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Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations (2024)
Journal Article
Gerli, P., Mora, L., Zhang, J., & Sancino, A. (2024). Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 202, Article 123342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123342

During the COVID-19 pandemic, grassroots digital innovations (GDIs) have gained traction as innovation niches, providing an alternative to the prevailing mainstream regime dominating smart city transitions. Drawing upon interviews with experts and pr... Read More about Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations.

The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies (2024)
Digital Artefact
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024). The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies. [Online newspaper]

Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pose and snap a photo for Instagram on a beach or town square, but what if you... Read More about The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies.

The Marketing Agency Role in Delineating and Communicating Brand Purpose (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feri, A., Ind, N., & Tjandra, N. C. (2023, July). The Marketing Agency Role in Delineating and Communicating Brand Purpose. Presented at 2023 AMS World Marketing Congress, Canterbury, UK

To create the solutions that can tackle such problems as climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality, firms need to care. A commitment to caring helps managers to listen to others and to have the courage to act in line with their brand purpose.... Read More about The Marketing Agency Role in Delineating and Communicating Brand Purpose.

Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance (2024)
Journal Article
Hosanoo, Z., Patel, P., Prikshat, V., Kanungo, R. P., & Gupta, S. (2024). Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance. Journal of International Management, 30(3), Article 101135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2024.101135

Underpinning Resource-Based View (RBV) and Relational View (RV) as theoretical premises, we examine the influence of the macro and micro-level factors on inter-organisational relationship/ alliances dynamics and competitive advantage of Focal Firms (... Read More about Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance.

Stratified coalitions and political individualisation: a structural analysis of organisations and their affiliates in Irish climate politics (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wagner, P. (2024, March). Stratified coalitions and political individualisation: a structural analysis of organisations and their affiliates in Irish climate politics. Presented at CPN-CSS Network Conference 2024, Online

Coalitions that engage in political advocacy are constituted by organisations, which are made up of individuals and organisational sub-units. Comparing the coalition-building behaviour of organisations to the equivalent behaviours of their constituen... Read More about Stratified coalitions and political individualisation: a structural analysis of organisations and their affiliates in Irish climate politics.

Whether and How Prepurchase Word of Mouth Affects Postpurchase Word of Mouth (2024)
Journal Article
Dao, H. M., Bhoumik, K., & Igarashi, R. (2024). Whether and How Prepurchase Word of Mouth Affects Postpurchase Word of Mouth. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 59(4), 415 - 431. https://doi.org/10.1177/10949968241227923

Consumers often purchase new products based on online reviews and recommendations from both friends and strangers. Previous studies have extensively explored the effects of word of mouth (WOM) on the prepurchase stage, but little is known about wheth... Read More about Whether and How Prepurchase Word of Mouth Affects Postpurchase Word of Mouth.

Leadership development in the Hong Kong Civil Service: Accessing social resources through guanxi networks (2024)
Journal Article
O’Neil, J. J., McMillan, J., & Garavan, T. (2024). Leadership development in the Hong Kong Civil Service: Accessing social resources through guanxi networks. Public Administration and Development, 44(2), 105-117. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.2040

Drawing on guanxi and conservation of resources theory we explore how close personal ties between middle managers who participated in leadership development, constitutes an important social resource in an East Asian public sector context. We contribu... Read More about Leadership development in the Hong Kong Civil Service: Accessing social resources through guanxi networks.

Bringing equality, diversity, and inclusivity to academic integrity (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harte, P., & Khaleel, F. (2024, March). Bringing equality, diversity, and inclusivity to academic integrity. Presented at Advance HE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2024, Liverpool, UK

This session is aimed at academics who are designing assessment for taught postgraduate (TPG) students. The session will contextualise the problem of plagiarism, use of generative artificial intelligence and highlight common characteristics of assess... Read More about Bringing equality, diversity, and inclusivity to academic integrity.

Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2024, March). Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times. Paper presented at Gender and Sexuality Research Symposium, Edinburgh, UK

In pandemic times, there were couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there was me, uncoupled, unchilded: a bubble of one.

In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my type as “rebel women who talked back,... Read More about Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times.

Could the broad definition of “State” for the purposes of direct effect be justifiable under the EU’s aim of promoting a fully liberalised internal market? (2024)
Journal Article
Kunertová, T. (2024). Could the broad definition of “State” for the purposes of direct effect be justifiable under the EU’s aim of promoting a fully liberalised internal market?. The Lawyer Quarterly, 14(1), 82-90

In general, in the case of late transposition of the EU directives, they may be invoked vertically against a State only. Therefore, it became relatively early necessary to define the State for the purposes of direct effect. The Court of Justice of th... Read More about Could the broad definition of “State” for the purposes of direct effect be justifiable under the EU’s aim of promoting a fully liberalised internal market?.

The retailer perspective on the potential for using urban consolidation centres (UCCs) (2024)
Journal Article
Akgün, E. Z., Monios, J., Cowie, J., & Fonzone, A. (2024). The retailer perspective on the potential for using urban consolidation centres (UCCs). Research in Transportation Economics, 103, Article 101413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2024.101413

This paper examines the role of supportive policies and value-added services which may incentivise retailers to use an urban consolidation centre (UCC). The methodology is a case study of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, based on semi-structured inte... Read More about The retailer perspective on the potential for using urban consolidation centres (UCCs).

Impact of board diversity on Chinese firms’ cross-border M&A performance: An artificial intelligence approach (2024)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Du, M., Cui, T., Zhang, Y., & Duygun, M. (2024). Impact of board diversity on Chinese firms’ cross-border M&A performance: An artificial intelligence approach. International Review of Economics and Finance, 92, 1321-1335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2024.02.077

In this paper, we examine the impact of board demographic characteristics on Chinese firms’ cross-border Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) performance, especially the gender diversity of the board composition. We unveil that female board proportion exhib... Read More about Impact of board diversity on Chinese firms’ cross-border M&A performance: An artificial intelligence approach.

Consumers’ reaction to sci-fi as a source of information for technological development: An empirical analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Messeni Petruzzelli, A., Mora, L., Natalicchio, A., Platania, F., & Toscano Hernandez, C. (2024). Consumers’ reaction to sci-fi as a source of information for technological development: An empirical analysis. Technovation, 132, Article 102970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102970

Science fiction (sci-fi) creative products inspire individuals by envisioning alternative futures and imaginary technological development. The stimuli conveyed by sci-fi creative products can trigger consumers' interest, which nowadays translate into... Read More about Consumers’ reaction to sci-fi as a source of information for technological development: An empirical analysis.

Vulnerability and Private International Law: Mapping a Normative Approach Towards Asymmetrical Substantive Equality (2024)
Book Chapter
Gillies, L. (2024). Vulnerability and Private International Law: Mapping a Normative Approach Towards Asymmetrical Substantive Equality. In J. Borg-Barthet, K. Trimmings, B. Yüksel Ripley, & P. Živkovic (Eds.), From Theory to Practice in Private International Law: Gedächtnisschrift for Professor Jonathan Fitchen. Bloomsbury Publishing

The first two decades of this century have already witnessed an increasing range of inequalities between individuals across borders. These inequalities are socio-legal or socio-economic challenges which manifest as vulnerability. Operating at the le... Read More about Vulnerability and Private International Law: Mapping a Normative Approach Towards Asymmetrical Substantive Equality.

Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article
Volintiru, C., Surubaru, N.-C., Epstein, R. A., & Fagan, A. (2024). Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(3), 782-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2313694

This introduction argues that the East-West divide in Europe continues to be politically salient since the fall of the Berlin Wall and two decades since the accession of most East Central European (ECE) countries to the European Union. We re-evaluate... Read More about Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union.