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e-Leadership through strategic alignment: An empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age (2016)
Journal Article
Li, W., Liu, K., Belitski, M., O'Regan, N., & Ghobadian, A. (2016). e-Leadership through strategic alignment: An empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age. Journal of Information Technology, 31(2), 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2016.10

© 2016 JIT Palgrave Macmillan. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the European economy. A critical challenge faced by SME leaders, as a consequence of the continuing digital technology revolution, is how to optimally... Read More about e-Leadership through strategic alignment: An empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age.

Towards conceptualizing reverse service supply chains (2016)
Journal Article
He, Q., Ghobadian, A., Gallear, D., Beh, L. S., & O’Regan, N. (2016). Towards conceptualizing reverse service supply chains. Supply Chain Management, 21(2), 166-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-01-2015-0035

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Recognizing the heterogeneity of services, this paper aims to clarify the characteristics of forward and the corresponding reverse supply chains of different services. Design/methodology/approach... Read More about Towards conceptualizing reverse service supply chains.

Second-life retailing: a reverse supply chain perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Beh, L. S., Ghobadian, A., He, Q., Gallear, D., & O’Regan, N. (2016). Second-life retailing: a reverse supply chain perspective. Supply Chain Management, 21(2), 259-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-07-2015-0296

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The authors examine the role of entrepreneurial business models in the reverse supply chain of apparel/fashion retailers. The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative approach to the “retu... Read More about Second-life retailing: a reverse supply chain perspective.

Internationalization of product-service systems: Global, regional or national strategy? (2016)
Journal Article
Parry, G., Bustinza, O., Vendrell-Herrero, F., & O'Regan, N. (2016). Internationalization of product-service systems: Global, regional or national strategy?. Foresight and STI Governance, 10(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.17323/1995-459x.2016.1.16.29

© 2015 National Research University Higher School of Economics. Highly dynamic market environment, knowledge creation and technology advancement demands that producers/providers need to be more efficient and effective in meeting existing and future c... Read More about Internationalization of product-service systems: Global, regional or national strategy?.

Toward a View of Complementarity: Trust and Policy Influence Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Political Activity (2014)
Journal Article
Liedong, T. A., Ghobadian, A., Rajwani, T., & O’Regan, N. (2015). Toward a View of Complementarity: Trust and Policy Influence Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Political Activity. Group and Organization Management, 40(3), 405-427. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601114560064

© The Author(s) 2014. The extant literature argues that nonmarket strategies can establish, sustain, or enhance a firm’s competitive advantage. Less clear is how and why effective nonmarket strategies influence a firm’s competitiveness. Moreover, the... Read More about Toward a View of Complementarity: Trust and Policy Influence Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Political Activity.

Dynamic capabilities in a sixth-generation family firm: Entrepreneurship and the Bibby Line (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, O., Ghobadian, A., O'Regan, N., & Antcliff, V. (2013). Dynamic capabilities in a sixth-generation family firm: Entrepreneurship and the Bibby Line. Business History, 55(6), 910-941. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.744590

In this paper we draw on the theory of dynamic capabilities to examine development of the only surviving family-owned Liverpool shipping company. The Bibby Line was founded in 1807 to take advantage of the growing sea-trade based in Liverpool. The co... Read More about Dynamic capabilities in a sixth-generation family firm: Entrepreneurship and the Bibby Line.

Marketing as an applied science: Lessons from other business disciplines (2012)
Journal Article
Hughes, T., Bence, D., Grisoni, L., O'Regan, N., & Wornham, D. (2012). Marketing as an applied science: Lessons from other business disciplines. European Journal of Marketing, 46(1), 92-111. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090561211189257

Purpose: This paper seeks to investigate what the marketing field can learn, with regard to the academic/practitioner divide, from other management disciplines that have a range of different relationships with their respective practitioners. Design/m... Read More about Marketing as an applied science: Lessons from other business disciplines.