All Outputs (1877)

Corporate strategy, political contributions and corporate risk-taking (2023)
Journal Article
Halari, A., Ahmad, S., Ullah, S., & Amankwah-Amoah, J. (2023). Corporate strategy, political contributions and corporate risk-taking. Corporate Governance, 23(7), 1484-1505. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-07-2022-0310

Purpose: Despite the importance and prevalence of corporate political activities in modern organizations, there remains limited insight on the potential relationship between political contributions and companies’ risk-taking activities. This study ai... Read More about Corporate strategy, political contributions and corporate risk-taking.

Unconventional luxury: The reappropriation of time and substance (2023)
Journal Article
Malone, S., Tynan, C., & McKechnie, S. (2023). Unconventional luxury: The reappropriation of time and substance. Journal of Business Research, 163, Article 113939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113939

This study addresses the transformational role time and substance play in an unconventional luxury experience. Adopting a giving, as opposed to having, perspective of unconventional luxury, in-depth interviews were carried out with tourists in a luxu... Read More about Unconventional luxury: The reappropriation of time and substance.

The role of capabilities in digital service development and delivery: the case of start-up organisations (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, G., & Ravishankar, M. N. (2024). The role of capabilities in digital service development and delivery: the case of start-up organisations. Information Technology and People, 37(3), 1156-1184. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-05-2021-0404

Purpose: Digital technologies create myriad innovation opportunities and have inspired the establishment of many new start-ups in recent years. Despite the growing knowledge on digital entrepreneurship, few studies explore how start-ups exploit these... Read More about The role of capabilities in digital service development and delivery: the case of start-up organisations.

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)
Journal Article
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.

A cautionary tale: Lessons from the strategic use of financial reporting (2023)
Book Chapter
Lucas, G. J. M., & Klangboonkrong, T. (2023). A cautionary tale: Lessons from the strategic use of financial reporting. In Measuring sustainability and CSR: From reporting to decision-making (133-140). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26959-2_13

Sustainability and CSR reporting has been undergoing a rapid development due to the increasing relevance of sustainability and CSR considerations for investors and other stakeholders. As sustainability and CSR reporting develops a similar level of so... Read More about A cautionary tale: Lessons from the strategic use of financial reporting.

Female Board Representation as Determinant of Coupled Open Innovation: Evidence from Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises (2023)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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?.

Gifts to whom? Towards a network view of gift receivers (2023)
Journal Article
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.

The viewer value co-creation process on sports live streaming platforms (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Minimizing total weighted latency in home healthcare routing and scheduling with patient prioritization (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers? (2023)
Journal Article
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?.

Introducing the Charter For Inclusive Entrepreneurship (2023)
Report
Treanor, L., & Burkinshaw, H. (2023). Introducing the Charter For Inclusive Entrepreneurship. University of Nottingham

Entrepreneurship is vital for innovation, job creation, and economic growth. It can also support social inclusion by offering individuals opportunities to create employment for themselves and within their community while also contributing to socia... Read More about Introducing the Charter For Inclusive Entrepreneurship.

Government Intervention on Cooperative Development in Poor 2 areas of Rural China: A Case Study of XM Beekeeping Cooperative in Sichuan (2023)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs (2023)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (in press). Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,

The role of knowledge spillover for cooperative research and development (R&D), where firms commit before R&D about sharing R&D outcomes and choosing joint profit maximising R&D investments, is well known. In a duopoly model of product innovation wit... Read More about Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs.

After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth (2023)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.