All Outputs (121)

Adjusting to the new normal: Challenges of the food sector in the wake of COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected more than 180 countries around the globe causing severe business disruptions. Lockdown in many countries has led to panic buying and shortages of food, medicines, personal protective equipment, raw materials... Read More about Adjusting to the new normal: Challenges of the food sector in the wake of COVID-19.

Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries (2020)
Journal Article

This article explores the opportunities and obstacles of researching women’s trade union activism in the British film and television industries between 1933 and 2017. The surviving material on women’s union participation is incomplete and fragmented,... Read More about Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries.

Applying design thinking principles on major infrastructure projects (2020)
Book Chapter

Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making (2020)
Journal Article

At present sustainable development, assessment of sustainable manufacturing practices, and prioritisation of barriers, drivers, and indicators have become complex due to the involvement of existing benchmarks like social, economical, technical, and e... Read More about Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making.

Where have all the followers gone? (2020)
Journal Article

In this short article, we explore and problematise the axiomatic assumption of follower in the field of leadership studies notably the leader–follower axiom as the essential foundation of much leadership theorising. We do so, firstly by drawing on ou... Read More about Where have all the followers gone?.

Cloud computing in construction industry: Use cases, benefits and challenges (2020)
Journal Article

Cloud computing technologies have revolutionised several industries (such as aerospace, manufacturing, automobile, retail, etc.) for several years. Although the construction industry is well placed to also leverage these technologies for competitive... Read More about Cloud computing in construction industry: Use cases, benefits and challenges.

Framing work and welfare: Insights from the growing relevance of company welfare in Italy (2020)
Journal Article

This article applies the concept of frames of reference to contemporary work and welfare dynamics by focusing on the growing relevance of company welfare in Italy after the 2008 crisis. The analysis considers how this occurred along three phases: in... Read More about Framing work and welfare: Insights from the growing relevance of company welfare in Italy.

Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective (2020)
Book Chapter

Starting in an era where three quantifiable impacts of road transport were viewed as the sum total of impacts – casualties and air and noise pollution – from the embryo of the evolving transport and health interdisciplinary field is charted from the... Read More about Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective.

Configurations of externalities within a country-of-origin cluster in China: A qualitative comparative analysis (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores several configurations of host-market locational factors and the ethnic cluster's potential to generate externalities when MNEs invest in distant countries. We perform a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of externalities and... Read More about Configurations of externalities within a country-of-origin cluster in China: A qualitative comparative analysis.

Volunteering masculinities in search and rescue work: Is there “a place for girls on the team”? (2020)
Journal Article

This article explores performative enactments of gender at work in a UK-based Search and Rescue voluntary organization, QuakeRescue. Based on ethnographic research, we analyze how gender is performatively constituted in this male-dominated setting, f... Read More about Volunteering masculinities in search and rescue work: Is there “a place for girls on the team”?.

IoT for predictive assets monitoring and maintenance: An implementation strategy for the UK rail industry (2020)
Journal Article

With about 100% increase in rail service usage over the last 20 years, it is pertinent that rail infrastructure continues to function at an optimal level to avoid service disruptions, cancellations or delays due to unforeseen asset breakdown. In an e... Read More about IoT for predictive assets monitoring and maintenance: An implementation strategy for the UK rail industry.

Dynamic managerial capabilities in micro-enterprises: Stability, vulnerability and the role of managerial time allocation (2020)
Journal Article

This article analyses how dynamic capabilities are enacted in micro-enterprises and what role different parties and managerial time allocation play in this enactment. Drawing upon three in-depth case studies of micro-enterprises, we make three theore... Read More about Dynamic managerial capabilities in micro-enterprises: Stability, vulnerability and the role of managerial time allocation.

Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries (2020)
Book

Frances C. Galt explores the role of trade unions and women’s activism in the British film and television industries in this important contribution to debates around gender inequality.

The book traces the influence of the union for technicians and... Read More about Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries.

The cooking process for Team Academy programmes: Ingredients and flavours (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

UWE was a pioneer in the UK launching and implementing a Team Entrepreneurship undergraduate degree in 2013. Since then, the programme has been adapting and restructuring considering the feedback obtained from educators, partners and students. This s... Read More about The cooking process for Team Academy programmes: Ingredients and flavours.

A machine learning based approach for predicting blockchain adoption in supply chain (2020)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to provide a decision support system for managers to predict an organization’s probability of successful blockchain adoption using a machine learning technique. The study conceptualizes blockchain technology as a dynamic... Read More about A machine learning based approach for predicting blockchain adoption in supply chain.

Exploring the drivers and barriers to green supply chain management implementation: A study of independent UK restaurants (2020)
Journal Article

This is an exploratory study into the drivers and barriers faced by independent restaurants when implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) practices. There is a limited evidence in the literature that attempts to explore GSCM implementation p... Read More about Exploring the drivers and barriers to green supply chain management implementation: A study of independent UK restaurants.

The Routledge focus on team academy: Editors' conversation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In October this year, Dr Urzelai and Dr Vettraino signed a four book deal with Routledge that will see the first mainstream publications of the Finnish Team Academy model on the bookstore shelves in 2021.
The four edited texts contain research and s... Read More about The Routledge focus on team academy: Editors' conversation.

Estimating occupancy levels in enclosed spaces using environmental variables: A fitness gym and living room as evaluation scenarios (2020)
Journal Article

The understanding of occupancy patterns has been identified as a key contributor to achieve improvements in energy efficiency in buildings since occupancy information can benefit different systems, such as HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditio... Read More about Estimating occupancy levels in enclosed spaces using environmental variables: A fitness gym and living room as evaluation scenarios.

Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies (2020)
Journal Article

Background:
‘Systems leadership’ has emerged as a key concept in global public health alongside such related concepts as ‘systems thinking’ and ‘whole systems approaches.’ It is an approach that is well suited to issues that require collective actio... Read More about Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies.

Leadership, authenticity and representation in troubled times (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we draw on insights from political science and leadership studies to explore how dynamics of representation play out within place-based leadership. We focus on a case study of Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol’s response to the topplin... Read More about Leadership, authenticity and representation in troubled times.