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Great Britain adults' opinions on cycling: Implications for policy (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. In its neglect of cycling, the transport policy history of Great Britain is typical of many car-dependent societies. Policy inertia with respect to sustainable travel may be driven by the assumptions that, firstly, most household... Read More about Great Britain adults' opinions on cycling: Implications for policy.

Servitization strategies and co-creation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose:
This research aims at investigating the moderating role of co-creation in the implementation of servitization strategies in the pharmaceutical industry. Co-creation is expected to have an impact on the use of different levels of services, a... Read More about Servitization strategies and co-creation.

A Lean Six Sigma framework for the reduction of ship loading commercial time in the iron ore pelletising industry (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract: Evidence suggests that specifically designed frameworks to implement Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects to tackle particular problems are more effective than ‘generic’ versions. Thi... Read More about A Lean Six Sigma framework for the reduction of ship loading commercial time in the iron ore pelletising industry.

Family embeddedness in immigrants' entrepreneurial opportunity creation process (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Family contributes to immigrant entrepreneurs’ business development in different ways. Family provides financial resources, accept lower salaries and offer volunteer based work. However, there is a lack of research investigating the role of family in... Read More about Family embeddedness in immigrants' entrepreneurial opportunity creation process.

Technological inclusiveness: Northern versus Chinese induced technologies in the garment industry (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The Northern economies have been the main sources of technologies for the global garment manufacturing industry. Over the past decade, China has become an important alternative source of these technologies offering a range of tec... Read More about Technological inclusiveness: Northern versus Chinese induced technologies in the garment industry.

Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic (2016)
Thesis

A review of the extensive separate literatures on salesmanship and entrepreneurship highlights interesting similarities between the two professions, but there is a lack of studies examining these similarities or explaining the differences. In particu... Read More about Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic.

Critical factors for insolvency prediction: Towards a theoretical model for the construction industry (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Many construction industry insolvency prediction model (CI-IPM) studies have arbitrarily employed or simply adopted from previous studies different insolvency factors, without justificat... Read More about Critical factors for insolvency prediction: Towards a theoretical model for the construction industry.

Resolving forward-reverse logistics multi-period model using evolutionary algorithms (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In the changing competitive landscape and with growing environmental awareness, reverse logistics issues have become prominent in manufacturing organizations. As a result there is an increasing focus on green aspects of the supply... Read More about Resolving forward-reverse logistics multi-period model using evolutionary algorithms.

Dragon dance: Joining steps, gaining success (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Studies on agglomeration economies are well established (Chang and Park 2005; McCann and Folta 2008; Shaver and Flyer 2000) but the phenomenon of country-of-origin agglomeration has aroused attention of scholars in the field of international business... Read More about Dragon dance: Joining steps, gaining success.

Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article examines service nepotism, the practice of bestowing gifts or benefits on customers by frontline service staff based on a perceived shared socio-collective identity. Adopting a micro-sociological approach, i... Read More about Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces.

A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The improvement of routing operations performance has been of great concern for organisations. This has led to the development of alternative lean-based methods, however the literature research on th... Read More about A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations.

Leading in turbulent times: Learning to live with paradox (2016)
Journal Article

In the late 1990s the U.S. Army War College developed the acronym VUCA to refer to the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of political relations in the post- cold war era. It did not take long, however, for people to realize that thes... Read More about Leading in turbulent times: Learning to live with paradox.

Mind the gap! Shifting expectations through entrepreneurship education (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop paper explores findings from a pilot, practice-based, programme that integrated a full time Masters in Entrepreneurship with an economic development-focused business incubation initiative.
The programme, which was supported by the Euro... Read More about Mind the gap! Shifting expectations through entrepreneurship education.

Negative capability and praxis: Reflections on the development of an undergraduate OD consultancy project (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper aims to explore the links between theoretical notions of negative capability and the process of praxis, reflecting how embedding these might be achieved in an undergraduate teaching context which uses practice-led teaching approaches with... Read More about Negative capability and praxis: Reflections on the development of an undergraduate OD consultancy project.

Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper critically reviews existing contributions from the field of cultural leadership studies with a view to highlighting the conceptual and methodological limitations of the domin... Read More about Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies.

Improving road transport operations through lean thinking: a case study (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Traditionally, logistics and transportation problems have been addressed through mathematical modelling, operations research, and simulation, but criticism has emerged about their effect... Read More about Improving road transport operations through lean thinking: a case study.

Differential learning in team work (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A workshop feature at a creative 2-day conference

Entrepreneurship. Enterprise and innovation ecosystems for students’ start-ups (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ontogenesis versus morphogenesis towards an anti-realist model of the constitution of society (2016)
Journal Article

This article firstly criticizes Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach for being indecisive about the realist notion of emergence it proposes as well as for her inadequate account of structural conditioning. It is argued that critical realists’ con... Read More about Ontogenesis versus morphogenesis towards an anti-realist model of the constitution of society.

Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. This paper explores undergraduate capabilities in career self-management and the influence of work-integrated learning (WIL). Career management competencies are an important aspect of individual employability and impact on... Read More about Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning.