Dr Maria Allen's Outputs (26)

An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability (2024)
Journal Article

Assumptions about fostering human capital for national competitiveness underpin higher education policy drivers regarding employability. Departing from this focus on human capital development, research has highlighted the importance of relationality... Read More about An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability.

Multinational enterprises' R&D commitments in Chinese provinces: A configurational approach (2024)
Journal Article

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly off-shoring some of their R&D to emerging markets, including China. Much of the extant literature on MNEs' investments in R&D facilities abroad analyses technological and institutional factors at the... Read More about Multinational enterprises' R&D commitments in Chinese provinces: A configurational approach.

Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan (2023)
Journal Article

Forging solidarity among seemingly privileged white-collar professionals has been seen as a challenging process. However, many banking employees in Pakistan feel marginalized and lack formal collective mechanisms to voice their concerns, leading some... Read More about Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan.

Preparing Students for Graduate Recruitment through Business School Curriculum Innovation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How Students’ Self-Perception Impacts on Themes of Graduate Employability (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the implications of perceived employability for students in a post- 1992 UK University. Using qualitative data and thematic analysis we examine whether an employability intervention, involving coaching from external professionals,... Read More about How Students’ Self-Perception Impacts on Themes of Graduate Employability.

Decent Work: Gender and Equal Opportunity Policies and Outcomes (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter reviews work that examines the potential causes of inequality for women in employment in the UK. Amongst developed economies and based on mean hourly earnings, the UK has one of the highest gender pay gaps (ILO, 2018). The UK, therefore,... Read More about Decent Work: Gender and Equal Opportunity Policies and Outcomes.

Employability and Coaching Interventions in Higher Education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Employability and coaching interventions in Higher Education; new research from Manchester Metropolitan University (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Decent Work and Productivity research centre highlight key findings and learnings from an employability and coaching pilot programme, involving 1,500 students, conducted in our Faculty of Business and Law between 2018-2020.

The webinar feature... Read More about Employability and coaching interventions in Higher Education; new research from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Compulsory career coaching for final year undergraduates (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

State-Permeated Capitalism and the Solar PV Industry in China and India (2020)
Journal Article

Much of the existing business and management research on how ‘state capitalism’ influences industry outcomes focuses on the state as 1) the owner of companies, 2) a provider of key resources, such as financial support, to favoured companies and/or 3) a... Read More about State-Permeated Capitalism and the Solar PV Industry in China and India.

Institutions and Non-Market Strategies (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Comparative Capitalisms and Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy in the European Union (2020)
Journal Article

We develop new theory pertaining to the institutional determinants of renewable energy usage across countries and over time. Building on key strands of the comparative capitalisms literature, we introduce new hypotheses relating to the 2009 Directive... Read More about Comparative Capitalisms and Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy in the European Union.

A research evaluation of the impact of compulsory career coaching for final year undergraduates of Business Management and Accounting (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Universities adopt many strategies to support their students’ employability/career development. However, very little in depth research explores what students report learning from the interventions they experience and if it is possible to trace impact... Read More about A research evaluation of the impact of compulsory career coaching for final year undergraduates of Business Management and Accounting.

The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions (2019)
Journal Article

The discussion on ‘The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions’ gives us a state-of-the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the field of political economy. It invites us to broaden our knowledge on... Read More about The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions.

Home-country measures to support outward foreign direct investment: variation and consequences (2019)
Journal Article

The state, especially in emerging economies, plays a key role in influencing firm behaviour, including outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Often literature on the state’s influence on OFDI stresses direct state ownership. However, the state can... Read More about Home-country measures to support outward foreign direct investment: variation and consequences.

Comparative Capitalisms and New Technology: Renewable Energy in Europe (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Types of Knowledge, Innovation and R&D FDI (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Diversity of Chinese Firms (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Institutions and the Diversity and Prevalence of Multinationals’ Knowledge‐Augmenting Subsidiaries (2017)
Journal Article

Multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly seek to gain access to, and exploit, locationally specific sources of advanced knowledge and technological capabilities, creating a need to explain (1) the diversity among these facilities and (2) how ins... Read More about Institutions and the Diversity and Prevalence of Multinationals’ Knowledge‐Augmenting Subsidiaries.

Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies (2016)
Journal Article

Comparative institutional analyses have added much to our understanding of HRM in different countries, providing powerful arguments against the need for flexible labour markets to boost economic performance. However, existing research has tended to d... Read More about Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies.