Adair, D 2020, 'A Colossus: REMEMBERING COLIN TATZ', Sporting Traditions, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 43-46.
Adams, TL, Clegg, S, Eyal, G, Reed, M & Saks, M 2020, 'Connective professionalism: Towards (yet another) ideal type', Journal of Professions and Organization, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 224-233.
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ABSTRACTIn this essay, four leading scholars provide critical commentary on an article entitled ‘Protective or Connective Professionalism? How Connected Professionals Can (Still) Act as Autonomous and Authoritative Experts’ (Noordegraaf, 2020, Journal of Professions and Organization, 7/2). Of central concern to all four commentators is Noordegraaf’s use of ideal types as a heuristic device to make his case and capture historical change over time. While some question the usefulness of ideal types, others question Noordegraaf’s use of them. The commentators raise additional concerns, especially the limited attention to variations across professions, geographic regions, and limited attention to social–historical contexts.
Agarwal, R, Brown, PJ, Bajada, C, Stevens, P & Green, R 2020, 'The effects of competition on management practices in New Zealand – a study of manufacturing firms', International Journal of Production Research, vol. 58, no. 20, pp. 6217-6234.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Competition is a key factor in driving performance improvements across a range of firm activities including reductions in costs, increasing the levels of productivity, promoting entrepreneurial efforts, fostering innovation, driving better management practices, and exercising strategic managerial decisions. The questions of how and why competitive market forces influence management practices are the focus of this paper. Using data on management practices from 152 New Zealand manufacturing firms, and competition data obtained for various industries of the NZ economy, we examine the association between different dimensions of competition and management practices. Notably, we find little or no association between better management practices and competition when utilising simpler measures of competition, namely the number of competitors, industry concentration measured by HHI and the price-cost margin are used. However, using a more refined measure of competition, competition intensity characterised by profit elasticity, has a positive and significant association with the quality of management practices adopted by firms.
Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, S 2020, 'Professional identity and anxiety in architect-client interactions', Construction Management and Economics, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 589-602.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Large-scale construction projects increasingly have powerful and knowledgeable clients as project owners with whom professionals, such as architects, must interact. In such contexts, clients may have a significant impact on the constitution of a coherent and stable professional identity. Based on qualitative interviews with 50 architects across four large multidisciplinary professional service firms (PSFs) located in Sydney, Australia, supplemented by ethnographic observations, this article explores how architects constitute their identity in interactions with clients. The findings led us to conceptualise professional–client interactions in terms of two overarching discursive strategies deployed by architects in attempts to manage clients that are powerful and knowledgeable: best for client and best for project. We illustrate the anxieties that architects experience and suggest that attempts to secure professional identity may result in (re)producing an enduring sense of anxiety with unintended consequences for project outcomes and organisational performance.
Ali, SM, Hossen, MA, Mahtab, Z, Kabir, G, Paul, SK & Adnan, ZUH 2020, 'Barriers to lean six sigma implementation in the supply chain: An ISM model', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 149, pp. 106843-106843.
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Lean six sigma (LSS), a process improvement tool to achieve operational excellence in any industry, has become popular among practitioners over the last few decades. In this study, a framework for identifying barriers to LSS implementation in supply chains has been developed using the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) method. The ISM technique was used to identify the contextual relationships among the barriers. Barriers were classified based on their dependence power and driving power using MICMAC (Matriced Impacts Croisés Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement). This framework will provide a comprehensive understanding of how the barriers of LSS affect each other. The proposed framework has been tested using data from a real-world apparel manufacturing company in Bangladesh. 10 barriers to LSS implementation were identified from a literature review and industrial managers’ feedback. This study is expected to guide practitioners in implementing LSS in supply chains by helping to focus their effort on removing the most important barriers.
Banu-Lawrence, M, Frawley, S & Hoeber, L 2020, 'Women and Leadership Development in Australian Sport Organizations', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 568-578.
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There has been growing interest in gender diversity and the leadership development of women in recent years within the broader field of management studies. Understanding leadership development processes is important for the sport industry, in which organizations are becoming increasingly professional and commercially focused. Despite the increased attention on gender diversity and leadership development within the sport industry to date, the scope and application of organizational gender and leadership development theory within an Australian sport context has been limited. As such, the purpose of this study was to explore the leadership development practices adopted by key stakeholders of the Australian sports industry, with the intention to uncover how they impact the role of women in different organizations. Specifically, the research investigated the practices of three organizations that have a major stake in Australian professional sport.
Biygautane, M, Clegg, S & Al-Yahya, K 2020, 'Institutional work and infrastructure public–private partnerships (PPPs): the roles of religious symbolic work and power in implementing PPP projects', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1077-1112.
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PurposeExisting public–private partnership (PPP) literature that explicitly adopts neo-institutional theory, tends to elucidate the impact of isomorphic pressures and organizational fields and structuration on PPP projects. This paper advances this literature by presenting the institutional work and micro-level dynamics through which actors initiate and implement a new form of project delivery. The authors show how actors enact responses to institutional structuration in the expansion and transformation of an airport from a public entity into a PPP in Saudi Arabia.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use a single case study design that offers an empirically rich and thick description of events such as the dynamic processes, practices and types of institutional work carried out by actors and organizations to deliver the project under investigation.FindingsReligious symbolic work as social integration triggered system integration work, which expanded the power capabilities of individual actors leading the project. Repair work then followed to alleviate the negative effects of disempowering the agency of actors negatively affected by the PPP model and to streamline the project implementation process.Practical implicationsThis research offers several practical implications. For PPPs to operate successfully in contexts similar to the Gulf region, policymakers should provide strong political support and be willing to bear a considerable risk of losses or minimal outcomes during the early phases of experimentation with PPPs. Also, policymakers should not only focus their attention on technical...
Boersma, M & Nolan, J 2020, 'Can Blockchain Help Resolve Modern Slavery in Supply Chains?', AIB Insights, vol. 20, no. 2.
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While blockchain was designed as a ledger for cryptocurrency transactions, it can record transactions of anything of value. Blockchain is increasingly used to prove the integrity of commodities, tracing their supply chain journey from the source to the end user. Yet, transferring this technology from a cryptocurrency context to a supply chain setting is not without difficulties. This article explores the implications for multinational and transnational companies in using blockchain as a means to address modern slavery. The research identifies five challenges: verification, inclusion, trust, privacy, and normativity.
Cai, Z, Wu, D, Xin, Y, Chen, Y & Wu, H 2020, 'Formal mentoring support, person–environment fit and newcomer's intention to leave', Personnel Review, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1749-1767.
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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate how and why formal mentoring support reduces newcomers' intention to leave from the perspective of uncertainty reduction theory.Design/methodology/approachTime-lagged data were collected from two sources, mentors and newcomers, and 193 paired data sets were included in the analysis.FindingsThe results showed that formal mentoring support was positively related to newcomers' person–organisation fit (P–O fit) and person–job fit (P–J fit). In addition, P–O fit and P–J fit mediated the relationship between formal mentoring support and newcomers' intention to leave. Moreover, newcomers' uncertainty avoidance orientation strengthened the relationship between formal mentoring support and perception of fit, and it strengthened the indirect effect between formal mentoring support and newcomer's intention to leave, via the perception of fit.Originality/valueThis study enhances our understanding of the underlying mechanism between formal mentoring support and newcomers' intention to leave. Moreover, it demonstrates that uncertainty avoidance orientation is an important boundary condition during the process of organisational socialisation. The findings also contribute to the organisational socialisation and the mentoring literature by providing evidence from a blue-collar sample.
Carabetta, G 2020, '‘Fair Work Bargaining for Police: A Proposal for Reform’', Australian Business Law Review, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 253-253.
Carlsen, A, Clegg, SR, Pitsis, TS & Mortensen, TF 2020, 'From ideas of power to the powering of ideas in organizations: Reflections from Follett and Foucault', European Management Journal, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 829-835.
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Research on organizational creativity tends to emphasize fairly static notions of coercive power as positional authority and control over scarce resources. The field remains largely silent about power as a positive and generative phenomenon that can produce creativity. We seek to break that silence by amplifying and integrating the work of Mary Parker Follett and Michel Foucault in concert with recent practice-based approaches to creativity. Power in organizational creativity, we suggest, should first of all be explored as processes of connection, abundance and collective agency. We show that whereas established ideas of positional power over is related to assumptions of linearity and singularity of creativity, ideas of power with and power to are associated with a more dynamic, relational and process-based perspective. The latter set of views implies more attention be paid to processes of interactional framing through which people jointly attend to situations, reach new integrations and produce new social realities.
Choudhury, TT, Paul, SK, Rahman, HF, Jia, Z & Shukla, N 2020, 'A systematic literature review on the service supply chain: research agenda and future research directions', Production Planning & Control, vol. 31, no. 16, pp. 1363-1384.
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Chowdhury, MMH, Paul, SK, Sianaki, OA & Quaddus, MA 2020, 'Dynamic sustainability requirements of stakeholders and the supply portfolio', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 255, pp. 120148-120148.
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Extant literature on sustainability in procurement and supplier selection suffers from a number of deficiencies. First, studies pertaining to the dynamic nature of stakeholders’ expectations of sustainability and its impact on determining a supply portfolio have not been studied before. Second, there is a genuine lack of study linking the stakeholders’ sustainability requirements, firm procurement strategies, and eventual supplier selection. Third, most of the existing studies address sustainability issues in procurement and supplier selection but fall short of determining an optimal portfolio of suppliers and corresponding optimal order quantities. This study addresses the above research gaps by developing a sustainability-focused multi-criteria decision model for supplier evaluation and determining optimal order allocation among the suppliers linking the stakeholders’ sustainability requirements and firm procurement strategies. Based on dynamic capability theory, we develop a decision support framework integrating multi-phased quality function deployment and dynamic optimization. We apply the decision support framework to a European apparel company which sources apparel from Bangladesh: a country that is a low cost sourcing destination. First, this study identifies the stakeholders’ sustainability requirements. It then explicates the company's procurement strategies in terms of stakeholders’ requirements followed by translating the procurement strategies to relevant supplier assessment criteria. Finally, a linear optimization model is developed to maximize the suppliers’ sustainability performance in order to determine the optimal supply portfolio. The results identify two distinct groups of suppliers satisfying the overall sustainability performance. However the optimal order quantities among the suppliers vary randomly depending on the variations in demand and priority weights of the suppliers. The paper concludes with a detailed...
Chowdhury, NA, Ali, SM, Paul, SK, Mahtab, Z & Kabir, G 2020, 'A hierarchical model for critical success factors in apparel supply chain', Business Process Management Journal, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1761-1788.
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PurposeSupply chain management plays an important role in sustaining businesses in today's competitive environment. Therefore, industrial managers are focusing on exploring the key performance improvement attributes of supply chain management to achieve a better position in the global market. Aimed at ensuring best supply chain management practices, this study presents the key performance improvement attributes, known as critical success factors (CSFs), within the context of the apparel supply chain of Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the interpretive structural modeling method (ISM) has been applied to develop a structural framework to analyze the contextual relationship among the factors under consideration. MICMAC (Matriced' Impacts Croise´s Multiplication Applique´e a´ unClassement) analysis has also been performed to define the classification of the CSFs in terms of their driving and dependence power.FindingsThe research findings reveal that supply chain collaboration/partnership and customer satisfaction are of crucial importance to success in the context of supply chain management of the readymade (RMG) garments industry of Bangladesh. Further evidence suggests that these, along with other success factors, can assist in achieving a competitive advantage and better market position. A number of theoretical and managerial implications have been provided for managers and practitioners, and for further evaluation of the study.Originality/valueThis paper considers a new supply chain problem which identifies and evaluates critical success factors. This paper also devel...
Chowdhury, P & Paul, SK 2020, 'Applications of MCDM methods in research on corporate sustainability', Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 385-405.
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PurposeCorporate sustainability (CS) is becoming a popular research topic. In recent years, researchers have conducted a significant number of studies in this area. Although a number of those studies have used a variety of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, to date there is no systematic literature review of this area of research. This paper fulfills this research gap.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis approach to analyze the applications of MCDM methods in research on CS.FindingsThe authors have observed that both single and integrated MCDM methods have been used in this domain; however, single MCDM methods are dominant. Further, this review shows that most of the integrated methods use only two MCDM methods and that there has been no comparison of results obtained from different MCDM methods. After reviewing these developments and summarizing the findings, the authors propose directions for future research, including investigating and formulating strategies for specific CS initiatives, integrating three or more MCDM methods, integrating MCDM methods with optimization techniques, analyzing results from a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) perspective, reconsidering the tenets of existing theories via MCDM methods, and comparing the results of studies of CS in different kinds of economies, as well as the results of using different MCDM methods.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study that has conducted a systematic literature review to analyze applications of MCDM method...
Cohen, A, Taylor, E & Hanrahan, S 2020, 'Strong intentions but diminished impact: Following up with former participants in a sport for development and peace setting', Sport Management Review, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 671-687.
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© 2019 Sport for development and peace (SDP) scholars have stressed the need for monitor and evaluation efforts to not simply highlight positive outcomes. Potential barriers regarding successful evaluation of SDP programs are the focus on positive and biased perspectives of participants and limited long-term data. Guided by SDP and organizational capacity literature, this study aimed to evaluate an SDP program through the lens of former participants who were willing to discuss their experience and subsequent lifestyle changes. The researchers were particularly interested in the feasibility of long-term habit change through an 8-week intervention. While findings revealed an initial positive impact (e.g. fitness, eating habits, and socializing) because of the program, these results were seemingly mitigated over time due to a lack of additional programming and influence of cultural norms.
Crespo-Gonzalez, C, Benrimoj, SI, Scerri, M & Garcia-Cardenas, V 2020, 'Sustainability of innovations in healthcare: A systematic review and conceptual framework for professional pharmacy services', Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1331-1343.
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BACKGROUND:Implementation science emerged to address the challenges associated with the incorporation of evidence-based innovations into practice. Once the challenge is overcome, the ultimate goal is to achieve the sustainability of innovations to promote their continuity and long-term integration. Conceptual approaches and assessment tools have been designed to assess the sustainability of innovations in research and practice environments. However, the variability of approaches and tools available becomes a challenge for policymakers, researchers and practitioners, particularly when deciding how to evaluate the sustainability of innovations. OBJECTIVES:To identify conceptual approaches and assessment tools for the sustainability of healthcare innovations and to develop a specific discipline-based framework for the sustainability of professional pharmacy services. METHODS:A systematic literature review was conducted in January of 2019 using PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. General information regarding the conceptual approaches (based on Nilsen's classification), assessment tools and the factors affecting the sustainability of the healthcare innovations was retrieved. RESULTS:From 3123 articles screened, 132 articles were selected from which 106 conceptual approaches and 26 assessment tools were identified. Several key factors moderating the sustainability of the innovations in healthcare were identified (e.g. funding, adaptation). A framework for the sustainability of professional pharmacy services is proposed based on these factors. It presents three performance domains influencing the service sustainability (i.e. environment, social and economic). CONCLUSIONS:The identified approaches in different healthcare settings have allowed the adaptation and design of a specific framework for pharmacy. The core factors included in the proposed framework are moderators of the sustainability process and should be considered in sustainability studies and evaluations. Th...
Dang, QT, Jasovska, P & Rammal, HG 2020, 'International business-government relations: The risk management strategies of MNEs in emerging economies', Journal of World Business, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 101042-101042.
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In emerging economies where the institutional environment is weak, the level of risk faced by MNEs remains high. Extant literature recognizes the forms of risks faced by MNEs, but only a few studies have attempted to explain how firms identify and mitigate these risks. This study addressed the commercial risk management strategies of MNEs operating in Vietnam. We found that the government remained the key stakeholder and maintaining active relations with them aided MNEs’ operational success. The risk mitigation strategies employed by MNEs included managing alertness, portraying good behavior, navigating through the state of comfort, and active mediation.
Darcy, S, McKercher, B & Schweinsberg, S 2020, 'From tourism and disability to accessible tourism: a perspective article', Tourism Review, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 140-144.
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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the development of disability and tourism to the conceptualising and defining of accessible tourism.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses a limited review of the literature as its main approach.FindingsIn reviewing the development of the field from disability and tourism to accessible tourism, it became apparent that there has been a change in focus on the accessibility of the key sectors of tourism (e.g. transport, accommodation and attractions) to incorporating an embodied understanding of tourism in developing accessible destination experiences that provide an equality of offering to that of nondisabled tourists.Originality/valueThis paper makes a contribution by clearly following the development of the field from papers that only considered tourism and disability to conceptualise and define the accessible tourism field. It then goes on to identify a significant challenge due to an underlying empirical data gap through a lack of nationally and regionally collected tourism data that incorporates disability questions.
Darcy, S, Ollerton, J & Faulkner, S 2020, '“Why Can’t I Play?”: Transdisciplinary Learnings for Children with Disability’s Sport Participation', Social Inclusion, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 209-223.
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This article explores the constraints to mainstream sports participation of children with disability in community sports clubs and schools through their lived experiences and the perceptions of parents, teachers, coaches, and club officials. It does so by administering an open-ended survey instrument to a sample of participants recruited from schools, sporting facilities, and disability organizations in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. The data were analysed through a transdisciplinary conceptual framework which brought together the social model of disability (disability studies) with the leisure constraints framework (leisure studies), which have been encouraged by both academics and practitioners. The findings identified ableist and disablist practices, creating an enabled understanding of the facilitators for social inclusion. Participants perceived that interrelated intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural constraints excluded children from their desired sporting activities. Through applying the social model of disability to the leisure constraints framework, the findings and discussion showed that a great deal of what had been considered intrapersonal constraints of the child with disability could be reinterpreted as interpersonal and structural constraints through enabling socially inclusive practices. The implications are that a social model of disability brings a new social lens to understanding constraints to sport participation for children with disability and can produce effective strategies for inclusion in sport at schools and community sport clubs.
Davis, ER, Wilson, R & Dalton, B 2020, 'Another slice of PISA: an interrogation of educational cross-national attraction in Australia, Finland, Japan and South Korea', Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 309-331.
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© 2018, © 2018 British Association for International and Comparative Education. Cross-national attraction is the first stage in international policy borrowing and analysis of its indicators provides insight into shifts in educational policies. We analyse cross-national attraction within the media discourse on the OECD’s PISA in four countries: Australia, Finland, Japan and South Korea. Using the largest circulation English language newspapers in each of these countries (2001–2015), we analyse references to the other three countries, then expand the focus to tally all international references and map emerging patterns. Finland is the predominantly referenced country, with media attention that eclipses all other countries. The attraction to Finnish educational culture is focused on aspects beyond what is measured in PISA; and flourishes despite Finnish performance in PISA, which although strong is deteriorating. Although limited to English language media, this study finds complex, sometimes inconsistent and paradoxical, patterns of cross-national attraction that deserve further research.
de Vaujany, F-X, Vaast, E, Clegg, SR & Aroles, J 2020, 'Organizational memorialization: spatial history and legitimation as chiasms', Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 76-97.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its reproduction in the here-and-now of organizations and organizing.Design/methodology/approachThe authors briefly review the existing management and organization studies (MOS) literature on legitimacy, space and history; engage with the work of Merleau-Ponty to explore how organizational legitimacy is managed in time and space; and use the case of two Parisian universities to illustrate the main arguments of the paper.FindingsThe paper develops a history-based phenomenological perspective on legitimation processes constitutive of four possibilities identified by means of chiasms: heterotopic spatial legacy, thin spatial legacy, institutionalized spatial legacy and organizational spatial legacy.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors discuss the implications of this research for the neo-institutional literature on organizational legitimacy, research on organizational space and the field of management history.Originality/valueThis paper takes inspiration from the work of Merleau-Ponty on chiasms to conceptualize how the temporal layers of space and place that organizations inhabit and inherit (which we call “spatial legacies”), in the process of legitimation, evoke a sensible tenor.
Dickson, TJ, Darcy, S & Pentifallo Gadd, C 2020, 'Ensuring volunteer impacts, legacy and leveraging is not “fake news”', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 683-705.
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PurposeThis study aims to explore the legacy potential of the FIFA Women’s World Cup (FWWC) 2015, for the host communities across Canada.Design/methodology/approachThe mixed-methods study included a link to an online anonymous survey being sent to all volunteers at the FWWC that explored their prior volunteering experience, motivations for volunteering, perceived skill development and future volunteering intentions. Documents were reviewed, and key stakeholders were interviewed.FindingsThe results support previous research that mega-sport event (MSE) volunteers are typically older females with prior volunteering experience. Those most likely to indicate they wanted to volunteer more are younger volunteers without prior volunteering experience. While legacy was discussed as a desired outcome, this was not operationalised through strategic human resource strategies such as being imbedded in the position descriptions for the volunteer managers.Research limitations/implicationsAs this study was conducted in the real-world context of a sport event, the timing of the survey was determined by the organising committee.Practical implicationsMega sport events typically draw upon existing host-city social and human capital. For future event organising committees planning for and delivering a volunteer legacy may require better strategic planning and leveraging relationships with existing host-city volunteer networks. In the context of a single sport, women’s MSE, multi-venue, multi-pro...
Dickson, TJ, Darcy, S & Walker, C 2020, 'A Case of Leveraging a Mega-Sport Event for a Sport Participation and Sport Tourism Legacy: A Prospective Longitudinal Case Study of Whistler Adaptive Sports', Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 170-170.
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Sport participation legacies are often offered as reasons to host mega-sport events, yet there is little evidence to demonstrate the claim’s legitimacy, thus we examine “What did Whistler Sports do to leverage the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to facilitate a sport tourism legacy?”. Through a prospective longitudinal case study of WAS and application of the temporal extension of the socioecological framework, multiple data sources were analyzed from over a decade beginning before the event until 2019. The findings reveal the situated and embedded nature of mega-sport event legacies i.e., context. These depend upon a network of facilitators such as local, provincial, and federal policies; pre-event and post-event vision and strategies from local communities and sport organizations; the development of a pool of willing and flexible volunteers. Together these were strategically leveraged to overcome sport participation and sport tourism barriers for people with disabilities. The sport, tourism, and sport tourism experience reflected Whistler’s natural and infrastructure advantage and the needs and desires of locals and visitors with access needs that could not have occurred without the capital injection of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Leveraging the mega-sport event opportunities required leadership and a strategic vision for repositioning to a year-round program. This strategic change also opened new sport and sport tourism opportunities for current participants but importantly brought new participants and their friendship groups to Whistler over the post-event decade for year-round sustainable adaptive sport opportunities.
Domínguez Vila, T, Alén González, E & Darcy, S 2020, 'Accessibility of tourism websites: the level of countries’ commitment', Universal Access in the Information Society, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 331-346.
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© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Various initiatives have been undertaken in recent years to improve the accessibility of tourism in a large number of countries. One of the areas in which work has been done has been the inclusion and accessibility of information for all, especially for people with disabilities and other users with access needs. A focus of this work has been to the digital world, given the increasing relevance of the internet in daily life. This paper aims to determine whether the different nation states are applying appropriate standards, both under their own regulations and under those from United Nations agreements regarding accessibility to online tourism information to foster more sustainable tourism. In the study of official tourism organization website home pages of the countries contained in the World Tourism Organization reports, cluster analysis was used to identify common behaviour patterns. The main result was the need to improve the compatibility and ease of navigation of websites, as well as identifying Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea as countries that can serve as examples of good practice.
Fartaj, S-R, Kabir, G, Eghujovbo, V, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2020, 'Modeling transportation disruptions in the supply chain of automotive parts manufacturing company', International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 222, pp. 107511-107511.
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. The transportation network plays a vital role in the strategic imperative of automotive parts manufacturing companies. There is a lack of academic and practical studies, which focus solely on transportation disruption analysis in the supply chain of automotive parts manufacturing company. Moreover, very few studies have taken into account the cause and effect relationship between transportation disruption factors. The objective of this study is to analyze the critical transportation disruption factors of the supply chain of automotive parts manufacturing company and to represent the interrelationships using the best-worst (BWM) and rough strength-relation (RSR) analysis methods. The newly integrated BWM-RSR framework considers the vagueness and ambiguity in disruption factor analysis. The applicability and effectiveness of the newly developed BWM-RSR framework are demonstrated at an automotive parts manufacturing company in Oldcastle, Ontario, Canada. The results show that infrastructural bottlenecks/congestion and inadequate skilled labor are the most critical factors to the disruption of the transportation network in the automotive industry. The developed new framework can be used as an effective tool to analyze critical transportation disruption factors and examine the associated interrelationships.
Fee, A 2020, 'How host-country nationals manage the demands of hosting expatriates', Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 25-54.
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PurposeUsing job demands-resources (JD-R) theory as a conceptual apparatus, the purpose of this paper is to report an empirical exploration of the experiences of host-country national (HCN) employees when their organization hosts an expatriate assignment.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 Vietnamese HCNs who had vast experience hosting multiple self-initiated expatriates with organizational development objectives.FindingsThe study reveals previously hidden costs associated with locals’ support for expatriates, including a range of extra-role demands and more complex and stressful interpersonal interactions. These demands exceeded the current intercultural capabilities of many respondents, and while offset to some extent by their positive pre-arrival attitudes and culture-specific knowledge, led to sometimes counterproductive coping responses such as withdrawal behaviors.Research limitations/implicationsThe study extends the JD-R framework by explicating which demands and resources are pertinent to HCNs, and how these activate particular coping strategies. The cultural context of Vietnam, as both a setting for the workplace interactions and imbued in the values and assumptions of respondents, limits the study’s transferability.Practical implicationsThe findings provide guideposts for organizations in ways to offset HCNs’ hindrance demands (e.g. matching demands to current capabilities) and to encourage the use of productive coping str...
Fee, A & Gray, SJ 2020, 'Expatriates as catalysts: what and how Vietnamese locals learn from self-initiated expatriates', Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 389-416.
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PurposeIn an era when expatriates are increasingly used as strategic conduits for developing capabilities in local business units, we identify what and how host-country nationals in a developing economy learn from self-initiated expatriates whose assignments focus on organizational capacity development objectives.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews with 23 Vietnamese host-country nationals rendered a sample of 138 learning episodes for qualitative content analysis. Respondents were employed in Vietnamese government and non-government organizations and worked closely with multiple self-initiated expatriates in a variety of professional contexts.FindingsHost-country nationals develop a broad array of primarily “soft” capabilities. This learning is typically informal and vicarious in nature. While learning tends to arise incidentally through day-to-day activities, host-country nationals facilitate this by structuring their formal and informal interactions with expatriates to maximize their learning potential.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the study's exploratory design and specific context limit the transferability of our results, analysis of a sample of specific learning episodes allowed us to map “hotspots” of particular activities and contexts in which certain learning outcomes transpired.Practical implicationsOur results put into sharp focus the overlooked roles of expatriates as models (to be observed), mentors (to be consulted) and collaborators (to be partnered w...
Fee, A & Michailova, S 2020, 'How host organizations prepare for and learn from expatriate assignments', Thunderbird International Business Review, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 329-342.
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AbstractThis article reveals what goes on inside host organizations prior to and during expatriate assignments. On the basis of analyzing organizational documents and conducting 43 interviews with host country nationals (HCNs) and expatriates in 30 Vietnamese organizations that host external foreign assignments, we provide a detailed account of HCNs' experiences and unearth sophisticated preparation and management activities designed to maximize these organizations' learning. We depict what we call “a host organization lifecycle” and extract five lessons: (a) host organizations prepare carefully in advance to learn as much as possible from expatriates; (b) HCNs experience quite dramatic adjustments and burdens during expatriates' placements; (c) mutual trust between expatriates and HCNs is a prerequisite for HCNs' learning; (d) most of HCNs' learning occurs informally via interactions with expatriates or observing how they work; (e) host organization managers actively manage HCN–expatriate relationships. Our findings outline a “wish list” of practices that expatriate‐using organizations could consider deploying for expatriate assignments that focus on the benefit of the host organization' development.
Fleming, P 2020, 'Dark Academia: Despair in the Neoliberal Business School', Journal of Management Studies, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1305-1311.
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Fleming, P 2020, 'Hayek Shrugged: Why Bureaucracy Didn't Die Under Neoliberalism But Boomed Instead', New Formations, vol. 100, no. 100, pp. 114-128.
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Commentators have observed how neoliberal capitalism – contrary to the official narrative – frequently correlates with enthusiastic bureaucratisation, and perhaps has done so from its inception. Despite this acknowledgement, the precise mechanisms involved remain obscure. Focusing mainly on the writings of F. A Hayek, I argue that economic libertarianism is often contingent on a particular spirit of administration, justification for which can be found in the 'fine print' of Hayek among others. Furthermore, this counterintuitive symbiosis is realised through three institutional mechanisms, fuelling bureaucratisation in ostensibly pro-market environments. I discuss these mechanisms before exploring the implications they have for opposing the present economic regime.
Gaikwad, SK, Paul, A, Moktadir, MA, Paul, SK & Chowdhury, P 2020, 'Analyzing barriers and strategies for implementing Lean Six Sigma in the context of Indian SMEs', Benchmarking: An International Journal, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 2365-2399.
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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the barriers for implementing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and present a framework that provides prioritized strategies to overcome the barriers.Design/methodology/approachThe barriers and strategies are identified via a comprehensive literature review and validated by industry experts. The study uses the fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (fuzzy TOPSIS) to analyze the barriers and strategies for determining the prioritized list of strategies.FindingsThe findings reveal that there are sixteen barriers to LSS implementation in Indian SMEs. To overcome these barriers, this study reveals twelve strategies. The analysis shows that “effective management” is the most crucial strategy to overcome the barriers for implementing LSS in Indian SMEs.Research limitations/implicationsThis research guides SMEs practitioners to efficiently and effectively implement LSS, which, in turn, can enhance the performance of SMEs.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature by integrating the strategies with the barriers for implementing LSS in Indian SMEs. Besides, this study provides the prioritized list of strategies to overcome the barriers for implementing LSS in Indian SMEs.
Giustiniano, L, Cunha, MPE, Simpson, AV, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2020, 'Resilient Leadership as Paradox Work: Notes from COVID-19', Management and Organization Review, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 971-975.
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Godfrey, J, Wearing, SL, Schulenkorf, N & Grabowski, S 2020, 'The ‘volunteer tourist gaze’: commercial volunteer tourists’ interactions with, and perceptions of, the host community in Cusco, Peru', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 23, no. 20, pp. 2555-2571.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper presents the commodified volunteer tourist gaze through the use of a case study which contextualizes commercial volunteer tourism. Interviews undertaken with volunteer tourists in Cusco, Peru, and on-the-ground participant observation, provide insights into what we term a ‘volunteer tourist gaze’ underpinned by neo-colonial tendencies. The findings demonstrate that volunteer tourists are not passive consumers of a destination, but actively engage in a multi-sensory, embodied experience. This is evidenced in the way they describe their interactions with local people, and their views and perceptions of poverty in Cusco. However, the findings suggest that the volunteer-host interactions and experiences do little to foster cross-cultural understanding, particularly given the limitations to these interactions imposed by a significant language barrier. Instead, the commodified volunteer tourist gaze perpetuates neo-colonial discourses by emphasizing the differences between volunteer tourists from the developed world (the haves) and host communities in the Global South (the have nots).
Godsey, J, Perrott, B & Hayes, T 2020, 'Can brand theory help re‐position the brand image of nursing?', Journal of Nursing Management, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 968-975.
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AIM:The current vs desired brand position of the nursing profession is examined using brand theory. BACKGROUND:The nursing brand has a long and revered image with various stakeholder groups. However, the current image frequently represents nurses as caring advocates rather than Influential Leaders who deliver, manage and administer health care services. EVALUATION:Recent quantitative field research describes perceptions of nurses' current vs desired brand position. A perceptual map illustrated a gap on the axes of Patient-Centered Caregivers and Leaders in Healthcare. Empirical literature provided the foundation for prescriptive advice, which could address potential threats and opportunities for the brand. KEY ISSUE:Brand theory is used to describe how nurses' current image seems at odds with nurses' role in contemporary society. The largest gap on the perceptual map was on the 'Leadership Axis', suggesting more effort is needed to change perceptions of the essential leadership role of nurses in various health care systems. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT:The nursing profession needs to implement branding strategies, which close the gap between the current and desired brand positions. The central brand position of nurses as leaders should thread throughout practice, education, research and professional associations for effective brand repositioning to occur.
Guo, Y, Jasovska, P, Rammal, HG & Rose, EL 2020, 'Global mobility of professionals and the transfer of tacit knowledge in multinational service firms', Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 553-567.
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Purpose
The use of expatriates to transfer individual and organizational know-how and knowledge is a practice widely used by multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, for service firms, the mobility of employees across national borders depends on the commitments made by countries under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). In particular, the Mode 4 form of supply under GATS can limit the ability of professionals to enter a particular country and can restrict the intra-organizational transfer of knowledge in multinational service firms. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how MNEs attempt to overcome these barriers and transfer knowledge through their global network.
Design/methodology/approach
Using Nonaka and Takeuchi’s SECI model of knowledge transfer, the authors study the intra-organizational knowledge transfer practices of an Indian multinational service firm. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 key informants involved with the organization.
Findings
The company uses global teams to transfer tacit knowledge and facilitates inpatriation through an internship program that helps the firm overcome nationality requirement that restricts the movement of their managers to other countries, which in turn limits their ability to transfer knowledge in the intra-organizational setting. The company uses the services of a not-for-profit youth organization that helps recruit interns for the program and also facilitates the relationship with the Indian Government, which provides support for this initiative by reducing barriers to entry for the interns.
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This study takes the unique approach of studying barriers to movement of professionals and a firm’s strategic response. It identifies the pressures and barriers that companies face in the global economy and highlights the role of government agencies and other stakeholders in facilitating or restricting the transfer of knowledge within a firm’s international network. The...
Hansen, TT, Pedersen, DB & Foley, C 2020, 'Academic Events: An Empirically Grounded Typology and Their Academic Impact', Event Management, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 481-497.
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The meetings industry, government bodies, and scholars within tourism studies have identified the need to understand the broader impact of business events. To succeed in this endeavor, we consider it necessary to develop analytical frameworks that are sensitive to the particularities of the analyzed event, sector, and stakeholder group. In this article we focus on the academic sector and offer two connected analyses. First is an empirically grounded typology of academic events. We identify four differentiating dimensions of academic events: size, academic focus, participants, and tradition, and based on these dimensions we develop a typology of academic events that includes: congress, specialty conference, symposium, and practitioners' meeting. Secondly, we outline the academic impact of attending these four types of events. For this purpose, the concept of credibility cycles is used as an analytical framework for examining academic impact. We suggest that academic events should be conceptualized and evaluated as open marketplaces that facilitate conversion of credibility. Data were obtained from interviews with 22 researchers at three Danish universities. The study concludes that there are significant differences between the events in terms of their academic impact. Moreover, the outcome for the individual scholar depends on the investment being made. Finally, the study calls for a future research agenda on beyond tourism benefits based on interdisciplinary collaborations.
Haque, M, Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2020, 'Managing decentralized supply chain using bilevel with Nash game approach', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 266, pp. 121865-121865.
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This paper considers a multi-echelon, non-cooperative and competitive decentralized supply chain (SC) network consisting of multiple entities. The independent and disjointed entities of a decentralized SC face a major challenge in coordination and maintaining sustainability across its chain. This problem environment is not suitable with traditional monolithic modeling approaches. In this paper, a new bilevel approach is proposed, where each entity prepares a plan for multiple periods, on a rolling horizon basis, by optimizing its own objectives at the lower-level. However, due to limited information sharing between the entities from the lower-level, the dominance and Nash game strategies are applied at the upper-level, for coordinating the supply and demand in a single period. It is expected that the upper-level coordination and planning will be conducted by an independent body. The approach applies a strategy to ensure carbon reduction in transportation, by reducing the required number of vehicles to distribute the products throughout the SC. To demonstrate the usefulness of the approach, numerical analysis is provided with examples. The results of the proposed model are compared with two different approaches. A sensitivity analysis is also conducted with some of the major parameters of the model. The main contribution of this study is to ensure coordination in product distribution quantities throughout a decentralized SC network, to minimize carbon emissions through transportation, and to improve SC sustainability.
Harper, E & Wilson, R 2020, 'Work in early childhood education: Protocol of a systematic review', International Journal of Educational Research, vol. 103, pp. 101622-101622.
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Hassanli, N & Ashwell, J 2020, 'The contribution of small accommodations to a sustainable tourism industry', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 261-264.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Given the central role of small accommodations to the tourism industry in Australia, this study investigated the drivers and challenges of small accommodation providers (SAPs) to engage in sustainability practices. In-depth interviews were undertaken with accommodation providers in the wine region of McLaren Vale in South Australia. The main drivers in implementing sustainability were identified as cost reduction competitiveness, societal legitimization and lifestyle-values. Key challenges included personal, financial and operational. Moreover, SAPs identified an opportunity to influence guests’ sustainable behaviour, but their limited knowledge and a concern for a negative impact on guest experience prevented them from implementing relevant strategies. This research letter contributes to the literature on small accommodation lodgings and provides practical recommendations to local agencies wanting to support small accommodations in implementing sustainable practices.
Hassanli, N, Walters, T & Friedmann, R 2020, 'Can cultural festivals function as counterspaces for migrants and refugees? The case of the New Beginnings Festival in Sydney', Leisure Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 165-180.
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Despite the recognised benefits of cultural festivals, it is still unclear how they may assist marginalised groups in mitigating the adverse effects of marginalisation. Informed by the Counterspace Framework, this paper seeks to address the gap at the nexus of leisure, events and marginalisation by considering the case of the New Beginnings Festival in Sydney. Using hybrid thematic analysis and based on data collected through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis, we argue that the festival operates as a counterspace for attendees through the processes of narrative identity work, acts of resistance, and direct relational transactions. First, the festival validated experiences of rejection and marginalisation by attendees, and at the same time celebrated migrants and refugees by showcasing their capabilities/achievements. This lead to attendees’ sense of affirmation and acceptance. Second, the freedom to express themselves in culturally meaningful ways helped bolster the attendees’ self-concept. Third, social and institutional support, and leadership roles such as mentoring and volunteering were made possible at the festival, which enhanced attendees’ social capital in empowering ways. In addition, we highlight the importance of location for events as counterspaces. Our findings contribute to both the critical event studies and the counterspace literature.
Heizmann, H, Mastio, EA & Ahuja, S 2020, 'Stuck in defensive professionalism: Undermining organizational change in an intellectual property law firm', Journal of Professions and Organization, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 117-133.
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AbstractThis article examines how professionals employed in professional organizations make sense of the disruption of their work. Based on a qualitative study of an Australian intellectual property (IP) law firm, we shed light on the ways in which the discursive practices of professionals may undermine change in professional organizations. We identify three defensive strategies of IP professionals (denial, regression, and projection) resulting from the inability to resolve conflicts between market-based pressures and their entrenched understandings of professional work. In doing so, we show how professionals can become ‘stuck’ in defensive responses that may further marginalize the role of professional organizations in society. These findings call into question overly deterministic, radical accounts of organizational change that do not take into account the contextual embeddedness of professional organizations.
Jia, X, Chowdhury, M, Prayag, G & Hossan Chowdhury, MM 2020, 'The role of social capital on proactive and reactive resilience of organizations post-disaster', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 48, pp. 101614-101614.
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd With disruptive events of higher magnitudes increasing globally, building resilience has become a priority for many organizations. Existing studies have prioritized the contribution of internal factors to building organizational resilience. This study examines social capital emanating from supply chain partners as an external factor building organizational resilience. Using social capital theory, we develop a conceptual model that postulates three dimensions of social capital (cognitive, structural and relational) as antecedents of both proactive and reactive organizational resilience. The model is tested on a sample of Chinese firms that survived the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The findings show that not all facets of social capital contribute to the development of organizational resilience. While stronger structural capital improves proactive organizational resilience, relational capital only improves reactive organizational resilience. The findings have both theoretical and managerial implications for post-disaster resilience building.
Joachim, G, Schulenkorf, N, Schlenker, K & Frawley, S 2020, 'Design thinking and sport for development: enhancing organizational innovation', Managing Sport and Leisure, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 175-202.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Rationale/purpose: To determine if the field of sport for development (SFD) presents opportunities for the employment of design thinking approaches toward enhancing organizational innovation. Design/methodology/approach: We undertook a scoping study to determine if and how SFD research and practice aligns with five established themes of design thinking practice. Findings: Design thinking indicators are present across the breadth of SFD research. A total of 14 SFD articles display total thematic alignment with design thinking practice, particularly in regard to five key indicators of such alignment: (a) deep user understanding, (b) diversity of perspectives, (c) testing for user feedback, (d) futuristic thinking, and (e) bias toward action. Practical implications: Five key indicators represent logical points of entry for the employment of design thinking in SFD research and practice. Research contribution: Design thinking has become popular in the broad field of management, but this is the first study of the concept in the sport management domain.
Karuppiah, K, Sankaranarayanan, B, Ali, SM, Chowdhury, P & Paul, SK 2020, 'An integrated approach to modeling the barriers in implementing green manufacturing practices in SMEs', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 265, pp. 121737-121737.
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Keane, L, Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N, Negin, J, Ding, D, Bauman, A, Jegasothy, E & Richards, J 2020, 'Personal, Social, and Environmental Mediators Associated With Increased Recreational Physical Activity in Women and Girls in the Kingdom of Tonga', Journal of Physical Activity and Health, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1100-1108.
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Background: The purpose of this paper was to identify personal, social, and environmental mediators of recreational physical activity (PA) in a 6-month netball-based intervention for women and girls in Tonga.Methods: Tonga Netball’s “low-engagement village program” was implemented in 10 villages and aimed to increase the recreational PA levels in women and girls through a comprehensive, structured community-level netball program addressing key barriers to participation. In a mixed-methods approach, these mediating barriers were identified through qualitative interviews based on the socioecological model. Quantitative measures for mediators and recreational PA were then developed, and data from 301 women and girls were collected. Standard mediation analyses methods were then applied.Results: Program participation appeared to significantly increase PA levels. Statistically significant personal mediators were body issues, preferring competitions, and clothing. Social mediators were support from sports council, community leaders, friends, and church. Environmental mediators were travel time and access to balls, bibs, and umpires.Conclusion: A comprehensive community-level program addressing key participation barriers can increase recreational PA among women and girls in Tonga. Triangulating these results with mediation analyses of variables on the causal pathway can strengthen our understanding of causation and inform funding prioritization for critical program components in similar contexts.
Klettner, A, Clarke, T, Atherton, A & Winterford, K 2020, 'Gender diversity along the career pipeline', Governance Directions, vol. 72, no. 2.
Krishnan, R, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C & Arshinder, K 2020, 'Redesigning a food supply chain for environmental sustainability – An analysis of resource use and recovery', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 242, pp. 118374-118374.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Food supply will need to increase by around 70% from its current levels in order to meet the world population growth of 9.6 billion by 2050. Food waste is the biggest challenge in global food security, wherein approximately 20–30% of food waste occurs in the post-harvest stage of the food supply chain (FSC) in developing countries. This food waste generates significant negative environmental effects in addition to the unnecessary usage (and wastage) of resources consumed in producing the wasted food. Whilst India is the major producer and exporter of many agricultural crops, there is a lack of research that evaluates the environmental impact of the Indian FSCs. The environmental impact of the same product varies according to the resources consumed and so it is important that the environmental impact of individual supply chains be considered. Also, there is a lack of studies that uses the result of environmental impact assessment to identify the operational and resource inefficiencies in FSC and develop a framework for sustainable FSC. Thus, this study aims to identify operational and resource inefficiencies present in FSC through environmental impact assessment and propose a framework for redesigning the FSC to improve environmental sustainability. Life cycle assessment approach is used for assessing the environmental impact. This framework has been applied to a mango food supply chain.
Lan, J, Huo, Y, Cai, Z, Wong, C, Chen, Z & Lam, W 2020, 'Uncovering the impact of triadic relationships within a team on job performance: an application of balance theory in predicting feedback‐seeking behaviour', Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 654-686.
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Although a great deal of knowledge has accumulated about dyadic relationships (i.e., leader–member exchange (LMX) or team–member exchange (TMX)) within a team, employee behaviours that involve triadic relationships among focal employees, leaders, and teammates have seldom been investigated. Using balance theory, which describes triadic relationships from a power dependence perspective, in the current study, we explore how the interplay of LMX, TMX, and peers’ LMX jointly impacts employees’ feedback‐seeking behaviour (FSB) and subsequent job performance. By conducting a multilevel moderated polynomial regression on three‐wave, multi‐source data from 147 team members and their leaders (from 45 work teams), we found that the incongruence between LMX and TMX facilitates FSB when peers’ LMX or task interdependence is high. We also found an asymmetrical incongruence effect concerning the way in which individuals are more likely to seek feedback when LMX is worse than TMX, compared with when LMX is better than TMX. This differential effect is stronger when peers’ LMX or task interdependence is high. The interplay of LMX, TMX, peers’ LMX, and task interdependence eventually has an indirect effect on job performance through FSB. The results from a follow‐up study of 270 employees from 77 teams further confirm our predictions about the mechanism of balance theory. Specifically, the results indicate that when peers’ LMX is high, the incongruence between LMX and TMX decreases employees’ psychological safety.Practitioner pointsOur study highlights the importance of studying the triadic (LMX, TMX, and peers’ LMX) rather than dyadic relationships in a work team.This study demonstrates that imbalanced relationship triads can influence employees in a positive way (i.e.,...
Ma, D, Fee, A, Faulkner, S & Scerri, M 2020, 'Understanding Why Knowledge is not (Always) Evenly Shared in Multinational Enterprises', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2020, no. 1, pp. 19323-19323.
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McCauley, B, Nguyen, THT, McDonald, M & Wearing, S 2020, 'Digital gaming culture in Vietnam: an exploratory study', Leisure Studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 372-386.
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Moktadir, MA, Dwivedi, A, Rahman, A, Chiappetta Jabbour, CJ, Paul, SK, Sultana, R & Madaan, J 2020, 'An investigation of key performance indicators for operational excellence towards sustainability in the leather products industry', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 3331-3351.
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AbstractOperational excellence refers to a mixed management structure that enhances the productivity of an industry by exercising the best practices and efforts for continuous improvement. In order to achieve sustainability, operational excellence initiatives are practiced by different organizations. The intent is to investigate how to perform the practices of operational excellence towards sustainability in industries. In the existing literature, some studies investigated key performance indicators (KPIs) for other domains that are not readily applicable in the background of an emerging economy, principally for the leather products industry. To fulfill these research gaps, this study contributes to the operational excellence literature by recognizing the KPIs of operational excellence towards sustainability by examining the peer‐reviewed scientific articles and through expert's suggestions. The identified KPIs are segregated into six dominant categories and 27 sub‐KPIs in the field of leather products industry. Further, the prioritization of the KPIs is established by adopting the best‐worst method (BWM), which involves simple pairwise comparison matrices compared with other multicriteria decision making techniques. The findings indicate that the KPIs under the “Management” category are at the highest priority. It is anticipated that the results originated from the study will support the expert's to appropriately recognize the significant KPIs and drop insignificant KPIs for successful operational excellence towards sustainability practices in the supply chain of the emerging economy.
Moktadir, MA, Kumar, A, Ali, SM, Paul, SK, Sultana, R & Rezaei, J 2020, 'Critical success factors for a circular economy: Implications for business strategy and the environment', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 3611-3635.
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AbstractEco‐efficiency and resource optimization for business strategy and the environment can be achieved by the circular economy (CE) practices in supply chains (SCs). The leather industry is a significant industrial contributor to the economic growth of some countries, but at the same time, it leads to tremendous environmental pollution. This research focuses on the identification and evaluation of critical success factors (CSFs) needed in the business strategy development of CE practices as well as to minimize environmental pollution in leather industry SCs. The CSFs are identified via a comprehensive literature review and are validated by experts' opinions. The validated CSFs are further analyzed using the best–worst method (BWM) and the decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL). The BWM is used to identify the weights of the CSFs, and DEMATEL is used to determine the cause–effect relationship between the CSFs. The findings show that “leadership and top management commitment” is the most important CSF. Six CSFs are classified as causal towards CE practices: “leadership and top management commitment,” “strong legislation towards CE practices,” “ecological scarcity of resources,” “knowledge of CE practices,” “funding support for R&D from the government,” and “competitor pressure on CE practices.” The findings of this study can help managers in the leather industry implement CE practices in their existing SCs to minimize waste.
Moktadir, MA, Rahman, T, Ali, SM, Nahar, N & Paul, SK 2020, 'Examining barriers to reverse logistics practices in the leather footwear industry', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 293, no. 2, pp. 715-746.
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© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Reverse logistics (RL) is gradually becoming more important to manufacturing companies through environmental awareness, competitiveness, and environmental regulations. In the leather footwear industry of Bangladesh, it is possible to recycle and reuse waste, meaning a reverse logistics system could increase return-on-investment and give a competitive advantage. To date, studies on barriers to RL implementation have been conducted in other countries and in other domains, leaving a research gap in RL barrier analyses in the leather footwear industry. There are many obstacles to implementing RL in a developing country like Bangladesh; examining these barriers is a crucial research issue. This paper identifies RL barriers through (1) an extent literature review, (2) advice from Bangladeshi industry experts under the Delphi study, and (3) ranking RL barriers using the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process. The results indicate that, of the barriers investigated, the ‘knowledge and support’ category seems to be most critical. A lack of interest and support from top-level management—related to ‘knowledge and support’ issues—appears to be the major obstacle for RL implementation in the Bangladeshi leather footwear industry. These findings will help the Bangladeshi leather footwear industry, as well as other industries in Bangladesh, to understand the nature of each barrier and overcome the complexity of RL implementation in supply chains. This study will also assist decision-makers in making certain strategic policies. Future studies may contribute to the life cycle assessment and engineering of recycled and reused footwear.
Morgan, A, Taylor, T & Adair, D 2020, 'Sport event sponsorship management from the sponsee’s perspective', Sport Management Review, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 838-851.
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© 2020 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Sponsorship plays a critical role in the delivery of major sport events. To date, the majority of sponsorship research has focused on the sponsors’ perspective or consumer responses. Drawing upon brand alliance literature and relationship marketing theory, this paper discusses learnings from the management of sponsor-sponsee relationships at a major sport event. We provide insights from the sponsee (i.e., the event) perspective: this is intended to further our understanding of relationship management in the context of event sponsorship, as well as providing practical information for both event industry and sport industry practitioners. This case study produced three main findings in terms of relational effectiveness: clear and compatible strategy, development of positive inter-organisational culture and inter-personal relationships, and stability. Each of these attributes are key to successful and effective sponsorship management.
Mount, MP, Clegg, SR & Pitsis, TS 2020, 'Conceptualizing the de–materializing characteristics of internal inclusion in crowdsourced open strategy', Long Range Planning, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 101986-101986.
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The increasing ubiquity of interactive technologies such as crowdsourcing is one of the major forces underpinning the emerging concept of open strategy. The large-scale interactive functionality afforded by such technologies offers unparalleled possibilities for including actors across the entire organization in co-creative efforts to respond to strategic issues or shape the organization's strategy. However, the ability of all organizational actors to engage in the production and co-development of strategy ideas, which together constitute inclusion in open strategy, is hindered by the highly politicized, often secretive and organizationally complex arena through which strategy unfolds. In this conceptual paper, we address this issue by drawing on the strategy tools-in-use framework to explore the material characteristics of crowdsourcing that de-materialize the material barriers to inclusion in open strategy. Drawing on the information systems literature, we argue that characteristics of anonymity, parallelism, group memory, process structuring and information processing are important material enablers of inclusion in open strategy.
Ninan, J, Mahalingam, A & Clegg, S 2020, 'Power and Strategies in the External Stakeholder Management of Megaprojects: A Circuitry Framework', Engineering Project Organization Journal, vol. 9, no. 1.
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Infrastructure megaprojects can cause considerable inconvenience to external stakeholders such as project communities, stakeholders in lands and stakeholders in existing services. Managing these external stakeholders is difficult as they interact with the project across permeable boundaries, are unaccountable to the requirements of the project and cannot be governed with contractual instruments or conformance to standards, as is the case with internal stakeholders. Hence the project team must resort to other strategies to manage these stakeholders. There is at present little other than scattered accounts of the use of these strategies in the literature. What is missing is a framework to explain how such strategies work to manage external stakeholders. We use organizational power theories drawn from frameworks stressing both the dimensions and the circuits of power to understand how strategy and power interact in the process of managing external stakeholders. This research uses the case study of a metro rail project in India compiled from 30 semi-structured interviews, 168 news media articles along with their 446 user comments, and 640 social media tweets along with 435 community comments. Using a qualitative research methodology, we highlight relations of persuading, framing and hegemonizing strategies employed for managing the external stakeholders in the project. Covert power-based framing and hegemonizing strategies shape the visible overt power-based persuading strategies employed to manage external stakeholders.
Ninan, J, Mahalingam, A, Clegg, S & Sankaran, S 2020, 'ICT for external stakeholder management: sociomateriality from a power perspective', Construction Management and Economics, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 840-855.
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External stakeholder support is critical to the success of megaprojects, necessitating strategic engagement, often using Information and Communications Technology (ICT). We conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with a megaproject team and analysed their social media communications with the project community. The findings show three ICT practices used for managing external stakeholders: visualisation, simulation and social mediatisation. Taking a sociomateriality lens we demonstrate how these practices are used for diverse unintended uses to manage external stakeholders. Anchored in a dimensions of power framework, we discuss how these ICT practices were strategically used for persuading, framing and hegemonizing external stakeholders in megaprojects. Theoretically, we highlight the role of ICT for managing external stakeholders over the current use of improving the competitive advantage of internal stakeholders. Practically, social media is used to articulate practices in all the strategic roles, positioning it in a role as a critical ICT tool for external stakeholder management in infrastructure megaprojects.
Paul, A, Moktadir, MA & Paul, SK 2020, 'An innovative decision-making framework for evaluating transportation service providers based on sustainable criteria', International Journal of Production Research, vol. 58, no. 24, pp. 7334-7352.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Evaluating transportation service providers is an applied and multi-criteria decision-making problem. To ensure supply chain sustainability, it is important to consider all sustainable criteria for assessing and evaluating transport service providers. This paper aims to develop a new decision-making framework to evaluate transport service providers considering sustainable criteria from economic, environmental, social and operational aspects. The decision-making framework integrates both qualitative expert opinion and quantitative best-worst method (BWM) and VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje (VIKOR) method. The developed framework contributes to the academic literature by expanding the knowledge in supply chain sustainability by considering all possible sustainable criteria and integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods for evaluating transport service providers. This study also contributes to practice by developing a decision support tool, by which decision-makers can make an accurate, systematic and prompt decision to identify and assess sustainable criteria and to evaluate the priority of different transport service providers.
Paul, SK & Chowdhury, P 2020, 'Strategies for Managing the Impacts of Disruptions During COVID-19: an Example of Toilet Paper', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 283-293.
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Due to the recent pandemic of coronavirus, known as the COVID-19 outbreak, the supply chains have been impacted most significantly. Manufacturers of certain items have experienced a substantial increase in demand, and on the other hand, raw materials supply, to produce those items, has reduced because of supply failure. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes some strategies to improve service level during an extraordinary pandemic outbreak, such as COVID-19, for the most wanted products such as toilet paper. This study considers meeting the increased demand of the customers for an essential product of daily life like toilet paper during a pandemic is beyond the traditional economic objective, i.e., increase profit, of the manufacturers. Instead, this should be more about the social responsibility of all the manufactures to ensure that they can serve more customers. Motivated by this and taking toilet paper as an example of the product, we first analyzed the current scenario of the manufacturing and the demand for the product and then proposed some strategies to deal with this unprecedented risk and analyzed the results. We have compared the results, using hypothetical data, between the current scenario and proposed strategies. The result shows that sharing information and resources from all manufacturers to produce under a single brand, emergency sourcing, producing basic quality items, and packing in the smallest sizes have a significant positive impact on the service level. This paper first investigates the strategies for a high-demand and essential item during a pandemic situation and proposes strategies to deal with this unique, extraordinary disruption.
Paul, SK, Ali, SM & Moktadir, MA 2020, 'Guest editorial', Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 115-116.
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Pedras, L, Taylor, T & Frawley, S 2020, 'Responses to multi-level institutional complexity in a national sport federation', Sport Management Review, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 482-497.
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© 2019 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand National Sport Federations are responsible for governing all aspects of a sport within their respective countries. In developing and promoting their sport National Federations must respond to multi-level complexity arising from internal stakeholder needs and commercial, government and social demands. While organisational complexity responses have been extensively researched, little of this work has considered the unique positioning of sport federations. Drawing on the theoretical perspective of institutional logics and complexity, the authors adopted a case study approach to investigate Triathlon Australia's response to its complex operating environment, conducting 18 in-depth semi-structured interviews with current and former board members, chief executives, senior managers, and government representatives responsible for national sport policy and funding. Interview data were complemented with an examination of Triathlon Australia's annual reports and Australian government policy documents (1998–2016 period). Four themes and several organisational responses’ themes emerged from the inductive and iterated thematic data analysis: (a) external complexity – alignment, diversification, transcendence, negotiation; (b) interstitial complexity – empathy, formalisation, collaboration, specialisation; (c) internal complexity – division, balance, leverage; and (d) emotions – connection, harness. Driven by quasi-insolvency and admission into the Olympic programme, and national government policy requirements for funding, Triathlon Australia responded to its complex environment by embracing all logics, designs and agendas, unravelling new ways to solve or mitigate it via hybrid responses. Implications for both theory and practice are outlined.
Rabbi, M, Ali, SM, Kabir, G, Mahtab, Z & Paul, SK 2020, 'Green Supply Chain Performance Prediction Using a Bayesian Belief Network', Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1101-1101.
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Green supply chain management (GSCM) has emerged as an important issue to lessen the impact of supply chain activities on the natural environment, as well as reduce waste and achieve sustainable growth of a company. To understand the effectiveness of GSCM, performance measurement of GSCM is a must. Monitoring and predicting green supply chain performance can result in improved decision-making capability for managers and decision-makers to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This paper identifies and analyzes various green supply chain performance measures and indicators. A probabilistic model is proposed based on a Bayesian belief network (BBN) for predicting green supply chain performance. Eleven green supply chain performance indicators and two green supply chain performance measures are identified through an extensive literature review. Using a real-world case study of a manufacturing industry, the methodology of this model is illustrated. Sensitivity analysis is also performed to examine the relative sensitivity of green supply chain performance to each of the performance indicators. The outcome of this research is expected to help managers and practitioners of GSCM improve their decision-making capability, which ultimately results in improved overall organizational performance.
Rhodes, C & Fleming, P 2020, 'Forget political corporate social responsibility', Organization, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 943-951.
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We argue that political corporate social responsibility (PCSR), while hailed by many as a solution to societal problems not dealt with by government, reflects both a triumph of neoliberal corporate power and a harbinger of democracy’s demise. Drawing on the remarkably PCSR-like – declarations of BlackRock CEO and billionaire Larry Fink, we demonstrate how scholarly PCSR is suspiciously compatible with corporate deregulation and privatisation of the public sphere. Our article recommends scholars abandon PCSR when critically evaluating corporate domination and democratic alternatives to it in the neoliberal era.
Roy, S, Das, M, Ali, SM, Raihan, AS, Paul, SK & Kabir, G 2020, 'Evaluating strategies for environmental sustainability in a supply chain of an emerging economy', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 262, pp. 121389-121389.
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Saha, AK, Paul, A, Azeem, A & Paul, SK 2020, 'Mitigating partial-disruption risk: A joint facility location and inventory model considering customers’ preferences and the role of substitute products and backorder offers', Computers & Operations Research, vol. 117, pp. 104884-104884.
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Schulenkorf, N, Edwards, D & Hergesell, A 2020, 'Guiding qualitative inquiry in sport-for-development: The sport in development settings (SPIDS) research framework', Journal of Sport for Development, vol. 8, no. 14, pp. 53-69.
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The burgeoning field of sport-for-development (SFD) is witnessing a steady increase in experience-related empirical investigations. To support academics-and in particular young and emerging scholars-with a rigorous framework for investigating social and cultural phenomena in different SFD contexts, we propose the process-oriented sport in development settings (SPIDS) research framework. SPIDS represents a guiding framework that advocates a qualitative approach to researching SFD projects in which multiple methods are combined for a holistic in-depth investigation. In this paper, we apply practical examples from the SFD field to the SPIDS framework and discuss its individual sections in a step-by-step manner. Specific focus is placed on aspects of reflection and reflexivity as distinctly important and underpinning aspects of qualitative SFD research.
Schweinsberg, S & McManus, P 2020, 'Coal seam gas: a space‐based perspective', Geographical Research, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 24-33.
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AbstractCoal seam gas and other unconventional gas industries have often struggled to develop a social licence to operate in surrounding communities, frequently resulting in the emergence of broad opposition coalitions and legal challenges. In this article, the authors explore the relational aspects of coal seam gas's space‐based setting with reference to Keith Halfacree's three‐fold model of rural space. Applying this model to coal seam gas development in New South Wales' Hunter Valley, we argue that it is only by understanding the so‐called total space that efforts can be undertaken to promote the more inclusive stakeholder collaboration, which is a prerequisite for achieving shared value for industry and society.
Schweinsberg, S, Darcy, S & Beirman, D 2020, '‘Climate crisis’ and ‘bushfire disaster’: Implications for tourism from the involvement of social media in the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 43, pp. 294-297.
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Schweinsberg, S, McManus, P, Darcy, S & Wearing, S 2020, '‘Drought tourism’ as compassion', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 83, pp. 102843-102843.
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Australia is experiencing a drought that for many farmers is the “worst they've experienced in their lifetime … the worst in 400 years” (Bedo, 2018). The negative effects of drought on rural communities is well documented (Edwards, Gray, & Hunter, 2015), as is the potential for knock-on effects to impact on the viability of rural communities, tourism destinations and their constituent industries (van Dijk et al., 2013). In spite of this, however, there is also recognition of a role for tourism in the promotion of rural community resilience (Gibson & Gordon, 2018). In Australia, many regions affected by drought are endeavouring to portray themselves from a tourism perspective as “open for business” (Ennion, 2019).With the media attempting to raise the profile of the drought affected regions and communities (e.g. Reardon, 2019), the focus of this paper is to consider media's opportunity to frame and promote a different type of tourist engagement with drought. Higgins Desbiolles (2006) has argued that tourism discourse needs to look beyond its industrial nature and instead also explore tourism's role in ensuring the wider public good. Forms of tourism including volunteer tourism have been recognised for their potential to aid the plight of the disadvantaged (Wearing & McGehee, 2013). Drawing on a representation of volunteer tourism in a drought-affected region (see Power, 2018), this paper will consider the role of the media in promoting a richer and deeper host-guest connection.
Shin, NR, Cohen, A & Peachey, JW 2020, 'Advancing the sport for development field: Perspectives of practitioners on effective organizational management', Journal of Sport for Development, vol. 8, no. 14, pp. 36-52.
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perspectives of SFD practitioners on how SFD organizations can be more effectively managed for sustainability and meaningful impact. With a goal to respond to the call that SFD research should reflect on its effectiveness and the managerial direction in which it is going, we engaged with a variety of SFD practitioners to seek out their voices as well as to illuminate their reflections on and inputs to the field. Thirty practitioners from 29 SFD organizations participated in the study. Practitioners' advice for effectively managing SFD organizations included enhancing sustainability, having a passion for sport and SFD, gaining experience before taking action, engaging in professional training, establishing academic partnerships, developing a professional and entrepreneurial mindset, and utilizing online resources. Practical implications, recommendations, and future research directions are discussed.
Stephens, AM & Sandberg, J 2020, 'How the practice of clustering shapes cluster emergence', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 596-609.
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Stronach, M & Adair, D 2020, 'Swimming for Their Lives: PALAWA WOMEN OF LUTRUWITA (VAN DIEMEN’S LAND)1', Sporting Traditions, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 47-70.
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for eons, the palawa people had dynamic and productive relationships with water systems in lutruwita. Abundant clean water provided Aboriginal communities with sustenance, and aquatic animal life offered a ready food supply. The palawa women fished, dived and hunted waterways, thereby assuming a primary role in the procurement of marine life for consumption. Swimming expertise was, therefore, an occupational requirement for the palawa women. This paper strengthens the growing body of evidence of the profound relationships that Indigenous Australians once had with aquatic environments. By focusing on the crucial role of palawa women, the paper adds to an emerging body of evidence that Indigenous women not only expert hunters but also superb swimmers and divers. Concurrently, stories of two revered palawa women — Wauba Debar and Truganinni — are canvased. While there is now scant knowledge about the palawa women, there are fleeting glimpses via contemporary observers who marvelled at their aquatic skills.
Sugden, JT, Kanemasu, Y & Adair, D 2020, 'Indo-Fijian women and sportive activity: A critical race feminism approach', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 767-787.
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There are no reliable statistics about female participation in Fijian sport, yet it is well known by locals (though not widely understood) that engagement in sportive activities is rare among Indo-Fijian girls and women. This paper is the first attempt to explore how and why that is so. That said, there is an important caveat: we are not insisting that sportive activities are an inherent good. Indeed, for some cultural groups, Western-invented competitive sport may be of no interest; similarly, tangential forms of human movement, such as recreational pursuits like cycling or gym sessions, may be just as uninspiring. In that sense, the main thrust of our inquiry is the sportive experiences of Indo-Fijian female athletes, yet we have also sought feedback from those charged with the responsibility of managing sportive programmes. These combined perspectives are intended to provide a preliminary entree into the much larger – hitherto unexplored – question of what attitudes, opportunities and constraints are associated with sportive activities for Indo-Fijian girls and women. The paper adopts a critical race feminism framework: the goal was to accentuate females of colour (in this case Indo-Fijian women) by hearing their voices and, with their permission, reporting what they had to say. The paper nonetheless provides an adaptation to critical race feminism theory: it also engaged with individuals – whether women or men – charged with the responsibility of managing sportive activities. In that sense, we were interested in individual agency and experience on the part of athletic Indo-Fijian women, but also wanted to understand how (or if) local sport administrators understood ethnic diversity among female athletes, including – in our case – the involvement (or otherwise) of Indo-Fijian females.
Sugden, JT, Schulenkorf, N, Adair, D & Frawley, S 2020, 'The role of sport in reflecting and shaping group dynamics: The “intergroup relations continuum” and its application to Fijian rugby and soccer', Sport Management Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 271-283.
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© 2019 A significant body of knowledge exists around the role of intergroup relations in sport for development and peace (SFDP). However, while numerous SFDP researchers have investigated overt conflict, scholars have typically overlooked the varied nature of intergroup relations in comparatively stable SFDP environments. In addressing that issue, the authors explore intergroup relations in the context of Fiji, a country which in recent years has moved from a society characterized by the politics of coup d'état to democratic government and relatively peaceful social relations. That said, Fiji has long been shaped by a fundamental cultural divide between Indigenous Fijians (iTaukei) and Fijians of Indian ancestry (Indo-Fijians): this is reflected in the de facto separatism between these groups in relation to their role in rugby union and Association football (soccer). The authors present a qualitative framework—the Intergroup Relations Continuum (IRC)—by which to map intergroup relations as they apply in Fiji according to identity, ethnicity and sport. While the IRC is applied here in a Fijian context, the model is intended to be generalizable, aiming to provide a practical instrument for researchers, sport managers, policymakers and local stakeholders. The goal is to allow them to visually illustrate group affinities, rivalries, and sensibilities in terms of collective relationships that characterize sport and society.
Svensson, PG & Cohen, A 2020, 'Innovation in sport for development and peace', Managing Sport and Leisure, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 138-145.
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The field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) has evolved since the Magglingen Declaration in 2003, which formally recognized sport as a useful means for promoting social change. Today, organizations operating grassroots SDP initiatives are found in more than 120 countries (Svensson & Woods, 2017) and the field includes stakeholder groups from across a wide range of different sectors such as the nonprofit community, government affiliated programs, and private corporations. Additionally, SDP programming is utilized across a broad spectrum of global issues ranging from health to gender equality to peace-building.
Taqi, HMM, Ahmed, HN, Paul, S, Garshasbi, M, Ali, SM, Kabir, G & Paul, SK 2020, 'Strategies to Manage the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Supply Chain: Implications for Improving Economic and Social Sustainability', Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 22, pp. 9483-9483.
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This paper aims to identify the negative impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on supply chains and propose strategies to deal with the impacts in the context of the readymade garment (RMG) industry supply chain of an emerging economy: Bangladesh. To achieve the aims, a methodological framework is proposed through a literature review, expert inputs, and a decision-aid tool, namely the grey-based digraph-matrix method. A total of 10 types of negative impacts and 22 strategic measures to tackle the impacts were identified based on the literature review and expert inputs. Then, the grey-based digraph-matrix was applied for modeling the strategic measures based on their influence to deal with the impacts. Findings reveal that the strategies “manufacturing flexibility”, “diversify the source of supply”, and “develop backup suppliers” have significant positive consequences for managing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the RMG supply chain. The findings help industrial managers recover from supply chain disruptions by identifying and classifying the impacts and strategies required to manage the major supply chain disturbances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a theoretical contribution, this study is one of few initial attempts to evaluate the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak and the strategies to deal with the impacts in the supply chain context.
Veal, AJ 2020, 'Is there enough leisure time? Leisure studies, work-life balance, the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom', World Leisure Journal, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 89-113.
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© 2019, © 2019 World Leisure Organization. In economically advanced countries in recent years, working hours of many full-time employees have been static or increasing and there has been talk of people suffering from a “time squeeze”. Researchers in the field of leisure studies have not featured strongly in debates surrounding this issue, having generally shown little interest in the work-leisure time relationships since the 1970s, being preoccupied instead with leisure activity, meaning and experience. However, calls for reduced working hours have been forthcoming from other sources, such as feminists, economists, critical theorists and environmentalists. In this paper it is proposed that leisure studies scholars re-engage with this issue using the Marxian concepts of the “realm of necessity” and the “realm of freedom” as an analytical device.
Veal, AJ 2020, 'Planning for open space and recreation', Australian Planner, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 37-47.
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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Recent decades have seen efforts by open space/recreation planners to provide an alternative to traditional population-ratio and area-percentage planning standards. Traditional standards have been criticised for their ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach and their failure to take account of increasing residential densities. This paper evaluates two of the alternatives which have emerged: the catchment access based standard (CABS) and demand-based planning. The CABS is found to be just a variation on traditional standards. Published demand-based approaches are found to lack methodological detail and are based on a relatively passive policy stance. In contrast, state and federal governments have begun to adopt a more active stance in setting targets to increase community sport/recreation participation levels, based particularly on health-based criteria. It is argued that participation targets could also form the focus of local planning, especially in the context of a proposed coordinated local-state-federal planning framework.
Ville, S, Wright, C & Philp, J 2020, 'Correction to: Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century', Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 377-378.
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Ville, S, Wright, C & Philp, J 2020, 'Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century', Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 345-375.
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Wearing, S, Beirman, D & Grabowski, S 2020, 'Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 80, pp. 102802-102802.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd There is limited research published on the significance of volunteer tourism in assisting host communities in the recovery of a tourism destination and its industry after a disaster. Our paper addresses this research gap with reference to a case study of Nepal's tourism recovery after the country's 2015 earthquake. We argue that a clear post disaster volunteer tourism framework could validate volunteer tourism's potential role to ensure that communities do not miss out on any form of assistance that may be of use in re-establishing destination or community lifestyle. Our paper provides an initial exploratory understanding of how post disaster volunteer tourism might be effective; it uses a disaster management framework to conceptualise the phenomenon.
Wearing, S, McDonald, M, Schweinsberg, S, Chatterton, P & Bainbridge, T 2020, 'Exploring tripartite praxis for the REDD + forest climate change initiative through community based ecotourism', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 377-393.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is a United Nations programme initiated in 2008 with the aim of mitigating climate change through the preservation of the world’s existing forest stocks. One of the challenges in its successful implementation has been community involvement in its design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The purpose of this study is to assess what REDD + can learn from the experience of Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET), which operates under many of the same conditions. A critical review of the related literature using the Scopus database was undertaken using three search strings including “REDD+” (2,913 listings), “community-based ecotourism” (113 listings) and “REDD + and tourism” (6 listings) to identify the variables and themes related to each. Despite the significant increase in the number of publications on REDD + since 2008, only one was specifically related to ecotourism. We argue that CBET understood as a form of social capital can function as an enabling platform for REDD+, in particular its implementation of international conservation policy by working with local communities/indigenous peoples and business stakeholders, referred to here as the “tripartite praxis”. We demonstrate how CBET can act as a basis from which to guide internationally driven incentive-based conservation policy and community entrepreneurship within a social capital framework.
Wei, Q, Li, WH, De Sisto, M & Gu, J 2020, 'What types of top management teams' experience matter to the relationship between political hazards and foreign subsidiary performance?', Journal of International Management, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 100798-100798.
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Welty Peachey, J, Cohen, A & Shin, N 2020, 'Constraints and Strategies to Scaling Up in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations: Evidence From the Field', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 611-630.
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The purpose of this study was to explore and examine the constraints faced by managers as they attempt to scale up their sport for development and peace (SDP) organizations, and to identify the strategies they are employing to mitigate these constraints. Previous research has not examined constraints to scaling up in the SDP nonprofit space. Findings revealed three major themes related to challenges within four types of scaling up (quantitative, functional, political, organizational); skepticism about sport as a development tool, funding challenges leading to an entrepreneurial mind-set, and challenges associated with a general lack of business acumen among key leaders. Within each of these three themes, strategies for addressing these constraints are illuminated. These constraints and strategies are positioned within the broader nonprofit context, and theoretical and practical implications for scaling up SDP organizations are also explicated.
Welty Peachey, J, Schulenkorf, N & Hill, P 2020, 'Sport-for-development: A comprehensive analysis of theoretical and conceptual advancements', Sport Management Review, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 783-796.
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© 2019 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Over the past decade, the field of sport-for-development (SFD) has experienced significant growth and diversification across research and practice. In this review paper, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the theoretical and conceptual developments within SFD, addressing a gap in the literature. Following a sport-focused review of SFD literature, the authors first identify five theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have emerged from within the SFD space. As a second step, they analyze and discuss scholarly work that has utilized these theories and frameworks. Building on a comparison of key messages, themes, and concerns, the authors highlight that to date, limited SFD scholarship has truly applied, extended, or challenged existing frameworks and conceptualizations. Motivated by this review, they posit several conceptual advancements, and offer directions for future research and theoretical development.
Whales, L, Frawley, S, Cohen, A & Nikolova, N 2020, 'Everyday Things Change: Australian Athlete Communication During the Coronavirus Lockdown', International Journal of Sport Communication, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 541-550.
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During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Australian professional sport leagues were impacted by temporary league shutdowns. One example is the Suncorp Super Netball, the world’s premier netball competition. This commentary paper explores the Suncorp Super Netball league shutdown from the perspective of the players. Our commentary has emerged from an ongoing ethnographic study supported by interviews with two players (a representative on the players association and a club captain) conducted during the league shutdown. Such a shutdown was the first in the history of the league, and it required an unprecedented response, coordinated by interdependent stakeholders. The authors outlined the importance of stakeholder communication in effectively navigating this extraordinary situation. In addition, the authors discussed the usefulness of technology-as-context for teamwork and leadership, given the limitations on physical interaction and geographical separation. In conclusion, the authors proposed recommendations for sport practitioners and potential research directions resulting from the coronavirus-related league shutdown.
Williamson, J & Hassanli, N 2020, 'It's all in the recipe: How to increase domestic leisure tourists' experiential loyalty to local food', Tourism Management Perspectives, vol. 36, pp. 100745-100745.
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This study examines experiential loyalty in the context of local food consumption by domestic leisure tourists. A conceptual framework is developed to understand factors which increase tourists' propensity to exhibit experiential loyalty. Relationships between independent factors and the dependent variable of experiential loyalty are examined using a binary logistic regression model. The centrality of local food to tourists is the most important factor in increasing experiential loyalty, although cultural motivation and satisfaction are also predictors. The results provide insights for government and private tourism enterprises, with practical recommendations outlined.
Wilson, R, Dumuid, D, Olds, T & Evans, J 2020, 'Lifestyle clusters and academic achievement in Australian Indigenous children: Empirical findings and discussion of ecological levers for closing the gap', SSM - Population Health, vol. 10, pp. 100535-100535.
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© 2020 The Authors Participation in sport and physical activity can improve academic outcomes and has been identified as a potential mechanism for addressing educational disadvantage and ‘closing the gap’ in Australian Indigenous communities. To explore this possibility in relation to sport and lifestyle we performed a cluster analysis on data from the Footprints in Time study (also known as the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children), using data from Waves 3–6 (2010–2013, ages 5–9 years) of this cohort study. Cluster inputs were organised according to not only sports participation, but also screen time, sleep duration and unhealthy food intake, as reported in parent surveys. Associations between lifestyle cluster membership and academic outcomes from standardised tests from 2014-5 (Progressive Achievement Tests [PATs] for Maths and Reading, and National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy [NAPLAN]) were examined using linear models. Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, remoteness and parental education. Three clusters were identified: Low Sport (36% of sample), characterised by low sports participation and low sleep duration; Junk Food Screenies (21% of sample), with high screen time and high intake of unhealthy foods; and High Sport (43% of sample), showing high sports participation and low screen time. Cluster membership was associated with academic performance for NAPLAN Literacy and Numeracy, and for PAT Maths. The High Sport cluster consistently performed better on these tests, with effect sizes (standardised mean differences) ranging from 0.10 to 0.38. We discuss the ecological dynamics potentially contributing to lifestyle cluster membership and ways in which policy can support healthier High Sport lifestyles associated with better academic performance.
Yu, K-H, Kang, S-D & Rhodes, C 2020, 'The Partial Organization of Networked Corruption', Business & Society, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 1377-1409.
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This article uses the concept of partial organization to examine how organizing principles can facilitate the effective operation of networked forms of corruption. We analyze the case study of a corruption network in the South Korean maritime industry in terms of how it operated by selectively appropriating practices normally associated with formal bureaucratic organizations. Our findings show that organizational elements built into the corruption network enabled coordination of corruption activities and served to distort and override practices within member organizations. The network was primarily organized through the hierarchical organization of a bounded and controlled set of members and, to a lesser extent, through processes of monitoring and sanctions. Given its clandestine nature, the network avoided the use of explicit rules to govern behavior, instead relying on habituated routines to ensure consistent and predictable action from members. We find that organizational elements were rescinded when the corruption network was exposed after the sinking of a passenger ferry, the Sewol. By rolling back its hierarchical organization and reverting to core relationships, the corruption network sought to preserve its center. The article illustrates the explanatory value of studying how the activities of corruption networks are enabled and adapt to existential challenges through partial organization.
