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Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme (2024)
Book Chapter
Harte, P., Fonseca, A. P., Hill, E., & Hosanoo, Z. A. (2024). Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme. In R. J. Crammond, & D. Hyams-Ssekasi (Eds.), Entrepreneurship Education and Internationalisation: Cases, Collaborations, and Contexts (65-85). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003378570-7

This chapter uses theory and application to discuss the importance of enterprise education and employability skills in the MBA curriculum. Edinburgh Napier Business School academics and career development consultants collaborate to develop a theory/p... Read More about Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme.

Qualitative Research Approaches: Case Study Research Method (2023)
Book Chapter
Tjandra, N. C., & Feri, A. (2023). Qualitative Research Approaches: Case Study Research Method. In P. Foroudi, & C. Dennis (Eds.), Researching and Analysing Business: Research Methods in Practice. Routledge

In this chapter we have provided a guidance of conducting a qualitative case study in business and management research. At the end of this chapter the reader will be able to (i) comprehend what is a case study research method, (ii) identify the relev... Read More about Qualitative Research Approaches: Case Study Research Method.

Wicked leadership development for wicked problems (2022)
Book Chapter
Howieson, W. B., & Grant, K. (2022). Wicked leadership development for wicked problems. In P. Holland, T. Bartram, T. Garavan, & K. Grant (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Work, Workplaces, and Disruptive Issues in HRM (303-316). Emerald

Strategic Talent Management In The Hospitality Industry (2021)
Book Chapter
Garavan, T., Matthews-Smith, G., Marie Gill, A., & O’Brien, F. (2021). Strategic Talent Management In The Hospitality Industry. In S. Jooss, R. Burbach, & H. Ruël (Eds.), Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry (9-29). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-306-220211002

Purpose: Talent management and in particular strategic talent management (STM) has emerged as an important issue for hospitality organisations worldwide. In this chapter, we address some of the complexities evident in hospitality organisations in rel... Read More about Strategic Talent Management In The Hospitality Industry.

Discrimination Against Transgender Employees and Jobseekers (2020)
Book Chapter
McFadden, C. (2020). Discrimination Against Transgender Employees and Jobseekers. In K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (1-14). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_35-1

Discrimination against transgender employees and jobseekers is widely reported in multiple contexts. However, there is relative lack of literature on the experiences, extent, scope, and magnitude of anti-transgender discrimination. This chapter bring... Read More about Discrimination Against Transgender Employees and Jobseekers.

Port Knowledge Risk Management (2020)
Book Chapter
Handley-Schachler, M. (2020). Port Knowledge Risk Management. In S. Durst, & T. Henschel (Eds.), Knowledge Risk Management: From Theory to Praxis (185-206). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35121-2_11

Knowledge risk management aims to control the element of any risk which arises from poor understanding of risks or of the procedures to control them. It is a key element in control risk in ports in relation inherent risks such as chemical discharges... Read More about Port Knowledge Risk Management.

Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past? (2019)
Book Chapter
Holland, P., Grant, K., & Tham, T. L. (2019). Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past?. In Contemporary HRM Issues in the 21st Century (173-182). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-457-720191020

With the accelerated changes we have seen in the 21st century, in many cases driven by technology, the importance of how work is organised is central to the development of effective organisations. On the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution, exis... Read More about Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past?.

Riding the Wave: Understanding the Context of Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan (2019)
Book Chapter
Omeihe, K. O., Dakhan, S. A., Khan, M. S., Gustafsson, V., & Amoako, I. O. (2019). Riding the Wave: Understanding the Context of Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan. In Women Entrepreneurs and Strategic Decision Making in the Global Economy (20-39). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7479-8.ch002

To date, most of the literature on female entrepreneurship reveals a paucity of research on developing market contexts. The authors build on this to establish the constraining challenges and barriers faced by Pakistani women entrepreneurs. In this ch... Read More about Riding the Wave: Understanding the Context of Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan.

Global Issues: The Technological Framework (2018)
Book Chapter
Bratton, J., & Grant, K. (2018). Global Issues: The Technological Framework. In The International Business Environment (251-288). (Fourth edition). Oxford University Press

No abstract available.

Regenerative Medicine Venturing at the University-Industry Boundary: Implications for Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and Industry (2018)
Book Chapter
Bock, A. J., & Johnson, D. (2018). Regenerative Medicine Venturing at the University-Industry Boundary: Implications for Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and Industry. In A. Raval, P. Hematti, & E. Schmuck (Eds.), Cardiac Extracellular Matrix (213-236). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97421-7_12

Regenerative medicine research at university laboratories has outpaced commercial activity. Legal, regulatory, funding, technological, and operational uncertainty have slowed market entry of regenerative medicine treatments. As a result, commercial d... Read More about Regenerative Medicine Venturing at the University-Industry Boundary: Implications for Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and Industry.

HRD and global talent development (2017)
Book Chapter
Bratton, A., Garavan, T., D'Annunzio-Green, N., & Grant, K. (2017). HRD and global talent development. In T. Garavan, A. McCarthy, & R. Carbery (Eds.), Handbook of International Human Resource Development: Context, Processes and People (417-443). Edward Elgar Publishing

No abstract available.

Value-based Healthcare: Utopian vision or fit for Purpose. (2016)
Book Chapter
Garavan, T., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2016). Value-based Healthcare: Utopian vision or fit for Purpose. In A. Ortenblad, C. Abrahamson Lofstrom, & R. Sheaff (Eds.), Management Innovations for Healthcare organizations (412-430). (1). Routledge

A comparative study of ecosystem development in regenerative medicine (2016)
Book Chapter
Bock, A. J., & Johnson, D. (2016). A comparative study of ecosystem development in regenerative medicine. In P. H. Phan (Ed.), Academic Entrepreneurship: Translating Discoveries to the Marketplace (218-250). Edward Elgar Publishing

No abstract available.

A Lean healthcare journey: the Scottish Experience (2015)
Book Chapter
Lindsay, C., & Kumar, M. (2015). A Lean healthcare journey: the Scottish Experience. In Public Service Operations Management: A research handbook. Routledge

Lean has been adopted by public sector organisations to combat the growing challenges in tackling demand, capacity, service provision and issues around the reduction of errors and managing variation in processes. This chapter discusses the specific c... Read More about A Lean healthcare journey: the Scottish Experience.

eScaping in the city, retailvents in socio-spatially managed futures. (2014)
Book Chapter
Robertson, M., & Lees, G. (2014). eScaping in the city, retailvents in socio-spatially managed futures. In I. Yeoman, M. Robertson, U. McMahon-Beattie, E. Backer, & K. Smith (Eds.), The Future of Events and Festivals (251-267). (1). Routledge

From a mercantile past, of the travelling merchant and adventures and travels around the world, to proliferation of market towns, to the growth of individual – specialist – shops and then to the emergence of retail giants (supermarkets to superstores... Read More about eScaping in the city, retailvents in socio-spatially managed futures..