Salford Business School

Rating players in test match cricket (2015)
Journal Article
Akhtar, S., Scarf, P., & Rasool, Z. (2015). Rating players in test match cricket. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 66, 684-695. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2014.30

In general, the evaluation of player performance in test cricket is based on measures
such as batting and bowling averages. These measures have a number of limitations, among which
is that they fail to take into account the context in which runs ar... Read More about Rating players in test match cricket.

Analysing deviation-from-target data : Applying the correct force in Sellick’s maneuver (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R., Taylor, R., Smurthwaite, G., Kitchen, G., & Mehmood, I. (2015). Analysing deviation-from-target data : Applying the correct force in Sellick’s maneuver. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 25(4), 619-634. https://doi.org/10.1080/10543406.2014.920872

The problem of comparing the deviation from a target of two or more treatments or procedures
arises now and again in medicine. Practitioners usually carry out a t-test on a loss
function such as absolute error. We have adapted and developed statist... Read More about Analysing deviation-from-target data : Applying the correct force in Sellick’s maneuver.

Responding to the needs of students who are carers on an undergraduate occupational therapy programme at one UK university (2015)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Higginson, M., Pickering, V., & Percy, D. (2015). Responding to the needs of students who are carers on an undergraduate occupational therapy programme at one UK university. Student engagement and experience journal, 4(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.7190/seej.v4i1.92

The purpose of the study was to explore the experiences of students on an undergraduate occupational therapy degree programme who have caring responsibilities. It was a mixed methods study, including a questionnaire to identify students who are carer... Read More about Responding to the needs of students who are carers on an undergraduate occupational therapy programme at one UK university.

Examining Chinese tourists’ nature-based tourism participation behavior: Incorporating environmental concern into a constraint-negotiation model (2015)
Journal Article
Peng, N., & Chen, A. (2016). Examining Chinese tourists’ nature-based tourism participation behavior: Incorporating environmental concern into a constraint-negotiation model. Tourism Analysis, 21(2-3), 189-202. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354216X14559233984737

Finding the balance between economic development and preservation of the natural environment is a challenging yet important task. This is a particularly pressing issue in the case of China, as it is the largest and fastest-growing market for tourism.... Read More about Examining Chinese tourists’ nature-based tourism participation behavior: Incorporating environmental concern into a constraint-negotiation model.

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.

Do business schools create leaders or conformists? (2015)
Book Chapter
Beech, D. (2015). Do business schools create leaders or conformists?. In Developing Leadership : questions business schools don't ask. Sage

This paper addresses the question of who benefits from the biocultural power, practices, and effects of competitive market capitalism. In particular the paper asks whether managers are ‘conformists rather than leaders in the larger affairs of society... Read More about Do business schools create leaders or conformists?.

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.

Chinese Postgraduate choices when considering a UK business and management programme (2015)
Journal Article
Manns, Y., & Swift, J. (2015). Chinese Postgraduate choices when considering a UK business and management programme. Higher Education Quarterly, 70(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12080

This research investigated Chinese students' decision making processes for enrolling on a postgraduate taught business and management programme in a UK university, based on structured interviews, followed by a survey of just over 450 respondents. The... Read More about Chinese Postgraduate choices when considering a UK business and management programme.

Mathematical applications to reliability and maintenance problems in engineering systems (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, W., Scarf, P., Wu, S., & Zio, E. (2015). Mathematical applications to reliability and maintenance problems in engineering systems. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/629497

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