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Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market (2021)
Journal Article
Trentacosti, G., & Pilcher, N. (2021). Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market. Publishing Research Quarterly, 37, 278-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-021-09798-6

This project explores the responses of the Dutch trade book market to the ever-increasing influx of Anglophone publications. Based on in-depth interviews (n = 42) carried out between 2015 and 2017 with Dutch publishing professionals, this research id... Read More about Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market.

Beyond contact-tracing: The public value of eHealth application in a pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Gerli, P., Arakpogun, E. O., Elsahn, Z., Olan, F., & Prime, K. S. (2021). Beyond contact-tracing: The public value of eHealth application in a pandemic. Government Information Quarterly, 38(3), Article 101581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101581

This study adopts a public value perspective to examine the eHealth services deployed by national and regional governments to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, including symptoms checkers, information portals and contact-tracing applicatio... Read More about Beyond contact-tracing: The public value of eHealth application in a pandemic.

Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda (2021)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., McCarthy, A., Lai, Y., Clarke, N., Carbery, R., Gubbins, C., Sheehan, M., & Saunders, M. N. (2021). Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda. Human Resource Management Journal, 31(4), 870-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12337

Research investigating training and firm performance is currently at an inflection point; capable of recognising previous achievements but also having a focus on the future. Based on our review of 207 quantitative papers over a 40‐year period, we fin... Read More about Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda.

Supporting Entrepreneurship Students’ Sense of Belonging in Online Virtual Spaces (2021)
Journal Article
Brodie, J., & Osowska, R. (2021). Supporting Entrepreneurship Students’ Sense of Belonging in Online Virtual Spaces. Industry and Higher Education, 35(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0950422221999264

Universities globally are aspiring to grow through investing in the delivery of online learning Programmes. However, the attrition rate for online learning is high. Thomas, Herbert and Teras (2014) identified that those students with a sense of belo... Read More about Supporting Entrepreneurship Students’ Sense of Belonging in Online Virtual Spaces.

A new welfare test for family court cases: plus ca change..? (2021)
Journal Article
Barnes Macfarlane, L. (2021). A new welfare test for family court cases: plus ca change..?. The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 66(3),

The Children (Scotland) Act 2020 makes the most significant amendment to Part 1 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 in 25 years. This article discusses the repeal, re-enactment and augmentation of the 'welfare test'.

The impact of economic freedom on financial analysts' earnings forecast: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific region (2021)
Journal Article
Hou, T. C., & Gao, S. (2021). The impact of economic freedom on financial analysts' earnings forecast: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific region. Finance Research Letters, 43, Article 102009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102009

This study investigates the impact of economic freedom (EcF) on analysts’ earnings forecast (AEF) accuracy. EcF is measured from five aspects: Government, Protection, Money, Trade, and Regulation. With the sample of 7,014 firms from 12 economies in t... Read More about The impact of economic freedom on financial analysts' earnings forecast: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific region.

Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online (2021)
Journal Article
Muldoon, M. L., Witte, A., Guan, S., Fang, H. Y., Xie, Y., & Zhou, L. (2023). Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online. Annals of Leisure Research, 26(3), 433-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1878379

This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from Mar... Read More about Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online.

Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces (2021)
Journal Article
Komninos, N., Kakderi, C., Mora, L., Panori, A., & Sefertzi, E. (2022). Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 13, 1169-1197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-021-00767-0

Smart cities constitute a new urban paradigm and a hegemonic phenomenon in contemporary city development. The concept envisages a data-enhanced future and efficiency gains made possible by automation and innovation in city activities and utilities. H... Read More about Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces.

Entrepreneurship and institutional challenges: disincentives or opportunities? Case studies in the Palestinian mobile phone sector (2021)
Thesis
Alaydi, S. (2021). Entrepreneurship and institutional challenges: disincentives or opportunities? Case studies in the Palestinian mobile phone sector. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2833859

This study aims to address the core research question, are institutional barriers and voids in extremely uncertain environments perceived as disincentives and/or opportunities? The emphasis in the extant entrepreneurship literature is mainly on the s... Read More about Entrepreneurship and institutional challenges: disincentives or opportunities? Case studies in the Palestinian mobile phone sector.

Proposing Circular Economy Ecosystem for Chinese SMEs: A Systematic Review (2021)
Journal Article
Min, Z., Sawang, S., & Kivits, R. A. (2021). Proposing Circular Economy Ecosystem for Chinese SMEs: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), Article 2395. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052395

Circular economy (CE) has attracted so much attention around the world as it can contribute to the balance between economic development and environmental sustainability, to address the increasing critical resources scarcity and environmental issues.... Read More about Proposing Circular Economy Ecosystem for Chinese SMEs: A Systematic Review.

Who wants North Sea CCS, and why? Assessing differences in opinion between oil and gas industry respondents and wider energy and environmental stakeholders (2021)
Journal Article
Gonzalez, A., Mabon, L., & Agarwal, A. (2021). Who wants North Sea CCS, and why? Assessing differences in opinion between oil and gas industry respondents and wider energy and environmental stakeholders. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 106, Article 103288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103288

Although Scotland and the wider UK is making good progress with research and development towards deployment of offshore carbon capture and storage, there is increasing divergence in opinion on the necessity of CCS for meeting climate change targets.... Read More about Who wants North Sea CCS, and why? Assessing differences in opinion between oil and gas industry respondents and wider energy and environmental stakeholders.

Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Witte, A. (2023). Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective. Tourism Geographies, 25(1), 334-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2021.1878269

Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most people engage in on an almost d... Read More about Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective.

Scottish Parliament Citizens’ Panel on COVID-19 (2021)
Report
Citizens’ Panel Steering Group, . (2021). Scottish Parliament Citizens’ Panel on COVID-19. https://archive2021.parliament.scot/20210218CVDCitizensPanelReportFinal.pdf: Scottish Parliament

This Citizens’ Panel was commissioned by the Scottish Parliament’s COVID-19 Committee. Its findings will support the COVID-19 Committee’s work to scrutinise the Scottish Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when the health protect... Read More about Scottish Parliament Citizens’ Panel on COVID-19.

Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability (2021)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. (2022). Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(5), 779-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2021.1887824

Drawing upon research from six volunteer projects in Cambodia, this paper explores the volunteer host community as a ‘space’ that has its own rules and normalized ways of behaving that influences the assistance prospective beneficiaries receive. Unde... Read More about Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability.

Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting (2021)
Journal Article
Hannam, K., Butler, G., Witte, A., & Zuev, D. (2021). Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting. Tourist Studies, 21(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797621992931

This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for w... Read More about Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting.

Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars (2021)
Journal Article
Bilecen, T., & Sirkeci, I. (2021). Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 23(4), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888601

Migrations from Balkans to the Ottoman Empire continued for about 150 years; and peaked during the wars such as the 1877–78 Ottoman-Russian War and the Balkan Wars. Balkan immigrants with multi-ethnic, multicultural backgrounds and settling in with m... Read More about Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars.

Strategic responses to extreme institutional challenges: An MNE case study in the Palestinian mobile phone sector (2021)
Journal Article
Alaydi, S., Buck, T., & Tang, Y. K. (2021). Strategic responses to extreme institutional challenges: An MNE case study in the Palestinian mobile phone sector. International Business Review, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.101806

Besides firm-level resources and industrial influences, firms’ strategies have been related to their institutional contexts. Empirical studies have investigated survival strategies in international environments where institutional voids, barriers and... Read More about Strategic responses to extreme institutional challenges: An MNE case study in the Palestinian mobile phone sector.