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‘It was doing my head in’: Low-paid multiple employment and zero hours work (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, A., & McBride, J. (2023). ‘It was doing my head in’: Low-paid multiple employment and zero hours work. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 61(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12689

This article explores the lived experiences and working time complexities of low-paid workers in legitimate multiple employment and zero hours work. Based on detailed qualitative research, these workers have 2, 3, 4, 5 and even 7 different jobs out o... Read More about ‘It was doing my head in’: Low-paid multiple employment and zero hours work.

Are we Nearly There Yet? A Desires & Realities Framework for Europe’s AI Strategy (2022)
Journal Article
Polyviou, A., & Zamani, E. D. (2023). Are we Nearly There Yet? A Desires & Realities Framework for Europe’s AI Strategy. Information Systems Frontiers, 25(1), 143-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10285-2

Of all emerging technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is perhaps the most debated topic in contemporary society because it promises to redefine and disrupt several sectors. At the same time, AI poses challenges for policymakers and decision-make... Read More about Are we Nearly There Yet? A Desires & Realities Framework for Europe’s AI Strategy.

The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors (2022)
Journal Article
Werven, R. V., Cornelissen, J., & Bouwmeester, O. (2023). The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors. British Journal of Management, 34(2), 873-897. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12615

Entrepreneurs’ responses to feedback are in part determined by how the interactions during which they receive it unfold. Prior studies primarily discuss feedback interactions between entrepreneurs and their mentors or trusted advisors. As a result of... Read More about The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors.

How do incumbents affect the founding of cooperatives? Evidence from the German electricity industry (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, M., & Guenther, C. (2024). How do incumbents affect the founding of cooperatives? Evidence from the German electricity industry. Organization Studies, 45(1), 85-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406221107457

As cooperatives become a crucial part of our society’s repository of solutions for addressing the sustainability challenges, the very emergence of cooperatives continues to puzzle scholars. In this study we address a central concern for both organiza... Read More about How do incumbents affect the founding of cooperatives? Evidence from the German electricity industry.

Bilinear Pooling in Video-QA: Empirical Challenges and Motivational Drift from Neurological Parallels (2022)
Journal Article
Winterbottom, T., Xiao, S., McLean, A., & Al Moubayed, N. (2022). Bilinear Pooling in Video-QA: Empirical Challenges and Motivational Drift from Neurological Parallels. PeerJ Computer Science, 8(e974), Article e974. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.974

Bilinear pooling (BLP) refers to a family of operations recently developed for fusing features from different modalities predominantly for visual question answering (VQA) models. Successive BLP techniques have yielded higher performance with lower co... Read More about Bilinear Pooling in Video-QA: Empirical Challenges and Motivational Drift from Neurological Parallels.

Exploring SMEs attitudes to Net Zero & social media: Action Case research as a force for good (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fenton, A., Ahmed, W., Hardey, M., & Koral, C. (2022, August). Exploring SMEs attitudes to Net Zero & social media: Action Case research as a force for good. Presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2022, Manchester, England

We address a research gap in SME understanding and attitudes to Net Zero and their communications. We employed an Action Case approach, which included a small-scale qualitative survey of SMEs and social network analysis (SNA) of Twitter. We discovere... Read More about Exploring SMEs attitudes to Net Zero & social media: Action Case research as a force for good.

Firms’ innovation objectives and knowledge acquisition strategies (2022)
Journal Article
Roper, S., Becker, B., Love, J. H., & Bonner, K. (2022). Firms’ innovation objectives and knowledge acquisition strategies. International Journal of Innovation Management, 26(4), Article 2250025. https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919622500256

External partnerships play an important role in firms’ acquisition of the knowledge inputs to innovation. Such knowledge acquisition may be interactive - involving exploration and mutual learning - or non-interactive - involving exploitative activity... Read More about Firms’ innovation objectives and knowledge acquisition strategies.

A MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics Perspective on Humanizing Business (2022)
Book Chapter
Moore, G. (2022). A MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics Perspective on Humanizing Business. In M. Dion, R. E. Freeman, & S. D. Dmytriyev (Eds.), Humanizing Business (33-42). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72204-3_3

This chapter draws on the work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre to present a virtue ethics perspective on humanizing business. It begins by setting out the core elements of the relevant aspects of MacIntyre’s work as they apply firstly to... Read More about A MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics Perspective on Humanizing Business.

Customer Emotions in Service Robot Encounters: A Hybrid Machine-Human Intelligence Approach (2022)
Journal Article
Filieri, R., Lin, Z., Li, Y., Lu, X., & Yang, X. (2022). Customer Emotions in Service Robot Encounters: A Hybrid Machine-Human Intelligence Approach. Journal of Service Research, 25(4), 614-629. https://doi.org/10.1177/10946705221103937

Understanding consumer emotions arising from robot-customers encounters and shared through online reviews is critical for forecasting consumers’ intention to adopt service robots. Qualitative analysis has the advantage of generating rich insights fro... Read More about Customer Emotions in Service Robot Encounters: A Hybrid Machine-Human Intelligence Approach.

A Dynamic Case-based Reasoning System for Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks (2022)
Journal Article
Duan, J., Lin, Z., Jiao, F., Jiang, Y., & Chen, K. (2022). A Dynamic Case-based Reasoning System for Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Expert Systems with Applications, 204, Article 117628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117628

Infectious diseases are a global public health problem, which requires timely and effective responses. This study proposes a novel model that contributes to the development of such responses. First, the problem scenario features of infectious disease... Read More about A Dynamic Case-based Reasoning System for Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks.

Elite Luxury Experiences: Customer and Managerial Perspectives (2022)
Journal Article
Mrad, M., Karimi, S., Tóth, Z., & Christodoulides, G. (2022). Elite Luxury Experiences: Customer and Managerial Perspectives. Journal of Marketing Management, 38(13-14), 1339-1368. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.2022.2078860

This study contributes to the nascent literature on luxury experiences by focusing on a significant yet understudied segment of consumers responsible for a large share of luxury purchases. Seven in-depth interviews with ultra-high-net-worth individua... Read More about Elite Luxury Experiences: Customer and Managerial Perspectives.

Role of Perceived Events in University Graduates' Job Search Self-efficacy and Success (2022)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Zhou, X., Zheng, Y., Wen, S., Fu, Y., Hu, N., Fu, A., Han, Y., & Wang, Z. (2022). Role of Perceived Events in University Graduates' Job Search Self-efficacy and Success. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 136, Article 103741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103741

This study aims to enrich job search literature by examining the unique role of perceived job search events in predicting job search self-efficacy (JSSE) and two job search outcomes (i.e., perceived job search progress, the number of job offers) duri... Read More about Role of Perceived Events in University Graduates' Job Search Self-efficacy and Success.

The Role of Emotions in Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: A Systematic Review of the Inter-Disciplinary Literature and Future Research Agenda (2022)
Journal Article
Zahoor, N., Khan, Z., & Sinkovics, R. R. (2022). The Role of Emotions in Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: A Systematic Review of the Inter-Disciplinary Literature and Future Research Agenda. Journal of International Management, 28(4), Article 100958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2022.100958

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are highly emotional events for the employees of involved organizations. The strength and directionality of emotional reactions can result in positive or negative employee outcomes contributing to success... Read More about The Role of Emotions in Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: A Systematic Review of the Inter-Disciplinary Literature and Future Research Agenda.

B2B eWOM creation on Alibaba: Signaling through online reviews in platform-based social exchange   (2022)
Journal Article
Tóth, Z., Mrad, M., Itani, O., Luo, M. (., & Liu, M. J. (2022). B2B eWOM creation on Alibaba: Signaling through online reviews in platform-based social exchange  . Industrial Marketing Management, 104, 226-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2022.04.019

This study investigates the contemporary role of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) in business exchanges through buyers’ signaling of observable and unobservable supplier characteristics on the Alibaba e-commerce platform. Utilizing a qualitative pre-s... Read More about B2B eWOM creation on Alibaba: Signaling through online reviews in platform-based social exchange  .

Paving the way toward Human-Algorithm Interactions: Understanding AI-CAD adoption for breast cancer detection (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gante, S., & Angelopoulos, S. (2022, December). Paving the way toward Human-Algorithm Interactions: Understanding AI-CAD adoption for breast cancer detection. Presented at European Conference on Information Systems, Timisoara, Romania

Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) frameworks can detect and classify lesions in mammograms more accurately than radiologists, the adoption rate of such frameworks is low. To address that lacuna, in this research pro... Read More about Paving the way toward Human-Algorithm Interactions: Understanding AI-CAD adoption for breast cancer detection.

From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems (2022)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Gianiodis, P. T., Harrison, R. T., & Bock, A. J. (2023). From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems. R&D Management, 53(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12535

The commercialization of scientific discoveries within the university-industry nexus is multifaceted and complex, characterized by dynamic interactions between multiple agents, organizations, and institutions. These interactions support a university-... Read More about From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Brandl, B., Larsson, B., Lehr, A., & Molina, O. (in press). Introduction. In B. Brandl, B. Larsson, A. Lehr, & O. Molina (Eds.), Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory. Routledge