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Great expectations or small country living? Enabling small rural creative businesses with ICT. (2015)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R., WALLACE, C. and TOWNSEND, L. 2016. Great expectations or small country living? Enabling small rural creative businesses with ICT. Sociologia ruralis [online], 56(3), pages 450-468. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12104

Small businesses are prototypical rural business, but limited by distance. However, creative businesses are less constrained by space and hold great promise for rural development. Indeed, the rural is an attractive creative aesthetic milieu. Moreover... Read More about Great expectations or small country living? Enabling small rural creative businesses with ICT..

The evolution of the market for commercial computerized physician order entry and computerized decision support systems for prescribing. (2015)
Journal Article
MOZAFFAR, H., WILLIAMS, R., CRESSWELL, K., MORRISON, Z., BATES, D.W. and SHEIKH, A. 2016. The evolution of the market for commercial computerized physician order entry and computerized decision support systems for prescribing. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association [online], 23(2), pages 349-355. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv095

Objective: To understand the evolving market of commercial off-the-shelf Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and Computerized Decision Support (CDS) applications and its effects on their uptake and implementation in English hospitals. Methods:... Read More about The evolution of the market for commercial computerized physician order entry and computerized decision support systems for prescribing..

Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: exploring its contours and contents. (2015)
Journal Article
RANDERSON, K., BETTINELLIB, C., FAYOLLE, A. and ANDERSON, A. 2015. Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: exploring its contours and contents. Journal of family business strategy [online], 6(3), pages 143-154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2015.08.002

This research note presents some food for thought about linking and relating the family, family business and entrepreneurship fields. Although each field has developed an important body of knowledge and some work has been done at the intersections, w... Read More about Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: exploring its contours and contents..

Civil dialogue and the Citizens' Initiative: accounting for collaboration and competition using the advocacy coalition framework and the strategic action field. (2015)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2015. Civil dialogue and the Citizens' Initiative: accounting for collaboration and competition using the advocacy coalition framework and the strategic action field. In Johannson, H. and Kalm, S. (eds.) EU civil society: patterns of cooperation, competition and conflict. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan [online], chapter 11, pages 193-209. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137500724_11

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) has introduced a largely new set of campaigners working in a fresh 'direct democracy' frame at EU level, alongside an established group of Brussels based EU NGOs seeking to institutionalise an elite 'civil dial... Read More about Civil dialogue and the Citizens' Initiative: accounting for collaboration and competition using the advocacy coalition framework and the strategic action field..

Flying in the face of environmental concern: why green consumers continue to fly. (2015)
Journal Article
MCDONALD, S., OATES, C.J., THYNE, M., TIMMIS, A.J. and CARLILE, C. 2015. Flying in the face of environmental concern: why green consumers continue to fly. Journal of marketing management [online], 31(13-14), pages 1503-1528. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2015.1059352

Some unsustainable consumer behaviours have proved extremely hard to change or even challenge. Despite the fact that flying can be more damaging than any other activity that an individual can undertake, many otherwise green consumers still choose to... Read More about Flying in the face of environmental concern: why green consumers continue to fly..

The information environment and information behaviour of the offshore installation manager (OIM) in the context of safety and emergency response: an exploratory study. (2015)
Journal Article
MARCELLA, R. and LOCKERBIE, H. 2016. The information environment and information behaviour of the offshore installation manager (OIM) in the context of safety and emergency response: an exploratory study. Journal of information science [online], 42(4), pages 551-567. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551515600118

The offshore installation manager (OIM) is a unique role in the oil and gas industry with the legal responsibility for the health and safety of individuals on an offshore installation, as well as holding commercial responsibilities. Using exploratory... Read More about The information environment and information behaviour of the offshore installation manager (OIM) in the context of safety and emergency response: an exploratory study..

Car driver attitudes, perceptions of social norms and aggressive driving behaviour towards cyclists. (2015)
Journal Article
FRUHEN, L.S. and FLIN, R. 2015. Car driver attitudes, perceptions of social norms and aggressive driving behaviour towards cyclists. Accident analysis and prevention [online], 83, pages 162-170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2015.07.003

The interaction of car drivers and cyclists is one of the main causes of cycle incidents. The role of attitudes and social norms in shaping car drivers' aggressive behaviour towards cyclists, is not well understood and merits investigation. A sample... Read More about Car driver attitudes, perceptions of social norms and aggressive driving behaviour towards cyclists..

Optimality test of marginal field development financing arrangements in Nigeria. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
EKEH, C. and ASEKOMEH, A. 2015. Optimality test of marginal field development financing arrangements in Nigeria. Presented at 39th SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Nigeria annual international conference and exhibition 2015 (NAICE 2015): natural gas development and exploitation in an emerging economy; strategies, infrastructure and policy framework, 4-6 August 2015, Lagos, Nigeria.

Marginal oil fields in Nigeria, some of which the International Oil Companies (IOCs) have abandoned for over 10 years previously, are now being awarded to indigenous oil companies. Due to difficulty with raising development finance domestically, some... Read More about Optimality test of marginal field development financing arrangements in Nigeria..

Entrepreneurship and poetry: analyzing an aesthetic dimension. (2015)
Journal Article
SMITH, R. 2015. Entrepreneurship and poetry: analyzing an aesthetic dimension. Journal of small business and enterprise development [online], 22(3), pages 450-472. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-09-2012-0103

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the aesthetic dimension of entrepreneur poems. The notion of the entrepreneur as storyteller, and the entrepreneur story as cultural genres have become so firmly entrenched in the collective social consciou... Read More about Entrepreneurship and poetry: analyzing an aesthetic dimension..

The 'fairness paradox' and 'small-firm growth resistance strategies'. (2015)
Journal Article
ULLAH, F. and SMITH, R. 2015. The 'fairness paradox' and 'small-firm growth resistance strategies'. World journal of entrepreneurship, management and sustainable development [online], 11(3), pages 154-175. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/WJEMSD-02-2015-0005

The purpose of this paper is to examine and explore why 'Small-Businesses' resist employing outside the immediate family and investigate the employee as an outsider and entrepreneurial resource. Design/methodology/approach The authors review the lite... Read More about The 'fairness paradox' and 'small-firm growth resistance strategies'..