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Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study (2018)
Journal Article
Rofcanin, Y., Bakker, A. B., Berber, A., Gölgeci, I., & Las Heras, M. (2019). Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study. Human Relations, 72(4), 859-886. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718779121

© The Author(s) 2018. In this weekly diary study, we integrated research on job crafting to explore the associations between expansion and contraction oriented relational job crafting, work engagement and manager-rated employee behaviours (work perfo... Read More about Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study.

Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector (2018)
Journal Article
Pandeli, J., Marinetto, M., & Jenkins, J. (2019). Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector. Work, Employment and Society, 33(4), 596-612. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018777712

© The Author(s) 2018. This article critiques a case of modern prison-labour by exploring prisoners’ attitudes towards the prison-work they undertake while incarcerated. The study is based at a privatised male prison in the UK, assigned the pseudonym... Read More about Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector.

Ryan E. Smerek, Organizational learning and performance: The science and practice of building a learning culture (2018)
Journal Article
Kars-Unluoglu, S. (2019). Ryan E. Smerek, Organizational learning and performance: The science and practice of building a learning culture. Management Learning, 50(5), 632-635. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618779153

This is a book review of Ryan E. Smerek, Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture, Oxford University Press: New York, NY, 2018; 190 pp., ISBN: 978019064837-4, $45

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.

A gendered analysis of employment in higher education of Pakistan paper presented at gender work and organisation (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, M. (2018, June). A gendered analysis of employment in higher education of Pakistan paper presented at gender work and organisation. Paper presented at Gender, Work and Organisation Conference, Sydney, Australia

The number of female academics is increasing gradually in Pakistan (Federal Bureau of Statistics, 2010). The growth in the number of male faculty members, however, was higher than females in colleges and universities since the year 2000, making it a... Read More about A gendered analysis of employment in higher education of Pakistan paper presented at gender work and organisation.

Stock market reactions to auto manufacturers’ environmental failures (2018)
Journal Article
Wood, L. C., Wang, J. X., Duong, L. N. K., Reiners, T., & Smith, R. (2018). Stock market reactions to auto manufacturers’ environmental failures. Journal of Macromarketing, 38(4), 364-382. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146718781915

The automotive sector must meet strict regulations to increase mobility while reducing emissions to demonstrate environmental stewardship. Trust in the promise of a sustainable Fahrvergnügen was broken with recent scandals like Dieselgate denting the... Read More about Stock market reactions to auto manufacturers’ environmental failures.

How ambidextrous are they actually? An empirical test of exploration and exploitation as innovation capabilities using data envelopment analysis (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R., & Chia, R. (2018, June). How ambidextrous are they actually? An empirical test of exploration and exploitation as innovation capabilities using data envelopment analysis. Paper presented at 25th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, 2018, Porto, Portugal

The study of ambidexterity has been attracting research attention since March’s (1991) seminal work on exploration and exploitation. The possible reason behind this is that successful organisations should be able to handle both radical and incrementa... Read More about How ambidextrous are they actually? An empirical test of exploration and exploitation as innovation capabilities using data envelopment analysis.

The effects of ownership identity on corporate diversification strategy of Chinese companies in foreign markets (2018)
Journal Article
Rao-Nicholson, R., & Cai, Y. (2020). The effects of ownership identity on corporate diversification strategy of Chinese companies in foreign markets. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 37(1), 91-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-9578-8

In this paper, we examine the impact of acquirer’s ownership identity on corporate diversification decisions of Chinese companies in their cross-border acquisitions. Few studies to date have looked at the effect of ownership on corporate decisions to... Read More about The effects of ownership identity on corporate diversification strategy of Chinese companies in foreign markets.

Examining legitimatisation of additive manufacturing in the interplay between innovation, lean manufacturing and sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
Ghobadian, A., Talavera, I., Bhattacharya, A., Kumar, V., Garza-Reyes, J. A., & O'Regan, N. (2020). Examining legitimatisation of additive manufacturing in the interplay between innovation, lean manufacturing and sustainability. International Journal of Production Economics, 219, 457-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.06.001

In response to hypercompetition, globalisation and increasing consumer expectations, many manufacturing firms have embraced lean manufacturing (LM). The primary goal of LM is to reduce/eliminate waste (muda). There is broad consensus as to what const... Read More about Examining legitimatisation of additive manufacturing in the interplay between innovation, lean manufacturing and sustainability.

Addressing “Wicked Problems”: Promoting the supply of innovations into complex healthcare networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Phillips, W., Okeke, U., Jens, R., Conway, S., & Moule, P. (2018, June). Addressing “Wicked Problems”: Promoting the supply of innovations into complex healthcare networks. Paper presented at 9th Annual Edsi Conference "Decision Sciences For The New Global Economy" Udine & Venice – June 3rd To June 6th, 2018, Udine & Venice

“Wicked problems” are complex, open-ended and intractable, encompassing public sector challenges such as poverty, healthcare problems, and unemployment which markets and bureaucracies often fail to address. It is proposed that inter-organisational ne... Read More about Addressing “Wicked Problems”: Promoting the supply of innovations into complex healthcare networks.

Directing Improvements in Primary Care Patient Experience through Analysis of Service Quality (2018)
Journal Article
Hudson Smith, M., & Smith, D. (2018). Directing Improvements in Primary Care Patient Experience through Analysis of Service Quality. Health Services Research, 53(6), 4647-4666. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.12985

© Health Research and Educational Trust Objective: To examine the influence of dimensions of service quality on patient experience of primary care. Data Sources/Study Setting: Data from the national GP Patient Survey in England 2014/15, with response... Read More about Directing Improvements in Primary Care Patient Experience through Analysis of Service Quality.

On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups (2018)
Journal Article
Goldberg, J., Marshall, N., Birtles, R. A., Case, P., Curnock, M., & Gurney, G. (2018). On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups. Ecology and Society, 23(2), 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10048-230219

© 2018 by the author(s). Urgent action is required to address threats to ecosystems around the world. Coral reef ecosystems, like the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), are particularly vulnerable to human impacts such as coastal development, resource extract... Read More about On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups.

The Good, the Not So Good and the Ugly: Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Austerity in English Local Government (2018)
Journal Article
Conley, H., & Page, M. (2018). The Good, the Not So Good and the Ugly: Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Austerity in English Local Government. Work, Employment and Society, 32(4), 789-805. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018768207

© The Author(s) 2018. Drawing on theories of responsive and reflexive legislation and gender mainstreaming, this article examines the implementation of the gender equality duty and the Single Status Agreement in five English local authorities between... Read More about The Good, the Not So Good and the Ugly: Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Austerity in English Local Government.

Application of additive manufacturing for mass customisation: understanding the interaction of critical barriers (2018)
Journal Article
Shukla, M., Todorov, I., & Kapletia, D. (2018). Application of additive manufacturing for mass customisation: understanding the interaction of critical barriers. Production Planning and Control, 29(10), 814-825. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2018.1474395

Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology presents a very optimistic case for its application for mass customisation. Even though theoretically suitable, practically several critical barriers inhibit its implementation. Thus, this paper attempts to iden... Read More about Application of additive manufacturing for mass customisation: understanding the interaction of critical barriers.

Bringing the ugly back: A dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case (2018)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., Hawkins, B., & Schedlitzki, D. (2019). Bringing the ugly back: A dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case. Human Relations, 72(4), 733-754. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718773859

© The Author(s) 2018. In this article, we adopt a dialogic approach to examining narratives on ethics in leadership. We do this through an ethno-narrative re-reading of writing on the Enron case informed by Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogue. Employing conc... Read More about Bringing the ugly back: A dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case.

The sounds of the office (2018)
Journal Article
Shortt, H. (2018). The sounds of the office

Think about the sounds of your office or place of work. Phones ringing; printer printing; coffee machines percolating; office banter; traffic; laughter; raised voices; steps down a corridor; the hubbub of the canteen; the lift ‘pinging’; the clicking... Read More about The sounds of the office.

Effects of consumer demand, product lifetime, and substitution ratio on perishable inventory management (2018)
Journal Article
Duong, L. N. K., Wood, L. C., & Wang, W. Y. C. (2018). Effects of consumer demand, product lifetime, and substitution ratio on perishable inventory management. Sustainability, 10(5), Article 1559. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051559

With the intensification of global population, food security is a big concern. Food waste stems from inappropriate inventory management. Companies offer a wide range of products to capture more sales, yet this increases inventories and complicates in... Read More about Effects of consumer demand, product lifetime, and substitution ratio on perishable inventory management.

Social media information benefits, knowledge management and smart organizations (2018)
Journal Article
Nisar, T. M., Prabhakar, G. P., & Strakova, L. (2019). Social media information benefits, knowledge management and smart organizations. Journal of Business Research, 94, 264-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.05.005

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Social technologies can provide a potent means for organizations to manage their information flows and thus induce changes in their knowledge management (KM) systems, which can then be linked to performance improvements. This pap... Read More about Social media information benefits, knowledge management and smart organizations.

Trains and Twitter: Firm generated content, consumer relationship management and message framing (2018)
Journal Article
Nisar, T. M., & Prabhakar, G. P. (2018). Trains and Twitter: Firm generated content, consumer relationship management and message framing. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 113, 318-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.04.026

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In this paper, we examine the impact of Twitter content on users’ train journeys and how train providers’ message framing moderates these relationships. Framing regards the way in which messages are worded concerning a particular... Read More about Trains and Twitter: Firm generated content, consumer relationship management and message framing.

Technologies of freedom: Digital ethnicity of migrants (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Mitra, A. (2018, May). Technologies of freedom: Digital ethnicity of migrants. Presented at 2nd Gelisim-UWE International Conference on Economics, Finance and Management, Istanbul, Turkey

Given difficult conditions in different regions of the world, it is no wonder that people embark on journeys to regions where they may feel secure, seek refuge, be able to acquire a livelihood, as well as carry on a type of living. At the same time,... Read More about Technologies of freedom: Digital ethnicity of migrants.