All Outputs (1393)

Legal and social aspects of the state participation in the governance of the large corporations in Russia (2021)
Journal Article
Cherkasova, O., & Sosnovskikh, S. (2021). Legal and social aspects of the state participation in the governance of the large corporations in Russia. E3S Web of Conferences, 222, https://doi.org/10.1051/E3SCONF/202022206004

This paper evaluates the legal status of the Russian federal government as a corporate governance participant using the example of large sectorial companies. The state commonly regulates economic processes and focuses on pursuing the public interest.... Read More about Legal and social aspects of the state participation in the governance of the large corporations in Russia.

Meritocracy, personality traits and recruitment : some insights from the Qatari enterprising community (2021)
Journal Article
Baroun, A. (2021). Meritocracy, personality traits and recruitment : some insights from the Qatari enterprising community. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-12-2020-0216

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide a picture on the impact of the meritocracy and personality traits on the recruitment process in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the State of Qatar.

Design/methodology/approach
The stu... Read More about Meritocracy, personality traits and recruitment : some insights from the Qatari enterprising community.

Sociocultural conflicts and Ottoman settlement policies at the Balkan Wars (2021)
Journal Article
Bilecan, T., & Sirkeci, I. (2021). Sociocultural conflicts and Ottoman settlement policies at the Balkan Wars. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 23(4), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888601

Migrations from Balkans to the Ottoman Empire continued for about 150 years; and peaked during the wars such as the 1877–78 Ottoman-Russian War and the Balkan Wars. Balkan immigrants with multi-ethnic, multicultural backgrounds and settling in with m... Read More about Sociocultural conflicts and Ottoman settlement policies at the Balkan Wars.

What agglomeration externalities impact the development of the hi-tech industry sector? Evidence from the Russian regions (2021)
Journal Article
Sosnovskikh, S., & Skhvediani, A. (2021). What agglomeration externalities impact the development of the hi-tech industry sector? Evidence from the Russian regions. International Journal of Technology, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.14716/IJTECH.V11I6.4423

This paper continues the ongoing debate on the importance of agglomeration externalities that may impact innovation development and the high-technology sector in regional economies. Previous studies suggest that the evidence for agglomeration externa... Read More about What agglomeration externalities impact the development of the hi-tech industry sector? Evidence from the Russian regions.

Chinese Fans’ Engagement with Football: Transnationalism, Authenticity and Identity (2021)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., Zhao, Y., Chadwick, S., & Gow, M. (2022). Chinese Fans’ Engagement with Football: Transnationalism, Authenticity and Identity. Journal of Global Sport Management, 7(3), 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2021.1871855

Football in China is undergoing an unprecedented expansion, the result of targeted industrial policy, private sector investment, and the increased popularity of the world’s most popular game in the world’s most populous nation. Yet, as China’s own fo... Read More about Chinese Fans’ Engagement with Football: Transnationalism, Authenticity and Identity.

Evaluating cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses towards country of origin for wines: the role of gender and involvement (2021)
Journal Article
Pagan, K., Giraldi, J., Maheshwari, V., Paula, A., & Oliveira, J. (2021). Evaluating cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses towards country of origin for wines: the role of gender and involvement. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 33(4), 481-501. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijwbr-08-2020-0043

Purpose
This study aims to analyse the impact of the country of origin of wines on cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses for consumers from the perspective of gender and the level of involvement.

Design/methodology/approach... Read More about Evaluating cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses towards country of origin for wines: the role of gender and involvement.

Agency workers and their equivocal roles – wandering employees? (2021)
Journal Article

Agency workers (AWs) were originally employed on a substitutional and short-term contract basis, but recently they are found to be employed on a long-term purpose in Nigeria. Although agency labour helps solve recruitment challenges, it corresponding... Read More about Agency workers and their equivocal roles – wandering employees?.

The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of professional footballers (2021)
Journal Article
Souter, G., Tonge, A., & Culvin, A. (2022). The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of professional footballers. Managing Sport and Leisure, 27(1-2), 162-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2021.1877569

The Covid-19 pandemic has had huge ramifications on professional football. This commentary focuses on the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of professional footballers. Specifically, footballers within the English Premier League, English Fo... Read More about The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of professional footballers.

Understanding sporting social media brand communities, place and social capital – a netnography of football fans (2021)
Journal Article

The emergence of social media and digital channels have expanded communication practices and also created new, virtual spaces where sports fans can interact and communicate directly with each other and with clubs. This article examines the potential... Read More about Understanding sporting social media brand communities, place and social capital – a netnography of football fans.

Higher energy conversion efficiency in anaerobic degradation of bioplastic by response surface methodology (2021)
Journal Article
Ebrahimzade, I., Ebrahimi-Nik, M., Rohani, A., & Tedesco, S. (2021). Higher energy conversion efficiency in anaerobic degradation of bioplastic by response surface methodology. Journal of Cleaner Production, 290, Article 125840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125840

Anaerobic degradation of bioplastics is a controversial challenge. Size reduction is a must for degradation while it requires a significant amount of energy, which lowers the overall energy efficiency of the system. On the other hand, inoculum to sub... Read More about Higher energy conversion efficiency in anaerobic degradation of bioplastic by response surface methodology.

Impact of terrorism and political violence on sacred sites (2021)
Journal Article

Over the last decade there has been an increased terrorist attacks on sacred sites and on individuals travelling to perform pilgrimage. Religious terrorism is a type of political violence motivated by an absolute belief that religious faith has autho... Read More about Impact of terrorism and political violence on sacred sites.

A review of contemporary practical applications of cyber security in cloud computing service models (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, M., & Edghiem, F. (2021). A review of contemporary practical applications of cyber security in cloud computing service models

Cloud computing (CC) has slowly evolved into one of the most widely discussed developments for organisational development through technologies such as personal computers and mobile devices. The application of ubiquitous technologies to protect busine... Read More about A review of contemporary practical applications of cyber security in cloud computing service models.

Effects of food trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Bangladesh: a partial equilibrium approach (2020)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., & Fang, C. (2020). Effects of food trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Bangladesh: a partial equilibrium approach. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jwer.20200901.12

Using a partial equilibrium model, we examine the effects of full tariffs withdrawal from food imports of Bangladesh on its poverty and inequality. We show that if tariffs are withdrawn from food imports, domestic food prices decrease, but the sizes... Read More about Effects of food trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Bangladesh: a partial equilibrium approach.

Covid-19 transition, could Twitter support UK Universities? (2020)
Journal Article

This paper seeks to conceptually explore the use of social media platforms such as Twitter as a microblog to share Covid-19 prescribed knowledge through developing a conceptual framework of university ecosystem knowledge regime. The framework outline... Read More about Covid-19 transition, could Twitter support UK Universities?.

Modifying Bradley–Terry and other ranking models to allow ties (2020)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & Scarf, P. (2021). Modifying Bradley–Terry and other ranking models to allow ties. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 32(4), 451-463. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpaa027

Models derived from distributions of order-statistics are useful for modelling ranked data. The well-known Bradley–Terry (BT) and Plackett–Luce (PL) models can be derived from the order statistics of the exponential distribution but cannot handle tie... Read More about Modifying Bradley–Terry and other ranking models to allow ties.

The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation (2020)
Journal Article

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the structures of inter-organizational connections and innovation results in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Existing literature shows that inter-organization connections can ben... Read More about The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation.

Digital supply chain management in the videogames industry : a systematic literature review (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, S., Klézl, V., Israilidis, J., Malone, N., & Butler, S. (2021). Digital supply chain management in the videogames industry : a systematic literature review. ˜The œcomputer games journal, 10(1-4), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-020-00118-0

As industries mature, they rely more heavily on supply chain management (SCM) to ensure effective operations leading to greater levels of organisational performance. SCM has been widely covered in many industrial areas and, in line with other burgeon... Read More about Digital supply chain management in the videogames industry : a systematic literature review.

Workplace gossip and employee cynicism : the moderating role of dispositional envy (2020)
Journal Article

This study investigated the relationship between workplace gossip (positive gossip and
negative gossip) and employee cynicism and explored the moderating role of dispositional
envy through the social information processing approach. Data were colle... Read More about Workplace gossip and employee cynicism : the moderating role of dispositional envy.

Zero-debt policy under asymmetric information, flexibility and free cash flow considerations (2020)
Journal Article
Miglo, A. (2020). Zero-debt policy under asymmetric information, flexibility and free cash flow considerations. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13(12), 296. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13120296

We build a model of debt for firms with investment projects, for which flexibility and free cash flow problems are important issues. We focus on the factors that lead the firm to select the zero-debt policy. Our model provides an explanation of the s... Read More about Zero-debt policy under asymmetric information, flexibility and free cash flow considerations.

Helping Deluxe Beds to sleep easy : a case study of agile project management (2020)
Journal Article
Javed, S., Bamford, J., & Abualqumboz, M. (2021). Helping Deluxe Beds to sleep easy : a case study of agile project management. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 22(2), 132-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465750320974942

This case study describes the embedding of the Scrum project management framework as an innovation and operational improvement tool within a manufacturing Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) in the UK. The teaching notes inform 1) other UK manufacturing... Read More about Helping Deluxe Beds to sleep easy : a case study of agile project management.