Welsh Centre for Business and Management Research
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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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All in This Together? HRM and the Individualisation of the Academic Worker
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013-09-01)In the context of neoliberal government policymaking in the UK, universities have become increasingly managerial in their approach. Growing market pressures and a commodification of higher education (HE) has had a significant ... -
The influence of industry-university interactions on industrial innovation in Ghana: a structural equation modeling approach
(2015)Business organisations as end users of innovation interact with universities for knowledge transfer for significant improvement in business practices and competitive advantage. These include formal and informal links ... -
Statistical Fluctuations along the Lennard-Jones Melting Curve
(Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Scientific Publishers OWN, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016)Statistical fluctuations and correlations between thermodynamic properties along the fluid side of the melting line of the Lennard-Jones (LJ) are determined using Molecular Dynamics (MD) computer simulation. Linear regression, ... -
The Influence of National Culture on Consumer Buying Behaviour: An Exploratory Study of Nigerian and British Consumers
(World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2016)Despite the considerable body of literature investigating the influence of National Culture (NC) dimensions on consumer behaviour, there is a lack of studies comparing the influence of NC in Africa with Western European ... -
Regions as Enterprising Places: Governance, Policy and Development
(Emerald, 2014)Purpose This chapter reviews and critiques the recent evolution of place-based entrepreneurship policy in the United Kingdom, in particular the governance of policies targeted at the regional level to promote economic ... -
Changing Bank Income Structure: Evidence from Large UK Banks?
(Macrothink Institute, 2014)The UK banking industry has steadily moved from the traditional role of financial intermediation and is increasingly relying on non-traditional business activities that generate fee income, dealings profit and other types ... -
Financial Entrepreneurship in Three Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study of Ghana, Pakistan, and Yemen
(IGI Global, 2018)This chapter compiles an up-to-date and academically grounded study on enterprise financing in the emerging economies of Ghana, Pakistan and Yemen in terms of global dynamics. The research question addressed ‘what is the ... -
An investigation of the benefits and barriers of e‐business adoption activities in Yemeni SMEs
(Wiley, 2018-05-29)Yemeni small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are at the early stages of e‐business adoption and their owners and managers need to be supported to gain an understanding of the benefits that their business can achieve ... -
An evolutionary framework exploring the role of periodisations in the modern development of a Baltic state: The case of HRM in the Latvian public sector
(SAGE, 2018-04-25)This article explores the role of ‘periodisations’ in the development of HRM in the Latvian public sector and consists of a series of ‘elite interviews’ with leading ‘actors’ identifying further ‘periodisations’ which are ... -
The importance of regional scenarios for low carbon transitions: the case of Wales
(Inderscience, 2015)This paper examines the complexities of modelling a regional energy system in the context of Wales, and in the process, examines the role of regions in low carbon transitions. Despite a wealth of studies at national level, ... -
Sustainable regeneration: a guiding vision towards low-carbon transition?
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-03-31)While the concept of sustainable development brings together concepts of economic, environmental and social sustainability, much has been said regarding inherent tensions between them. Conflicts between economic and ... -
Innovation and Policy for Bioenergy in the UK: a Co-evolutionary perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-08)This paper analyses the role of niche innovation and regime interaction in the field of renewable energy in the UK. Adopting a co-evolutionary approach and a dynamic multilevel perspective on system innovation, it investigates ... -
Retrofit 2050: Critical Challenges for Urban Transitions
(Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, 2014)Scaling up retrofit presents a number of critical challenges for the transition to urban sustainability. Drawing together insights from the EPSRC Retrofit 2050 project this briefing sets out key success factors that ... -
Cardiff 2050: City Regional Scenarios for Sustainability
(Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, 2014)What would a sustainable future look like for Cardiff and South East Wales? -
Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance
(Routledge, 2014)Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food ... -
Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to Transform or to Ungovern?
(Routledge, 2015)Developing an up-to-date critical framework for analysing urban retrofit, this is the first book to examine urban re-engineering for sustainability in a socio-technical context. Retrofitting Cities examines why retrofit ... -
City-Regional futures in context: Insights from the Retrofit 2050 project
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)The culmination of a four-year collaborative research project undertaken by leading UK universities, in partnership with city authorities, prominent architecture firms, and major international consultants, Retrofitting ... -
In-work poverty and the search for decent work for women in Wales: A literature review
(Oxfam Cymru, 2017-07)Rising levels of female employment have made the UK labour market almost unrecognisable from that of five decades ago. Yet, whilst women’s contribution to the Welsh economy is growing, disparity between men’s and women’s ... -
Retrofitting the built environment ‘to save’ energy: Arbed, the emergence of a distinctive sustainability transition pathway in Wales
(Sage, 2017-11-01)Combining insights from research on systems innovation and sustainable transitions with multi-level governance perspectives, this paper examines the ‘Arbed’ domestic housing retrofit programmes in Wales. In so doing, the ... -
Understanding the material dimensions of the uneven deployment of renewable energy in two Italian regions
(Elsevier, 2018-02)Drawing on empirical material from two Italian regions, we show how various material dimensions have affected the spatial distribution and deployment of renewable energy (RE), in particular solar and wind energy. The paper ...
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