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The value of information sharing: Impact of inventory policy, pricing decision, and product substitution (2018)
Book Chapter
Duong, L. N. K. (2018). The value of information sharing: Impact of inventory policy, pricing decision, and product substitution. In Contemporary Approaches and Strategies for Applied Logistics (284-301). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5273-4.ch011

This chapter proposes a model to study the effects of inventory policy, pricing decision, and product substitution on the value of information sharing. The value of information sharing has been studied widely in the literature. To simplify models, pr... Read More about The value of information sharing: Impact of inventory policy, pricing decision, and product substitution.

Transparency and the gender pay gap (2018)
Book Chapter
Conley, H., & Torbus, U. (2019). Transparency and the gender pay gap. In H. Conley, D. Gottardi, G. Healy, & B. Mikolajczyk (Eds.), The Gender Pay Gap and Social Prtnership in Europe: Findings from "Close the Deal, Fill the Gap". Abingdon: Routledge

Transparency is central to the concept of equal pay since, without it, equality or the lack of it cannot be established. Despite this seemingly obvious logic there remains a failure in social, economic and legal systems to deliver transparent pay sy... Read More about Transparency and the gender pay gap.

National frameworks and the gender pay gap in Italy, Poland and the UK: Comparing oranges with apples? (2018)
Book Chapter
Conley, H., Mattei, A., Torbus, U., & Joanna, N. (2019). National frameworks and the gender pay gap in Italy, Poland and the UK: Comparing oranges with apples?. In H. Conley, D. Gottardi, G. Healy, M. Barbara, & P. Marco (Eds.), The Gender Pay Gap and Social Prtnership in Europe: Findings from "Close the Deal, Fill the Gap". Abingdon: Routledge

This chapter considers the legal, economic and industrial relations context with reference to the three countries on which the research focuses: Italy, Poland and the UK. As the title of the chapter suggests, drawing on Locke and Thelen’s (1995) sem... Read More about National frameworks and the gender pay gap in Italy, Poland and the UK: Comparing oranges with apples?.

Decentralisation and the gender pay gap in the UK context: Case studies (2018)
Book Chapter
Coney, H., Healy, G., Martins, P., & Warren, S. (2019). Decentralisation and the gender pay gap in the UK context: Case studies. In D. Gottardi, G. Healy, B. Mikolajczyk, M. Peruzzi, & H. Conley (Eds.), The Gender Pay Gap and Social Prtnership in Europe: Findings from "Close the Deal, Fill the Gap". Routledge

This chapter considers the UK case from the perspective of local government, financial services sector and rail (infrastructure) sector. Following the aims of the ‘Close the Deal, Fill the Gap’ project, this UK-focused chapter considers the interacti... Read More about Decentralisation and the gender pay gap in the UK context: Case studies.

Entrepreneurship education service and socioeconomic development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
Book Chapter
Anosike, P., Kolade, O., & Ahmed, P. (2018). Entrepreneurship education service and socioeconomic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In E. Wamboye, & P. Nyaronga (Eds.), The Service Sector and Economic Development in Africa (131-144). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315627373-8

This chapter provides a descriptive analysis and implications of entrepreneurship education as a pathway to raising the human capital of hitherto excluded groups in conflict zones in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The findings reveal that inadequate human... Read More about Entrepreneurship education service and socioeconomic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Spatial organisation and movements of firms and industries: the role of firm and place in (re)location research (2018)
Book Chapter
Capik, P., & Dej, M. (2018). Spatial organisation and movements of firms and industries: the role of firm and place in (re)location research. In P. Capik, & M. Dej (Eds.), Relocation of Economic Activity: Contemporary Theory and Practice in Local, Regional and Global Perspectives, (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92282-9_1

With the onset of globalisation and ever more progressive liberalisation of international trade and investment regimes, the spatial distribution of firms and economic activities within countries and worldwide is continuously changing. In recent decad... Read More about Spatial organisation and movements of firms and industries: the role of firm and place in (re)location research.

Facilitating students’ (doctoral) transition to the workplace: A critical review (2018)
Book Chapter
Upadhyay, A., Kumar, V., & Garza-Reyes, J. (2019). Facilitating students’ (doctoral) transition to the workplace: A critical review. In H. Bui, H. Nguyen, & D. Cole (Eds.), Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability. London: Routledge

The recent ongoing changes to the UK higher education sector have put immense pressure on both academics and students. Where academics are working hard to enhance the quality of the educational product, students, on the other hand, are struggling wit... Read More about Facilitating students’ (doctoral) transition to the workplace: A critical review.

Transitions from higher education to employment among recent graduates in England: Unequal chances of achieving desired possible selves (2018)
Book Chapter
Papafilippou, V., & Bathmaker, A. (2018). Transitions from higher education to employment among recent graduates in England: Unequal chances of achieving desired possible selves. In H. Henderson, J. Stevenson, & A. Bathmaker (Eds.), Possible Selves and Higher Education (111-126). London: Routledge

This chapter uses the concept of possible selves to examine processes of making the transition from undergraduate study to the world of work in England, focusing specifically on career futures in the accountancy sector. Inequalities in access to high... Read More about Transitions from higher education to employment among recent graduates in England: Unequal chances of achieving desired possible selves.

Cake and the open plan office: A foodscape of work through a Lefebvrian lens (2018)
Book Chapter
Shortt, H. (2018). Cake and the open plan office: A foodscape of work through a Lefebvrian lens. In V. Wasserman, K. Dale, & S. Kingma (Eds.), Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies. London: Routledge

This chapter puts food on the workplace menu and explores the interconnectedness of food, work, people and space using Lefebvre’s spatial triad framework (1991) and considers how the social production of space and the micro-geographies of the workpla... Read More about Cake and the open plan office: A foodscape of work through a Lefebvrian lens.

Crowdsourcing, co-creation and crowdfunding in the video-game industry (2018)
Book Chapter
Al-Ghamdi, D., Nisar, T., Prabhakar, G. P., & Strakova, L. (2018). Crowdsourcing, co-creation and crowdfunding in the video-game industry. In D. Khuong Nguyen, S. Boubaker, & D. Cumming (Eds.), Handbook of Finance and Sustainability. Cheltenham, GB: Edward Elgar

Crowdsourcing, co-creation and crowdfunding in the video-game industry

Of course, trust is not the whole story: Narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration (2018)
Book Chapter
Seanor, P. (2018). Of course, trust is not the whole story: Narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration. In P. Dey, & C. Steyaert (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship An affirmative critique (159-181). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

The chapter questions the adequacy of academic narratives which frame trust in univocally positive terms by conceiving it as an essential lubricant in cooperative relations between social enterprises and government. Based on interviews with social en... Read More about Of course, trust is not the whole story: Narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration.

Dis-United Kingdom? Leadership at a crossroads (2018)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R., & Witzel, M. (2018). Dis-United Kingdom? Leadership at a crossroads. In S. Western, & E. Garcia (Eds.), Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis. London: Sage Publications

This chapter summarises the nature of leadership in the UK, main influences and future trends and challenges.

A space on the side of the road: Creating a space for a critical approach to entrepreneurship (2018)
Book Chapter
Seanor, P. (2018). A space on the side of the road: Creating a space for a critical approach to entrepreneurship. In K. Berglund, & K. Verduijn (Eds.), Revitalizing entrepreneurship education Adopting a critical approach in the classroom (99-118). London and New York: Routledge

Stories of teaching a critical approach to entrepreneurship to undergraduates

The seven unsustainabilities of mainstream leadership (2018)
Book Chapter
Bendell, J., Little, R., & Sutherland, N. (2018). The seven unsustainabilities of mainstream leadership. In B. Redekop, D. Gallagher, & R. Satterwhite (Eds.), Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical Perspectives (25-48). London: Routledge

Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from arou... Read More about The seven unsustainabilities of mainstream leadership.