All Outputs (127)
Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class (2024)
Book
Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class challenges contemporary conceptions of the mobility of the creative worker. Exploring the differences between a range of historical, political, and social contexts, this forward-thinking book contests the va... Read More about Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.
Redistributed manufacturing ecosystem for healthcare: An in-depth case study of on-body manufacturing using a micro-factory (2023)
Journal Article
The shift from centralised to redistributed manufacturing (RDM) enables lower volume production closer to the site of use. The potential benefits of RDM are highlighted in the literature, but in this emerging field, understanding of how its adoption... Read More about Redistributed manufacturing ecosystem for healthcare: An in-depth case study of on-body manufacturing using a micro-factory.
Data, resilience, and identity in the digital age (2023)
Journal Article
COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs (2021)
Journal Article
Economic policies tend to downplay social and community considerations in favour of market-led and business-focussed support. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for greater and deeper social cohesion and local social support networks while hi... Read More about COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs.
Digital servitization and modularity: Responding to requirements in use (2021)
Book Chapter
When moving towards digitally enabled advanced services firms are faced with the challenge of servicing heterogeneous customer requirements that emerge during product use. Whereas offers may have been designed with fixed functionality and a focus on... Read More about Digital servitization and modularity: Responding to requirements in use.
Broken chocolate: Biomarkers as a method for delivering cocoa supply chain visibility (2021)
Journal Article
Purpose: This paper examines the potential of “biomarkers” to provide immutable identification for food products (chocolate), providing traceability and visibility in the supply chain from retail product back to farm. Design/methodology/approach: Thi... Read More about Broken chocolate: Biomarkers as a method for delivering cocoa supply chain visibility.
Helping ensure survival: Digitally enhanced advanced services in community businesses (2021)
Report
This study arose out of a three-year longitudinal study exploring the values held by community business leaders and how these values impact on the financial and social sustainability of their businesses. The final wave of interviews with leaders took... Read More about Helping ensure survival: Digitally enhanced advanced services in community businesses.
Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities (2021)
Journal Article
The financial well-being of the charity sector has important social implications. Numerous studies have analysed whether the concentration of income in a few sources increases financial vulnerability. However, few studies have systematically consider... Read More about Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities.
Limited evidence for servitisation in UK publishing: An empirical analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Servitisation is a strategic transition of firms towards the creation of additional value through services. In this study, we adopt a data-driven approach and assume that company activity descriptions are representative of their activity and partly r... Read More about Limited evidence for servitisation in UK publishing: An empirical analysis.
How additive manufacturing allows products to absorb variety in use: Empirical evidence from the defensive industry (2020)
Journal Article
The normative assumption holds that a product’s structural and functional elements are fixed pre-production to support manufacturing efficiency. Firms servitizing are faced with delivering resources for customers in context and absorbing contextual v... Read More about How additive manufacturing allows products to absorb variety in use: Empirical evidence from the defensive industry.
A framework to explore the functioning and sustainability of business models (2019)
Journal Article
© 2019 Institution of Chemical Engineers This paper presents a framework to enable case study analysis of sustainable development from business models innovation. Increasing economic development can give rise to trade-offs between economic growth and... Read More about A framework to explore the functioning and sustainability of business models.
Managing personalization-privacy paradox of digital services: A systematic literature review (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Presentation on personalization privacy paradox
Managing the personalization-privacy paradox: A systematic literature review (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Effective utilization of personal data contributes to greater customer satisfaction and provides a better fit between the offer and the customer needs, which can be leveraged as competitive advantage. However, consumers may be reluctant to share thei... Read More about Managing the personalization-privacy paradox: A systematic literature review.
Managing personalization-privacy paradox of digital services: A systematic literature review (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Presentation on personalization privacy paradox
Does business model experimentation in dynamic contexts enhance value capture? (2018)
Journal Article
Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Established theory suggests that firms experiment with business models in dynamic contexts. However, the relationship between business model experimentation and organisational performance remains unclear... Read More about Does business model experimentation in dynamic contexts enhance value capture?.
Windowing television content: Lessons for digital business models (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. There is a market for successful distribution of television content using a Windowing strategy. This article investigates if a strategy where content is made available to consumers through different channels over time... Read More about Windowing television content: Lessons for digital business models.
Towards digital transformation: Lessons learned from traditional organizations (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Digitally enabled organizations are supported by new information and communication technologies, referred to as digital technologies, which increasingly promise enormous opportunities for growth. The study reviews 10... Read More about Towards digital transformation: Lessons learned from traditional organizations.
Digital business models: Taxonomy and future research avenues (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Digital technologies reshape the competitive landscape as firms develop new means of value creation, delivery, and capture. The implementation and suitability of digital business models depend largely on the resources... Read More about Digital business models: Taxonomy and future research avenues.
Blockchain for good? Digital ledger technology and sustainable development goals (2017)
Book Chapter
Blockchain technology (aka Distributed Ledger Technology or DLT) is a novel configuration of Peer-to-Peer, cryptographic and distributed computing technologies that have the potential to shift the internet from an internet of information to an intern... Read More about Blockchain for good? Digital ledger technology and sustainable development goals.