Outputs (19)

Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges (2019)
Journal Article
Whelan, G., De Bakker, F., & Muthuri, J. (2019). Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges. Management, 22(4), 636-663

Organizations need legitimacy to be able to operate effectively. Consequently, and just like their participants, Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) need to respond when faced with legitimacy challenges from external parties. We build on current the... Read More about Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges.

Opportunities, Challenges And Risks Of Transition Into Renewable Energy : The Case Study Of Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (2019)
Journal Article
Darwish, S., Abdo, H., & Alsabuwaiee, W. (2019). Opportunities, Challenges And Risks Of Transition Into Renewable Energy : The Case Study Of Arab Gulf Cooperation Council. International Energy Journal, 18(4), 391-400

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states have abounded underground fossil fuel resources and high potentials for renewable energy (RE). However, given the Peak Oil Theory and the international climate change regulations and protocols, investments... Read More about Opportunities, Challenges And Risks Of Transition Into Renewable Energy : The Case Study Of Arab Gulf Cooperation Council.

Organizational justice in Chinese banks: understanding the variable influence of guanxi on perceptions of fairness in performance appraisal (2019)
Journal Article
Gu, F., Nolan, J., & Rowley, C. (2020). Organizational justice in Chinese banks: understanding the variable influence of guanxi on perceptions of fairness in performance appraisal. Asia Pacific Business Review, 26(2), 168-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2019.1700622

Drawing on survey (n = 308) and interview (n = 22) data from three different types of banks in China, we found significant differences in perceptions of organizational justice in performance appraisal processes. The state-owned bank was perceived as... Read More about Organizational justice in Chinese banks: understanding the variable influence of guanxi on perceptions of fairness in performance appraisal.

Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review (2019)
Journal Article
Bjiboye, T., Harvey, J., & Resnick, S. (2019). Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review. Journal of Customer Behaviour, 18(3), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.1362/147539219X15774563471801

Customer engagement behaviours (CEB) on social media have the potential to strengthen relationships between firms and customers. However, there have been no systematic attempts to review the antecedents of CEB on social media despite wide recognition... Read More about Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review.

The importance of Interactive Network Branding for business relationship development: insights from emerging markets (2019)
Journal Article
Koporcic, N., & Ivanova-Gongne, M. (2020). The importance of Interactive Network Branding for business relationship development: insights from emerging markets. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 35(1), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-10-2018-0294

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the meaning of Interactive Network Branding (INB) and demonstrate its importance for business relationship development, within a cross-cultural context of emerging markets (EM). More specifically, it integrates th... Read More about The importance of Interactive Network Branding for business relationship development: insights from emerging markets.

Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms (2019)
Journal Article
Yekini, K. C., Adelopo, I., Wang, Y., & Song, S. (2019). Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms. Accounting Research Journal, 32(3), 477-495. https://doi.org/10.1108/arj-01-2017-0018

This study re-examines the factors that affect the level of Environmental Information Disclosures (EID) following the issuance of the “Environmental Information Disclosure Guidelines for Chinese Listed Companies”. The study is underpinned by stakehol... Read More about Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms.

Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ingram, C., Themistocleous, C., Rickly, J., & McCabe, S. (2019). Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller. In 12th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business: Business Management Theories and Practices in a Dynamic Competitive Environment (1673-1674)

England is the birthplace of many literature's well-know authors and their characters; be that Jane Austen and Elizabeth Bennet; Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist; or Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the UK has con... Read More about Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller.

Marketing literary England to the US traveller (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Themistocleous, C., Ingram, C., Rickly, J., & Mccabe, S. (2019). Marketing literary England to the US traveller.

This paper examines English literary tourism through the eyes of the bibliophile and non-bibliophile. It adopts an inductive between-subjects experimental design to investigate the likelihood of a general sample of the US population visiting literary... Read More about Marketing literary England to the US traveller.

Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers (2019)
Journal Article
Barrientos, S., Bianchi, L., & Berman, C. (2019). Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers. International Labour Review, 158(4), 729-752. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12150

Private governance channelled through social compliance programmes and gender initiatives of multinational companies (MNC) are ineffective in tackling gender discrimination in global value chains. The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and... Read More about Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers.

Review of studies on digital transaction platforms in marketing journals (2019)
Journal Article
Hänninen, M. (2019). Review of studies on digital transaction platforms in marketing journals. International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 30(2), 164-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593969.2019.1651380

© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Digital transaction platforms now intermediate a large number of transactions between end-customers and independent sellers and service providers in many parts of the economy. In retail,... Read More about Review of studies on digital transaction platforms in marketing journals.