Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Katic, M & Bhatia, MS 2021, 'Technological trends and future management practices in global value chains' in Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R & Skellern, K (eds), The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains, Routledge, Singapore, pp. 123-136.
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Recent advancements in technology such as the internet of things, 3D printing and blockchain will undoubtedly have a disruptive impact on the business models of many organisations. By examining the megatrends in emerging technologies, this chapter will examine the implications these recent advancements in technologies may have on the management practices within organisations. More specifically, this chapter will consider how these changing management practices may affect the management of global value chains (GVCs). The implications for managers and organisations in developing capabilities to support these changing management practices is fundamentally important for competitively positioning the organisation and contributing effectively within GVCs, and so a discussion on the implication for managers and management practices ensues. The conclusions in this chapter suggest that megatrends in GVCs are critically dependent on emerging technologies, which in turn require appropriate capabilities within an organisation, reflected in the management practices of the firm.
Arndt, F, Katic, M, Mistry, A & Nafei, S 2021, 'Dynamic capabilities of global value chains' in The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains, Routledge, pp. 23-34.
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Bliemel, M, Wixted, B & Roos, G 2021, 'Case study' in Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R & Skellern, K (eds), The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains, Routledge, pp. 318-324.
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Despite the benefits of modularisation and highly interconnected global value chains (GVCs),recent natural disasters have provided evidence that global supply chains can be quite vulnerableto interruptions. Risks in supply chains leading to interruption are not limited to naturaldisasters and can include fires and financial ruin (see Natarajarathinam et al., 2009). Simchi-Leviet al. (2014) have recently suggested it is the low-end commodity producers that expose highervaluesystem integrators to the greatest risks. For example, the Thai floods in 2011 disruptedelectronics and auto supply chains across the globe – particularly affecting hard drive supplies(Tibken, 2011). Likewise, the Japanese earthquake in 2011 disrupted auto production from Japanto North America to Sweden (Glinton, 2011), as discussed in a National Public Radio interviewbetween Glinton (interviewer) and Handler (auto industry expert).
Bliemel, M, Wixted, B & Roos, G 2021, 'Linking the interconnectedness and innovativeness of global value chains' in Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R & Skellern, K (eds), The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains, Routledge, pp. 182-202.
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There is a strong conceptual link between the structure of global value chains (GVCs) and innovativeness. However, evidence of the link has largely been limited to the study of GVCs in industries that are purported to be innovative, and the studies have largely been at the level of an individual firm or product. This sampling bias and level of analysis creates a lack of an objective measure of innovativeness, which would enable generalisation to other firms in a given industry and with which to perform inter-industry comparison. This chapter extends the typology of global value architectures (GVAs) by Wixted and Bliemel to use the same trade data to quantify the structures of 22 industry complexes via a measure of significant sourcing pathways per economy (SPE). The SPE results are used to rank the industries according to their level of interconnectedness and then reveal how this measure of trade complex structure correlates to well-established innovation measures based on R&D intensity, alliancing and modularity. These correlations suggest that measures of trade in GVCs are complementary to these innovativeness measures. The chapter propose that these innovativeness measures can be replaced by SPE measures, as they are more objective, replicable and thus reliable measures of innovativeness which also explicitly accounts for the dispersion of innovation across regions, thereby representing the aggregate structure of all GVCs of a given industry.
Clegg, S 2021, 'Afterword' in Experiencing the New World of Work, Cambridge University Press, pp. 264-266.
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Clegg, S 2021, 'Power, legitimacy, and authority' in Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, Routledge, pp. 250-259.
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Clegg, S & Berti, M 2021, 'Tales of power' in Essays on Evolutions in the Study of Political Power, Routledge, pp. 27-50.
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Collins, J 2021, 'Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Sydney: Australia’s Leading Global City' in The Urban Book Series, Springer International Publishing, pp. 47-65.
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Dalton, B 2021, 'Six ways to boost the Australia-Korea Trade Relationship' in Elfving-Hwang, J & Peter, D (eds), Toward Deeper Engagement: Prospects and Reflections On the 60th Anniversary of ROK-Australia Diplomatic Relations, https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qivXH1XO4HBBysXe38B3OQJkBShrXRK/view, Perth WA, pp. 15-22.
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Building on the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement, new trade relationships are already beginning to emerge in a range of new industries. For example, Woodside has invested in HyStation to construct and operate hydrogen refuelling stations to service Korea’s public busses. POSCO has named Australia as a “regional strategic base” in the production of low-carbon hydrogen and also acquired stakes in First Quantum Minerals and Pilbara Minerals to secure lithium and nickel for batteries, Korea Zinc Co’s Ark Energy Corporation is investing in Queensland to produce green zinc. But there is scope for much more to be achieved.
Below I suggest just six possible ways to support new and emerging trading relationships. I also propose some new modes of engagement that can potentially grow the trade relationship across multiple fields and steer engagement in new directions. These trade areas and modes of engagement include: building more resilient supply chains; experimenting with new visa arrangements; promoting collaboration in science and technology; facilitating film and other media co-production collaborations; developing an Australia-Korea start-up ecosystem; and, promoting Australian and Korean investment in new asset classes.
Darcy, S & Dickson, T 2021, 'Reshaping the Superhuman to the Super Ordinary: Observations on the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic Games' in Jackson, D, Bernstein, A, Butterworth, M, Cho, Y, Coombs, DS, Devlin, M & Onwumechili, C (eds), Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega-Events, Media and the Politics of Sport (early reflections from leading academics), The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University., Poole England, pp. 62-62.
Darcy, S & Dickson, T 2021, 'Will #WeThe85 Finally Include #WeThe15 as a Legacy of Tokyo 2020?' in Jackson, D, Bernstein, A, Butterworth, M, Cho, Y, Coombs, DS, Devlin, M & Onwumechili, C (eds), Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega-Events, Media and the Politics of Sport (early reflections from leading academics), The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University., Poole, England, pp. 123-123.
Freeder, D, Sankaran, S & Clegg, S 2021, 'The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: a labour of love and learning' in Megaproject Leaders, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 139-149.
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Freeder, D, Sankaran, S & Clegg, S 2021, 'The project owner and the project manager: the M4 motorway connecting Sydney from the west to the east' in Megaproject Leaders, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 119-138.
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Gaim, M & Clegg, S 2021, 'Paradox Beyond East/West Orthodoxy: The Case of Ubuntu' in Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Learning from Belief and Science, Part A, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 29-50.
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That life is inundated with constant push–pull between contradictory demands is indisputable. Different traditions and worldviews inform individuals’ approaches to dealing with the ensuing paradoxes. However, the literature has focused on Western and Eastern philosophies and traditions, while disregarding others such as the Afrocentric. In this chapter, the authors explore Ubuntu, an Afrocentric tradition, as an alternative philosophical underpinning that can inform the nature of paradoxes. Doing so enriches the understanding, prob-lematizing and managing of paradoxes. Central to Ubuntu is otherness: the emphasis on the need of the other that implies focusing on the other; in doing so, the polarities of diverse needs are accommodated, striving for an ultimate goal of harmony. Moreover, the authors elaborate on the hybrid space where collapsing the East–West and the West and non-west dualism allow engagement with a multiplicity of worldviews. In so doing, the authors expand paradox theorizing beyond the orthodoxy of East and West antinomies and challenge the basic assumption in paradox management by asking the question: what if we start from others’ demands?
Grabowski, S, Everingham, P & Young, T 2021, 'Widening the scope of evaluating volunteer tourism' in The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism, Routledge, pp. 360-372.
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Happy, A, Rahman, KW, Chowdhury, MMH, Chowdhury, M & Scerri, M 2021, 'Blockchain adoption challenges in supply chain' in Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R & Skellern, K (eds), The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains, Routledge, pp. 137-155.
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Jasovska, P 2021, 'The Promise and Perils of Taking Craft Beer International' in Clarke, D, Ellis, V, Patrick-Thomson, H & Weir, D (eds), Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production, Community and Culture in An Evolving Sector, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 99-115.
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Jasovska, P & Liesch, P 2021, 'Entrepreneurial Market-making Across Borders: The Case of Cultural and Technological Innovation' in Jasovska, P, Logue, D & Rammal, H (eds), Contemporary Entrepreneurship Issues in International Business, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Singapore, pp. 27-58.
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International entrepreneurship is typified by market-making activities which can be technological or cultural. Technological innovations are created by experimentation, whereas the change through cultural innovation is shaped by the collective endeavours of entrepreneurs. For cultural and technological innovation, we theorise how international entrepreneurs must accommodate the multiplicity of national markets and their diversity to achieve legitimacy, but in doing so, they must also maintain their uniqueness. We identify and elaborate four strategies: assembling, disseminating, sharpening and delimitating. Our contextualisation of cross-border venturing of cultural and technological innovations provides an understanding of how entrepreneurs make markets.
Jasovska, P, Logue, D & Rammal, HG 2021, 'FRONT MATTER' in Jasovska, P, Logue, D & Rammal, H (eds), Contemporary Entrepreneurship Issues in International Business, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Singapore, pp. i-xxvii.
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The field of international entrepreneurship (IE) has withstood significant challenges to gain legitimacy and establish itself as a valid area of research. Historically, IE literature has focused on the rapid and early internationalisation of new ventures and start-ups. However, over time, researchers have acknowledged that it is the identification and capture of international opportunities that represents an act of entrepreneurship in disrupting and creating markets in foreign countries. By applying this broader definition of IE, researchers can study activities by entrepreneurs and their start-ups solving social, cultural and environmental challenges in foreign markets. In this chapter, we review the development of IE, introduce the chapters in this book and highlight some important insights and avenues for future research.
Krishnan, R, Phan, PY, Kaur, A & Paul, SK 2021, 'Blockchain and allied technologies for food supply chain risk mitigation in global value chains' in Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R & Skellern, K (eds), The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains, Routledge, pp. 105-122.
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Loy, J, Novak, J, Scerri, M, Chowdhury, M & Skllern, K 2021, 'Advanced Perspectives on Global Industry Transitions and Business Opportunities' in Saruchera, F (ed), Advanced Perspectives on Global Industry Transitions and Business Opportunities, IGI Global, pp. 1-20.
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There is a disconnect between technical research into digital manufacturing processes supporting thedevelopment of product innovation and research into the adoption of these technologies and subsequentproducts into existing business practices. One of the reasons is the level of technical and business knowledgerequired for an integrated response to the challenges involved in their adoption into establishedindustrial contexts. This chapter introduces transitioning companies’ issues to working with emergingdigital manufacturing technologies through the example of 3D printing (additive manufacturing). Thechapter provides an argument for the development of transition research across disciplines that identifiesand explores the integration challenges involved in maximizing the opportunities of 3D printing.Examples discussed are from the surgical, dental, and hearing aid industries. The recommendationsare based on the authors’ research into supply chain management and operations in medical devicesmanufactured using 3D printing for the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM).
Padman, R, Krishnan, R & Agarwal, R 2021, 'Integration of ICT systems and processes' in Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R & Skellern, K (eds), The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains, Routledge, Singapore, pp. 91-104.
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The emerging megatrends in healthcare and continuing digital transformation of the healthcare sector worldwide has opened up new opportunities to improve healthcare delivery as well as financial, organisational and health outcomes from many perspectives. In the context of global supply chains, the convergence of supply chain technologies, data analytics and availability of vast amounts of digital data from devices and software tools have made possible both the adaptation of people–process–technology strategies to new healthcare delivery requirements, but have also accelerated operational efficiencies in care delivery and improved access to quality healthcare and actionable data. Integrating and streamlining healthcare supply chains with internet of things (IoT) devices and sensors and leveraging the resulting data for advanced analytics at the point of decision making has the potential to provide healthcare professionals with actionable insights for planning and strategic decision-making, for both operational improvements and better care delivery. This chapter draws on an illustrative example from healthcare delivery to highlight some opportunities with analytics in patient safety initiatives and implications for healthcare supply chains.
Pierides, D, Clegg, S & e Cunha, MP 2021, 'The Historical Embeddedness of Organizational Paradoxes: Risk-related Rituals and Realities in Emergency Management' in Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Investigating Social Structures and Human Expression, Part B, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 65-85.
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Paradoxes are historically embedded in institutions and organizations. Latent paradoxes pose danger if they become salient; sociological analyses can identify historically embedded latent paradoxes. The emergency management paradox, in which the state invests vast resources, establishing formidable organizational arrangements that rely on knowledge to respond to unanticipated events in advance of their occurrence, even though such events can only ever be known after they occur, is a paradox of this kind. Deploying methodological “dual integrity” we trace through historical description and sociological conceptualization the institutional and organizational history of the emergency management paradox in Australia, where uncontrollable bushfires are becoming increasingly common, before drawing more general conclusions about how a response to grand challenges, such as climate change, demands an interdisciplinary understanding of the rituals and realities of paradoxes that emerge historically from our collective attempts to handle uncertainty via risk. Our research serves as a warning of the grave consequences that can result from ignoring a paradox’s history, whether intentionally or unwittingly.
Rego, A, Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2021, 'Exploring the paradoxical nature of responsible leadership' in Maak, T & Pless, N (eds), Responsible Leadership, Routledge, London, pp. 227-244.
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Rucci, AC, Porto, N, Darcy, S & Becka, L 2021, 'Smart and Accessible Cities?' in ICT Tools and Applications for Accessible Tourism, IGI Global, pp. 115-145.
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This chapter aims to discuss disability, aging, and accessibility and their relationship with technology trends, taking into account a world full of different kind of constraints, taking Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Sydney (Australia) as study cases. Moreover, the authors also study how a hypothetically smart and accessible city could set the basis for making it touristic for all. Particularly, this chapter focuses on how cities that are being designed and planned under the smart city/destination model do not always consider people with disabilities and seniors in their models. So, these models that leave out more than the 30% of the world's population are not only inappropriate but also ineffective and inefficient, and consequently challenge the underlining sustainability of such projects.
Rucci, AC, Porto, N, Darcy, S & Becka, L 2021, 'Smart and Accessible Cities?: Not Always – The Case for Accessible Tourism Initiatives in Buenos Aries and Sydney.' in Eusebio, C, Teixtira, L & Carneiro, MJ (eds), ICT Tools and Applications for Accessible Tourism, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 115-145.
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This chapter aims to discuss disability, aging, and accessibility and their relationship with technology trends, taking into account a world full of different kind of constraints, taking Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Sydney (Australia) as study cases. Moreover, the authors also study how a hypothetically smart and accessible city could set the basis for making it touristic for all. Particularly, this chapter focuses on how cities that are being designed and planned under the smart city/destination model do not always consider people with disabilities and seniors in their models. So, these models that leave out more than the 30% of the world's population are not only inappropriate but also ineffective and inefficient, and consequently challenge the underlining sustainability of such projects.
Schulenkorf, N, Waqanivalu, T, Varela, AR & Siefken, K 2021, 'Moving the agenda forward' in Siefken, K, Ramirez, VARELAA, Waqanivalu, T & Schulenkorf, N (eds), Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Routledge, London, pp. 247-256.
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In this chapter, we set the scene for a critical investigation into the future directions of physical activity research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In doing so, we acknowledge the real differences in contexts, the competing health and developmental priorities, the (un)available resources, and—most importantly—the political will that can shape opportunities for populations to adopt lifelong physically active lifestyle behaviors. We are aware that the inherent value systems in LMICs present a key challenge for entire populations to adopt physically active lifestyles. As such, we discuss how best to support public health action and future research, with the overall aim of a sustainable integration of PA across the lifespan in children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly in LMICs. This, we hope, will be one step forward in combating the pressing NCD crisis that many LMICs are experiencing.
Schweinsberg, S & Darcy, S 2021, 'Ecotourism and the trouble with transportation' in Routledge Handbook of Ecotourism, Routledge, pp. 37-52.
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Siefken, K, Varela, AR, Waqanivalu, T & Schulenkorf, N 2021, 'Moving forward, moving more' in Siefken, K, Ramirez, VARELAA, Waqanivalu, T & Schulenkorf, N (eds), Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Routledge, London, pp. 1-10.
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In the first chapter, we present our rationale for compiling the edited volume on physical activity (PA) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We are presenting the available evidence of what is known about PA in LMICs, and we highlight the need for further critical investigations. The chapter showcases that it is finally time to shift our focus toward research and practical initiatives where they are mostly needed—in LMICs. In doing so, we explore (a) the uncertainty of knowledge in terms of what we know and do not know about PA behavior and its distinctive meaning in LMIC contexts, (b) the underlying factors that influence PA, and (c) how populations in LMICs understand and view the concept of PA. In this chapter, we also present the structure of our edited volume. Chapters 1–3 provide some PA background and context, pointing toward the global PA situation and highlighting specific PA challenges and opportunities in LMICs. Chapters 4–8 discuss the role of governments and their potential to create change through PA policies, examine PA surveillance mechanisms, and explore the specific opportunities for lifestyle behavior change in LMIC contexts. In Chapters 9–15, we present seven case studies from five world regions. Finally, in the final chapter (Chapter 16), we provide a brief reflection and outlook to the future with regard to the roles of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to strengthen the case for PA in LMICs.
Stoller, P 2021, 'Afterword' in Aroles, J, de Vaujany, F-X & Dale, K (eds), Experiencing the New World of Work, Informa UK Limited, Cambridge, pp. 237-242.
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Exploring the different facets of the new world of work (including the hacker and maker movements, platform work, and digital nomadism), this edited volume sets out to investigate and theorise how these new work practices are experienced by various actors. It explores such changes at both the micro and macro levels and sets out to link them back to wider social, managerial and political issues. In doing so, it aims to reflect on the similarities and differences between new and 'old' work practices and problematize discourses surrounding the future of work. This volume is characterized by the diversity of methods mobilized, the plurality of concepts, lenses and theories deployed as well as the richness of the empirical accounts used by the authors. It will appeal to a broad readership of management and organizational scholars as well as sociologists interested in current changes to the world of work.
Stronach, M 2021, 'Time's up! Indigenous Australian sportsmen and athlete transitions' in Athlete Transitions into Retirement: Experiences in Elite Sport and Options for Effective Support, pp. 145-157.
Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Brown, PJ & Green, R 2021, 'People Management Practices that Underpin Lean Management Outcomes', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 75-94.
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Agarwal, R, Mittal, N, Patterson, E & Giorcelli, M 2021, 'Evolution of the Indian LPG industry: Exploring conditions for public sector business model innovation', Research Policy, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 104196-104196.
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Business model innovation in the public sector is important in creating value for citizens, industry, and government. The differing priorities of these stakeholders, which often require intervention or unification to address a societal need, are at the heart of both supply-side and demand-side strategy research. Moreover, it represents a core element of the business model innovation delivering key commodities, such as liquid petroleum gas (LPG), to large populations in the developing world. In this paper, we examine varying conditions in the public sector that require both supply-side and demand-side business model innovation for value creation, capture, and appropriation through deployment of digital government initiatives and policy interventions. Through observing the Indian LPG industry over a 70-year period, we argue that the supply-side and demand-side perspective, along with the business model concept, promote a better understanding of government industry interventions in the interest of all stakeholders. Specifically, the contribution in the public sector is unique, because (i) research on demand-side strategy can help business model scholars gain a more robust, granular understanding of effective value propositions for citizens, (ii) supply-side strategy business models create a seamless delivery mechanism, and (iii) both with their unique propositions serve as a “bridging concept” that connects the shared ideas of both areas of study to resource-based streams of strategy research.
Baumber, A, Schweinsberg, S, Scerri, M, Kaya, E & Sajib, S 2021, 'Sharing begins at home: A social licence framework for home sharing practices', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 91, pp. 103293-103293.
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Birtch, TA, Chiang, FFT, Cai, Z & Wang, J 2021, 'Am I choosing the right career? The implications of COVID-19 on the occupational attitudes of hospitality management students', International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 95, pp. 102931-102931.
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Bottorff, J, Caperchione, C, Impellizzeri, F, Oliffe, J, Rice, S, Schulenkorf, N & Sharp, P 2021, 'Leveraging physical activity to engage men in mental health promotion: Informing future directions for lifestyle interventions', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, vol. 24, pp. S19-S19.
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Carabetta, G 2021, 'Employment and the Law under the Religious Discrimination Bill 2019 (Cth) [Forthcoming]', Australian Journal of Labour Law.
Catlin, JR, Leonhardt, JM, Wang, Y & Manuel, RJ 2021, 'Landfill or Recycle? Pro‐Environmental Receptacle Labeling Increases Recycling Contamination', Journal of Consumer Psychology, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 765-772.
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While aggregate recycling rates in developed countries have plateaued in recent years, the contamination rate of recycling streams due to consumers incorrectly recycling items that cannot be recycled has grown rapidly. We propose that this problem may be partially due to persuasive messages, such as pro‐environmental labeling on bins, that encourage recycling, but may lack guidance on how to do so accurately. For example, a number of public garbage receptacles across the United States are labeled “Landfill” instead of “Trash,” encouraging recycling by making the negative impact of garbage more salient. However, this labeling may also lead consumers to incorrectly “recycle” items that cannot be recycled (i.e., overinclusive recycling). Two field studies suggest that pro‐environmental receptacle labeling can lead to overinclusive recycling, and a controlled experiment provides preliminary process evidence involving anticipated emotion from trashing versus recycling. Research opportunities and public policy implications for pro‐environmental messaging are discussed.
Cerdan Chiscano, M & Darcy, S 2021, 'C2C co-creation of inclusive tourism experiences for customers with disability in a shared heritage context experience', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. 3072-3089.
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This study explores customer-to-customer (C2C) social co-creation practices in tourism when customers with and without disability share a heritage service environment. Despite a growing prevalence of heritage- and disability-related research in the tourism literature, few scholars have examined the phenomena from the emergent customer-dominant logic (CDL) perspective. This study makes empirical use of the perceptions of customers with disabilities (CwD) in a recent process of co-creation of CDL within the context of heritage sites through qualitative ethnographic techniques, interviews and observation methods. A sample of 125 individuals with and without disabilities participated in the fieldwork. The objective was to identify C2C social practices that occur among CwD and their related value, leading to either inclusion or exclusion. The results reveal the importance of focusing on C2C co-creation opportunities which create a value outcome. This paper provides heritage managers with clear guidance for creating inclusive and enabling servicescapes.
Cetindamar, D, Katic, M, Burdon, S & Gunsel, A 2021, 'The Interplay among Organisational Learning Culture, Agility, Growth, and Big Data Capabilities', Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 23, pp. 13024-13024.
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This paper examines how an organisational learning culture impacts organisational agility by developing a model based on dynamic capabilities. The model treats agility as a dynamic capability and explains how an organisational learning culture (OLC) triggers a chain reaction through its influence on organisational agility (OA) that ultimately results in company growth. This paper also investigates the role of big data capabilities in transferring learning outcomes into dynamic capabilities. The model is tested through data collected from a survey of 138 Australian companies. Partial least squares structural equation modeling is adopted to empirically demonstrate how agility fully mediates the impact of the learning culture on growth. In addition, this paper further sheds light on the moderating role of big data competencies on the effects of OLC on OA. After presenting the results with implications to theory and practice, the paper ends with suggestions for future studies.
Chadee, D, Roxas, B & Kouznetsov, A 2021, 'Corruption, Bribery and Innovation in CEE: Where is the Link?', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 174, no. 4, pp. 747-762.
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Chakrabortty, RK, Rahman, HF, Haque, KMA, Paul, SK & Ryan, MJ 2021, 'An event-based reactive scheduling approach for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with unreliable resources', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 151, pp. 106981-106981.
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Cheramin, M, Saha, AK, Cheng, J, Paul, SK & Jin, H 2021, 'Resilient NdFeB magnet recycling under the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic: Stochastic programming and Benders decomposition', Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 155, pp. 102505-102505.
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Chowdhury, P, Paul, SK, Kaisar, S & Moktadir, MA 2021, 'COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain studies: A systematic review', Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 148, pp. 102271-102271.
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Clegg, S & Berti, M 2021, 'Tales of power', Journal of Political Power, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 27-50.
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In the form of an interview between two colleagues, this paperexplores 50 years of power theorizing by Stewart Clegg, from hisearly doctoral days to the present day. The origins of his approachto power in a combination of structuralism, Wittgenstein and ethnomethodologyare explored. The background to his early work,whose empirics were based on the analysis of conversational materials,are outlined, as well as how it became a publication. Therationale and context of subsequent significant contributions tothe power debate are engaged. Elsewhere, the power debatehad moved from Lukes’ three dimensions of power to fourdimensions, the provenance of which is critically evaluated. Inorder to exemplify the practical implications of these theoreticalreflections, the conversation goes on to address some currentissues associated with the coronavirus pandemic and the relationsbetween democracy and elites.
Clegg, S, Crevani, L, Uhl-Bien, M & By, RT 2021, 'Changing Leadership in Changing Times', Journal of Change Management, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
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MAD statement: This leading article is setting out to Make a Difference (MAD) through catalysing the further exploration and development of leadership theory and practice by facilitating the reimagining and reframing of challenges and solutions ahead. It does so by integrating the academic concerns of the current literature with the issues raised by recent events marked by the cataclysmic end of the Trump presidency in the United States.
Clegg, S, Cunha, MPE, Rego, A & Santos, F 2021, '‘Open Purpose’: Embracing Organizations as Expressive Systems', Organization Theory, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 263178772110548-263178772110548.
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The concept of purpose gained prominence in organization theory in recent years but there are discrepant views of its meaning, which we review as evolving and different perspectives: economic theories of the firm; stakeholder approaches; integrative social contracts; and social mission. We elaborate these perspectives in terms of the ebb and flow of ideas and eras. Against these instrumental views, we revisit the work of Robert Cooper, namely the ever-open purpose of expressive organizations, and contrast this with fixist views of purpose in instrumental organizations. We engage with the logic of open purpose and sketch a way of rethinking purpose as a general orientation that constantly evolves and changes over time in interaction with its ecosystem.
Clegg, SR & Burdon, S 2021, 'Exploring creativity and innovation in broadcasting', Human Relations, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 791-813.
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We consider the emergence of design innovations in process, emerging around the form of polyarchy. This is done by using a case study of innovation conducted by a production organization’s project that was embedded in and hosted by a bureaucratic public institution, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The research reported here was part of a larger project comparing the BBC and ABC’s use of different modes of organization. It focused mainly on the organization designed to deliver a six-part television series, The Code. The innovative process of Scribe, the organization in question, in producing the story is a good example of idea work being instituted in a polyarchic design process. Scribe represents a new organizational design characterized by a polyarchic structure, which is soft and decentralized, with strict and relatively insuperable social and symbolic boundaries. This results in a project-based organization to coordinate collective innovation that is curated by making the writer also the creative director or showrunner. The research contributes further to exploring organizational idea work, through prioritizing creativity and innovation by an explicit positioning of a product and collaborative generative idea work.
Crespo-Gonzalez, C, Benrimoj, SI, Scerri, M & Garcia-Cardenas, V 2021, 'Community pharmacists’ perspectives about the sustainability of professional pharmacy services: A qualitative study', Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 181-190.
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Objective
Pharmacists have been increasing patient-focused care through the implementation and provision of professional services. However, there is a lack of evidence on how to achieve long-term sustainability of the service once it is implemented. A framework identifying the factors affecting the sustainability of professional pharmacy services was developed. The objectives of this study were to explore the experiences of community pharmacists providing professional services to contextualize and assess the applicability in practice of the sustainability framework.
Methods
A qualitative study was undertaken across Australia. Community pharmacists were identified using snowball sampling. Data were collected through semistructured interviews. Eighteen interviews were conducted and analyzed using framework methodology in NVivo 12 (QSR International).
Results
A range of major sustainability factors was identified and organized in social, economic, and environmental domains. In the social domain, most of the interviewees stated the importance of motivating staff to increase service promotion and patients' demand. Most of the participants emphasized that having an adequate number of trained staff is required to enhance and maintain services over time. The perceived reluctance of some patients to spend more time than usual at the community pharmacy was another factor highlighted as affecting service sustainability. In the economic domain, the concern about lack of remuneration for service provision was highlighted by most of the interviewees. Having economic support was seen as essential for achieving sustainable services. In the environmental domain, the necessity of government recognition of the pharmacists' role and value to the health care system was identified as a new key sustainability driver.
Conclusion
The applicability of the framework for the sustainability of professional services was evaluated in practice. The identif...
Crevani, L, Uhl-Bien, M, Clegg, S & By, RT 2021, 'Changing Leadership in Changing Times II', Journal of Change Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 133-143.
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What has changed in our organizational lives in the past year? Everything and nothing. We now book Zoom meetings, check whether the borders are open in the rare case we travel, offices are often empty due to their health risk, and crisis management is an everyday experience, no longer something written in some document. At the same time, we still hold meetings as we always have, still produce strategies and plans, and still receive considerable advice as to how a heroic leader can save the day (see Sergi et al., 2021, in this issue). While the circumstances we currently experience may result in an opening for new practices to emerge (Uhl-Bien, 2021, in this issue) there is also a need for high-quality scholarship that engages with new conventions and their impact on organizations.Following on from the first part of the special issue Changing Leadership in Changing Times (Alvehus, 2021; Beer, 2021; By, 2021; Clegg et al., 2021; Ford et al., 2021; Kempster & Jackson, 2021; Maak et al., 2021), this second part focuses primarily on leadership as a process, answering the call made by Rost (1993) decades ago to re-focus scholarship on leadership and change (see also, for similar early calls, Hosking & Morley, 1988). Articles in this issue help push forward new avenues for leadership scholarship and practice by challenging us to think primarily through the lens of complexity, plurality and relationality. All of the articles recognize leadership as a dispersed, complex, collaborative, collective and multimodal endeavour, including material elements. Taken together, they bring focus to the human element of leadership as a non-coercive relationship seeking mutual beneficial outcomes (see De Sousa & van Dierendonck, 2021, in this issue), something that is more complex and distributed than how leadership practice has traditionally been understood.
Cunha, MPE, Berti, M & Clegg, S 2021, 'European social theory reflecting on a time of contagion: a book review essay', Journal of Political Power, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 372-382.
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Cunha, MPE, Rego, A, Clegg, S & Jarvis, WP 2021, 'Stewardship as process: A paradox perspective', European Management Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 247-259.
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Davis, ER, Wilson, R & Evans, JR 2021, 'Media neglect of Indigenous student performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2001–2015', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 136-146.
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AbstractThis research explores media reporting of Indigenous students’ Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results in two national and 11 metropolitan Australian newspapers from 2001 to 2015. Of almost 300 articles on PISA, only 10 focused on reporting of Indigenous PISA results. While general or non-Indigenous PISA results featured in media reports, especially at the time of the publication of PISA results, there was overwhelming neglect of Indigenous results and the performance gap. A thematic analysis of articles showed mainstream PISA reporting had critical commentary which is not found in the Indigenous PISA articles. The three themes identified include: a lack of teacher quality in remote and rural schools; the debate on Gonski funding recommendations and the PISA achievement gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. This study concluded the overwhelming neglect is linked to media bias, which continues to drive mainstream media coverage of Indigenous Australians.
Dickson, TJ & Darcy, S 2021, 'A question of time: a brief systematic review and temporal extension of the socioecological framework as applied in sport and physical activity', Translational Sports Medicine, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 163-173.
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Dumuid, D, Wilson, R, Olds, T & Evans, JR 2021, 'Sport and academic performance in Australian Indigenous children', Australian Journal of Education, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 103-116.
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Objective Sport may promote academic performance through physiological and psychosocial mechanisms. We aimed to examine the association between sports participation and academic performance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Methods Participants were from four successive waves of Australia’s Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children ( n = 303, baseline age 5–6 y). Cumulative sports participation was regressed against academic performance from two standardised tests. Results Children participating in sport at all four waves performed significantly better than children participating in sport in 0, 2 or 3 waves in Progressive Achievement Test (PAT) Maths (110 vs. 103, 105 and 105, p = 0.007, 0.02 and 0.02, respectively), and better than children participating at two waves in National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) numeracy (438 vs. 409, p = 0.006). There were no significant differences in PAT reading or NAPLAN literacy. Conclusion Sports participation appears to be associated with subsequent better numeracy (2–7 months of learning) in a sample of Australian indigenous children. Fostering sports participation among indigenous children may be an avenue for reducing disadvantage.
Dwivedi, A, Agrawal, D, Jha, A, Gastaldi, M, Paul, SK & D’Adamo, I 2021, 'Addressing the Challenges to Sustainable Initiatives in Value Chain Flexibility: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 22, no. S2, pp. 179-197.
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AbstractThe value chain refers to the source of competition to facilitate organizations to maximize and sustain value for their consumers. Value chain flexibility is necessary to build sustainable initiatives in addressing ambiguity. In the literature, there is a lack of framework to highlight the challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility. This study fills this research gap by suggesting a framework for challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility. In this study, thirteen potential challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility are identified and an integrated model is developed. It adopts the modified Total Interpretive Structure Model and the Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification methodology. The mixed approach is used as the modified Total Interpretive Structure Model organizes the binary interactions among the challenges, while Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification analysis organizes specific precise assessments of the driving power and dependence of the challenges. The results of the study reflect that (i) lack of supplier commitment to sustainable products and (ii) lack of knowledge toward sustainability in value chains are the challenges that achieved the highest driving power. The challenge ‘inadequate communication among the suppliers in the value chain’ is at the highest level in the analysis. The proposed framework could help government and non-government bodies to formulate policies to efficiently address challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility.
Fee, A 2021, 'The Hidden Contributions of Local Staff When Hosting International Development Volunteers', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1029-1052.
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This exploratory study identifies what additional work-roles local staff take on when their organization hosts a long-term international development volunteer, and explains why they do this. Analyzing interview data from a sample of local employees in Vietnamese organizations, the study identifies five work-roles: two that buttressed “volunteer and organization readiness” (preparing and orienting) and three that facilitated “volunteer performance” (translating, advocating, and mediating). These roles, often outside the formal work-role and expertise of the local employees, added to their cognitive and emotional loads and to a large extent went unrecognized by their employers. They were motivated by a combination of personal benefit (notably, opportunities to learn) and reciprocity norms that appear influenced, in part, by respondents’ cultural conditioning. The implications of this for volunteer-involved organizations, volunteers, and locals are discussed.
Fee, A & Michailova, S 2021, 'Host country nationals' interaction adjustment as a social exchange: A theoretical model', Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 684-698.
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SummaryIn this conceptual paper, we argue that host‐country nationals (HCNs), without crossing geographical and organizational boundaries, experience distinct and complex interaction adjustment processes in response to their social exchange relationships with expatriates. We develop a theoretical model that suggests that the perceived value of the relationships between HCNs and expatriates, the structure of these relationships, and the HCNs' alternative sources of exchange resources predict HCNs' learning‐rich interactions with expatriates and HCNs' extraneous stress, which, in turn, influence HCNs' interaction adjustment. Along with research implications, our theorizing points to features that can improve HCN and expatriate selection, preparation, and management.
Gaim, M, Clegg, S & Cunha, MPE 2021, 'Managing Impressions Rather Than Emissions: Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox', Organization Studies, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 949-970.
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The challenge of dealing with paradoxes has become a central issue in management and organization studies. Present research literature is largely inclined to idealize paradoxical framing in thinking and theorizing. We critically explore the perils paradoxes present when generated by stretch goals whose ‘achievement’ is accomplished through impression management. Using the Volkswagen emissions scandal we show how paradoxical promises, embraced discursively but not substantively, created false transcendence rather than paradoxical mastery. We contribute to paradox theory by discussing how the illusion of paradox embrace can trigger dysfunctional behaviours. In practice, the paper cautions organizations and their members from being overconfident in their ability to embrace paradoxes successfully.
Gillovic, B, McIntosh, A, Cockburn-Wootten, C & Darcy, S 2021, 'Experiences of tourists with intellectual disabilities: A phenomenological approach', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 48, pp. 155-162.
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This paper aims to explore ways in which adults with intellectual disabilities experience tourism. The study applies phenomenology and draws on in-depth interviews with participants with intellectual disabilities focusing on their lived experiences of tourism. The tourism experience was significant and meaningful to the participants, in that tourism provided a sense of ‘normality,’ encouraged self-efficacy, and strengthened relational connections. This paper advances theory by conceptualising the nature of the tourism experience through the authentic voices and lived experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities. This lens of intellectual disability addresses a scarcity of representation in existing tourism scholarship, augmenting and advancing inclusive understandings of tourism experiences for these individuals with disabilities.
Ground, C 2021, 'Adapting Frame Creation to Address Complex Social Problems', The International Journal of Design in Society, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 15-31.
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Guo, B, Ding, P, Greidanus, FJAM & Li, WH 2021, 'What makes a successful industry-level catch-up? General framework and case study of China’s LED industry', Frontiers of Engineering Management, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 284-309.
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Harley, B & Fleming, P 2021, 'Not Even Trying to Change the World: Why Do Elite Management Journals Ignore the Major Problems Facing Humanity?', The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 133-152.
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Social scientists have long been concerned with using their research to make the world a better place and there are frequently calls within the management studies community for research which does so. In this essay, we consider the extent to which such concerns and calls are reflected in what is published in elite management journals. We coded approximately 5,500 articles published in “top-tier” management journals between 2008 and 2018 and found that only 2.8% of articles critically addressed global “grand challenges”—such as inequality, climate change, racism, and gender discrimination. This essay explores the possible reasons why. We reject the explanation that management academics are uninterested in major problems facing the world. Our argument instead focuses on the relationship between business school practices and journal norms. We term this the business school/elite journal gridlock. To break the gridlock, a number of changes are recommended.
Hassanli, N, Walters, T & Williamson, J 2021, '‘You feel you’re not alone’: how multicultural festivals foster social sustainability through multiple psychological sense of community', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 29, no. 11-12, pp. 1792-1809.
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© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Recognizing the limited research on social aspects of sustainability in event studies, this paper seeks to understand how multicultural festivals promote and deliver social sustainability through the facilitation of multiple psychological sense of community for attendees. By considering refugees and ethnic minority immigrants, it also addresses the gap at the nexus of events and marginalization for under-researched groups in critical event studies. Focusing on the New Beginnings Festival, an arts and culture festival for migrant communities in Sydney, Australia, we sought to gain a better understanding by addressing this knowledge gap. A qualitative research approach was applied with data collected through participant observation, in-the-moment conversations, and semi-structured interviews. Applying the theoretical framework of Psychological Sense of Community as well as the concept of Multiple Psychological Sense of Community, we present the Festival Multiple Psychological Sense of Community (FMPSOC) model with three interconnected levels of community facilitated by the festival: Ethnic, Migrant and Mainstream. The model enables critical event scholars, event organizers and local governments alike to understand how multicultural festivals contribute to the social sustainability of their communities. It also provides a basis for evaluating this contribution and identifying areas for improvement.
Heikkurinen, P, Clegg, S, Pinnington, AH, Nicolopoulou, K & Alcaraz, JM 2021, 'Managing the Anthropocene: Relational Agency and Power to Respect Planetary Boundaries', Organization & Environment, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 267-286.
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This article examines how agency should be conceptualized to manage the pressing problems of the Anthropocene in support of sustainable change. The article reviews and analyzes literature on agency in relation to planetary boundaries, advancing the relational view of agency in which no actors are granted a primary ontological status, and agency is not limited to humans but may be attributed to other actors. This understanding of agency can effectively contribute to sustainable organizations; on the one hand, it enables non-anthropocentrism and on the other hand, admits that networks bind actors. We conclude that boundary blurring (between actors) and boundary formation (between actors and networks) are complementary processes. Consequently, relationality is proposed as an applicable means of respecting planetary boundaries, while recognizing that all action flows through circuits of power whose obligatory passage points are the major conduits for intervention. Intervention occurs through regulation and nudging action such as ecotaxation.
Herold, DM, Schulenkorf, N, Breitbarth, T & Bongiovanni, I 2021, 'An application of the sports logistics framework: the case of the Dallas Cowboys', Journal of Convention & Event Tourism, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 155-176.
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Global, national and regional sport organizations heavily rely on logistics management practices in their operations. However, scientific research in sports logistics is in its infancy, with conceptualizations of the sport logistics domain proposed only recently. In response and by using a reoccurring professional sport event as a case, this study applies the Sports Logistics Framework (SLF) to systematically assess logistics activities, organizational structures, resources and components. Based on semi-structured interviews, unstructured participant observation, internal documents and additional secondary data, our findings not only provide insights into the logistics operations behind a matchday of one of the leading and most valuable sport competitions in the world, but also contextualize, illustrate and refine the logistical tasks of the SLF, thereby providing a template which can be used for further comparison and examination of logistics activities at similar sport events.
Hossan Chowdhury, MM & Quaddus, MA 2021, 'Supply chain sustainability practices and governance for mitigating sustainability risk and improving market performance: A dynamic capability perspective', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 278, pp. 123521-123521.
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There is a genuine lack of a theoretically justified and empirically validated integrative scale for supply chain sustainability (SCS) in the extant literature. Further, literature is also void on the study of the interaction effect of SCS and governance in affecting SC performance through reducing risk. This research addresses these two significant research gaps. Drawing on dynamic capability view (DCV) and taking mixed methods research design approach this study develops and validates an instrument for measuring supply chain sustainability (SCS) in the context of apparel industry of a developing country. It then investigates the conditional direct and indirect effect of supply chain sustainability on performance through reducing sustainability risks at different levels of sustainability governance. Our findings suggest that SCS is a multidimensional construct consisting of four dimensions: social, environmental, economic (financial) and economic (production). The measurement instrument of SCS also satisfactorily correlates to the “technical” and “evolutionary” criteria of DCV. The findings also affirms that the conditional indirect effect of SCS on market performance via reducing sustainability risk is significant at higher levels of sustainability governance. This study contributes significantly to the body of knowledge by developing and validating a multidimensional scale of supply chain sustainability (SCS) and investigating its impact on market performance through a mediated-moderated modelling approach. In practice, the supply chain managers will be able to adopt appropriate SCS practices and governance mechanism to reduce sustainability risks and improve market performance. Implications of the study are highlighted.
Joachim, G, Schulenkorf, N, Schlenker, K, Frawley, S & Cohen, A 2021, '“No Idea is a Bad Idea”: Exploring the Nature of Design Thinking Alignment in an Australian Sport Organization', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 381-394.
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As research into sport innovation management continues to evolve, the innovation efforts of both for- and non-profit sport organizations are increasingly revealed to be focused on best serving the sport user. Design thinking—a human-centered approach to innovation—may hold promise for sport organizations attempting to identify and deliver on the unmet needs of their users. As such, we undertook a qualitative exploration of the innovation practices of a commercial sport organization, attempting to balance hybrid for- and non-profit service goals. Alignment with design thinking themes was discovered in the organization’s practice, as were performative components of design thinking practice. Our findings suggest that design thinking is suitable—and indeed desirable—for adoption into sport management practice, particularly as a means of enhancing innovation efforts, designing holistic sport experiences, and/or overcoming competing institutional demands.
Kallane (McNulty), Y & Fee, A 2021, 'Editorial', Journal of Global Mobility, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 309-310.
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Karuppiah, K, Sankaranarayanan, B, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2021, 'Key Challenges to Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic', Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 5850-5850.
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COVID-19 has had a major impact on health, economic, social, and industrial activities. It has disrupted supply chain management and affected the movement of essential supplies to a large extent. This study aims to identify and evaluate the challenges hampering sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SHSCM). Twenty critical challenges to SHSCM are identified using a comprehensive literature review, and three strategies were developed. The challenges and strategies were verified using expert input. The challenges were evaluated using the neutrosophic analytic hierarchical process (AHP) method. The neutrosophic TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for interactive multicriteria decision making) method was then used to select the best strategy. The findings reveal that facility location problems, short lead times for emergency supplies, spread of rumors, rapid emergence of new clusters, and doubt concerning the available remedy are five critical challenges in SHSCM during COVID-19. Public–private partnerships are identified as the best strategy in SHSCM. Finally, this paper discusses the implications to sustainable development goals in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.
Katic, M, Cetindamar, D & Agarwal, R 2021, 'Deploying ambidexterity through better management practices: an investigation based on high-variety, low-volume manufacturing', Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 952-975.
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PurposeWhilst capabilities in exploiting existing assets and simultaneously exploring new opportunities have proven essential in today's organisations, an understanding of how these so-called ambidextrous capabilities are deployed remains elusive. Thus, the authors aim to investigate the role of better management practices (BMP), as organisational routines, in deploying ambidextrous capabilities in practice.Design/methodology/approachHigh-variety, low-volume (HVLV) manufacturers are adopted as exemplar ambidextrous organisations. A conceptual model was developed where BMP, including human resource management (HRM) and production planning and control (PPC), are considered as mediators in the relationship between ambidextrous capabilities and organisational performance outcomes. Partial least squares structural equation modelling was adopted to analyse the results of a survey undertaken by Australian HVLV manufacturers.FindingsThe results suggest that merely holding ambidextrous capabilities is not enough – demonstrating a fully mediating role of BMP between ambidextrous capabilities and HVLV manufacturer performance outcomes. However, the individual effects of PPC and HRM prove varied in their unique impact on HVLV manufacturer performance.Practical implicationsThis study also provides a rare account of how HVLV manufacturers can leverage their inherently ambidextrous design towards greater organisational performance and highlights critical considerations in the selection of organisational capabilities.Originality...
Klettner, A 2021, 'Stewardship Codes and the Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: An International Comparison and Typology', British Journal of Management, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 988-1006.
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AbstractOver recent decades, share ownership of listed companies has concentrated into the hands of large institutional investors, challenging the traditional agency theory view of corporate governance as a mechanism to resolve the separation of ownership and control. Alternative theories have emerged to explain the role of institutional investors in corporate governance, each with a slightly different view on the motivations of these powerful shareholders and the nature of their relationship with corporate management. These theories share a common thread – the concept of investor stewardship – yet each theory applies it differently. This paper explores whether institutional investors should act primarily as stewards of their investee companies (agency theory), stewards of beneficiaries’ funds (agency capitalism), stewards of a market/economy (universal ownership) or stewards of society (stakeholder theory), and whether this varies internationally. Through an analysis of national stewardship codes, the paper determines which of these theoretical approaches are most strongly reflected in emerging stewardship policy across the world. It presents a typology of stewardship codes as a framework for understanding cross‐country variation in investor stewardship policy. Stewardship codes influence the shareholder–manager relationship and can encourage integration of wider economic and societal concerns into corporate finance.
Krishnan, R, Yen, P, Agarwal, R, Arshinder, K & Bajada, C 2021, 'Collaborative innovation and sustainability in the food supply chain- evidence from farmer producer organisations', Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 105253-105253.
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© 2020 Firms today are striving to adopt innovations to ensure their survival, value creation and success. Innovation is increasingly seen as an outcome of a collaborative process, involving various stakeholders both within and outside the firms, in supply chain relationships. Collaborative arrangements are gaining traction and the focus of innovation is shifting from firms to their supply chain networks. This leads to the notion of supply chain innovation, which has been widely accepted as an important ingredient for improving the organisational and supply chain performance of firms. Inefficient practices such as improper crop selection, involvement of too many intermediaries, flood irrigation, over-fertilization and food waste necessitate innovative practices that will improve the sustainability of the food supply chain. In this regard, there is a need to investigate how collaboration among food supply chain entities leads to innovative practices and how these innovative practices in turn improve the sustainability of the food supply chain. This study aims to address this gap using the case of the Indian Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). Further, using the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, the supply chain of FPO is divided into five levels - plan, source, make, deliver and return and the case is analysed across these levels. The findings show that the formation of FPO through collaboration facilitates many innovative practices that result in several economic, environmental and social benefits to the FPO.
Li, WH, Guo, B & De Sisto, M 2021, 'Untangling the commonalities and differences between domestic cross-regional experience and international experience in shaping speed of internationalization', Journal of International Management, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 100852-100852.
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Li, WH, Luo, J, De Sisto, M & Bartram, T 2021, 'Born to rebel? The owner birth order and R&D investments in Chinese family firms', Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 421-446.
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AbstractFamily background has a significant impact on family firms’ strategies such as innovation investments. Going beyond prior studies that exclusively focus on how family governance and management factors determine research and development (R&D) investment decisions, this study investigates a family science factor: family firm owner's birth order, defined as the relative rank of the owner in terms of the age hierarchy among siblings in the family. Joining the family niche model of birth order and socioemotional wealth perspective, we propose that later‐born family firm owners tend to be risk‐takers and invest more in R&D projects compared with their earlier‐born counterparts. We further examine how the two other powerful decision‐makers within family firms (i.e., chairperson of the board and CEO) enable or constrain the owner's birth order–R&D investment relationship. We contend that the positive birth order impact on R&D investment is weaker when a family member is the chairperson of the board, while such a relationship is stronger in the presence of owner–CEO duality. We confirm our hypotheses using a sample of 605 firm‐year observations from Chinese‐listed family firms between 2006 and 2014. This study demonstrates the important impact of family science factors on innovation heterogeneities, which is understudied in the family firm innovation literature.
Liu, W, De Sisto, M & Li, WH 2021, 'How does the turnover of local officials make firms more charitable? A comprehensive analysis of corporate philanthropy in China', Emerging Markets Review, vol. 46, pp. 100748-100748.
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Liu, W, Shao, X, De Sisto, M & Li, WH 2021, 'A new approach for addressing endogeneity issues in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance', Finance Research Letters, vol. 39, pp. 101623-101623.
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© 2020 Elsevier Inc. This paper aims to reexamine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP) using a panel dataset of Chinese listed firms. Previous studies obtained divergent empirical evidence on the CSR-CFP relationship due to unclear, incomplete, or inappropriate consideration of endogeneity issues. By introducing a Heckman-2SLS model, we comprehensively address the main endogeneity problems (i.e., sample selection bias, reverse causality, and unobserved heterogeneity) simultaneously within the CSR-CFP relationship. Results not only indicate a robust CSR-CFP relationship after correcting for endogeneity issues but also serve as a strong case for future investigation and correction of endogeneity issues.
Liu, W, Xu, Y & Ma, D 2021, 'Work-Related Mental Health Under COVID-19 Restrictions: A Mini Literature Review', Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 9, p. 788370.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) restrictions, including national lockdown, social distancing, compulsory quarantine, and organizational measures of remote working, are imposed in many countries and organizations to combat the coronavirus. The various restrictions have caused different impacts on the employees' mental health worldwide. The purpose of this mini-review is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on employees' mental health across the world. We searched articles in Web of Science and Google Scholar, selecting literature focusing on employees' mental health conditions under COVID-19 restrictions. The findings reveal that the psychological impacts of teleworking are associated with employees' various perceptions of its pros and cons. The national lockdown, quarantine, and resuming to work can cause mild to severe mental health issues, whereas the capability to practice social distancing is positively related to employees' mental health. Generally, employees in developed countries have experienced the same negative and positive impacts on mental health, whereas, in developing countries, employees have reported a more negative effect of the restrictions. One explanation is that the unevenly distributed mental health resources and assistances in developed and developing countries.
Macniven, R, Wilson, R, Olds, T & Evans, J 2021, 'Footprints in Time: Physical Activity Levels and Sociodemographic and Movement-Related Associations Within the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children', Journal of Physical Activity and Health, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 279-286.
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Background: Emerging evidence suggests that Indigenous children have higher physical activity levels that non-Indigenous children, yet little is known of the factors that influence these levels or how they may be optimized. This study examines correlates of achieving ≥1 hour/day of physical activity among Indigenous Australian children aged 8–13 years. Methods: Data were collected through parental self-report in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. Proportions of children achieving ≥1 hour/day physical activity, approximating the Australian aerobic physical activity recommendations, were calculated, and associations with sociodemographic, family composition, and movement-related factors were quantified using multiple logistic regression analyses. Results: Half of the 1233 children achieved ≥1 hour/day physical activity. Children from families with low parental education and unemployment, remote residence, low socioeconomic status, and without a father in the household were more likely to meet the recommendations. Achieving ≥1 hour/day of physical activity was also associated with low levels of playing electronic games and total screen time. Conclusions: Sociodemographic correlates of physical activity among Indigenous Australian children run counter to those typically found in non-Indigenous Australian children. Further longitudinal examination of the predictors of these associations would provide a greater understanding of Indigenous physical activity determinants, to inform strategies to facilitate participation.
Maxwell, H, O’Shea, M, Stronach, M & Pearce, S 2021, 'Empowerment through digital health trackers: an exploration of Indigenous Australian women and physical activity in leisure settings', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 150-167.
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© 2019, © 2019 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies. Drawing on a strengths-based empowerment approach and Indigenous traditions of ‘yarning’, this research explores how digital health technologies might contribute to Indigenous Australian women’s increased participation in physical activity in leisure settings. While people have long controlled their bodies, conventionally through diaries and weight scales, digital self-tracking of one’s bodily states and activities continues to expand. No previous studies have addressed how these technologies influence physical activity among this population and there is limited research about Indigenous Australian people’s leisure experiences and the meanings they attribute to them. Accordingly, this research contributes to an under researched area of health and leisure studies concerned with understanding the social, narrative and affective facets of individuals’ practices and experiences. Key findings from the pilot study include intersections between the use of health trackers and Indigenous women’s prioritizing time for leisure, increased physical activity, enhanced health literacy, and greater personal accountability for lifestyle choices.
Mithun Ali, S, Kumar Paul, S, Chowdhury, P, Agarwal, R, Fathollahi-Fard, AM, Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, C & Luthra, S 2021, 'Modelling of supply chain disruption analytics using an integrated approach: An emerging economy example', Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 173, pp. 114690-114690.
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to identify, analyze, and to assess supply chain disruption factors and drivers. Based on an empirical analysis, four disruption factor categories including natural, human-made, system accidents, and financials with a total of sixteen disruption drivers are identified and examined in a real-world industrial setting. This research utilizes an integrated approach comprising both the Delphi method and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP). To test this integrated method, one of the well-known examples in industrial contexts of developing countries, the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh is considered. To evaluate this industrial example, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to ensure the robustness and viability of the framework in practical settings. This study not only expands the literature scope of supply chain disruption risk assessment but through its application in any context or industry will reduce the impact of such disruptions and enhance the overall supply chain resilience. Consequently, these enhanced capabilities arm managers the ability to formulate relevant mitigation strategies that are robust and computationally efficient. These strategies will allow managers to take calculated decisions proactively. Finally, the results reveal that political and regulatory instability, cyclones, labor strikes, flooding, heavy rain, and factory fires are the top six disruption drivers causing disruptions to the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh.
Moktadir, MA, Dwivedi, A, Khan, NS, Paul, SK, Khan, SA, Ahmed, S & Sultana, R 2021, 'Analysis of risk factors in sustainable supply chain management in an emerging economy of leather industry', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 283, pp. 124641-124641.
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd In the present competitive business environment and era of globalized marketing, supply chain (SC) of the leather industry is facing a variety of risks. Hence, one of the fundamental concerns in the leather industry supply chain (LISC) is recognizing and prioritizing the various risk factors for attaining sustainability. The present study is an attempt to determine a comprehensive evaluation of SC risk factors considering the case of the leather industry. Based on the literature search and interviews with the domain experts’, forty-four risk factors in the context of LISC are identified. The identified risk factors are further segregated into five-dimensions to sustainability (social, environmental, economic, technical, and institutional). A Pareto analysis is performed to discover the most pertinent risk factors. Further, the best-worst method (BWM) is embraced for evaluating the importance of each pertinent risk factor for the decision-making purpose. The findings from the study reflect that ‘inefficient effluent treatment’, ‘change in consumer preference’, ‘improper dumping of solid waste’, ‘volatility of price and cost’ and ‘fiscal changes’ are the crucial risk factors that are required to be addressed for the successful execution of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices in an emerging economy context. It is expected that the results and findings will assist the leather industry managers in decision-making for better administration and alleviation of supply chain risks to achieve sustainability.
Ninan, J, Clegg, S, Burdon, S & Clay, J 2021, 'Overt obstacles and covert causes: An exploratory study of poor performance in megaprojects', Project Leadership and Society, vol. 2, pp. 100011-100011.
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Paul, A, Shukla, N, Paul, SK & Trianni, A 2021, 'Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: A Systematic Review', Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 13, pp. 7104-7104.
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Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are smart tools to deal with numerous criteria in decision-making. These methods have been widely applied in the area of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) because of their computational capabilities. This paper conducts a systematic literature review on MCDM methods applied in different areas of SSCM. From the literature search, a total of 106 published journal articles have been selected and analyzed. Both individual and integrated MCDM methods applied in SSCM are reviewed and summarized. In addition, contributions, methodological focuses, and findings of the reviewed articles are discussed. It is observed that MCDM methods are widely used for analyzing barriers, challenges, drivers, enablers, criteria, performances, and practices of SSCM. In recent years, studies have focused on integrating more than one MCDM method to highlight methodological contributions in SSCM; however, in the literature, limited research papers integrate multiple MCDM methods in the area of SSCM. Most of the published articles integrate only two MCDM methods, and integration with other methods, such as optimization and simulation techniques, is missing in the literature. This review paper contributes to the literature by analyzing existing research, identifying research gaps, and proposing new future research opportunities in the area of sustainable supply chain management applying MCDM methods.
Paul, SK & Chowdhury, P 2021, 'A production recovery plan in manufacturing supply chains for a high-demand item during COVID-19', International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 104-125.
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PurposeA recent global pandemic, known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), affects the manufacturing supply chains most significantly. This effect becomes more challenging for the manufacturers of high-demand and most essential items, such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer. In a pandemic situation, the demand of the essential products increases expressively; on the other hand, the supply of the raw materials decreases considerably with a constraint of production capacity. These dual disruptions impact the production process suddenly, and the process can collapse without immediate and necessary actions. To minimize the impacts of these dual disruptions, we aim to develop a recovery model for making a decision on the revised production plan.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors use a mathematical modeling approach to develop a production recovery model for a high-demand and essential item during the COVID-19. The authors also analyze the properties of the recovery plan, and optimize the recovery plan to maximize the profit in the recovery window.FindingsThe authors analyze the results using a numerical example. The result shows that the developed recovery model is capable of revising the production plan in the situations of both demand and supply disruptions, and improves the profit for the manufacturers. The authors also discuss the managerial implications, including the roles of digital technologies in the recovery process.Originality/valueThis model, which is a novel contribution to the literature, will help decision-makers of high-demand and essential items to make ...
Paul, SK, Chowdhury, P, Moktadir, MA & Lau, KH 2021, 'Supply chain recovery challenges in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Business Research, vol. 136, pp. 316-329.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of global supply chains arising from raw material scarcity, production and transportation disruption, and social distancing. Firms need to carefully anticipate the difficulties during recovery and formulate appropriate strategies to ensure the survival of their businesses and supply chains. To enhance awareness of the issues, this research aims to identify and model recovery challenges in the context of the Bangladeshi ready-made garment industry. A Delphi-based grey decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) methodology was used to analyze the data. While the Delphi method helped identify the major supply chain recovery challenges from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the grey DEMATEL approach helped categorize the causal relationships among these challenges. Of the 23 recovery challenges finalized, 12 are causal challenges. The study's findings can assist decision-makers in developing strategic policies to overcome the recovery challenges in the post-COVID-19 era.
Rahman, T, Taghikhah, F, Paul, SK, Shukla, N & Agarwal, R 2021, 'An agent-based model for supply chain recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 158, pp. 107401-107401.
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Randhawa, K, Nikolova, N, Ahuja, S & Schweitzer, J 2021, 'Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity', Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 668-700.
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AbstractImplementing design thinking for innovation (DTI) is seen as a way to balance exploration and exploitation, and thus attain an ambidextrous innovation portfolio. Yet, transitioning to ambidexterity is challenging, and is often met with inertia. So how can managers implement DTI as a path toward ambidextrous innovation? In this article, based on an in‐depth longitudinal case study of a leading Australian property development firm and drawing on rich primary and secondary data collected over four years, we examine how middle managers leveraged DTI to respond to inertia generatively, and how this process helped shift the cognitive frame of the organization toward ambidexterity. In our case, the middle manager implemented three DTI practices—(1) creative problem‐solving, (2) sprint execution, and (3) creative confidence— to transition the organization's cognitive frame from an explorative to exploitative, to ultimately an ambidextrous innovation frame. Our argument is that these DTI practices trigger three generative mechanisms—frame flexibility, co‐optation, and collective sensemaking—to support this transition. Drawing on these insights, we develop a process framework of how different DT practices and related generative mechanisms can be deployed flexibly to adapt to the interim (explorative and exploitative) innovation objectives over time. We argue that freezing the innovation frame in each phase can trigger a generative response to inertia, which enables the organization to transition more radically to an ambidextrous innovation portfolio. We thus contribute to the limited design thinking research on the role of cognition in DTI implementation, and more generally to innovation management and ambidexterity research on how leveraging DTI to achieve an ambidextrous innovation portfolio is an emergent and adaptive process.
Randhawa, K, West, J, Skellern, K & Josserand, E 2021, 'Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem: Cognitive Engagement of Stakeholders in Customizing Medical Implants', California Management Review, vol. 63, no. 2.
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While open innovation ecosystems allow a firm to harness external sources of value creation, these external ties can also constrain its ability to adapt its innovation strategy to pursue new opportunities. This article looks at how an incumbent firm approached such constraints, and used cognitive artifacts to transform its value chain into a collaborative ecosystem. It examines the case of a 3D printing-enabled shift to mass customization of orthopedic medical implants. The results demonstrate how firms can use artifacts to build a shared understanding across heterogeneous stakeholders as they explore and develop new open innovation models, and how this process can be managed flexibly to avoid adopting a locally (rather than globally) optimal strategy.
Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & Gudergan, S 2021, 'How to innovate toward an ambidextrous business model? The role of dynamic capabilities and market orientation', Journal of Business Research, vol. 130, pp. 618-634.
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Designing a business model is not a one-off process; adjustments are often required. To create such adjustments and realize business model innovation, firms require the deployment of dynamic capabilities. Yet, we know little about the role of dynamic capabilities in fostering business model innovation, particularly in SMEs. This research, designed as an in-depth longitudinal case study, investigates how an SME's market orientation and its deployment of dynamic capabilities are related to business model innovation. By developing a process framework of an SME's business model innovation from start-up to scale-up, this paper contributes to the literatures on business model (innovation), small business, and dynamic capabilities. It clarifies how an SME's market orientation, through the fitting deployment of its dynamic capabilities, drives its business model innovation. More specifically, this study characterizes market-driving, market-driven, and ambidextrous business models in the SME context, and reveals the exact dynamic capability processes necessary for transforming a business model from market-driving to market-driven, and ultimately to a model reflecting an ambidextrous market orientation. These insights outline how SMEs can deploy dynamic capabilities that align with the SME's market orientation to innovate the design and architecture of their business models.
Rawling, M, Kaine, S, Josserand, E & Boersma, M 2021, 'Multi-Stakeholder Frameworks for Rectification of Non-Compliance in Cleaning Supply Chains: The Case of the Cleaning Accountability Framework', Federal Law Review, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 438-464.
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There is now an expanding body of literature on the significant problem of business non-compliance with minimum labour standards including ‘wage theft’. Extended liability regulation beyond the direct employer is seen as one solution to this non-compliance in fragmented but hierarchically organised industries—such as the cleaning industry. This article uses empirical evidence to assess the effectiveness of one such regulatory scheme, the Cleaning Accountability Framework (CAF), in addressing non-compliance with minimum labour standards (including provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and the Cleaning Services Award 2020). We find that CAF has been successful in identifying and rectifying certain non-compliance, improving working conditions for some cleaners involved in the scheme. We synthesise the key success factors of CAF in view of envisioning the adoption of such co-regulation frameworks in other industries. We also propose legal reforms that will support change across the cleaning industry.
Rayhan Sarker, M, Mithun Ali, S, Kumar Paul, S & Haque Munim, Z 2021, 'Measuring sustainability performance using an integrated model', Measurement, vol. 184, pp. 109931-109931.
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Riboldi, M, Fennis, L, Fishwick, E, Goodwin, S & Stears, M 2021, 'Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 565-576.
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AbstractThe question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has proved less transformational. This paper explores the gulf between intent and implementation in the transition to commissioning human services in New South Wales (NSW) in the context of the Commissioning Project, a collaborative project facilitated by the Sydney Policy Lab at the University of Sydney to enable peak organisations in the community sector build a collective approach to commissioning. The collaboration resulted in the articulation of four guiding principles to facilitate better commissioning in NSW: putting relationships first, letting communities lead, investing in people, and embedding learning.
Roxas, B 2021, 'Environmental sustainability engagement of firms: The roles of social capital, resources, and managerial entrepreneurial orientation of small and medium enterprises in Vietnam', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 2194-2208.
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AbstractHow firms in transition economies demonstrate their strategic engagement in sustainable environmental management given their limited resources and capabilities is less understood in the literature. This study explores how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam, an exemplar of a country in transition from a closed and socialist economy to an open and liberal market, draw on their external social capital to access critical resources that are leveraged by the entrepreneurial orientation or capabilities of the firms' top management towards engagement in business‐wide environmentally sustainable practices. Drawing on a database of more than 2000 firms from a large‐scale survey of firms in Vietnam, this study tests the relationships between two facets of social capital, environmental management resources and environmental sustainability engagement. This study further contends that managerial entrepreneurial orientation moderates by enhancing the strategic utilisation of resources to enable firms in Vietnam to engage in environmental sustainability. The results offer novel theoretical insights and timely managerial or practical implications as well as promising directions for future research on the resources, strategies and capabilities of firms in transition economies.
Ryan, P, Odhiambo, G & Wilson, R 2021, 'Destructive leadership in education: a transdisciplinary critical analysis of contemporary literature', International Journal of Leadership in Education, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 57-83.
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Sabuj, SU, Ali, SM, Hasan, KW & Paul, SK 2021, 'Contextual relationships among key factors related to environmental sustainability: Evidence from an emerging economy', Sustainable Production and Consumption, vol. 27, pp. 86-99.
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Saha, R, Azeem, A, Hasan, KW, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2021, 'Integrated economic design of quality control and maintenance management: Implications for managing manufacturing process', International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 263-280.
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Sankaran, S, Freeder, D, Pitsis, A, Clegg, S, Drouin, N & Caron, M-A 2021, 'Megaprojects', Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies. Ed. Richardson Dilworth.
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“Megaprojects” is a term used to refer to projects and events that encompass large-scale projects in size, cost, space, time, energy, and influence. They are synonymous with large engineering projects, complex projects, large transport or energy projects, and large infrastructure projects, and are often composed of multilayered discrete projects forming a larger scale complex project. Some of the complexity deals with difficulty in quantifying the long-terms costs or benefits or fully realising the whole life cycle of the megaproject prior to commencement. Megaprojects are often shaped by contextual factors. Where complexity is related to technical aspects of the project it also includes organizational aspects and the scope of the project. Some of these projects are multifaceted and relate to science research, engineering infrastructure, or private and public construction of buildings and/or other venues. Megaprojects affect societies that undertake them, urban planning aspects, and social relationships between stakeholders engaged in executing all the elements involved in creating them. They have an impact on a number of areas both locally and globally. This includes extending notions of urban planning to accommodate large-scale construction. These projects can be significant in terms of social and/or economic factors in a positive or negative sense. There have been debates and criticism on the need and function of megaprojects and whether they are beneficial constructs or detrimental to society.
Sarkar, S & Clegg, SR 2021, 'Resilience in a time of contagion: Lessons from small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Change Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 242-267.
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The abrupt outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic sent unprecedented shockwaves across the globe, creating an unparalleled crisis in terms of our health, severely impacting the way we live and work. Measures such as social distancing and travel restrictions, have disrupted production and supply chains, reinforcing a demand shock. In the midst of this pandemic, however, there are leaders of resilient firms that are effectively responding to these changing times. Using a multiple-case inductive enquiry, the paper analyses how leaders activate resilience in small businesses. Employing a process framework, which focuses on sequences of activities and their interrelations which we analyse to uncover how these leaders activated this resilience and explicitly integrated the literature of resilience with that of sensemaking. Resilience emerges when cognition and behaviour work in conjunction, with businesses adapting to combat the crisis. When it comes to global disruptive crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, extant literature provides us with little guidance. The study not only makes a number of contributions to extant literatures but also provides valuable insights and tools to help leaders effectively navigate and respond to this crisis. By doing fast research in real time the paper provides novel and original insights.
Schulenkorf, N & Sherry, E 2021, 'Applying intergroup contact theory to sport-for-development', Sport Management Review, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 250-270.
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© 2020 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Despite evidence of its effectiveness in the area of conflict studies, intergroup contact theory (ICT) has rarely been applied to specifically designed sport-for-development (SFD) interventions. As such, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate the suitability and applicability of ICT as a framework analyzing SFD interventions that aim to foster integrative social transformation. In this paper, we first situate ICT within the broader sport and SFD contexts before demonstrating the utility of ICT through a reflective analysis of League Bilong Laif (LBL), an education-focused SFD intervention in Papua New Guinea. Our examination of LBL demonstrates that ICT may well be a useful framework to design and deliver SFD interventions, particularly in the context of existing intergroup tensions. To maximize opportunities for positive social impact, we propose the aspect of ‘cultural relevance and excitement potential’ as an additional critical condition for achieving meaningful intergroup development.
Schweinsberg, S, Fennell, D & Hassanli, N 2021, 'Academic dissent in a post COVID-19 world', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 91, pp. 103289-103289.
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Schweinsberg, S, Wearing, S & Lai, P-H 2021, 'Host communities and last chance tourism', Tourism Geographies, vol. 23, no. 5-6, pp. 945-962.
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Last Chance Tourism (LCT) has emerged in recent years as an adaptive response of the global tourism industry to the threats and opportunities of climate change. Referring to the act of travellers explicitly seeking out natural and/or cultural attractions that they deem to be at threat, LCT occurs in many of the World’s most iconic and fragile tourism destination regions. While academic scholarship around LCT grows, authors are beginning to question the lack of attention paid to LCT’s theoretical underpinnings. One potential contribution is Lefebvre’s notion of a Three-Fold view of space, encompassing the interrelated forces of: spatial practice, representations of space, and spaces of representation as a conceptual framing for understanding the spatial dimensions of LCT in Churchill (Canada). Demonstrating both the totality of space and the interrelated nature of its constituent parts, Lefebvre’s view of space offers a foundation for future empirical work looking to explore the host community perspective on LCT.
Siefken, K, Ramirez Varela, A, Waqanivalu, T & Schulenkorf, N 2021, 'Better Late Than Never?! Five Compelling Reasons for Putting Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries High Up on the Public Health Research Agenda', Journal of Physical Activity and Health, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1469-1470.
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Since 2020, the world has been navigating an epidemiologic transition with both infectious diseases (COVID-19) and noncommunicable diseases intertwined in complex and diverse ways. In fact, the pandemics of physical inactivity, noncommunicable diseases, and COVID-19 coincide in a tragically impactful ménage à trois with their detrimental long-term health consequences yet to be determined. We know that people in low- and middle-income countries not only have the highest risk of developing chronic diseases, they also develop the diseases at a younger age, they suffer longer, and they die earlier than people in high-income countries. This commentary features 5 compelling reasons for putting physical activity in low- and middle-income countries high up on the public health research agenda and calls for more commitment to inclusive and context-specific public health practices that are paired with locally relevant promotion and facilitation of PA practice, research, and policymaking.
Simpson, AV, Berti, M, Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2021, 'Art, culture and paradox pedagogy in management learning: The case of Portuguese fado', Management Learning, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 630-651.
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We propose a reawakening of interest in the role of artistic knowing for managerial education, presenting a pedagogy that is sensitive to cultural context and aimed at enabling the phronetic management of paradox. Inspired by fado, the iconic Portuguese popular music, especially the ways in which it embodies the stresses of society, we develop strategies for management learning based on engagement with art that fosters sensitivity to paradox. We contribute to management learning by inviting practitioners to be sensitive to the complexity of competing tensions in the cultures and language in and through which everyday lives are lived by bringing attention to the potential of artistic knowing for highlighting and navigating management paradoxes, to develop phronesis.
Simpson, B, Harding, N, Fleming, P, Sergi, V & Hussenot, A 2021, 'The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process', Organization Studies, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 1775-1794.
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This editorial essay introduces a special issue that tackles the seemingly intractable challenge of re-conceptualizing power and performativity as continuously interweaving and co-emergent dynamics in the processes of organizing. It is in these processes, we argue, that new futures may be visibly made through the academic activism of our scholarly communities. We position our argument, and the six papers that comprise this special issue, in relation to Rosi Braidotti’s framing of Humanism, anti-humanism and the posthuman. We also suggest some future lines of inquiry to move studies of organizing forward into a posthuman world.
Sivan, A & Veal, AJ 2021, 'Leisure and human rights: the World Leisure Organization Charter for Leisure: past, present and future', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 133-140.
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Smith, EK & Kaya, E 2021, 'Online University Teaching at the time of COVID-19 (2020): An Australian Perspective', IAFOR Journal of Education, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 183-200.
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The impacts of COVID-19 have been widespread, and the education sector has not been immune to its effects. In March 2020 Australian universities were forced into a shutdown, which prompted an unanticipated, sudden shift in education, from on-campus and face-to-face to an off-campus and online mode of teaching and learning. This paper describes the experiences of two Sydney-based university unit coordinators, from two different institutions, who rapidly shifted their units online as a result of COVID-19. In particular, it applies reflection as a research method, to share what the authors’ encountered as successful, and what was challenging about teaching online. Motivating and retaining students was a key challenge identified by the authors. Therefore, the paper discusses the authors’ application of various digital programs and tools in their response to this challenge of motivation and engagement. It is hoped that our experiences might benefit those looking to integrate programs and tools in the online teaching and learning space. Although Australia is currently one of the most successful countries in their handling of COVID-19, there is still great uncertainty about the future. Globally the pandemic shows no signs of abating, as many countries struggle to manage high levels of transmission and infection rates, which in turn have an impact on the education sector more broadly. Consequently, online learning may be the ‘new normal’ for many institutions in the near future. Therefore, it is important for educators to share their online teaching experiences that can contribute to greater understandings of this space.
Smith-Merry, J, O'Donovan, M-A, Dew, A, Hemsley, B, Imms, C, Carey, G, Darcy, S, Ellem, K, Gallego, G, Gilroy, J, Guastella, A, Marella, M, McVilly, K & Plumb, J 2021, 'The Future of Disability Research in Australia: Protocol for a Multiphase Research Agenda–Setting Study', JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. e31126-e31126.
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Background For people with disabilities to live a good life, it is essential that funded research in health and social care addresses their interests, meets their needs, and fills gaps in our understanding of the impact that services, systems, and policies may have on them. Decisions about research funding should be based on an understanding of the research priorities of people with disabilities, their supporters and allies, disability researchers, service providers, and policy makers working in the field. Objective The aim of this protocol is to describe the research design and methods of a large-scale, disability research agenda–setting exercise conducted in 2021 in Australia. Methods The research agenda–setting exercise involves 3 integrated phases of work. In the first phase, a previous audit of disability research in Australia is updated to understand previous research and continuing gaps in the research. Building on this, the second phase involves consultation with stakeholders—people with disabilities and their supporters and family members, the disability workforce, and people working within services and connected sectors (eg, aging, employment, education, and housing), academia, and public policy. Data for the second phase will be gathered as follows: a national web-based survey; a consultation process undertaken through the government and nongovernment sector; and targeted consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, children with disabilities and their families, people with cognitive disability, and people with complex communication needs. The third phase involves a web-based survey to develop a research agenda based on the outcomes of all pha...
Stronach, M & O’Shea, M 2021, 'Learning, understanding and valuing Indigenous peoples’ leisure', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1-5.
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Taylor, E, Huml, M, Cohen, A & Lopez, C 2021, 'The Impacts of Work–Family Interface and Coping Strategy on the Relationship between Workaholism and Burnout in Campus Recreation and Leisure Employees', Leisure Studies, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 714-729.
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There is a lack of research on the work experiences of employees working within the recreation and leisure industry. The current study used a structural model approach to examine key concepts of workaholism, burnout, work–family interface, and coping strategies within the context of recreational employees. The study’s sample consisted of 466 campus recreation employees. Results show a positive, direct relationship between respondents’ workaholism and burnout. Results also show that the positive relationship between workaholism and burnout was significantly, partially (serial) mediated by work–family/family–work conflict and emotion-based coping strategies, but was non-significant by work–family/family–work conflict and task-focused strategies. This suggests our participants became dependent on emotion-focused coping strategies due to their work obligations and dedication to the job. Findings also suggest that employees within the recreation field are less likely to feel the negative associations of burnout from family–work conflict as compared to work–family conflict. This study advances previous findings by illustrating specific coping strategies and their impact on the relationship between workaholism and burnout. Results from the current study illustrate those employees who engage in emotion-coping strategies may experience higher levels of burnout as compared to those who utilize task-based coping strategies.
Thomson, A, Toohey, K & Darcy, S 2021, 'The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 352-363.
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Sport event studies have demonstrated that relevant stakeholders must share objectives and coordinate efforts to leverage a large-scale sport event to secure positive legacies. However, the challenging and complex task of collaboration between networks of diverse organizational stakeholders to secure legacies has received little scholarly attention. In this conceptual paper, the authors explore, through a political economy lens, differences between the political economies of sports and sport events pertaining to mass sport participation legacies. The authors focus on the mesolevel and consider how divergences in political economy elements—structure and context, stakeholders and ideas/incentives, and bargaining processes—influence the likelihood of mass sport participation legacies from large-scale sport events. The authors suggest a need for event legacy stakeholders to engage more meaningfully with the complexities surrounding securing mass sport participation legacies. In addition, they provide pragmatic, actionable implications for policy and practice to assist stakeholders in addressing the challenges they face to maximize legacy outcomes.
Tureta, C, Américo, BL & Clegg, S 2021, 'Controversies as method for ANTi-history: An inquiry into public administration practices', Organization, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1018-1035.
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Drawing on Actor-Network Theory and the cartography of controversies, we present a method for ANTi-History research to investigate the implementation of a contract between a labour services company and a public university hospital in Brazil. The research question focuses on how the past is enacted in the present. The method is a general guideline based on five focal points used to organize the fieldwork: identifying controversies; mapping the actor-network; drawing out the translation process; politics of actor-networks and multiple reality/power relations. The proposed method makes two contributions to ANTi-History literature. First, although these focal points have been discussed by ANTi-History scholars, they are scattered throughout the literature. We unite them to offer a guide to doing historically embedded research. Second, we show how controversy analysis can be helpful for mapping the politics of actor-networks and describing multiple realities in the construction of history.
Veal, AJ 2021, 'A critique of serious leisure as theory', Leisure Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 575-589.
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Veal, AJ 2021, 'Book notes', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 443-444.
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Veal, AJ 2021, 'Capitalism, fascism, communism, social democracy and the study of leisure: comments prompted by Ken Roberts’ “Still speaking to ourselves”', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 423-440.
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Veal, AJ 2021, 'International assessment of the right to leisure time', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 141-151.
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Walker, M, Fleming, P & Berti, M 2021, '‘You can’t pick up a phone and talk to someone’: How algorithms function as biopower in the gig economy', Organization, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 26-43.
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This paper asks why there is so little collective dissent and mobilised resistance in the gig economy, especially when labour-based digital platforms are used. We suggest part of the answer lies with ‘management by algorithm’. Drawing on an empirical study of Uber drivers in Australia, we found that algorithms function as a form of biopower, a concept introduced by Michel Foucault. As Uber drivers ‘life processes’ are put to work, fragmentation, isolation and resignation ensue. We explore the implications that our findings have for appreciating how biopower operates within platform capitalism and beyond.
Wearring, A, Dalton, B & Bertram, R 2021, 'Pivoting post-pandemic: Not-for-profit arts and culture organisations and a new focus on social impact', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 44-59.
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While the Australian arts and cultural sector has been adept at shaping the national conversation around its economic significance, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought multiple and serious challenges. Weakened by years of government defunding, the sector now faces the shocks of shutdowns and social distancing on their bottom line. Post-COVID we propose that arts and culture organisations in the Not-for-profit sector express their contribution to society as social impact, in order to access more diverse sources of funding. This paper looks first at established ways of assessing economic value, then discusses the broader social value of arts and culture organisations. It then explores methods by which this can be measured and reported. Lastly, a review of relevant literature and best practice approaches to social impact measurement is provided, outlining a framework to produce evaluations that both strengthen their programs and enhance their ability to communicate their value to funders.
Weatherall, R & Ahuja, S 2021, 'Learning as moments of friction and opportunity: an autoethnography of ECR identities in queer time', Management Learning, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 404-423.
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In this article, we explore how time and temporality shape the identities of early career researchers as they learn to become academics. We engage in a collaborative autoethnography to reflect on how our shared identities as middle-class women and our divergences in age, ethnicity, familial status and sexuality shaped our embodied experiences of becoming academics. Drawing on the concept of queer time, we reconceptualise the becoming of newcomers as they learn (or do not learn) to belong to academia. We illustrate how queer time interrupts normative ideas of newcomer learning as progress, development and reproduction. We suggest that learning may alternatively be understood as ‘moments of friction’ and ‘moments of opportunity’ in which newcomers to the academy feel out of step, out of place and out of time. We conceptualise these moments as simultaneously painful yet productive of possibilities for learning to become an academic, differently.
Wiedemann, NJB, Pina e Cunha, M & Clegg, SR 2021, 'Rethinking Resistance as an Act of Improvisation: Lessons from the 1914 Christmas Truce', Organization Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 615-635.
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We examine the historical phenomenon of truces, as these occurred during a period of intense warfare during World War I, around Christmas 1914. These were processes of resistance that could not have been planned (otherwise they would obviously have been thwarted by authority) and that occurred in a setting with continuously changing conditions. Our purpose in making this analysis is to identify the micro-foundations and behaviours of enacting resistance and forming a truce under conditions where planning and executing cannot be assumed to be orderly and linear. We discuss the battlefield context of intense competition and mutual suffering as an organizational setting in order to provide a more precise explanation of how rules and structures can be (at least) temporarily suspended in the workplace. We rethink the construct of resistance as an act of improvisation; we do so by developing a framework that explains how resistance can emerge and be quashed in workplace settings that might appear at first sight to be immune. Therefore, we combine two themes that have largely been separated in theory: resistance and improvisation. Doing so opens new ground in three ways. First, we contribute to literature about resistance by explaining how it was constructed as action suspending rules and structures in hostile contexts. Second, we show the political-motivational dimension of improvisation. Third, we extend the notion of truce as not an end in itself (a temporary settlement) but as an avenue to achieve a real objective (e.g. to change the course of history for the better).
Williams, T, Edwards, M, Angus-Leppan, T & Benn, S 2021, 'Making sense of sustainability work: A narrative approach', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 740-760.
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Corporate sustainability is a priority for organisations, but the nature of the enabling intra-organisational activities, processes and managerial agency is not well understood. In this study, we examine the activity and agency of corporate sustainability managers through a narrative approach and the novel theoretical lens of ‘sustainability work’: purposeful and strategic activities to shape the social-symbolic context such that social and environmental outcomes are prioritised. Analysing how individuals across a range of diverse organisations and industries frame their activity, we identify three overlapping and co-occurring broad subsets of sustainability work: goal-directed, other-directed and self-directed. Through our notion of sustainability work, we contribute by recasting managerial agency in the enabling of sustainability as occurring in the social-symbolic realm and highlighting the implications in both theory and practice for the professionalisation of sustainability.JEL Classification: M10, M14
Wright, C & Forsyth, H 2021, 'Managerial Capitalism and White-Collar Professions: Social Mobility in Australia’s Corporate Elite', Labour History, vol. 121, no. 1, pp. 99-127.
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This article considers the interdependence of managerial capitalism with the historical constitution of professional work in Australia. Using data on the composition of the boards of Australia’s largest companies between 1910 and 2018, we show a deep connection between the managerial class and the top layers of professional hierarchies. Professionals in Australia forged a managerial-capitalist elite within large corporations, relying on a combination of professional expertise and signals of legitimacy that were enabled through higher education and accreditation structures. Relatively low levels of professional enclosure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries created opportunities for Australians from middle- and working-class backgrounds to move into the capitalist elite. These opportunities were reduced significantly from the 1980s onwards as pathways to managerial roles themselves enclosed and as managerialism - as a mode of production - increasingly dominated global capitalism. The result was that by the end of the twentieth century, Australia’s corporate elite more closely resembled the rest of the world’s in its homogeneity and inaccessibility. This demonstrates the central role of professions in the reproduction of Australian capitalism over time, and the influence of professional enclosure on social mobility and inequality.
Yates, M, Perry, L, Onyx, J & Levett-Jones, T 2021, 'Exploring the ‘grey nomad’ travelling population of Australia and its health: an integrative literature review', Australian Journal of Primary Health, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 163-177.
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With increasing numbers of baby boomers retiring and taking to the road in rural and remote Australia, often for extended periods, this review aimed to identify the characteristics of these ‘grey nomads’ travelling across Australia, their experiences in relation to their health and social needs and their access to health care. To this end, an integrative literature review with narrative analysis was conducted. Studies of Australian grey nomad travellers published from 1999 to January 2020 were sourced from Ovid Emcare, Medline/PreMedline, Embase, PsychINFO, Academic Search Complete and Google Scholar. Fourteen records based on 11 studies described grey nomads as predominantly older heterosexual couples who defied the conventional view of aging by seeking adventure and new experiences. Many planned for their health needs while travelling, and their health was overwhelmingly reported to improve with the nomadic lifestyle. This review demonstrates the paucity of data about grey nomads. Information on travellers’ health care needs and service usage is a significant gap, undermining regional and rural service planning and the provision of healthcare services, and represents a considerable challenge for healthcare providers such as GPs, pharmacies and emergency departments.
Zorina, A, Bélanger, F, Kumar, N & Clegg, S 2021, 'Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: Reconceptualization of Information Technology Monitoring as Complex Action Nets', Organization Science, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1571-1596.
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Despite increasing studies of information technology (IT) monitoring, our understanding of how IT-mediates relations between the watcher and watched remains limited in two areas. First, either traditional actor-centric frameworks assuming predefined watcher-watched relationships (e.g., panopticon or synopticon) are adopted or monitoring actors are removed to focus on data flows (e.g., dataveillance, assemblages, panspectron). Second, IT monitoring research predominantly assumes IT artifacts to be stable, bounded, designed objects, with prescribed uses which provides an oversimplified view of actor relationships. To redress these limitations, a conceptual framework of veillance applicable to a variety of possible IT or non-IT-mediated relationships between watcher and watched is developed. Using the framework, we conduct a conceptual review of the literature, identifying IT-enabled monitoring and transformations of actors, goals, mechanisms and foci and develop an action net model of IT veillance where IT artifacts are theorized as equivocal, distributable and open for diverse use, open to edits and contributions by unbounded sets of heterogenous actors characterized by diverse goals and capabilities. The action net of IT veillance is defined as a flexible decentralized interconnected web shaped by multidirectional watcher-watched relationships, enabling multiple dynamic goals and foci. Cumulative contributions by heterogenous participants organize and manipulate the net, having an impact through influencing dispositions, visibilities and the inclusion/exclusion of self and others. The model makes three important theoretical contributions to our understanding of IT monitoring of watchers and watched and their relationships. We discuss implications and avenues for future studies on IT veillance.
