Salford Business School

To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field (2014)
Book Chapter
Sandro, P. (2015). To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field. In M. Araszkiewicz, P. Banas, T. Gizbert-Studnicki, & K. Pleszka (Eds.), Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following (265-280). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09375-8_20

Among the most common strategies underlying the so-called indeterminacy thesis is the following two-step argument: (1) that law is an interpretive practice, and that evidently legal actors more generally hold different (and competing) theories of mea... Read More about To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field.

Examining the relationship between branding a place and sustainable development (2014)
Book Chapter
Maheshwari, V., Vandewalle, I., & Bamber, D. (2014). Examining the relationship between branding a place and sustainable development. In D. Deeter-Schmelz (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2010 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11797-3_161

There has been a steady increase in competition between places in terms of attracting tourists, businesses and investments, over the past few years (Kotler, et.al. 1993). This has made the marketing of places a key driver of the economic activities a... Read More about Examining the relationship between branding a place and sustainable development.

‘Vague de grève, croissance syndicale, bureaucratie et militants de base au Royaume-Uni (1889-1920)' (2014)
Book Chapter
Darlington, R. (2014). ‘Vague de grève, croissance syndicale, bureaucratie et militants de base au Royaume-Uni (1889-1920)'. In J. Vinel (Ed.), La gréve en exi?. Syndicalisme et démocratie aux États-Unis et en Europe de I’Ouest (xıx-xxı siècles), (131-169). Nancy: Les editions l’Arbre Bleu

Knowledge recovery : applications of technology and memory (2014)
Book Chapter
Burke, M., & Speed, C. (2014). Knowledge recovery : applications of technology and memory. In K. Michael, & M. Michael (Eds.), Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (133-142). IGI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4582-0.ch005

The ability to ‘write’ data to the internet via tags and barcodes offers a context in which objects will increasingly become a natural extension of the web. And as easy as the public was to adopt cloud based services to store address books, documents... Read More about Knowledge recovery : applications of technology and memory.

Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge (2014)
Book Chapter
Darlington, R. (2014). Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge. In H. Connolly, L. Kretsos, & C. Phelan (Eds.), Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation (68-88). Oxford: Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0599-9/6

Compared with the wave of general strikes that have swept across Europe since 2009, the response of UK trade unions to the global financial crisis and government austerity measures has been rather more muted. However, in March 2011 there was the larg... Read More about Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge.

Virtuality and humanity (2014)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2014). Virtuality and humanity. In M. Grimshaw (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Virtuality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199826162.013.023

This chapter discusses the key questions raised by its title—what should we understand by the terms virtuality, humanity, and, thereby, by the term reality? These questions are explored with reference to the work of philosophers such as Henri Bergson... Read More about Virtuality and humanity.

The cybersport nexus (2014)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2014). The cybersport nexus. In The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media (76-86). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203114711.ch7

Exercise machines increasingly incorporate computer-controlled motion and force feedback and will eventually become reactive robotic sports partners.…Today’s rudimentary, narrowband video games will evolve into physically engaging telesports.

The role of trade unions in building resistance: Theoretical, historical and comparative perspectives (2014)
Book Chapter
Darlington, R. (2014). The role of trade unions in building resistance: Theoretical, historical and comparative perspectives. In M. Atzeni (Ed.), Workers and Labour in a Gloablised Capitalism: Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues (111-138). Houndmills, Basinkstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution (2014)
Book Chapter
Alghamdi, S., & Percy, D. (2014). Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution. In S. Wu (Ed.), Proceedings of 8th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

In this study, we discuss the reliability equivalence factors of a series-parallel system with n series subsystems connected in parallel where subsystem i has m(i) independent and identically distributed components. We assume that each component has... Read More about Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution.

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