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From calculator to computer - a critical review of employment tribunals and their impact upon the management of workers (2015)
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The Employment Tribunal Service (ETS) is an alternative to internal workplace dispute resolution, which has facilitated a fluctuating increase in claims since the tribunals were established in 1964. Figures from the ETS annual report (2013) show 191,... Read More about From calculator to computer - a critical review of employment tribunals and their impact upon the management of workers.

A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems (2015)
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The International Badminton Federation recently introduced rule changes to make the game faster and more entertaining, by influencing how players score points and win games. We assess the fairness of both systems by applying combinatorics, probabilit... Read More about A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems.

Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction (2015)
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In this introduction, by way of presenting a review of the scant pre-existing literature I have been able to find which considers the work of Gramsci and Foucault together, I attempt firstly to set out a conceptual framework by which the reader may s... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction.

The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual? (2015)
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What if there were a suitably Gramscian totalizing – and scientific– approach to understanding social systems, which nonetheless escaped all the reductionist, scientistic pitfalls a deconstructive and poststructuralist Foucauldian would be wont to po... Read More about The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual?.

Do business schools create leaders or conformists? (2015)
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Beech, D. (2015). Do business schools create leaders or conformists?. In Developing Leadership : questions business schools don't ask. Sage

This paper addresses the question of who benefits from the biocultural power, practices, and effects of competitive market capitalism. In particular the paper asks whether managers are ‘conformists rather than leaders in the larger affairs of society... Read More about Do business schools create leaders or conformists?.

Section introduction (Editorial) (2015)
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Chadwick, S., Chanavat, N., & Desbordes, M. (2015). Section introduction (Editorial). In Routledge Handbook of Sports Marketing. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315742021

The mediating role of role stress in the relationship between goal orientation and job satisfaction among salespersons : an empirical study (2015)
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Sahadev, S., Purani, K., & Nair, S. (2015). The mediating role of role stress in the relationship between goal orientation and job satisfaction among salespersons : an empirical study. In Boundary Spanning Elements and the Marketing Function in Organizations (81-97). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13440-6_6

The paper develops a model that explores the relationship between goal orientation, role-stress and job satisfaction among salespersons. Learning orientation is hypothesised to reduce role-stress while performance orientation is linked to high role-s... Read More about The mediating role of role stress in the relationship between goal orientation and job satisfaction among salespersons : an empirical study.

A conceptual model for IT Governance : a case study research (2015)
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Janahi, L., Griffiths, M., & Al-Ammal, H. (2015). A conceptual model for IT Governance : a case study research. In Computer Vision and Image Analysis Applications (ICCVIA), 2015 International Conference on 23-24 March 2015 (1-11). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVIA.2015.7351894

The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance
of Information Technology (IT) Governance models for public
organizations and presenting an IT Governance model that can
be adopted by both practitioners and researchers. A review of the liter... Read More about A conceptual model for IT Governance : a case study research.

Multiperspectives of mobile money system development at the base of the pyramid : case of e-Masary in Egypt (2015)
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This chapter highlights how the motives, utility and benefits, and challenges of Mobile Money Systems (MMS) shape the financial inclusion in today’s dynamic environment and increase its sustainability. Recently, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have b... Read More about Multiperspectives of mobile money system development at the base of the pyramid : case of e-Masary in Egypt.

Mobile financial services at the base of the pyramid : a systemic view for cross-sector governance and embedded innovation (2015)
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a systemic view for cross-sector governance and embedded innovation. 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.ch003

Mobile financial services is one of the uprising movements to bank the unbanked by integrating philanthropic and business approaches for financial inclusion. In this paper, we address how a systemic view help integrate the Philan... Read More about Mobile financial services at the base of the pyramid : a systemic view for cross-sector governance and embedded innovation.

Entry modes and the impact of mobile microfinance at the base of the pyramid : scenarios of “My village phone” in Egypt (2015)
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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)
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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.