Outputs (289)

A digital twin model for enhancing performance measurement in assembly lines (2019)
Book Chapter

Dynamic manufacturing processes are characterized by a lack of coordination, complexity and sheer volumes of data. Digital transformation technologies offer the manufacturers the capability to better monitor and control both assets and production. Th... Read More about A digital twin model for enhancing performance measurement in assembly lines.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
Book

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Chinese students’ decisions to undertake postgraduate study overseas (2019)
Journal Article

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.

Understanding digital events : Bergson, Whitehead, and the experience of the digital (2019)
Book

This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified ‘events’ in the for... Read More about Understanding digital events : Bergson, Whitehead, and the experience of the digital.

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

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)
Journal Article

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.

Exploring sustainable procurement practices within the Nigerian oil and gas sector (2019)
Thesis

Although sustainable procurement (SP) practices literature is increasingly evolving - especially from the European context - this innovative approach to sustainability is hardly heard of, discuss or appears to be present in the Nigerian context. In p... Read More about Exploring sustainable procurement practices within the Nigerian oil and gas sector.

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.

Studying social media communities : blending methods with netnography (2019)
Other

In his work ‘Netnography Redefined’, Kozinets (2015), highlights the massive growth of online communities, calling for new ways of conducting research online. This research explains an application of this approach providing a valuable methodological... Read More about Studying social media communities : blending methods with netnography.

Infomateriality (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Human resource management in football (2018)
Book Chapter

From recruitment to dismissal, football has generally managed to avoid investigation into its HRM practices with only a handful of high profile incidents being highlighted by researchers and the media.



However, HRM has always played a vita... Read More about Human resource management in football.

Realising the threshold of employability in higher education (2018)
Book Chapter

A substantial body of work has tested and developed ‘Threshold Concepts’. A Threshold Concept may be considered “akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something . . . it represents a transformed way of u... Read More about Realising the threshold of employability in higher education.

Institutional determinants of R&D investment : evidence from emerging markets (2018)
Journal Article

Institutional environment of a country plays an important role for innovation activities. Our results confirm that external environment of emerging countries influence the R&D investment. Using Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation of pa... Read More about Institutional determinants of R&D investment : evidence from emerging markets.

A paired neural network model for tourist arrival forecasting (2018)
Journal Article

Tourist arrival and tourist demand forecasting are a crucial issue in tourism economy and the community economic development as well. Tourist demand forecasting has attracted much attention from tourism academics as well as industries. In recent year... Read More about A paired neural network model for tourist arrival forecasting.

The leadership component of Kelly’s Mobilisation Theory : contribution, tensions, limitations and further development (2018)
Journal Article

This reassessment of Kelly’s analysis of the relationship of activist leadership to collective action within the overall jigsaw of mobilisation theory draws on social movement literature, studies by industrial relations scholars utilising aspects of... Read More about The leadership component of Kelly’s Mobilisation Theory : contribution, tensions, limitations and further development.

SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2018)
Book

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2018 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also the launch of our Doctoral School, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have received a tremendou... Read More about SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Understanding how political parties manage their volunteers in the political marketing process (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems (2018)
Book

Against Nature – Chapter Abstracts

Chapter 1. A Transdisciplinary Approach
In this short book you will find philosophy – metaphysical and political - economics, critical theory, complexity theory, ecology, sociology, journalism, and much else... Read More about Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems.

UK consumers’ perceived risk of buying products from emerging economies : a moderated mediation model (2018)
Journal Article

While considerable research has been conducted on consumer attitude towards foreign products, most of these studies focuses on the attitude of products from Western developed countries. Our study intends to investigate the effects of consumers’ natio... Read More about UK consumers’ perceived risk of buying products from emerging economies : a moderated mediation model.

Prediction of financial strength ratings using machine learning and conventional techniques (2017)
Journal Article

Financial strength ratings (FSRs) have become more significant particularly since the recent financial crisis of 2007–2009 where rating agencies failed to forecast defaults and the downgrade of some banks. The aim of this paper is to predict Capital... Read More about Prediction of financial strength ratings using machine learning and conventional techniques.