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Making projects critical 15 years on: a retrospective reflection (2001-2016) (2016)
Journal Article
Hodgson, D., & Cicmil, S. (2016). Making projects critical 15 years on: a retrospective reflection (2001-2016). International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 9(4), 744-751. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMPB-10-2015-0105

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the formation and evolution of the “Making Projects Critical” movement in project management research. Design/methodology/approach: Retrospective and discursi... Read More about Making projects critical 15 years on: a retrospective reflection (2001-2016).

Breaking new grounds: Deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical trials in China (2016)
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Sarpong, D., Tjong-A-Hung, I., & Botchie, D. (2016). Breaking new grounds: Deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical trials in China. Strategic Change,

Automated data capture has become a dominant logic in organizing clinical trial management. This research examines the deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) in clinical trials in China and the potential for Chinese firms to capture value from E... Read More about Breaking new grounds: Deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical trials in China.

Family law session: Transparency in the family courts and what the delegates said (2016)
Journal Article
Whewell, E., Heenan, S., & Thompson, I. (2016). Family law session: Transparency in the family courts and what the delegates said. Family Law -Bristol-, 46(2),

This article was published as part of the "Update Extra" in Jordans' Family Law Journal in February 2016 and discusses the first public Family Law Session of its kind in England & Wales which took place at the Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre... Read More about Family law session: Transparency in the family courts and what the delegates said.

Applying forgotten lessons in field reliability data analysis to performance-based support contracts (2016)
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Settanni, E., Newnes, L. B., Thenent, N. E., Parry, G. C., Bumblauskas, D., Sandborn, P., & Goh, Y. M. (2016). Applying forgotten lessons in field reliability data analysis to performance-based support contracts. Engineering Management Journal, 28(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10429247.2015.1130508

Assumptions used in field reliability data analysis may be seldom made explicit or questioned in practice, yet these assumptions affect how engineering managers develop metrics for use in long-term support contracts. To address this issue, this artic... Read More about Applying forgotten lessons in field reliability data analysis to performance-based support contracts.

Internationalization of product-service systems: Global, regional or national strategy? (2016)
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Parry, G., Bustinza, O., Vendrell-Herrero, F., & O'Regan, N. (2016). Internationalization of product-service systems: Global, regional or national strategy?. Foresight and STI Governance, 10(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.17323/1995-459x.2016.1.16.29

© 2015 National Research University Higher School of Economics. Highly dynamic market environment, knowledge creation and technology advancement demands that producers/providers need to be more efficient and effective in meeting existing and future c... Read More about Internationalization of product-service systems: Global, regional or national strategy?.

Valuing the health benefits of physical activities in the marine environment and their importance for marine spatial planning (2015)
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Papathanasopoulou, E., White, M. P., Hattam, C., Lannin, A., Harvey, A., & Spencer, A. (2016). Valuing the health benefits of physical activities in the marine environment and their importance for marine spatial planning. Marine Policy, 63, 144-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.10.009

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The marine environment provides a number of services which contribute to human well-being including the provision of food, regulation of climate and the provision of settings for cultural gains. To ensure these services continue... Read More about Valuing the health benefits of physical activities in the marine environment and their importance for marine spatial planning.

Leadership insights from the top: Exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India (2015)
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Tripathi, S., Prabhakar, G. P., & Liddle, J. (2015). Leadership insights from the top: Exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India. International Journal of Public Leadership, 11(3/4), 126-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPL-02-2015-0006

This paper highlights the corporate and non-corporate leadership practices in India, the effect of culture on such practices and how these drive management philosophies. Semi structured interviews were conducted with CEOs from India. The findings pro... Read More about Leadership insights from the top: Exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India.

Workplace emotions in postcolonial spaces: Enduring legacies, ambivalence, and subversion (2015)
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Ulus, E. (2015). Workplace emotions in postcolonial spaces: Enduring legacies, ambivalence, and subversion. Organization, 22(6), 890-908. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508414522316

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article analyses the emotions of work in postcolonial spaces, where enduring racial tensions, arising from white privilege, continue to shape people’s experiences. Based on a close scrutiny of two interview extracts... Read More about Workplace emotions in postcolonial spaces: Enduring legacies, ambivalence, and subversion.

Gerschenkron revisited: The new corporate Russia (2015)
Journal Article
Vanteeva, N., & Hickson, C. (2015). Gerschenkron revisited: The new corporate Russia. Journal of Economic Issues, 49(4), 978-1007. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2015.1105028

© 2015, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Our analysis is based on firm-specific data compiled from the Russian Trading System stock exchange and SKRIN (CKP-H in Russian) database. We seek to identify the factors be... Read More about Gerschenkron revisited: The new corporate Russia.

Long-term performance of mergers and acquisitions in ASEAN countries (2015)
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Rao-Nicholson, R., Salaber, J., & Cao, T. H. (2016). Long-term performance of mergers and acquisitions in ASEAN countries. Research in International Business and Finance, 36, 373-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2015.09.024

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The study looks at mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in ASEAN countries and examines the post-M&A performance using data from 2001 to 2012. The industry-adjusted operating performance tends to decline in the 3 years following an M&... Read More about Long-term performance of mergers and acquisitions in ASEAN countries.

Energy systems and their impacts on marine ecosystem services (2015)
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Papathanasopoulou, E., Beaumont, N., Hooper, T., Nunes, J., & Queirós, A. M. (2015). Energy systems and their impacts on marine ecosystem services. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 52, 917-926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.150

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Global warming and its link to the burning of fossil fuels has prompted many governments around the world to set legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets which are to be partially realised through a s... Read More about Energy systems and their impacts on marine ecosystem services.

Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape (2015)
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Sarpong, D., & Amankwah-Amoah, J. (2015). Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape. International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 10(2/3/4), 75-87. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJFIP.2015.074397

Scenario planning in recent times has become one of the strategic tools used by organizations to probe their uncertain and fleeting business environment. In this paper, we provide a synthesis of the configuration of knowledge underpinning scenario ge... Read More about Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape.

Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective (2015)
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Tomkins, L., & Simpson, P. (2015). Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective. Organization Studies, 36(8), 1013-1031. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615580008

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This paper develops the idea of caring leadership based on Heidegger’s philosophy of care. From this perspective, caring leadership is grounded in the practices of ‘leaping-in’ and ‘leaping-ahead’ as modes of interventio... Read More about Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective.

The ‘other half’ of the public debt-economic growth relationship: A note on reinhart and rogoff (2015)
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Dafermos, Y. (2015). The ‘other half’ of the public debt-economic growth relationship: A note on reinhart and rogoff. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, 12(1), 20-28. https://doi.org/10.4337/ejeep.2015.01.03

© 2015 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Reinhart/Rogoff (2010) and Reinhart et al. (2012) document a negative relationship between public debt and economic growth. However, by classifying the observations of their data set into public debt categories and... Read More about The ‘other half’ of the public debt-economic growth relationship: A note on reinhart and rogoff.

Historical pathways to a green economy: The evolution and scaling-up of solar PV in Ghana, 1980-2010 (2015)
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Amankwah-Amoah, J., & Sarpong, D. (2016). Historical pathways to a green economy: The evolution and scaling-up of solar PV in Ghana, 1980-2010. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 102, 90-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.02.017

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Although scaling up of renewable technologies is essential in creating opportunities for sustainable economic development to flourish, our understanding of the historical trajectory of government policies in facilitating this pro... Read More about Historical pathways to a green economy: The evolution and scaling-up of solar PV in Ghana, 1980-2010.

Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change (2015)
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Spotswood, F., Chatterton, T., Tapp, A., & Williams, D. (2015). Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 29, 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2014.12.001

© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Despite significant national and local efforts over the last decade to stimulate uptake of cycling in the UK, levels of cycling (particularly utility cycling) remain at around 2% of journeys. Understandi... Read More about Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change.

Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation (2015)
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Case, P., Evans, L., Fabinyi, M., Cohen, P., Hicks, C., Prideaux, M., & Mills, D. (2015). Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation. Leadership, 11(4), 396-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715015577887

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the “crisis of governance” facing the Earth's natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically inte... Read More about Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation.