All Outputs (1036)

The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses (2017)
Book

In September 2007, the collapse of the United States (US) sub-prime mortgage market resulted in the global meltdown of the financial markets. This in turn led to the collapse of many international financial institutions including Northern Rock, Brad... Read More about The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses.

Financial crisis and digital currencies (2017)
Book Chapter

Digital currencies are mainly known for their part in illegal activities such as money laundering or terrorist financing. However, the purpose of this chapter is to explore whether digital currencies could have a potential benefit for countries who a... Read More about Financial crisis and digital currencies.

Engendering executive reflexivity: A multi-perspective executive coach competency (2017)
Thesis

This study seeks to present an original contribution to the theorisation of executive coach competencies. A set of competencies which belong to the category engendering executive reflexivity were identified as being evident across a sub-group of exec... Read More about Engendering executive reflexivity: A multi-perspective executive coach competency.

The financial crisis and financial crime in the United Kingdom: A critical analysis of the response by Financial Regulatory Agencies (2017)
Journal Article

A previously unattributed factor that contributed towards the most recent financial crisis is financial crime. However, it is important to note and accept that financial crime was not the sole and only cause of the financial crisis. For example, it... Read More about The financial crisis and financial crime in the United Kingdom: A critical analysis of the response by Financial Regulatory Agencies.

Influences of immigrants from emerging economies and developing countries on immigrant entrepreneurship in Sweden (2017)
Book Chapter

Recently, immigrant entrepreneurship has earned more attention in countries which are not popular destinations for migration such as Norway, Denmark and Sweden. This chapter presents a literature review on influences of immigrants from emerging econo... Read More about Influences of immigrants from emerging economies and developing countries on immigrant entrepreneurship in Sweden.

Exploring the opportunity to improve SCM in farmer-supplier relationships in emerging economies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the possibility to provide a platform or a framework to the small and medium producers and often times less organized agricultural farmers’ in developing nations which can help them choose the most appropriate buyer for their prod... Read More about Exploring the opportunity to improve SCM in farmer-supplier relationships in emerging economies.

Bristol and Bath by Design; To understand the economic and cultural value of design in the Bristol and Bath region (2016)
Report

The aim of the project was to collect data on design companies in the Bristol and Bath region, and to gain a better understanding of the economic and cultural value of the design-led sector. To do this, our primary research was to develop a range... Read More about Bristol and Bath by Design; To understand the economic and cultural value of design in the Bristol and Bath region.

Estimating the ecological, economic and social impacts of ocean acidification and warming on UK fisheries (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. Fish and Fisheries Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Assessments of the combined ecological impacts of ocean acidification and warming (OAW) and their social and economic consequences can help develop adaptive and responsive m... Read More about Estimating the ecological, economic and social impacts of ocean acidification and warming on UK fisheries.

Conversations in search of audiences: Prospects and challenges of marketing UK’s postgraduate higher education using social media (2016)
Book Chapter

It is no surprise that there are serious disparities between the rhetoric of education and the realities of education. Marketing of university curricula is a challenge that is increasingly becoming a difficult proposition as advances in social media... Read More about Conversations in search of audiences: Prospects and challenges of marketing UK’s postgraduate higher education using social media.

Emotional intelligence and British expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment in international construction projects (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Today’s internationalized business demands global mindset, intercultural sensitivity and the ability to skilfully negotiate through cross-cultural interactions. Therefore, the overall ai... Read More about Emotional intelligence and British expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment in international construction projects.

Technological capabilities, resilience capabilities and organizational effectiveness (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Previous research has defined resilience as a desirable characteristic for an organization and its members to possess when circumstances adversely change. Resilience is analysed... Read More about Technological capabilities, resilience capabilities and organizational effectiveness.

Cultivating strategic foresight in practise: A relational perspective (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Drawing on relationalism as a theoretical lens, we examine how normative organising structures, rights and authority relationships influence the cultivation of strategic foresight among organisational members lower down the organ... Read More about Cultivating strategic foresight in practise: A relational perspective.

Big Data in the construction industry: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The ability to process large amounts of data and to extract useful insights from data has revolutionised society. This phenomenon—dubbed as Big Data—has applications for a wide assortment of industries, including the construction... Read More about Big Data in the construction industry: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends.

Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 International Communication Association Linguistic style accommodation between conversationalists is associated with positive social outcomes. We examine social power and personality as factors driving the occurrence of linguistic style accomm... Read More about Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation.

Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Author(s) This study draws on literature at the intersection of servitization, digital business models and supply chain management. Work empirically explores how digital disruption has affected Business-to-Business (B2B) interdependencies.... Read More about Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency.

An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management (2016)
Journal Article

The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty are used to redescribe the fundamental assumptions underpinning project management. Rather than viewing project management as merely a science, the significance and value of philosophy for projec... Read More about An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management.

e-Leadership through strategic alignment: An empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 JIT Palgrave Macmillan. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the European economy. A critical challenge faced by SME leaders, as a consequence of the continuing digital technology revolution, is how to optimally... Read More about e-Leadership through strategic alignment: An empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age.

Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Temporary workers in low-skilled roles often experience ‘hard’ HRM practices, for example the use of the Bradford Factor to monitor absence, rather than using incentives to reward attendance. However, this peripheral workfo... Read More about Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector.

Innovation, energy efficiency, & sustainable development: A strategic shift from linear to non-linear models of development (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We need to realise that developing/emerging economies don’t have to copy the models/ routes adopted and proposed by the developed countries. Existing models may have become redundant, obsolete and inapplicable to the new world economies.

Utilising Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods: rich perspectives on union learning journeys and learner motivations (2016)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This article explores the use of Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods (BNIM) in research on motivations for trade union learning. Our use of BNIM – a new methodological approach for us – was intended to test our own... Read More about Utilising Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods: rich perspectives on union learning journeys and learner motivations.