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Emerging Trends and New Frontiers in Community Operational Research (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., & Chichirau, G. Emerging Trends and New Frontiers in Community Operational Research

Community operational research (COR), and its disciplinary relation, community-based operations research, have an increasingly high profile within multiple domains that benefit from empirical and analytic approaches to problem solving. Many of these... Read More about Emerging Trends and New Frontiers in Community Operational Research.

Management challenges in creating value from business analytics (2017)
Journal Article
Vidgen, R., Shaw, S. L., & Grant, D. B. (2017). Management challenges in creating value from business analytics. European journal of operational research, 261(2), 626-639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.02.023

The popularity of big data and business analytics has increased tremendously in the last decade and a key challenge for organizations is in understanding how to leverage them to create business value. However, while the literature acknowledges the im... Read More about Management challenges in creating value from business analytics.

The systemic role of technology in financial instability (2017)
Book Chapter
Demetis, D. (2017). The systemic role of technology in financial instability. In N. Ryder, J. Tucker, & U. Turksen (Eds.), The financial crisis and white collar crime: legislative and policy responses (59-80). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315652009

This chapter examines the role of Information Systems (IS) in creating financial instability by automating critical decision-making processes. By following a systems theoretical approach after Lee and Demetis (2016) and based on a few fundamental sys... Read More about The systemic role of technology in financial instability.

What is Systemic Innovation? (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Midgley, G., & Lindhult, E. What is Systemic Innovation?

The term ‘systemic innovation’ is increasing in use. However, there is no consensus on its meaning: four different ways of using the term can be identified in the literature. Most people simply define it as a type of innovation where value can only b... Read More about What is Systemic Innovation?.

Lean and green supply chain management through intermodal transport: insights from the fast moving consumer goods industry (2017)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., & Dallari, F. (2017). Lean and green supply chain management through intermodal transport: insights from the fast moving consumer goods industry. Production planning & control, 28(4), 321-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2017.1282642

Combining efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability is crucial for companies to succeed in today’s context of fierce competition. This paper investigates how intermodal transport can be adopted for managing supply chains according to a Lean and Gr... Read More about Lean and green supply chain management through intermodal transport: insights from the fast moving consumer goods industry.

When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact (2017)
Book Chapter
Demetis, D. S., & Lee, A. S. (2017). When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact. In T. X. Bui, & R. Sprague, Jr. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 4 - 7, 2017 (5747-5756). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Abstract Following Lee & Demetis [20] who showed how systems theorizing can be conducted on the basis of a few systems principles, in this paper, we apply these principles to theorize about the systemic character of technology and investigate the rol... Read More about When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact.

Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education (2017)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., & Strozzi, F. (2018). Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education. Studies in higher education, 43(9), 1637-1653. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1276550

Continuous improvement in Higher Education can be supported by effective literature reviews to unveil contemporary and current educational needs and lay the foundations of programmes of study. As no discipline remains static, the aim of this paper is... Read More about Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education.

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of emerging economies' multinational enterprises - the mediating role of socialization integration mechanisms for successful integration (2017)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Rao-Nicholson, R., Akhtar, P., & He, S. (2017). Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of emerging economies' multinational enterprises - the mediating role of socialization integration mechanisms for successful integration. Human Resource Management Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2016.12.003

There has been recent surge of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by emerging economies’ multinational enterprises (EMNEs), however no conceptual model exists that can be utilized in global context to understand the success of these cross-b... Read More about Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of emerging economies' multinational enterprises - the mediating role of socialization integration mechanisms for successful integration.