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Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) (2023)
Report
Jackson, B., Bosatta, L., & Schwarz, K. (2023). Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office). Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK)

Submission to the UK Government call for evidence (led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) International Development White Paper, September 2023. Response to questions submitted by the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham. Responses... Read More about Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).

Reflections on Peer Interviewing among Paid, Migrant, Live-in Carers in London (2023)
Journal Article
Hewitt, S., Ahlberg, M., Davies, D., Emberson, C., Hussein, S., Milankovics, K., & Turnpenny, A. (2023). Reflections on Peer Interviewing among Paid, Migrant, Live-in Carers in London. British Journal of Social Work, 53(3), 1552-1560. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad043

We have chosen to write about our experiences of peer research among paid, migrant, live in carers in London. The role of a live-in carer is a unique employment arrangement where there are very few legal guidelines and a lack of clear boundaries and... Read More about Reflections on Peer Interviewing among Paid, Migrant, Live-in Carers in London.

Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers (2023)
Book
Little, G., Sharp, E., Stevenson, H., & Wilson, D. (2023). Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers. Pluto Press

The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today. This... Read More about Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers.

Towards a model of port-based resilience against fisher labour exploitation (2022)
Journal Article
Phelan, K., Gardner, A., Selig, E. R., & Sparks, J. L. D. (2022). Towards a model of port-based resilience against fisher labour exploitation. Marine Policy, 142, Article 105108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105108

Fishers have pronounced vulnerabilities to labour exploitation and modern slavery. Regulatory efforts to mitigate fisher labour exploitation through domestic modern slavery legislation, and through the ratification and implementation of The Internati... Read More about Towards a model of port-based resilience against fisher labour exploitation.

Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities (2021)
Journal Article
Myers, M., & Bhopal, K. (2021). Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(5-6), 701-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1941763

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of the competition for economic, social and cultural capitals within educational fields, this article reports empirical research from 49 in-depth interviews with graduate students at four elite universities in th... Read More about Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities.

Designing Hybrid Gifts (2020)
Journal Article
Koleva, B., Spence, J., Benford, S., Kwon, H., Schnädelbach, H., Thorn, E., …Lane, G. (2020). Designing Hybrid Gifts. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(5), 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3398193

Hybrid gifting combines physical artefacts and experiences with digital interactivity to generate new kinds of gifts. Our review details how gifting is a complex social phenomenon and how digital gifting is less engaging than physical gifting for bot... Read More about Designing Hybrid Gifts.

Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity (2020)
Journal Article
Chemmanur, T. J., Gupta, M., & Simonyan, K. (2020). Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720918827

Using hand-collected data on top management team human capital (“top management quality”) of a large venture-backed private firm sample, we analyze the relation between top management team quality and pre-initial public offering (IPO) innovation prod... Read More about Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity.

Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market (2019)
Journal Article
Coslor, E., Crawford, B., & Leyshon, A. (2020). Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market. Organization Studies, 41(7), 945-967 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619883371

This research examines gatekeepers' categorization work to assess and sort audience members. Using a multi-sited ethnography and interpretivist qualitative lens, we explore how high-value art gallerists sort buyers via categories, but also encourage... Read More about Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market.

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.

Social representations of marketing work: advertising workers and social media (2019)
Journal Article
Cluley, R., & Green, W. (2019). Social representations of marketing work: advertising workers and social media. European Journal of Marketing, 53(5), 830-847. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-12-2016-0682

© 2019, Robert Cluley and William Green. Purpose: Informed by social representation theory, the study aims to explore how marketing workers represent their activities on social media. Design/methodology/approach: A naturalistic data set of 17,553 mes... Read More about Social representations of marketing work: advertising workers and social media.

Joining Standards Organizations: the role of R&D expenditures, patents, and the product-market position (2018)
Working Paper
Baron, J., Li, C., & Nasirov, S. (2018). Joining Standards Organizations: the role of R&D expenditures, patents, and the product-market position

This paper studies collaborative innovation in the context of developing open technology standards coordinated by standards organizations. Using longitudinal data from the world's largest R&D investors matched with membership information from 180 sta... Read More about Joining Standards Organizations: the role of R&D expenditures, patents, and the product-market position.

Once upon a time there was a consumer…: stories of magic and the magic of stories (2016)
Journal Article
Heath, T., & Heath, M. (2016). Once upon a time there was a consumer…: stories of magic and the magic of stories. Journal of Marketing Management, 32(9-10), 811-826. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2016.1189450

This paper explores how the centrality of narrative to people’s understandings of the world, and the power of stories of enchantment in particular, colour consumer culture. Specifically, it analyses the ways in which fantastic themes of magic and her... Read More about Once upon a time there was a consumer…: stories of magic and the magic of stories.