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Developing a project management case study from history : a study using qualitative methodologies — case study research, historiography, and interdisciplinarity (2019)
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Kozak-Holland, M., & Procter, C. (2019). Developing a project management case study from history : a study using qualitative methodologies — case study research, historiography, and interdisciplinarity. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526495501

Peter Morris argues that the depth of understanding of one’s history is a measure of the maturity of a discipline. By this measure, project management is an immature discipline. The consequence of this is a significant gap between theory and practice... Read More about Developing a project management case study from history : a study using qualitative methodologies — case study research, historiography, and interdisciplinarity.

Why do emerging market firms engage in voluntary environmental management practices? A strategic choice perspective (2019)
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Tatoglu, E., Frynas, J., Bayraktar, E., Demirbag, M., Sahadev, S., Doh, J., & Koh, S. (2020). Why do emerging market firms engage in voluntary environmental management practices? A strategic choice perspective. British Journal of Management, 31(1), 80-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12351

In this paper, we investigate firms’ decisions to engage in voluntary environmental management (VEM) practices within an emerging market context. Drawing on the strategic choice and the RBV perspectives, we report results from a survey of VEM practic... Read More about Why do emerging market firms engage in voluntary environmental management practices? A strategic choice perspective.

Imperfect inspection of a system with unrevealed failure and an unrevealed defective state (2019)
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Cavalcante, C., Scarf, P., & Berrade, M. (2019). Imperfect inspection of a system with unrevealed failure and an unrevealed defective state. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 68(2), 764-775. https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.2019.2897048

This paper proposes a model of inspection of a protection system in which the inspection outcome provides imperfect information of the state of the system. The system itself is required to operate on demand typically in emergency situations. The pu... Read More about Imperfect inspection of a system with unrevealed failure and an unrevealed defective state.

Maternal and child health care services' utilization data from the fourth round of district level household survey in India (2019)
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Rahman, M., & Pallikadavath, S. (2019). Maternal and child health care services' utilization data from the fourth round of district level household survey in India. Data in Brief, 23, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.103738

In this article, we briefly discuss the data used in the article entitled “How Much Do Conditional Cash Transfers Increase the Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Care Services? New Evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India” (Rahman and Pall... Read More about Maternal and child health care services' utilization data from the fourth round of district level household survey in India.

The role of corporate identity in CSR implementation : an integrative framework (2019)
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Tourky, M., Kitchen, P., & Shaalan, A. (2020). The role of corporate identity in CSR implementation : an integrative framework. Journal of Business Research, 117, 694-706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.046

This paper investigates the relationship between Corporate Identity (CI) and CSR and describes how CI can underpin the development and implementation of CSR initiatives; thus helping to clarify how best to implement CSR in business practice. E... Read More about The role of corporate identity in CSR implementation : an integrative framework.

Persons with intellectual disability and access to justice in Nigeria : challenges and the way forward (2019)
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Arimoro, A., & Elgujja, A. (2019). Persons with intellectual disability and access to justice in Nigeria : challenges and the way forward

In conservative terms, there are approximately about 2 million persons in Nigeria who may be referred to as persons with intellectual disabilities. These persons suffer from several challenges ranging from economic to non-inclusion in the society.... Read More about Persons with intellectual disability and access to justice in Nigeria : challenges and the way forward.

Direct and indirect effects of Janani Suraksha Yojana on antenatal care and institutional delivery (2019)
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Pallikadavath, S., & Rahman, M. (2019). Direct and indirect effects of Janani Suraksha Yojana on antenatal care and institutional delivery. https://doi.org/10.31579/2642-9756/006

Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) provides conditional cash incentives to eligible pregnant women in India so that they can take at least three antenatal care services including tetanus injection and iron-folic acid, to deliver their babies in health inst... Read More about Direct and indirect effects of Janani Suraksha Yojana on antenatal care and institutional delivery.

Talent management : managerial sense making in the wake of Omanization (2019)
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Glaister, A., Al Amri, R., & Spicer, D. (2021). Talent management : managerial sense making in the wake of Omanization. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(3), 719-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2018.1496128

We examine how managers in Oman make sense of localization policies (Omanisation) through their use of talent management. Through an institutional logics lens it is possible to examine how organizations confront institutional complexity and understan... Read More about Talent management : managerial sense making in the wake of Omanization.

New order-statistics-based ranking models and faster computation of outcome probabilities (2019)
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Baker, R. (2020). New order-statistics-based ranking models and faster computation of outcome probabilities. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 31(1), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpz001

In sport, order-statistics-based models such as Henery’s gamma model and the Thurstone-Mosteller type V model are useful in estimating competitor strengths from observed performance of players in competitions between 2 or more players. They can also... Read More about New order-statistics-based ranking models and faster computation of outcome probabilities.

Known unknowns (2019)
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Beck, C. (2019). Known unknowns. Works management, Feb 19,

With time running out until the UK leaves the EU, manufacturing supply chains are coming under scrutiny. What should companies be doing to prepare?

New survival distributions that quantify the gain from eliminating flawed components (2019)
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Baker, R. (2019). New survival distributions that quantify the gain from eliminating flawed components. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 185(May 19), 493-501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.01.013

A general method for deriving new survival distributions from old is presented. This yields a class of useful mixture distributions. Fitting such distributions to failure-time data allows estimation of the improvement in reliability that could be ga... Read More about New survival distributions that quantify the gain from eliminating flawed components.

Challenges to transferring and sharing of tacit knowledge within a construction supply chain (2019)
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Saini, M., Arif, M., & Kulonda, D. J. (2019). Challenges to transferring and sharing of tacit knowledge within a construction supply chain. Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management, 19(1), 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/ci-03-2018-0015

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the potential challenges that hinder the effective transfer and sharing of tacit knowledge (knowledge communication [KC]) within a construction supply chain (CSC). Design/methodology/approach This study ide... Read More about Challenges to transferring and sharing of tacit knowledge within a construction supply chain.

BP and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill : a case study of how company management employed public relations to restore a damaged brand (2019)
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Kanso, A., Nelson, R., & Kitchen, P. (2020). BP and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill : a case study of how company management employed public relations to restore a damaged brand. Journal of Marketing Communications, 26(7), 703-731. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527266.2018.1559218

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill, is considered the largest marine accident in the history of the industry. The 2010 incident in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the killing of 11 crew members, posing... Read More about BP and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill : a case study of how company management employed public relations to restore a damaged brand.

Specific HR practices and employee commitment : the mediating role of job satisfaction (2019)
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Mahmood, A., Akhtar, M., Talat, U., Shuai, C., & Hyatt, J. (2019). Specific HR practices and employee commitment : the mediating role of job satisfaction. Employee Relations, 41(3), 420-435. https://doi.org/10.1108/er-03-2018-0074

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the influence mechanisms of specific HR practices variables – salary, job stability and job enrichment – upon employee commitment, through the mediating role of job satisfaction, in a... Read More about Specific HR practices and employee commitment : the mediating role of job satisfaction.

Enhancing employee engagement for small and medium enterprises in Taiwan (2019)
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Cheng, K., & Chang, K. (2019). Enhancing employee engagement for small and medium enterprises in Taiwan. Information Resources Management Journal, 32(1), 28-47. https://doi.org/10.4018/IRMJ.2019010102

Employee engagement is crucial to the success of small-and-medium-enterprises (SMEs). As SMEs are the major GDP contributors in Taiwan, both policy makers and scholars have called further research to evaluate the significance of employee engagement i... Read More about Enhancing employee engagement for small and medium enterprises in Taiwan.