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How HR can survive the tribunal jungle (2023)
Journal Article
Lord, J. (2023). How HR can survive the tribunal jungle

Employment tribunals invoke trepidation throughout the HR profession due to the sometimes-unpredictable outcome of the judgment, where employers would often settle a case to bypass the costly nature and ambiguity of defending cases, even when the cla... Read More about How HR can survive the tribunal jungle.

Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 (2023)
Book

The ‘Labour Revolt’ that swept Britain between 1910-14 was one of the most sustained, dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experienced.
It involved large-scale strikes by miners, seamen, d... Read More about Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14.

Working in higher education; recognition, communication and change (2023)
Journal Article
Caldwell, J., & Verney, C. Working in higher education; recognition, communication and change. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 27(2), 39-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2023.2183647

Editorial

Anaerobic digestion of recycled paper crumb and effects of digestate on concrete performance (2023)
Journal Article
Hurst, G., Ahmed, A., Taylor, S., & Tedesco, S. (2023). Anaerobic digestion of recycled paper crumb and effects of digestate on concrete performance. Renewable Energy, 208, 577-582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.03.061

Paper crumb (PC) is a type of paper sludge residue from the wastepaper recycling industry. It is a by-product from the various fiber purification stages that is particularly composed of short cellulose fibers, lignin, organic compounds and inorganic... Read More about Anaerobic digestion of recycled paper crumb and effects of digestate on concrete performance.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies to Build SME Resilience amid the Global Covid-19 Pandemic (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As a result of Covid-19 and the ensuing sharp decline in economic activity, business leaders had to quickly adapt to a disruptive marketplace, changing consumer behaviour, and new internal processes. The crisis accelerated adoption of new technologie... Read More about Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies to Build SME Resilience amid the Global Covid-19 Pandemic.

Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in Higher Education: a sociotechnical perspective (2023)
Journal Article

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedentedly complex situation and wicked problem in the education domain. This has forced educators and learners to study from home using unfamiliar pedagogical typologies and technologies in order to a... Read More about Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in Higher Education: a sociotechnical perspective.

Fintechs’ and SMEs’ cash holdings: evidence from OECD countries (2023)
Book Chapter
Abbasi, K., Alam, M., Brohi, N. A., Fiza, M., Nasim, S., & Brohi, I. A. (2023). Fintechs’ and SMEs’ cash holdings: evidence from OECD countries. In The Fintech Disruption - How Financial Innovation Is Transforming the Banking. Springer

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered to be an important engine of an economy. Given the impact of cash holdings on the survival of SMEs, it is important to assess the factors that enhance SMEs’ cash holdings. Adopting the Generalized Me... Read More about Fintechs’ and SMEs’ cash holdings: evidence from OECD countries.

Creating effective management simulations: rapidly, responsibly, relevantly (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents a critical discussion of the current state of management simulations and considers this specific genre of software against the backdrop of wholesale gamification of activities within organizations and the widespread popularity o... Read More about Creating effective management simulations: rapidly, responsibly, relevantly.

Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan (2023)
Journal Article

Forging solidarity among seemingly privileged white-collar professionals has been seen as a challenging process. However, many banking employees in Pakistan feel marginalized and lack formal collective mechanisms to voice their concerns, leading some... Read More about Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan.

‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky (2023)
Journal Article
Worrall, R. J. (2023). ‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky. War in History, 30(4), 427-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/09683445221149679

This article considers the operations of RAF Bomber Command in support of Operation Husky. Earmarked to play a considerable supporting role, the piece goes on to examine how valid operational difficulties, rather than the usual supposed notion of Sir... Read More about ‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky.

Continuous-time optimization of integrated networks of electricity and district heating under wind power uncertainty (2023)
Journal Article

The integrated operation of the electricity and district heating systems (EDHS) attracted lots of attention in recent years due to considerable impacts on the power system’s flexibility. The time intervals and mathematical methods used in the optimiz... Read More about Continuous-time optimization of integrated networks of electricity and district heating under wind power uncertainty.

On Discovering Optimal Trade-Offs When Introducing New Routes in Existing Multi-modal Public Transport Systems (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

While self-driving technology is still being perfected, public transport authorities are increasingly interested in the ability to model and optimise the benefits of adding connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to existing multi-modal transport sy... Read More about On Discovering Optimal Trade-Offs When Introducing New Routes in Existing Multi-modal Public Transport Systems.

A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Omoragbon, O., Al-Maiyah, S., & Coates, P. (2023). A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452

The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a significant... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.

Is the maternal health voucher scheme associated with increasing routine immunization coverage? Experience from Bangladesh (2023)
Journal Article

Bangladesh initiated the Maternal Health Voucher Scheme (MHVS) in 2007 to improve maternal and child health practices and bring equity to the mainstream of health systems by reducing financial and institutional barriers. In this study, we investigate... Read More about Is the maternal health voucher scheme associated with increasing routine immunization coverage? Experience from Bangladesh.

A New False Data Injection Attack Detection Model for Cyberattack Resilient Energy Forecasting (2023)
Journal Article

As power systems are gradually evolving into more efficient and intelligent cyber–physical energy systems with the large-scale penetration of renewable energies and information technology, they become increasingly reliant upon more accurate and compl... Read More about A New False Data Injection Attack Detection Model for Cyberattack Resilient Energy Forecasting.

Social media influence: a new frontier in proprietary rights? (2023)
Journal Article
Carn, M. (2023). Social media influence: a new frontier in proprietary rights?. Trusts and Trustees, 29(2), 126-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttac123

The importance of social media has rapidly increased throughout the 21st Century. The metric of influence has been key to the commercialisation of social media, with accurate methods of quantification now allowing it to be used by a litany of corpora... Read More about Social media influence: a new frontier in proprietary rights?.

Factors Indicating Media Dependency and Online Misinformation Sharing in Jordan (2023)
Journal Article
Habes, M., Elareshi, M., Mansoori, A., Pasha, S., Salloum, S. A., & Al-Rahmi, W. M. (2023). Factors Indicating Media Dependency and Online Misinformation Sharing in Jordan. Sustainability, 15(2), 1474. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021474

Although social media is a vital platform in our life, it is blamed for poor efforts to moderate content included mis/disinformation and fake news. This could have an impact on its legacy and on sustainability in society in the long term. This resear... Read More about Factors Indicating Media Dependency and Online Misinformation Sharing in Jordan.

Borrower discouragement and SMEs new product development: evidence from the UK (2023)
Thesis

Purpose
This research aims to investigate the issues of borrower discouragement and new product development (NPD) among SMEs in the UK. Specifically, the study investigates the relationship between discouraged borrowers and ethnic minority SMEs, the... Read More about Borrower discouragement and SMEs new product development: evidence from the UK.

Understanding Syrian refugees in Turkey from an environment of insecurity and the conflict model of migration perspective (2023)
Journal Article

Human mobility has been a topic of interest for migration scholars. Despite a growing literature, we are still far from clarity and consensus on motivations and mechanisms of migration. In this paper, we discuss the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey... Read More about Understanding Syrian refugees in Turkey from an environment of insecurity and the conflict model of migration perspective.

Carillion’s strategic choices and boardroom’s strategies of persuasive appeals: ethos, logos, pathos (2023)
Journal Article
Al Bahloul, M., Alkaraan, F., & Hussainey, K. (in press). Carillion’s strategic choices and boardroom’s strategies of persuasive appeals: ethos, logos, pathos. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-06-2022-0134

Companies documents such as annual reports incorporate narratives of repetitive rhetorical strategies
as effective mechanisms adopted by companies’ boardrooms to promote strategic change and strategic
choices. These mechanisms can be viewed as pers... Read More about Carillion’s strategic choices and boardroom’s strategies of persuasive appeals: ethos, logos, pathos.