All Outputs (146)

The potential of responsible business to promote sustainable work – An analysis of CSR/ESG instruments (2023)
Journal Article
Torres, L., Ripa, D., Jain, A., Herrero, J., & Leka, S. (2023). The potential of responsible business to promote sustainable work – An analysis of CSR/ESG instruments. Safety Science, 164, Article 106151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106151

In the last few years important efforts have been made to rationalise the growing corporate sustainability or CSR/ESG standards field aiming at achieving some degree of harmonisation. Yet, these efforts might be unable to capture the diversity of CSR... Read More about The potential of responsible business to promote sustainable work – An analysis of CSR/ESG instruments.

Using Shopping Data to Improve the Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer: Computational Analysis of a Web-Based Survey (2023)
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Dolan, E., Goulding, J., Tata, L., & Lang, A. (2023). Using Shopping Data to Improve the Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer: Computational Analysis of a Web-Based Survey. JMIR Cancer, 9, Article e37141. https://doi.org/10.2196/37141

Background Shopping data can be analysed using machine learning techniques to study population health. It is unknown if use of such methods can successfully investigate pre-diagnosis purchases linked to self-medication of symptoms of ovarian cance... Read More about Using Shopping Data to Improve the Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer: Computational Analysis of a Web-Based Survey.

Female Board Representation as Determinant of Coupled Open Innovation: Evidence from Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises (2023)
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Attah-Boakye, R., Adams, K., Yu, H., & Johansson, J. (2023). Female Board Representation as Determinant of Coupled Open Innovation: Evidence from Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises. Technovation, 124, Article 102749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2023.102749

Little research has been done on female board representation in emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Our paper considers the role of female board representation and its impact on open innovation (OI) in the unique context of emerging ma... Read More about Female Board Representation as Determinant of Coupled Open Innovation: Evidence from Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises.

Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills (2023)
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Huntington, B., Goulding, J., & Pitchford, N. J. (2023). Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(5), 1273-1291. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13317

Interactive apps are commonly used to support the acquisition of foundational skills. Yet little is known about how pedagogical features of such apps affect learning outcomes, attainment and motivation—particularly when deployed in lower‐income conte... Read More about Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills.

Does national culture impact trade credit provision of SMEs? (2023)
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Hoang, C. H., Ly, K. C., Xiao, Q., & Zhang, X. (2023). Does national culture impact trade credit provision of SMEs?. Economic Modelling, 124, Article 106288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106288

Trade credit provision considerably varies from country to country, especially among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, there is scant literature on the determinants of such variations. Thus, this study determines how cultural diffe... Read More about Does national culture impact trade credit provision of SMEs?.

The viewer value co-creation process on sports live streaming platforms (2023)
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Liu, H., & Tan, K. H. (2023). The viewer value co-creation process on sports live streaming platforms. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 123(5), 1523-1547. https://doi.org/10.1108/imds-04-2022-0251

Purpose-The Sports Live Streaming Platforms (SLSPs) have taken centre stage in broadcasting sporting events. This study adopts the value creation sphere (VCS) model and the service dominant logic (SDL) to unpack the value co-creation process on SLSP... Read More about The viewer value co-creation process on sports live streaming platforms.

Gifts to whom? Towards a network view of gift receivers (2023)
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Branco-Illodo, I., Heath, T., & Tynan, C. (2023). Gifts to whom? Towards a network view of gift receivers. European Journal of Marketing, 57(10), 2860-2892. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-04-2022-0272

Purpose This research paper aims to understand how givers characterise and manage their gift giving networks by drawing on attachment theory (AT). This responds to the need to illuminate the givers–receivers’ networks beyond traditional role-based t... Read More about Gifts to whom? Towards a network view of gift receivers.

Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers? (2023)
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Achtzehn, S., Treanor, L., & Amess, K. (2023). Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers?. International Small Business Journal, 41(8), 801-824. https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426231158281

This article examines whether an enterprise education competition is gendered and so, may have unintended gendered outcomes for male and female Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) early-career researcher participants. Sex-based di... Read More about Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers?.

Minimizing total weighted latency in home healthcare routing and scheduling with patient prioritization (2023)
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Akbari, V., Sadati, I., Salman, F. S., & Shiri, D. (2023). Minimizing total weighted latency in home healthcare routing and scheduling with patient prioritization. OR Spectrum, 45, 807-852. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-023-00713-3

We study a home healthcare routing and scheduling problem, where multiple healthcare service provider teams should visit a given set of patients at their homes. The problem involves assigning each patient to a team and generating the routes of the te... Read More about Minimizing total weighted latency in home healthcare routing and scheduling with patient prioritization.

Government Intervention on Cooperative Development in Poor 2 areas of Rural China: A Case Study of XM Beekeeping Cooperative in Sichuan (2023)
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Zhang, S., Wu, B., Chena, R., Liang, J., Khan, N., & Ray, R. L. (2023). Government Intervention on Cooperative Development in Poor 2 areas of Rural China: A Case Study of XM Beekeeping Cooperative in Sichuan. Land, 12(4), Article 731. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040731

The relationship between government intervention and cooperative development has always been a source of controversy in the developing world. This paper aims to examine the rationale and successful conditions of government intervention to promote coo... Read More about Government Intervention on Cooperative Development in Poor 2 areas of Rural China: A Case Study of XM Beekeeping Cooperative in Sichuan.

Environmental performance and financial constraints in emerging markets (2023)
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Agyei-Boapeah, H., Ciftci, N., Malagila, J. K., Brodmann, J., & Fosu, S. (in press). Environmental performance and financial constraints in emerging markets. Accounting Forum, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2023.2169893

We examine how corporate environmental performance relates to financial constraints in an environment likely to face high global pressure to address climate change. Using multivariate regressions and a large dataset of over 8,500 firm-years from 24 e... Read More about Environmental performance and financial constraints in emerging markets.

Tracking the right path: Safety performance indicators as boundary objects in air ambulance services (2023)
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Hayes, J., Slotsvik, T. N., Macrae, C., & Gould, K. A. P. (2023). Tracking the right path: Safety performance indicators as boundary objects in air ambulance services. Safety Science, 163, Article 106139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106139

Indicators are used by most organizations to track their safety performance. Research attention has been drawn to what makes for a good indicator (specific, proactive, etc.) and the sometimes perverse and unexpected consequences of their introduction... Read More about Tracking the right path: Safety performance indicators as boundary objects in air ambulance services.

After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth (2023)
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Wittel, A., & Korczynski, M. (2023). After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth. The Commoner,

What does it mean to live with the threat of extinction? We make a case that living with the threat of extinction logically can only mean that we have to abandon the modernist ideology of progress. We review ideas of societal progress and note the de... Read More about After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth.

Sustainability Targets in Executive Remuneration Contracts and Corporate Sustainability Performance in the United Kingdom and European Union (2023)
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Nguyen, H. T. T., Ullah, S., Le, H. T. M., & Hameed, A. (2023). Sustainability Targets in Executive Remuneration Contracts and Corporate Sustainability Performance in the United Kingdom and European Union. Environment Systems and Decisions, 43, 393-415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-023-09901-6

This study investigates the impact of the integration of sustainability criteria in executive remuneration on corporate sustainability performance (CSP). The paper tests the pooled OLS models on a cross-country sample comprising 279 firms from 19 Eur... Read More about Sustainability Targets in Executive Remuneration Contracts and Corporate Sustainability Performance in the United Kingdom and European Union.

Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Responsibility (2023)
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Ali, H., Adegbite, E., & Nguyen, T. H. (2023). Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Responsibility. Business and Society, 62(7), 1496–1540. https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503231157725

This study investigates the pivotal policy question of whether a firm’s corporate governance influences its political spending disclosures. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms from 2011 to 2019, we find empirical evidence that a board of directors’ monit... Read More about Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Responsibility.

Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding (2023)
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Hayes, D., Camacho, E. M., Ronaldson, A., Stepanian, K., McPhilbin, M., Elliott, R. A., …Slade, M. (2024). Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 59, 759-768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02452-w

Purpose Recovery Colleges (RCs) have been implemented across England with wide variation in organisational characteristics. The purpose of this study is to describe RCs across England in terms of organisational and student characteristics, fidelit... Read More about Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding.

Low tariff on dirty goods—Environmental negligence or environmental concern? (2023)
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Marjit, S., & Mukherjee, A. (2023). Low tariff on dirty goods—Environmental negligence or environmental concern?. Review of International Economics, 31(4), 1246-1270. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12662

Shapiro (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021) conducts an in-depth empirical analysis to show that dirtier upstream goods face lower import tariffs than cleaner downstream goods. Inspired by that paper, we examine how the welfare maximizing tariffs... Read More about Low tariff on dirty goods—Environmental negligence or environmental concern?.

TMT functional background heterogeneity and SMEs’ performance: The role of dynamic capabilities and business environment (2023)
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Lu, Q., Meng, X., Su, J., Au Kai Ming, A., Wu, Y., & Wang, C. (2023). TMT functional background heterogeneity and SMEs’ performance: The role of dynamic capabilities and business environment. Journal of Business Research, 160, Article 113807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113807

Drawing on the insights from the upper echelons theory (UET), we advance the understanding of how top management team (TMT) functional background heterogeneity (TMTFBH) influences the performance of technology-based small- and medium-sized enterprise... Read More about TMT functional background heterogeneity and SMEs’ performance: The role of dynamic capabilities and business environment.

Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective (2023)
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Jia, Y., Su, J., Cui, L., Wu, L., & Hua Tan, K. (2023). Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective. Journal of Business Research, 160, Article 113818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113818

In the digitalization era, business model innovation (BMI) has become the critical keystone for platforms to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in turbulent environments. However, platform BMI is currently not clearly understood. Through a long... Read More about Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective.

Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains (2023)
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Kunz, N., Chesney, T., Trautrims, A., & Gold, S. (2023). Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains. International Journal of Production Economics, 258, Article 108809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108809

More than 50 million people in the world are estimated to be in a situation of modern slavery, the most extreme form of labour exploitation. Many of them are working in sectors such as mining and agriculture, which produce price-sensitive commodity p... Read More about Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains.