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Financial technology education provision and perceived skill gap in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka (2024)
Journal Article

The current spread of financial technology (Fintech) adoption within the financial and business industries across the globe is expected to increase the demand for employees with Fintech skills and competencies. This in turn is likely to shift the tra... Read More about Financial technology education provision and perceived skill gap in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka.

Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: An empirical investigation (2021)
Journal Article

While industrialized agro-food supply systems have gained tremendous success in recent decades, it has been increasingly criticized for its adverse environmental and social impact. Amongst this criticism, Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) have emerged... Read More about Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: An empirical investigation.

The interaction between academia and industry and its impact on national innovation capacity: The case of Algeria (2020)
Journal Article

The role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in developing the innovative capacity of societies is well recognised. That role is accomplished through the creation and dissemination of knowledge, the success of which is dependent on the types and... Read More about The interaction between academia and industry and its impact on national innovation capacity: The case of Algeria.

Farm and farmer characteristics and off-farm work: Evidence from Algeria (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. Off-farm work is a widespread, two-edged, phenomenon that can help both the survival and the demise of small- and medium-sized agricultural exploitations. Given the prevalence of po... Read More about Farm and farmer characteristics and off-farm work: Evidence from Algeria.

Higher education teaching and training system and economic performance: An empirical investigation (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper investigates the impact of higher education characteristics on economic performance. Despite a relatively plethoric literature, there is still a clear lack of understa... Read More about Higher education teaching and training system and economic performance: An empirical investigation.

In search of a model to describe the organization of the Algerian diaspora networks (2019)
Journal Article

The problem of organizing the diaspora within and between networks has led to great interest among the scientific community. The literature has shown the existence of a real body and cohesion amongst the members of diasporas in the same country eithe... Read More about In search of a model to describe the organization of the Algerian diaspora networks.

Incremental development of business process architecture using the design science research methodology (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a new approach to developing a business process architecture using the design science research methodology. It is also part of the research framework development that generates a business process architecture using semantic knowle... Read More about Incremental development of business process architecture using the design science research methodology.

National systems of innovation, innovation niches, and diversity in university systems (2019)
Journal Article

Universities have come to represent strategic sites for the production of knowledge and innovations driving major
economic and societal transformations. In this paper, we examine the role universities play in national innovation
systems. Developing... Read More about National systems of innovation, innovation niches, and diversity in university systems.

Deriving object-based business process architecture using knowledge management enablers (2019)
Journal Article

This paper discusses a semantic-driven approach to deriving an object-based Business Process Architecture (BPA) using Knowledge Management Enablers (KMEs). The semantic enriched Riva BPA (srBPA) ontology has been selected as an object and ontology b... Read More about Deriving object-based business process architecture using knowledge management enablers.

An investigation into the development of the absorptive capacity of manufacturing SMEs (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. To sustain their competitive advantage in a highly competitive landscape, SMEs, in spite of their limited resources, need to effectively learn. The ability to access and successfully use... Read More about An investigation into the development of the absorptive capacity of manufacturing SMEs.

A semantic representation of the knowledge management enablers domain: The aKMEOnt ontology (2017)
Book Chapter

Knowledge management is a significant driver for any enterprise development and evolution as it is engaged with planning, implementing, controlling, monitoring and improving enterprise’s processes and systems. However, organisations are still at a di... Read More about A semantic representation of the knowledge management enablers domain: The aKMEOnt ontology.

University-industry relationships in developing countries: Opportunities and challenges in Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and India (2017)
Journal Article

This article is aimed at investigating the various opportunities as well as the challenges faced by National Systems of Higher Education in aligning themselves with the requirement of National and Regional Innovation Systems in developing countries.... Read More about University-industry relationships in developing countries: Opportunities and challenges in Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and India.

National innovation and knowledge performance: the role of higher education teaching and training (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Society for Research into Higher Education. This paper investigates the role of the higher education system (HES) in the production of national innovation. We focus on the issue of institutional diversity of HESs and its impact on national inn... Read More about National innovation and knowledge performance: the role of higher education teaching and training.

The transformational role of University in regional innovation system: The case of Zhengzhou University in China (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research is part of the i-Compete project on improving competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the South West of England through best practice procurement. It is jointly funded by the ERDF (through Universities South West... Read More about Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study.

I series of purchasing research practitioner brochures (2012)
Other

The i-Series Research Family

The I-Series is the result of over ten year’s worth of cumulative research by the Innovation, Purchasing and Supply Research Team at Bristol Business School. All of this research is aimed at Purchasing Practitioners an... Read More about I series of purchasing research practitioner brochures.

Knowledge networks for innovation: From theory into practice, the case for SMEs (2011)
Journal Article

This paper is part of an externally funded three year Network for Innovation (iNET), whose main goal is to
improve the innovative capacities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Aerospace and Advanced
Engineering (AAE) across the South West of... Read More about Knowledge networks for innovation: From theory into practice, the case for SMEs.

The challenges arising in the evolution of the triple helix institutional system (2011)
Book Chapter

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Malaysia’s first formal science and technology policy was introduced in 1986 (National Science and Technology Policy II 2000–2010 [NSTPII] 2000). One of the major programs of this policy was the provision of g... Read More about The challenges arising in the evolution of the triple helix institutional system.

Innovation in global public goods: Issues and challenges in provision of environment-monitoring services in Europe (2011)
Journal Article

Global climate change has necessitated a co-ordinated response from policy-makers across the world. Though the imperative for action has been much discussed in policy circles, actions at the implementation level remain somewhat less well-developed. T... Read More about Innovation in global public goods: Issues and challenges in provision of environment-monitoring services in Europe.