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Self-Managing Teams within Higher Education (2022)
Data

SPARC 2022 Poster Number 17

Since the increase in tuition fees in 2012, UK universities are experiencing a collective pressure to deliver a superior experience to their students.

As Universities are highly complex organisations operating withi... Read More about Self-Managing Teams within Higher Education.

Facilitating compliance and coercive enforcement of foreign investment arbitration awards (2022)
Thesis

The overall integrity of the investor-state arbitration regime pivots, ultimately on parties’ ability to secure voluntary compliance or enforcement of the resulting arbitral awards. A significant proportion of cases where States have been instructed... Read More about Facilitating compliance and coercive enforcement of foreign investment arbitration awards.

Analysing consumer buying behaviour towards online streaming services (2022)
Journal Article

Online video streaming services industry has experienced a radical shift among consumer choices towards entertainment content. It is not only witnessing the shift from traditional habit of content consumption to the binge-watching behaviour among vie... Read More about Analysing consumer buying behaviour towards online streaming services.

Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact (2022)
Thesis
Dorbayani, S. Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact. (Thesis). The University of Salford

This cross-disciplinary critique of commercially available publications and releases exemplifies aspects of my practice as I have navigated through the roles of executive consultant, adviser, international songwriter and cultural diplomat over the pa... Read More about Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact.

Exploring potential storage-based flexibility gains of electric vehicles in smart distribution grids (2022)
Journal Article

Flexibility is one of the most important solutions for facilitating the variability of renewable energy sources (RESs) in a distribution network. It is predicted that electric vehicles (EVs) can play an effective role in improving it in the distribu... Read More about Exploring potential storage-based flexibility gains of electric vehicles in smart distribution grids.

‘Dynamic Capabilities Expediting the Transition to AIoT: The Convergence Of AI and IoT’ (2022)
Data

The confluence of resources and capabilities, powered by internet of things and artificial intelligence are expediting the transition to smart living, connected mobility, connected industry, smart cities, a cleaner environment, improved healthcare, a... Read More about ‘Dynamic Capabilities Expediting the Transition to AIoT: The Convergence Of AI and IoT’.

Impact of information technology on patient confidentiality rights (2022)
Book Chapter
Elgujja, A. (2022). Impact of information technology on patient confidentiality rights. In Research Anthology on Securing Medical Systems and Records (788-810). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6311-6.ch037

Advances in information technology, be it by way of social media or use of the electronic medical information systems, has changed the way we deal with patient confidential information. The hitherto clear professional relationship with the patient ha... Read More about Impact of information technology on patient confidentiality rights.

Pave the way for sustainable smart homes: A reliable hybrid AC/DC electricity infrastructure (2022)
Journal Article

The development of emerging smart grid technologies has led to more and more penetration of renewable energy resources and electric energy storage in the residential sectors. Besides, owing to the significant evolution of power electronic devices, th... Read More about Pave the way for sustainable smart homes: A reliable hybrid AC/DC electricity infrastructure.

Cultural challenges of ERP implementation in Middle-Eastern oil & gas sector: an action research approach (2022)
Journal Article
Ali, M., Edghiem, F., & Alkhalifah, E. (2022). Cultural challenges of ERP implementation in Middle-Eastern oil & gas sector: an action research approach. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36, 111-140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-022-09600-4

The purpose of this paper was to examine the cultural barriers that existed at various stages of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation process, using the Middle-Eastern oil and gas sector as a case study. Due to a variety of cultural... Read More about Cultural challenges of ERP implementation in Middle-Eastern oil & gas sector: an action research approach.

Development and user-testing of a digital patient decision aid to facilitate shared decision-making for people with stable angina (2022)
Journal Article
Harris, E., Conway, D., Jimenez-Aranda, A., Butts, J., Hedley-Takhar, P., Thomson, R., & Astin, F. (2022). Development and user-testing of a digital patient decision aid to facilitate shared decision-making for people with stable angina. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01882-x

Background
Research shows that people with stable angina need decision support when considering elective treatments. Initial treatment is with medicines but patients may gain further benefit with invasive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Ch... Read More about Development and user-testing of a digital patient decision aid to facilitate shared decision-making for people with stable angina.

Financial Performance, Governance Characteristics and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK and Nigerian Banks (2022)
Thesis
Adeniji, A. Financial Performance, Governance Characteristics and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK and Nigerian Banks. (Thesis). University of Salford

The peculiar nature of banks means that they are heavily regulated and highly leveraged and as such, results obtained by existing pay-performance literature cannot automatically be extended to banks. This research work examines the relationship betwe... Read More about Financial Performance, Governance Characteristics and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK and Nigerian Banks.

Preparing Students for Graduate Recruitment through Business School Curriculum Innovation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Decolonising the Curriculum through Reflexive Practice (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Safadi, S. (2022, May). Decolonising the Curriculum through Reflexive Practice. Presented at Decolonising HE Academic Practice - Lectures, Provocations, and Roundtables, Online

Exploring the connectedness of regional financial markets: application to the GCC equity markets (2022)
Thesis

This thesis explores the financial connectedness of equity markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for the 2005 – 2020 timeframe. The overall study is divided into four key areas. First, we examine the intra-regional connectedness of... Read More about Exploring the connectedness of regional financial markets: application to the GCC equity markets.

Professional identity and professional services staff : understanding and impact (2022)
Journal Article
Caldwell, J. (2022). Professional identity and professional services staff : understanding and impact. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 26(4), 140-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2022.2073288

This article explores the findings from my professional doctorate that focused on professional services staff in a university in the North West of England and their perceptions of identity.
With little literature surrounding the identity of profess... Read More about Professional identity and professional services staff : understanding and impact.

A unified theory for bivariate scores in possessive ball-sports: the case of handball (2022)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Scarf, P., & Baker, R. (2022). A unified theory for bivariate scores in possessive ball-sports: the case of handball. European Journal of Operational Research, 304(3), 1099-1112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.05.010

We present a unified theory that posits three fundamental models as necessary and sufficient for modelling the bivariate scores in possessive ball-sports. These models provide the basis for perhaps more complicated models that can be used for predict... Read More about A unified theory for bivariate scores in possessive ball-sports: the case of handball.

Active Buildings: Concept, Definition, Enabling Technologies, Challenges, and Literature Review (2022)
Book Chapter

Due to the energy crisis and air pollution issues, energy-saving and demand flexibility in buildings have received significant attention in recent years since buildings are a large energy consumer sector in the today’s world. For this aim, the conven... Read More about Active Buildings: Concept, Definition, Enabling Technologies, Challenges, and Literature Review.

Active Buildings Demand Response: Provision and Aggregation (2022)
Book Chapter

Nowadays, the world is facing energy crisis and environmental issues. This is why the energy demand is increasing in different energy sections. The buildings as a large energy consumer are critical to face with these issues. To overcome these challen... Read More about Active Buildings Demand Response: Provision and Aggregation.

Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England (2022)
Journal Article
Malik, F. (2022). Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England. Journal of Education and Work, 35(4), 390-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2073341

This article explores the underexamined idea of employer engagement as the institutional agency around the supply-demand relationship surrounding education and training (E&T) and VET in England (2012), arguing why VET needs are still likely to be unm... Read More about Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England.

Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt (2022)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2022). Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt. Labor History, 63(3), 332-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2022.2103103

Over the last 200 years of British labour history there have been frequent examples of assertive, aggressive and sometimes violent mass picketing aimed at stopping non-striking scab or so-called ‘blackleg’ labour [sic]. Yet remarkably little detailed... Read More about Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt.