Festival quality, self-connection, and bragging (2019)
Journal Article
Gannon, M., Taheri, B., & Olya, H. (2019). Festival quality, self-connection, and bragging. Annals of Tourism Research, 76, 239-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.04.014

Festivals provide opportunities for experiential consumption, attracting both first-time and repeat visitors. However, current understanding of the perceptual and behavioural differences between these groups remains incomplete. This study investigate... Read More about Festival quality, self-connection, and bragging.

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

The changing experience of work of consultants in NHS Scotland. (2015)
Report
Martin, G., Siebert, S., Howieson, B., & Bushfield, S. (2015). The changing experience of work of consultants in NHS Scotland. British Medical Association

This study was commissioned by the Scottish Consultants’ Committee of the British Medical Association and carried out by independent researchers at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow during the period May 2014-March 2015. We sought understand cha... Read More about The changing experience of work of consultants in NHS Scotland..

Cultural due diligence: an investigation into its significance in tertiary education mergers in Scotland (2015)
Thesis
Steen, C. J. Cultural due diligence: an investigation into its significance in tertiary education mergers in Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8854

Mergers are a fact of life in the private sector and are increasingly becoming a factor in the public sector. Organisations seek to merge in order to survive or grow by accruing benefits of scale, better or cheaper access to resources or by overcomin... Read More about Cultural due diligence: an investigation into its significance in tertiary education mergers in Scotland.

Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service (2014)
Journal Article
Martin, G., Beech, N., MacIntosh, R., & Bushfield, S. (2015). Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service. Sociology of health and illness, 37(1), 14-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12171

The discourse of leaderism in health care has been a subject of much academic and practical debate. Recently, distributed leadership (DL) has been adopted as a key strand of policy in the UK National Health Service (NHS). However, there is some confu... Read More about Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service.

A mutual health service in Scotland: Do we understand fully the leadership implications? (2014)
Journal Article
Howieson, B., & Fenwick, C. (2014). A mutual health service in Scotland: Do we understand fully the leadership implications?. Leadership in Health Services, 27(3), 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/lhs-12-2012-0040

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the leadership implications of a mutual health service in National Health Service (NHS) Scotland.
Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of extant government policy and suggestions of leadership cons... Read More about A mutual health service in Scotland: Do we understand fully the leadership implications?.

Exploration of innovation capabilities of firms in Liaoning and Henan provinces (2012)
Journal Article
Lewrick, M., Chen, T., Raeside, R., & Omar, M. (2012). Exploration of innovation capabilities of firms in Liaoning and Henan provinces. Journal of science and technology policy in China, 3(3), 242-263. https://doi.org/10.1108/17585521211268691

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the innovation capabilities of Chinese enterprises. It is important to understand these innovation capabilities and to find how they might relate to promoting innovativeness.
Design/methodology/... Read More about Exploration of innovation capabilities of firms in Liaoning and Henan provinces.

Determinants of audit committee meeting frequency: Evidence from Chinese listed companies (2012)
Journal Article
Yin, F., Gao, S., Li, W., & Lv, H. (2012). Determinants of audit committee meeting frequency: Evidence from Chinese listed companies. Managerial Auditing Journal, 27(4), 425-444. https://doi.org/10.1108/02686901211218003

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of audit committee meeting frequency in Chinese listed companies.
Design/methodology/approach – A multiple linear regression model, derived from the logarithmic model proposed by... Read More about Determinants of audit committee meeting frequency: Evidence from Chinese listed companies.

The Application of Human Factors through the Assessment and Improvement of Behavioural Safety to Improve Safety Performance in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (2012)
Thesis
Rose, W. The Application of Human Factors through the Assessment and Improvement of Behavioural Safety to Improve Safety Performance in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5022

User-friendly systems of human factors (HF) analysis are not presently available to the managers of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). It is therefore difficult for such professionals to assess the safety culture within their own workplaces... Read More about The Application of Human Factors through the Assessment and Improvement of Behavioural Safety to Improve Safety Performance in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises.