Browse research from the Plymouth Business School.
Submissions from 2025
Leadership in open innovation: Strategies for effective crisis management in Malaysia, Mosharrof Hosen, Irfan Hameed, Rajat Subhra Chatterjee, Mosaddek Hossain, and Hafiz Mudassir Rehman
When Ease Becomes a Barrier: What Influences Student Intentions to Use Generative AI in Higher Education?, Ben Siu and John White
Development of Entrepreneurial Identity and Intent in the early years of Higher Education, Sarah Preedy, Peter McLuskie, Andreas Walmsley, and Kelly Smith
Exploring university students’ reasons for not working while studying: Implications for Employability, Carl Evans and Jonathan Lean
Do food planner apps enhance responsible food consumption? The impact of perceptual antecedents and moderating effects on usage intention, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Rajat Subhra Chatterjee, Irfan Hameed, Ranjan Chaudhuri, Demetris Vrontis, and Sumana Chaudhuri
Examining anti-modern slavery practices in business relationships and networks: power consequences and social value creation perspectives, Dariusz Siemieniako, Natalia Szablewska, Krzysztof Kubacki, and Hannu Makkonen
Employability of international postgraduate taught students in the UK: a systematic literature review using PRISMA, Fa Wang, Rong Huang, Jingyu Wu, and Wai Mun Lim
Beyond Climate Change: A Model of Sustainable Development for the Maritime Industry, David Adkins
“They” threaten my work: How AI service robots negatively impact frontline hotel employees through organizational dehumanization, Tao Xu, Yu-Hao Zheng, Jinhua Zhang, and Zixuan Wang
Hallyu marketing in Japan: a configuration approach to K-brand image, Saeyeon Roh, Dunya Chen, and Jin-Woong Yoo
Aging Consumer Engagement with the Mobile Food Planner Apps in Malaysia: Investigating Gender Differences, Rajat Subhra Chatterjee, Irfan Hameed, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Ranjan Chaudhuri, Demetris Vrontis, and Pantea Foroudi
Driving renewable energy continuance in Malaysia through reinforcement sensitivity, technology infrastructure and psychological factors, Rajat Subhra Chatterjee, Siti Norida Wahab, and Md. Uzir Hossain Uzir
How managers ‘make meaning’ of business tournament rituals, David Sarpong, Shadrack Asante, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, Nicholas O'Regan, and Derrick Boakye
Assessing the Interrelationships of Sustainability Drivers in the Liner Shipping Industry: a South Korean perspective, Junseung Kim, Stavros Karamperidis, Lijun Tang, and Saeyeon Roh
Marketing with a social conscience: strategic windows for aligning societal marketing with corporate identity, Christopher Agyapong Siaw
Exploring the Possibility of University Students as Charity Trustees, Carl Evans, Nigel Jackson, Nicole Shrives, and Huilan Chen
Synergistic or Siloed? Communicative practices in dual-earner parents' boundary navigation and implications for gendered work-family experiences, Jasmine Kelland, Laura Radcliffe, Grace Williams, and Jo Gregory-Chialton
To identify key determinants of Green HRM: evidence from the United Nations, Saeyeon Roh, Jin Woong Yoo, and Georgina Raper
Written Evidence for Women and Equalities Committee Inquiry into Female Entrepreneurship, Sarah Preedy
Submissions from 2024
ESG Ratings and Investment Returns at the Country Level: Does Higher Mean Better?, Ioannis Litsios, Dimitrios Asteriou, Keith Pilbeam, and William Pouliot
Econometric Insights into LNG Carrier Port Congestion and Energy Inflation: A Data-Driven Approach, Konstantinos Melas, Stavros Karamperidis, and Nektarios Michail
Revisiting the impact of container port service quality on customer satisfaction: A configuration approach, Saeyeon Roh, Haddoud M Yacine, Adah-Kole Onjewu, Hyunmi Jang, and Vinh V. Thai
Organic food consumption at casual and fine dining restaurants in the UK: Restaurant managers’ perspectives, Lokman Dinc and Rong Huang
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
A Method for Assessing the Efficiency in Two-Stage Production Systems in the Presence of Dual-Role Factors, Jianwei Ren, Chongyu Ma, Lijun Tang, Chunhua Chen, and Chenxi Feng
Failure In Fully-funded Pensions. Voluntary Exchange And Coercion, Mark Hyde, Jonathan Moizer, Jonathan Lean, and Sue Farrar
Substitution and complementarity between human and artificial intelligence: A dynamic capabilities view, Christopher Agyapong Siaw and Waqas Ali
Vulnerability, resilience and empowerment: the tripartite typology for addressing modern slavery in global value chains, Krzysztof Kubacki, Natalia Szablewska, Dariusz Siemieniako, and Linda Brennan
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 Students` Attitude and Intention Towards Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the Sultanate of Oman, Shweta Belwal, Fatma Rashid Al Moqbali, and Rakesh Belwal
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
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
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
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
Extracurricular Enterprise And Entrepreneurship Activities In Higher Education: Understanding Entrepreneurial Competencies And Capabilities, Sarah Preedy and Emily Beaumont
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
An Investigation of the Critical Factors That Influence Knowledge Mobilization Success in Agri-Food Supply Chains, Huilan Chen, Shaofeng Liu, Guoqing Zhao, Uchitha Jayawickrama, and Xiaofang Wu
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
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
Quality assessment of ESG reporting among listed maritime companies: Quality assessment of ESG reporting…: M. Tsatsaronis et al., M. Tsatsaronis, T. Syriopoulos, S. Karamperidis, G. Boura, and A. Dimopoulos
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
Organic dining behaviour in British restaurants, LOKMAN DINC and Rong Huang
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
The Dynamic Linkages among Sector Indices: The case of the Amman Stock Exchange in the period of 2000-2020, Atul Mishra and Zaid Tahat
Chinese seafarers’ use of the Internet and social media to promote labor rights, Lijun Tang
Forms of fiscal governance in the Euro Area – what role for the delegation approach?, 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
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, Qian Chen, Fei Jiang, Rong Huang, and Jinhua Zhang
Economic performance amongst English seaside towns, S-J Mould and S Jakes
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, Young Joon Seo, Jae Woo Park, Saeyeon Roh, and Hyunmi Jang
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
