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Entry modes and the impact of mobile microfinance at the base of the pyramid : scenarios of “My village phone” in Egypt (2015)
Book Chapter
Mohamad, M., Wood-Harper, T., & Ramlogan, R. (2015). Entry modes and the impact of mobile microfinance at the base of the pyramid : scenarios of “My village phone” in Egypt. 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.ch013

The expansion of mobile telecoms in the Egyptian market has contributed to different development paradigms. The entry mode followed by the telecoms accessing the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in Egypt identifies which development para... Read More about Entry modes and the impact of mobile microfinance at the base of the pyramid : scenarios of “My village phone” in Egypt.

End of the rainbow? A review of community events in Liverpool (2015)
Book Chapter
Ryan, W. (2015). End of the rainbow? A review of community events in Liverpool. In A. Jepson, & A. Clarke (Eds.), Exploring Community Festivals and Events (224-237). Abingdon: Routledge

This chapter highlights the issues that eminent places often experience in maintaining a ‘community festival’. It is particularly interested in how community festivals are maintained and managed where the identity of a place has changed or become fr... Read More about End of the rainbow? A review of community events in Liverpool.

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.

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.

Can sustainability be achieved by effective branding of a place? (2014)
Book Chapter
Maheshwari, V., & Vandewalle, I. (2014). Can sustainability be achieved by effective branding of a place?. In M. Dato-On (Ed.), The Sustainable Global Marketplace : Proceedings of the 2011 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10873-5_177

The aim of this research is to examine the place brand construct and to establish its role in the sustainable development of a place. A place-specific branding campaign was considered and findings of this research suggest that place branding plays an... Read More about Can sustainability be achieved by effective branding of a place?.

Systems thinking and system dynamics: A primer (2014)
Book Chapter
Dangerfield, B. (2014). Systems thinking and system dynamics: A primer. In Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics for Management Decision Making (26-51). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118762745.ch03

This chapter introduces the basics of the system dynamics simulation methodology, together with the adjunct field of systems thinking which emerged subsequently. It lists the various characteristics of system dynamics models. The stock-flow diagram i... Read More about Systems thinking and system dynamics: A primer.

Predictions of relative risks for dengue disease mapping in Malaysia based on stochastic SIR-SI vector-borne infectious disease transmission model (2014)
Book Chapter
Samat, N., & Percy, D. (2014). Predictions of relative risks for dengue disease mapping in Malaysia based on stochastic SIR-SI vector-borne infectious disease transmission model. In A. Kasim, W. Omar, N. Razak, N. Musa, R. Halim, & S. Mohamed (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (ICSTSS) 2012 (399-404). Singapore: Springer

The main aim of this paper is to propose a procedure for predicting relative risk in order to suggest approximate future dengue disease progression patterns for Malaysia. Firstly, we discuss the posterior predictive distributions that are used to gen... Read More about Predictions of relative risks for dengue disease mapping in Malaysia based on stochastic SIR-SI vector-borne infectious disease transmission model.

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.

Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment (2013)
Book Chapter
Bell, R., & Ireland, S. (2013). Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment. In R. Atfield, & P. Kemp (Eds.), Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism. Higher Education Academy

This chapter describes how European Union (EU) funding through Erasmus Intensive Programmes can be used to enhance the education of sustainable tourism management. It will describe how the mobility afforded to staff and students through the EU grant... Read More about Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment.

Transnationals: transnational consumers and transnational mobile consumers (2013)
Book Chapter
Sirkeci, I. (2013). Transnationals: transnational consumers and transnational mobile consumers. In Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers (25-34). Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36775-5_2

The subheading above may appear confusing but the two terms are used on purpose to provoke debate on the possibility of having two broader segments relating to the transnational marketing era.

Transnationalisation and transnational marketing strategy (2013)
Book Chapter
Sirkeci, I. (2013). Transnationalisation and transnational marketing strategy. In Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers (1-23). Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36775-5_1

The world is in a constant change as are the organisations, the consumers and the ways in which businesses are connected and managed. The two main drastic changes we are concerned with here are, first, the increasing mobility of goods, finances and p... Read More about Transnationalisation and transnational marketing strategy.

Targeting and reaching transnationals and transnational mobiles (2013)
Book Chapter
Sirkeci, I. (2013). Targeting and reaching transnationals and transnational mobiles. In Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers (59-63). Heidelberg: Springer Berlin. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36775-5_4

So far we have established that a significantly large mobile population is out there; immigrants, tourists, students and connected others. The total numbers are expressed in hundreds of millions. Then we also have a potentially larger number of consu... Read More about Targeting and reaching transnationals and transnational mobiles.