Outputs (129)

Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in Higher Education: a sociotechnical perspective (2023)
Journal Article

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedentedly complex situation and wicked problem in the education domain. This has forced educators and learners to study from home using unfamiliar pedagogical typologies and technologies in order to a... Read More about Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in Higher Education: a sociotechnical perspective.

Computerised gymnastics judging scoring system implementation – an exploration of stakeholders’ perceptions (2021)
Journal Article

Gymnastics is one of the original Olympic sports, subjectively judged by humans. Judging errors and bias can occur, resulting in medals being incorrectly awarded. The
International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) with Fujitsu are introducing the compute... Read More about Computerised gymnastics judging scoring system implementation – an exploration of stakeholders’ perceptions.

Political connections and seasoned equity offerings (2021)
Journal Article

This study examines the impact of political connections on seasoned equity offerings. Using seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) from 2001 to 2018 in the USA, we find that politically connected issuers enjoy a lower cost of seasoned equity issuance than... Read More about Political connections and seasoned equity offerings.

Social media conversations about high engagement sports team brands (2021)
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This study conducts an analysis of social media discussions related to high engagement sports brands. More specifically, our study examined the English Premier League (EPL). Our study sought to retrieve data systematically over the same day, weekly,... Read More about Social media conversations about high engagement sports team brands.

Higher education under threat: China, Malaysia, and the UK respond to the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

This Forum explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Higher Education (HE) sector through the experiences and perspectives in China, Malaysia and the UK, with schools and universities closed and teaching moved online with very short notice.... Read More about Higher education under threat: China, Malaysia, and the UK respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Female fans and social media : micro-communities and the formation of social capital (2021)
Journal Article

Research question: Using the theoretical lens of social capital, this study explores the challenges faced by female football fans in performing their fandom on social media, and how they respond to these challenges in the way they consume and express... Read More about Female fans and social media : micro-communities and the formation of social capital.

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.

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?.

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

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.

Temporal dimensions of knowledge exchanges in horizontal knowledge networks (2020)
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Purpose – This study examines reciprocal exchanges in knowledge networks using temporal differentiation of knowledge exchanges. To date research on horizontal knowledge networks rather overlooks the temporal perspective, which could explain the dyna... Read More about Temporal dimensions of knowledge exchanges in horizontal knowledge networks.

Optimal supply chain design with product family : a cloud-based framework with real-time data consideration (2020)
Journal Article

When the product family (PF) and the supply chain designs (SCD) are aligned and integrated, original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are more likely to improve their operational performance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, which demonstrate... Read More about Optimal supply chain design with product family : a cloud-based framework with real-time data consideration.

Stakeholder identification and salience in purchasing : an empirical study from UK hospitals (2020)
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The lack of systematic processes for stakeholder identification and the omission of key stakeholders in UK hospitals cause significant delays in purchasing processes. This is reinforced by the strict tender processes that follow in making their purch... Read More about Stakeholder identification and salience in purchasing : an empirical study from UK hospitals.

An assessment of industry position on shared equity housing model development in the UK (2019)
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This paper investigated affordable housing problems and how they impact the development of Shared Equity Housing Models (SEHM) with emphasis on the Community
Land Trust (CLT). The methodological approach identified and tackled inherent industry sour... Read More about An assessment of industry position on shared equity housing model development in the UK.

The effect of managers’ optimism on competitive strategy and final cost models (2019)
Journal Article

Currently, competition in the global economy is the most complex issue that gives
organizations a lot of opportunities and threats. Therefore, the manager of the organization
should be able to enhance the organization's performance in this competit... Read More about The effect of managers’ optimism on competitive strategy and final cost models.

Chinese students’ decisions to undertake postgraduate study overseas (2019)
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Purpose: This study surfaces themes which may influence Chinese students’ decision making in relation to postgraduate study in international universities.
Design/ methodology/ approach: The study utilises a semi-structured qualitative interview me... Read More about Chinese students’ decisions to undertake postgraduate study overseas.

Why do emerging market firms engage in voluntary environmental management practices? A strategic choice perspective (2019)
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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.

Talent management : managerial sense making in the wake of Omanization (2019)
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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.

Objective measures of rollator user stability and device loading during different walking scenarios (2019)
Journal Article

Walking aids are widely used by older adults, however, alarmingly, their use has been linked to increased falls-risk, yet clinicians have no objective way of assessing user stability. This work aims to demonstrate the application of a novel methodolo... Read More about Objective measures of rollator user stability and device loading during different walking scenarios.