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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

In 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.

Understanding Transience and Participation in University Student-Led Food Gardens (2019)
Journal Article
Pedersen, R., Robinson, Z., & Surman, E. (2019). Understanding Transience and Participation in University Student-Led Food Gardens. Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102788

In an increasingly mobile world, transience is becoming the norm. Sustainable community food initiatives, therefore, must organise to withstand high turnover of volunteers. Using a case study of the United Kingdom’s National Union of Students’ food g... Read More about Understanding Transience and Participation in University Student-Led Food Gardens.

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.2016.05.005

This 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.