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The Manchester and Salford Strike Wave of Summer 1911 (2023)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2023). The Manchester and Salford Strike Wave of Summer 1911. #Journal not on list, 44-52

If the ‘Labour Revolt’ that swept Britain in the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War between 1910 and 1914 was one of the most dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experi... Read More about The Manchester and Salford Strike Wave of Summer 1911.

Enhancing the organisation and the management of Built Environment Higher Education courses (2022)
Journal Article
Gomis, K., Saini, M., Pathirage, C., & Arif, M. (2022). Enhancing the organisation and the management of Built Environment Higher Education courses. Quality Assurance in Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-01-2022-0020

Purpose – Persistent critical issues in Built Environment Higher Education (BEHE) curricula
may need to be addressed by improving course organisation and management. In addition to
the implications of the COVID pandemic, issues such as inadequate c... Read More about Enhancing the organisation and the management of Built Environment Higher Education courses.

Enhancing quality of teaching in the built environment higher education, UK (2022)
Journal Article
Gomis, K., Saini, M., Pathirage, C., & Arif, M. (2022). Enhancing quality of teaching in the built environment higher education, UK. Quality Assurance in Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-03-2022-0072

Purpose
The issues in the current Built Environment Higher Education (BEHE) curricula recognise a critical need for enhancing the quality of teaching. This paper aims to identify the need for a best practice in teaching within BEHE curricula and... Read More about Enhancing quality of teaching in the built environment higher education, UK.

Cultural challenges of ERP implementation in Middle-Eastern oil & gas sector: an action research approach (2022)
Journal Article
Ali, M., Edghiem, F., & Alkhalifah, E. (2022). Cultural challenges of ERP implementation in Middle-Eastern oil & gas sector: an action research approach. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36, 111-140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-022-09600-4

The purpose of this paper was to examine the cultural barriers that existed at various stages of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation process, using the Middle-Eastern oil and gas sector as a case study. Due to a variety of cultural... Read More about Cultural challenges of ERP implementation in Middle-Eastern oil & gas sector: an action research approach.

The incompatibility of motherhood and professional women's football in England (2021)
Journal Article
Culvin, A., & Bowes, A. (2021). The incompatibility of motherhood and professional women's football in England. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3, 730151. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.730151

There has been an advancement of professionalisation of women's football globally. Professional women's football in England has grown exponentially since the inception of the Football Association (FA) Women's Super League in 2011. This article offers... Read More about The incompatibility of motherhood and professional women's football in England.

Green purchasing capabilities and practices towards Firm's triple bottom line in Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Foo, M. Y., Shaharudin, M. R., Ma, G., Mohamad Zailani, S. H., & Kanapathy, K. (2021). Green purchasing capabilities and practices towards Firm's triple bottom line in Malaysia. Journal of Cleaner Production, 307, 127268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127268

The study has aimed to develop a conceptual framework on green purchasing capabilities and green purchasing practices towards triple bottom line performance in Malaysia's manufacturing firms. The researchers use two stages of methods with a full revi... Read More about Green purchasing capabilities and practices towards Firm's triple bottom line in Malaysia.

A review of contemporary practical applications of cyber security in cloud computing service models (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, M., & Edghiem, F. (2021). A review of contemporary practical applications of cyber security in cloud computing service models

Cloud computing (CC) has slowly evolved into one of the most widely discussed developments for organisational development through technologies such as personal computers and mobile devices. The application of ubiquitous technologies to protect busine... Read More about A review of contemporary practical applications of cyber security in cloud computing service models.

Book review : Effective Management Control; Theory and practice by Eric G. Flamholtz (2020)
Journal Article
Asdullah, M., & Yazdifar, H. (2020). Book review : Effective Management Control; Theory and practice by Eric G. Flamholtz. Journal of management and research, 7(1), 235-244

Effective Management Control sheds light on relatively misunderstood and neglected aspect of organizational effectiveness. It critically analyzes the process of controlling people’s behaviour in any organization. The issue of the design of an optimal... Read More about Book review : Effective Management Control; Theory and practice by Eric G. Flamholtz.

Antecedents of the propensity to learn management practices and their impacts on firm outcomes in emerging markets : a Bayesian model averaging approach (2020)
Journal Article
Ali, A., & Ali, S. (2020). Antecedents of the propensity to learn management practices and their impacts on firm outcomes in emerging markets : a Bayesian model averaging approach. International Business Review, 29(4), 101906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101706

This article explores the factors that motivate firms to learn new management practices. The hypotheses are empirically tested using a representative sample of 3,676 small, medium and large firms from four South Asian countries and across all main se... Read More about Antecedents of the propensity to learn management practices and their impacts on firm outcomes in emerging markets : a Bayesian model averaging approach.

Conceptualising slow tourism : a perspective from Latvia (2020)
Journal Article
Serdane, Z., Maccarrone-Eaglen, A., & Sharifi, S. (2020). Conceptualising slow tourism : a perspective from Latvia. Tourism Recreation Research, 45(3), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2020.1726614

Slow tourism is perceived as a new type of sustainable tourism and a promising alternative
to mass tourism with which tourists, destination managers and tourism service providers
are willing to engage. However, inconsistent interpretations impede t... Read More about Conceptualising slow tourism : a perspective from Latvia.

On the relationship between financial performance and position of businesses in supply chain networks (2020)
Journal Article
Seiler, A., Papanagnou, C., & Scarf, P. (2020). On the relationship between financial performance and position of businesses in supply chain networks. International Journal of Production Economics, 227, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107690

We investigate how the network position of organisations in an extended supply chain
network impacts their financial performance. The paper argues that performance measurement tools
should incorporate a network (external, connectedness) perspective... Read More about On the relationship between financial performance and position of businesses in supply chain networks.

Knowledge influences on perception of innovation drivers for sustainable housing delivery models (2020)
Journal Article
Ayoade, O., & Ahmed, V. (2020). Knowledge influences on perception of innovation drivers for sustainable housing delivery models. International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKMS.2020.105070

This paper demonstrates the impact of knowledge sharing on the perception of innovation drivers for affordable housing, with a focus on the Community Land Trust Shared Equity Housing Model (CLT SEHM). In the context of a competitive housing sector, t... Read More about Knowledge influences on perception of innovation drivers for sustainable housing delivery models.

Developing corporate communications : insights from the Italian scenario (2020)
Journal Article
Palazzo, M., Foroudi, P., Kitchen, P., & Siano, A. (2020). Developing corporate communications : insights from the Italian scenario. Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, 23(3), 407-426. https://doi.org/10.1108/QMR-12-2017-0185

Purpose - Based on managerial perceptions from large firms, this paper explores the emergence,
growth and importance of corporate communications and how it is evolving and creating competitive
advantage for Italian firms.
Design/methodology/appro... Read More about Developing corporate communications : insights from the Italian scenario.

HPWP (High Performance Work Practices) and its role on promoting the employee performance in the Nigerian hotel industry (2019)
Journal Article
Odiaka, K., & Chang, K. (2019). HPWP (High Performance Work Practices) and its role on promoting the employee performance in the Nigerian hotel industry. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 19(6), 23-36. https://doi.org/10.33423/jop.v19i6.2661

The current study discusses the significance of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) and analyses
its relevance to employee engagement and performance in Nigeria. Hotel employees with different
background are interviewed and their views thematic... Read More about HPWP (High Performance Work Practices) and its role on promoting the employee performance in the Nigerian hotel industry.

Book review: Zhang, X., Yang, E., & Thomas, N: Enterprise Management Control Systems in China (2019)
Journal Article
Asdullah, M., & Yazdifar, H. (2019). Book review: Zhang, X., Yang, E., & Thomas, N: Enterprise Management Control Systems in China. Asia-Pacific Journal of Management Research and Innovation, 15(3), 124-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/2319510X19883075

Book review of Zhang, X., Yang, E., & Thomas, N: Enterprise Management Control Systems in China, 2014, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 352 pp., €152,59 (hardback), ISBN: 9783642547140.

Sparking interdisciplinarity: let’s take framing students as customers in higher education seriously (2019)
Journal Article
Ma, G. (2019). Sparking interdisciplinarity: let’s take framing students as customers in higher education seriously. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 45(4), 461-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2019.1695171

This paper aims to inspire an interdisciplinary dialogue on framing students as customers in higher education, by reviewing some under-explored conceptual issues and implications in the existing literature especially concerning presently underreprese... Read More about Sparking interdisciplinarity: let’s take framing students as customers in higher education seriously.

A review on maintenance optimization (2019)
Journal Article
De Jonge, B., & Scarf, P. (2020). A review on maintenance optimization. European Journal of Operational Research, 285(3), 805-824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.09.047

To this day, continuous developments of technical systems and increasing reliance on equipment have resulted in a growing importance of effective maintenance activities. During the last couple of decades, a substantial amount of research has been car... Read More about A review on maintenance optimization.

An echo state network architecture based on quantum logic gate and its optimization (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Sun, T., Luo, Y., Yang, S., Cao, Y., & Zhai, J. (2020). An echo state network architecture based on quantum logic gate and its optimization. Neurocomputing, 371, 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.09.002

Quantum neural network (QNN) is developed based on two classical theories of quantum computation and artificial neural networks. It has been proved that quantum computing is an important candidate for improving the performance of traditional neural n... Read More about An echo state network architecture based on quantum logic gate and its optimization.

Volatility modeling and prediction : the role of price impact (2019)
Journal Article
Jiang, Y., Cao, Y., Liu, X., & Zhai, J. (2019). Volatility modeling and prediction : the role of price impact. Quantitative Finance, 19(12), 2015-2031. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2019.1636123

In this paper, we are interested in exploring the role of price impact, derived from the order book, inmodeling and predicting stock volatility. This is motivated by the market microstructure literature thatexamines the mechanics of price formation a... Read More about Volatility modeling and prediction : the role of price impact.