Outputs (292)

KTP and RRI – the perfect match (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems (2015)
Book Chapter

The International Badminton Federation recently introduced rule changes to make the game faster and more entertaining, by influencing how players score points and win games. We assess the fairness of both systems by applying combinatorics, probabilit... Read More about A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems.

Digital media, football fans and communications : a case study of Salford City FC, a ‘digital football club’ (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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’.

Urban maths : car park mayhem [writing as A. Townie] (2015)
Journal Article

Examining tourists' loyalty toward cultural quarters (2015)
Journal Article

The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual? (2015)
Book Chapter

What if there were a suitably Gramscian totalizing – and scientific– approach to understanding social systems, which nonetheless escaped all the reductionist, scientistic pitfalls a deconstructive and poststructuralist Foucauldian would be wont to po... Read More about The complexity of social systems: could hegemony emerge from the micro-politics of the individual?.

Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment (2015)
Book

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is in... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment.

Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction (2015)
Book Chapter

In this introduction, by way of presenting a review of the scant pre-existing literature I have been able to find which considers the work of Gramsci and Foucault together, I attempt firstly to set out a conceptual framework by which the reader may s... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault: A reassessment - introduction.

Impact of the shadow banking system on monetary policy in China (2015)
Journal Article

The shadow banking system in China has its own characteristics compared to conventional commercial banks and the foreign shadow banking system. Its emergence is important to the economic development and financial system in China. However, it also cha... Read More about Impact of the shadow banking system on monetary policy in China.

Reliability equivalence factors for a series–parallel system of components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes (2015)
Journal Article

We study reliability equivalence factors of a system of independent and identical components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes. The system has n subsystems connected in parallel and subsystem i has m_i components connected in series, i=1,...,n. We... Read More about Reliability equivalence factors for a series–parallel system of components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes.

Strategy selection and outcome prediction in sport using dynamic learning for stochastic processes (2015)
Journal Article

We study reliability equivalence factors of a system of independent and identical components with exponentiated Weibull lifetimes. The system has n subsystems connected in parallel and subsystem i has mi components connected in series, i=1,…,n. We co... Read More about Strategy selection and outcome prediction in sport using dynamic learning for stochastic processes.

The life cycle of initial public offering companies in China (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which the company’s
post- initial public offering (IPO) outcome varies, along with the determinants of the post-IPO
outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors use Cox propor... Read More about The life cycle of initial public offering companies in China.

‘Vague de grève, croissance syndicale, bureaucratie et militants de base au Royaume-Uni (1889-1920)' (2014)
Book Chapter

Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011 (2014)
Journal Article

This paper examines the factors determining the citation success of authors who have published via the Internet on the economic and business history of Spain. It departs from the dominant cross-sectional approach to the quantitative assessment of cit... Read More about Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011.

Estimation of productivity in Korean electric power plants : a semiparametric smooth coefficient model (2014)
Journal Article

This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth co... Read More about Estimation of productivity in Korean electric power plants : a semiparametric smooth coefficient model.

Exploring the effects of financial and fiscal vulnerabilities on G7 economies : evidence from SVAR analysis (2014)
Journal Article

We examine the possible interactions of the financial cycle and fiscal position for G7 economies. We employ the innovative aggregate financial and fiscal stress indexes which are able to depict the perplexed nature of modern economies. A SVAR model i... Read More about Exploring the effects of financial and fiscal vulnerabilities on G7 economies : evidence from SVAR analysis.

Organisational flexibility and competitiveness (2014)
Book

* Provides a conceptual framework of ‘Organisational
Flexibility and Competitiveness’ supported by research
* Applies the concept of flexibility to various functional
areas: strategy and competitiveness, organization and HR
management, inf... Read More about Organisational flexibility and competitiveness.

Virtuality and humanity (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the key questions raised by its title—what should we understand by the terms virtuality, humanity, and, thereby, by the term reality? These questions are explored with reference to the work of philosophers such as Henri Bergson... Read More about Virtuality and humanity.

The cybersport nexus (2014)
Book Chapter

Exercise machines increasingly incorporate computer-controlled motion and force feedback and will eventually become reactive robotic sports partners.…Today’s rudimentary, narrowband video games will evolve into physically engaging telesports.

Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920 (2014)
Journal Article

Gerald Friedman's Reigniting the Labor Movement was a highly ambitious, unashamedly partisan, historical and transnational comparative analysis of the rise and demise of the labour movement, which identified the way in which rank-and-file workers' sp... Read More about Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920.