All Outputs (709)

Development and pilot evaluation of an online retrofit decision-making tool for homeowners. (2022)
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SEDDIKI, M., BENNADJI, A., ALABID, J., GRAY, D. and DEVECI, G. 2022. Development and pilot evaluation of an online retrofit decision-making tool for homeowners. Buildings [online], 12(10), article 1513. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101513

Many retrofit projects went wrong in the UK principally because of the application of inappropriate retrofit solutions, which resulted in damp issues, with some leaving houses in worse conditions than pre-retrofit. Various online tools were developed... Read More about Development and pilot evaluation of an online retrofit decision-making tool for homeowners..

Information behaviour in high risk decision making: study of international postgraduates. (2022)
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MCNICHOLAS, C. and MARCELLA, R. 2024. Information behaviour in high risk decision making: study of international postgraduates. Journal of information science [online], 50(6), pages 1525-1540. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221124080

This article explores the role of information in high risk consumer decision making. Forty-two qualitative interviews were undertaken with international non-EU postgraduates when making the high risk decision to study in a UK Business School. Prospec... Read More about Information behaviour in high risk decision making: study of international postgraduates..

Female small business owners in China: discouraged, not discriminated. (2022)
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CAGLAYAN, M., TALAVERA, O. and XIONG, L. 2022. Female small business owners in China: discouraged, not discriminated. Journal of international financial markets, institutions and money [online], 80, article number 101649. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101649

Using a unique small business loan application dataset from a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital loan platform in China, we show that female entrepreneurs are more likely to be discouraged from applying for funds after a failed attempt compared to their male... Read More about Female small business owners in China: discouraged, not discriminated..

Designing effective waste management practices in developing economies: the case of Suriname. (2022)
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OKE, A., PINAS, C.J. and OSOBAJO, O.A. 2022. Designing effective waste management practices in developing economies: the case of Suriname. Cleaner waste systems [online], 3, article 100030. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clwas.2022.100030

Local authorities are responsible for the exponential increase of waste, estimated to be about 9 billion tonnes annually. However, developing economies face enormous waste management challenges compared to developed economies, suggesting the lack of... Read More about Designing effective waste management practices in developing economies: the case of Suriname..

Understanding teamwork in rapidly deployed interprofessional teams in intensive and acute care: a systematic review of reviews. (2022)
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SCHILLING, S., ARMAOU, M., MORRISON, Z., CARDING, P., BRICKNELL, M. and CONNELLY, V. 2022. Understanding teamwork in rapidly deployed interprofessional teams in intensive and acute care: a systematic review of reviews. PLoS One [online], 17(8), article e0272942. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272942

The rapid increase of acute and intensive care capacities in hospitals needed during the response to COVID-19 created an urgent demand for skilled healthcare staff across the globe. To upscale capacity, many hospitals chose to increase their teams in... Read More about Understanding teamwork in rapidly deployed interprofessional teams in intensive and acute care: a systematic review of reviews..

Community acceptance and social impacts of carbon capture, utilization and storage projects: a systematic meta-narrative literature review. (2022)
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NIELSEN, J.A.E., STAVRIANAKIS, K. and MORRISON, Z. 2022. Community acceptance and social impacts of carbon capture, utilization and storage projects: a systematic meta-narrative literature review. Plos one [online], 17(8), article e0272409. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272409

This manuscript presents a systematic meta-narrative review of peer-reviewed publications considering community acceptance and social impacts of site-specific Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects to inform the design and implementat... Read More about Community acceptance and social impacts of carbon capture, utilization and storage projects: a systematic meta-narrative literature review..

Refugee women business mentors: new evidence for women’s empowerment. (2022)
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STREET, C.P., NG, P.Y. and AL-DAJANI, H. 2022. Refugee women business mentors: new evidence for women's empowerment. Sustainability [online], 14(15), article 9154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159154

With over 27.1 million refugees displaced globally across national borders as a result of protracted crises, conflict, and danger, resettlement in host nations remains challenging. One approach for empowering refugee women in their host nations is to... Read More about Refugee women business mentors: new evidence for women’s empowerment..

A generalised seasonality test and applications for cryptocurrency and stock market seasonality. (2022)
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SHANAEV, S. and GHIMIRE, B. 2022. A generalised seasonality test and applications for cryptocurrency and stock market seasonality. Quarterly review of economics and finance [online], 86, pages 172-185. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2022.07.002

This study develops a novel generalised seasonality test that utilises sequential dummy variable regressions for seasonality periodicity equal to prime numbers. It allows to test for existence of any seasonal patterns against the broad null hypothesi... Read More about A generalised seasonality test and applications for cryptocurrency and stock market seasonality..

Providing a roadmap for future research agenda: a bibliometric literature review of sustainability performance reporting (SPR). (2022)
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OSOBAJO, O.A., OKE, A., LAWANI, A., OMOTAYO, T.S., NDUBUKA-MCCALLUM, N. and OBI, L. 2022. Providing a roadmap for future research agenda: a bibliometric literature review of sustainability performance reporting (SPR). Sustainability [online], 14(14), article number 8523. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148523

The concept of sustainability reporting is now an essential tool, through which organisations demonstrate accountability to their stakeholders. The increasing market pressure, coupled with the awareness of the consequences of organisations' activitie... Read More about Providing a roadmap for future research agenda: a bibliometric literature review of sustainability performance reporting (SPR)..

Performing, learning and entrepreneuring: playing it by ear. (2022)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and AIR, C. 2022. Performing, learning and entrepreneuring: playing it by ear. International journal of entrepreneurship and innovation [online], 23(3), pages 163-175. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503221105045

We examine how musicians become entrepreneurs, illustrating how this dramatic shift from the aesthetic to the commercial offered a useful platform for understanding entrepreneurship. Analysing our data of 20 life-story narratives, we found chronologi... Read More about Performing, learning and entrepreneuring: playing it by ear..

Narrating the "social": the evolving stories of Pakistan's social entrepreneurs. (2022)
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CUNNINGHAM, J., XIONG, L., HASHIM, H. and YUNIS, M.S. 2022. Narrating the "social": the evolving stories of Pakistan's social entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship and regional development [online], 34(7-8): special issue in memory of Professor Alistair Anderson 'Social perspectives of entrepreneuring', pages 576-581. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2022.2077990

Social enterprises are often characterised by the vision and drive of an individual founder. We challenge this by taking inspiration from Alistair R. Anderson's arguments that social entrepreneurship is better understood as enacted within a social co... Read More about Narrating the "social": the evolving stories of Pakistan's social entrepreneurs..

Reformulating the empowerment process through women entrepreneurship in a collective context. (2022)
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NG, P.Y., WOOD, B.P. and BASTIAN, B.L. 2022. Reformulating the empowerment process through women entrepreneurship in a collective context. International journal of entrepreneurial behavior and research [online], 28(9), pages 154-176. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-06-2021-0479

The purpose of this study is to develop an empirically informed framework to analyze women empowerment and entrepreneurship, contextualized within a collective society. The authors conducted 15 in-depth semi-structured interviews with women entrepren... Read More about Reformulating the empowerment process through women entrepreneurship in a collective context..

Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets? (2022)
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SZCZYGIELSKI, J.J., CHARTERIS, A., BWANYA, P.R. and BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J. 2023. Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets? Journal of international financial markets, institutions and money [online], 84, article 101592. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101592

Information about COVID-19 pandemic abounds, but which COVID-19 data actually impacts stock prices? We investigate which measures of COVID-19 matter most by applying elastic net regression for measure selection using a sample of the 35 largest stock... Read More about Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets?.

Rethinking financial contagion: information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2022)
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YAROVAYA, L, BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J., GOODBELL, J., LUCEY, B. and LAU, C.K.M. 2022. Rethinking financial contagion: information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of international financial markets, institutions and money [online], 80, article 101589. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101589

Rapidly growing numbers of empirical papers assessing the financial effects of COVID-19 pandemic triggered an urgent need for a study summarising the existing knowledge of contagion phenomenon. This paper provides a review of conceptual approaches to... Read More about Rethinking financial contagion: information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic..

Has the risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies stocks changed in the COVID-19 period? International evidence. (2022)
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BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J., GAJDKA, J., PIETRASZEWSKI, P. and SCHABEK, T. 2022. Has the risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies stocks changed in the COVID-19 period? International evidence. Finance research letters [online], 49, article 102986. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102986

In this study, we investigate changes in risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies in the periods before and during the COVID-19 pandemic relying on a broad dataset covering SRI indices from 35 markets analyzed between 2016 and 2021. O... Read More about Has the risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies stocks changed in the COVID-19 period? International evidence..

Women's empowerment as an outcome of NGO projects: is the current approach sustainable? (2022)
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AL HAKIM, G., BASTIAN, B.L., NG, P.Y. and WOOD, B.P. 2022. Women's empowerment as an outcome of NGO projects: is the current approach sustainable? Administrative sciences [online], 12(2), article 62. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci12020062

The area of women's empowerment has attracted increasing attention among a wide range of interest groups, from authors to researchers to feminist scholars and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This paper aims to identify the diverse understandin... Read More about Women's empowerment as an outcome of NGO projects: is the current approach sustainable?.

Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to 'do' entrepreneurship. (2022)
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CUNNINGHAM, J. and FRASER, S.S. 2022. Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to 'do' entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and regional development [online], 34(7-8): special issue in memory of Professor Alistair Anderson 'Social perspectives of entrepreneuring, pages 576-581. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2022.2071997

In this research note, we further Alistair R. Anderson's argument that an atomized view of entrepreneurship as an economic function provides limited understanding of what it is to actually do entrepreneurship. We take the stance that entrepreneurship... Read More about Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to 'do' entrepreneurship..

Predicting energy savings of the UK housing stock under a step-by-step energy retrofit scenario towards net-zero. (2022)
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BENNADJI, A., SEDDIKI, M., ALABID, J., LAING, R. and GRAY, D. 2022. Predicting energy savings of the UK housing stock under a step-by-step energy retrofit scenario towards net-zero. Energies [online], 15(9), article 3082. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/en15093082

The UK has one of the least energy-efficient housing stocks in Europe. By 2030, the emissions from UK homes need to fall by at least 24% from 1990 levels to meet the UK's ambitious goal, which is reaching net-zero emissions. The originality of this p... Read More about Predicting energy savings of the UK housing stock under a step-by-step energy retrofit scenario towards net-zero..

Beyond the psychology of self and individual's pro-environmental behaviours: exploring how technology innovations can help organisations achieve and promote sustainability. (2022)
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OKE, A. 2023. Beyond the psychology of self and individual's pro-environmental behaviours: exploring how technology innovations can help organisations achieve and promote sustainability. Technological sustainability [online], 2(1), pages 1-19. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/TECHS-02-2022-0013

This study proposes a new agenda for research and practice on pro-environmental behaviours in organisational settings by exploring the intersection between technology innovations and pro-environmental initiatives. The goal is to demonstrate the utili... Read More about Beyond the psychology of self and individual's pro-environmental behaviours: exploring how technology innovations can help organisations achieve and promote sustainability..

An evaluation of feedstocks for sustainable energy and circular economy practices in a small island community. (2022)
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REYNOLDS, J., KENNEDY, R., ICHAPKA, M., AGARWAL, A., OKE, A., COX, E., EDWARDS, C. and NJUGUNA, J. 2022. An evaluation of feedstocks for sustainable energy and circular economy practices in a small island community. Renewable and sustainable energy reviews [online], 161, article 112360. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112360

Maximising the use of anaerobic digestion to generate power from waste feedstocks is becoming a practical way to use waste contributing to the transition from a linear to a circular economy and reducing the carbon footprint. In addition to harnessing... Read More about An evaluation of feedstocks for sustainable energy and circular economy practices in a small island community..