brazilian firms.

Crafting identities in insecure employment: An ethnographic exploration of the experiences of temporary agency workers (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the experiences of uncertainty and insecurity that migrant agency workers in relation to their work and socio-cultural context taking a specific interest in how these experiences are informed by and inform their self-understanding... Read More about Crafting identities in insecure employment: An ethnographic exploration of the experiences of temporary agency workers.

Resolving the rainbow of chaos: The value of participant-governed networks in implementing new evidence into practice (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the face of increasing demand for patient care and service quality combined with increasing levels of underfunding the UK National Health Service (NHS) is under pressure to find innovative ways to improve patient outcomes and provide efficiency. D... Read More about Resolving the rainbow of chaos: The value of participant-governed networks in implementing new evidence into practice.

Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Westburn Publishers Ltd. This article explores how social class is linguistically negotiated and contested in parental narratives of school choice in the British education marketplace. Our study reveals prevalent yet obscured vestiges of ‘clas... Read More about Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice.

Implementing smart specialisation roadmaps in Lithuania: Lost in translation? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The study of Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) and how they translate into policy decisions and practice has gained pace in the last decade. In this paper, we present a case study on the application of FTA methods for ent... Read More about Implementing smart specialisation roadmaps in Lithuania: Lost in translation?.

Understanding apprentice pay: Final report (2016)
Report

This is the final report from a study of apprentice pay in the UK. It uses a mixed methods approach. Econometric analysis of the Apprentice Pay Survey and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings confirms findings of previous reports that the apprenti... Read More about Understanding apprentice pay: Final report.

Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Whilst tariff-based approaches to load-shifting are common in the residential sector, incentive-based approaches are rare. This is so, even though providing customers incentives to shape their power consumption patterns has substa... Read More about Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider.

Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The aim of this paper is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) needed for effective material recovery through Design for Deconstruction (DfD). The research approach employed in this paper is based on a sequential exploratory... Read More about Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills.

Making the ‘third stream’, mainstream: Facilitating effective higher education-employer engagement in workforce development (2016)
Journal Article

In the past decade successive UK governments have placed a strong emphasis on, and renewed interest in, the role of higher education in skills development. In the light of recent skills policy developments in England and drawing upon the findings of... Read More about Making the ‘third stream’, mainstream: Facilitating effective higher education-employer engagement in workforce development.

Low carbon warehouse management under cap-and-trade policy (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Green warehouse management plays a significant part in developing a carbon efficient supply chain. This research examines the behaviour change in warehouse management decisions under the cap-and-trade emission policy and explores... Read More about Low carbon warehouse management under cap-and-trade policy.