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An exploration of the extent to which project management tools and techniques can be applied across creative industries through a study of their application in the fashion industry in the North East of Scotland. (2014)
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MARCELLA, M. and ROWLEY, S. 2015. An exploration of the extent to which project management tools and techniques can be applied across creative industries through a study of their application in the fashion industry in the North East of Scotland. International journal of project management [online], 33(4), pages 735-746. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.12.002

This exploratory research took the form of a qualitative study that aims to investigate the extent to which project management tools and techniques can be effectively applied across the creative industries through a study of their application in the... Read More about An exploration of the extent to which project management tools and techniques can be applied across creative industries through a study of their application in the fashion industry in the North East of Scotland..

Staying in the zone: offshore drillers' situation awareness. (2014)
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ROBERTS, R., FLIN, R. and CLELAND, J. 2014. Staying in the zone: offshore drillers' situation awareness. Human factors: the journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society [online], 57(4), pages 573-590. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720814562643

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the cognitive components required for offshore drillers to develop and maintain situation awareness (SA) while controlling subsea hydrocarbon wells. Background: SA issues are often identified as contri... Read More about Staying in the zone: offshore drillers' situation awareness..

The regional offices in Brussels: from 'push and pull' to 'people and place'. (2014)
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GREENWOOD, J. 2014. The regional offices in Brussels: from 'push and pull' to 'people and place'. Regions and cohesion [online], 4(3), pages 1-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2014.040301

The potential of 'people and place' is assessed as a means to broaden research about regional political actors into key questions about their role in European integration, largely dormant since the European Commission's 2001 White Paper on Governance... Read More about The regional offices in Brussels: from 'push and pull' to 'people and place'..

The corporate reputation of Islamic banks: a measurement scale. (2014)
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ALMAHY, J.A.M., AL-SAHN, F. and BELOUCIF, A. 2014. The corporate reputation of Islamic banks: a measurement scale. International journal of marketing studies [online], 6(6), pages 91-103. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v6n6p91

During the last few years, the concept of corporate reputation has received considerable attention from marketing academics and practitioners alike. This is not surprising in view of the concept enormous practical implications. Suffice it to say, tha... Read More about The corporate reputation of Islamic banks: a measurement scale..

Images, forms and presence outside and beyond the pink ghetto. (2014)
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SMITH, R. 2014. Images, forms and presence outside and beyond the pink ghetto. Gender in management: an international journal [online], 29(8), pages 466-486. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-02-2014-0012

The purpose of this study is to consider entrepreneurial imagery that sheds light on differing and emerging patterns of female entrepreneurial identity which illustrate shifts in the locus of power that challenge masculine hegemony and power structur... Read More about Images, forms and presence outside and beyond the pink ghetto..

Authoring second generation entrepreneur and family business stories. (2014)
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SMITH, R. 2014. Authoring second generation entrepreneur and family business stories. Journal of family business management [online], 4(2), pages 149-170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-11-2011-0050

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the under researched interface between entrepreneur and family business stories and in particular the form and structure of second-generation entrepreneur stories. It illustrates how second-generation... Read More about Authoring second generation entrepreneur and family business stories..

Staying in the zone: the cognitive components associated with offshore drillers' situation awareness. (2014)
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ROBERTS, R.C., FLIN, R. and CLELAND, J. 2014. Staying in the zone: the cognitive components associated with offshore drillers' situation awareness. Proceedings of the human factors and ergonomics society annual meeting [online], 58(1): papers of the 58th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting 2014 (HFES 2014), 27-31 October, 2014, San Diego, USA, pages 270-274. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931214581056

Situation Awareness (SA) issues are often identified as contributing factors to drilling incidents, most recently in the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Two studies aimed to identify the cognitive components required for offshore drillers to develop and m... Read More about Staying in the zone: the cognitive components associated with offshore drillers' situation awareness..

The 'Europeanization' of the Basel process: financial harmonization between globalization and parliamentarization. (2014)
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GREENWOOD, J. and ROEDERER-RYNNING, C. 2015. The 'Europeanization' of the Basel process: financial harmonization between globalization and parliamentarization. Regulation and governance [online], 9(4), pages 325-338. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12063

Public policy initiatives aimed at the prevention of future financial crises originate with global harmonization in the form of executive standards issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. This article explores the role of the European P... Read More about The 'Europeanization' of the Basel process: financial harmonization between globalization and parliamentarization..

Non-technical skills of the scrub practitioner: the SPLINTS system. (2014)
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FLIN, R., MITCHELL, L. and MCLEOD, B. 2014. Non-technical skills of the scrub practitioner: the SPLINTS system. ORNAC journal [online], 32(3), pages 33-38. Available from: https://view.flipdocs.com/?ID=10020446_247797

This article describes the nontechnical skill set, and behavioural rating tool, for scrub practitioners/nurses (e.g. perioperative registered nurses; operating room technicians) known as the Scrub Practitioners' List of Intraoperative Non Technical S... Read More about Non-technical skills of the scrub practitioner: the SPLINTS system..

Understanding entrepreneurship: challenging dominant perspectives and theorizing entrepreneurship through new postpositivist epistemologies. (2014)
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KARATAS-OZKAN, M., ANDERSON, A.R., FAYOLLE, A., HOWELLS, J. and CONDOR, R. 2014. Understanding entrepreneurship: challenging dominant perspectives and theorizing entrepreneurship through new postpositivist epistemologies. Journal of small business management [online], 52(4), pages 589-593. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12124

Entrepreneurship is characterized by complex, dynamic and emergent processes, and the interplay between actors, processes, and contexts. Postpositivistic approaches offer the opportunity to examine subtleties of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship by... Read More about Understanding entrepreneurship: challenging dominant perspectives and theorizing entrepreneurship through new postpositivist epistemologies..

Assessing the contribution of the 'theory of matriarchy' to the entrepreneurship and family business literatures. (2014)
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SMITH, R. 2014. Assessing the contribution of the 'theory of matriarchy' to the entrepreneurship and family business literatures. International journal of gender and entrepreneurship [online], 6(3), pages 255-275. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-06-2011-0061

The purpose of this paper is to assess the contribution of 'Matriarchy' to the entrepreneurship and family business literature. The literature on gendered aspects of entrepreneurship is expanding and maturing in its level of theoretical sophisticatio... Read More about Assessing the contribution of the 'theory of matriarchy' to the entrepreneurship and family business literatures..

Entrepreneurship and networked collaboration: synergetic innovation, knowledge and uncertainty. (2014)
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ANDERSON, A. and LI, J. 2014. Entrepreneurship and networked collaboration: synergetic innovation, knowledge and uncertainty. Journal of general management [online], 40(1), pages 7-21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/030630701404000102

This conceptual paper examines the nature of entrepreneurship in innovation processes in time of crisis. Crisis is a time of heightened uncertainty, manifested as increased ambiguity about what knowledge is available yet necessary for innovation. It... Read More about Entrepreneurship and networked collaboration: synergetic innovation, knowledge and uncertainty..

Liquidity measures and cost of trading in an illiquid market. (2014)
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ARMITAGE, S., BRZESZCZYNSKI, J. and SERDYUK, A. 2014. Liquidity measures and cost of trading in an illiquid market. Journal of emerging market finance [online], 13(2), pages 155-196. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0972652714541340

We provide the first in-depth study of trading on the Ukrainian stock exchange, using trade-by-trade data. Though Ukraine has some large listed companies, the market is quite illiquid. We study the efficiency of five liquidity measures in the market.... Read More about Liquidity measures and cost of trading in an illiquid market..

Public information arrival and investor reaction during a period of institutional change: an episode of early years of a newly independent central bank. (2014)
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BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J. and KUTAN, A.M. 2015. Public information arrival and investor reaction during a period of institutional change: an episode of early years of a newly independent central bank. Journal of comparative economics [online], 43(3), pages 727-753. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2014.07.004

Employing unique data derived directly from the Reuters electronic brokerage platform for currency trading, this paper investigates the reaction of investors to central bank announcements on the foreign exchange market in Poland in the years 2000–200... Read More about Public information arrival and investor reaction during a period of institutional change: an episode of early years of a newly independent central bank..

A Bourdieuan analysis of qualitative authorship in entrepreneurship scholarship. (2014)
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DRAKOPOULOU-DODD, S., MCDONALD, S., MCELWEE, G. and SMITH, R. 2014. A Bourdieuan analysis of qualitative authorship in entrepreneurship scholarship. Journal of small business management [online], 52(4), pages 633-654. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12125

Empirically, this study builds on responses from leading qualitative entrepreneurship scholars. We carry out a Bourdieuan analysis of the field of entrepreneurship scholarship-particularly heterodox qualitative writing-and the way that scholars learn... Read More about A Bourdieuan analysis of qualitative authorship in entrepreneurship scholarship..

Embedded entrepreneurship in the creative re-construction of place. (2014)
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MCKEEVER, E., JACK, S. and ANDERSON, A. 2015. Embedded entrepreneurship in the creative re-construction of place. Journal of business venturing [online], 30(1), pages 50-65. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.07.002

This paper focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs engage with place and community. Drawing on the ideas of embeddedness and transferring value across spheres, we develop insight about how the relationship between entrepreneurs and communities influen... Read More about Embedded entrepreneurship in the creative re-construction of place..

Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning - lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature. (2014)
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THYGESEN, J. and AGARWAL, A. 2014. Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning: lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature. Renewable and sustainable energy reviews [online], 39, pages 1012-1023. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.173

An increasing number of researchers stress the importance of national planning institutions' role with respect to promoting an 'effective' decision-making process in terms of bringing about sustainable energy. Impact assessment (IA) procedures are se... Read More about Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning - lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature..

Restorative counter-spacing for academic sustainability. (2014)
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JONES, D.R. 2014. Restorative counter-spacing for academic sustainability. Organization and environment [online], 27(3), pages 297-314. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026614545088

By combining pertinent theories from environmental psychology and human geography, this article proposes a socio-spatial framework of principles, which could be used by academic actors, to reflexively embody and critically enact a bio-cultural connec... Read More about Restorative counter-spacing for academic sustainability..

The impact of the cessation of blogs within the UK police blogosphere. (2014)
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PEDERSEN, S., BURNETT, S., SMITH, R. and GRINNALL, A. 2014. The impact of the cessation of blogs within the UK police blogosphere. New technology, work and employment [online], 29(2), pages 160-176. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12028

This article investigates the concept of influence within a group of police work-bloggers. During the period studied (2007-2013), three influential police bloggers, well-known within the small and tightly knit UK police blogosphere, abruptly ended th... Read More about The impact of the cessation of blogs within the UK police blogosphere..

Oil price shocks and Nigerian economic growth. (2014)
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ALLEY, I., ASEKOMEH, A., MOBOLAJI, H. and ADENIRAN, Y.A. 2014. Oil price shocks and Nigerian economic growth. European scientific journal [online], 10(19), pages 375-391. Available from: https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2014.v10n19p%2525p

This study employs the general methods of moment (GMM) to examine the impact of oil price shocks on the Nigerian economy, using data from 1981 to 2012. After appropriate robustness checks, the study finds out that oil price shocks insignificantly ret... Read More about Oil price shocks and Nigerian economic growth..