Browse research from the Plymouth Business School.
Submissions from 2016
An exploration of consumers' response to online service recovery initiatives, W Ozuem, A Patel, KE Howell, and G Lancaster
Tourist Persuasion and Crime prevention, S Agarwal
Determinants of sustainable growth: A comparative analysis of conventional and islamic banks, T Nawaz
Empirical evidence of an integrative knowledge competence framework for ERP systems implementation in UK industries, Uchitha Jayawickrama, Shaofeng Liu, and Melanie Hudson Smith
Is it a vessel, a ship or a boat, is it just a craft, or is it merely a contrivance?, GM Gauci
University of Southampton Law Research Group Response to House of Lords Consultation on Driverless Cars, M Channon, H Stones, J Davey, J Hjalmarsson, and R Veal
A new trend for knowledge-based decision support systems design, Pascale Zaraté and Shaofeng Liu
The reform of Chinese state-owned ship crewing agencies and implications for China’s seafaring labour export, Zhiwei Zhao, Jørgen Riis Jepsen, and Lijun Tang
Vision, applications and future challenges of Internet of Things: A bibliometric study of the recent literature, D Mishra, A Gunasekaran, SJ Childe, R Dubey, T Papadopoulos, and Wamba S Fosso
Functional and territorial jurisdictions: Regulating a globalized shipping industry, KE Howell and S Bhattacharya
Small Firm Adaptive Capability, Competitive Strategy, and Performance Outcomes: Competing Mediation vs. Moderation Perspectives, George Chryssochoidis, Dimitrios Dousios, and Nikolaos Tzokas
Internal market orientation and work-family balance in family businesses, J Ruizalba, A Soares, M Vallespín, and J González Porras
A comparative study of the performance of Saudi mutual funds, AA El-Masry and D El-Mousallamy
Corporate debt maturity in the MENA region: Does institutional quality matter?, B Awartani, M Belkhir, S Boubaker, and A Maghyereh
The estimation of minimum efficient scale of the port industry, Y-J Seo and JS Park
Understanding consumer intention to participate in online travel community and effects on consumer intention to purchase travel online and WOM: an integration of innovation diffusion theory and TAM with trust, AA El-Masry and G Agag
Competition for the International Pool of Talent, Alexander Haupt, Tim Krieger, and Thomas Lange
Big Data and supply chain management: a review and bibliometric analysis, D Mishra, A Gunasekaran, T Papadopoulos, and SJ Childe
Analysis of the potential contribution of value-adding services to the competitive logistics strategy of ports, CC Okorie, N Tipi, and N Hubbard
Competitiveness in a Multipolar Port System: Striving for Regional Gateway Status in Northeast Asia, S Kim, D Kang, and J Dinwoodie
Discovering Mental Ill Health: 'Problem-Solving' in an English Magistrates' Court, TC Auburn, C Smart, Santos G Hanley, J Annison, and D Gilling
Towards Sustainable ASEAN Port Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Vietnamese Ports, Saeyeon Roh, Vinh V. Thai, and Yiik Diew Wong
Inside the mediation room - efficiency, voice and equity in workplace mediation, R Saundry, T Bennett, and G Wibberley
Capital structure and performance of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) banks: an assessment of credit rating, AA El-Masry
Lithuanian genocide heritage as discursive formation, CA Wight
Corporate governance and risk management in GCC Banks, AA El-Masry, T Abdelfattah, and E Elbahar
Crude oil prices and sectoral stock returns in Jordan around the Arab uprisings of 2010, E Bouri, B Awartani, and A Maghyereh
New structured knowledge network for strategic decision-making in IT innovative and implementable projects, Ali Alkhuraiji, Shaofeng Liu, Festus Oluseyi Oderanti, and Phil Megicks
We the living: the effects of living and deceased donor stories on charitable bequest giving intentions, RN James and C Routley
The directional volatility connectedness between crude oil and equity markets: New evidence from implied volatility indexes, AI Maghyereh, B Awartani, and E Bouri
The role of Big Data in explaining disaster resilience in supply chains for sustainability, T Papadopoulos, A Gunasekaran, R Dubey, N Altay, SJ Childe, and S Fosso-Wamba
Understanding employee turnover in humanitarian organizations, R Dubey, A Gunasekaran, N Altay, SJ Childe, and T Papadopoulos
Oil price forecasting using gene expression programming and artificial neural networks, AA El-Masry and M Mostafa
The impact of big data on world-class sustainable manufacturing, R Dubey, A Gunasekaran, SJ Childe, SF Wamba, and T Papadopoulos
Understanding the determinants of hotel booking intentions and moderating role of habit, AA El-Masry and G Agag
Using Online Role-Playing Games for Entrepreneurship Training, A Keary, P Walsh, D O’byrne, J Moizer, J Lean, Ferdinando A Di, O Miglino, R Friedrich, R Asperges, E Thomson, E Dell’Aquila, and S Sica
Understanding fans' responses to the sponsor of a rival team, Robert J. Angell, Matthew Gorton, Paul Bottomley, and John White
Union learning representatives in the UK: activity, impact and organization, R Saundry, V Antcliff, and A Hollinrake
Servitization and co-opetition in the pharmaceutical distribution: Back to basics? | Servitización y co-opetición en la distribución farmacéutica: ?vuelta a los orígenes?, J Ruizalba, A Soares, and J Morales
Issues and challenges for small countries in attracting and hosting international students: the case of Lithuania, J Urbanovič, S Wilkins, and J Huisman
Institutions and corporate capital structure in the MENA region, M Belkhir, A Maghyereh, and B Awartani
Consumers' behavioural intentions after experiencing deception or cognitive disonance caused by deceptive packaging, package downsizing or slack filling, SJK Wilkins, C Beckenuyte, and MM Butt
Don't Distract Me When I'm Media Multitasking: Toward a Theory for Raising Advertising Recall and Recognition, Robert Angell, Matthew Gorton, Johannes Sauer, Paul Bottomley, and John White
Energy sustainability in operations: an optimization study, KT Shibin, A Gunasekaran, T Papadopoulos, SJ Childe, R Dubey, and T Singh
Using competing models to evaluate the role of environmental pressures in ecommerce adoption by small and medium sized travel agents in a developing country, Mohamed A. Abou-Shouk, Wai Mun Lim, and Phil Megicks
Bullying and harassment and work-related stressors: Evidence from British small and medium enterprises, D Lewis, P Megicks, and P Jones
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN GCC BANKS, Ahmed A. El-Masry, Tarek Abdelfattah, and Ehab Elbahar
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Online Retailing Ethics: Consumer's perspective, AA El-Masry and G Agag
Levels of Business to Business E-Commerce Adoption and Competitive Advantage in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Comparison Study Between Egypt and the United States, I Elbeltagi, H Hamad, J Moizer, and M Abou-Shouk
Towards a theory of sustainable consumption and production: Constructs and measurement, R Dubey, A Gunasekaran, SJ Childe, T Papadopoulos, SF Wamba, and M Song
Submissions from 2015
Religious Tourism and Economic Growth in Oil-Rich Countries: Evidence from Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Alodadi and James Benhin
An Analysis of Port Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction: The Case of Korean Container Ports, Gi Tae Yeo, Vinh V. Thai, and Sae Yeon Roh
The pre-positioning of warehouses at regional and local levels for a humanitarian relief organisation, Saeyeon Roh, Stephen Pettit, Irina Harris, and Anthony Beresford
An investigation into university extra-curricular enterprise support provision, Sarah Preedy and Paul Jones
Green supply chain management enablers: Mixed methods research, R Dubey, A Gunasekaran, T Papadopoulos, and SJ Childe
Researching Literary Tourism, C Mansfield
What role do teaching mentors play in supporting new university lecturers to develop their teaching practices?, Rebecca Turner, Rong Huang, Oxana Poverjuc, and Lynne Wyness
Exploring critical thinking with Chinese students during induction, R Huang
Enablers of Six Sigma: contextual framework and its empirical validation, R Dubey, A Gunasekaran, SJ Childe, Wamba S Fosso, and T Papadopoulos
Leadership insights from the top: exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India, S Tripathi, GP Prabhakar, and J Liddle
Factors affecting university image formation among prospective higher education students: the case of international branch campuses, S Wilkins and J Huisman
Research methods teaching in vocational environments: developing critical engagement with knowledge?, C. Gray, R. Turner, C. Sutton, C. Petersen, S. Stevens, J. Swain, B. Esmond, C. Schofield, and D. Thackeray
Power, buyer trustworthiness and supplier performance: Evidence from the Armenian dairy sector, Matthew Gorton, Robert Angell, Liesbeth Dries, Vardan Urutyan, Elizabeth Jackson, and John White
Does Gender Diverse Board Mean Less Earnings Management?, Khine Kyaw, Mojisola Olugbode, and Barbara Petracci
Absorptive capacity and performance: The role of customer relationship and technological capabilities in high-tech SMEs, N Tzokas, YA Kim, H Akbar, and H Al-Dajani
Dynamic transmissions between the U.S. and equity markets in the MENA countries: New evidence from pre- and post-global financial crisis, AI Maghyereh, B Awartani, and KA Hilu
Reforming marketing for sustainability: towards a framework for evolved marketing, V Hurth, J Peck, E Jackman, and E Wensing
Planning robust policing futures: modelling using multimethodology, Jonathan Moizer, David Carter, and Shaofeng Liu
Reconciling scientific reality with realpolitik: moving beyond carbon pricing to TEQs – an integrated, economy-wide emissions cap, S Chamberlin, L Maxey, and V Hurth
Equity as a Prerequisite for Stability of Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision, Wolfgang Buchholz, Alexander Haupt, and Wolfgang Peters
Stakeholder perspectives on citation and peer-based rankings of higher education journals, S Wilkins and J Huisman
The effects of lecturer commitment on student perceptions of teaching quality and student satisfaction in Chinese higher education, J Xiao and S Wilkins
Submissions from 2014
Film tourism: the pre-production perspective. A case study of Visit Somerset and the Hollywood story of Glastonbury., NA Semley and G Busby
‘Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer’: Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village, EF Beaumont and D Brown
Corporate images' impact on consumers' product choices: The case of multinational foreign subsidiaries, S Wilkins and J Huisman
'It's not something I'm proud of but it's . . . just how I feel': local surfer perspectives of localism, E Beaumont and D Brown
Creditable behaviour? The intra-firm management of trade credit, R Boden and S Yassia Paul
Investigating the role of entrepreneurial leadership and social capital in SME competitiveness in the food and drink industry, Lise Hunter and Jonathan Lean
Leaving A Bequest: Living on Through Charitable Gifts, A Sargeant and C Routley
Exchange Rate and Interest Rate Exposure of UK Industries Using First-order Autoregressive Exponential GARCH-in-mean (EGARCH-M) Approach, Mojisola Olugbode, Ahmed El-Masry, and John Pointon
The effect of market structure, regulation, and risk on banks efficiency, AI Maghyereh and B Awartani
Chinese international students’ perspective and strategies in preparing for their future employability, Rong Huang, Rebecca Turner, and QIAN CHEN
Cash holding, trade credit and access to short-term bank finance, G Kling, SY Paul, and E Gonis
The Exchange Rate Determination and Equity Prices: Evidence from the U.K, I Litsios
Enhancing the Impact of Online Simulations through Blended Learning: a Critical Incident Approach, Jonathan Lean, Jonathan Moizer, and R Newberry
Industry engagement with tourism and hospitality education: An examination of the students’ perspective, Rong Huang
The Role of Organisational Culture in the Merger of English Local Authorities into a Single Unitary Authority, Colin Cresswell, Jonathan Moizer, and Jonathan Lean
Submissions from 2013
Creating entrepreneurial sports management graduates, Amanda Jones and Paul Jones
Citizens as consumers: Profiling e-government services’ users in Egypt via data mining techniques, MM Mostafa and AA El-Masry
Warehouse Location Decision Factors in Humanitarian Relief Logistics, Sae Yeon Roh, Hyun Mi Jang, and Chul Hwan Han
From principle to practice Embedding sustainability in clothing supply chain strategies, A Ashby, M Hudson Smith, and R Shand
Company Directors and CSR, AA El-Masry and N Kamal
Corporate Responsibility Index, AA El-Masry and N Kamal
International students’ perspective on employability: a missing voice, Rong Huang and Rebecca Turner
The assessment of feedback: A learning development process, Natalie Semley and Rong Huang
Submissions from 2012
Impact of late payment on Firms' profitability: Empirical evidence from Malaysia, S Paul, SS Devi, and CG Teh
A variable impact neural network analysis of dividend policies and share prices of transportation and related companies, Ahmed El-Masry, Hussein A. Abdou, John Pointon, Roger J. Lister, and Moji Olugbode
Rating or no rating? That is the question: an empirical examination of UK companies, S Paul, E Gonis, and J Tucker
Getting Paid: Lessons for and from SMEs, S Paul and R Boden