Outputs (37)

Responsible Exit Dilemmas under Sanctions: Multinationals’ Divestment Complexities in Myanmar (2023)
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This study is centered around the context of current sanctions against the Myanmar military junta in response to the human rights abuses and the resulting implications of the coup for multinational enterprises (MNEs). We provide a rich qualitative an... Read More about Responsible Exit Dilemmas under Sanctions: Multinationals’ Divestment Complexities in Myanmar.

Infomateriality (2018)
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This paper argues for the notion of 'infomateriality' as an orientation for IS research and as an alternative to and in distinction from sociomateriality. It sees Orlikowski’s relatively recent exposition of sociomateriality as developing out of her... Read More about Infomateriality.

Understanding how political parties manage their volunteers in the political marketing process (2018)
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The meta-cycle : action research as an orchestrator of situated research inquiry (2016)
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The paper presents the role of AR in negotiating the researchers’ relationship with a community and the meaning of that research to the community. Can the researcher maintain both an impulse to be a part of a community and to belong to research? Wher... Read More about The meta-cycle : action research as an orchestrator of situated research inquiry.

Skeuomorphic reassurance : personhood and dementia (2016)
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This paper introduces the concept of ‘skeomorphic reassurance’ as a guiding principle for human interfaces in technological development and design, particularly for older people and people with dementia (PwD). Skeuomorphs exhibit decorative design el... Read More about Skeuomorphic reassurance : personhood and dementia.

Insight into lying behaviour with priming effect : three studies of using French politicians and presidents as primers (2016)
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Priming is a non-conscious memory effect, in which exposure to one stimulus affects the response to another.
Following priming theories, we propose an innovative view that people who perceived politicians as being
dishonest (lying) are likely to li... Read More about Insight into lying behaviour with priming effect : three studies of using French politicians and presidents as primers.

KTP and RRI – the perfect match (2015)
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Businesses working with universities are in an optimal position to overcome perceived barriers to the uptake of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for Business and Industry. This paper sets out case study evidence within a particular framewor... Read More about KTP and RRI – the perfect match.

Digital media, football fans and communications : a case study of Salford City FC, a ‘digital football club’ (2015)
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This paper is written in year one of a five year longitudinal ethnography, six months into my PhD studies. Significant progress has been made so far. I am currently part way through my literature review and I am currently refining my research questio... Read More about Digital media, football fans and communications : a case study of Salford City FC, a ‘digital football club’.

Blended learning: what’s in the blend? (2012)
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The adoption of the internet into education has led to a proliferation of use of the term “Blended Learning” as indicated by over 185k scholarly articles as reported by Google Scholar.. Not surprisingly, due to the relative novelty of the term there... Read More about Blended learning: what’s in the blend?.

Developing student’s employability working with SMEs in the North West of England (2012)
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“The Government has made it clear that we will do whatever we can to respond to
the current economic challenges. Higher education can play a central role in
supporting businesses and individuals with skills, advice, knowledge and know-how” (Lammy,2... Read More about Developing student’s employability working with SMEs in the North West of England.

Enterprise cultural heritage management: in search of inspiration for innovation and sustainability (2011)
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Objectives: Identifying a truly unique source for innovation and differentiation in order to sustain competitive advantage is a major challenge for managers of enterprise when designing and developing their product/service range. The objectives of th... Read More about Enterprise cultural heritage management: in search of inspiration for innovation and sustainability.

The role of behaviour change in eating and physical activity in the battle against childhood obesity (2011)
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Obesity results from many influences including genetic and environmental. But eating and physical activity are the two fundamental factors which influence obesity development. This work investigates how food consumption choices and the extent of phys... Read More about The role of behaviour change in eating and physical activity in the battle against childhood obesity.

Can we make higher education relevant to the needs of the search & social media marketing industry? (2011)
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Higher education institutions are often criticised for their lack of relevant educational courses that will equip students with the skills to meet specific industry needs. The issue of relevant education has been of particular significance to highly... Read More about Can we make higher education relevant to the needs of the search & social media marketing industry?.

Virtual, phenomenal, real, and mobile (2011)
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The debate between ‘realism’ and ‘social constructivism’, rehearsed and overviewed in Ian Hacking’s book, “The Social Construction of What,” (Hacking 1999) has nonetheless seen a number of attempts to find common ground, or unifying principles / theo... Read More about Virtual, phenomenal, real, and mobile.

Exploring the effects of interventions to combat childhood obesity: inducing behavioural change in eating habits (2011)
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The prevalence of English child obesity has increased especially in the 1990’s. Due to the many negative impacts of obesity, such as the cost and health consequences, an urgent solution is needed to reverse current trends. This study focuses on behav... Read More about Exploring the effects of interventions to combat childhood obesity: inducing behavioural change in eating habits.

Towards a model-based tool for evaluating population-level interventions against childhood obesity (2010)
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The prevalence of obesity in the UK is mirroring trends in the USA. There is a need for research to provide public health agencies with advice as to the most effective means of securing behavioural change. The work reported here is in its very early... Read More about Towards a model-based tool for evaluating population-level interventions against childhood obesity.

Research 2.0: encouraging engagement in online market research communities (2009)
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Research 2.0 is the emerging term used to describe the use of Web 2.0 platforms to conduct research with geographically dispersed participants. Research 2.0 is becoming particularly popular within the market research industry. We argue that Research... Read More about Research 2.0: encouraging engagement in online market research communities.

Research 2.0 : improving participation in online research communities (2009)
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Web 2.0 thinking and technologies create a number of new opportunities to conduct research broadly labeled as Research 2.0. Research 2.0 is a growing area of academic and commercial interest, which includes research undertaken in online research comm... Read More about Research 2.0 : improving participation in online research communities.

Past of the firm: The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival? (2008)
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Small craft sector firms are struggling to survive in an environment where large multinational
companies produce similar kinds of products in higher volumes and cheaper prices. The
surviving of small firms calls for creative thinking. There are man... Read More about Past of the firm: The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival?.

A dynamic policy model to manage temporal performance amongst contracting firms in a competitive situation (2008)
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Studies have been conducted to measure competitiveness in the construction industry. Such research has focused on all levels from the national picture to individual projects. While useful, the results are limited in that they present a snapshot pictu... Read More about A dynamic policy model to manage temporal performance amongst contracting firms in a competitive situation.