Social Media Monitoring visualisation: What do we have to look for? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hackett, C., Fletcher, G., & Heinze, A. (2013, March). Social Media Monitoring visualisation: What do we have to look for?. Presented at 18th UKAIS Annual Conference, Worcester College, Oxford, UK

The need for accurate and readily understandable social media monitoring is an issue faced by any organisation irrespective of their size or current levels of engagement with social media. It is increasingly a truism of social media that if an organi... Read More about Social Media Monitoring visualisation: What do we have to look for?.

Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment (2013)
Book Chapter
Bell, R., & Ireland, S. (2013). Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment. In R. Atfield, & P. Kemp (Eds.), Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism. Higher Education Academy

This chapter describes how European Union (EU) funding through Erasmus Intensive Programmes can be used to enhance the education of sustainable tourism management. It will describe how the mobility afforded to staff and students through the EU grant... Read More about Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment.

The use of social media to attract generation Y in organisations (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Faour, H., & Heinze, A. (2013, March). The use of social media to attract generation Y in organisations. Presented at 18th UKAIS Annual Conference: Social Information Systems, Worcester College, Oxford, UK

Generation Y are increasingly entering the workforce, making around 50% of the global workforce by 2020. They come to the workplace with distinct characteristics and expectations causing organisations to rethink their traditional working practices. T... Read More about The use of social media to attract generation Y in organisations.

Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Aaltonen, S., Kakderi, C., Hausmann, V., & Heinze, A. (2013, March). Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey. Presented at 18th UKAIS Annual Conference: Social Information Systems, Worcester College, Oxford, UK

The popularity and use of social media is increasing in Europe. It facilitates a new emerging international business communication culture, which can help in developing new business relations utilizing the wide range of online applications. However,... Read More about Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey.

Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies (2013)
Journal Article
Brook, P., & Darlington, R. (2013). Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies. Work, Employment and Society, 27(2), 232-243

Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in UK-based sociology of work, Burawoy’s call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of ‘a social movement beyond the academy’ and Bourdieu’s plea for committed scholarship in the ser... Read More about Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies.

Modelling imperfect inspection over a finite horizon (2013)
Journal Article
Berrade, M., Cavalcante, C., & Scarf, P. (2013). Modelling imperfect inspection over a finite horizon. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2012.10.003

This paper models imperfect inspection policies for a system with a finite operational time requirement. Two types of maintenance policy are considered: that in which an alarm (a positive inspection) is followed by a check of the validity of the alar... Read More about Modelling imperfect inspection over a finite horizon.

Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’ (2013)
Journal Article
Darlington, R., & Dobson, J. (2013). Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’. Capital and Class, 37(2), 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816813489936

This article considers whether industrial relations (IR) research is objective, impartial or value-free, and argues that many IR academics in Britain have tended to start from a social-democratic premise which makes them relatively more sympathetic t... Read More about Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’.

Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States (2013)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2013). Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States. International Labor and Working-Class History, 83(Spring), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547913000136

The explosion of industrial and political militancy that swept the world during the early years of the twentieth century gave the revolutionary syndicalist movement a prominence and notoriety it would not otherwise have possessed, while at the same t... Read More about Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States.

Enhancing India’s competitiveness in the global scenario (2013)
Journal Article
Nandakumar, M., & Purkayastha, S. (2013). Enhancing India’s competitiveness in the global scenario. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 2(1), vii-viii. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277975213500878

Real interest rate parity in OECD countries: new evidence from time series and panel cointegration techniques (2013)
Journal Article
Magkonis, G., & Tsopanakis, A. (2013). Real interest rate parity in OECD countries: new evidence from time series and panel cointegration techniques. Applied Economics Letters, 20(5), 476-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2012.667540

We examine the existence of Real Interest Rate Parity (RIRP) for a number of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Using time series techniques, we manage to identify cointegrating relationships. For a subset of cou... Read More about Real interest rate parity in OECD countries: new evidence from time series and panel cointegration techniques.

The effect of maintenance quality on spare parts inventory for a fleet of assets (2013)
Journal Article
Van Horenbeek, A., Scarf, P., Cavalcante, C., & Pintelon, L. (2013). The effect of maintenance quality on spare parts inventory for a fleet of assets. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 62(3), 596-607. https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.2013.2270409

This paper considers the effect of fleet size on a joint policy of maintenance and spare parts inventory when spare parts are of varying quality. We consider N identical one-component systems subject to age-based replacement, and with a single echelo... Read More about The effect of maintenance quality on spare parts inventory for a fleet of assets.

Involve users or fail: An IT project case study from east Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Procter, C., & Businge, M. (2013). Involve users or fail: An IT project case study from east Africa. International Journal of Information Technology Project Management, 4(4), 51-65. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijitpm.2013100103

Repeated surveys, and most notably those by the Standish Group, suggest that a substantial proportion of Information Technology (IT) projects fail. The literature suggests that this is in part due to a lack of user involvement in the project. The aut... Read More about Involve users or fail: An IT project case study from east Africa.

The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME (2013)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., Heinze, A., & Ofoegbu, A. (2013). The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME. International Journal of Management Practice, 6(2), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMP.2013.055831

This paper reports on a UK based service management Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) that invested into SAP® Business One. The action research case study highlights the real cost and difficulties faced in moving to the one single SAP system an... Read More about The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME.

Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Berrade, M., Scarf, P., Cavalcante, C., & Dwight, R. (2013). Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 120, 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2013.02.024

We consider a system with three possible states, good, defective and failed. Failures are detected as soon as they occur; the defective state, which is only revealed by inspection, does not prevent the system from fulfilling the function for which it... Read More about Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis.

A thematic review and a policy-analysis agenda of electronic health records in the greek national health system (2013)
Journal Article
Emmanouilidou, M., & Burke, M. (2013). A thematic review and a policy-analysis agenda of electronic health records in the greek national health system. Health Policy, 109(1), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.09.010

The increasing pressure to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs is driving the current agenda of governments at worldwide level and calls for a fundamental reform of the status quo of health systems. This is especially the case with the Greek... Read More about A thematic review and a policy-analysis agenda of electronic health records in the greek national health system.

Explaining contextual factors affecting e-commerce adoption progression in selected SMEs: Evidence from Botswana (2013)
Journal Article
Shemi, A., & Procter, C. (2013). Explaining contextual factors affecting e-commerce adoption progression in selected SMEs: Evidence from Botswana. International Journal of Management Practice, 6(1), 94-109. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMP.2013.052319

This paper provides an interpretive account of contextual factors that affect the progression of e-commerce in six Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in a developing country context of Botswana. The methodology followed multiple in-depth case studies... Read More about Explaining contextual factors affecting e-commerce adoption progression in selected SMEs: Evidence from Botswana.

The optimal dartboard? (2012)
Journal Article
Percy, D. (2012). The optimal dartboard?. Mathematics today, 48, 268-270

Our challenge is to determine the best arrangement of the
numbers 1,2,...,20 on a dartboard. This problem has
been tackled before but we consider a new constraint and
a different optimality criterion that lead to an original solution.

The contract, accounting and trust : a case study of an international joint venture (IJV) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (2012)
Journal Article
Tsamenyi, M., Qureshi, A., & Yazdifar, H. (2012). The contract, accounting and trust : a case study of an international joint venture (IJV) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Accounting forum, 37(3), 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2012.09.004

This paper reports on the results of a case study that examines the effect of the contract and accounting on inter-organisational trust in an international joint venture (IJV). The empirical setting of the research was an IJV relation between a Unite... Read More about The contract, accounting and trust : a case study of an international joint venture (IJV) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & McHale, I. (2013). Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games. International Journal of Forecasting, 29(1), 122-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2012.07.002

The paper presents a point process model for predicting exact end-of-match scores in the premier league of American football, the National Football League. The hazards of scoring are allowed to vary with team statistics from previous games and/or the... Read More about Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games.

The dynamics of listed SMEs in China (2012)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2012). The dynamics of listed SMEs in China. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 19(3), 421-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2012.715274

We examine the dynamics of Chinese listed SMEs with respect to their
post-market viability and growth after going public. The Kaplan–Meier estimation shows
that SMEs are more likely to transition to a non-viable state than large firms. Further
exa... Read More about The dynamics of listed SMEs in China.