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Big data analytics system for costing power transmission projects (2019)
Journal Article
Delgado, J. M. D., Oyedele, L., Bilal, M., Ajayi, A., Akanbi, L., & Akinade, O. (2020). Big data analytics system for costing power transmission projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(1), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0001745

© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. Inaccurate cost estimates have significant impacts on the final cost of power transmission projects and erode profits. Methods for cost estimation have been investigated thoroughly, but they are not used wi... Read More about Big data analytics system for costing power transmission projects.

Liminality in narratives of integration: Articulation of digital ethnicity in social media use by migrants to Sweden (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mitra, A., Evansluong, Q., & Diedrich, A. (2019, November). Liminality in narratives of integration: Articulation of digital ethnicity in social media use by migrants to Sweden. Paper presented at Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies - OMICS Conference, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Given challenging conditions in different parts of the world, it is no wonder that people undertake 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. Migration is there... Read More about Liminality in narratives of integration: Articulation of digital ethnicity in social media use by migrants to Sweden.

University-industry collaboration through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the UK: An extension of activity theory (2019)
Journal Article
White, G. R., Abdullah, A., Cicmil, S., Allen, R., & Thomas, R. (2019). University-industry collaboration through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the UK: An extension of activity theory. International Journal of Management, 8(4), 14-24

The mechanisms for stimulating innovation are perennial subjects of concern. Despite the recognition of their importance they remain troublesome undertakings for individual organisations and national economies. The literature has only recently begun... Read More about University-industry collaboration through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the UK: An extension of activity theory.

Farm and farmer characteristics and off-farm work: Evidence from Algeria (2019)
Journal Article
Bouchakour, R., & Saad, M. (2019). Farm and farmer characteristics and off-farm work: Evidence from Algeria. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12349

© 2019 Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. Off-farm work is a widespread, two-edged, phenomenon that can help both the survival and the demise of small- and medium-sized agricultural exploitations. Given the prevalence of po... Read More about Farm and farmer characteristics and off-farm work: Evidence from Algeria.

Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR (2019)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, G., Alexander, K. S., Larson, S., Thammavong, P., Sacklokham, S., Thephavanh, M., …Case, P. (2019). Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR. Journal of Rural Studies, 72, 216-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.10.020

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Transdisciplinary research focussing on improving smallholder farmers' uptake of technological innovations enables the integration of knowledge systems and the co-design and delivery of creative solutions. In this paper, we illust... Read More about Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR.

Higher education teaching and training system and economic performance: An empirical investigation (2019)
Journal Article
Bouchakour, R., Saad, M., & Guermat, C. (2019). Higher education teaching and training system and economic performance: An empirical investigation. Journal of Education and Work, 32(5), 500-517. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2019.1673885

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper investigates the impact of higher education characteristics on economic performance. Despite a relatively plethoric literature, there is still a clear lack of understa... Read More about Higher education teaching and training system and economic performance: An empirical investigation.

UNLIMITED VALUE LEADING PRACTICE IN UNLIMITED VALUE CREATION (2019)
Report
Hawkins, B., Bailey, A., Coles, T., Harvey, W., Smart, A., & Waters, H. (2019). UNLIMITED VALUE LEADING PRACTICE IN UNLIMITED VALUE CREATION. Arts Council England

The final report on a two year research project to understand the impact of libraries on local communities in Devon. In the report are details about the activities and data underpinning the research, the dissemination events and information on a new... Read More about UNLIMITED VALUE LEADING PRACTICE IN UNLIMITED VALUE CREATION.

In search of a model to describe the organization of the Algerian diaspora networks (2019)
Journal Article
Nafa, A., & Saad, M. (2019). In search of a model to describe the organization of the Algerian diaspora networks. International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 18(3), 301-314. https://doi.org/10.1386/tmsd_00011_1

The problem of organizing the diaspora within and between networks has led to great interest among the scientific community. The literature has shown the existence of a real body and cohesion amongst the members of diasporas in the same country eithe... Read More about In search of a model to describe the organization of the Algerian diaspora networks.

Critical success factors for ensuring bankable completion risk in PFI/PPP megaprojects (2019)
Journal Article
Owolabi, H. A., Oyedele, L. O., Alaka, H. A., Ajayi, S. O., Akinade, O. O., & Bilal, M. (2020). Critical success factors for ensuring bankable completion risk in PFI/PPP megaprojects. Journal of Management in Engineering, 36(1), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ME.1943-5479.0000717

© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. This study investigates project financiers' perspectives on the bankability of completion risk in private finance initiative and public-private partnership (PFI/PPP) megaprojects. Using a mixed methodology... Read More about Critical success factors for ensuring bankable completion risk in PFI/PPP megaprojects.

Improving the new product development using big data: A case study of a food company (2019)
Journal Article
Jagtap, S., & Duong, L. N. K. (2019). Improving the new product development using big data: A case study of a food company. British Food Journal, 121(11), 2835-2848. https://doi.org/10.1108/bfj-02-2019-0097

Purpose Recently, the concept of big data (BD) has evolved and started to play an essential role in the advancement of new product development (NPD) in various sectors contributing to value creation, idea generation and competitive advantage. However... Read More about Improving the new product development using big data: A case study of a food company.

Supply Chain 4.0: concepts, maturity and research agenda (2019)
Journal Article
Frederico, G. F., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Anosike, A., & Kumar, V. (2019). Supply Chain 4.0: concepts, maturity and research agenda. Supply Chain Management, 25(2), 262-282. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-09-2018-0339

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Industry 4.0 is one of the most emergent research topics attracting significant interest by researchers as well as practitioners. Many articles have been published with regards Industry 4.0; however, there... Read More about Supply Chain 4.0: concepts, maturity and research agenda.

Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets (2019)
Journal Article
Mitra, A., & Munir, K. (2019). Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(4), 503-514. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-07-2018-0098

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Today, Big Data plays an imperative role in the creation, maintenance and loss of cyber assets of organisations. Research in connection to Big Data and cyber asset management is embryonic. Using evidence,... Read More about Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets.

Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems (2019)
Journal Article
Bouzanis, C., & Kemp, S. (2019). Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems. Sociological Theory, 37(3), 282-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275119869973

This article addresses the interpretation and criticism of theoretical systems. Its particular focus is on how to assess the success of theories in dealing with some specific phenomenon. We are interested in how to differentiate between cases where a... Read More about Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems.

Response to Todd, De Groot, Mose, McCauley and Heffron's critique of "Examining energy sufficiency and energy mobility in the global south through the energy justice framework" (2019)
Journal Article
Monyei, C. G., Jenkins, K., Monyei, C., Aholu, O., Akpeji, K., Oladeji, O., & Viriri, S. (2019). Response to Todd, De Groot, Mose, McCauley and Heffron's critique of "Examining energy sufficiency and energy mobility in the global south through the energy justice framework". Energy Policy, 133, Article 110917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110917

We thank Todd et al. (2019) for providing their thoughts on Monyei et al. (2018) and for opening a debate around the notion of "energy bullying". However, as we argue in this correspondence, Todd et al. (2019) have arguably adopted an unbalanced appr... Read More about Response to Todd, De Groot, Mose, McCauley and Heffron's critique of "Examining energy sufficiency and energy mobility in the global south through the energy justice framework".

Onboard Evolution of Understandable Swarm Behaviors (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Winfield, A. F., Hauert, S., & Studley, M. (2019). Onboard Evolution of Understandable Swarm Behaviors. Advanced Science, 1(6), Article 1900031. https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.201900031

Designing the individual robot rules that give rise to desired emergent swarm behaviors is difficult. The common method of running evolutionary algorithms off‐line to automatically discover controllers in simulation suffers from two disadvantages: th... Read More about Onboard Evolution of Understandable Swarm Behaviors.

The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta-theoretical reappraisal (2019)
Journal Article
Bouzanis, C., & Kemp, S. (2020). The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta-theoretical reappraisal. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 50(1), 64-83. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12225

This article argues that two key puzzles arising from the theories of Bourdieu are inter-related. One is the question of how Bourdieu analyses the relationship between structure and habitus, and the other is the place of reflexivity in Bourdieu's wor... Read More about The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta-theoretical reappraisal.

Evaluating theoretical conceptualisations for supply chain and finance integration: A Scottish focus group (2019)
Journal Article
Dekkers, R., de Boer, R., Gelsomino, L. M., de Goeij, C., Steeman, M., Zhou, Q., …Souter, V. (2020). Evaluating theoretical conceptualisations for supply chain and finance integration: A Scottish focus group. International Journal of Production Economics, 220, Article 107451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.07.024

With supply chain finance gaining more prominence in practice and drawing increasing attention from researchers, the question arises how this emerging discipline can build on existing theoretical conceptualisations. However, few studies have incorpor... Read More about Evaluating theoretical conceptualisations for supply chain and finance integration: A Scottish focus group.

A qualitative review of the contribution of military leadership to the humanitarian supply chain operations (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Tynan, M. P., Prabhakar, G., & Nisar, T. (2019, July). A qualitative review of the contribution of military leadership to the humanitarian supply chain operations. Paper presented at 3rd IEOM European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Pilsen, Czech Republic

The humanitarian operations arena and the Humanitarian Supply Chain (HSC) in response to crises or disasters are times where the need for leadership is paramount. Similar challenges to those of the HSC are encountered by the military in operations,... Read More about A qualitative review of the contribution of military leadership to the humanitarian supply chain operations.