The student voice in employability within tertiary business and management education (2022)
Book Chapter

Embedding employability in HE curricula has resulted in an increasing consideration upon forms of capital as resources that confer employability. This chapter considers research of the undergraduate student voice with respect to employability framing... Read More about The student voice in employability within tertiary business and management education.

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.

Agency workers and their equivocal roles – wandering employees? (2021)
Journal Article

Agency workers (AWs) were originally employed on a substitutional and short-term contract basis, but recently they are found to be employed on a long-term purpose in Nigeria. Although agency labour helps solve recruitment challenges, it corresponding... Read More about Agency workers and their equivocal roles – wandering employees?.

Compulsive buying among young adults : a behavioural segmentation (2020)
Journal Article
Maccarrone-Eaglen, A., & Schofield, P. (2020). Compulsive buying among young adults : a behavioural segmentation. Young Consumers: Insight and Ideas for Responsible Marketers, 21(1), 57-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/YC-02-2019-0958

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to re-examine the characteristics of compulsive buying
behaviour (CBB) based on a new improved screener. The study analyses young compulsive buyer
attitudes, decision making, product preferences, the impact of... Read More about Compulsive buying among young adults : a behavioural segmentation.

Strategic Digital Transformation : a results-driven approach (2019)
Book

Emerging technologies are having a profound impact upon business as individuals and organisations increasingly embrace the benefits of the ‘always on’ attitude that digital technologies produce. The use of the web, apps, cloud storage, GPS and Intern... Read More about Strategic Digital Transformation : a results-driven approach.

Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law (2018)
Book Chapter

Following Kelsen’s influential theory of law, the concept of validity has been used in the literature to refer to different properties of law (such as existence, membership, bindingness, and more) and so it is inherently ambiguous. More importantly,... Read More about Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law.

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.

Digital business evolution : lessons from a decade of KTP industry projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, M., Heinze, A., Fenton, A., & Fletcher, G. (2018, March). Digital business evolution : lessons from a decade of KTP industry projects. Presented at UK Academy for Information Systems Conference, Oxford, UK

Digital transformation is a daunting process for many business leaders, who sometimes find themselves in unfamiliar territory. This challenge is particularly prominent for resource-stretched and multi-skilled small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)... Read More about Digital business evolution : lessons from a decade of KTP industry projects.

Knowledge is profit : the role of espionage in business (2018)
Book

How much do companies know about you? Your habits, tastes and deepest desires constantly monitored by every single device in your house. Knowledge is Profit looks to explain the links between past present and future of corporate espionage and how com... Read More about Knowledge is profit : the role of espionage in business.

Inside the compassionate organization : culture, identity and image in an English hospice (2017)
Book

The literature on management and organization studies suggests the time is right for a focus on 'care and compassion'. The aim of this book is to answer this call by examining the cultural changes found within a particular 'compassionate organization... Read More about Inside the compassionate organization : culture, identity and image in an English hospice.

Financial management : theory and practice (2016)
Book

Roland Fox joins Brigham and Ehrhardt in the new edition of Financial Management: Theory and Practice, written for students in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This text combines Brigham and Ehrhardt’s balance of solid financial theory and practic... Read More about Financial management : theory and practice.

Antecedents of employee engagement : an examination of the banking sector of Nigeria (2015)
Thesis
Egwuonwu, I. Antecedents of employee engagement : an examination of the banking sector of Nigeria. (Thesis). University of Salford

The meaning of employee engagement is ambiguous among both academic researchers and
practit
ioners. The term has been used differently
;
either a psycho
logical state
or a state of mind. This
research aims to study employee engagement antecede... Read More about Antecedents of employee engagement : an examination of the banking sector of Nigeria.

Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society (2015)
Journal Article

Purpose:
In this Editorial introduction the broad phases of web development – the read-only Web 1.0, the read-write Web 2.0, and the collaborative and Internet of Things Web 3.0 – are examined for the theoretical lenses through which they have been... Read More about Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society.

How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia (2015)
Journal Article

Crowd control is a growing problem in the tourism industry that is flourishing in many western and eastern countries. The “pilgrimage” or “Hajj” to Makkah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), offers the biggest tourism revenues in the world. Regret... Read More about How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

What is legal and what is not : examining the relationship between place marketing, place branding, and legal geography in heterotopias (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, we examine place marketing, place branding, and its alternative approaches, under the prism of legal geography. We aim to provide an additional knot that ties law and space by examining the role that alternative place marketing practic... Read More about What is legal and what is not : examining the relationship between place marketing, place branding, and legal geography in heterotopias.

Net neutrality in Europe : a conceptual problem (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kanellopoulou, E., & King, I. (2015, September). Net neutrality in Europe : a conceptual problem. Presented at SLS Annual Conference 2015, York

Bergson, complexity and creative emergence (2015)
Book
Kreps, D. (2015). Bergson, complexity and creative emergence. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137412201

Chapter Abstracts

1. Introduction
a. The Life and Legacy of Henri Bergson
b. This opening chapter offers a brief ‘life’ of Henri Bergson – born in 1859, the year Darwin’s Origin of Species was published - and his legacy, particularly in poststr... Read More about Bergson, complexity and creative emergence.

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.

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?.

Multiperspectives of mobile money system development at the base of the pyramid : case of e-Masary in Egypt (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter highlights how the motives, utility and benefits, and challenges of Mobile Money Systems (MMS) shape the financial inclusion in today’s dynamic environment and increase its sustainability. Recently, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have b... Read More about Multiperspectives of mobile money system development at the base of the pyramid : case of e-Masary in Egypt.