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Conceptualizing future labour markets (2014)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2014). Conceptualizing future labour markets. Journal of Critical Realism, 13(3), 233-260. https://doi.org/10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000029

© W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014. An enquiry into what future labour markets might look like is, necessarily, an enquiry into what future labour market institutions might look like. Any such enquiry requires a conceptual apparatus (i.e. theory, metathe... Read More about Conceptualizing future labour markets.

Conceptualizing Strategic Foresight: An Integrated Framework (2014)
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Paliokaitė, A., Pačėsa, N., & Sarpong, D. (2014). Conceptualizing Strategic Foresight: An Integrated Framework. Strategic Change, 23(3-4), 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.1968

Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd An integrative framework is proposed to generate a more complete picture of strategic foresight as an organizing capability in high-velocity environments.

The Organizing Dimensions of Strategic Foresight in High-Velocity Environments (2014)
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Sarpong, D., & O'Regan, N. (2014). The Organizing Dimensions of Strategic Foresight in High-Velocity Environments. Strategic Change, 23(3-4), 125-132. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.1965

Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Strategic foresight promotes the enactment of organizationally useful actions and repertoires which enhance the entrepreneurial capabilities of firms embedded in high-velocity environments.

Dreaming fairness and re-imagining equality and diversity through participative aesthetic inquiry (2014)
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Page, M., Grisoni, L., & Turner, A. (2014). Dreaming fairness and re-imagining equality and diversity through participative aesthetic inquiry. Management Learning, 45(5), 577-592. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507613486425

© The Author(s) 2013. This article presents the findings of a participative action research project into how arts-based inquiry can revitalise equality and diversity organisational practices. We demonstrate that the arts-based methodologies introduce... Read More about Dreaming fairness and re-imagining equality and diversity through participative aesthetic inquiry.

Oil well characterization and artificial gas lift optimization using neural networks combined with genetic algorithm (2014)
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Monyei, C., Adewumi, A. O., & Obolo, M. O. (2014). Oil well characterization and artificial gas lift optimization using neural networks combined with genetic algorithm. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2014, 289239. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/289239

This paper examines the characterization of six oil wells and the allocation of gas considering limited and unlimited case scenario. Artificial gas lift involves injecting high-pressured gas from the surface into the producing fluid column through on... Read More about Oil well characterization and artificial gas lift optimization using neural networks combined with genetic algorithm.

Top Managers and Information Systems: ‘Crossing the Rubicon!’ (2014)
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Loonam, J., McDonagh, J., Kumar, V., & O'Regan, N. (2014). Top Managers and Information Systems: ‘Crossing the Rubicon!’. Strategic Change, 23(3-4), 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.1971

Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Supporting information systems requires both thought and action, which managers should consider in a consistent roadmap before ‘crossing the Rubicon’ to adopt such systems.

Faith and Fair Trade: The Moderating Role of Contextual Religious Salience (2014)
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Alexander, E. A., Salvador, R. O., & Merchant, A. (2014). Faith and Fair Trade: The Moderating Role of Contextual Religious Salience. Journal of Business Ethics, 121(3), 353-371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1728-9

Normative and historical arguments support the idea that religion potentially shapes decisions to support fair trade products. That said, the question of how religion influences organizational decision-makers to purchase fair trade products in a busi... Read More about Faith and Fair Trade: The Moderating Role of Contextual Religious Salience.

The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor? (2014)
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Knox, D., & Hannam, K. (2014). The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor?. Tourism Recreation Research, 39(2), 236-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2014.11081769

The metaphor of the tourist as pilgrim and tourism as a pilgrimage has been an important idea in tourism studies, reproduced in both academic and popular accounts with varying degrees of criticality. This research probe considers a number of differen... Read More about The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor?.

Hybrid configurations of leadership in higher education employer engagement (2014)
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Bolden, R., & Petrov, G. (2014). Hybrid configurations of leadership in higher education employer engagement. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 36(4), 408-417. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2014.916465

Recent literature has emphasised the distributed nature of leadership in higher education (HE) and the multitude of actors and factors that contribute towards organisational outcomes. Gronn suggests, however, that rather than using such evidence to p... Read More about Hybrid configurations of leadership in higher education employer engagement.

Trade unions, equal pay and the law in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Conley, H. (2014). Trade unions, equal pay and the law in the UK. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 35(2), 309-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X13480410

Trade unions in the UK have traditionally followed a voluntarist strategy that has preferred collective bargaining and avoided the use of the law wherever possible. The exception to this has been in relation to the pursuit of equal pay between women... Read More about Trade unions, equal pay and the law in the UK.