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An analysis of operational behavioural factors and circular economy practices in SMEs: An emerging economy perspective (2021)
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Luthra, S., Kumar, A., Sharma, M., Arturo Garza-Reyes, J., & Kumar, V. (2022). An analysis of operational behavioural factors and circular economy practices in SMEs: An emerging economy perspective. Journal of Business Research, 141, 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.014

Circular Economy (CE) principles are relatively unexplored, especially in emerging economies. None of the studies so far have also explored operational behavioural factors and CE practices in the context of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).... Read More about An analysis of operational behavioural factors and circular economy practices in SMEs: An emerging economy perspective.

The influences of social media on Chinese start-up stage entrepreneurship (2021)
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Sukumar, A., Jafari Sadeghi, V., & Xu, Z. (2021). The influences of social media on Chinese start-up stage entrepreneurship. World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 17(5), 559-578. https://doi.org/10.1504/WREMSD.2021.117442

In today’s digital era, information is increasingly shared and distributed through online social networks. Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube in the west and Weibo, WeChat in China have not only greatly extended the reach of tradi... Read More about The influences of social media on Chinese start-up stage entrepreneurship.

Perception and practice of physical activity and exercise counselling in renal care team in Nigeria (2021)
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Niyi-Odumosu, F. A., Odumosu, S. A., Olufunmilola, L. D., Olanrewaju, T. O., & Seidina, I. Y. (2021). Perception and practice of physical activity and exercise counselling in renal care team in Nigeria. Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine, 36(4), 17-26. https://doi.org/10.18276/cej.2021.4-02

Introduction. Physical activity (PA) in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) requires positive attitude and practice among the renal care team (RCT). The study examined the perceptions and practices of PA and exercise counselling among the RCT in Nigeria. Me... Read More about Perception and practice of physical activity and exercise counselling in renal care team in Nigeria.

Book Review - Parker, M. (Ed.), Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis (2021)
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Bolden, R. (2021). Book Review - Parker, M. (Ed.), Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis. Colombo Business Journal, 12(2), 150-154. https://doi.org/10.4038/cbj.v12i2.86

Since the start of the pandemic Bristol University Press have commissioned a series of books on the topic of COVID-19 and its impact on business and society around the world . The first of these – Life After COVID-19: The other side of crisis – is an... Read More about Book Review - Parker, M. (Ed.), Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis.

Multiple life-cycle products: A review of antecedents, outcomes, challenges, and benefits in a circular economy (2021)
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Nag, U., Sharma, S. K., & Kumar, V. (2022). Multiple life-cycle products: A review of antecedents, outcomes, challenges, and benefits in a circular economy. Journal of Engineering Design, 33(3), 173-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2021.2020219

The importance of design and its contribution to society is heavily emphasised in the literature. Multiple life-cycle products are based on the ideology value retention of components, products, and materials after its use phase, and utilised for the... Read More about Multiple life-cycle products: A review of antecedents, outcomes, challenges, and benefits in a circular economy.

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains (2021)
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Kazancoglu, Y., Ozbiltekin-Pala, M., Sezer, M. D., Ekren, B. Y., & Kumar, V. (2022). Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains. Sustainability, 14(1), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010143

Recently, it has become an important issue to ensure sustainability, especially in food supply chains, against the rapidly growing population, increasing demand, and sudden disruptions caused by uncertain times such as that caused by COVID-19. Since... Read More about Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains.

Adopting industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors (2021)
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Srivastava, D. K., Kumar, V., Ekren, B. Y., Upadhyay, A., Tyagi, M., & Kumari, A. (2022). Adopting industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 176, Article 121439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121439

The manufacturing sector needs to focus on social, environmental and technological factors to integrate Industry 4.0 in production planning, logistics and supply chains. Technical Education Institutes (TEIs) can play a key role in achieving this ambi... Read More about Adopting industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors.

Monologue and organization studies (2021)
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Izak, M., Case, P., & Ybema, S. (2022). Monologue and organization studies. Organization Studies, 43(9), https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406211069434

In this essay, we propose that recent work in management and organization studies is typically inclined to understand organization and organizing as dialogic in form. Dialogicity is characterized by dynamic interlocution on the part of active human s... Read More about Monologue and organization studies.

Impact of different conflict levels on culturally diversified Japanese organisations’ performance under a collaborative conflict management style (2021)
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Nguyen, G., & Kumar, V. (2021). Impact of different conflict levels on culturally diversified Japanese organisations’ performance under a collaborative conflict management style. International Journal of Organizational Business Excellence, 4(2), 71-94

With the increasing globalization, cultural diversity management has emerged as an important issue and it is regarded as a process that helps to maintain a positive workplace environment where the similarities and differences of individuals from diff... Read More about Impact of different conflict levels on culturally diversified Japanese organisations’ performance under a collaborative conflict management style.

A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management theory (2021)
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Kars-Unluoglu, S. (2023). A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management theory. Management Learning, 54(1), 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211043089

Sitting down to read a management theory textbook can be an uninspiring activity. They cover issues relevant to anybody who interacts with organisations (virtually everybody!). But the lengthy coverage of theories after theories makes the topic seem... Read More about A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management theory.

Financing a corporate venture capital program (2021)
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Tawiah, B., & Keefe, M. (2022). Financing a corporate venture capital program. Journal of Banking and Finance, 135, Article 106364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106364

Firms invest in Corporate venture capital (CVC) for strategic reasons. Consistent with maintaining financial flexibility to fund CVC driven innovation and acquisitions, CVC investing firms hold less debt and more cash. Our results are more pronounced... Read More about Financing a corporate venture capital program.

Coupling of cryptocurrency trading with the sustainable environmental goals: Is it on the cards? (2021)
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Khaled Mustafa, F. M., Lodh, S., Nandy, M., & Kumar, V. (2022). Coupling of cryptocurrency trading with the sustainable environmental goals: Is it on the cards?. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(3), 1152-1168. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2947

Following the systematic review and bibliometric analysis of current literature, this paper attempts to investigate whether the wealth generated through cryptocurrency trading can assist in attaining the United Nation's (UN) Sustainable Development G... Read More about Coupling of cryptocurrency trading with the sustainable environmental goals: Is it on the cards?.

Unravelling influential individual level factors during a crowdfunding campaign: Insights from the ALS ice bucket challenge (2021)
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Nisar, T., Prabhakar, G., & Bourlakis, M. (2022). Unravelling influential individual level factors during a crowdfunding campaign: Insights from the ALS ice bucket challenge. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 175, Article 121342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121342

This study aims to identify the factors that drive sharing and donating in a viral crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding is a method of raising finance that allows founders of both for-profit and nonprofit social and cultural projects to request fundin... Read More about Unravelling influential individual level factors during a crowdfunding campaign: Insights from the ALS ice bucket challenge.

Integrated life-cycle optimisation and supply-side management for building retrofitting (2021)
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Luo, X., & Oyedele, L. O. (2022). Integrated life-cycle optimisation and supply-side management for building retrofitting. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 154, Article 111827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111827

Building retrofitting is a powerful approach to enhance building energy performance. The net-zero ambition urges the need to renovate building energy system in view of the life-cycle optimal, to address climate and environmental challenges. Existing... Read More about Integrated life-cycle optimisation and supply-side management for building retrofitting.

Rainfall Prediction: A Comparative Analysis of Modern Machine Learning Algorithms for Time-Series Forecasting (2021)
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Barrera Animas, A., Oladayo Oyedele, L., Bilal, M., Dolapo Akinosho, T., Davila Delgado, J. M., & Adewale Akanbi, L. (2022). Rainfall Prediction: A Comparative Analysis of Modern Machine Learning Algorithms for Time-Series Forecasting. Machine Learning with Applications, 7, Article 100204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mlwa.2021.100204

Rainfall forecasting has gained utmost research relevance in recent times due to its complexities and persistent applications such as flood forecasting and monitoring of pollutant concentration levels, among others. Existing models use complex statis... Read More about Rainfall Prediction: A Comparative Analysis of Modern Machine Learning Algorithms for Time-Series Forecasting.

Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco regime (2021)
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Marre, D., & Gaggiotti, H. (2021). Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco regime. Childhood, 28(4), 570-584. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682211061448

The irregular adoption of displaced children during the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the early years of Spanish democracy remains silent and unrecognised. The difficulty in recognising these irregular practices is linked to remnant... Read More about Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco regime.

Value co-creation and co-destruction behaviour: Relationship with basic human values and personality traits (2021)
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Ogunbodede, O., Papagiannidis, S., & Alamanos, E. (2022). Value co-creation and co-destruction behaviour: Relationship with basic human values and personality traits. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 46(4), 1278-1298. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12757

Service systems create value when actors exhibit behaviours expected to facilitate resource integration and could destroy value when actors do not exhibit the expected set of behaviours. This study seeks to determine which groups of values and indivi... Read More about Value co-creation and co-destruction behaviour: Relationship with basic human values and personality traits.

Critical management education: Selected auto-ethnographic vignettes on how attachment to identity may disrupt learning (2021)
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Knights, D., Huber, G., & Longman, R. (in press). Critical management education: Selected auto-ethnographic vignettes on how attachment to identity may disrupt learning. Management Learning, 53(3), 605-616. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211049868

In this essay, we explore the underlying processes of identity work in teaching from a critical management education (CME) perspective. Identity is a concern for both teachers and students and especially where the assumptions and routines on which it... Read More about Critical management education: Selected auto-ethnographic vignettes on how attachment to identity may disrupt learning.

In praise of holistic scholarship: A collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith (2021)
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Robinson, S., Contu, A., Elliott, C., Gagnon, S., Antonacopoulou, E., Bogolyubov, P., …Vera, D. (2022). In praise of holistic scholarship: A collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith. Management Learning, 53(2), 363-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211032207

This collective essay was born out of a desire to honor and remember Professor Mark Easterby-Smith, a founder of the Management Learning community. To do this, we invited community members to share their experiences of working with Mark. The resultin... Read More about In praise of holistic scholarship: A collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith.

Value co-creation in the B2B context: A conceptual framework and its implications (2021)
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Pathak, B., Ashok, M., & Tan, Y. L. (2022). Value co-creation in the B2B context: A conceptual framework and its implications. Service Industries Journal, 42(3-4), 178-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642069.2021.1989414

This study aims to bring a renewed focus on Value Co-Creation (VCC) between an organisation (service provider) and its customers in the business-to-business (B2B) context. From the literature review, a conceptual framework of factors affecting VCC wa... Read More about Value co-creation in the B2B context: A conceptual framework and its implications.