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Towards a model of emergency department congestion (2017)
Journal Article

© Copyright 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. The purpose of this paper is to examine the flow of patients through the emergency department of a large suburban acute general hospital and the factors that influence overcrowding and congestion. The pa... Read More about Towards a model of emergency department congestion.

Grounded Visual Pattern Analysis: Photographs in Organizational Field Studies (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. Visual methodologies for researching organizational life have grown in popularity over the past decade, with conceptual and methodological foundations now well documented. However, analytical critique has not kept pace, and so i... Read More about Grounded Visual Pattern Analysis: Photographs in Organizational Field Studies.

An investigation into the development of the absorptive capacity of manufacturing SMEs (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. To sustain their competitive advantage in a highly competitive landscape, SMEs, in spite of their limited resources, need to effectively learn. The ability to access and successfully use... Read More about An investigation into the development of the absorptive capacity of manufacturing SMEs.

Demand Side Management potentials for mitigating energy poverty in South Africa (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd South Africa is severally posited to be Africa's most industrialized nation with an economy heavily reliant on energy. With depleted electricity reserve margin which led to massive load shedding and rationing of electricity in 200... Read More about Demand Side Management potentials for mitigating energy poverty in South Africa.

Development of multi-supply-multi-demand control strategy for combined cooling, heating and power system primed with solid oxide fuel cell-gas turbine (2017)
Journal Article

Combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) system with the prime mover set of solid oxide fuel cell-gas turbine (SOFC-GT) would feature with high electrical efficiency, but contain the highly coupled equipment units for cooling, heating and electrici... Read More about Development of multi-supply-multi-demand control strategy for combined cooling, heating and power system primed with solid oxide fuel cell-gas turbine.

Lean readiness – the case of the European pharmaceutical manufacturing industry (2017)
Journal Article

© 2018, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the quality practices of European pharmaceutical manufacturers to determine the level of readiness of this industrial sector to implement and/or sustain lean manufa... Read More about Lean readiness – the case of the European pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.

In the car on the M4 - my transitory dwelling place, my space in-between (2017)
Journal Article

As Work Wise Commute Smart Week comes to a close, I thought I might write a piece that, I hope, will raise some thoughts and reflections about how and why our commutes might offer a space for escape and freedom. Taking a critical, analytical view her... Read More about In the car on the M4 - my transitory dwelling place, my space in-between.

Gendered transitions, career identities and possible selves: the case of engineering graduates (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article, drawing upon the Paired Peers project, a longitudinal qualitative study (n=90), examines how seven UK engineering graduates, four women and three men, construct their caree... Read More about Gendered transitions, career identities and possible selves: the case of engineering graduates.

Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: Interpreting farmers’ agricultural production decisions using Q methodology (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The agricultural sector in Lao PDR is forecast to move from subsistence rice production to a more modernized and market-oriented sector with greater focus on commercialization of agricultural production. Intensification of agricultural product... Read More about Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: Interpreting farmers’ agricultural production decisions using Q methodology.

Exploring the key drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking services (2017)
Journal Article

This research examines the main drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking, a concept that has revolutionized the day-to-day activities of humans. A review of relevant literature on the topic, leads us toward testing the following key hypotheses:... Read More about Exploring the key drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking services.

Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s) The aim of this study is to develop a BIM-based Whole-life Performance Estimator (BWPE) for appraising the salvage performance of structural components of buildings right from the design stage. A review of the extant literature w... Read More about Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator.

What factors determine e-satisfaction and consumer spending in e-commerce retailing? (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Evidently, the Internet has resulted in a fundamental shift in retailing practice, creating a shift in both consumer and business behavior, which has been compared to that of the Industrial Revolution. The purpose of this paper is... Read More about What factors determine e-satisfaction and consumer spending in e-commerce retailing?.

Systematic review of bankruptcy prediction models: Towards a framework for tool selection (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The bankruptcy prediction research domain continues to evolve with many new different predictive models developed using various tools. Yet many of the tools are used with the wrong data conditions or for the wrong situation. Using... Read More about Systematic review of bankruptcy prediction models: Towards a framework for tool selection.

Achieving wider impact in business and management: analysing the case studies from REF 2014 (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © 2017 Society for Research into Higher Education. Universities, across the globe, are increasingly judged on social and economic impact. An important initiative in the UK is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which assessed the wi... Read More about Achieving wider impact in business and management: analysing the case studies from REF 2014.

The challenges of police-community collaboration: identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The turn to collaborative governance is a key feature of the New Public Governance environment in many Western economies. Within the UK, successive governments have mandated poli... Read More about The challenges of police-community collaboration: identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting.

The influences of cleanliness and employee attributes on perceived service quality in restaurants in a developing country (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the service quality of full-service restaurants in Vietnam to explore possible factors that may impact customer perception, which subsequently influences custo... Read More about The influences of cleanliness and employee attributes on perceived service quality in restaurants in a developing country.

Emotion in the ANDS (alternative nicotine delivery systems) market: Practice-theoretical insight into a volatile market (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose
The alternative nicotine delivery systems (ANDS) market is complex, with a range of multi-national and multi-sector stakeholders competing for market share but also clashing ideologically as the evidence about the impact and side-effects of... Read More about Emotion in the ANDS (alternative nicotine delivery systems) market: Practice-theoretical insight into a volatile market.

Clusters as platforms for internationalization (2017)
Journal Article

Business cooperation and the exchange of information and knowledge are actions and decisions that companies can take in order to compete more effectively in globalized markets. These options are even more relevant for small and medium size enterprise... Read More about Clusters as platforms for internationalization.

A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: On social media, images such as thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration, are shared to inspire certain body ideals. Previous research has demonstrated that exposure to these groups of content is associated wit... Read More about A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media.

Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Many smallholder farmers in Lao People’s Democratic Republic are transitioning from subsistence to commercial production. This article employs the Agriculture Innovation System (AIS) fra... Read More about Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic.