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Unlocking the power of diversity for supply chain knowledge: Is pluralism in theorizing styles the key? (2024)
Journal Article
Cornelissen, J., Stephens, V., & Matthews, L. (2024). Unlocking the power of diversity for supply chain knowledge: Is pluralism in theorizing styles the key?. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 60(3), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12328

The authors reflect on the opportunities for diversity in supply chain research by examining the prevalent modes of theorizing in the field. This examination focuses on identifying common styles of theorizing in supply chain management research, whic... Read More about Unlocking the power of diversity for supply chain knowledge: Is pluralism in theorizing styles the key?.

Smell the Perfume: Can Blockchain Guarantee the Provenance of Key Product Ingredients in the Fragrance Industry? (2024)
Journal Article
MacCarthy, B. L., Das, S., & Ahmed, W. A. H. (2024). Smell the Perfume: Can Blockchain Guarantee the Provenance of Key Product Ingredients in the Fragrance Industry?. Sustainability, 16(14), Article 6217. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16146217

Although many studies have proclaimed the potential benefits of blockchain technology for supply chain traceability, there are very few examples of successfully scaled blockchain traceability solutions. Here, we examine the challenges in adopting blo... Read More about Smell the Perfume: Can Blockchain Guarantee the Provenance of Key Product Ingredients in the Fragrance Industry?.

Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment (2024)
Journal Article
Beck, V., Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2024). Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241254794

Underemployment is a widely discussed but complex concept. This article progresses discussions and provides a new sociological conceptualisation. It builds on a classic theory of unemployment, Jahoda et al.’s ‘latent deprivation theory’ (LDT), that i... Read More about Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment.

Small- and medium-sized enterprises' carbon footprint reduction initiatives as a catalyst for green jobs: A systematic review and comprehensive business strategy agenda (2024)
Journal Article
Olekanma, O., Rodrigo, L. S., Adu, D. A., & Gahir, B. (in press). Small- and medium-sized enterprises' carbon footprint reduction initiatives as a catalyst for green jobs: A systematic review and comprehensive business strategy agenda. Business Strategy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3846

Motivated by the growing attention on climate change, this study provides an up-to-date and comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR) on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) carbon footprint reduction initiatives and green jobs. Based on... Read More about Small- and medium-sized enterprises' carbon footprint reduction initiatives as a catalyst for green jobs: A systematic review and comprehensive business strategy agenda.

The relationship between heterogeneous institutional investors' shareholdings and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Jin, X. M., Ly, K. C., & Mai, Y. (2024). The relationship between heterogeneous institutional investors' shareholdings and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China. Research in International Business and Finance, 71, Article 102457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102457

This study examines the relationship between a company's Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) performance and the relevant institutional investors' shareholdings. The findings indicate that institutional investors' shareholding has a... Read More about The relationship between heterogeneous institutional investors' shareholdings and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China.

Technological disruption and patent activities: adoption of robots by Chinese manufacturing firms (2024)
Journal Article
Zhou, P., Zhang, J., & Jiang, K. (2025). Technological disruption and patent activities: adoption of robots by Chinese manufacturing firms. R&D Management, 55(2), 303-325. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12701

Using a panel of manufacturing firms in China for the period 2006 to 2015, this study investigates how the adoption of industrial robots, as a technological disruption, affects firm patent activities through intra-industry interactions (robot adoptio... Read More about Technological disruption and patent activities: adoption of robots by Chinese manufacturing firms.

‘Involuntary exit for personal reasons’ – A gendered critique of the business exit decision (2024)
Journal Article
Swail, J., & Marlow, S. (2024). ‘Involuntary exit for personal reasons’ – A gendered critique of the business exit decision. International Small Business Journal, 42(8), 966-983. https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426241256266

Women are more likely to exit from entrepreneurship for personal reasons; such exits are deemed uneventful and voluntary. We critically evaluate such assumptions by adopting a gendered critique to unpack the nature of such personal reasons arguing th... Read More about ‘Involuntary exit for personal reasons’ – A gendered critique of the business exit decision.

'A huge political experiment' - exploring the political brand positioning of political parties in Jersey from an internal-external perspective (2024)
Journal Article
Pich, C., Reardon, J., & Armannsdottir, A. (2024). 'A huge political experiment' - exploring the political brand positioning of political parties in Jersey from an internal-external perspective. Journal of Marketing Communications, https://doi.org/10.1080/13527266.2024.2361657

A political brand aims to project a differentiated and identifiable position in the minds of voters. However, there is limited understanding on the envisaged and realised positioning of political 'party' brands particularly in under-explored contexts... Read More about 'A huge political experiment' - exploring the political brand positioning of political parties in Jersey from an internal-external perspective.

Audit committees in transition: evaluating the effectiveness of corporate governance in Libya’s banking sector (2024)
Journal Article
Masli, A. M., Meftah Gerged, A., & Mangena, M. (2024). Audit committees in transition: evaluating the effectiveness of corporate governance in Libya’s banking sector. Corporate Governance, 24(7), 1724-1745. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-07-2023-0291

Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the perspectives of key stakeholders on strategies to improve the effectiveness of audit committees (ACs) in African economies, with a specific focus on the Libyan banking sector. Design/m... Read More about Audit committees in transition: evaluating the effectiveness of corporate governance in Libya’s banking sector.

Value-added Services and E-commerce Platform Competitiveness: A Game Theoretic Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Du, X., Li, W., Cui, L., Jia, Y., & Wu, L. (2024). Value-added Services and E-commerce Platform Competitiveness: A Game Theoretic Approach. Kybernetes, https://doi.org/10.1108/K-08-2023-1480

Purpose-In response to the intense competition in the platform economy, e-commerce platforms are actively introducing value-added services to maintain their competitiveness. However, how effective these value-added services are in fulfilling this pur... Read More about Value-added Services and E-commerce Platform Competitiveness: A Game Theoretic Approach.

Predicting Healthy Start Scheme Uptake using Deprivation and Food Insecurity Measures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Makokoro, K., Long, G., Harvey, J., Smith, A., Welham, S., Mansilla, R., Lukinova, E., & Goulding, J. (2024, May). Predicting Healthy Start Scheme Uptake using Deprivation and Food Insecurity Measures. Presented at 2nd Digital Footprints Conference: Linking Digital Data for Social Impact, Bristol, UK

Utilising User Data from a Food-Sharing App to Evidence the "Heat-or-Eat" Dilemma (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Semple, T., Harvey, J., Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., Figueredo, G., & Nica-Avram, G. (2024, May). Utilising User Data from a Food-Sharing App to Evidence the "Heat-or-Eat" Dilemma. Presented at 2nd Digital Footprints Conference: Linking Digital Data for Social Impact, Bristol, UK

Introduction & Background
Previous literature has found that financially vulnerable households often make involuntary spending trade-offs between necessities, particularly energy and food. This effect is especially pronounced during winter, when hom... Read More about Utilising User Data from a Food-Sharing App to Evidence the "Heat-or-Eat" Dilemma.

Foodinsecurity.london: Developing a food-insecurity prevalence map for London - a machine learning from food-sharing footprints (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milligan, G., Nica-Avram, G., Harvey, J., & Goulding, J. (2024, May). Foodinsecurity.london: Developing a food-insecurity prevalence map for London - a machine learning from food-sharing footprints. Presented at 2nd Digital Footprints Conference: Linking Digital Data for Social Impact, Bristol, UK

Introduction & Background
The ability of policymakers to positively transform food environments requires robust empirical evidence that can inform decisions. At present, there is limited data on food-insecurity in the UK that can be used to inform i... Read More about Foodinsecurity.london: Developing a food-insecurity prevalence map for London - a machine learning from food-sharing footprints.

Leveraging multiple digital footprint datasets to predict racial, sex-based, and sexual-orientation bias across US states (2024)
Journal Article
Derecki, R., O'Shea, B., & Goulding, J. (2024). Leveraging multiple digital footprint datasets to predict racial, sex-based, and sexual-orientation bias across US states. International Journal of Population Data Science, 9(4), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v9i4.2429

Introduction & Background
Racial, gender, and sexual-orientation biases are pervasive throughout society. Importantly, modern digitally oriented datasets can elucidate important societal variables and potential solutions. One contemporary theory tha... Read More about Leveraging multiple digital footprint datasets to predict racial, sex-based, and sexual-orientation bias across US states.

A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs (2024)
Journal Article
Treanor, L., & Marlow, S. (2025). A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 37(1-2), 92-112 . https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2362838

This article critically analyzes the influence of gendered ascriptions and assumptions upon support offered by female business incubation (BI) managers to female STEM entrepreneurs. We draw upon the concept of nudges to illustrate how female managers... Read More about A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs.

Doing right at home: Do hometown CEOs curb corporate misconduct? (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Hong, J., Zhong, W., Wang, C., & Liu, X. (2024). Doing right at home: Do hometown CEOs curb corporate misconduct?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 205, Article 123461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123461

While prior conceptualizations acknowledge that CEOs' psychological traits influence their decision making and organizational outcomes, it remains unclear whether and how hometown identity as an important character of CEOs affects corporate misconduc... Read More about Doing right at home: Do hometown CEOs curb corporate misconduct?.

Would You Like to Trade Your Energy? A Comparative Survey Experiment on Energy Trading Platforms (2024)
Journal Article
Steadman, S., Bennato, A. R., & Giulietti, M. (2024). Would You Like to Trade Your Energy? A Comparative Survey Experiment on Energy Trading Platforms. The Energy Journal, 45(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.45.3.sste

As energy markets become more decentralised, energy trading platforms are emerging as useful tools to facilitate the coordination of energy consumption and generation , encouraging a more efficient use of renewable energy by residential producers and... Read More about Would You Like to Trade Your Energy? A Comparative Survey Experiment on Energy Trading Platforms.

Is the HMRC Charter Fit for Purpose? Experiences of Tax Practitioners and Vulnerable Citizens (2024)
Journal Article
Closs-Davies, S., Burkinshaw, L., & Frecknall-Hughes, J. (2024). Is the HMRC Charter Fit for Purpose? Experiences of Tax Practitioners and Vulnerable Citizens. British Tax Review, 2024(2), 271-293

Interactions with His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) should accord with the principles outlined in HMRC's 2023 Charter, 1 e.g. "Getting things right"; "Making things easy"; "Being responsive"; "Treating you fairly"; "Being aware of your personal... Read More about Is the HMRC Charter Fit for Purpose? Experiences of Tax Practitioners and Vulnerable Citizens.

Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (2024). Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 26(3), Article e12701. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12701

We consider a bilateral monopoly where a linear input price is determined by Nash bargaining. We show with an increasing marginal cost of input production that vertical integration reduces consumer surplus and welfare compared to bilateral monopoly i... Read More about Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining.