Clarke, T & Boersma, M 2019, 'Global Corporations and Global Value Chains' in Clarke, T, O’Brien, J & O’Kelley, CRT (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Corporation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 318-365.
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Many of the great international corporations of the past have now largely been disembodied into global value chains. This chapter considers the implications of the continued advance of global value chains as the mode of production for an increasing number of goods and services, and how this has impacted considerably on the economies and societies both of the developed world and the emerging economies. In turn, this has transformed corporations themselves into largely finance, design, and marketing agencies which are often distant from the production and operations which they ultimately control. While the globalization of production has brought employment and economic growth to many developing countries, it is also associated with exploitative employment relations, environmental irresponsibility, and recurrent ethical dilemmas. While corporations may disaggregate production in distant networks of contractors, they cannot as readily disaggregate the moral responsibility for the social and environmental impact of their mode of production.
Clegg, S & Cunha, MPE 2019, 'Liquefying modernity' in Clegg, SR & Pinha e Cunha, M (eds), Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory, Routledge, London, pp. 271-289.
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The world of organizations is changing in ever more liquid ways: new media generate business innovations, collaborative idea creations, new forms of participation, exploitation and criticism. We explore the contours of these changes and their import for organization analysis by considering the work of Zygmunt Bauman from the perspective of organization studies. We discuss liquid selves, liquid organizations and liquid aesthetics as three facets of a post-canonical Baumanian theory of organization.
Clegg, S, Bygdås, A & Hagen, AL 2019, 'Media Management and Digital Transformation' in Media Management and Digital Transformation, Routledge, London, pp. 1-14.
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With theoretical chapters, methodological insights and qualitative case studies of contemporary practices, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners involved with media management globally.
Clegg, S, Hagen, AL & Bygdås, AL 2019, 'Introduction' in Media Management and Digital Transformation, Routledge, pp. 1-14.
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Clegg, S, Simpson, AV, e Cunha, MP & Rego, A 2019, 'Hope in business organizing for societal progress: Three narratives' in Ericssonn, D & Kostera, M (eds), Organizing Hope, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 61-71.
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Clegg, SR 2019, 'Radical Revisions: Power, Discipline and Organizations' in Postmodern Management Theory, Routledge, pp. 73-91.
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Clegg, SR, van Rijmenam, MH & Schweitzer, J 2019, 'Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy' in Seidl, D, Whittington, R & von Krogh, G (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 307-325.
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Recently, openness has become a new approach in strategizing as ownership and control of internal assets are no longer vital to achieving competitive advantage (Chesbrough & Appleyard, 2007). Nowadays, knowledge is widespread and open systems are generally regarded as beneficial in terms of organizational design and work culture. However, openness also comes with politics and it is not a practice that will necessarily be welcomed by all. Openness changes the power dynamics within an organization; there are critics as well as friends, as we shall explore. Openness is a process that can change over time, becoming more or less open as events occur and contingencies or actors change. We are interested in how dominant organizational actors can seemingly manipulate ‘open systems' strategically.
Cohen, A & Welty Peachey, J 2019, 'SPORT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT' in Cunningham, G & Singer, J (eds), Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity (3rd Edition), Center for Sport Management Research & Education, pp. 103-116.
Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2019, 'Management, organizations and contemporary social theory' in Clegg, SR & Cunha, MPE (eds), Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory, Routledge, UK, pp. 290-303.
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Organization theory can now be described as a disciplinary field with a venerable history: with robust theories, paradigms, even heroes and myths in the sense of unfounded stories whose constant repetition ‘proves’ their supposed truth. People raised in social democratic societies may aspire to work in more transparent organizations, more open to scrutiny and more open to their members’ agency, wondering why, in many cases, despite the growth of new organizational forms, they must still leave the individual liberty to have contrary opinions and give voice outside the workplace. Current developments in the emergence of digital technologies constitute an important field for social theorists. The current debate is almost dualistic, with some analysts extolling the utopian features of a digital world, where intelligent machines do the boring bits of work, smart tools communicate with equally smart object-peers, humans see their competencies augmented and so on.
Hergesell, A, Dwyer, L & Edwards, D 2019, 'Deciding and choosing' in Pearce, PL (ed), Tourist Behaviour, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 41-59.
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The book incorporates a selection of illustrative key case studies to ensure that it is highly accessible and readable to a range of audiences, whilst ensuring academic rigour.
Pålshaugen, Ø & Clegg, S 2019, 'Context and continuities' in Media Management and Digital Transformation, Routledge, pp. 154-164.
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Sahuri, SNS & Wilson, R 2019, 'Integrated Perspectives On Academic, Social And Psychological Adjustment Among International Students' in Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of International Students, pp. 47-76.
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The wellbeing of international students is central to the social good and economic productivity of international education across higher education institutions. As international students are the largest shareholder in the international education industry, their perspectives and interests need to be understood and protected. In particular, the challenges of adjusting to new circumstances in their host countries need to be understood so that programs can more fully support students. Substantial research maps out these challenges. However, research has tended to focus on psychological, social and academic adjustment as separate domains. We present an argument for integrating these perspectives; and we highlight the interrelation between these domains in empirical data collected using a new, integrated measure of students’ academic, social and psychological adjustment among one international student population sample. We argue that sensitive exploration and surveying of these three inter-related domains of adjustment among specific sub-groups of international students, enables deeper understanding and empathy to be translated into supportive institutional practice that can be directly customised to those students’ specific needs. Such an approach can contribute to more culturally sensitive, but holistically focussed, understanding of students, enabling them to flourish.
Schlenker, K, Edwards, D & Watts-Seale, C 2019, 'Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility in Tourism' in Lund-Durlacher, D, Dinica, V, Reiser, D & Fifka, MS (eds), Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility in Tourism., Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 1-382.
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Influence of ownership structures on business decisions, responsiveness, and interplay between internal and external factors. In particular the chapter reflects on the importance of personal motivations for decisions in relation to CSR, exploring how internal and external factors and processes determine the strength and reasons of SMTEs for engaging in CSR (or not).
Schlenker, K, Edwards, D & Watts-Seale, C 2019, 'Modelling Engagement of Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises (SMTEs) in Corporate Social Responsibility' in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Springer International Publishing, pp. 117-134.
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Siamak, S & Hall, CM 2019, 'Tourism in Iran' in Seyfi, S & Hall, CM (eds), Tourism in Iran: Challenges, Development and Issues, Routledge, Oxon, pp. 193-206.
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This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the benefits of community-based tourism (CBT) by exploring the implementation of a CBT framework in Iran. It discusses a case study based on the implementation of the framework within a nomadic community. Three CBT models are presented as the basis of the CBT framework: 4D model, Responsible Ecological Social Tours model and D. P. Pinel's model. The chapter focuses on applying a CBT framework within a migrating nomadic community: the Heybatlu sub-tribe of the Qashqai tribe. The migrating nomads of Iran, who constitute one of the many diverse ethnic groups, lead a unique pattern of living, distinguishing them from urban and rural communities residing in the country. Community participation in the tourism development process can be viewed in terms of the decision-making process and in the benefits gained from tourism development.
Wearing, S, Lyons, K & Schweinsberg, S 2019, 'Using Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility as a Transition to Shared Value for the Sharing Economy (SE)' in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 97-116.
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One of the biggest challenges facing the tourism industry and policy makers is the emerging and fast growing of the concept ‘sharing economy’ (SE). Many have considered this a disruptive influence in the tourism business, while others are acknowledging it as a potentially transformative phenomenon that has been challenging for industry, governments and researchers alike. The ‘sharing economy’ describes a new economic paradigm driven by technology, consumer awareness and social commerce—particularly through web communities, and can be thought of as sharing, lending, renting and swapping redefined through digital technology and peer communities. Intense debates around the impacts of the sharing economy on the tourism industry converge around issues such as consumer welfare, economic development, equitable competition, innovation and change. Much of this conjecture coalesces around the relative merits and impacts of potential regulatory measures that might be applied to businesses operating in the sharing economy and its integration into existing business models in tourism. The challenges brought by this innovation raise questions about how voluntarily adopted principles of corporate sustainability and responsibility, and its neoliberalist consumer culture values can be reconciled with more collectivist values promoted by some established tourism firms to protect consumers and incumbent industries. In the chapter, we argue that tourism businesses only marginally use the opportunities of the sharing economy and rather advocate a regulatory framework to combat the perceived competition from the sharing economy. As SE became part of the tourism industry, tourism businesses are exploring collaborative business models. Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR 2.0) principles and practices applied to the SE might provide a way forward for tourism businesses to be more consumer oriented, have specialised operations, be flexible, transparent and responsive to market...
Wearing, S, McDonald, M, Nguyen, THT & Bernstein, JD 2019, 'Behaving altruistically' in Tourist Behaviour, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 304-321.
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Wearing, S, McDonald, M, Taylor, G & Ronen, T 2019, 'Neoliberalism and global tourism' in Handbook of Globalisation and Tourism, pp. 27-43.
Ahuja, S, Heizmann, H & Clegg, S 2019, 'Emotions and identity work: Emotions as discursive resources in the constitution of junior professionals’ identities', Human Relations, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 988-1009.
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For junior professionals, notions of professional identity established during their education are often called into question in the early stages of their professional careers. The workplace gives rise to identity challenges that manifest in significant emotional struggles. However, although extant literature highlights how emotions trigger and accompany identity work, the constitutive role of emotions in identity work is under-researched. In this article, we analyse how junior professionals mobilize emotions as discursive resources for identity work. Drawing on an empirical study of junior architects employed in professional service firms, we examine how professional identities, imbued with varying forms of discipline and agency, are discursively represented. The study makes two contributions to the literature on emotions and identity work. First, we identify three key identity work strategies ( idealizing, reframing and distancing) that are bound up in junior architects’ emotion talk. We suggest that these strategies act simultaneously as a coping mechanism and as a disciplinary force in junior architects’ efforts to constitute themselves as professionals. Second, we argue that identity work may not always lead to the accomplishment of a positive sense of self but can express a sense of disillusionment that leads to the constitution of dejected professional identities.
Américo, BL, Carniel, F & Clegg, SR 2019, 'Accounting for the formation of scientific fields in organization studies', European Management Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 18-28.
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There are few qualitative organizational accounts that explore the constitution of scientific fields in management. We developed a methodology for understanding the academic modes of scientific knowledge production in management research from the perspective of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) and actor-network theory (ANT). SSK and ANT offer a way to account for how scientific fields in organization studies are enacted. Key to this process are splitting and inversion of statements; credibility and network formation; and the concepts of credit, trajectory, and position. Specific statements making key knowledge claims (e.g., handbooks, special editions) are situated in academic practices that obscure those rhetorical strategies that enable the production of a network of knowledge that can act, organizationally, as a more or less unified sub-field. We take as a starting point a collection of texts, dated 2011, which sought to systematize the main currents of a disciplinary sub-field during the last decade, focusing on how statements are transformed into scientific certainty and how the question of credibility is established. The sub-field is that of organizational learning (OL). The particular language of OL relies on approaches that make its epistemic assumptions intelligible within a network. It is a language that tends to reify and naturalize specific practices that become accredited as organization learning. The material/textual artifacts that sustain these practices, instead of being reified, can be reframed as enacting a scientific field whose resignification acts upon the network that enabled its existence.
Andrijasevic, R, Rhodes, C & Yu, K-H 2019, 'Foreign workers: On the other side of gendered, racial, political and ethical borders', Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 313-320.
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While political issues related to migration and work have been explored in great detail from the perspective of, inter alia, industrial relations, international business, economics and of course migration studies itself, they have been notably absent from any real consideration at all in organization studies. This appears as an almost wilful omission of one of the most pressing political issues facing the post-globalized world, as well as one in which work organizations are centrally implicated. This article, and the Special Issue which it introduces, explores how what it means to be a ‘foreign’ worker is deeply influenced by and connected to sexuality, gender, politics and ethics. We consider individual differences, context-specific experiences and dynamic processes through which the sexed, gendered and classed category of the foreign worker is constructed, enacted and resisted. We find that class, race and gender serve to shape a sense of foreignness that is central to the meaning and experience of work. The machinations of power are never far away, as people’s differences come to be used as an axis of actual and potential oppression, coercion and exploitation.
Aroles, J, Clegg, S & Granter, E 2019, 'Death and the Penguin: modularity, alienation and organising', Culture and Organization, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 104-117.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The originality of this paper lies in the ways in which it explores how the depiction of organised crime within Andrey Kurkov’s novel Death and the Penguin can inform our understanding of organisational modularity. This non-orthodox approach might open up new avenues of thought in the study of organisational modularity while further illustrating how novelistic worlds can inform accounts of organisational realities. Two main research questions underlie the paper. How can Andrey Kurkov’s novel further our understanding of the complexity of organisational worlds and realities by focusing our attention on different landscapes of organising? How does Kurkov’s novel help us grasp the concept of modularity by drawing attention to new forms of modular organisation? Drawing from our reading of Kurkov’s novel, we primarily explore organisational modularity through Kurkov’s depiction of organised crime and consider the themes of alienation and isolation in the context of modular organising.
Bappy, MM, Ali, SM, Kabir, G & Paul, SK 2019, 'Supply chain sustainability assessment with Dempster-Shafer evidence theory: Implications in cleaner production', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 237, pp. 117771-117771.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Assessing sustainability in supply chains is an important task for any organization in the competitive business environment. The process of assessing the sustainability of a supply chain involves incorporating different sources of information, which are normally uncertain, incomplete, and subjective in nature. However, previous studies have failed to incorporate such uncertain, incomplete and subjective information. Therefore, this research proposes a methodology that uses an integrated approach combining the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Hierarchical Evidential Reasoning (HER) based on Dempster-Shafer (D-S) theory to develop a supply chain sustainability assessment model. After identifying the sustainability assessment criteria, Analytical Hierarchy Process is used to structure and rate the criteria based on experts' opinion. In this research, subjective judgmental belief data are used to test the model. The information is combined using Dempster-Shafer theory and results are depicted according to the supply chain sustainability index. In the proposed mode, the results from the Dempster-Shafer theory are compared using Yager's recursive rule of combination. The model generates satisfactory results which denotes the condition state of sustainability along with unassigned degree of belief or uncertainty. To assess the sustainability condition in supply chain this methodology can be adopted by the management of the organizations.
Baumber, A, Scerri, M & Schweinsberg, S 2019, 'A social licence for the sharing economy', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 146, pp. 12-23.
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Carabetta, G 2019, ''Final Offer as a First Choice? Police Arbitration: A New Zealand Case Study'', Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 251-251.
Carabetta, G 2019, 'Regulating Labour Disputes in the Police Services: Legal and Practical Perspectives from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada', International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, vol. 35, no. Issue 4, pp. 427-453.
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Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, have not seen a police strike in living memory. The reason for this is the mandatory interest arbitration model adopted in the two provinces, which sees disputes that cannot be resolved by mutual bargaining referred to a panel of arbitrators who assess submissions in light of statutory criteria. Police officers, and the unions who represent them, have utilized this model to increase pay and improve working conditions often, employers say, without regard to ‘ability to pay.’ This article assesses that claim against the results that the model produces and how insiders understand the system as operating. Its conclusion is that interest arbitration has produced good results, especially for police and emergency workers and the community they serve, but the means of getting there have soured relations and may need reform to remain sustainable into the future.
Chan, EY & Wang, Y 2019, 'Mindfulness changes construal level: An experimental investigation.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 148, no. 9, pp. 1656-1664.
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Mindfulness involves paying attention to the present moment and accepting any thoughts or feelings that might arise without judgment. Mindfulness can influence a number of outcomes. Currently, we are interested if it influences people's level of mental construal. Two central dimensions of mindfulness (focusing on the present, and Openness to Experience) can lead to diverging predictions. While focusing on the present may produce a concrete construal level, openness to experience may facilitate an abstract construal level instead. We conducted 2 experiments to test the effect of a brief mindfulness induction on construal level. Mindfulness prompted participants to think more abstractly (Experiment 1), which was mediated by Openness to Experience (Experiment 2). Thus, mindfulness may prompt how people process information more broadly. We situate our research in the broader literature on mindfulness and reconcile our findings with previous work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Cheng, M & Edwards, D 2019, 'A comparative automated content analysis approach on the review of the sharing economy discourse in tourism and hospitality', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 35-49.
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Using the sharing economy (SE) as the context, this article provides a coherent and nuanced methodological understanding of automated content analysis (ACA) in tourism and hospitality (TH) field. By adopting a comparative ACA approach, the paper compares the current TH Western academic literature of the SE with news media discourse in TH from the period 2011–2016 (August) (inclusive). The emerging issues from the news media discourse, such as mobility, SE companies and the role of government, are absent in current tourism academic research. Findings reveal that ACA can facilitate a more systematic comparison between different sources of data. This paper offers a starting point for tourism scholars to methodologically engage with ACA that can draw useful insights on a particular context.
Cheng, M & Foley, C 2019, 'Algorithmic management: The case of Airbnb', International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 83, pp. 33-36.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Algorithmic management is rapidly emerging as a strategic management tool in the digital economy; however, little is known of the outcomes of algorithmic management for users of the sharing economy platforms. With a focus on one of the most rapidly growing peer-to-peer platforms, this research investigates how Airbnb hosts have responded to and adapted to the algorithmic management strategies employed by Airbnb. Findings suggest that asymmetry of algorithmic information can increase Airbnb's power to influence and control Airbnb hosts’ practices. Further, such information asymmetry can significantly hinder Airbnb hosts’ sense of control. This study contributes to the emerging academic dialogue on the algorithmic management in tourism and hospitality and advances the academic research on the human resources aspect of the sharing economy.
Chowdhury, MMH, Agarwal, R & Quaddus, M 2019, 'Dynamic capabilities for meeting stakeholders' sustainability requirements in supply chain', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 215, pp. 34-45.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd In todays’ dynamically changing environment and competitive landscape, organisations are adopting sustainable practices for attaining long-term economic viability. However, there is a misalignment between sustainable practices and organisations’ strategies and capabilities, especially when sustainability requirements of the stakeholders changes over time. Grounded in dynamic capability view (DCV), this paper addresses the changes in supply chain sustainability requirements of stakeholders in the context of sourcing products from apparel manufacturers in a low cost country Bangladesh. To this end, this study develops a decision support (DS) framework for supply chain sustainability (SCS) that identifies and prioritises optimal strategies for SCS in a dynamic environment. This study adopts a mixed method approach, with the qualitative approach being a field study, and the quantitative approach using fuzzy Quality Function Deployment (QFD) integrated optimisation technique. Our DS framework addresses the stakeholders’ sustainability requirements over time in the context of a case company. The findings show that concomitant with the changes in the stakeholders’ priorities of the sustainability requirements, the organisational sustainability practices, strategies and capabilities also change over time. The SCS DS framework brings a richer conceptual understanding of the dynamic changes in stakeholder requirements and allow managers to choose and select optimal strategies and make astute decisions whilst balancing the economic, social and environmental viability simultaneously.
Chowdhury, MMH, Quaddus, M & Agarwal, R 2019, 'Supply chain resilience for performance: role of relational practices and network complexities', Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 659-676.
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PurposeFollowing a contingent resource-based view (CRBV) perspective, this paper aims to explore the operating context in which supply chain resilience (SCRE) is likely to enhance the supply chain performance (SCP) of organizations. More specifically, the authors developed the ‘Supply Chain Resilience’ model wherein we considered two important exogenous context variables (supply chain relational practices [SCRPs] and network complexities [NCs]) and studied their moderating roles on the relationship between SCRE and SCP. The authors also investigated the conditional effect of SCRE on SCP at different levels of SCRPs and NCs.Design/methodology/approachThis study used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. For the qualitative approach, a field study was undertaken, while the quantitative study was conducted via the use of a survey questionnaire of 274 apparel manufacturers and their suppliers in Bangladesh. The authors applied Hayes PROCESS enabled multiple regression analysis and structural equation modelling to statistically test the proposed research models.FindingsThe research findings revealed that SCRP and NC individually moderated the link between SCRE and SCP. The link between SCRE and SCP was strengthened via the interaction effect of SCRP and NC, even if the NC value was high.Practical implicationsThe findings will assist supply chain managers in managing supply chain performance during uncertainties by strengthening resilience capability at different levels of NCs and SCRPs.Originality/value
Chowdhury, NA, Ali, SM, Mahtab, Z, Rahman, T, Kabir, G & Paul, SK 2019, 'A structural model for investigating the driving and dependence power of supply chain risks in the readymade garment industry', Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 51, pp. 102-113.
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© 2019 In today's business world, supply chain networks are becoming increasingly prone to uncertainties and complexities. The supply chain network of the ready-made garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh is global in nature and is therefore vulnerable to increased risks and disruptions. This paper identifies potential supply chain risks and analyzes the interactions. To achieve this, a hierarchical structural model was developed through the application of an interpretive structural modeling (ISM) approach. Moreover, MICMAC (Matriced’ Impacts Cruoses Multiplication Applique a un Classement) analysis was conducted to classify the risks based on driving and dependence power. Findings revealed that disruption risk was the most influential risk in the RMG industry. The results of this study will guide industrial managers to take remedial measures to mitigate the supply chain risks in the apparel industry.
Clegg, S 2019, 'Governmentality', Project Management Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 266-270.
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Cohen, A & Nite, C 2019, 'Assessing Experiential Learning With a Critical Lens', Sport Management Education Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
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© 2019 North American Society for Sport Management. While previous studies in sport management have focused on the positive impacts of experiential learning, few have highlighted the difficulties or negative occurrences in an experiential learning-based course. Thus, the purpose of this study was to critically assess an experiential learning class in an effort to highlight strategies to enhance future classroom efforts. Three overarching themes emerged from the data that were deemed influential to student perceptions of the class: course structure, student investment, and classroom environment. Within each of these themes, the authors highlight the positive and negative experiences of students. Finally, they highlight strategies aimed to increase effectiveness and minimize negative outcomes in an experiential classroom setting.
Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2019, 'Improvisation in the learning organization: a defense of the infra-ordinary', The Learning Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 238-251.
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PurposeThis paper aims to describe the hidden presence of improvisation in organizations. The authors explore this presence through George Perec’s notion of the infra-ordinary applied to the study of the learning organization and its paradoxes.Design/methodology/approachMost studies of paradox and improvisation are qualitative and inductive. In this conceptual paper, the authors offer a conceptual debate aiming to redirect conceptual attention on studies belonging to the domains of learning, improvisation and paradox.FindingsThe authors defend the thesis that improvisation is an example of a paradoxical practice that belongs to the domain of infra-ordinary rather than, as has been habitually assumed in extant research, the extraordinary.Research limitations/implicationsThe study draws research attention to the potential of the infra-ordinary in the domains of paradox, improvisation and learning.Practical implicationsFor practice, the study shows that improvisation can be a relatively trivial organizational practice as people try to solve problems in their everyday lives.Social implicationsMost organizations depend upon the capacity of their members to solve problems as these emerge. Yet, organization theory has failed to consider this dimension. As a result, organizations may be unintentionally harming their capacity to learn and adapt to environments by assuming that improvisation is extra-ordin...
Cunha, MPE, Neves, P, Clegg, SR, Costa, S & Rego, A 2019, 'Paradoxes of organizational change in a merger context', Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 217-240.
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PurposeThe reorganization of the Portuguese national healthcare system around networks of hospital centers was advanced for reasons promoted as those of effectiveness and efficiency and initially presented as an opportunity for organizational transcendence through synergy. The purpose of this paper is to study transcendence as felt by the authors’ participants to create knowledge about the process.Design/methodology/approachThe paper consists of an inductive approach aimed at exploring the lived experience of transcendence. The authors collected data via interviews, observations, informal conversations and archival data, in order and followed the logic of grounded theory to build theory on transcendence as process.FindingsTranscendence, however, failed to deliver its promise; consequently, the positive vision inscribed in it was subsequently re-inscribed in the system as another lost opportunity, contributing to an already unfolding vicious circle of mistrust and cynicism. The study contributes to the literature on organizational paradoxes and its effects on the reproduction of vicious circles.Practical implicationsThe search for efficiency and effectiveness through strategies of transcendence often entails managing paradoxical tensions.Social implicationsThe case was researched during the global financial crisis, which as austerity gripped the southern Eurozone gave rise to governmental decisions aimed at improving the efficiency of organizational healthcare resources. There was a sequence o...
Cunha, MPE, Simpson, AV, Clegg, SR & Rego, A 2019, 'Speak! Paradoxical Effects of a Managerial Culture of ‘Speaking Up’', British Journal of Management, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 829-846.
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AbstractWe explore the intrinsic ambiguity of speaking up in a multinational healthcare subsidiary. A culture change initiative, emphasizing learning and agility through encouraging employees to speak up, gave rise to paradoxical effects. Some employees interpreted a managerial tool for improving effectiveness as an invitation to raise challenging points of difference rather than as something ‘beneficial for the organization’. We show that the process of introducing a culture that aims to encourage employees to speak up can produce tensions and contradictions that make various types of organizational paradoxes salient. Telling people to ‘speak up!’ may render paradoxical tensions salient and even foster a sense of low PsySafe.
Dalton, B & Jung, K 2019, 'Becoming cosmopolitan women while negotiating structurally limited choices: The case of Korean migrant sex workers in Australia', Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 355-370.
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International labor mobility holds the promise that one can become a cosmopolitan citizen of the world. But this interpretation of mobility rarely features in research and media focused on Asian women who travel and engage in sex work. In both arenas, the dominant narrative is that migrant sex workers are poor, the victims of sex trafficking, and pose a risk to public health. This narrative is laced with Orientalist overtones of the Asian sex worker as the alluringly exotic ‘other’, passive and particularly vulnerable, and in need of rescue. However, the interviews of 11 Korean women sex workers based in Sydney, Australia, challenge this narrative. These women engaged in a transnational quest to become cosmopolitan citizens of the world, albeit making logical choices from structurally limited options shaped by their multiple identities as women, sex workers, and Korean, and their relative precarious position in the Australian labor market. Their stories highlight how migration and work can be an agentic process of self-expression and self-actualization of identity. This identity has emerged against the backdrop of shifting meanings and practices of social reproduction in Korea, a country that has experienced a highly compressed transition from developing, to modern capitalist state. Theoretically, the article draws on post-colonial feminist theory to shed light into the conflicting views on migrant sex workers in existing research, by focusing on the women’s voices, which have been neglected or silenced.
Dang, QT, Jasovska, P, Rammal, HG & Schlenker, K 2019, 'Formal-informal channels of university-industry knowledge transfer: the case of Australian business schools', Knowledge Management Research & Practice, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 384-395.
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The transfer of knowledge between university and industry is a significant activity that is facilitated by government policy and incentives. Australian universities have a global reputation for excellence in research and training. However, the country’s low score in innovation ranking has prompted the government and industry bodies to emphasise the importance of and provide support to high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. We study the knowledge transfer practices of 10 Australian universities and provide insights into how these universities, and in particular the Business Schools, respond to the funding cuts faced by the university sector. We find that the universities use both formal (research centres, incubators, and contract-research and commercialisation) and informal channels (internships, mentoring, industry talks, transdisciplinary research platforms, collaborative Ph.D. programs, and industry training programs) to transfer knowledge with industry partners.
Darcy, S 2019, 'Leisure with impact: research, human rights, and advocacy in a reflective review of a research career', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 273-285.
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© 2019, © 2019 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies. This paper presents the key messages from a keynote address I delivered to the 2017 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies conference held in Hobart Tasmania, December 2017. In this paper, I reflect on the heuristic learnings from the role of research in addressing critical social issues in leisure and ‘cultural life’. I do so by examining my very deliberate choice to undertake industry-linked research addressing issues involving human rights, social inclusion and giving voice to marginalized groups. As an insider to these voices, I know that research itself does little to address social inequality unless there is a deliberate action by academics to translate research into outcomes through political engagement, challenging organizational practice and communicating the results publicly beyond the paywall of refereed journals. Yet, this type of academic research advocate does not fit easily within neoliberal performance-based metrics that are narrowly defined within disciplinary boundaries of contemporary higher education. As I will explain there are other rich rewards in stepping outside of these boundaries while still doing trustworthy, rigorous, theoretical investigations with high-quality traditional academic outputs. The paper presents a case study of research examining the participation and non-participation of people with disability in sport and active recreation.
Darcy, S, Yerbury, H & Maxwell, H 2019, 'Disability citizenship and digital capital: the case of engagement with a social enterprise telco', Information, Communication & Society, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 538-553.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper uses as its base a key initiative involving a not-for-profit organisation (NPO), government start-up funding and a social enterprise which evolved through three phases. The purpose of the initiative was the development of a smart phone technology platform for people with disability. The paper’s purpose is to answer questions about the ways in which the mobile technology, seen here as assistive technologies, supported the development of disability citizenship and active citizenship. Data were collected through in-depth interviews conducted at three points in the 13-week programme during which participants with disability received customised support for their phone and training in its use, at no cost. Fifteen participants volunteered to take part in the research project, along with their significant other and service provider. Key themes were identified in the preliminary analysis. Exploring these using Ragnedda’s ([2017]. The third digital divide: A Weberian approach to digital inequalities. Abingdon: Routledge) three levels of digital divide, and Wilson’s ([2006]. The information revolution and developing countries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) categories of access allowed a series of philosophical, ethical and human services management questions to emerge, challenging the optimism with which the digital economy is presented as a solution to issues of inequality. Although the mobile technologies were very successful as assistive technologies for some participants, the findings reinforced the potential for such technologies to further entrench aspects of social exclusion. They also identified ways in which the shift in the role of the NPO to social entrepreneurship, and its relationships with government and private enterprise, had the potential to undermine the exercise of disability citizenship by turning participants into consumers.
Das, SK, Rahman, M, Paul, SK, Armin, M, Roy, PN & Paul, N 2019, 'High-Performance Robust Controller Design of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle for Frequency Regulation of Smart Grid Using Linear Matrix Inequality Approach', IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 116911-116924.
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Davis, ER & Wilson, R 2019, '“Not so globalised”: contrasting media discourses on education and competitiveness in four countries', Journal of Asia Business Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 155-176.
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PurposeThis paper aims to analyse contrasting discourses on education and competitiveness from four countries to show the different national values that are a key driver in economic development.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses content analysis to compare and contrast the newspaper discourse surrounding the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in four countries with above OECD average performance: Japan and South Korea (improving performance) and Australia and Finland (declining performance). PISA has attracted much government and public attention because it reflects education and the economic value of that education.FindingsThere are key contrasts in the discourses of the four countries. Despite shifts to globalised perspectives on education, strong national and cultural differences remain. Educational competitiveness and economic competitiveness are strong discourses in Japan and South Korea, while in Australia and Finland, the focus is on educational competitiveness. The media in Finland has few references to economic competitiveness and it does not feature in Australia. The discourse themes on PISA from 2001 to 2015 are presented with trends in educational attainment and shifting national perspectives on education.Research limitations/implicationsAnalysis is limited to the top two circulation newspapers in English language in each country over 2001 to 2015. These newspapers in Finland, Japan and South Korea include translated content from local language papers.Originality/value
Domínguez Vila, T, Alén González, E & Darcy, S 2019, 'Accessible tourism online resources: a Northern European perspective', Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 140-156.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Increasing market opportunities have been identified for accessible tourism as a result of improved quality of life. Disabled tourists tend to be loyal, spend more and enjoy longer stays in their destinations, although their behaviour obviously differs from one country to another. This situation is strongly influenced by the welfare policies that determine the disability model implemented and affect the extent to which disabled people are integrated into day-to-day. Northern European countries are regarded as champions in this respect. When disabled people travel, access to information is important. Information is present throughout the tourism process, not only as a communication and marketing channel, but also as a transmitter of experiences. This study seeks to establish whether the policies and regulations that govern disabled people’s access to online tourist information are applied correctly. The official tourism websites of northern European countries were analysed to this end; whereby different patterns were identified regarding their compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The atypical features of Norway’s official tourism website were found to be particularly noteworthy, as were the official tourism websites for Germany and the United Kingdom, two of the countries with the largest market share of accessible tourism.
Fee, A, McGrath-Champ, S & Berti, M 2019, 'Protecting expatriates in hostile environments: institutional forces influencing the safety and security practices of internationally active organisations', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 1709-1736.
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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The operations of internationally active organisations continue to encroach on hostile locations that are vulnerable to the negative consequences of crises such as political upheaval, terrorist attacks or natural disasters. Yet research into how firms ensure the physical and psychological safety and security of international staff in these locations is limited. This article reports an empirical study exploring the expatriate safety and security practices of 28 internationally active organisations from three industries that commonly operate in hostile environments. We unveil starkly different approaches across the three industries, and label these approaches ‘regulatory’ (mining and resources), ‘informal mentoring’ (news media) and ‘empowering’ (international aid and development). We use institutional theory to propose that these configurations reflect legitimacy-seeking choices that these organisations make in response to the various institutional environments that affect each sector. Our results provide a platform for initial theory building into the interrelated elements of organisations’ safety and security practices, and the institutional factors that shape the design of these.
Fitzgerald, S, McGrath-Champ, S, Stacey, M, Wilson, R & Gavin, M 2019, 'Intensification of teachers’ work under devolution: A ‘tsunami’ of paperwork', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 613-636.
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Australian public school teachers work some of the longest weekly hours among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, particularly in the state of New South Wales where average hours are officially in, or near, the statistical category of ‘very long working hours’. These reports of a high workload have occurred alongside recent policy moves that seek to devolve responsibility for schooling, augmenting teacher and school-level accountability. This article explores changes in work demands experienced by New South Wales teachers. As part of a larger project on schools as workplaces, we examine teaching professionals’ views through interviews with teacher union representatives. Consistent with a model of work intensification, workload increases were almost universally reported, primarily in relation to ‘paperwork’ requirements. However, differences in the nature of intensification were evident when data were disaggregated according to socio-educational advantage, level of schooling (primary or secondary) and location. The distinct patterns of work intensification that emerge reflect each school’s relative advantage or disadvantage within the school marketplace, influenced by broader neoliberal reforms occurring within the state and nation.
Fleming, P 2019, 'Robots and Organization Studies: Why Robots Might Not Want to Steal Your Job', Organization Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 23-38.
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A number of recent high-profile studies of robotics and artificial intelligence (or AI) in economics and sociology have predicted that many jobs will soon disappear due to automation, with few new ones replacing them. While techno-optimists and techno-pessimists contest whether a jobless future is a positive development or not, this paper points to the elephant in the room. Despite successive waves of computerization (including advanced machine learning), jobs have not disappeared. And probably won’t in the near future. To explain why, some basic insights from organization studies can make a contribution. I propose the concept of ‘bounded automation’ to demonstrate how organizational forces mould the application of technology in the employment sector. If work does not vanish in the age of AI, then poorly paid jobs will most certainly proliferate, I argue. Finally, a case is made for the scholarly community to engage with wider social justice concerns. This I term public organization studies.
Fleming, P, Rhodes, C & Yu, K-H 2019, 'On why Uber has not taken over the world', Economy and Society, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 488-509.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Today it is common to see news headlines decrying the wildfire spread of the ‘gig economy’. We ask the exact opposite question: why aren’t more jobs now conducted via labour-based digital platforms, the primary method used in the gig economy? Surveys in the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere indicate that gig work remains a very minor component of the labour market, and certainly isn’t overshadowing either regular employment or the contingent workforce (e.g. on-demand, part-time, contract, seasonal). The size of the gig economy is probably exaggerated because it is conflated with casual work per se (which has indeed grown) and non-labour platforms. Our paper argues that a central reason why labour-based digital platforms produce so few jobs is because it is inspired by a purist version of neoliberal capitalism, reductio ad absurdum, including strict market individualism and anti-unionism. This renders the gig economy unsustainable on its own terms, revealing its basic internal limits. The gig economy is a potent and dangerous pro-market fantasy, yet one whose imagined perfection is unsuitable to the realities of work on a large scale, hence why it has not proliferated more widely, thriving on the fringes instead.
Forseth, U, Clegg, S & Røyrvik, EA 2019, 'Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices', Valuation Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 31-61.
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This paper explores the trajectory of a novel evaluation device for customer satisfaction with service encounters and the performance of financial advisors. Drawing on literature on quantification and commensuration, boundary objects and bipartite collaboration, we explore the set-up and collaboration between employer and trade union in the design phase and the actual use and translation of the valuation system. The data stems from a multi-year, multi-site study of banking in two Nordic countries. The analysis illustrates how, when some operational managers started using the device to suit their own purposes, the process morphed from an initial agreement into a dispute. The paper shows how quantitative systems of evaluation easily diverge from their initially proposed purposes when in use, producing reactivity and resistance among organizational members. Some financial advisors were positive about the evaluation device and the opportunity it afforded to improve performance, whereas others regarded it as another surveillance attempt for enhancing management control. We also contribute to the literature by elaborating on the relationship between reactivity and resistance on individual and collective levels.
Gavin, M 2019, 'Working industrially or professionally? What strategies should teacher unions use to improve teacher salaries in neoliberal times?', Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 19-33.
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Håkonsen Coldevin, G, Carlsen, A, Clegg, S, Pitsis, TS & Antonacopoulou, EP 2019, 'Organizational creativity as idea work: Intertextual placing and legitimating imaginings in media development and oil exploration', Human Relations, vol. 72, no. 8, pp. 1369-1397.
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How do we understand the nature of organizational creativity when dealing with complex, composite ideas rather than singular ones? In response to this question, we problematize assumptions of the linearity of creative processes and the singularity of ideas in mainstream creativity theory. We draw on the work of Bakhtin and longitudinal research in two contrasting cases: developing hydrocarbon prospects and concepts for films and TV series. From these two cases, we highlight two forms of work on ideas: (i) intertextual placing, whereby focal ideas are constituted by being connected to other elements in a larger idea field; and (ii) legitimating imaginings, where ideas of what to do are linked to ideas of what is worth doing and becoming. This ongoing constitution and legitimating is not confined to particular stages but takes place in practices of generating, connecting, communicating, evaluating and reshaping ideas, which we call idea work. The article contributes to a better understanding of the processual character of creativity and the deeply intertextual nature of ideas, including the multiplicity of idea content and shifting parts–whole relationships. Idea work also serves to explore the neglected role of co-optative power in creativity.
Harrison, B, Foley, C, Edwards, D & Donaghy, G 2019, 'Outcomes and challenges of an international convention centre's local procurement strategy', Tourism Management, vol. 75, pp. 328-339.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Opportunities exist for organisations in urban environments to adopt strategies to support struggling rural communities. In the food sector, organisations can engage small local suppliers via a targeted short food supply chain procurement program. We report on an Australian case study in which a large international convention centre has committed to support small local suppliers by engaging them to provide their fresh produce requirements. This article contributes to the literature on the benefits and challenges of a short food supply chain approach to procurement. We argue that despite an incongruent and novel relationship between a large consumer and small local suppliers that there are several reasons to encourage such a collaboration including reduction of market volatility, increased direct expenditure, employment opportunities, and improved environmental sustainability practices. We identify potential opportunities and issues for both parties to consider in relation to risk, collaboration and trust.
Herold, DM, Breitbarth, T, Schulenkorf, N & Kummer, S 2019, 'Sport logistics research: reviewing and line marking of a new field', The International Journal of Logistics Management, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 357-379.
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PurposeAlthough logistics management is a crucial part of local and global sports events, there is no research-driven characterization of “sports logistics management”. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a framework that allows for a more structured recognition of logistics in sports, in general, and sport event management, in particular. In addition, we conduct a systematic literature review of sports logistics management and locate opportunities for future research both for sports management and logistics management scholars.Design/methodology/approachGuided by Durach et al.’s (2017) systematic literature review approach, we identify key attributes and characteristics of sports logistics management. These are based on studies featuring at least partial aspects of logistics management in sports and sport events, and that were published between 2000 and mid-2019.FindingsThe study reveals that sports logistics management – meaning logistics activities in sports and sport event management – is a heavily under-researched area that provides an abundance of scientific opportunities. Based on the three sport event types of local/regional sport events, major sport events and mega sport events, the authors propose four sports logistics management pillars that are central to the proposed Sport Logistics Framework: venue logistics management, sports equipment logistics management, athletes logistics management, and fan and spectators logistics management.Practical implicationsBy providing a conceptual framework for sports logistics, the authors pr...
Hoekman, MJ, Schulenkorf, N & Welty Peachey, J 2019, 'Re-engaging local youth for sustainable sport-for-development', Sport Management Review, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 613-625.
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© 2018 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Despite increasing evidence that sport-for-development (SFD) programs can contribute to community development, there remains a lack of empirical inquiry into different socio-managerial aspects of SFD. For example, in attempts to achieve locally sustained SFD programs, the roles, responsibilities and potential impact of re-engaged youth need further investigation. The authors define re-engaged youth as previous program participants who have maintained strong links with the organization and who return to the program at a later stage as volunteers or staff members. In this paper, the authors examine ways in which Re-engaged youth of the Blue Dragon Children Foundation's SFD program contribute to sustainable management and indirectly to community development within a disadvantaged community setting in Hanoi, Vietnam. Following an interpretive mode of inquiry, the authors conducted and analyzed two focus groups (six participants each) and 12 in-depth interviews with re-engaged youth (n = 7) and key program stakeholders (n = 5). Overall, re-engaged youth represented key drivers for organizational success; they served as program culture experts, role models, leaders and mentors, and creators of a family feel in SFD and beyond. The authors argue that re-engaged youth are demonstrating a number of important change agent capabilities that enable them to uniquely gauge and best respond to the needs of program participants and local communities in complex sociocultural environments.
Kidson, P, Odhiambo, G & Wilson, R 2019, 'The International Baccalaureate in Australia: trends and issues', Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 393-412.
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Klettner, A, Kelly, S, Edwards, M & Brown, P 2019, 'Australia's sustainable finance agenda: Implications for corporate governance', Governance Directions, vol. 71, no. 10.
Lakisa, D, Teaiwa, K, Adair, D & Taylor, T 2019, 'Empowering Voices from the Past: The Playing Experiences of Retired Pasifika Rugby League Athletes in Australia', The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 1096-1114.
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MacFarlane, JD, Phelps, S & Schulenkorf, N 2019, 'Fitness industry self-regulation: institutional or by choice?', Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 506-524.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to document and explore the perceptual motivations for voluntary and continued affiliation with a fitness industry register by its affiliates (“members”) and non-affiliates (“non-members”). The formation of fitness industry registers to impart self-regulation is a common global occurrence. Their sustainment, however, is reliant on the motivations and voluntary support of industry members. Limited work has been done in this area.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study uses the interpretive research paradigm, involving semi-structured interviews with 12 Auckland, New Zealand, fitness centre managers, industry associations, New Zealand Register of Exercise Professionals (Reps NZ) and Fitness New Zealand. Lenox’s (2006) participation-contingent benefits framework provides the necessary lens to explore the perceptual motivations behind participation/non-participation by fitness centres with an industry self-regulatory system (i.e. Reps NZ).FindingsWhereas participation-contingent benefits are perceived minimal, and exceeded by affiliation limitations, there is institutional congruence for industry regulation to exist, thus creating institutional pressures that encourage affiliation and retention. Whereas affiliates choose to absorb the associated inconveniences of affiliation to “support” Reps NZ, non-affiliates question the register’s regulatory form, choosing to avoid the affiliation costs and limitations.Originality/valueThis study lends further support that institutional development is crucial for inclusive, substantive and sustainable self-reg...
Macniven, R, Canuto, K, Wilson, R, Bauman, A & Evans, J 2019, 'Impact of physical activity and sport on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a scoping review protocol', JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1305-1311.
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ABSTRACT Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to identify and describe existing research on the impact of sport and physical activity programs on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. Introduction: Physical activity can be particularly beneficial for groups such as Indigenous populations, who have increased rates of chronic disease. Systematic reviews have demonstrated the positive impact of physical activity on a range of health indicators, and there is also support for the positive impact of physical activity on wider social outcomes. However, there is a lack of evidence for the benefits of physical activity for broader social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Inclusion criteria: This scoping review will consider studies that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of any age from any setting or region of Australia. Studies will be considered if they report on programs or activities that use physical activity and sport participation as a component or tool to improve one or more of six social and community outcomes: education, employment, culture, social wellbeing, life skills and crime prevention. Methods: Nine databases will be searched, as well as a selection of websites containing resources related to physical activity, sport and social outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Studies published in English will be included. No date limits will be set. After screening the titles and abstracts of identified citations...
Macniven, R, Canuto, K, Wilson, R, Bauman, A & Evans, J 2019, 'The impact of physical activity and sport on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: A systematic scoping review', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 1232-1242.
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© 2019 Objectives: To identify and describe existing evidence of the impact of sport and physical activity programs on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Design: Systematic scoping review. Methods: Nine scientific databases (MEDLINE, Scopus, SPORTSDiscus, PsycINFO, Informit, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), The Cochrane Library, The Campbell Library, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses) and grey literature were systematically searched for programs or activities that target Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and use physical activity and sport participation to improve one or more of six social and community outcomes of: (i) education; (ii) employment; (iii) culture; (iv) social and emotional wellbeing; (v) life skills; (vi) crime reduction. Results: Of the 1160 studies identified, 20 met the inclusion criteria and were published between 2003 and 2018. Most studies reported positive findings across multiple, broad outcomes of education (N = 11), employment (N = 1), culture (N = 9), social and emotional wellbeing (N = 12), life skills (N = 5) and crime reduction (N = 5). Some evidence was found for increased school attendance and improved self-esteem resulting from physical activity and sport participation as well as enhanced aspects of culture, such as cultural connections, connectedness, values and identity. Conclusions: There is some evidence of benefit across the six social outcomes from physical activity and sport programs. This promotes their continuation and development, although critical appraisal of their methods is needed to better quantify benefits, as well as the generation of new evidence across indicators where gaps currently exist, particularly for employment and crime reduction outcomes.
McDonald, M, Gough, B & Wearing, S 2019, 'Social psychology, consumer culture and neoliberalism: A response to Phelps and White (2018)', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 394-400.
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AbstractThe following essay responds to three main issues raised by Phelps and White (2018) in their critical commentary on our article (McDonald, Gough, Wearing & Deville, 2017). The first concerns the lack of precision in the conceptualisation of neoliberalism and the recent threats to it as we enter a potentially new phase of capitalism. While we share Phelps and White's concern, we argue that there is value in continuing to use neoliberalism as a concept for understanding some aspects of social behaviour. As to recent threats to neoliberalism, evidence indicates that it will continue to persist in the immediate future. To deal with neoliberalism's conceptual problems in social psychology, Phelps and White advance the potential theory of a ‘market‐derived logics’. We commend the authors for pursuing this endeavor, however, we caution that care needs to be taken in its conceptualisation. Lastly, we discuss Phelps and White's disciplinary reflections on social psychology.
McGrath-Champ, S, Stacey, M, Wilson, R, Fitzgerald, S, Rainnie, A & Parding, K 2019, 'Principals’ support for teachers’ working conditions in devolved school settings: Insights from two Australian States', Educational Management Administration & Leadership, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 590-605.
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Mikkelsen, EN & Clegg, S 2019, 'Conceptions of Conflict in Organizational Conflict Research: Toward Critical Reflexivity', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 166-179.
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Diverse and often unacknowledged assumptions underlie organizational conflict research. In this essay, we identify distinct ways of conceptualizing conflict in the theoretical domain of organizational conflict with the aim of setting a new critical agenda for reflexivity in conflict research. In doing so, we first apply a genealogical approach to study conceptions of conflict, and we find that three distinct and essentially contested conceptions frame studies of conflict at work. Second, we employ two empirical examples of conflict to illustrate how organizational conflict research can benefit from a more reflexive approach and advance our understanding of conflict. In this essay, we emphasize how philosophical and political assumptions about conflict frame knowledge production within the field and we encourage future theory development to build on different notions of conflict to become better at coping with the complex and dynamic nature of conflict.
Moktadir, MA, Ali, SM, Paul, SK & Shukla, N 2019, 'Barriers to big data analytics in manufacturing supply chains: A case study from Bangladesh', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 128, pp. 1063-1075.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Recently, big data (BD) has attracted researchers and practitioners due to its potential usefulness in decision-making processes. Big data analytics (BDA) is becoming increasingly popular among manufacturing companies as it helps gain insights and make decisions based on BD. However, there many barriers to the adoption of BDA in manufacturing supply chains. It is therefore necessary for manufacturing companies to identify and examine the nature of each barrier. Previous studies have mostly built conceptual frameworks for BDA in a given situation and have ignored examining the nature of the barriers to BDA. Due to the significance of both BD and BDA, this research aims to identify and examine the critical barriers to the adoption of BDA in manufacturing supply chains in the context of Bangladesh. This research explores the existing body of knowledge by examining these barriers using a Delphi-based analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Data were obtained from five Bangladeshi manufacturing companies. The findings of this research are as follows: (i) data-related barriers are most important, (ii) technology-related barriers are second, and (iii) the five most important components of these barriers are (a) lack of infrastructure, (b) complexity of data integration, (c) data privacy, (d) lack of availability of BDA tools and (e) high cost of investment. The findings can assist industrial managers to understand the actual nature of the barriers and potential benefits of using BDA and to make policy regarding BDA adoption in manufacturing supply chains. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to justify the robustness of the barrier rankings.
Moktadir, MA, Dwivedi, A, Ali, SM, Paul, SK, Kabir, G & Madaan, J 2019, 'Antecedents for greening the workforce: implications for green human resource management', International Journal of Manpower, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1135-1153.
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PurposeGreen human resource management (GHRM) is an arising issue for the tannery industry in the context of developing economies. As the tannery industry can be seen as one of the highest polluting industries on earth, it becomes imperative for the industry to implement GHRM practices for greening the workforce. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to focus on antecedents that will support the implementation of GHRM practices in the tannery industry supply chain.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, an expanded literature review was organized to establish antecedents for implementing GHRM practices. The total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) technique is employed to explore interactions among the identified antecedents. Furthermore, Matriced Impact Croises Multiplication Applique analysis was conducted for determining the driving-dependence power of each antecedent.FindingsThe results revealed that “green selection facility,” “green recruiting facility,” “green organizational culture,” “green purchasing,” “green strategy towards ES,” “regulatory forces towards ES” and “top management commitment towards greening the workforce” are the key antecedents for the exercise of GHRM practices in the tannery industry.Practical implicationsThe proposed model might support decision makers to understand the interactions among the antecedents of GHRM practices. This model will help managers to understand the impact of one antecedent on another prior to the implementation of GHRM practices in the tannery industry.IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 161975-161995.
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© 2013 IEEE. In this study, a novel blended state estimated adaptive controller is designed for voltage and current control of microgrid against unknown noise. The core feature of the microgrid (MG) is its ability to integrate more than one distributed energy resource into the main grid. The state of a microgrid may deteriorate due to many reasons, for example malicious cyber-attacks, disturbances, packet losses, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to achieve the true state of the system to enhance the control requirement and automation of the microgrid. To achieve the true state of a microgrid, this study proposes the use of an algorithm based on the unscented kalman filter (UKF). The proposed state estimator technique is developed using an unscented-transformation and sigma-points measurement technique capable of minimizing the mean and covariance of a nonlinear cost function to estimate the true state of a single-phase, three-phase single-source and three-phase multi-source microgrid system. The advantage of the proposed estimator over using extended kalman filter (EKF) is investigated in simulations. The results demonstrate that the use of the UKF estimator produces a superior estimation of the system compared with the use of the EKF. An adaptive PID controller is also developed and used in system conjunction with the estimator to regulate its voltage and current against the number of loads. Deviation in load parameters hamper the function of the MG system. The performance of the developed controller is also evaluated against number of loads. Results indicate the controller provides a more stable and high-tracking performance with the inclusion of the UKF in the system.
Natalia, P, Clara, RA, Simon, D, Noelia, G & Barbara, A 2019, 'Critical elements in accessible tourism for destination competitiveness and comparison: Principal component analysis from Oceania and South America', Tourism Management, vol. 75, pp. 169-185.
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© 2019 This paper seeks to construct an exploratory nationally comparative tourism accessibility measure (TAI)through developing an objective set of metrics in the spirit and intent of the international treaties and missions regarding the rights of persons with disabilities. Applied to Australia and New Zealand (Oceania)and Argentina and Brazil (South-America), the TAI draws upon data collected cross-country, cross-continent and for a period of 25 years (1990–2015)based on factor and principal component analysis. Considering accessibility as the conditions that a destination must have in order to be enjoyed by all individuals with access requirements and as a key factor of destination competitiveness, the TAI is developed based on: socio-demographic data; legal framework, political will and policy actions; and access conditions in tourism attractions. This measure is a useful tool to provide information about the critical elements, stages of development, evolution and understanding of the accessible tourism approaches in each of the studied countries.
Nguyen, TQT, Young, T, Johnson, P & Wearing, S 2019, 'Conceptualising networks in sustainable tourism development', Tourism Management Perspectives, vol. 32, pp. 100575-100575.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd This paper contributes to the sustainable tourism research agenda concerning the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a destination level. This paper develops a conceptual framework integrating three theories: stakeholder theory, social network analysis (SNA), and actor-network theory (ANT). Integration reveals a blended approach to enable a reassessment of stakeholder roles to further explore the nature, dynamics and operations of tourism networks as they work to achieve SDGs. Tourismscapes, as a model, is invoked to scaffold data and to provide insight into the nuances of destination networks. This research evaluates this concept and its potential for rethinking tourism research and inspiring a new wave of study. Firmly planted in critical tourism studies, this paper conceptualises tourism stakeholder interactions, specifically those networks pursuing common goals at a destination level, such as SDG 17 that aims to strengthen means of implementation through partnerships.
Ninan, J, Clegg, S & Mahalingam, A 2019, 'Branding and governmentality for infrastructure megaprojects: The role of social media', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 59-72.
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This paper explores subtle strategies that megaproject teams develop in practice to manage stakeholders external to the project team. A governmentality approach is used to account for these strategies. A metro rail megaproject in India provides the case for the study. The strategies were identified through a content analysis of 640 project and non-project based Tweets posted by the metro rail organization. We augmented this dataset with the community's response through social media, as well as through semi-structured interviews that captured the project teams' responses. The findings indicate that the megaproject used various strategies: promoting the organization, giving progress updates, appealing to the community, as well as targeting of specific sections of the population. The effect of these attempts at governmentality through branding were observed in community discourses on social media platforms that echoed the strategic discourses projected by the megaproject while interviews enabled us to access the project team's responses. For the project community, the effects included a positive brand image, creating community brand advocates and building support for the project during contentious episodes. For the project team, the effects included job attraction, enhanced job perception as well as the creation of project team brand advocates. The relation between the governmentality instruments and their corresponding effects are theorized in six propositions.
Ninan, J, Mahalingam, A & Clegg, S 2019, 'External Stakeholder Management Strategies and Resources in Megaprojects: An Organizational Power Perspective', Project Management Journal, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 625-640.
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Megaprojects involve managing external stakeholders with diverse interests. Using an Indian megaproject case study, we discuss how the project managed external stakeholders through strategies such as: persuasion, deputation, give and take, extra work for stakeholders, and flexibility. Drawing from theories and frameworks of power, we explain how these strategies emerge through a process of tactical clustering. We also analyze the resources available to the project team—such as recruitment discretion, government backing, and fund discretion—that influence these power dynamics and enable these strategies. We posit that changes in the resource base can significantly affect strategic action and, in turn, megaproject outcomes.
Okumu, CO & Fee, A 2019, 'Understanding the impacts of Chinese business activity in Kenya from the perspective of locals', critical perspectives on international business, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 361-389.
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PurposeThe authors report a field study examining the perceptions of Kenyan host-country stakeholders toward activities of Chinese businesses in their country, and the consequences of this on the legitimacy that they bestow on pertinent entities.Design/methodology/approachInterviews and observations across an eight-week period of field research revealed generally negative attitudes toward Chinese businesses, with issues pertinent to moral legitimacy prominent, notably, perceptions of corrupt practices, environmental neglect and profit expatriation.FindingsThe authors also find evidence that these negative attitudes spilled over to contaminate Kenyans’ perceptions of their own government, which respondents associated closely with the activities of Chinese entities.Originality/valueThe authors extend understanding of legitimacy theory and the implications of foreign business activity by highlighting that businesses may be mistaken to believe that their international business activities are politically neutral, and while host governments may believe that the economic benefits arising from attracting foreign business activity can buttress their legitimacy, the perceived activities of these businesses, in the absence of supporting institutional frameworks, may render this counterproductive.
Paul, SK, Asian, S, Goh, M & Torabi, SA 2019, 'Managing sudden transportation disruptions in supply chains under delivery delay and quantity loss', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 273, no. 1-2, pp. 783-814.
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Paul, SK, Sarker, R, Essam, D & Lee, PT-W 2019, 'A mathematical modelling approach for managing sudden disturbances in a three-tier manufacturing supply chain', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 280, no. 1-2, pp. 299-335.
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Pina e Cunha, M, Giustiniano, L, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2019, '“Heaven or Las Vegas”: Competing institutional logics and individual experience', European Management Review, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 781-798.
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Significant research has been dedicated to the study of the dual constitutive core at the field and organizational levels but less attention has been paid to the micro‐dimensions of the collision of competing logics, namely in terms of how individuals experience and navigate through them and how that influences organizational ethos and strategy. We study how one individual, founder of the organization behind the independent music label 4AD, made sense and lived through the fundamental clash of two logics: ‘music as art’ and ‘music as business’. We analyse how the personal struggles of the founder allowed the construction and maintenance of a strong, solid and continued organizational identity for 4AD. We uncover four factors accounting for the protection of 4AD's sustained artistic integrity in face of a transforming industry.
Rahman, MH, Tumpa, TJ, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2019, 'A grey approach to predicting healthcare performance', Measurement, vol. 134, pp. 307-325.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The success of an organization or a particular activity is evaluated through the measurement of key performance indicators (KPIs). The aim of this paper is to analyze and predict the indicators of healthcare performance using grey systems theory. Recent advancements in science and technology have made the healthcare industry extremely efficient at collecting data using electronic claims systems such as electronic health records. Therefore, collecting field level primary data becomes easier and accumulate them to generate secondary data for research purpose and to get an insight of the organization performance is absolutely necessary. Our research analyzes the KPIs of a hospital based on a secondary data source. Since, secondary data contains uncertainty and sometimes poor information, grey prediction model suits best to make a prediction model in this regard. Conventional grey model has considerable drawbacks while making a rigorous prediction model. For this, we apply an improved grey prediction model to predict the KPIs of the healthcare performance indicators. Several error measures in our model give a best fit of the data and allow prediction of the KPIs. The prediction model gives good estimates of the quantitative indicators and produced error rate within an acceptable range. We observe that the KPIs of bed turnover rate (BTR) and bed occupancy rate (BOR) have an increasing trend, whereas the KPIs of average length of stay (ALOS), hospital death rate (HDR) and hospital infection rate (HIR) show a decreasing trend over time. The main contribution of this research is a grey-based prediction model that can provide managers with the information they need to evaluate and predict the performance of a hospital. The research indicates that managers should give greater priority to the indicators which will result in better patients’ satisfaction and improved profit margin. Healthcare managers striving towards better performance will now...
Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & West, J 2019, 'Crowdsourcing Without Profit: The Role of the Seeker in Open Social Innovation', R&D Management, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 298-317.
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Riboldi, M & Hopkins, S 2019, 'Community-led justice reinvestment: rethinking access to justice', Precedent (Sydney NSW), no. 154, pp. 48-51.
Scerri, M, Edwards, D & Foley, C 2019, 'Design, architecture and the value to tourism', Tourism Economics, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 695-710.
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Architecture has been recognized for its supporting role in the enhancement of the physical assets of destinations, which play a leading role in drawing tourists who identify and associate destinations with these architectural landmarks. While generating tourist expenditure is not the aim of most architects, many are increasingly aware that articulated and functional buildings become visitor attractions in their own right – an externality that requires valuing. However, the value assigned to iconic architecture is often restricted to the bricks and mortar construction, and the broader contributions a building can deliver to its stakeholders are largely ignored. This article explores the capacity for architecture to attract tourists and effect direct tourism spend through the examination of five cases, each of which has attempted to estimate their economic value to tourism. This article proposes a model for estimating the future value of iconic buildings and tests its application to the University of Technology Sydney, Gehry-designed, Dr Chau Chak Wing building. The implications of the framework and future research are discussed.
Schulenkorf, N & Siefken, K 2019, 'Managing sport-for-development and healthy lifestyles: The sport-for-health model', Sport Management Review, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 96-107.
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© 2018 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand With increased globalization and modernization of people's lives, lifestyle behavior has changed substantially in many countries around the world. This change has brought two key behavior modifications: a reduction in physical activity and an increase in unhealthy eating patterns. Consequently, non-communicable diseases have overtaken communicable diseases as a key health risk area. In response to this issue, healthy lifestyle initiatives and sport-for-development (SFD) programs are now implemented across the world, including projects in the heavily affected Pacific Islands region. In this paper, the authors critically reflect on their lived experiences and the underpinning management processes of the Wokabaot Jalens, a health-focused SFD initiative in Vanuatu. The authors propose the sport-for-health model as a flexible conceptual tool that establishes the nexus between sport management, health promotion, sociocultural development, policy, and sustainability. The authors provide practical and theoretical implications and suggest that the model can underpin and conceptually support other SFD initiatives—and specifically health-related development projects—in the Pacific region and beyond.
Schulenkorf, N, Giannoulakis, C & Blom, L 2019, 'Sustaining commercial viability and community benefits: management and leverage of a sport-for-development event', European Sport Management Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 502-519.
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© 2018, © 2018 European Association for Sport Management. Research question: When managed strategically, sport events have the capacity to generate economic, sociocultural, and health-related benefits for host communities. To date, the majority of academic research has focused on the impact components of large-scale and mega-sport events, such as the Olympic Games. In an attempt to provide empirical evidence of management strategies and tactics related to small-scale events, the purpose of this study was to examine how an event business strategically manages and leverages an event to sustain its commercial viability, while focusing on generating social benefits for the community. Research methods: Through the lens of sport-for-development theory and event leverage concepts, we explore the case of an annual, mass participation sporting event on the island of Spetses, Greece. Against the background of financial hardship and subsequent social disparity in the country, our qualitative investigation includes 19 semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders of the Spetses Mini Marathon. Results and findings: Outcomes of the qualitative analysis indicated three main thematic categories: (a) managing context, (b) engaged change agent, and (c) involved community. In the midst of an economic crisis, the change agent managed to secure the commercial sustainability of the event, while generating several social, cultural, economic, and sporting benefits for the local community through a participatory community approach. Implications: In discussing our findings, we provide implications for strategic management and leverage of local sport events, and we highlight opportunities and challenges for maximizing the reputational capital for organizers as well as social benefits for communities.
Schweinsberg, S 2019, 'Comments/rejoinders and the formation of knowledge', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 76, pp. 331-333.
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Stronach, M, Adair, D & Maxwell, H 2019, '‘Djabooly-djabooly: why don’t they swim?’: the ebb and flow of water in the lives of Australian Aboriginal women', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 286-304.
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Aquatic activities have been pivotal to the lifestyle of Australian Indigenous peoples for millennia. That historical connection with rivers, streams and beaches is a largely untold story. This paper considers one aspect of the story: the significance swimming for Aboriginal women. Aquatic activities were, for many Aboriginal communities, crucial for food, movement and leisure.
Even a cursory trawl through newspapers and memoirs provides observations about the prowess of Aboriginal women as swimmers. But this skill-set dissipated in the wake of territorial conflict, resulting in the displacement or erosion of Aboriginal communities in coastal areas.
The paper then moves to the contemporary era, starting with an assumption that the passion for, swimming has been lost for Aboriginal women. Stories about female Indigenous swimmers, alongside the recollections of two mature-age women, present a story of limited opportunity, discrimination and challenges by way of access to water and safety therein.
Stronach, M, Maxwell, H & Pearce, S 2019, 'Indigenous Australian women promoting health through sport', Sport Management Review, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 5-20.
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© 2018 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand The authors explore the sporting experiences and community strengths of Indigenous Australian women. The intention is to inform both health promotion and contemporary sport management strategies, and policies and practices, leading to better health outcomes for this cohort. The authors employ an interpretative qualitative methodology, which involves the combination of data from a range of sources, including interviews and focus groups with 22 Indigenous women living in urban and rural areas, narratives from elite Indigenous athletes and coaches, as well as findings from a recent Australian Parliamentary inquiry into Indigenous health and wellbeing. Drawing from an agency/empowerment theoretical framework, the authors posit that, given support and opportunities, Indigenous women can become empowered to improve their mental and physical health through participation in sport. Sport managers can facilitate Indigenous women's agency in the effects of colonisation, which continues to be the basis of health issues for this cohort. Listening to Indigenous women and facilitating opportunities for them to take control of their own participation can help facilitate this process. Indigenous-women's only opportunities, partnerships with health agencies and sports organisations, culturally safe spaces and Indigenous women acting as role models are some factors that may augment Indigenous women's agency, and thus empowerment. Government, sports, community organisations and health agencies which provide these conditions in their program design can help to overcome entrenched social, historical and health inequalities that Indigenous women may experience.
Sugden, JT, Adair, D, Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S 2019, 'Exploring Sport and Intergroup Relations in Fiji: Guidance for Researchers Undertaking Short-Term Ethnography', Sociology of Sport Journal, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 277-288.
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There is a key tension associated with ethnographic explorations into the lives of people in the Global South – ‘outsider’ researchers from the Global North who lack experience of the environments they are seeking to understand. A considered response, therefore, is for scholars to seek physical immersion in a field—to live among those they are trying to understand. Such ethnographic inquiries are optimal when researchers have the capacity to engage over long periods of time. However, in some circumstances, this may not feasible. Thus, questions arise about the veracity of field work investigations that are not only temporally brief but undertaken by scholars who lack local experience. This paper reflects on the experiences of a researcher who was faced with those challenges. It provides guidance as to how scholars might prepare for short-term ethnography (STE) in field work, along with the limitations and constraints of such an approach. The research centered on a sport for development and peace study into intergroup relations and ethnic separatism in Fijian sport.
Suhi, SA, Enayet, R, Haque, T, Ali, SM, Moktadir, MA & Paul, SK 2019, 'Environmental sustainability assessment in supply chain: An emerging economy context', Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 79, pp. 106306-106306.
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc. Environmental sustainability is not being practiced in the supply chains of many industries. Previous studies on environmental sustainability have not outlined clear strategies to achieve sustainability across supply chains, particularly in the context of emerging economies, and have been of limited relevance in settings beyond the geographical region of their focus. To address these gaps, we have proposed a best worst method (BWM) as a framework to assess the environmental criteria for sustainability in select industries in Bangladesh. Different industrial activities or criteria affecting the environment in various ways were assessed and weighted using the BWM. To ensure the efficiency and accuracy of this framework, we sought the opinions of 34 experts to specify the most suitable indicators from our initial literature review. Findings from this study revealed that “waste management” was the most important indicator for establishing environmental sustainability in industries in Bangladesh, which was substantiated by a sensitivity analysis. This research will assist industry managers and entrepreneurs to work toward environmental sustainability across supply chains.
Tumpa, TJ, Ali, SM, Rahman, MH, Paul, SK, Chowdhury, P & Rehman Khan, SA 2019, 'Barriers to green supply chain management: An emerging economy context', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 236, pp. 117617-117617.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Green supply chain management is attracting increasing attention as a way to decrease the adverse environmental effects of industries worldwide. However, considering the context of an emerging economy like Bangladesh, green supply chain management is still in its inception and has not been widely embraced in the textile industry, and therefore barriers hindering its adoption in emerging economy context demand a comprehensive investigation. This research reviews the viewpoints and hurdles in adopting green supply chain management practices in the context of the Bangladeshi textile industry. A questionnaire survey of Bangladeshi textile practitioners of operations and supply chain management division, having a sample size of thirty, was undertaken to identify the barriers, and a hierarchical cluster analysis technique was used in the detailed analysis of this data. Opinions were sought from experts on the significance of the resulting clusters, considering the relative importance of the barriers. Fifteen barriers to the adoption of green supply chain management were identified in the review of the literature, with these barriers then analyzed by using the data collected from Bangladeshi textile industry practitioners. The research indicates that the most important barrier is that there is low demand from customers and financial constraint resulting from short term little financial benefit to businesses, with lack of government regulations also a commonly faced barrier in adopting green supply chain initiatives. This study will provide valuables insights to practitioners and relevant policy makers about the barriers prevailing in the emerging economies towards the adoption of green supply chain management practices, which, in turn, can guide to undertake appropriate steps for alleviating those barriers.
Veal, AJ 2019, 'Joffre Dumazedier and the definition of leisure', Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 187-200.
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© 2019, © 2019 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. One of the most widely cited definitions of leisure is that presented by Joffre Dumazedier, originally published in 1962 and based on three functions of leisure identified in his empirical research in France. Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, aspects of the English translation of the definition, published in the USA in 1967, are found to be inappropriate and misleading. Second, attention is drawn to the unexplained omission of experiential features of leisure, also identified in Dumazedier’s research. Third, it is observed that, in the 1970s, Dumazedier disavowed his original definition and replaced it with a more exclusive perspective identifying him with the ‘Leisure Aristotelians’. Possible reasons for the original omission of experiential dimensions and for Dumazedier’s decision to replace his definition with a very different one are discussed, together with consideration of the lack of attention given to these matters by leisure studies scholars.
Veal, AJ, Toohey, K & Frawley, S 2019, 'Sport participation, international sports events and the ‘trickle-down effect’', Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, vol. 11, no. sup1, pp. s3-s7.
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Ville, S & Wright, C 2019, 'Buzz and Pipelines: Knowledge and Decision-Making in a Global Business Services Precinct', Journal of Urban History, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 191-210.
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This paper provides a historical analysis of an urban services district through its examination of the Melbourne wool trade precinct in the 1920s. It is a study of both a local and global community whose social and spatial interaction facilitated large-scale trade of a complex commodity that has rarely been examined. Geographic mapping of the local and global connections of the precinct has been combined with archival evidence. It reveals the “buzz” of the Melbourne precinct, created by local social and professional connections among wool brokers and buyers. “Pipelines” to wool growing and textile regions were developed through overseas branches of firms, with global knowledge exchanged through correspondence, telegraph, and migration. These features shaped the progress of the trade, facilitating improvements in its infrastructure and in the ability of Melbourne’s wool brokers and buyers to fulfill their role as intermediaries in the global supply chain for this complex commodity.
Wang, Y, Zhu, M, Liu, W & Li, W 2019, 'Does International Diversity Increase Innovation Performance of New Ventures from Emerging Markets?', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 11414-11414.
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Wearing, S, Schweinsberg, S & Johnson, P 2019, 'Flâneur or Choraster: A Review of the Travel Narrator In the Formation of the Tourist Experience', Tourism Analysis, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 551-562.
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Media representations of destinations play a powerful role in tourism appeal. The narrator assumes a role infused with knowledge and power, employing discourse to describe and interpret places and people to entice armchair audiences to not only travel vicariously alongside them, but to follow in their footsteps. This review article uses the English actor and writer Michael Palin to examine this phenomenon through the lens of the flâneur and choraster. Palin's travels have traditionally been viewed based on their ability to create space from the perspective of a representational voice of authority. In the present article, we wish to ask whether the power of the travel narrator for tourism is perhaps better expressed in their ability to develop a counter (or chora discourse), one where we are able to see space as locally contested. Palin's narrator expresses appreciation of his reliance on the people (chora) that inhabit the spaces he visits. His narrations of travel evidence how the flâneur perspective is influenced (and/or disrupted) by a chora in two ways—that which influences the perspective before travel and directs the gaze, and those that occupy and inscribe meaning on the spaces that are traveled to, that influences and/or forms experience.
Welty Peachey, J, Schulenkorf, N & Spaaij, R 2019, 'Sport for Social Change: Bridging the Theory–Practice Divide', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 361-365.
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Theory development around sport for social change agendas has received greater attention from scholars over the past 10 years. Yet, it remains underdeveloped when compared with theoretical advancements and innovations in other aspects of the sport industry. In this special issue, we bring to light some of the most recent conceptual and empirical work exploring the theory–practice connection in the field of sport for social change.
WRIGHT, C, VILLE, S & MERRETT, D 2019, 'Quotidian Routines: The Cooperative Practices of a Business Elite', Enterprise & Society, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 826-860.
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Cooperative corporate behavior has often been explained through the social anatomy of business leaders and structural ties among firms. Our alternative approach investigates how quotidian interactions built trust and routines among a group of major firms in the Australian wool trade—a sector that required regular interaction to be effective. Deploying extensive archives of their meetings, we use social network analysis to examine interactions among the key group of firms and individuals. Through content analysis we infer the behavior and atmosphere of meetings. Finally, an evaluation of meeting agendas and outcomes demonstrates cooperation and a shared commitment to improving the operation of the wool trade in the 1920s.
Wright, CEF 2019, 'The Boarding Pass: Pathways to Corporate Networks in Early Twentieth-century Australia', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 441-462.
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Yu, K-H 2019, 'Inclusive unionism: Strategies for retaining idealism in the Service Employees International Union', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 33-56.
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Despite the vast amount of scholarship covering the progressive turn in unions in the US and in Europe and a widespread recognition that it has been driven by the staff working for reformed unions there has been no examination of the causes, beliefs, and identities that new generations of staff bring into the labor movement. The question asked in this article is how personal projects – defined as a motivational narrative for social action – held by progressively minded union staff can impact inclusiveness in unions. A key focus is how staff's personal projects interact with organizational structures and practices. The study finds that personal projects vary in terms of the way that staff construct role boundaries in their jobs to invest more in certain roles than, others which also affected their investment in skills development. These strategies have theoretical implications for understanding the nexus between staff careers and organizational outcomes in unions in particular and in ‘social movement organizations’ more generally. Results also have practical implications for skills development and knowledge transfers within and across organizations, as well as for union capacities to deal with competing goals.
Yu, K-H 2019, 'Negotiating ‘otherness’ as skilled migrants', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 198-224.
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While culture is beginning to be understood as a mechanism of stratification in the labor market alongside attribute-based discrimination, we lack a corresponding understanding of how skilled migrants deal with their otherness in the labor market. This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of the lived experiences of skilled migrants by identifying the material and social consequences of performing extra work to obtain cultural legitimacy. In contrast to the recent focus on understanding cultural others’ responses to pressures for conformity in terms of identity conflict, this study identifies the context in which cultural legitimacy is required and constructed, both in terms of macro-societal and institutional influences on identity regulation within organizations as well as interactional dynamics and power relations. Based on interviews with migrants in the field of accounting and finance in Australia, I draw out the main features of ‘cultural work’ and show the potential consequences of not performing cultural work as well as the means of migrants’ resistance against pressures for conformity.
Abou Maroun, E, Zowghi, D & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Challenges in forecasting uncertain product demand in supply chain: A systematic literature review', Managing the many faces of sustainable work, Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ANZAM, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Forecasting for uncertain product demand in supply chain is challenging and statistical models alone cannot overcome the challenges faced. Our overall objective is to explore the challenges faced in forecasting uncertain product demand and examine extant literature by synthesizing the results of studies that have empirically investigated this complex phenomenon. We performed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) following the well-known guidelines of the evidence-based paradigm which resulted in selecting 66 empirical studies. Our results are presented into two categories of internal and external challenges: 24 of the 66 studies express internal challenges, whilst 13 studies report external challenges, and 8 studies cover both internal and external challenges. We also present significant gaps identified in the research literature
Ahuja, S & Nikolova, N 1970, '‘This boys club world is finally getting to me’: Gendered professional identity in elite architecture firms.', European Group for Organization Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ashwell, J & Hassanli, N 1970, 'A cluster approach to sustainability for small tourism accommodations', The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Cairns.
Bliemel, M, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Subhadrammal, D, Pugalia, S & Francis, J 1970, 'Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Dynamics and Metrics', University-Industry Engagement Conference, Sydney, NSW.
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This paper presents our review of the literature and industry reports in relation to attempts to quantify and measure entrepreneurial ecosystems. Public interest and research on entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) has exploded in recent years, with many different conceptualisations of EEs. How they are opera-tionalised and quantified remains a challenge. However, having a reliable metric for the state or health of an EE remains of great interest to policy makers and researchers alike. In this study, we review the emerg-ing literature on EEs with a focus on attempts to quantify what they are and how they work. While there is an emerging concesus or synthesis of what EEs are, the literature and reports on their quantification remain scattered. Many quantitative studies are based on the practicality of using data with very limited availability. Others use macro-level or aggregated individual level data to make inferences about what occurs at the level of the firm, their immediate network, or how these interactions play out across the ecosystem across a very diverse set of actors. While startups are the primary outcome and primary stakeholder in EEs, the broader literature recognises that startups do not operate in isolation, and that their emergence depends on the actions and interaction with other stakeholders, such as larger corpora-tions, universities, government and other incumbents. A single-minded obsession about the number of startups and their fundings deprives policy makers and researchers the ability to study the whole system or context in which they exist and create jobs, wealth and innovations.
Clegg, S, Cunha, MPE, Berti, M & Simpson, A 1970, 'Symposium on Paradoxes of facts, fashion, and Fado in the future of management', Business for Society, Lisbon, Portugal.
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The facts about the future of management have yet to be socially constructed but the fashion trends are clear and they may well be an occasion for Fado on the part of certain management scholars, those for whom a humanistic appreciation of management as a discipline and a practice was always foremost. Humanism is on the retreat and the present cycle of managerial innovation sees a favouring of machine over human imagery (Abrhamsson and Eisenman, 2008) that has the potential of paradoxically being both as liberating for humanity as it is dehumanizing.
Clegg, S, Rijmenam, MV & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'The politics of openness', 2017 European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 307-325.
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The concern with openness is well established in organization theory providing a common language for observing, understanding and predicting system behaviours. Beside more conventional views of systems, which favour an objectivised view of relations between organizations and, therefore, recommendations for setting the conditions of their mutual openness, Luhmann’s theoretical framework shows that openness is problematic per se for social systems as organizations. Systems endogenously construct their differentiation from other systems through closure. Any systemic society is based on closure and specific cognitive rules, not on openness and objectivised communication. In the language of systems theory, openness is a lure as a systemic analysis of the fragmentation of power shows. We use Clegg’s (1989) ‘circuits’ approach to a systems theory of power to make connections with Luhmann (1979): there are many points of comparison between them, including the key role of events, the centrality of social constructions and the autopoietic nature of the circuits of power.
Dong, K 1970, 'Learning and the Fear of Failure: The Context of Decisions about New Market Entry by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Owners in China', the Academy of international Business (AIB) Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dong, K 1970, 'The Fear of Failure in the SME’s Internationalisation', Academy of Management Proceedings, the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management, the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston, pp. 16335-16335.
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Fee, A 1970, 'Demands and coping strategies of host-country nationals when hosting expatriates', Academy of Management, Boston, MA.
Fleming, P, Rhodes, C & Yu, K-H 1970, 'On Why Uber Has Not Taken Over the World', Annual Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies, Edinburgh.
Gavin, M 1970, '‘Workload and wellbeing: (In-)compatible demands in education?’', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Melbourne Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'Advancing a model of teacher union effectiveness in response to neoliberal education reform', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'Occupational and Organisational Professionalisation: Teaching, work and the case of an Australian Teachers’ Union', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'The work and workload experiences of fixed contract teachers: New casualisation of staff in schools?', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference.
Haque, M, Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 1970, 'Modeling decentralized supply chain with centralized and decentralized approaches', Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE, The 49th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China.
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In this paper, a multistage decentralized supply chain (SC) with different independent entities is modeled with the combination of centralized and decentralized decision-making processes. To do so, mathematical models are developed, based on the concepts of bilevel programming and the weighted goal programming approach. Here, a strategy of centralized SC control is proposed as an upper level (leader) optimization problem, whereas the individual profit maximization problems of each of the independent SC stages are considered as lower level (follower) problems under decentralized control. To implement the bilevel programming concept, an optimization model is developed as a leader problem to coordinate different independent entities of a decentralized SC and a few independent optimization models for different SC stages are considered for the follower problems. We have introduced a solution approach to solve the proposed multiperiod model using a goal programming approach, where a target/goal value is set for each lower level optimization problem to obtain feasible solutions of the proposed bilevel model. A numerical analysis is conducted to validate our model. Moreover, our proposed model is compared with a single-level approach, where total SC profit maximization is considered, instead of optimizing each individual entities’ problems. The comparison shows that modeling a complete decentralized SC network with independent entities having individual objectives with our proposed model is more realistic and effective than single-level modeling.
Hassanli, N, Walter, T & Freidmann, R 1970, 'How Festivals Mitigate the Adverse Effects of Oppression for Attendees: The Case of the New Beginnings Festival', Critical Tourism Studies, Ibiza, Spain.
Katic, M, Cetindamar, D, Agarwal, R & Sick, N 1970, 'Operationalising Ambidexterity: The Role of 'Better' Management Practices in High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing', 2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), IEEE, Portland, Oregon, pp. 1-10.
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Klettner, A, Clarke, T & Boersma, M 1970, 'Corporate responsibility and financialisation in the international banking sector: the limits of current governance systems', European Academy of Management, Lisbon, Portugal.
Li, W, Wang, Y & Liu, W 1970, 'Does International Diversity Increase Innovation Performance of New Ventures from Emerging Markets?', Academy of Management Conference, Boston, the United States.
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Li, W, Wei, Q, De Sisto, M & Gu, J 1970, 'Loss or Gain? The Moderating Role of Top Manager Team in the Relationship between Political Hazards and Foreign Subsidiary Performance', Academy of International Business Conference.
Michailova, S & Fee, A 1970, 'Host country nationals’ cross-cultural adjustment: Their exchange relationship with expatriates and its spillovers', Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Cairns, Queensland.
Naar, L, Feduzi, A, Nikolova, N & Clegg, SR 1970, 'A novel approach to managing uncertainty for innovation', Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 13602-13602.
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Randhawa, K, West, J, Skellern, K & Josserand, E 1970, 'Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem:The Cognitive Influence of Stakeholders in Customizing Medical Implants', World Open Innovation Conference, World Open Innovation Conference, Rome.
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Stephens, A, Alvesson, M & Sandberg, J 1970, 'They complain but they don’t do anything: Complaining and complying in a university', 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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