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‘We achieve the impossible’: Discourses of freedom and escape at music festivals and free parties (2016)
Journal Article
Griffin, C., Bengry-Howell, A., Riley, S., Morey, Y., & Szmigin, I. (2018). ‘We achieve the impossible’: Discourses of freedom and escape at music festivals and free parties. Journal of Consumer Culture, 18(4), 477-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540516684187

© The Author(s) 2016. In this article, we explore the notion of freedom as a form of governance within contemporary consumer culture in a sphere where ‘freedom’ appears as a key component: outdoor music-based leisure events, notably music festivals a... Read More about ‘We achieve the impossible’: Discourses of freedom and escape at music festivals and free parties.

Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors (2016)
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Alaka, H. A., Oyedele, L. O., Owolabi, H. A., Bilal, M., Ajayi, S. O., & Akinade, O. O. (2017). Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 143(3), 04016026. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EI.1943-5541.0000321

© 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction industry insolvency studies have failed to stem the industry's high insolvency tide because many focus on big civil engineering firms (CEF) when over 90% of firms in the industry are small or m... Read More about Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors.

Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM (2016)
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Delgado, J. M., Davila Delgado, J., Butler, L. J., Gibbons, N., Brilakis, I., Elshafie, M. Z., & Middleton, C. (2017). Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM. Proceedings of the ICE - Bridge Engineering, 170(3), 204-218. https://doi.org/10.1680/jbren.16.00013

© 2016 Published with permission by the ICE under the CC-BY licence. In addition to the traditional benefits associated with the installation of structural health monitoring systems, reductions in construction, operational and maintenance costs, and... Read More about Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM.

Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities (2016)
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Sutherland, N. (2018). Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities. Leadership, 14(3), 263-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715016676446

© 2016, The Author(s). Whilst recent years have seen increasingly ethnographic-focussed writings in Organisation Studies, similar developments have not been mirrored within Leadership Studies, where the field is still dominated by positivistic approa... Read More about Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities.

Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative (2016)
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Brannan, M., Fleetwood, S., Mahoney, J., & Vincent, S. (2017). Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative. Human Relations, 70(1), 11-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726716674063

Meta-analysis has proved increasingly popular in management and organization studies as a way of combining existing empirical quantitative research to generate a statistical estimate of how strongly variables are associated. Whilst a number of studie... Read More about Critical Essay: Meta-analysis: A critical realist critique and alternative.

Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability (2016)
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Wilton, N., Jackson, D., & Wilton, N. (2017). Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability. Journal of Education and Work, 30(5), 552-569. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2016.1255314

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study examines the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability on career choice status (CCS) among undergraduates. Making informed and appropriate career... Read More about Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability.

Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects (2016)
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Ajayi, S. O., Oyedele, L. O., Bilal, M., Akinade, O. O., Alaka, H. A., & Owolabi, H. A. (2017). Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects. Waste Management, 59, 330-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2016.10.040

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd As a result of increasing recognition of effective site management as the strategic approach for achieving the required performance in construction projects, this study seeks to identify the key site management practices that are... Read More about Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects.

SMEs, banks and the spatial differentiation of access to finance (2016)
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Zhao, T., & Jones-Evans, D. (2017). SMEs, banks and the spatial differentiation of access to finance. Journal of Economic Geography, 17(4), 791-824. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbw029

© The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press. By utilizing the SME Finance Monitor and a unique dataset on the geographical location of all bank branches in 11 UK economic regions, this paper examines the relevance of spatial differentia... Read More about SMEs, banks and the spatial differentiation of access to finance.

Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language (2016)
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Schedlitzki, D., Edwards, G., & While, G. (2017). Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language. European Management Review, 14(1), 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12087

© 2016 European Academy of Management Adopting a multilingual perspective, this empirical paper explores the varied use and meanings of referents of leadership and management among 24 Welsh senior managers. We argue the importance of recognizing the... Read More about Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language.

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices? (2016)
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Kornelakis, A., Veliziotis, M., & Voskeritsian, H. (2017). How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(21), 2957-2976. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1233445

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The recent Eurozone crisis has reinvigorated neoliberal policies and brought to the fore an academic and policy debate over the deregulation of employment relations’ institutions ‘in the... Read More about How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?.

Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard (2016)
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O’Regan, N., Bolden, R., & O'Regan, N. (2016). Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard. Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(4), 438-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492616638173

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Unprecedented changes in the nature and prevalence of digital technology have significant implications for leadership theory, practice, and development that, as yet, remain largely unexplored in mainstream academic liter... Read More about Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard.

Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level (2016)
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Zhang, Q., MacKenzie, N. G., Jones-Evans, D., & Huggins, R. (2016). Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level. Small Business Economics, 47(3), 657-675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9759-0

© 2016, The Author(s). Universities are no longer considered to be isolated islands of knowledge, but as institutions increasingly engaged with a range of external partners through entrepreneurial activities. This paper examines the associations betw... Read More about Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level.

Ensemble of one-class classifiers for personal risk detection based on wearable sensor data (2016)
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Rodríguez, J., Barrera-Animas, A. Y., Trejo, L. A., Medina-Pérez, M. A., & Monroy, R. (2016). Ensemble of one-class classifiers for personal risk detection based on wearable sensor data. Sensors, 16(10), Article 1619. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16101619

This study introduces the One-Class K-means with Randomly-projected features Algorithm (OCKRA). OCKRA is an ensemble of one-class classifiers built over multiple projections of a dataset according to random feature subsets. Algorithms found in the li... Read More about Ensemble of one-class classifiers for personal risk detection based on wearable sensor data.

Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics (2016)
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Wilton, N., Jackson, D., & Wilton, N. (2017). Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics. Higher Education Research and Development, 36(4), 747-762. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1229270

© 2016 HERDSA. Underemployment, continued growth in the supply of graduates and seemingly perpetual instability are dominant trends in graduate labour markets. In order to negotiate an increasingly complex career terrain, graduates require sharpened... Read More about Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics.

Implementing smart specialisation roadmaps in Lithuania: Lost in translation? (2016)
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Paliokaitė, A., Martinaitis, Ž., & Sarpong, D. (2016). Implementing smart specialisation roadmaps in Lithuania: Lost in translation?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 110, 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.01.005

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The study of Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) and how they translate into policy decisions and practice has gained pace in the last decade. In this paper, we present a case study on the application of FTA methods for ent... Read More about Implementing smart specialisation roadmaps in Lithuania: Lost in translation?.

Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice (2016)
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Hill, B., & Lai, A. L. (2016). Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice. Journal of Marketing Management, 32(13-14), 1284-1307. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2016.1170719

© 2016 Westburn Publishers Ltd. This article explores how social class is linguistically negotiated and contested in parental narratives of school choice in the British education marketplace. Our study reveals prevalent yet obscured vestiges of ‘clas... Read More about Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice.

Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider (2016)
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Bradley, P., Coke, A., & Leach, M. (2016). Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider. Energy Policy, 98, 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.07.022

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Whilst tariff-based approaches to load-shifting are common in the residential sector, incentive-based approaches are rare. This is so, even though providing customers incentives to shape their power consumption patterns has substa... Read More about Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider.

Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills (2016)
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Akinade, O. O., Oyedele, L. O., Ajayi, S. O., Bilal, M., Alaka, H. A., Owolabi, H. A., …Kadiri, K. O. (2017). Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills. Waste Management, 60, 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2016.08.017

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The aim of this paper is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) needed for effective material recovery through Design for Deconstruction (DfD). The research approach employed in this paper is based on a sequential exploratory... Read More about Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills.

Making the ‘third stream’, mainstream: Facilitating effective higher education-employer engagement in workforce development (2016)
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Petrov, G., Southall, J., & Bolden, R. (2016). Making the ‘third stream’, mainstream: Facilitating effective higher education-employer engagement in workforce development. Higher Education Review -London-,

In the past decade successive UK governments have placed a strong emphasis on, and renewed interest in, the role of higher education in skills development. In the light of recent skills policy developments in England and drawing upon the findings of... Read More about Making the ‘third stream’, mainstream: Facilitating effective higher education-employer engagement in workforce development.