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Methodological approach of construction business failure prediction studies: a review (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Performance of bankruptcy prediction models (BPM), which partly depends on the methodological approach used to develop it, has virtually stagnated over the years. The methodological posi... Read More about Methodological approach of construction business failure prediction studies: a review.

The critical realist conception of open and closed systems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The critical realist (CR) conception of open and closed (O&C) systems is not about systems: it is about (ir)regularities in the flux of events and states of affairs. It has recently been... Read More about The critical realist conception of open and closed systems.

Development of 2D dynamic model for hydrogen-fed and methane-fed solid oxide fuel cells (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. A new two-dimensional (2D) dynamic model is developed in Fortran to study the mass and energy transport, the velocity field and the electrochemical phenomena of high-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The key feature of th... Read More about Development of 2D dynamic model for hydrogen-fed and methane-fed solid oxide fuel cells.

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

This paper examines the effects of ownership structures of the parent on equity ownership choices in foreign acquisitions. Little is known in the context of emerging markets whether heterogeneity in acquiring firm ownership characteristics will affec... Read More about Acquirer ownership concentration and foreign ownership structure: A study of Brazilian firms.

Online personal risk detection based on behavioural and physiological patterns (2016)
Journal Article

We define personal risk detection as the timely identification of when someone is in the midst of a dangerous situation, for example, a health crisis or a car accident, events that may jeopardize a person’s physical integrity. We work under the hypot... Read More about Online personal risk detection based on behavioural and physiological patterns.

Empirical evidence of an integrative knowledge competence framework for ERP systems implementation in UK industries (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can greatly improve business productivity and better serve customers by creating values through integrating business processes and sharing current information. Knowledge Management (KM)... Read More about Empirical evidence of an integrative knowledge competence framework for ERP systems implementation in UK industries.

An analysis of managerial factors affecting the implementation and use of overall equipment effectiveness (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. To ensure manufacturing organisations remain competitive, most of them are turning to total productive maintenance (TPM) and lean manufacturing to ensure seamless operations. Overall equ... Read More about An analysis of managerial factors affecting the implementation and use of overall equipment effectiveness.

Onboarding and induction (2016)
Book Chapter

This is particularly true for those of you who have just joined a new company and wish to achieve long-term success and satisfaction in your career. This section discusses what you can do to make a good start.

Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents some of the qualitative findings from some wider research undertaken for the Low Pay Commission on non-compliance in apprenticeship pay in the hairdressing and childcare sectors. Interviews with over seventy respondents, including... Read More about Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay.

Competency-based measures for designing out construction waste: Task and contextual attributes (2016)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - Competency-based measure is increasingly evident as an effective approach to tailoring training and development for organisational change and development. With design stage widely reckoned as being decisi... Read More about Competency-based measures for designing out construction waste: Task and contextual attributes.

Knowledge management as intellectual property: Evidence from Mexican manufacturing SMEs (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between knowledge management and creation of intellectual property within the context of small and medium size manufacturing enterprises. De... Read More about Knowledge management as intellectual property: Evidence from Mexican manufacturing SMEs.

The language of leadership in Laos (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This paper responds to recent calls in the leadership studies literature for anthropologically informed empirical research on leadership phenomena in non-Western and non-Anglophone settings. The authors have worked exten... Read More about The language of leadership in Laos.

Vicious or virtuous circles? Exploring the vulnerability of drivers to break low urban speed limits (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Levels of support for 20mph limits in Great Britain are consistently high. However, these positive attitudes are not translating into similarly positive behaviour changes in terms of complying with these new speed limits. Recent r... Read More about Vicious or virtuous circles? Exploring the vulnerability of drivers to break low urban speed limits.

Positioning entrepreneurship education as a force for regional development in East Africa – Higher Education and Private Sector Collaboration (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Assessing the impact of gamification on students’ engagement and motivation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Gamification is gaining momentum in Higher Education (HE) as scholars begin to enquire what they can learn from game experiences to improve students’ engagement and motivation (Niman, 2014). Gamification does not mean using games, instead it refers t... Read More about Assessing the impact of gamification on students’ engagement and motivation.

Developing entrepreneurial intentions through gamification using online business challenges (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose:
This paper describes the results of a research project aimed at investigating the moderating role of gamification on the development of entrepreneurial intentions through the use of online business challenges. Following the theory of plann... Read More about Developing entrepreneurial intentions through gamification using online business challenges.

More than a method? Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The authors–two anthropologists and an organisational theorist, all organisational ethnographers–discuss their understanding and practices of organisational ethnography (OE) as a way of... Read More about More than a method? Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social.

The effect of online word-of-mouth on risk assessment for an experience service as price acceptability changes (2016)
Journal Article

The influence of online word-of-mouth (WOM) on risk assessments for an experience good, in the presence of different price acceptability levels, was examined through 12 online experiments using potential travelers presented with realistic information... Read More about The effect of online word-of-mouth on risk assessment for an experience service as price acceptability changes.

Revisiting Jewson and Mason: The Politics of Gender Equality in UK Local Government in a Cold Climate (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper revisits Jewson and Mason's seminal theoretical framework on liberal and radical approaches to equal opportunity policy and practice by applying it to our research on the implementation of the Gender Equality... Read More about Revisiting Jewson and Mason: The Politics of Gender Equality in UK Local Government in a Cold Climate.

Internal market orientation and work-family balance in family businesses (2016)
Journal Article

This research paper aims at investigating the importance of work-family balance (WFB) on family businesses from Andalusia (Spain) and its impact on job satisfaction and employees' commitment. The research objectives are twofold: (1) to classify compa... Read More about Internal market orientation and work-family balance in family businesses.