Lessons on the research-practice relationship : from critique to co-production in Greater Manchester (2015)
Book Chapter

At the current time, many issues and problems within sustainable urban development are managed within traditional disciplinary and organizational structures. However, problems such as, climate change, resource constraints, poverty and social tensions... Read More about Lessons on the research-practice relationship : from critique to co-production in Greater Manchester.

Effective compact agreements : Improving public housing estates’ delivery and post-construction management in Nigeria (2015)
Journal Article
Ihuah, P., & Obi, L. (2015). Effective compact agreements : Improving public housing estates’ delivery and post-construction management in Nigeria. Journal of research in business and management, 3(5), 17-27

Practicing effective compact agreement building among the relevant stakeholders’ in the public
housing sector is becoming necessary and indispensable to progress public housing estates development and the
post-construction management. Irrespective... Read More about Effective compact agreements : Improving public housing estates’ delivery and post-construction management in Nigeria.

Assessing sustainability of employee suggestion schemes : Cases from the United Arab Emirates (2015)
Journal Article
Lasrado, F., Arif, M., & Rizvi, A. (2015). Assessing sustainability of employee suggestion schemes : Cases from the United Arab Emirates. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 23(3), 425-455. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-04-2014-0754

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a sustainability assessment model and to discuss the implications for organizational learning. Paper presents a sustainability excellence model comprising of three stages and discuss the good practices... Read More about Assessing sustainability of employee suggestion schemes : Cases from the United Arab Emirates.

Understanding knowledge sharing in the Jordanian construction industry (2015)
Journal Article
Arif, M., Mohammed, A., & Gupta, A. (2015). Understanding knowledge sharing in the Jordanian construction industry. Construction innovation (London. Online), 15(3), 333-354. https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-03-2014-0018

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to understand and facilitate more
knowledge sharing (KS) among construction companies in Jordan. Sixteen cultural variables that affect
KS were identified through self-administered questionn... Read More about Understanding knowledge sharing in the Jordanian construction industry.

The determinants for sustainability of an employee suggestion system (2015)
Journal Article
Lasrado, F., Arif, M., & Rizvi, A. (2015). The determinants for sustainability of an employee suggestion system. International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 32(2), 182-210. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-02-2013-0035

Purpose
– Although the corporations widely use the suggestion schemes to elicit the creative ideas of their employee, sustaining a suggestion scheme is still a challenge. Employee suggestion schemes have been studied from many perspectives to illust... Read More about The determinants for sustainability of an employee suggestion system.

Developing an approach to sustainable return on investment (2015)
Report
Bichard, E. (2015). Developing an approach to sustainable return on investment

Conventional valuation methods relate to the valuation of
existing landed property in relation to commercial rental
or disposal, or for the purposes of asset evaluation. The
Sustainable Return on Investment (or SuROI) framework
described in this... Read More about Developing an approach to sustainable return on investment.

Are all tourist dependant businesses meeting their statutory obligations and taking full advantage of the entire economic value of the tourist budget (An investigation into statutory compliance for providing reasonable adjustment to facilitate equal access for disabled customers to goods and services) (2015)
Journal Article

The paper identifies the economic impact of excluding disabled customers from goods and services offered at locations which are dependent upon tourist income. The economic value and spending power of disabled members of society is established. Sta... Read More about Are all tourist dependant businesses meeting their statutory obligations and taking full advantage of the entire economic value of the tourist budget (An investigation into statutory compliance for providing reasonable adjustment to facilitate equal access for disabled customers to goods and services).

Editorial for special issue on knowledge exchange and innovation in university city-regions (2015)
Journal Article
Abbott, C., & Powell, J. (2015). Editorial for special issue on knowledge exchange and innovation in university city-regions. European Journal of Innovation Management, 18(4), https://doi.org/10.1108/EJIM-05-2015-0039

In this special edition of the European Journal of Innovation Management we focus on knowledge exchange and innovation. In particular, the papers concentrate on those aspects of education and development that lead to improved innovation and specifica... Read More about Editorial for special issue on knowledge exchange and innovation in university city-regions.

Disaster resilience education and research roadmap for Europe 2030 (2015)
Report

The multi-level governance of science policy in England - selected reading (2015)
Book Chapter
Perry, B. (2015). The multi-level governance of science policy in England - selected reading. In I. Bache (Ed.), Multi-level Governance : Essential Readings. Edward Elgar

The term ‘multi-level governance’ (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection brings together seminal papers covering... Read More about The multi-level governance of science policy in England - selected reading.

Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood (2015)
Book Chapter
Bevilacqua, C., Trillo, C., Pizzimenti, P., & Maione, C. (2015). Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood. In Plan Together - Right Now - Overall From Vision to Reality for Vibrant Cities and Regions 20th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (651-659). CORP

Contemporary cities are affected by several challenges. Rapid urbanisation processes combined with unstable economic conditions, uncontrolled physical development and social exclusion, political instability make difficult the understanding of “securi... Read More about Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood.

The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster (2015)
Book Chapter
Kinn, M., & Abbott, C. (2015). The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster. In Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2015 (1-26). United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

The overarching purpose of this paper is to address the challenges facing the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 in a holistic way. The emphasis will be on Thematic Research Area 8, which concentrates on what can be done to mi... Read More about The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster.

Re-writing the city (2015)
Book Chapter

This paper is an output of a two day 'Festival Lab' held at the Future Everything Festival, Manchester, UK, March 2015. The Festival Lab invited a team of academic researchers to develop a model of public engagement during the festival that would exp... Read More about Re-writing the city.

Signal processing exercises using Matlab (2015)
Other
Paraskevas, I., & Syrcos, G. (2015). Signal processing exercises using Matlab

An industrial report on the Malaysian building information modelling (BIM) taskforce : issues and recommendations (2015)
Journal Article
Haron, A., Marshall-Ponting, A., Zakaria, Z., Nawi, M., Hamid, Z., & Kamar, K. (2015). An industrial report on the Malaysian building information modelling (BIM) taskforce : issues and recommendations. Malaysian construction research journal, 17(2), 21-36

The government of Malaysia has a vision to become a fully developed country by the year
2020, and the construction industry has a significant role to play in assisting the government
to achieve this vision. In order to become an advanced country, t... Read More about An industrial report on the Malaysian building information modelling (BIM) taskforce : issues and recommendations.