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The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Predicting and designing out construction waste in real time is complex during building waste analysis (BWA) since it involves a large number of analyses for investigating multiple waste-efficient design strategies. These analyse... Read More about The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics.

Attention as a basis for thinking in groups (2017)
Book Chapter

In this contribution, which is taken from Chapter 1 of our book, 'Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An approach to working in groups using insights from Wilfred Bion' (Karnac, 2015), we outline the state of mind we talk of as attention. We make an imp... Read More about Attention as a basis for thinking in groups.

How is coaching perceived by leaders engaged in a global talent and leadership development programme? A single case study in the banking and financial services sector (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

This PhD study focuses on the role of coaching in a talent and leadership development programme in a multinational financial services organisation. Talent management (TM) and leadership development (LD) are the main priorities and amongst the most c... Read More about How is coaching perceived by leaders engaged in a global talent and leadership development programme? A single case study in the banking and financial services sector.

How humanizing learning can enhance a flipped classroom experience (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With all developments and ICT integration, the most valuable resource of today’s classroom remains to be the students and the teacher. They are the hotspots that transmit energy and elevate each one’s experiences. Planning and teaching delivery are i... Read More about How humanizing learning can enhance a flipped classroom experience.

Modeling of Curie temperature of manganite for magnetic refrigeration application using manual search and hybrid gravitational-based support vector regression (2017)
Journal Article

Magnetic refrigeration (MR) combines many unique features such as low cost, high efficiency and environmental friendliness which make it preferred to the conventional gas compression system of refrigeration. MR employs manganite-based material due to... Read More about Modeling of Curie temperature of manganite for magnetic refrigeration application using manual search and hybrid gravitational-based support vector regression.

Policy imperatives for diverting construction waste from landfill: Experts’ recommendations for UK policy expansion (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Legislation and fiscal policies have remained the key drivers of construction waste minimization. It has often been suggested that reducing waste to the landfill does not only require improvement on existing waste management polic... Read More about Policy imperatives for diverting construction waste from landfill: Experts’ recommendations for UK policy expansion.

The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. The problems of ‘lost in translation’ are well known. Yet some terms of English managerial vocabulary, which are perfectly translatable in other languages, remain untranslated. One explanation of this phenomenon is what... Read More about The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation.

Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we argue that one of the reasons of resisting the temptation of teaching what ‘we could do and perhaps should not do’ (Eco, 2014 [1980], 107) in university Business Schools is the emphasis on the application of theories to the exclus... Read More about Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing.

The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sustainability science suggests a core set of factors that foster significant change in governance, with leaders and entrepreneurs often identified as the main instigators. Discussions of leadership i... Read More about The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands.

Attributes of design for construction waste minimization: A case study of waste-to-energy project (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Despite the consensus that waste efficient design is important for reducing waste generated by construction and demolition activities, design strategies for actual waste mitigation remain unclear. In addition, decisive roles requi... Read More about Attributes of design for construction waste minimization: A case study of waste-to-energy project.

Individual differences in susceptibility to online influence: A theoretical review (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors Scams and other malicious attempts to influence people are continuing to proliferate across the globe, aided by the availability of technology that makes it increasingly easy to create communications that appear to come from legiti... Read More about Individual differences in susceptibility to online influence: A theoretical review.

Editorial (2017)
Journal Article

Historically, profitability and efficiency, and more recently, customer satisfaction, quality, and responsiveness, have been the dominant concern for organisations (Green Jr. et al., 2012; Mohanty et al. 1999). In this line, ‘Lean’ and ‘Six Sigma’ ha... Read More about Editorial.

US/Mexico borderland communities: Organising resilience with wall, bridges and other artefacts (2017)
Other

A BBC interview with Dr Gaggiotti to discuss his research findings on the impact of Trump administration policies in US-Mexico borderland communities.

Adolescent self-harm in the community: An update on prevalence using a self-report survey of adolescents aged 13-18 in England (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. Background To establish an estimate of prevalence in a nationally representative sample of community adolescents. To examine associati... Read More about Adolescent self-harm in the community: An update on prevalence using a self-report survey of adolescents aged 13-18 in England.

Investigating the green impact of Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma: A systematic literature review (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The academic literature and research lines exploring the effect of quality improvement methods on environmental performance still remain in early stages. The purpose of this paper is therefore to investi... Read More about Investigating the green impact of Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma: A systematic literature review.

Offshoring of advanced services: A microfoundations perspective (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the link between services offshoring strategy and its outcomes for the firm by developing a theoretical framework for examining the role of employee motivation in the implementation of services offshor... Read More about Offshoring of advanced services: A microfoundations perspective.

The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. This article seeks to add to our understanding of processes of identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations through an exploration of the role of the absent, feminised follower. We situate our... Read More about The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations.

Being an Early-Career CMS Academic in the Context of Insecurity and ‘Excellence’: The Dialectics of Resistance and Compliance (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Drawing on a dialectical approach to resistance, we conceptualise the latter as a multifaceted, pervasive and contradictory phenomenon. This enables us to examine the predicament in which early-career Critical Management... Read More about Being an Early-Career CMS Academic in the Context of Insecurity and ‘Excellence’: The Dialectics of Resistance and Compliance.

Co-creating value: Through the gate and beyond (2017)
Report

Under the government’s “Transforming Rehabilitation – A Strategy for Reform” the work of the probation service moves into private organisational hands with the aim of providing more scope for innovation. This project asks not what service can be prov... Read More about Co-creating value: Through the gate and beyond.

Editorial (2017)
Journal Article

Editorial to special issue