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Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture (2018)
Journal Article
Frenzel, F., Case, P., Sedgwick, M. W., & Kumar, A. (2018). Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 18(3), 577-604

Despite earlier neglect, International Development (ID) has begun to receive some attention from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) community over the last two decades. This paper reviews existing CMS work that engages with ID and outlines directi... Read More about Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture.

Innovation diffusion in healthcare networks: The role of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers in a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Phillips, W., Okeke, U., Roehrich, J., & Conway, S. (2018, September). Innovation diffusion in healthcare networks: The role of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers in a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2018, UWE Bristol

Summary This paper investigates the roles of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers during the diffusion of innovation where a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion has been employed, presenting the results of an in-depth investigation of a compl... Read More about Innovation diffusion in healthcare networks: The role of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers in a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion.

Evolution of leadership vision in digital transformation of organisations (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Grenham, A., & Mitra, A. (2018, September). Evolution of leadership vision in digital transformation of organisations. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2018, UWE Bristol

Capacity of organisations to respond to digital opportunities and challenges is often their competitive differentiator. Recent research points to the advent of complex challenges due to digital transformation of organisations. Despite the rise in the... Read More about Evolution of leadership vision in digital transformation of organisations.

Investigating the benefits and challenges of Total Quality Management implementation in the pharmaceutical companies (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Petliushenko, K., Kumar, V., Zwiegelaar, J., Loonam, J., & Garza-Reyes, J. (2018, September). Investigating the benefits and challenges of Total Quality Management implementation in the pharmaceutical companies. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2018, UWE Bristol, England

Pharmaceutical companies in Eastern European region are facing urgent quality tools implementation due to fierce global competition. The aim of this research is to provide current understanding of TQM in this region and provide further guidance on h... Read More about Investigating the benefits and challenges of Total Quality Management implementation in the pharmaceutical companies.

Organisational learning and consumer learning in foreign markets: A case study of IKEA in Japan (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Nguyen, T., Cai, Y., & Evans, A. (2018, September). Organisational learning and consumer learning in foreign markets: A case study of IKEA in Japan. Paper presented at The British Academy of Management 2018 Conference, UWE Bristol, UK

Purpose The aim of this research is to explore the mutual relationship between organisational learning and consumer learning in internationalisation. We would like to build a model on dyadic knowledge management in foreign markets and apply the fram... Read More about Organisational learning and consumer learning in foreign markets: A case study of IKEA in Japan.

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 (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Mangion-Thornley, K. (2018). 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. In BAM2018

This study focuses on the role of coaching in talent and leadership development programmes in a multinational financial services organisation. Talent management (TM) and leadership development (LD) are the main priorities and amongst the most challen... 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.

‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Pandeli, J. (2018, September). ‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2018, UWE Bristol, England

Based on the findings of a ten-month ethnography of prisoners incarcerated in a British prison, this paper addresses how prisoners negotiate between two divergent identities, the criminal self and the work self to manage stigma. Two categories of pri... Read More about ‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer.

Leadership Development For Public Service Mutuals - A Practical Guide (2018)
Report
Hawkins, B., Harvey, W., Bailey, A., Tourky, M., & Waters, H. (2018). Leadership Development For Public Service Mutuals - A Practical Guide. Department for Culture Media and Sport

This toolkit is designed for senior managers and leaders of organisations who are considering becoming, or who have recently emerged as Public Service Mutuals. Informed by the authors’ recent funded research on building capacity in mutuals, it will h... Read More about Leadership Development For Public Service Mutuals - A Practical Guide.

DAC leadership vs team effectiveness (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Ozadowicz, K. (2018, September). DAC leadership vs team effectiveness. Poster presented at BAM2018 Doctoral Symposium, University of the West of England, Bristol

Policy discussion for sustainable integrated electricity expansion in South Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Monyei, C., Jenkins, K. E., Viriri, S., & Adewumi, A. O. (2018). Policy discussion for sustainable integrated electricity expansion in South Africa. Energy Policy, 120, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.05.021

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Emerging reports have shown that despite Eskom's continued investment in increasing electricity supply capacity to grid connected and off-grid households, there has been a steady decline in electricity consumption (kWh/month/indiv... Read More about Policy discussion for sustainable integrated electricity expansion in South 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.

Relocation of Economic Activity: Contemporary Theory and Practice in Local, Regional and Global Perspectives (2018)
Book
Capik, P., & Dej, M. (2018). P. Capik, & M. Dej (Eds.). Relocation of Economic Activity: Contemporary Theory and Practice in Local, Regional and Global Perspectives. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92282-9

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019. All rights reserved. This timely volume provides a thorough analysis of current trends in location and relocation of economic activity globally, regionally and locally. Using robus... Read More about Relocation of Economic Activity: Contemporary Theory and Practice in Local, Regional and Global Perspectives.

Towards an efficient one-class classifier for mobile devices and wearable sensors on the context of personal risk detection (2018)
Journal Article
Trejo, L. A., & Barrera-Animas, A. Y. (2018). Towards an efficient one-class classifier for mobile devices and wearable sensors on the context of personal risk detection. Sensors, 18(9), Article 2857. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18092857

In this work, we present a first step towards an efficient one-class classifier well suited for mobile devices to be implemented as part of a user application coupled with wearable sensors in the context of personal risk detection. We compared one-cl... Read More about Towards an efficient one-class classifier for mobile devices and wearable sensors on the context of personal risk detection.

A lean-TOC approach for improving Emergency Medical Services (EMS) transport and logistics operations (2018)
Journal Article
Garza-Reyes, J. A., Villarreal, B., Kumar, V., & Diaz-Ramirez, J. (2019). A lean-TOC approach for improving Emergency Medical Services (EMS) transport and logistics operations. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 22(3), 253-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2018.1513997

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The improvement of transport and logistics performance of Emergency Medical Services (EMSs) systems has been mainly addressed through mathematical modelling, operations research,... Read More about A lean-TOC approach for improving Emergency Medical Services (EMS) transport and logistics operations.

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.

A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models (2018)
Journal Article
Alaka, H., Oyedele, L., Owolabi, H., Akinade, O., Bilal, M., & Ajayi, S. (2019). A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 66(4), 689-698. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2018.2856376

Using 693,000 datacells from 33,000 sample construction firms that operated or failed between 2008 and 2017, failure prediction models were developed using artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), multiple discriminant analysis... Read More about A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models.