Outputs (30)

Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams (2013)
Journal Article

Adoption of change management best practices continues to be offered as a route towards improved cost, quality and productivity of public services. These approaches are predominantly drawn from private sector research and their application by the pub... Read More about Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams.

Supply and demand chain management: The effect of adding services to product offerings (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how firms manage their product and service offerings, integrating supply chain management (SCM) and demand chain management (DCM) strategies. Adding services to the product portfolio of a firm may b... Read More about Supply and demand chain management: The effect of adding services to product offerings.

Whither our future global managers? The moderating effect of organization context on ethical intent in international business (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines how proximal versus distal effects in an organization setting prevail as moderating influences on ethical judgments and intentions. The paper proposes three dimensions of ethical decision-making in international business (moral eq... Read More about Whither our future global managers? The moderating effect of organization context on ethical intent in international business.

Inclusivity and diversity: The key to strategy and sustainability (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Social innovation in practice: The role of relationships in developing, acquiring and utilising dynamic capabilities in social enterprises (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In a constantly changing environment social enterprises (SEs) need to utilise dynamic capabilities in their pursuit of social innovation. Addressing the ‘double bottom line’ of both social and financial goals, alongside managing the challenge of fluc... Read More about Social innovation in practice: The role of relationships in developing, acquiring and utilising dynamic capabilities in social enterprises.

Evaluating the benefits of outsourcing: The case of UK higher education institutions (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Outsourcing has been commonly practised within the private sector for decades and the outsourcing of publically provided services is becoming evermore prevalent as the pulic sector responds to the need to bring about ‘more for less’. Despite this pre... Read More about Evaluating the benefits of outsourcing: The case of UK higher education institutions.

Time for a real shift to relations: Appraisal of social network analysis applications in the UK construction industry (2013)
Journal Article

The Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been adopted in the UK construction management research and generated meaningful insights in analysing project management organisations from network perspectives. As an effective tool, social network analysis has... Read More about Time for a real shift to relations: Appraisal of social network analysis applications in the UK construction industry.

Decision comprehensiveness and team performance: The moderating role of perceived similarity (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Decision comprehensiveness is the extent to which members of a team systematically gather quantities of information and consider these in the process of making decisions (Frederickson & Mitchell, 1984). Empirical research indicates that under certain... Read More about Decision comprehensiveness and team performance: The moderating role of perceived similarity.

The effect of cross-cultural uncertainty and complexity within multicultural construction teams (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges faced by senior construction managers in managing cross-cultural complexity and uncertainty. The rationale was to identify the key strategies that are considered essential for managing cros... Read More about The effect of cross-cultural uncertainty and complexity within multicultural construction teams.

Innovation management and dynamic capability (2013)
Book Chapter

Building quality management systems: Selecting the right methods and tools (2013)
Book

Global engineer: A springboard for the next decade (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Indian business leaders’ perceptions of trade competition from China (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Emerging as forces that could potentially re-set the global economic compass, China and India represent an important bilateral force against a climate of recession. This paper considers the perceptions of this growing economic relationship from an un... Read More about Indian business leaders’ perceptions of trade competition from China.

Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors (2013)
Journal Article

The overall aim of this paper is to identify critical success factors that would help Private Finance Initiative/facility management (PFI/FM) contractors to avoid performance failure payment deductions in Public Private Partnership/PFI (PPP/PFI) proj... Read More about Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors.

Servitization - Complex engineering service availability: Is a paradigm shift in the business model and service enterprise required? (2013)
Journal Article

Servitization is the move by firms to gain value from service associated with their products, which requires a strategic rather than incremental change in the provider firm.

Термен не мрет: A fractional biography of failure (2013)
Journal Article

Peter Hitchcock has described the subject of this paper as ‘the story of the twentieth
century’. Lev Termen (commonly anglicized as Leon Theremin) was a musician,
inventor, entrepreneur and espionage agent who developed the Theremin, an early
elec... Read More about Термен не мрет: A fractional biography of failure.

Enterprise imaging: Representing complex multi-organizational service enterprises (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a visualization method developed as a result of an observed need to capture the organizational arrangements of a complex engineering service enterprise. The focal case study is between a public sector... Read More about Enterprise imaging: Representing complex multi-organizational service enterprises.

Music business models and piracy (2013)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the scale of illegal file-sharing activity across ten countries and to correlate this activity with country revenues. The work aims to elucidate an under-explored business model challenge which exists in paral... Read More about Music business models and piracy.

An appraisal of the management of construction projects in Kenya: Key issues and the way forward (2013)
Journal Article

A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK (2013)
Book Chapter

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013. Fierce competition and more complex customer needs and demands have forced organizations to continuously improve their operations and the quality of their products and services. Over the last deca... Read More about A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK.