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From calculator to computer - a critical review of employment tribunals and their impact upon the management of workers (2015)
Book Chapter
Lord, J. (2015). From calculator to computer - a critical review of employment tribunals and their impact upon the management of workers. In ECMLG 2015 11th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance Lisbon Portugal (225-233). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited

The Employment Tribunal Service (ETS) is an alternative to internal workplace dispute resolution, which has facilitated a fluctuating increase in claims since the tribunals were established in 1964. Figures from the ETS annual report (2013) show 191,... Read More about From calculator to computer - a critical review of employment tribunals and their impact upon the management of workers.

A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems (2015)
Book Chapter
Percy, D. (2015). A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems. In M. Wright (Ed.), Operational Research Applied to Sports (181-200). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

The International Badminton Federation recently introduced rule changes to make the game faster and more entertaining, by influencing how players score points and win games. We assess the fairness of both systems by applying combinatorics, probabilit... Read More about A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems.

Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2015). Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction. In D. Kreps (Ed.), Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (1-9). Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing

In this introduction, by way of presenting a review of the scant pre-existing literature I have been able to find which considers the work of Gramsci and Foucault together, I attempt firstly to set out a conceptual framework by which the reader may s... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction.

The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual? (2015)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2015). The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual?. In D. Kreps (Ed.), Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (171-181). Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing

What if there were a suitably Gramscian totalizing – and scientific– approach to understanding social systems, which nonetheless escaped all the reductionist, scientistic pitfalls a deconstructive and poststructuralist Foucauldian would be wont to po... Read More about The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual?.

A conceptual model for IT Governance : a case study research (2015)
Book Chapter
Janahi, L., Griffiths, M., & Al-Ammal, H. (2015). A conceptual model for IT Governance : a case study research. In Computer Vision and Image Analysis Applications (ICCVIA), 2015 International Conference on 23-24 March 2015 (1-11). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVIA.2015.7351894

The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of Information Technology (IT) Governance models for public organizations and presenting an IT Governance model that can be adopted by both practitioners and researchers. A review of the liter... Read More about A conceptual model for IT Governance : a case study research.

Mobile financial services at the base of the pyramid : a systemic view for cross-sector governance and embedded innovation (2015)
Book Chapter
a systemic view for cross-sector governance and embedded innovation. In J. Zhao, P. De Pablos, & R. Tennyson (Eds.), Organizational Innovation and IT Governance in Emerging Economies (46-82). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7332-8.ch003

Mobile financial services is one of the uprising movements to bank the unbanked by integrating philanthropic and business approaches for financial inclusion. In this paper, we address how a systemic view help integrate the Philan... Read More about Mobile financial services at the base of the pyramid : a systemic view for cross-sector governance and embedded innovation.