Browse research from the Plymouth Business School.
Submissions from 2024
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
Big data driven supply chain innovative capability for sustainable competitive advantage in the food supply chain: Resource-based view perspective, Mukesh Kumar, Rakesh D. Raut, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Jonathan Moizer, and Jonathan Lean
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
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
Forms of fiscal governance in the Euro Area – what role for the delegation approach?, Ioannis Litsios, M Ctania, and Mark Baimbridge
Shipping-specific ESG rating and reporting framework, Michael Tsatsaronis, Theodore Syriopoulos, Stavros Karamperidis, and Georgia Boura
Managing the risks against carbon neutralization for green maritime transport, Melisa Ozbiltekin-Pala, Yigit Kazancoglu, 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
Trade and flow of value in global value chains, Peijie Wang and Zhiyuan Liu
Digital leadership within large South Korean firms, Jin Woong Yoo, Saeyeon Roh, Smita Tripathi, and Hyunmi Jang
Mindfulness and creative process engagement: the mediating role of workplace relational systems, Usama Awan, Muhammad Sufyan, Irfan Ameer, Saqib Shamim, Pervaiz Akhtar, and Najam Ul Zia
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
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
Investigating the impact of food tourism vlogger entrepreneurs' language characteristics on audiences' attitude and behaviours, Wei Hutchinson, Elmira Djafarova, Shaofeng Liu, and Mahmoud Abdelrahman
Alliances and digital transformation are crucial for benefiting from dynamic supply chain capabilities during times of crisis: A multi-method study, Rameshwar Dubey, David J. Bryde, Constantin Blome, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Stephen J. Childe, and Cyril Foropon
Constraints on currency market movements – Implications for the RMB exchange rate regime, Zhiyuan Liu and Peijie Wang
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
Moral mobilization in the digital space: Seafarers exercising agency during the pandemic, Lijun Tang
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
Editorial: Learning from management education researchers, Neil Marriott, Vanessa Ratten, David Higgins, Jonathan Lean, Paul Jones, Meredith Tharapos, and Mohamed Yacine Haddoud
Emerging influence of the RMB on currency markets in a transpiring tri‐polar international monetary system, Ping Wang and Peijie Wang
Explaining and correcting trade imbalances between the Northern and Southern Eurozone: An empirical investigation, Ioannis Litsios and Keith Pilbeam
Port energy demand model for implementing onshore power supply and alternative fuels, Dogancan Uzun, Dogancan Okumus, Onder Canbulat, 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, Konstantina K. Agoraki, Maria Giaka, Dimitrios Konstantios, 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
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
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
Managing Protected Areas: People and Places, Niall Finneran, Denise Hewlett, Richard Clarke, Richard Gunton, Debra Gray, Ainara Terradillos, Danny Byrne, and Sheela Agarwal
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
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
Clarifying the impact of corporate governance and intellectual capital on financial performance: A longitudinal study of Deutsche Bank (1957–2019), Tasawar Nawaz and Oliver Ohlrogge
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
Entrepreneurial intention and its antecedents: a study of undergraduate students in the Uttarakhand State of India, S Belwal, Rakesh Belwal, and Anamika Chhetri
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE IN THE MARITIME TRANSPORT: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND FRAMEWORK, J Kim, S Karamperidis, L Tang, and S Roh
Empirical business research on modern slavery in supply chains: A systematic review, Natalia Szablewska and Krzysztof Kubacki
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, Yueyan Wu, Shiqi Lin, Zefan Wu, Zheng Zhou, Xinyi Wang, and Xinjian Wang
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, Sheela Agarwal, Steven Jakes, Sanzidur Rahman, and Stephen J. Page
Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Chinese Seafarers, Zhiwei Zhao, Lijun Tang, and Yueyan Wu
The impact of COVID-19 on maritime pilots: Evidence and lessons, Zhiwei Zhao and Lijun Tang
The performance of major airports in the Europe, North America and Asia, Jae Woo Park, Saeyeon Roh, Hyunmi Jang, and Young Joon Seo
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
Achieving Gender Equality in Seafaring: An analysis of Stakeholders’ Suggestions, Lijun Tang
To use or not use: Understanding Chinese consumers' intention toward “serving chopsticks”, Qian Chen, Rong Huang, Aiping Zhang, and Yingzhi Guo
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
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
Implementing smart factory: A fuzzy-set analysis to uncover successful paths, Hyunmi Jang, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, 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
Natural resource curse: A literature survey and comparative assessment of regional groupings of oil-rich countries, Marwan Alssadek and James Benhin
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 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
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
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
Seafarers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: an examination of current supportive measures and their perceived effectiveness, Lijun Tang, Sanley Abila, Momoko Kitada, Serafin Malecosio, S Jr, and Karima Krista Montes
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
Written evidence submitted for self-driving vehicles call for evidence (SDV0002), H Stones
Putting your mouth where your money goes! “Where” and “how” to communicate to maximize the impact of corporate social programs, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, David Sugianto Lie, and Rahul Govind
How Much Does the Board Composition Matter? The Impact of Board Gender Diversity on CEO Compensation, T Nawaz
The realities of e-retailing in a pandemic world – using data-driven training and awareness programmes to rethink e-retail fraud prevention strategies, C Nwoko, M Meadows, A Garcia-Perez, and J Okoli
Construction of Mega Individuals Competency Model in Business Environment: A Grounded Theory Approach, Beilei Huang, Jinhua Zhang, and Xiyuan Li
Empowerment in social marketing: systematic review and critical reflection, Tanja Kamin, Krzysztof Kubacki, and Sara Atanasova
A systems approach to mapping UK regional innovation ecosystems for policy insight, Dan Arthur, Jonathan Moizer, and Jonathan Lean
A systematic literature review on risk disclosure research: State-of-the-art and future research agenda, AEA Ibrahim, K Hussainey, T Nawaz, C Ntim, and A Elamer
