The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19
(2022)
Book Chapter
(2022). The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19. In Covid-19 in Southeast Asia Insights for a Post-Pandemic World. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.cov
The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19 (2022)
Book Chapter
(2022). The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19. In Covid-19 in Southeast Asia Insights for a Post-Pandemic World. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.covIn 2019, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry was the second largest contributor to the Philippines’ economy, providing US$26 billion to the Philippine economy in 2019 (Rosales 2020) and employing at least 1.3 million people in over 1,000... Read More about The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry through COVID-19.
Young entrepreneurs and non-teleological temporality in Portugal and the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Mendonça, M. (2019). Young entrepreneurs and non-teleological temporality in Portugal and the UK. Time and Society, 29(1), 0961463X1987378 - 0961463X1987378. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X19873783The promotion of young enterprise is central to European Union youth policy, particularly since the financial crisis of 2007/2008. Expectations that young people need to be enterprising and eschew dependency on formal structures of salaried employmen... Read More about Young entrepreneurs and non-teleological temporality in Portugal and the UK.
The paradox of mobility for older people in the rural-urban fringe (2019)
Journal Article
Peacock, A., & Pemberton, S. (2019). The paradox of mobility for older people in the rural-urban fringe. Journal of Rural Studies, 9 -18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.08.002Whilst considerable focus has been placed on mobility in rural and urban areas, there has been little attention to date on individuals' experiences and practices of mobility in the rural-urban fringe (RUF). This is surprising given that mobility is a... Read More about The paradox of mobility for older people in the rural-urban fringe.
The Blue Economy approach for sustainability in Seychelles & East Africa. Keele University Institute for Sustainable Futures Discussion Paper 1 (2018)
Book
Moolna. (2018). The Blue Economy approach for sustainability in Seychelles & East Africa. Keele University Institute for Sustainable Futures Discussion Paper 1. https://doi.org/10.21252/b4wm-3598The Blue Economy approach to ocean and coastal sustainable economic development in Seychelles and across East Africa promises great potential and has emerged to dominate regional attention on sustainability. Yet we contend that a policy consensus pre... Read More about The Blue Economy approach for sustainability in Seychelles & East Africa. Keele University Institute for Sustainable Futures Discussion Paper 1.
Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry (2016)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., & Enright, B. (2016). Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry. Geoforum, 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.05.005This paper examines the increasing complexity of interactions between temporary staffing agencies and their client firms within the local labour market of Birmingham, UK. Temporary Staffing Agencies have been identified as active and influential agen... Read More about Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry.