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As transgender employees become more common, here’s how workplaces can welcome diversity (2022)
Journal Article
Lord, J., & Baset, S. (2022). As transgender employees become more common, here’s how workplaces can welcome diversity

The process for applying for a gender recognition certificate in the UK has become easier and cheaper due to government changes in recent years.

There has been a slow increase in the number of people applying as a result.

It is also likely to... Read More about As transgender employees become more common, here’s how workplaces can welcome diversity.

Management and visualisation: seeing beyond the strategic (2022)
Book
Fletcher, G. (2022). Management and visualisation: seeing beyond the strategic. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003304166

As organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised, a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic plans and, in turn, with the re... Read More about Management and visualisation: seeing beyond the strategic.

The student voice in employability within tertiary business and management education (2022)
Book Chapter
Harvey, V. (2022). The student voice in employability within tertiary business and management education. In T. Broadly, Y. Cai, M. Firth, E. Hunt, & J. Neugebauer (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability (80-98). London: SAGE Publications Ltd

Embedding employability in HE curricula has resulted in an increasing consideration upon forms of capital as resources that confer employability. This chapter considers research of the undergraduate student voice with respect to employability framing... Read More about The student voice in employability within tertiary business and management education.

Data-driven digital transformation for emergency situations: the case of the UK retail sector (2022)
Journal Article
Papanagnou, C., Seiler, A., Spanaki, K., Papadopoulos, T., & Bourlakis, M. (2022). Data-driven digital transformation for emergency situations: the case of the UK retail sector. International Journal of Production Economics, 250, 108628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108628

The study explores data-driven Digital Transformation (DT) for emergency situations. By adopting a dynamic capability view, we draw on the predictive practices and Big Data (BD) capabilities applied in the UK retail sector and how such capabilities s... Read More about Data-driven digital transformation for emergency situations: the case of the UK retail sector.

Enhancing the organisation and the management of Built Environment Higher Education courses (2022)
Journal Article
Gomis, K., Saini, M., Pathirage, C., & Arif, M. (2022). Enhancing the organisation and the management of Built Environment Higher Education courses. Quality Assurance in Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-01-2022-0020

Purpose – Persistent critical issues in Built Environment Higher Education (BEHE) curricula
may need to be addressed by improving course organisation and management. In addition to
the implications of the COVID pandemic, issues such as inadequate c... Read More about Enhancing the organisation and the management of Built Environment Higher Education courses.

SMEs’ innovativeness and technology adoption as downsizing strategies during COVID-19: the moderating role of financial sustainability in the tourism industry using structural equation modelling (2022)
Journal Article
Shwedeh, F., Aburayya, A., Alfaisal, R., Adelaja, A. A., Ogbolu, G., Aldhuhoori, A., & Salloum, S. (2022). SMEs’ innovativeness and technology adoption as downsizing strategies during COVID-19: the moderating role of financial sustainability in the tourism industry using structural equation modelling. Sustainability, 14(23), 16044. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316044

This study aims to identify why firms, specifically SMEs in the hospitality and tourism industry, downsized during the recent global economic distress caused by COVID-19. This study applied a quantitative methodology by distributing online questionna... Read More about SMEs’ innovativeness and technology adoption as downsizing strategies during COVID-19: the moderating role of financial sustainability in the tourism industry using structural equation modelling.

As transgender employees become more common, here's how workplaces can welcome diversity (2022)
Journal Article
Lord, J., & Baset, S. (2022). As transgender employees become more common, here's how workplaces can welcome diversity

The process for applying for a gender recognition certificate in the UK has become easier and cheaper due to government changes in recent years. There has been a slow increase in the the number of people applying as a result.

Podcasting library services post COVID-19 pandemic era: its potential and challenges for distant learners (2022)
Journal Article
Adetayo, A., Abata-Ebire, B., & Oladipo, Y. (2022). Podcasting library services post COVID-19 pandemic era: its potential and challenges for distant learners. Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, 16(3-4), 203-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533290x.2022.2149663

The study investigated the willingness of students to remotely tune into podcast programmes aired by libraries and the associated challenges. The study employed a descriptive survey research design. The sample included 245 Adeleke University undergra... Read More about Podcasting library services post COVID-19 pandemic era: its potential and challenges for distant learners.

The influence of social media addiction on compulsive buying behaviour: A comparative analysis of LGBT+ and heterosexual consumers (2022)
Journal Article
Maccarrone-Eaglen, A., & Schofield, P. (2022). The influence of social media addiction on compulsive buying behaviour: A comparative analysis of LGBT+ and heterosexual consumers. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 22(1), 98-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.2115

Despite the significant research on the impact of social media in people's lives, little is known about the extent to which social media impacts on compulsive buying behaviour (CBB). Moreover, previous studies of this relationship sampled heterosexua... Read More about The influence of social media addiction on compulsive buying behaviour: A comparative analysis of LGBT+ and heterosexual consumers.

Digital Health Technologies (2022)
Book Chapter
Griffiths, M., Scragg, B., Stein-Hodgins, J. R., & Ure, C. (2022). Digital Health Technologies. In Digital Mammography a Holistic Approach (165-175). (second). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10898-3_15

Learning Objectives
• Recognise and understand the digital
health and social media landscape for
practitioners
• Recognise the appropriateness of the
different platforms/social media for
health promotion in breast screening
• Understand how so... Read More about Digital Health Technologies.

The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders (2022)
Journal Article
Vik, P., & Wallace, A. (2022). The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders. Journal of co-operative studies, 55(2), 29-34

Credit unions are often hypothesised to be less vulnerable to crises than other types of businesses.
This paper examines the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the British credit union and community
lender sector drawing on interviews with 25 m... Read More about The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders.

Essays on regulatory environment and firm performance in Sub-Sahara Africa (2022)
Thesis
Tannor, W. (2022). Essays on regulatory environment and firm performance in Sub-Sahara Africa. (Thesis). University of Salford

This three-essay thesis examines how national institutions influence firm performance and activities in sub-Saharan African economies. Most developing countries generally consider businesses as the key to economic development. Unfortunately, national... Read More about Essays on regulatory environment and firm performance in Sub-Sahara Africa.

SMEs respond to climate change: evidence from developing countries (2022)
Journal Article
Alam, A., Anna, D., Rahman, M., Yazdifar, H., & Abbasi, K. (2022). SMEs respond to climate change: evidence from developing countries. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122087

Given the concerns stemming from climate change, it is important to investigate whether SMEs could become innovative (and thereby invest in technologies mitigating climate change) because of heightened climate change risk. This study explores the imp... Read More about SMEs respond to climate change: evidence from developing countries.

Adoption of costing system sophistication and non-financial performance: evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo (2022)
Thesis
Ndongala, L. Adoption of costing system sophistication and non-financial performance: evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo. (Thesis). University of Salford

This study examines factors that influence the adoption of cost system sophistication (CSS) among Congolese firms and the impact of CSS on non-financial performance. Far from the traditional linear concept of organisation, this study apprehends organ... Read More about Adoption of costing system sophistication and non-financial performance: evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo.

Quiet quitting is a new name for an old method of industrial action (2022)
Journal Article
Lord, J. (2022). Quiet quitting is a new name for an old method of industrial action

The average UK worker now carries out approximately 22 days’ worth of overtime a year. Meanwhile, inflation is at a 40-year high of 10.1%, and real pay is dropping 2.8% – the fastest decline since records began in 2001.
In response, the trend of “q... Read More about Quiet quitting is a new name for an old method of industrial action.