Business Law (Books and Journals)

• Patricia Pearl
• Tim Parker

• Elspeth Berry

• Neal Geach
• Christopher Monaghan

• Elspeth Berry
• Rebecca Parry

• John B. Kirkwood

• Journal of Product & Brand Management

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This study aims to develop analytical models that consider product quality and production volume as essential drivers for profitability in the marketplace. It also considers product demand and price dynamics to understand related nuances backed by empirical validation. Design/methodology/approach: The pricing mechanism is influenced by production quality, while product demand is...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This paper considers an e-tailer planning to distribute a product under one direct sales channel and multiple asymmetric agency platforms. Based on the multinomial logit (MNL) choice model, this study optimizes the pricing strategy and channel selection strategy to maximize the e-tailer’s profit. Design/methodology/approach: A two-stage channel selection and pricing problem is...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Robotic process automation (RPA) is an automation technology that replaces front-end information technology (IT) human workers with software that handles simple and repetitive tasks. Despite its importance, RPA research remains limited to topics related to the introduction of the technology itself due to its novelty. This study examines users’ resistance attitudes to understand their...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the convergence of linguistic features between physicians and patients with chronic diseases facilitates the effectiveness of physician–patient communication in online health communities (OHCs). Drawing on communication accommodation theory (CAT), the authors develop a research model that illustrates how the convergence of semantic...

• Journal of Public Procurement

Purpose: This study aims to examine the challenges and risks in public procurement, focusing on Greece’s context within the EU framework. It seeks to provide guidance on mitigating potential risks throughout different stages of public procurement by leveraging the knowledge of Greek professionals and existing literature. The research explores the implementation of the national public procurement...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can potentially improve supply chain management (SCM) processes across levels and verticals. However, despite its promise, the implementation of GenAI for SCM remains challenging, mainly due to the lack of knowledge regarding its key drivers. To address this gap, this study examines the factors driving GenAI implementation in an SCM environment...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Characterised by simultaneous food waste and shortages, our current food system is far from sustainable. Industry 4.0 has responded with technology-enabled innovations, including digital food-sharing platforms aimed at facilitating the efficient redistribution of surplus food. However, potential users often express reluctance to adopt such platforms, prompting this study to explore the...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Research on decision rights partitioning and its impact on platform performance has predominantly focused on single rights, leading to inconclusive results. This study is driven by a more nuanced objective of exploring diverse governance models that can enhance the performance of sharing platforms across different contexts. Rather than delegating single decision right to users, this...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Tacit knowledge in frontline operations is primarily reflected in the holders’ intuition about dynamic systems. Despite the implicit nature of tacit knowledge, the understanding of complex systems it encapsulates can be displayed through formalization methods. This study seeks to develop a methodology for formalizing tacit knowledge in a dynamic delivery system. Design/methodology/approa

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Live streaming e-commerce, which integrates real-time video interaction with online shopping, has quickly become a popular sales channel. It not only allows for immediate feedback but also builds a sense of trust and connection between streamers and consumers. Drawing on the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), we investigate how central and peripheral route factors affect consumers’...

• Strategic HR Review

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: Entrepreneurial universities, through their intellectual capital (IC), can promote the development of a third mission, which involves collaborating with business and societal organizations to create value. Joint research projects are undertaken within entrepreneurial universities leveraging their IC. These generate value for both the academic community and the territory as they generate...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: In the practice of live streaming e-commerce, the consumer demand is usually uncertain, and the inventory and prices can be decided by brand owners or streamers. To this end, this study examines the inventory and pricing decisions of the brand owner and streamer in a live streaming e-commerce supply chain under demand uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, four...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This research aims to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption on the innovation dynamics of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, with a specific focus on the intricate interplay with the labor structure. Design/methodology/approach: Leveraging panel data of listed companies from 2010 to 2022, this study employs the two-way fixed effects (TWFE) model to examine the...

• Journal of Public Procurement

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to enhance knowledge regarding the early stages of planning for and adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in governmental public procurement. While there are numerous studies on AI and procurement in private companies, there is limited information on AI and public procurement. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical data consists of information...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relationship between digital transformation, international competition and productivity progress by examining the dual margins of export, thereby identifying the digital development pathway for key industrial chains within the context of regional medical and health cooperation. Design/methodology/approach: By constructing models incorporating both the...

• Journal of Public Procurement

Purpose: Using an Integrative Literature Review (ILR), this study aims to investigate the components defining the Safe and Just Operating Space (SJOS) within food systems and assess their applicability in decision-making for public food procurement (PFP). Design/methodology/approach: Data concerning SJOS implementation in food systems and the criteria used in PFP were retrieved from the Web of...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Achieving sustainability and sustainable performance has emerged as a critical area of focus for both academic research and practice. However, this pursuit faces challenges, particularly concerning the inadequacy of supply chain information. To address this issue, our study employs the organizational information processing theory to explore how adopting blockchain technology enables...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Enhancing total factor productivity through digital transformation is a crucial pathway for the high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises. This research aims to investigate the impact mechanisms of manufacturing enterprises’ total factor productivity in the context of digital transformation. Design/methodology/approach: Using the data from 536 Chinese listed manufacturing...

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: This article aims to explore the concept of green campus (GC) being implemented in Pakistan’s universities in order to attain green intellectual capital (GIC). Design/methodology/approach: Primary data were collected from the 20 public sector universities in the Punjab province, Pakistan. Data analysis was conducted by using SPSS and MPLUS software. Findings: Results confirm that green

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the role of intellectual capital in the underexplored relationship between sustainable performance and credit access among private firms in Italy, where over 90% of businesses are small and medium enterprises. While D’Apolito et al. (2024) have investigated sustainability-linked bank financing among Italian listed small and medium-sized enterprises, this study...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: In the face of frequent supply chain disruptions, this study aims to identify the relationships between human capital (HC), digital supply chain practice (DSCP) and supply chain robustness and resilience (i.e. SCRO and SCRE). Design/methodology/approach: To examine the proposed conceptual model based on the resource-based view and organizational information processing theory, an...

• Journal of Product & Brand Management

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: Drawing upon an integrative perspective from intellectual capital theory with upper echelon theory, we examined how intellectual capital affects resource integration capability and subsequent strategic decision-making under weak versus strong top management team (TMT) involvement behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between intellectual capital and...

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: This research explores human factors practices in the context of Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 and the multigenerational workforce, promoting the evolution of Human Capital 4.0. With the emergence of generations Y and Z, organizations are more volatile, heightening the risk of tacit knowledge loss. Conditions conducive to retaining employees must be created, particularly by prioritizing...

• Journal of Systems and Information Technology

Purpose: This study aims to deeply understand customer experiences toward Internet of Things (IoT) applications in retail by developing machine learning models for aspect-based sentiment analysis (SA). It includes creating a related terms dictionary and proposing implications for retail businesses in Vietnam based on these analyses. The ultimate goal is to gain insights into customer opinions and

• Journal of Systems and Information Technology

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate an artificial intelligence (AI) capability scale using resource-based theory and tests its impact on dynamic capabilities and organizational creativity to influence the performance of public organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The study used qualitative and quantitative methods to develop and validate an AI capability scale using an integrative...

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between knowledge-oriented leadership (KOL) and business performance (BP) in a knowledge-intensive industry and further investigate, heretofore neglected, a mediating effect of intellectual capital and sustainable competitive advantage in the relationship between KOL and BP. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative approach was

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: This study explores the dual impact of AI-driven productivity tools on employee performance, well-being and sustainability, focusing on the key metrics of productivity, innovation, stress, job satisfaction and sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses econometric models and simulated data and applies difference-in-differences and regression analysis to assess the...