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An investigation into the factors influencing Supply Chain Quality Management processes (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Given that Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM) seems to be the key for future competitiveness it is crucial to understand how to control quality throughout the whole Supply Chain (SC). The extended and globalised SC generated “co-ordinating” probl... Read More about An investigation into the factors influencing Supply Chain Quality Management processes.

Taking over from dad: How daughters are socialised in 'families in business' (2010)
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This paper focuses on the socialisation process of female heirs’ pathways to leadership in family businesses. Findings from the first part of a two stage study which considers female succession to management from the family unit’s perspective are pre... Read More about Taking over from dad: How daughters are socialised in 'families in business'.

Taking over from dad: daughters who success their fathers in the family business (2010)
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Taking over from dad: How daughters are socialised in ‘families in business’ (2010)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on the socialisation process of female heirs’ pathways to leadership in family businesses. Findings from the first part of a two stage study which considers female succession to management from the family unit’s perspective are pre... Read More about Taking over from dad: How daughters are socialised in ‘families in business’.

Environmental management systems: costs, benefits and an activity theory approach to understanding their knowledge-generating capabilities (2010)
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This paper outlines the approach taken by a UK, non-profit, rural small-to-medium sized enterprise (SME), to develop an environmental management system (EMS). A discussion of the problems encountered and solutions employed is presented along with the... Read More about Environmental management systems: costs, benefits and an activity theory approach to understanding their knowledge-generating capabilities.

Labour of love: an emotional tale of family business (2010)
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Can a ‘projectified’ society be a ‘sustainable’ society : A juncture of two logics or a contradiction in terms? (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Researching political tourists: a case study approach (2010)
Journal Article

In this article I present the research methodology I used in my PhD research. I conducted a case study to examine political tourists within a framework of participant action research (PAR ). Here I explain my choice of this approach in the light... Read More about Researching political tourists: a case study approach.

Refining value-based differentiation in business relationships: A study of the higher order relationship building blocks that influence behavioural intentions (2011)
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Research on the behavioural intentions (BI) of business-to-business customers has focused on the influence and the interactions among constructs driving BI, giving rise to two perspectives for the structural equation modeling of constructs influencin... Read More about Refining value-based differentiation in business relationships: A study of the higher order relationship building blocks that influence behavioural intentions.

Social remembering and organizational memory (2010)
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Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management. The dominant model of memory in OMS is that of a storage bin. But this model has been rejected by psych... Read More about Social remembering and organizational memory.

Family matters: An analysis of family relationships and their impact on the organisation of a successful family business (2010)
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Value co-creation in a UK air defence, service availability contract - the problem of multiple customer perspectives and diverse cultures (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public sector outsourcing: translationg client aspirations and fears into contracted services (2010)
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Sustaining architects' and engineers' motivation in design firms: An investigation of critical success factors (2010)
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Purpose - The overall intent of this research is to identify critical factors influencing architects' and design engineers' (AE) motivational level in design firms. Design/methodology/approach - Motivational theories from the literature on organizati... Read More about Sustaining architects' and engineers' motivation in design firms: An investigation of critical success factors.

Lean competence: Integration of theories in operations management practice (2010)
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Purpose: This paper aims to develop a methodology for lean implementation that reduces the risk of damaging a company's key resources and abilities through the application of core competence theory. Design/methodology/approach: Academic literature pr... Read More about Lean competence: Integration of theories in operations management practice.

Talking heads: An interview with Ratan Jalan (2010)
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When in India do as the...: An insight into an Italian automotive company's experiences in India (2010)
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Purpose: The emergence of India as an economic power over recent years has created a need to understand the way in which business is carried out in that part of the world. It is also important to realize how businesses are founded and structured in I... Read More about When in India do as the...: An insight into an Italian automotive company's experiences in India.

Enterprise 2.0: the case of British Telecom (2010)
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Profiling an entrepreneurial family in the UK (2010)
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The purpose of this investigation is to profile a family in the U.K. whose members display entrepreneurial characteristics but are not engaged in a typical family-owned business. Of the 46 family members that are over the age of 18, 27 of them (59%)... Read More about Profiling an entrepreneurial family in the UK.

Making and mending your nets: Managing relevance, participation and uncertainty in academic-practitioner knowledge networks (2009)
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Making and mending your nets is concerned to examine, from an actor-network theory perspective, how the relevance debate concerning research and teaching is a significant non-human actor in the development and management of industry-academic networks... Read More about Making and mending your nets: Managing relevance, participation and uncertainty in academic-practitioner knowledge networks.