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Exploring the prioritisation of biodiversity amongst small- to medium-sized enterprise leaders with strong bigger-than-self value orientation (2023)
Journal Article
Herbert, S., Bradley, P., & Everard, M. (in press). Exploring the prioritisation of biodiversity amongst small- to medium-sized enterprise leaders with strong bigger-than-self value orientation. Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(8), 5633-5649. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3440

This paper reports on a quantitative study of prioritisation of biodiversity amongst small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) leaders. Existing research indicates that value orientation impacts propensity for pro-environmental behaviours. However, as... Read More about Exploring the prioritisation of biodiversity amongst small- to medium-sized enterprise leaders with strong bigger-than-self value orientation.

COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs (2021)
Journal Article
Gardner, M., Webber, D. J., Parry, G., & Bradley, P. (2021). COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs. Local Economy, 36(6), 524-540. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942211056034

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.

Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities (2021)
Journal Article
Green, E., Ritchie, F., Bradley, P., & Parry, G. (2021). Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 32, 992–1008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-020-00311-9

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.

Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider (2016)
Journal Article
Bradley, P., Coke, A., & Leach, M. (2016). Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider. Energy Policy, 98, 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.07.022

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Whilst tariff-based approaches to load-shifting are common in the residential sector, incentive-based approaches are rare. This is so, even though providing customers incentives to shape their power consumption patterns has substa... Read More about Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider.