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Contains new publications from the Cardiff School of Management in addition to four previous research themes
- Governance, accountability and social justice
- New Economies
- Competitiveness, Innovation and Enterprise
- Information Systems, Technology and People
Recent submissions
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Celebrity endorsement and the attitude towards luxury brands for a sustainable consumption
(MDPI, 2019-11-29)Taking into consideration the increasing role of sustainability in the luxury industry, our study investigates the role of celebrity credibility, celebrity familiarity, luxury brand value, and brand sustainability awareness ... -
Australian graduates’ work readiness – deficiencies, causes and potential solutions
(Emerald, 2019-11-20)Purpose – It is widely reported that there is a competence deficit between graduating from Australian higher education (HE) and becoming work ready and that the deficit is becoming more pronounced. The purpose of this ... -
An Analysis of Smart Systems Implementation in UK Food Production Companies
(IOS Press, 2018)The UK food industry faces significant challenges to remain competitive. With the changing political climate, companies can no longer rely on a low labour cost workforce to maintain low production costs. Smart Production ... -
Your Guess is as Good as Mine: Finding Your Way on Board a Cruise Ship
(Academic Advisory Council for Signage Research and Education, 2019-07-23)Wayfinding on board a large cruise ship might be mistakenly thought to be easy and straightforward, and this may well account for the absence of literature on this topic. This paper will address this gap by exploring and ... -
Differences between Further and Higher Education Enterprise Education in South Wales
(Academic Conferences International Limited, 2019-09)The objective of this paper is to understand from a comparative institutional perspective, the picture of enterprise education (EE) regionally in South Wales. The analysis compares age and entrepreneurial self-belief (also ... -
Creative Regions in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-11-12)The shift towards neo-liberal policy-making as orthodoxy has been well documented within the field of regional development and beyond... -
Exploring physicians' behavioural intention toward the adoption of electronic health records: an empirical study from Jordan
(Inderscience, 2016-02-08)The response of health professionals to the use of health information technology (HIT) can partly explain the success or failure of any HIT adoption and/or its application. The present study applies a modified version of ... -
Co-working spaces for promoting entrepreneurship in sparse regions: the case of South Wales
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-08-14)Co-working spaces are creative and energetic places where small firms, freelancers and start-ups, who have become tired of the isolation of their home offices and the distractions of their local coffee shops, can interact, ... -
Logos, Ethos, Pathos and the Marketing of Higher Education
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-10)This article utilises rhetorical analysis as a method to investigate course level marketing communications for undergraduate fashion marketing degrees in England. The purpose of this method is to explore the persuasive ... -
Split credit ratings of banks in times of crisis
(Inderscience, 2019)This paper analyses whether opacity of bank creditworthiness increases during crisis periods and if the conservativeness of CRAs changes through business cycles. Univariate and multivariate methodologies are ... -
Examining the effects of celebrity trust on advertising credibility, brand credibility and corporate credibility
(Elsevier, 2019)Drawing on signalling theory, this study aims to fill a gap in knowledge by examining the effects of celebrity trust on advertising credibility, brand credibility and corporate credibility, both directly and based on the ... -
Organizational learning, authentic leadership and individual-level resistance to change: a study of Egyptian academics
(Emerald, 2019-11-01)Purpose – This paper focuses on academics in three private foreign universities located in Cairo (Egypt) to explore the effect of organizational learning on individual-level resistance to change with and without the mediation ... -
Transformational leadership, organizational justice and organizational outcomes
(Emerald, 2019-09-09)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of transformational leadership (TL) on organizational commitment (OC) with the mediating role of organizational justice (OJ) in the higher education (HE) sector ... -
Evaluation of Children’s Screen Viewing Time and Parental Role in Household Context
(SAGE, 2019-09-22)Limited screen time has been recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for all children and no screen time for children under 2 years of age. With the advancement in technology, the prevalence and detrimental effects ... -
‘Are we there yet?’ Australian HR professionals and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(Wiley, 2019-08-31)Although still in its early stages, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR), which involves a broad range of artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning technologies, will fundamentally change the way many of ... -
Common Biases in Business Research
(Springer, 2018-03-31)Bias occurs in research when an error is committed in sampling or testing which results in choosing or favoring one outcome, conclusion or result over others. Bias can happen at any stage of research, including study design, ... -
Resolving the public-sector wage premium puzzle by indirect inference
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-08-07)This paper investigates the public-sector wage premium (PSWP) in the UK using a microfounded economic model and indirect inference (II). To answer the question whether there is public-sector wage premium, we ask an equivalent ... -
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes
(Elsevier, 2019-07-11)The number of self-employed, freelancers, and remote workers has risen steadily; simultaneously a range of collaborative shared workspaces – coworking spaces – has emerged rapidly in which these individuals ‘work alone ... -
Social Capital and Innovation: A Theoretical Perspective
(IGI Global, 2019)There is a considerable body of literature available to aid understanding of the concept of social capital and the identification of its presence. Overall objectives and mission of the chapter are to compile an up-to-date ... -
Measuring Social Capital: The Case of the Technium Network in Wales
(IGI Global, 2019)This chapter will offer a unique insight to the existence of different forms of social capital at the Technium network. The exploration of the wider Technium network outcomes such as social capital is likely to be of benefit ...
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