All Outputs (1036)

Deconstructing gender inequality: Implications for women leadership and COVID-19 recovery in Nigeria (2024)
Journal Article

Evidence suggests that the COVID-19 crisis has affected women more severely than their male counterparts. Thus, impeding the progress towards achieving gender equality and inclusion in society. The pandemic has the potential to undo more than decade-... Read More about Deconstructing gender inequality: Implications for women leadership and COVID-19 recovery in Nigeria.

Information behaviour in high risk decision making: Study of international postgraduates (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores the role of information in high risk consumer decision making. Forty-two qualitative interviews were undertaken with international non-EU postgraduates when making the high risk decision to study in a UK Business School. Prospec... Read More about Information behaviour in high risk decision making: Study of international postgraduates.

Workplaces: The Impact of Workplace Culture on Individuals and Organisations (2022)
Book

'Workplaces' recounts episodes from the Embassy of Finland, JP Morgan, Zambian NGO ZARD, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and other workplaces, to demonstrate how workplace cultures have just as much, if not more, impact on organisations than any strate... Read More about Workplaces: The Impact of Workplace Culture on Individuals and Organisations.

The micro-ethics of discomfort: Addressing the perfect/imperfect ethical dichotomies of International Development (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, we develop an understanding of what we refer to as the ‘micro-ethics of discomfort’ and, on its basis, propose an approach to addressing ethical challenges in the research field, especially in relation to International Development (ID)... Read More about The micro-ethics of discomfort: Addressing the perfect/imperfect ethical dichotomies of International Development.

Becoming phu nam and other stories: Researching leadership practices in Laos and the ethics of cross-cultural engagement (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote lecture offers a co-constructed auto-ethnographic account of the researcher’s journey toward ‘passing’ as a leader (phu nam) within a state-run service in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The researcher was a foreigner in Laos emplo... Read More about Becoming phu nam and other stories: Researching leadership practices in Laos and the ethics of cross-cultural engagement.

Illicit financial flow and the vulnerability of banks - The link between corruption and money laundering, a socio-legal study of the laws and practice in the UK and Nigeria (2021)
Thesis

Secrecy jurisdictions, banking secrecy and corporate secrecy are intricately connected to illicit financial flow (IFF), that facilitate corruption and money laundering but the Corruption Perceptions Indicator (CPI) provides a misleading interpretatio... Read More about Illicit financial flow and the vulnerability of banks - The link between corruption and money laundering, a socio-legal study of the laws and practice in the UK and Nigeria.

Digital servitization and modularity: Responding to requirements in use (2021)
Book Chapter

When moving towards digitally enabled advanced services firms are faced with the challenge of servicing heterogeneous customer requirements that emerge during product use. Whereas offers may have been designed with fixed functionality and a focus on... Read More about Digital servitization and modularity: Responding to requirements in use.

A processual account of organisational change: Focusing attention on interaction and emergence (2021)
Thesis

This research proposes organisational change as unpredictable, uncontrollable and emergent, through the changing patterns of relating between participants. This contrasts with prescribed frameworks such as Six Sigma, which use a structured DMAIC (def... Read More about A processual account of organisational change: Focusing attention on interaction and emergence.

What approaches to organizational change can be used to improve public service delivery in resource-poor contexts? Experiences of malaria control and HIV prevention interventions in Southern Africa (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the past seven years Peter Case, Professor of Organization Studies at UWE, has been acting as a program management researcher and consultant for the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) – a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded research centre a... Read More about What approaches to organizational change can be used to improve public service delivery in resource-poor contexts? Experiences of malaria control and HIV prevention interventions in Southern Africa.

Regulatory governance - The PIB and Nigeria's oil future (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

In September 2020, the 2020 version of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) resurfaced at Nigeria’s Senate where it passed its first reading. The Bill has two forerunners: a 2008 edition and the fragmented 2018 edition, a part of which was passed but wa... Read More about Regulatory governance - The PIB and Nigeria's oil future.

Exploring the relationship between tokenism and gender quotas through the concept of embedded gender images (2020)
Thesis

This study aims to explain the continued relative absence of female managers in top positions, within the context of the current legally binding gender-quota debate in Germany. It enables a situated, empirically based understanding of eight female ma... Read More about Exploring the relationship between tokenism and gender quotas through the concept of embedded gender images.

When identity projects go wrong - an exploration of identity-inconsistent consumption using techniques of neutralisation (2020)
Thesis

The research relates to identity projects and the question of why consumers still purchase identity-inconsistent products. Specifically, the research aims to explore what happens when identity projects goes wrong.

Identity projects is the theory t... Read More about When identity projects go wrong - an exploration of identity-inconsistent consumption using techniques of neutralisation.

Exploring the visitors experience and perceptions of hyperreality at cultural attractions (2020)
Thesis

This research develops a new and comprehensive understanding of ‘travels in hyperreality’ in the tourism studies, and in relation to visitors’ immersive experience and cultural attractions. The term hyperreality is explored within the context of mult... Read More about Exploring the visitors experience and perceptions of hyperreality at cultural attractions.

An investigation of performance of nascent manufacturing firms (2020)
Journal Article

To understand the context for firms being created in the manufacturing space we explore the factors affecting performance by applying Gartner et al.’s overarching theoretical framework. We investigate the phenomenon of nascent entrepreneurship from a... Read More about An investigation of performance of nascent manufacturing firms.

Construction practitioners’ perception of key drivers of reputation in mega-construction projects (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to commence the discourse on the non-inclusiveness of the dynamics of reputation within the construction industry by identifying and examining the key product and process drivers of reputation in mega-constructio... Read More about Construction practitioners’ perception of key drivers of reputation in mega-construction projects.

Examining the relationship between social media analytics practices and business performance in the Indian retail and IT industries: The mediation role of customer engagement (2020)
Journal Article

Social media analytics (SMA) is a dynamic field which has received considerable attention from both academics and management practitioners alike. A significant number of the scholarly research currently being conducted in SMA, however, is conceptual.... Read More about Examining the relationship between social media analytics practices and business performance in the Indian retail and IT industries: The mediation role of customer engagement.

Design for deconstruction using a circular economy approach: Barriers and strategies for improvement (2019)
Journal Article

This study explores the current practices of Design for Deconstruction (DfD) as a strategy for achieving circular economy. Keeping in view the opportunities accruable from DfD, a review of the literature was carried out and six focus group interviews... Read More about Design for deconstruction using a circular economy approach: Barriers and strategies for improvement.

An exploration of the role of bloggers and blogger characteristics, in the consumer buying process for cosmetics in the Thai market (2019)
Thesis

Consumers often use online information to help them make better buying decisions (Cheung, 2014; Lu et al., 2014). Blogs and bloggers’ opinion can be one of the most important sources of information for consumers evaluating products and services, redu... Read More about An exploration of the role of bloggers and blogger characteristics, in the consumer buying process for cosmetics in the Thai market.

A Present of Things to Come (2019)
Thesis

This thesis investigates whether individual discount rates are predictive of life satisfaction, career satisfaction and career success. A review of the literature as it stands led me to believe that there is a gap in the literature at the intersectio... Read More about A Present of Things to Come.

Creativity in coaching (2019)
Journal Article

a short article looking through a variety of coaching approaches with the emphasis on creativity and the innovative practice of executive coaching