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Impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to the COVID-19 effects (2021)
Journal Article
Frederico, G., Kumar, V., & Garza-Reyes, J. A. (2021). Impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to the COVID-19 effects. Business Process Management Journal, 27(6), 1775-1803. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-01-2021-0050

Purpose: This research investigates the impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to COVID-19. The paper presents practitioners' perspectives (experts in supply chain management, especially involved in the procurement fiel... Read More about Impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to the COVID-19 effects.

Questing for meaningfulness through narrative identity work: The helpers, the heroes and the hurt (2021)
Journal Article
Weller, S. L., Brown, A. D., & Clarke, C. A. (2023). Questing for meaningfulness through narrative identity work: The helpers, the heroes and the hurt. Human Relations, 76(4), 551–576. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267211043072

What identity narratives do those engaged in dangerous volunteering fabricate and how do they help satisfy their quest for meaningful lives? Based on a three-year ethnographic study of QuakeRescue, a UK-based voluntary, search and rescue charity, we... Read More about Questing for meaningfulness through narrative identity work: The helpers, the heroes and the hurt.

Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Phillips, W., Roehrich, J. K., & Kapletia, D. (2023). Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Management Review, 25(1), 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1960737

Crises test the resilience of public service organizations. Healthcare providers must respond and innovate within tight constraints to address challenges. Presenting COVID-19 as a knowable unknown (black swan event), we adopt information processing t... Read More about Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forecasting building energy consumption: Adaptive long-short term memory neural networks driven by genetic algorithm (2021)
Journal Article
Luo, X., & Oyedele, L. O. (2021). Forecasting building energy consumption: Adaptive long-short term memory neural networks driven by genetic algorithm. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 50, Article 101357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101357

The real-world building can be regarded as a comprehensive energy engineering system; its actual energy consumption depends on complex affecting factors, including various weather data and time signature. Accurate energy consumption forecasting and e... Read More about Forecasting building energy consumption: Adaptive long-short term memory neural networks driven by genetic algorithm.

Does innovation lead to firm growth through endogenous marketing expenditure for SMEs in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)? (2021)
Journal Article
Thy, N. G., Duong, L., Khoa, H. D., & Binh, T. V. (in press). Does innovation lead to firm growth through endogenous marketing expenditure for SMEs in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)?. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business,

This paper investigates how Vietnamese SMEs’ innovation relates to its performance through impacts of endogenous covariates, such as marketing expenditure. The paper employed extended regression models. Data used is based on the survey of GSO conduct... Read More about Does innovation lead to firm growth through endogenous marketing expenditure for SMEs in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)?.

Reflections from the field (mountain, cityscape and park): Walking for management development and links to being-in-the world, belonging and ‘Ba’ (2021)
Journal Article
Turner, A., Edwards, G., Latham, C., & Shortt, H. (2021). Reflections from the field (mountain, cityscape and park): Walking for management development and links to being-in-the world, belonging and ‘Ba’. Journal of Management Development, 40(5), 313-323. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-11-2020-0362

Purpose: The purpose of this paper, based on reflections from practice, is to shed light on the realities of using walking as a tool for learning and development. This is done through an initial analysis of longitudinal reflective data spanning seven... Read More about Reflections from the field (mountain, cityscape and park): Walking for management development and links to being-in-the world, belonging and ‘Ba’.

Identity work, meaningfulness and volunteers (2021)
Journal Article
Weller, S. L., Brown, A. D., & Clarke, C. (2021). Identity work, meaningfulness and volunteers. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), Article 12365. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.12365abstract

What identity narratives do those engaged in dangerous volunteering work on and how do they help satisfy their quest for meaningful lives? Based on a three-year ethnographic study of QuakeRescue, a UK-based voluntary, search and rescue charity, we sh... Read More about Identity work, meaningfulness and volunteers.

Codesign of food system and circular economy approaches for the development of livestock feeds from insect larvae (2021)
Journal Article
Jagtap, S., Garcia-Garcia, G., Duong, L., Swainson, M., & Martindale, W. (2021). Codesign of food system and circular economy approaches for the development of livestock feeds from insect larvae. Foods, 10(8), Article 1701. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10081701

Processes that utilise low-value wastes and convert them to high-value food ingredients systemically add value across commercial operations. Current common disposal options include use as animal feed, anaerobic digestion, composting, incineration, an... Read More about Codesign of food system and circular economy approaches for the development of livestock feeds from insect larvae.

Happiness and co-creation of value: Playing the blues (2021)
Journal Article
Hughes, T., & Vafeas, M. (2021). Happiness and co-creation of value: Playing the blues. Marketing Theory, 21(4), 579-589. https://doi.org/10.1177/14705931211032255

Little has been written about co-creational aspects of happiness. Happiness is generally treated in the marketing literature as an individual outcome of exchange. However, the notion of value in exchange has been challenged by service-dominant (S-D)... Read More about Happiness and co-creation of value: Playing the blues.

Issues and analysis of critical success factors for the sustainable initiatives in the supply chain during COVID- 19 pandemic outbreak in India: A case study (2021)
Journal Article
Rajak, S., Mathiyazhagan, K., Agarwal, V., Sivakumar, K., Kumar, V., & Appolloni, A. (2022). Issues and analysis of critical success factors for the sustainable initiatives in the supply chain during COVID- 19 pandemic outbreak in India: A case study. Research in Transportation Economics, 93, 101114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2021.101114

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected the supply chain all over. A major challenge for the supply chain (SC) is to address this disruption risk and bring sustainability to SC. The objective of this paper is to identify the stakeho... Read More about Issues and analysis of critical success factors for the sustainable initiatives in the supply chain during COVID- 19 pandemic outbreak in India: A case study.

Assessing the environmental impacts of agrifood production (2021)
Journal Article
Jirapornvaree, I., Suppadit, T., & Kumar, V. (2022). Assessing the environmental impacts of agrifood production. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 24, 1099–1112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-021-02153-5

Agriculture, forestry, and other land use approximately contribute to 24 percent of 2010 global greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. This study, therefore, focuses on assessing the environmental impacts of jasmine rice production. The life cycle assessme... Read More about Assessing the environmental impacts of agrifood production.

Examining the impact of Brexit on supply chain risk management: Evidence from the UK manufacturing sector (2021)
Journal Article
Jucyte, A., Kumar, V., & Ruan, X. (2021). Examining the impact of Brexit on supply chain risk management: Evidence from the UK manufacturing sector. International Journal of Organizational Business Excellence, 4(1), 41-62

The 2016 Brexit Referendum in the UK resulted in a withdrawal from the EU that has brought a lot of uncertainty to the supply chains (SC) in the manufacturing sector. The manufacturing sector that operates in a highly integrated EU market and relies... Read More about Examining the impact of Brexit on supply chain risk management: Evidence from the UK manufacturing sector.

Broken chocolate: Biomarkers as a method for delivering cocoa supply chain visibility (2021)
Journal Article
Lafargue, P., Rogerson, M., Parry, G. C., & Allainguillaume, J. (2022). Broken chocolate: Biomarkers as a method for delivering cocoa supply chain visibility. Supply Chain Management, 27(6), 728-741. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-11-2020-0583

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.

O-129 Lactobacillus deplete vaginal microbial composition is associated with chromosomally normal miscarriage and local inflammation (2021)
Journal Article
Grewal, K., Lee, Y., Smith, A., Brosens, J., Al-Memar, M., Bourne, T., …Bennett, P. (2021). O-129 Lactobacillus deplete vaginal microbial composition is associated with chromosomally normal miscarriage and local inflammation. Human Reproduction, 36(Supplement_1), https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deab126.054

Study question To investigate the vaginal microbial composition and the local immune response in chromosomally normal and abnormal miscarriages and compare this to uncomplicated pregnancies delivering at term. Summary answer We show that euploid... Read More about O-129 Lactobacillus deplete vaginal microbial composition is associated with chromosomally normal miscarriage and local inflammation.

A data-driven life-cycle optimisation approach for building retrofitting: A comprehensive assessment on economy, energy and environment (2021)
Journal Article
Luo, X. J., & Oyedele, L. O. (2021). A data-driven life-cycle optimisation approach for building retrofitting: A comprehensive assessment on economy, energy and environment. Journal of Building Engineering, 43, Article 102934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102934

A novel data-driven life-cycle optimisation approach is proposed for building retrofitting. The innovation points include big-data information, integrated retrofitting design, and life-cycle optimisation through a comprehensive assessment of the econ... Read More about A data-driven life-cycle optimisation approach for building retrofitting: A comprehensive assessment on economy, energy and environment.

Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed? (2021)
Journal Article
Jraisat, L., Upadhyay, A., Ghalia, T., Jresseit, M., Kumar, V., & Sarpong, D. (2023). Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed?. International Journal of Production Research, 61(14), 4725-4741. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1936263

This research explores focal actors and their dyads, addressing their sustainable collaboration in triads and its relevance in the agri-triads that share information along the supply chains. We employ a multiple-case approach and presents two triads... Read More about Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed?.

Digital Twins for the built environment: Learning from conceptual and process models in manufacturing (2021)
Journal Article
Davila Delgado, J. M., & Oyedele, L. (2021). Digital Twins for the built environment: Learning from conceptual and process models in manufacturing. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 49, Article 101332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101332

The overall aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the Digital Twin (DT) paradigm in the built environment by drawing inspiration from existing DT research in manufacturing. The DT is a Product Life Management information con... Read More about Digital Twins for the built environment: Learning from conceptual and process models in manufacturing.

Personality and motives for social media use when physically distanced: A uses and gratifications approach (2021)
Journal Article
Bowden-Green, T., Hinds, J., & Joinson, A. (2021). Personality and motives for social media use when physically distanced: A uses and gratifications approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 607948. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.607948

This paper explores individuals’ motives for using social media when living under ‘social distancing’ conditions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, where they were instructed to physically distance from other people. Adopting a ‘uses and gratifica... Read More about Personality and motives for social media use when physically distanced: A uses and gratifications approach.

The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification (2021)
Journal Article
Chen, J., & Cooper-Thomas, H. D. (2021). The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 36(5), 461-473. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-05-2020-0253

Purpose: With organizations hiring from increasingly diverse labor markets, this study aims to examine the implications of newcomers’ individual differentiation for their group identification. The paper proposes and tests a self-verification process... Read More about The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification.