Browse research from the Plymouth Business School.
Submissions from 2024
The influence of blockchain technology on circular economy implementation in the automotive sector: From a GMM model to a new machine learning algorithm, Woon Leong Lin, Nelvin Xe Chung Leow, Wai Mun Lim, Ming Kang Ho, Jing Yi Yong, and Chuen Khee Pek
Trends in the dynamic evolution of blockchain and circular economy: A literature review and bibliometric analysis, Woon Leong Lin, Ying Yang, Nelvin Xe Chung Leow, Wai Mun Lim, Pek Chuen Khee, and Nick Yip
Exploring the Possibility of University Students as Charity Trustees, Carl Evans, Nigel Jackson, Nicole Shrives, and Huilan Chen
Substitution and complementarity between human and artificial intelligence: A dynamic capabilities view, Christopher Agyapong Siaw and Waqas Ali
Profiling consumers for their shopping motivations in modern retail formats in Oman, Rakesh Belwal, Shweta Belwal, Zoe Morgan, and Latifa Hamood Al Badi
Perceived employability of international doctoral students in the UK: applying Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, Fa Wang, Rong Huang, Wai Mun Lim, and Jinhua Zhang
Fathers at work—Forfeits, deficits and disregarding discourse, Jasmine Kelland, Andy Brown, and Nicola Searle
Understanding the Drivers of Industry 4.0 Technologies to Enhance Supply Chain Sustainability: Insights from the Agri-Food Industry, Guoqing Zhao, Xiaoning Chen, Paul Jones, Shaofeng Liu, Carmen Lopez, Leonardo Leoni, and Denis Dennehy
Agri-food supply chain resilience strategies for preparing, responding, recovering, and adapting in relation to unexpected crisis: A cross-country comparative analysis from the COVID-19 pandemic, Guoqing Zhao, Mar Vazquez-Noguerol, Shaofeng Liu, and J. Carlos Prado-Prado
What influences women's participation in the private sector workforce in Oman?, Rakesh Belwal, Shweta Belwal, and Suhaila AlHashemi
Port energy demand model for implementing onshore power supply and alternative fuels, Onder Canbulat, Dogancan Uzun, Dogancan Okumus, Sefer Anil Gunbeyaz, Stavros Karamperidis, Dominic Hudson, Osman Turan, and Richard Allan
Research Challenges for Eco-Efficient and Circular Industrial Systems, Stephen Childe
Co-creation of Value for Patient Centred Outcomes: Bridging Health and Management Research, Wai Mun Lim, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, and Mona Nasser
The effect of co-opetition on the relationship between co-production and value co-creation in business systems, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, Jonas Aryee, and George VanDyck
The Implementation and Barriers of Green Recruitment: A Qualitative Study on Green Human Resource Management, Jinghan Wang, Lijun Tang, Tiancheng Zhang, Chris Phillips, and Lamis Sultan Aldawish
Enhancing corporate transparency: How ESG disclosure on corporate websites reveals corporate visibility, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, Waqas Ali, and Wai Mun Lim
Quality assessment of ESG reporting among listed maritime companies, M. Tsatsaronis, T. Syriopoulos, S. Karamperidis, G. Boura, and A. Dimopoulos
Analysis of barriers to adopting Industry 4.0 to achieve agri-food supply chain sustainability: A group-based fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, Guoqing Zhao, Chenhui Ye, Denis Dennehy, Shaofeng Liu, Antoine Harfouche, and Femi Olan
Exploring the implications of logistics efficiency and renewable energy for sustainable development, Minju Song, Saeyeon Roh, and Heeyong Lee
FAILURE IN FULLY-FUNDED PENSIONS. VOLUNTARY EXCHANGE AND COERCION, Mark Hyde, Jonathan Moizer, Jonathan Lean, and Sue Farrar
Managing the risks against carbon neutralization for green maritime transport, Yigit Kazancoglu, Melisa Ozbiltekin-Pala, Stavros Karamperidis, and Mangey Ram
Drivers of formal and informal retail patronage in emerging markets, Rajesh Rajaguru, Margaret Matanda, and Christopher Agyapong Siaw
Applying Scalability to Meet Word Count Requirements in Written Assessments, Carl Evans and Paul Harrington
Emerging from COVID-19: the perceptions of university students to part-time working and its impact on their transferable skill development, Carl Evans, Jonathan Lean, Ali Sen, and Najaha Yusuf
Identification, establishment of connection, and clustering of social risks involved in the agri-food supply chains: a cross-country comparative study, Guoqing Zhao, Shaofeng Liu, Carmen Lopez, Yi Wang, Haiyan Lu, and Jinhua Zhang
Shipping-specific ESG rating and reporting framework, Michael Tsatsaronis, Theodore Syriopoulos, Stavros Karamperidis, and Georgia Boura
Trade and flow of value in global value chains, Peijie Wang and Zhiyuan Liu
Digital leadership within large South Korean firms, Hyunmi Jang, Jin Woong Yoo, Saeyeon Roh, and Smita Tripathi
Extracurricular enterprise and entrepreneurship activities in HE; understanding entrepreneurial competencies and capabilities, S Preedy and E Beaumont
Efficiency analysis and benchmarking of container ports operating in lower-middle-income countries: a DEA approach, Caleb Danladi, Sarah Tuck, Panagiotis Tziogkidis, Lijun Tang, and Chukwuneke Okorie
AN EXPLORATION OF THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING AND CONSUMER PURCHASE DECISION IN THE SAUDI ARABIA FASHION MARKET: A QUALITATIVE STUDY, Lamis Aldawish, Dulekha Kasturiratne, Jonathan Lean, Christopher Phillips, and Jinghan Wang
Investigating the impact of food tourism vlogger entrepreneurs' language characteristics on audiences' attitude and behaviours, Wei Hutchinson, Elmira Djafarova, Shaofeng Liu, and Mahmoud Abdelrahman
Employee Motivation and Outcomes of Developing and Maintaining High-Quality Supervisor–Subordinate Guanxi in Hotel Operations, Jinhua Zhang, Rong Huang, Beilei Huang, Tao Xu, and Guoqing Zhao
Moral mobilization in the digital space: Seafarers exercising agency during the pandemic, Lijun Tang
Tourism and visitor management in protected areas post-pandemic: The english context, Denise Hewlett, Richard Gunton, Debra Gray, Ainara Terradillos, Sheela Agarwal, Natalia Lavrushkina, and Danny Byrne
Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society, Femi Olan, Uchitha Jayawickrama, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun, Jana Suklan, and Shaofeng Liu
Analysis of the Liner Shipping Network Structure of the Asia–Europe Main Trunk Route Using Social Network Analysis, Sunghoon Park, Saeyeon Roh, and Inhyeok Yeo
Big data driven supply chain innovative capability for sustainable competitive advantage in the food supply chain: Resource-based view perspective, Rakesh D. Raut, Mukesh Kumar, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Jonathan Moizer, and Jonathan Lean
Editorial: Learning from management education researchers, Neil Marriott, Vanessa Ratten, David Higgins, Jonathan Lean, Paul Jones, Meredith Tharapos, and Mohamed Yacine Haddoud
Synergistic or Siloed? The communicative practices involved in dual-earner coupled parents’ relational boundary navigation and the implications for gendered work-family experiences: The relational communicative practices of parents, Jasmine Kelland, laura radcliffe, grace williams, and jo gregory-chailton
The relationship between firm-level climate change exposure, financial integration, cost of capital and investment efficiency, Dimitrios Konstantios, Konstantina K. Agoraki, Maria Giaka, and Ioannis Negkakis
The Tourism Demarketing Mix: Working to Reduce Revisits to Egyptian Nature Reserves, Ahmed M. Elsetouhi, Mohamed E. Elshourbagi, Ahmed A. Hammad, and Alaa A. Elnazer
Submissions from 2023
Managing Protected Areas: People and Places, Niall Finneran, Denise Hewlett, Richard Clarke, Richard Gunton, Debra Gray, Ainara Terradillos, Danny Byrne, and Sheela Agarwal
Significant spaces: Exploring the health and wellbeing impacts of natural environments, Denise Hewlett, Debra Gray, Richard Gunton, Tom Munro, Sheela Agarwal, Martin Breed, Chris Skelly, Philip Weinstein, Ainara Terradillos, Natalia Lavrushkina, and Danny Byrne
When deliberation is not possible: Moral dilemmas in fundraising, Jessica Burgess, Jane Hudson, and John White
The role of shared leadership in realizing SDGs: An exploration of intra-country collaborative work between heis and public policy groups in Zambia, Chitalu Kabwe, Christine Phiri-Mushibwe, and Smita Tripathi
University business students as charity trustees: A win-win for all?, Carl Evans and Nigel Jackson
Understanding Students` Attitude and Intention Towards Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the Sultanate of Oman, S Belwal, Moqbali FR Al, and R Belwal
Chinese seafarers’ use of the Internet and social media to promote labor rights, Lijun Tang
Forms of fiscal governance in the Euro Area – An update, Ioannis Litsios, M Ctania, and Mark Baimbridge
Chapter 10: Trends in consumer preference for locally-sourced food products, John White, Matthew Gorton, Barbara Tocco, Péter Csillag, and Jelena Filipović
Visual Methods in Entrepreneurial Identity Research: Reflections from an Enterprise Educator Perspective, Sarah Preedy and Peter McLuskie
Disentangling Work-Family Conflict, Support, and Turnover Intentions – Quanti-Quali Mixed Method Approach, R Belwal, S Belwal, and SE Al-Hashemi
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow, A-KE Onjewu, RB Nyuur, S Paul, and Y Wang
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow, A-KE Onjewu, RB Nyuur, S Paul, and Y Wang
Investors’ reaction under uncertainty, Khine Kyaw, Mojisola Olugbode, and Barbara Petracci
Analysis of the Drivers of Industry 4.0 Technology Deployment to Achieve Agri-Food Supply Chain Sustainability: A Hybrid Approach, Guoqing Zhao, Paul Jones, Shaofeng Liu, Carmen Lopez, Denis Dennehy, and Xiaoning Chen
COLREG and Autonomous Collision Avoidance Development: An analytical review, C-H Chang, C Kontovas, Z Yang, IB Wijeratne, C-C Lin, S-T Ung, and S Karamperidis
ESG Reporting Quality Assessment in Listed Companies of Maritime Sector, M Tsatsaronis, T Syriopoulos, S Karamperidis, G Boura, and A Dimopoulos
The role of medium and small size ports in sustainable development: Evidence from the Port of Plymouth, S Karamperidis and MS Lafir
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE IN THE MARITIME TRANSPORT: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND FRAMEWORK, J Kim, S Karamperidis, L Tang, and S Roh
Analysis of factors affecting cross-boundary knowledge mobilization in agri-food supply chains: An integrated approach, Guoqing Zhao, Huilan Chen, Shaofeng Liu, Denis Dennehy, Paul Jones, and Carmen Lopez
Keeping the Port of Tema afloat during COVID-19: Media responses to user informational and conversational needs, Martin Arvad Nicolaisen, Casper Andersen, Phillip Stenmann Baun, Jonas Aryee, and Annette Skovsted Hansen
Interactions Between Traditional and Reversed IT Adoption: How Incumbent Devices Affect Cross-Situational Specialization of New Entries, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, Jack Cadeaux, Dirk Meissner, Adrian Payne, and David Sarpong
Brand Equity, Tourist Satisfaction and Travel Intentions in a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy: A Case Study of Yangzhou, China, Fei Jiang, Rong Huang, Qian Chen, and Jinhua Zhang
Economic performance amongst English seaside towns, S-J Mould and S Jakes
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label, Matthew Gorton, Ching Hua Yeh, Elena Chatzopoulou, John White, Barbara Tocco, Carmen Hubbard, and Fiona Hallam
Natural resource curse: A literature survey and comparative assessment of regional groupings of oil-rich countries, Marwan Alssadek and James Benhin
The impact of COVID-19 on maritime pilots: Evidence and lessons, Zhiwei Zhao and Lijun Tang
Developing future managers through business simulation gaming in the UK and Hong Kong: exploring the interplay between cognitive realism, decision-making and performance, Jonathan Lean, Robert Newbery, Jonathan Moizer, Mohamed Haddoud, and Wai Mun Lim
Fatigue at sea during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study of two matched samples of seafarers, Zhiwei Zhao, Lijun Tang, Yunlei Ma, Y Wu, Shiqi Lin, Z Wu, Zheng Zhou, and X Wang
The performance of major airports in the Europe, North America and Asia, Jae Woo Park, Saeyeon Roh, Hyunmi Jang, and Young Joon Seo
Constraints on currency market movements – Implications for the RMB exchange rate regime, Peijie Wang and Zhiyuan Liu
Empirical business research on modern slavery in supply chains: A systematic review, Natalia Szablewska and Krzysztof Kubacki
Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Chinese Seafarers, Zhiwei Zhao, Lijun Tang, and Yueyan Wu
Employability of hospitality and tourism international students: a critical research review, Fa Wang
Reducing food waste from social innovation perspective: a review of measures, research gaps and future directions, Guoqing Zhao, Shaofeng Liu, Yi Wang, Carmen Lopez, Aira Ong, and Xiaoning Chen
Work-Family Conflict and Women’s Turnover Intention: Mediating Effects of Organizational Commitment, S Belwal and R Belwal
Understanding different types of consumers: A multi-group analysis based on convenience food-related lifestyle, Austin Rong Da Liang, Wai Mun Lim, Wei Tung, and Shu Ying Lin
Empowering Seafarers as Agents of Their Mental Health: The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Seafarers’ Well-Being, Sanley Abila, Momoko Kitada, Serafin Malecosio, Lijun Tang, and R Espina-Subong
The Effect of Container Shipping Supply Chain Integration on Operational Performance: The Mediating Role of Information Sharing, J-S Kim, M Su, K-S Park, and S-Y Roh
Does the transcultural problem really matter? An integrated approach to analyze barriers to eHealth SMEs’ development, Guoqing Zhao, Jana Suklan, Shaofeng Liu, Carmen Lopez, and Lise Hunter
The effect of government support on Bureaucracy, COVID-19 resilience and export intensity: Evidence from North Africa, A-KE Onjewu, F Olan, RB-B-I Nyuur, S Paul, and HTT Nguyen
Achieving Gender Equality in Seafaring: An analysis of Stakeholders’ Suggestions, Lijun Tang
Entrepreneurial intention and its antecedents: a study of undergraduate students in the Uttarakhand State of India, S Belwal, R Belwal, and Anamika Chhetri
Implementing smart factory: A fuzzy-set analysis to uncover successful paths, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Hyunmi Jang, Saeyeon Roh, Adah Kole Emmanuel Onjewu, and Taeeun Choi
INVESTIGATING A MOTIVATION MODEL FOR GAMIFIED E-LEARNING: A SELF-DETERMINATION APPROACH, A Sen, J Lean, J Kelland, and J Moizer
LNG carriers discharge waiting time and energy inflation, S Karamperidis, N Michail, and K Melas
Paternal supervisor gatekeeping: How supervising fathers hinder other fathers at work in their uptake of flexible work arrangements, Sophie Hennekam, Jasmine Kelland, and Jean Pierre Dumazert
Perceived value within an international hospitality learning environment: Antecedents and outcomes, Abdallah Elshaer and Rong Huang
The relationships between supervisor-subordinate guanxi, perceived supervisor autonomy support, autonomous motivation, and employee job satisfaction: Evidence from international hotel chains in China, Jinhua Zhang, Rong Huang, Qian Chen, and Guoqing Zhao
Submissions from 2022
Knowledge Mobilization for Agri-Food Supply Chain Decisions, Guoqing Zhao, Shaofeng Liu, Sebastian Elgueta, Juan Pablo Manzur, Carmen Lopez, and Huilan Chen
Tourists’ selfies storytelling: Preferences, intentions, and concerns for practise in the tourism and hospitality industry, Abdallah Elshaer, Rong Huang, and Asmaa Marzouk
Explaining and correcting trade imbalances between the Northern and Southern Eurozone: An empirical investigation, Ioannis Litsios and Keith Pilbeam
A systematic literature review on humanitarian logistics using network analysis and topic modeling, Jin Ju Kim, Hyunmi Jang, and Saeyeon Roh
Links Between Risk Source Identification and Resilience Capability Building in Agri-Food Supply Chains: A Comprehensive Analysis, Guoqing Zhao, Femi Olan, Shaofeng Liu, Jorge Hernandez Hormazabal, Carmen Lopez, Nasiru Zubairu, Jinhua Zhang, and Xiaoning Chen
Determinants of CEO compensation in the FTSE100 constituent firms, T Nawaz and A Pang
A Vulnerability Centric System of Systems Analysis on the Maritime Transportation Sector Most Valuable Assets: Recommendations for Port Facilities and Ships, Chronis Kapalidis, Stavros Karamperidis, Tim Watson, and Georgios Koligiannis