Outputs (287)

How does music as a digital service affect consumer attitude and behaviour? (2016)
Journal Article

Digital technologies allow users to share files, which in some circumstances violates property rights and constitutes consumer misbehaviour. This form of behaviour, often called piracy, is cited as causing revenue loss to the creative industries. Exi... Read More about How does music as a digital service affect consumer attitude and behaviour?.

Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview (2012)
Journal Article

The 2011 Grand Challenge in Service conference aimed to explore, analyse and evaluate complex service systems. A case scenario, improving the perception of safety in the London Borough of Sutton, provided a common context to link participant contribu... Read More about Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview.

Determinants of audit committees' activity: Evidence from the UK (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to revisit the determinants of audit committee activity in UK listed companies after over a decade since the last investigation of this matter and with numerous significant changes in the regulatory and corporat... Read More about Determinants of audit committees' activity: Evidence from the UK.

Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens (2012)
Journal Article

Management innovation is a complex and dynamic process of organizational change that is not well understood. Drawing from the innovation and organizational change literatures, and using project management as an example of one particular form of manag... Read More about Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens.

Cultural impacts in project organisations: Emerging research questions (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Svetlana will bring her critical perspective to an examination of culture in projects. She will highlight the importance of the relational in manifestations of project cultures through looking at issues of agency, risk and social psychology of trust.... Read More about Cultural impacts in project organisations: Emerging research questions.

Selection and ranking of low cost countries for outsourcing and offshoring in the manufacturing sector (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With the advent of globalisation, there is a need for companies to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. Outsourcing and offshoring are strategies often employed by organisations to sustain and gain such competitive advantage. This paper focuses... Read More about Selection and ranking of low cost countries for outsourcing and offshoring in the manufacturing sector.

Project management implementations as management innovation- A closer look? (2013)
Book

Developing better theory about project organizations (2013)
Journal Article

Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors (2013)
Journal Article

The overall aim of this paper is to identify critical success factors that would help Private Finance Initiative/facility management (PFI/FM) contractors to avoid performance failure payment deductions in Public Private Partnership/PFI (PPP/PFI) proj... Read More about Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors.

Analysis of architects' demotivating factors in design firms (2013)
Journal Article

The overall aim of this study is to identify factors that influence architects' demotivation in design firms. After a review of extant literatures in design management, project management, and organisational behaviour, a list of 43 demotivating crite... Read More about Analysis of architects' demotivating factors in design firms.

The impact of cross-cultural factors on heavy engineering projects: Case Kenya and UK (2013)
Journal Article

The effect of cross-cultural uncertainty and complexity within multicultural construction teams (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges faced by senior construction managers in managing cross-cultural complexity and uncertainty. The rationale was to identify the key strategies that are considered essential for managing cros... Read More about The effect of cross-cultural uncertainty and complexity within multicultural construction teams.

An appraisal of the management of construction projects in Kenya: Key issues and the way forward (2013)
Journal Article

Enterprise imaging: Representing complex multi-organizational service enterprises (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a visualization method developed as a result of an observed need to capture the organizational arrangements of a complex engineering service enterprise. The focal case study is between a public sector... Read More about Enterprise imaging: Representing complex multi-organizational service enterprises.

A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK (2013)
Book Chapter

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013. Fierce competition and more complex customer needs and demands have forced organizations to continuously improve their operations and the quality of their products and services. Over the last deca... Read More about A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK.

Dependability a key element for achieving competitive advantage: A study of information service firms (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013. In the current economic climate and intense competitive environment achieving sustainable competitive advantage has become vital for any organisation’s survival. Organisations around th... Read More about Dependability a key element for achieving competitive advantage: A study of information service firms.

Music business models and piracy (2013)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the scale of illegal file-sharing activity across ten countries and to correlate this activity with country revenues. The work aims to elucidate an under-explored business model challenge which exists in paral... Read More about Music business models and piracy.

Leadership, vision, strategy, and the art of publishing in India: An interview with the legendary Tejeshwar Singh of Sage Publications (India) (2013)
Journal Article

This work highlights the experiences of the founder of a well-known publishing company and the revelations he had in this journey with the specific context of India, challenges he faced, his vision, business model, and his philosophy of management. T... Read More about Leadership, vision, strategy, and the art of publishing in India: An interview with the legendary Tejeshwar Singh of Sage Publications (India).

Organizational change, restructuring, innovation, modeling, and industrial linkages: A pioneering engineering institute in India (2013)
Journal Article

Термен не мрет: A fractional biography of failure (2013)
Journal Article

Peter Hitchcock has described the subject of this paper as ‘the story of the twentieth century’. Lev Termen (commonly anglicized as Leon Theremin) was a musician, inventor, entrepreneur and espionage agent who developed the Theremin, an early elec... Read More about Термен не мрет: A fractional biography of failure.