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The lived experiences of ethnic minority Indian women entrepreneurs in Singapore: Motivation, barriers, challenges and support system (2024)
Thesis
Subramaniam, P. The lived experiences of ethnic minority Indian women entrepreneurs in Singapore: Motivation, barriers, challenges and support system. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Women entrepreneurs have grown significantly and they play a vital role and contribute significantly to the development and growth of the economy. With globalisation, there have been movements of people across countries. This has led to immigration a... Read More about The lived experiences of ethnic minority Indian women entrepreneurs in Singapore: Motivation, barriers, challenges and support system.

Exploring the challenges and enablers of adopting online learning innovations in Singapore's private education institutions - a managerial perspective (2024)
Thesis
Srinara, N. Exploring the challenges and enablers of adopting online learning innovations in Singapore's private education institutions - a managerial perspective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of online learning globally, prompting Private Education Institutions (PEIs) in Singapore to increasingly rely on this mode of delivery. However, the implementation of online learning innovations wit... Read More about Exploring the challenges and enablers of adopting online learning innovations in Singapore's private education institutions - a managerial perspective.

Shaping triumph from within: an investigation into employee-based brand co-creation, motivation drivers and enhanced job-related organisational performance (2024)
Journal Article
Yuan, R., Chen, R., Huang, B., & Du, A. M. (online). Shaping triumph from within: an investigation into employee-based brand co-creation, motivation drivers and enhanced job-related organisational performance. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, https://doi.org/10.1108/joepp-04-2024-0165

Purpose
Drawing on the co-creation literature and self-determination theory, this study takes a broader organisational perspective linking employees’ motivational antecedents (corporate brand socialization, employee brand identification and impress... Read More about Shaping triumph from within: an investigation into employee-based brand co-creation, motivation drivers and enhanced job-related organisational performance.

The Value of Being Greener: Untangling the Relationship between Environmental Investment and Firms’ Access to Trade Credit (2024)
Journal Article
Li, W., Hua, X., Boateng, A., Wang, Y., & Du, M. (online). The Value of Being Greener: Untangling the Relationship between Environmental Investment and Firms’ Access to Trade Credit. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12883

This study investigates the relationship between corporate environmental performance, as captured by environmental investment, and firms’ access to trade credit. Using data from Chinese listed firms in heavy pollution industries, we find that corpora... Read More about The Value of Being Greener: Untangling the Relationship between Environmental Investment and Firms’ Access to Trade Credit.

Digital financial inclusion, the belt and road initiative, and the Paris agreement: Impacts on energy transition grid costs (2024)
Journal Article
Chishti, M. Z., Xia, X., Du, A. M., & Özkan, O. (2025). Digital financial inclusion, the belt and road initiative, and the Paris agreement: Impacts on energy transition grid costs. Finance Research Letters, 72, Article 106517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106517

We investigate how digital financial inclusion, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Paris Agreement influence the energy transition grid cost. We propose two new Kendall and Spearman wavelet cross-quantile correlation methods and utilize data from... Read More about Digital financial inclusion, the belt and road initiative, and the Paris agreement: Impacts on energy transition grid costs.

Fueling financial development: The crucial role of generative AI financing across nations (2024)
Journal Article
Siddik, A. B., Li, Y., Du, A. M., & Migliavacca, M. (2025). Fueling financial development: The crucial role of generative AI financing across nations. Finance Research Letters, 72, Article 106519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106519

This study examines the impact of Generative AI (GAI) financing on financial development (FD) across 21 countries using cross-sectional data from 2020 to 2022. Employing both simple linear regression and two-stage least squares (2SLS) to address endo... Read More about Fueling financial development: The crucial role of generative AI financing across nations.

Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning (2024)
Journal Article
Kitchen, E., Goh, E., Steriopolous, E., Harkison, T., Drake, C., Robertson, M., Losekoot, E., & Waterston, L. (online). Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2420868

Authentic learning is a critical pedagogy and curriculum requirement in higher education to better prepare students for future workforce requirements. As such, educators adopt a range of authentic learning tasks such as work-integrated learning, indu... Read More about Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning.

Material matters: recommendations for the analysis of relational spaces in sociotechnical transition studies (2024)
Journal Article
Lykouras, I., & Mora, L. (2025). Material matters: recommendations for the analysis of relational spaces in sociotechnical transition studies. Technology in Society, 80, Article 102764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102764

This Opinion Paper examines the interplay between materiality, relational spaces, and technological change dynamics. The objective is to introduce a novel theoretical perspective and a structured analytical process designed to enrich the investigatio... Read More about Material matters: recommendations for the analysis of relational spaces in sociotechnical transition studies.

Breaking away from family control? Collaboration among political organisations and social media endorsement among their constituents (2024)
Journal Article
Wagner, P. M., Malkamäki, A., & Ylä-Anttila, T. (online). Breaking away from family control? Collaboration among political organisations and social media endorsement among their constituents. Policy Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09553-6

Coalitions that engage in political advocacy are constituted by organisations, which are made up of individuals and organisational subunits. Comparing the coalitions formed by organisations to the those formed by their constituent parts provides a me... Read More about Breaking away from family control? Collaboration among political organisations and social media endorsement among their constituents.

Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America (2024)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2024). Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America. In F. Dervin (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality in Communication and Education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513940-37

This chapter discusses critical interculturality as the socio-historical context against which individuals’ intercultural communications and developing intercultural competence may be understood. The individuals are short-term sojourners, primarily y... Read More about Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America.

A New Age for Academic Integrity? Rethinking Assessment Security (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khaleel, F. (2024, November). A New Age for Academic Integrity? Rethinking Assessment Security. Presented at Future of HE Assessment 2024, Online

What counts as misconduct in the age of AI and how do we define the parameters?

Recognising the barriers to effective AI detection and exploring how we can embrace AI in the assessment process

How should assessment design be reimagined to suppo... Read More about A New Age for Academic Integrity? Rethinking Assessment Security.

Multiple identities in franchising (2024)
Journal Article
Grünhagen, M., Watson, A., González-Díaz, M., & Dada, O. L. (2025). Multiple identities in franchising. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 21(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-024-01046-5

The extant literature on organizational identification has explored the existence and interactions between different levels of identification that individuals may hold within the same organization. Such research has tended to focus on nested groups w... Read More about Multiple identities in franchising.

Women entrepreneurs: From potential to intention. The role of motivations and culture in emerging economies (2024)
Book Chapter
Osowska, R., & Kapasi, I. (2024). Women entrepreneurs: From potential to intention. The role of motivations and culture in emerging economies. In H. Neergaard, M. Guerrero, & B. Kenny (Eds.), De Gruyter Handbook of Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies (369-392). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747669-015

Entrepreneurial motivations are theorised as informing entrepreneurial behaviours and their scope and direction. Although the literature has identified agency-focused cognitive process, little is still known about women’s entrepreneurial motivations... Read More about Women entrepreneurs: From potential to intention. The role of motivations and culture in emerging economies.

Artificial intelligence as a catalyst for sustainable tourism growth and economic cycles (2024)
Journal Article
Siddik, A. B., Forid, M. S., Yong, L., Du, A. M., & Goodell, J. W. (2025). Artificial intelligence as a catalyst for sustainable tourism growth and economic cycles. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 210, Article 123875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123875

We investigate the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in promoting sustainable tourism growth and its implications for the next technological and economic cycle. Focusing on the top ten global tourist destinations from 2010 to 2022, we investigate... Read More about Artificial intelligence as a catalyst for sustainable tourism growth and economic cycles.

Franchisee well-being: The roles of entrepreneurial identity, autonomy perceptions, and franchisor management practices (2024)
Journal Article
Watson, A., Backhaus, C., El Akremi, A., Mignonac, K., & Perrigot, R. (2024). Franchisee well-being: The roles of entrepreneurial identity, autonomy perceptions, and franchisor management practices. Industrial Marketing Management, 123, 386-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2024.11.001

Using two-level data drawn from franchisors and their franchisees, this paper explores how individual and work characteristics influence franchisee well-being. Franchising is an interesting context in which to examine well-being, given the boundary s... Read More about Franchisee well-being: The roles of entrepreneurial identity, autonomy perceptions, and franchisor management practices.

The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX industry in Scotland (2024)
Journal Article
Mortimer, J., Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2024). The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX industry in Scotland. Animation, 19(2-3), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477241281629

Integral to the animation and visual effects (VFX) industry are graduates with industry focused skills. Yet, the industry is rapid and ever changing, almost defying attempts to define it. How then should animation/VFX, and indeed any subject of a sim... Read More about The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX industry in Scotland.

Effect of consumer brand involvement on brand advocacy: a moderated mediation model (2024)
Journal Article
Cheung, M. F. Y., & To, W. M. (online). Effect of consumer brand involvement on brand advocacy: a moderated mediation model. Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/10696679.2024.2427207

This study explored the mechanisms and contexts through which consumer brand involvement can influence brand advocacy. A moderated mediation model was empirically tested with a random sample of 387 Chinese consumers in Hong Kong. The results indicate... Read More about Effect of consumer brand involvement on brand advocacy: a moderated mediation model.

Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Podoshen, J., Wight, C., & Lennon, J. (2024, November). Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning. Presented at The Annual Society for Marketing Advances Conference: The Age of AI, Tampa, Florida, US

We invited stakeholders involved in dark tourism to comment on, and respond to academic constructs of dark tourism, which resides within the body of literature on this topic. Specifically, we undertook a genre analysis of dark tourism literature, and... Read More about Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning.

Meeting the Job Expectations of a New Generation of Police Officers: The Changing Psychological Contract and Turnover Intention (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grant, K., & Vincent, D. (2024, November). Meeting the Job Expectations of a New Generation of Police Officers: The Changing Psychological Contract and Turnover Intention. Presented at 13th Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network, Rotterdam, Netherlands

This research draws upon psychological contract (PC) theory to investigate the ‘work’ and ‘workplace’ expectations of new probationer police officers in Scotland, UK, and to compare these with the extent to which initial job expectations of establish... Read More about Meeting the Job Expectations of a New Generation of Police Officers: The Changing Psychological Contract and Turnover Intention.