Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed? (2021)
Journal Article

This research explores focal actors and their dyads, addressing their sustainable collaboration in triads and its relevance in the agri-triads that share information along the supply chains. We employ a multiple-case approach and presents two triads... Read More about Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed?.

Creative Leadership Within the Cyber asset Market: An Interview With Dame Inga Beale (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. This interview with Dame Inga Beale, one of the most distinguished corporate leaders in the United Kingdom, explores her ideas around creative leadership of Lloyd’s of London in the cyber asset market. Uniqueness of Beale’s appr... Read More about Creative Leadership Within the Cyber asset Market: An Interview With Dame Inga Beale.

Narratives of integration: Liminality in migrant acculturation through social media (2019)
Journal Article

Migrant integration is a long drawn out process requiring synergies with various dimensions of life, rhyming with those of the host country. In this paper, we attempt to deconstruct the digital narratives of migrants to explore how they may lead to a... Read More about Narratives of integration: Liminality in migrant acculturation through social media.

Liminality in narratives of integration: Influence of social media use on situational ethnicity of migrants (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Given difficult conditions in different regions of the world, it is no wonder that people embark on 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. At the same time,... Read More about Liminality in narratives of integration: Influence of social media use on situational ethnicity of migrants.

Examining legitimatisation of additive manufacturing in the interplay between innovation, lean manufacturing and sustainability (2018)
Journal Article

In response to hypercompetition, globalisation and increasing consumer expectations, many manufacturing firms have embraced lean manufacturing (LM). The primary goal of LM is to reduce/eliminate waste (muda). There is broad consensus as to what const... Read More about Examining legitimatisation of additive manufacturing in the interplay between innovation, lean manufacturing and sustainability.

In direct breach of managerial edicts: a practice approach to creative deviance in professional service firms (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 RADMA and John Wiley & Sons Ltd Drawing on practice as a meta-theoretical lens, we explore creative deviance (CD): wilful violation of managerial orders by employee(s) to pursue creative ideas. Data for our inquiry comes from in-depth interv... Read More about In direct breach of managerial edicts: a practice approach to creative deviance in professional service firms.

Shifting logics: Limitations on the journey from 'state' to 'market' logic in UK higher education (2017)
Journal Article

© Policy Press 2018. Our study of UK higher education institutions (HEIs) offers insights into the role of institutional logics in the adoption of organisational practices - specifically outsourcing. We identify two logics prevalent within HEIs: a pu... Read More about Shifting logics: Limitations on the journey from 'state' to 'market' logic in UK higher education.

Implementing smart specialisation roadmaps in Lithuania: Lost in translation? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The study of Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) and how they translate into policy decisions and practice has gained pace in the last decade. In this paper, we present a case study on the application of FTA methods for ent... Read More about Implementing smart specialisation roadmaps in Lithuania: Lost in translation?.

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.

Technological inclusiveness: Northern versus Chinese induced technologies in the garment industry (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The Northern economies have been the main sources of technologies for the global garment manufacturing industry. Over the past decade, China has become an important alternative source of these technologies offering a range of tec... Read More about Technological inclusiveness: Northern versus Chinese induced technologies in the garment industry.

Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article examines service nepotism, the practice of bestowing gifts or benefits on customers by frontline service staff based on a perceived shared socio-collective identity. Adopting a micro-sociological approach, i... Read More about Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces.

'Vinyl never say die': The re-incarnation, adoption and diffusion of retro-technologies (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. New technologies continue to shape the way music is produced, distributed and consumed. The new turn to digital streaming services like iTunes, Spotify and Pandora, in particular, means that very recent music format technologies... Read More about 'Vinyl never say die': The re-incarnation, adoption and diffusion of retro-technologies.

Making great minds think alike: Emerging market multinational firms’ leadership effects on targets’ employee psychological safety after cross-border mergers and acquisitions (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd This paper examines the impact of leadership on targets’ employee psychological safety (EPS), characterized by employees’ expectation of job and remuneration stability, during the cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by em... Read More about Making great minds think alike: Emerging market multinational firms’ leadership effects on targets’ employee psychological safety after cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Internationalization of product-service systems: Global, regional or national strategy? (2016)
Journal Article

© 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?.

Organizing practices of university, industry and government that facilitate (or impede) the transition to a hybrid triple helix model of innovation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Drawing on the contemporary turn to discursive practices we examine how the organizing practices of industry, university and government facilitate (or impede) developing countries transition to a hybrid triple helix model of inno... Read More about Organizing practices of university, industry and government that facilitate (or impede) the transition to a hybrid triple helix model of innovation.

Data-driven and adaptive leadership contributing to sustainability: global agri-food supply chains connected with emerging markets (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Despite numerous promises on the links between data-driven and adaptive leadership, non-financial sustainability and financial sustainability, scholars have not conducted enough empirical research to test the links based on globa... Read More about Data-driven and adaptive leadership contributing to sustainability: global agri-food supply chains connected with emerging markets.

On the nurturing of strategic foresight: The Ubuntu perspective (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. We draw on ideas from the African humanistic philosophy of Ubuntu with existing approaches to propose alternative ways of nurturing strategic foresight in practice. Delineating Ubuntu as a transient organizing philosophy, we show... Read More about On the nurturing of strategic foresight: The Ubuntu perspective.

Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2014. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature suggests CSR initiatives extend beyond meeting the immediate interests of stakeholders of for-profit enterprises, offering the potential to also enhance performance. Growing disil... Read More about Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review.

Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape (2015)
Journal Article

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.

Historical pathways to a green economy: The evolution and scaling-up of solar PV in Ghana, 1980-2010 (2015)
Journal Article

© 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.