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Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry: Virtual Propinquity to Business (2022)
Journal Article
Singh, H., Jain, G., Kumar, N., Hashimy, L., & Shrivastava, A. (2022). Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry: Virtual Propinquity to Business. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 20(2), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.4018/JECO.300303

The concept of fashion has been coupled with technology, where technology has become the protagonist. The transparency between an organization and a customer works as a catalyst, and the customer has taken a more mainstream role. With blockchain tech... Read More about Blockchain Technology in the Fashion Industry: Virtual Propinquity to Business.

A Brave New World: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transitioning to Sustainable Supply and Production. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). A Brave New World: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transitioning to Sustainable Supply and Production. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104894

As members of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production we have – as virtually everyone else – paid close attention to the COVID-19 pandemic which is one of the most comprehensive and tragic public... Read More about A Brave New World: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transitioning to Sustainable Supply and Production..

Employee perceptions of work-life balance and formal and informal approaches to work-life management: a case study of China's pharmaceutical sector (2019)
Thesis
Xu, M. (2019). Employee perceptions of work-life balance and formal and informal approaches to work-life management: a case study of China's pharmaceutical sector. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414940

This thesis examines Chinese employees’ perceptions and experience of work-life balance (WLB) and the relationship between management’s formal application of WLB policies and practices, and the reality experienced by the employee. WLB in China has be... Read More about Employee perceptions of work-life balance and formal and informal approaches to work-life management: a case study of China's pharmaceutical sector.

Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: an exploratory study of entrepreneurial opportunities identification among early-stage small business owners in Nigeria (2019)
Thesis
Bello, M. A. (2019). Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: an exploratory study of entrepreneurial opportunities identification among early-stage small business owners in Nigeria. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414415

This thesis explores the under-investigated construct of entrepreneurial opportunities identification within an entirely new context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Opportunity has been recognised as the single most important concept in the study of entrepren... Read More about Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: an exploratory study of entrepreneurial opportunities identification among early-stage small business owners in Nigeria.

Organisational Dynamics and Adoption of Innovation: A Study within the Software Firms in Sri Lanka (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Organisational Dynamics and Adoption of Innovation: A Study within the Software Firms in Sri Lanka. Journal of Small Business Management, 450-475. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12378

This paper examines the effect of organizational dynamics on innovation focus using the residual dominant and emergent theoretical framework (RDE) and the empirical evidence of four case studies. The findings revealed that different types of innovati... Read More about Organisational Dynamics and Adoption of Innovation: A Study within the Software Firms in Sri Lanka.

Does designing environmental disclosure quality measures make a difference? (2019)
Journal Article
Helfaya, A., & Whittington, M. (2019). Does designing environmental disclosure quality measures make a difference?. Business Strategy and the Environment, 28(4), 525-541. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2262

Assessing the quality of information disclosed by companies is a complex task. Accounting studies usually rely on analysing the content of corporate reports using measures to obtain a proxy for the information reported by companies. However, there is... Read More about Does designing environmental disclosure quality measures make a difference?.

The dark side of feeling trusted for hospitality employees: An investigation in two service contexts (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The dark side of feeling trusted for hospitality employees: An investigation in two service contexts. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 122 -131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2018.04.001

Emerging research appears to suggest that feeling trusted by management can facilitate employees’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). However, it is possible that feeling trusted can have negative effects on hospitality employees. In this pape... Read More about The dark side of feeling trusted for hospitality employees: An investigation in two service contexts.

Knocking on the door of Human-Animal Studies: the value of work in interdisciplinary perspective (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Knocking on the door of Human-Animal Studies: the value of work in interdisciplinary perspective. Society and Animals, 347-366. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341525

We argue that human-animal studies (HAS) literature is essential for theorizing work because it fosters a reflexive questioning of humanist power and a more sophisticated understanding of the co-dependency and co-creativity between the species. We hi... Read More about Knocking on the door of Human-Animal Studies: the value of work in interdisciplinary perspective.

Social Networks and Unemployment Exit in Great Britain (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Social Networks and Unemployment Exit in Great Britain. International Journal of Social Economics, 1205 -1226. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-04-2017-0137

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect employed friends have on the probability of exiting unemployment of an unemployed worker according to his/her educational (skill) level.

Design/methodology/approach
In common with studie... Read More about Social Networks and Unemployment Exit in Great Britain.

Qur’anic ethics for environmental responsibility: implications for business practice (2018)
Journal Article
Ekara Helfaya. (2018). Qur’anic ethics for environmental responsibility: implications for business practice. Journal of Business Ethics, 1105-1128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-+016-3195-6

Despite the growing interest in examining the role of religious beliefs as a guide towards environmental conscious actions, there is still a lack of research informed by an analysis of divine messages. This deficiency includes the extent to which eth... Read More about Qur’anic ethics for environmental responsibility: implications for business practice.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend...?: Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Diamonds are a girl's best friend...?: Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry. Organization, 355 -376. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508416687767

Using Acker’s concept of ‘inequality regimes’, this article examines the practices and processes of gender inequality in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, highlighting the complex and subtle nature of discrimination sometimes at play and the strategi... Read More about Diamonds are a girl's best friend...?: Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry.

Burgers for tourists who give a damn! Driving disruptive social change upstream and downstream in the tourist food supply chain (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Burgers for tourists who give a damn! Driving disruptive social change upstream and downstream in the tourist food supply chain. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1563 - 1582. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2017.1291652

Using the theoretical lens of social capital this paper examines the role of small tourist food businesses and their impact on the sustainability of the destination and local food supply chains. The paper analyses the experiences of small business ow... Read More about Burgers for tourists who give a damn! Driving disruptive social change upstream and downstream in the tourist food supply chain.

A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains (2017)
Journal Article
Fassam, L., & Dani, S. (2017). A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains. British Food Journal, 119(1), 67 - 83. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-07-2016-0314

Purpose: Business, consumers and governmental organisations are harbouring a growing need to gain an appreciation of behaviours connected to food criminality. In order to acquire a cross-functional understanding of these thematic areas (crime and fra... Read More about A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains.

"Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). "Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 287-303. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-07-2016-0013

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how organizations operate in the absence of a clear regulatory authority in a self-regulating environment. Significant moves towards self-regulation by various political administrations, together with... Read More about "Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry.

Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-07-2016-0013

Purpose: This paper seeks to explore how organizations operate in the absence of a clear regulatory authority in a self-regulating environment. Significant moves toward self-regulation by various political administrations, together with successive wa... Read More about Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry.

Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay (2016)
Journal Article
Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2016). Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay. Industrial Relations Journal, 204 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12140

This article provides an analysis of developments in the determination of police pay since 1919. It reveals the contested nature of public sector pay setting where the government of the day pursues short-term economic goals rather than taking a long-... Read More about Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay.