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How to Teach Large Groups (2025)
Book
Corcoran, A. (2025). How to Teach Large Groups. Edward Elgar Publishing

In this incisive How to guide, Andrew Corcoran explores strategies for teaching large groups of students across a diverse range of contexts. Chapters present innovative approaches to common challenges, delving into key questions such as how to cater... Read More about How to Teach Large Groups.

Grow to Last or Grow to Sell? Strategy Making and Narrative Identity Refocussing in Business Support Programmes (2025)
Journal Article
Greenman, A., Holstein, J., & Marlow, S. (in press). Grow to Last or Grow to Sell? Strategy Making and Narrative Identity Refocussing in Business Support Programmes. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development,

Venture growth creates tensions that, in turn, cause entrepreneurial identities (EI) to evolve as entrepreneurs have to engage with new forms of strategic thinking in order to scale up. However, little is known about these tensions inform emergent en... Read More about Grow to Last or Grow to Sell? Strategy Making and Narrative Identity Refocussing in Business Support Programmes.

A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities (2025)
Journal Article
Nyarko-Agyei, A., Moser, S., Seymour, R. G., Brewster, B., Li, S., Weir, E., Landman, T., Wyman, E., Torres, C. B., Fell, I., & Boyd, D. (2025). A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Article qlaf033. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlaf033

Effective policy and intervention strategies to combat human trafficking for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) production require accurate prevalence estimates. Traditional Network Scale Up Method (NSUM) models often necessitate stan-dalone s... Read More about A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities.

International Cooperation and Corporate Strategies: Accelerating Corporate Energy Transitions in Emerging Economies (2025)
Journal Article
Morrison, E. A., Chen, X. H., Kimani, D., & Adu, D. A. (2025). International Cooperation and Corporate Strategies: Accelerating Corporate Energy Transitions in Emerging Economies. Business Strategy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4349

Driven by the growing focus on decarbonisation and energy economic dynamics in emerging economies, this study examines the interplay between executive compensation (EC), sustainability-based compensation (SBC), board sustainability committee initiati... Read More about International Cooperation and Corporate Strategies: Accelerating Corporate Energy Transitions in Emerging Economies.

Voluntary Disclosures and Climate Change Uncertainty: Evidence from CDS Premiums (2025)
Journal Article
Imerman, M. B., Ye, X., & Zhao, R. (in press). Voluntary Disclosures and Climate Change Uncertainty: Evidence from CDS Premiums. Journal of Corporate Finance,

We examine the effect of voluntary climate risk disclosure on Credit Default Swap (CDS) premiums. We develop a structural model, in which climate-related disclosures serve as an information
source reducing climate change uncertainty. The model predi... Read More about Voluntary Disclosures and Climate Change Uncertainty: Evidence from CDS Premiums.

Scale and the parable of the ‘dishonest’ steward (2025)
Journal Article
Mckenzie, R. (2025). Scale and the parable of the ‘dishonest’ steward. Theology, 128(3), 196-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X251334746

This study of scale in quantities of oil and wheat contracts in Luke 16.1–9 provides an analysis of the size of farm necessary to supply such quantities. It also analyses supply in the main consumer market in Rome, examines scale within the gospel ca... Read More about Scale and the parable of the ‘dishonest’ steward.

How to Implement Digital Clinical Consultations in UK Maternity Care: the ARM@DA Realist Review (2025)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Clancy, G., Evans, K., Booth, A., Nazmeen, B., Sunney, C., Clowes, M., Jones, N. W., Timmons, S., & Spiby, H. (2025). How to Implement Digital Clinical Consultations in UK Maternity Care: the ARM@DA Realist Review. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 13(22), 1-78. https://doi.org/10.3310/WQFV7425

Background: Digital transformation is a key component within the NHS Maternity Transformation Programme. The Covid-19 pandemic led to an acceleration of digital innovation, in particular, the use of digital clinical consultations (telephone/video con... Read More about How to Implement Digital Clinical Consultations in UK Maternity Care: the ARM@DA Realist Review.

Relational coordination of state partnership with traditional birth attendants: soft partnering in Ghana's maternal and child healthcare context (2025)
Journal Article
Dugle, G., Bishop, S., & Muthuri, J. (2025). Relational coordination of state partnership with traditional birth attendants: soft partnering in Ghana's maternal and child healthcare context. Social Science and Medicine, 380, Article 118238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118238

Background: To address maternal and child mortality in resource-constrained settings, policies increasingly emphasise partnerships between state providers and traditional birth attendants (TBAs). Historically, relationships between TBAs and biomedica... Read More about Relational coordination of state partnership with traditional birth attendants: soft partnering in Ghana's maternal and child healthcare context.

Target product profiles for digital health technologies including those with artificial intelligence: a systematic review (2025)
Journal Article
Macdonald, T. B., Jeffry Hogg, H., Dinnes, J., Verrinder, L., Maniatopoulos, G., Taylor-Phillips, S., Shinkins, B., Kevin Dunbar, J., Lola Solebo, A., Sutton, H., Attwood, J., Pogose, M., Given-Wilson, R., Greaves, F., Macrae, C., Pearson, R., Tufail, A., Liu, X., & Denniston, A. K. (2025). Target product profiles for digital health technologies including those with artificial intelligence: a systematic review. Frontiers in Health Services, 5, Article 1537016. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2025.1537016

Digital health technologies (DHTs), including those incorporating artificial intelligence (AI), have the potential to improve healthcare access, efficiency, and quality, reducing gaps between healthcare capacity and demand. Despite prioritisation in... Read More about Target product profiles for digital health technologies including those with artificial intelligence: a systematic review.

Understanding CSR in Complex Supply Chains: Insights from Bayesian Models and Machine Learning (2025)
Journal Article
Ullah, M., Huang, X., Wang, L., & Ullah, S. (in press). Understanding CSR in Complex Supply Chains: Insights from Bayesian Models and Machine Learning. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management,

This study examines the relationship of key variables in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in supply chains with the focus being buyers' operational slack, customer bargaining power, and industrial dynamism as a moderator. Employing Bayesian Hier... Read More about Understanding CSR in Complex Supply Chains: Insights from Bayesian Models and Machine Learning.

Environmental Policy in Vertical Chains with Endogenous Technology Portfolio (2025)
Journal Article
Basak, D., & Chioveanu, I. (in press). Environmental Policy in Vertical Chains with Endogenous Technology Portfolio. Energy Economics,

We analyse the impact of environmental policy in a supply chain where an upstream monopo-list uses a mixed portfolio, consisting of a polluting and a green technology. We examine and compare a no-intervention benchmark, a green subsidy, an abatement... Read More about Environmental Policy in Vertical Chains with Endogenous Technology Portfolio.

Insidious institutional challenges of mature MNE subsidiaries operating in weak institutional markets: Corporate governance to the rescue (2025)
Journal Article
Nakpodia, F., Ashiru, F., Adegbite, E., & Koporcic, N. (2025). Insidious institutional challenges of mature MNE subsidiaries operating in weak institutional markets: Corporate governance to the rescue. Journal of International Management, Article 101258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2025.101258

Insidious institutional challenges are unknown versions of known challenges that exist and persist even for mature multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host markets. Although the international business literature offers valuable insights into the sign... Read More about Insidious institutional challenges of mature MNE subsidiaries operating in weak institutional markets: Corporate governance to the rescue.

Experiences and knowledge of nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists about certifying fit notes: a UK-wide survey (2025)
Journal Article
Kettlewell, J., Trusson, D., Powers, K., Drummond, A., Anderson, C., Phillips, G., Holmes, J., Radford, K., Pahl, N., Martin, S., Timmons, S., & Kendrick, D. (2025). Experiences and knowledge of nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists about certifying fit notes: a UK-wide survey. BMJ Open, 15(5), Article e092211. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092211

Objective To identify facilitators and barriers to fit note certification among nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists (NOPPs), and identify ongoing training needs.

Design An online survey informed by the Theoretical Dom... Read More about Experiences and knowledge of nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists about certifying fit notes: a UK-wide survey.

Private equity buyout pricing, returns, and portfolio firm performance across UK regions (2025)
Journal Article
Lavery, P., Amess, K., & Spaliara, M. (in press). Private equity buyout pricing, returns, and portfolio firm performance across UK regions. British Accounting Review,

Prior empirical investigations of private equity activity indicates that it is concentrated in central financial hubs. Using comprehensive UK data on deal valuations, companies' financial performance, and estimates of returns on buyout transactions,... Read More about Private equity buyout pricing, returns, and portfolio firm performance across UK regions.

Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability (2025)
Journal Article
Carbone, V., McCarthy, L., & Touboulic, A. (2025). Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability. European Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2025.04.015

In this reflection piece, we discuss the urgency of transforming business school education in the context of the climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. We unpack prevailing problematic assumptions in business school education and propose a refl... Read More about Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability.

How Were Patient Safety Incidents Responded to, Investigated, and Learned From Within the English National Health Service Before the Implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework? A Rapid Review (2025)
Journal Article
Louch, G., Macrae, C., Talbot, R., McHugh, S., & O'Hara, J. K. (2025). How Were Patient Safety Incidents Responded to, Investigated, and Learned From Within the English National Health Service Before the Implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework? A Rapid Review. Journal of Patient Safety, https://doi.org/10.1097/PTS.0000000000001349

Objective:

To understand how National Health Service organizations routinely responded to, investigated, and learned from patient safety incidents in England before the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, and to iden... Read More about How Were Patient Safety Incidents Responded to, Investigated, and Learned From Within the English National Health Service Before the Implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework? A Rapid Review.

A Review of Social Marketing Efforts in Sri Lanka (2025)
Journal Article
Gallage, H. P. S., Tissera, H., & Sanchez Campos, P. (2025). A Review of Social Marketing Efforts in Sri Lanka. Social Marketing Quarterly, 31(2), 178-194

Background of the Country
Sri Lanka is an island nation in South Asia, classified as a lower-middle-income country with a population of 22 million. The country has faced numerous challenges, including a civil war, political unrest, and the overthro... Read More about A Review of Social Marketing Efforts in Sri Lanka.

The Business of Poverty in Africa: Inside the Travel Philanthropy System (2025)
Book
Scarth, A., & Novelli, M. (2025). The Business of Poverty in Africa: Inside the Travel Philanthropy System. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003497929

This timely and thought-provoking book critically explores key theories, concepts and contemporary issues associated with the travel philanthropy phenomenon and within the debates of sustainable development in Africa. Since the Band Aid era in 1984,... Read More about The Business of Poverty in Africa: Inside the Travel Philanthropy System.

Welfare Enhancing Time Consistent Environmental Policies in fixed-numbers and free-entry Oligopolies (2025)
Journal Article
Basak, D., Petrakis, E., & Xepapadeas, A. (in press). Welfare Enhancing Time Consistent Environmental Policies in fixed-numbers and free-entry Oligopolies. Canadian Journal of Economics,

This paper examines how the government's ability to commit, or not, to a specific emission tax level impacts environmental innovation and social welfare in fixed-numbers and free-entry oligopolies. We show that when the market is relatively concentra... Read More about Welfare Enhancing Time Consistent Environmental Policies in fixed-numbers and free-entry Oligopolies.

Workforce Age Diversity and the Intensity of Inventive Activities in Universities (2025)
Journal Article
Chapman, G., Nasirov, S., Hughes, M., & Hughes, P. (in press). Workforce Age Diversity and the Intensity of Inventive Activities in Universities. Journal of Technology Transfer,

Universities are increasingly tasked with fulfilling a "third mission"-driving economic growth through knowledge creation and innovation, with inventive activities serving as an important mechanism to achieve this mission. This research investigates... Read More about Workforce Age Diversity and the Intensity of Inventive Activities in Universities.