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A quantitative study of financing efficiency of low‐carbon companies: A three‐stage data envelopment analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Yu, X., & Gao, S. (2019). A quantitative study of financing efficiency of low‐carbon companies: A three‐stage data envelopment analysis. Business Strategy and the Environment, 28(5), 858-871. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2288

This study set out to evaluate the financing efficiency of low‐carbon companies. Applying a three‐stage data envelopment analysis with the data from 85 listed companies in China's low‐carbon industries over the period 2011 to 2017, this study has fou... Read More about A quantitative study of financing efficiency of low‐carbon companies: A three‐stage data envelopment analysis.

Hotel Industry Leadership in Greater China—A Biographical Comparison (2019)
Journal Article
Chu, A. M. C., & King, B. E. M. (2019). Hotel Industry Leadership in Greater China—A Biographical Comparison. Journal of China Tourism Research, 15(4), 563-588. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2019.1577781

The relationship between leaders and followers plays a major role in shaping organizational cultures. There is an established literature within many disciplines showing evidence of how leaders seek to influence their followers. This article extends t... Read More about Hotel Industry Leadership in Greater China—A Biographical Comparison.

Chronic pain study (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fascia, M. (2019). Chronic pain study

Assessing the effect of process sociology (figurations) in an organisational (healthcare) environment [This study interprets evidence from organisational and personal perspectives and identify if the relationship analysis can be used to increase orga... Read More about Chronic pain study.

Organisational leadership and/for sustainability: Future directions from John Dewey and social movements (2019)
Journal Article
Howieson, W., Burnes, B., & Summers, J. (2019). Organisational leadership and/for sustainability: Future directions from John Dewey and social movements. European Management Journal, 37(6), 687-693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.02.003

In this paper, we suggest that organisational leadership that is based (generally) on a neoliberal paradigm has contributed to an ‘intolerable situation’ that was recognised at the United Nations (2015a) Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We, therefo... Read More about Organisational leadership and/for sustainability: Future directions from John Dewey and social movements.

Theoretical Development: Specialism, Achievement, Coordination, (SAC) model – Kantian Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Fascia, M., Sanderson, M., Tan, H., & Fascia, S. (2019). Theoretical Development: Specialism, Achievement, Coordination, (SAC) model – Kantian Perspective. Journal of Strategy, Operations & Economics, 5(5), Article 2

From a Kantian perspective, in this discussion, we looked to develop a new multi perspective model to scrutinise psychological processes involved in forming positive decision-making protocols, based on formulated expectations and/or impacts to a posi... Read More about Theoretical Development: Specialism, Achievement, Coordination, (SAC) model – Kantian Perspective.

Evaluation of knowledge transfer practices from a Leibniz Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Tan, H., Fascia, M., & Sanderson, M. (2019). Evaluation of knowledge transfer practices from a Leibniz Perspective. Journal of Strategy, Operations & Economics, 5(5), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.31219/jsoe.v5i5.51

In recent years, there has been a growing number of subspecialties within the context of business management, which have begun to talk seriously about a notion of religious points of view in a business context. In this paper we unpack a view from Got... Read More about Evaluation of knowledge transfer practices from a Leibniz Perspective.

Messodology in the margins: Researchers’ own constructions in/as data (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2019, February). Messodology in the margins: Researchers’ own constructions in/as data. Paper presented at 3rd European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, UK

Here’s something that’s been discredited, but let’s take it one step further. In qualitative research, we know it’s hokum that an all-knowing researcher “collects” data —springing already formed— from participants. Data “collection”, we know, is all... Read More about Messodology in the margins: Researchers’ own constructions in/as data.

Volunteer tourism in Latin America: Activism, epistemic violence, and/or cultural relativism? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2019, February). Volunteer tourism in Latin America: Activism, epistemic violence, and/or cultural relativism?. Paper presented at 3rd European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh

Latin America has a history of “internacionalistas”: outsiders travelling to help resistance efforts against murderous right-wing regimes. In the 1950s and 1960s, Che Guevara volunteered as a medic in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, and in the 1980s, i... Read More about Volunteer tourism in Latin America: Activism, epistemic violence, and/or cultural relativism?.

The Impact of Language Competencies of International Business Performance: Small and Medium Enterprise Perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tibrewal, A., de Jong, A., Parkes, G., Haji, I., & Backhaus, C. (2019, November). The Impact of Language Competencies of International Business Performance: Small and Medium Enterprise Perspective. Presented at 42nd Annual Conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entreprenuership, Newcastle, UK

The purpose of this research is to draw attention to the role of language competencies in international marketing and business performance. The project aims to quantify the impact of linguistic competency on international marketing and business manag... Read More about The Impact of Language Competencies of International Business Performance: Small and Medium Enterprise Perspective.

Surmounting the Trade Union Act 2016: A case study of using local branch data and communication systems to ‘get the vote out’ in the UK higher education sector (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richards, J., & Ellis, V. (2019, February). Surmounting the Trade Union Act 2016: A case study of using local branch data and communication systems to ‘get the vote out’ in the UK higher education sector. Paper presented at STUC Research Conference: Behind Closed Circuits: Data, digitalisation and trade union tactics, Glasgow

The proposed paper/presentation engages with how trade unions can mobilise membership data and communication systems to organise workers into getting the vote out (GTVO) for industrial action ballots. The proposed paper/presentation hinges on a case... Read More about Surmounting the Trade Union Act 2016: A case study of using local branch data and communication systems to ‘get the vote out’ in the UK higher education sector.

Learning whilst working: perceptions on barriers and enablers to transfer of learning amongst part-time students on a professional MSc programme Education + Training (2019)
Journal Article
D'Annunzio-Green, N., & Barron, P. (2019). Learning whilst working: perceptions on barriers and enablers to transfer of learning amongst part-time students on a professional MSc programme Education + Training. Education and Training, 61(2), 187-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-04-2018-0098

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine student-learner perceptions of benefits, barriers and enablers in learning whilst working, specifically focussing on learning transfer from a university MSc in Human Resource Management to students’ pr... Read More about Learning whilst working: perceptions on barriers and enablers to transfer of learning amongst part-time students on a professional MSc programme Education + Training.

Investigating the influence of performance measurement on learning, entrepreneurial orientation and performance in turbulent markets (2019)
Journal Article
Taheri, B., Bititci, U., Gannon, M. J., & Cordina, R. (2019). Investigating the influence of performance measurement on learning, entrepreneurial orientation and performance in turbulent markets. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 31(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-11-2017-0744

Purpose: This study examines how comprehensive performance measurement systems (CPMS) influence entrepreneurial orientation, market-focused learning (MFL), and employees’ perceptions of firm performance within a service-provision context. It also con... Read More about Investigating the influence of performance measurement on learning, entrepreneurial orientation and performance in turbulent markets.

An empirical study of relationships between accounting conservatism and executive compensation-performance sensitivity (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Gao, S., & Zeng, Y. (2019). An empirical study of relationships between accounting conservatism and executive compensation-performance sensitivity. International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, 27(1), 130-150. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijaim-01-2018-0002

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between accounting conservatism and executive compensation-performance sensitivity with a view to identifying the influence of accounting conservatism on the efficiency of executive comp... Read More about An empirical study of relationships between accounting conservatism and executive compensation-performance sensitivity.

The Performance of Portfolios based on Excess Cash Holdings: Evidence from UK companies (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Adamolekun, G., Jones, E., & Li, H. (2019). The Performance of Portfolios based on Excess Cash Holdings: Evidence from UK companies

In this study, we examine the performance of portfolios based on excess cash holdings using a sample of UK listed firms. We argue that firms with excess cash holdings outperform firms that hold less cash. Strategically, excess cash holdings provide a... Read More about The Performance of Portfolios based on Excess Cash Holdings: Evidence from UK companies.

Knowledge transfer structures. (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fascia, M. (2019). Knowledge transfer structures

Dominant research streams in healthcare management conclude that knowledge transfer between patient groups is accomplished through instructions and/or socially constructed practices. Underlying these views is the belief that texts and practices carry... Read More about Knowledge transfer structures..

Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic (2019)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2019). Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic. In X. Gao (Ed.), Second Handbook of English Language Teaching. Switzerland: Springer

With a view to suggesting ways forward in qualitative ELT research, this chapter surveys two related fields of literature in order to question the taken-for-granted. The first field reviewed is ethnography and here the focus on its intellectual histo... Read More about Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic.