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The potential link between corporate innovations and corporate competitiveness: Evidence from IT firms in the UK (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough empirical investigation of the potential link between corporate innovations and corporate competitiveness in the context of the UK IT industry. Design/methodology/approach: This research use... Read More about The potential link between corporate innovations and corporate competitiveness: Evidence from IT firms in the UK.

Performance measurement for supply chains in the industry 4.0 era: A balanced scorecard approach (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical approach based on the balanced scorecard (BSC) with regard to performance measurement – PM in supply chains for the Industry 4.0 era. Design/methodology/approach: This paper combines the... Read More about Performance measurement for supply chains in the industry 4.0 era: A balanced scorecard approach.

Crowdfunding innovations in emerging economies: Risk and credit control in peer-to-peer lending network platforms (2020)
Journal Article

Peer‐to‐peer (P2P) lending has emerged as a network form of crowdfunding that facilitates the loan originations outside the traditional banking model. In China, the combination of imperfect financial development and Internet technology has led to the... Read More about Crowdfunding innovations in emerging economies: Risk and credit control in peer-to-peer lending network platforms.

Benchmarking of cleaner production in sand mould casting companies (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to develop new sustainability indicators consistent with the sand mould casting industry, through benchmarking of cleaner production (CP), in order to identify the levels of practice and performance of compan... Read More about Benchmarking of cleaner production in sand mould casting companies.

Mechanisms of micro-terror? Early career CMS academics’ experiences of ‘targets and terror’ in contemporary business schools (2020)
Journal Article

In this article, we apply the concept of ‘targets and terror’, previously used in the healthcare sector, to the audit culture within business schools. We explore to what extent terror, or the inculcation of fear through processes of domination, is id... Read More about Mechanisms of micro-terror? Early career CMS academics’ experiences of ‘targets and terror’ in contemporary business schools.

Two-stage capacity optimization approach of multi-energy system considering its optimal operation (2020)
Journal Article

With the depletion of fossil fuel and climate change, multi-energy systems have attracted widespread attention in buildings. Multi-energy systems, fuelled by renewable energy, including solar and biomass energy, are gaining increasing adoption in com... Read More about Two-stage capacity optimization approach of multi-energy system considering its optimal operation.

BIM data model requirements for asset monitoring and the circular economy (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review and provide recommendations to extend the current open standard data models for describing monitoring systems and circular economy precepts for built assets. Open sta... Read More about BIM data model requirements for asset monitoring and the circular economy.

Inventory management of perishable health products: A decision framework with non-financial measures (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: This research proposes a decision framework for using non-financial measures to define a replenishment policy for perishable health products. These products are perishable and substitutable by nature and create complexities for managing inve... Read More about Inventory management of perishable health products: A decision framework with non-financial measures.

Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation (2020)
Journal Article

Service-dominant logic maintains that value is created collaboratively through a process of resource integration. Knowledge-intensive business services, the context for this study, are heavily dependent on customer resources for the fulfilment of the... Read More about Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation.

3D pattern identification approach for cooling load profiles in different buildings (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Building energy conservation has gained increasing concern owing to its large portion of energy consumption and great potential of energy saving. In-depth understanding of representative patterns of daily cooling load profile will... Read More about 3D pattern identification approach for cooling load profiles in different buildings.

Learning orientation and innovation performance: The mediating role of operations strategy and supply chain integration (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of operations strategy (cost, quality, flexibility, and delivery) and supply chain integration on innovation performance under influence of learning orientation. Design/Methodology/appro... Read More about Learning orientation and innovation performance: The mediating role of operations strategy and supply chain integration.

Testing the data platforms required for the 21st century food system using an industry ecosystem approach (2020)
Journal Article

Testing the planning of resource utilisation across food supply chains provides sustainability and security reporting that can resonate with consumer requirements. The research reported here demonstrates this approach for fast throughput convenience... Read More about Testing the data platforms required for the 21st century food system using an industry ecosystem approach.

Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective (2020)
Journal Article

This article contributes to the growing body of literature developed within the leadership-as-practice perspective, focusing on issues of learning and power. It draws on a co-constructed (auto)ethnographic account of an individual’s longitudinal expe... Read More about Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective.

A systematic literature review on machine learning applications for sustainable agriculture supply chain performance (2020)
Journal Article

Agriculture plays an important role in sustaining all human activities. Major challenges such as overpopulation, competition for resources poses a threat to the food security of the planet. In order to tackle the ever-increasing complex problems in a... Read More about A systematic literature review on machine learning applications for sustainable agriculture supply chain performance.

Optimised Big Data analytics for health and safety hazards prediction in power infrastructure operations (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Forecasting imminent accidents in power infrastructure projects require a robust and accurate prediction model to trigger a proactive strategy for risk mitigation. Unfortunately, getting ready-made machine learning algorithms to e... Read More about Optimised Big Data analytics for health and safety hazards prediction in power infrastructure operations.

Change within the change: Pregnancy, liminality and adventure tourism in Mexico (2020)
Journal Article

Despite the growing number of pregnant women engaging in outdoor adventure activities, very few studies have explored pregnancy or the specific needs and challenges of pregnant women in tourism research. To fill this gap in the literature, we examine... Read More about Change within the change: Pregnancy, liminality and adventure tourism in Mexico.

Value co-destruction: Exploring the role of actors’ opportunism in the B2B context (2020)
Journal Article

This exploratory study investigates value co-destruction in the Business-to-Business (B2B) context and examines the impact of actors’ opportunistic behaviour on value co-creation. The research undertakes an in-depth case study based approach. It uses... Read More about Value co-destruction: Exploring the role of actors’ opportunism in the B2B context.

Big Data with deep learning for benchmarking profitability performance in project tendering (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 A reliable benchmarking system is crucial for the contractors to evaluate the profitability performance of project tenders. Existing benchmarks are ineffective in the tender evaluation task for three reasons. Firstly, these benchmarks are most... Read More about Big Data with deep learning for benchmarking profitability performance in project tendering.

Drivers and challenges associated with the implementation of big data within UK facilities management sector: An exploratory factor analysis approach (2020)
Journal Article

The recent advances in Internet of Things (IoT), computational analytics, processing power, and assimilation of Big Data (BD) are playing an important role in revolutionizing maintenance and operations regimes within the wider facilities management (... Read More about Drivers and challenges associated with the implementation of big data within UK facilities management sector: An exploratory factor analysis approach.

The paradox of success and failure: Challenges in a complex, project-based world (2020)
Journal Article

Continuing our series of articles looking at some of challenges effecting businesses, Moon Executive Search talks to Svetlana Cicmil, Director of Doctoral Research in Business and Law at UWE, about the paradox of success and failure in the context of... Read More about The paradox of success and failure: Challenges in a complex, project-based world.