All Outputs (19)

Developing Responsible Leadership in the context of Corporate Governance of the Nigerian Banking System (2024)
Thesis
Titus, O. Developing Responsible Leadership in the context of Corporate Governance of the Nigerian Banking System. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866452

The daily challenges faced by many Nigerian banks are compounded by increasing stakeholder demands. Managers find themselves juggling multiple accountabilities to both stakeholders and shareholders, positioning bank leadership in a delicate balance b... Read More about Developing Responsible Leadership in the context of Corporate Governance of the Nigerian Banking System.

No Longer 'Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards'? Advances in Local State- Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Thiery, H., & Burchell, J. (online). No Longer 'Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards'? Advances in Local State- Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-19. Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000939

Despite the significant influence of localism on policy discourses in the UK in recent decades, there has been limited evidence of any fundamental changes in state-civil society relationships. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 created a n... Read More about No Longer 'Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards'? Advances in Local State- Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-19.

Transforming adult social care systems? A systematic review of the costs and outcomes of local area coordination in England and Wales (2023)
Journal Article
Thiery, H., Cook, J., Burchell, J., Wilberforce, M., Twiddy, M., Nikolova, S., Martin, A., & Hulme, C. (2023). Transforming adult social care systems? A systematic review of the costs and outcomes of local area coordination in England and Wales. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 8(1), Article 100714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100714

Adult Social Care (ASC) in England faces an ‘existential crisis’, caught between increased demand for services and continued cuts to social care and local government budgets. Increasingly, it is argued that this crisis cannot be solved without reform... Read More about Transforming adult social care systems? A systematic review of the costs and outcomes of local area coordination in England and Wales.

'I'm not Doing It for the Company' -Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees' Eyes (2022)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Burchell, J., Thiery, H., & Roy, T. (in press). 'I'm not Doing It for the Company' -Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees' Eyes. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221114309

This article contributes to research on Employee Volunteering (EV) by focusing on the experiences of individuals in order to address the current over-emphasis upon collective organisational outcomes. Drawing on qualitative research with employees and... Read More about 'I'm not Doing It for the Company' -Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees' Eyes.

Playing to the audience? Multilevel interactions between stakeholders and institutions around CSR in Bangladesh (2022)
Journal Article
Roy, T., Burchell, J., & Cook, J. (in press). Playing to the audience? Multilevel interactions between stakeholders and institutions around CSR in Bangladesh. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2019-4229

Purpose: While corporate social responsibility (CSR) research and practice has expanded and evolved rapidly in recent years, little is known about how MNC subsidiaries develop their CSR strategies and how they reconcile global and local demands and p... Read More about Playing to the audience? Multilevel interactions between stakeholders and institutions around CSR in Bangladesh.

Wild Yeast Economies :Control and spontaneity in alternative forms of organising. (2022)
Thesis
Kruglanski, A. J. Wild Yeast Economies :Control and spontaneity in alternative forms of organising. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4873566

The Wild Yeast Economies research project explored alternative forms of organising through a culinary metaphor. The question I asked is whether there could be recipes for alternative forms of organising, the kinds created by activists in hopeful aspi... Read More about Wild Yeast Economies :Control and spontaneity in alternative forms of organising..

The experience of female academics in Saudi Arabian universities (2021)
Thesis
Alsalman, A. I. Y. (2021). The experience of female academics in Saudi Arabian universities. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4922454

This PhD thesis explores the lived experiences of women professionals as represented by female academics and how they negotiate their working lives/careers in the social and cultural context of Saudi Arabia. My study is motivated by a desire for self... Read More about The experience of female academics in Saudi Arabian universities.

Ageing and intergenerational care in rural China: a qualitative study of policy development (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, J., & Cook, J. (2020). Ageing and intergenerational care in rural China: a qualitative study of policy development. Contemporary Social Science, 15(3), 378-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2018.1448943

The large-scale migration of younger workers from rural to urban China since the 1990s has separated many adult children from their ageing parents, thereby challenging traditional patterns of familial support in rural villages. Existing studies on ag... Read More about Ageing and intergenerational care in rural China: a qualitative study of policy development.

Bridging the gaps in employee colunteering: Why the third sector doesn't always win (2017)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Burchell, J. (2018). Bridging the gaps in employee colunteering: Why the third sector doesn't always win. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(1), 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764017734649

Employee Volunteering (EV) schemes represent a cornerstone of many company Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies, being identified as a classic “win-win” situation in which businesses contribute significant resources into local communities... Read More about Bridging the gaps in employee colunteering: Why the third sector doesn't always win.

Gendered systemic analysis : systems thinking and gender equality in international development (2016)
Thesis
Lewis, E. D. Gendered systemic analysis : systems thinking and gender equality in international development. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219033

Systemic intervention (Midgley, 2000) and Feminist Systems Thinking (Stephens, 2013a), both branches of Critical Systems Thinking, have been used widely to improve social and organisational systems. According to Midgley (2000), a systemic interventio... Read More about Gendered systemic analysis : systems thinking and gender equality in international development.

Can 'distant water ... quench the instant thirst'? The renegotiation of familial support in rural China in the face of extensive out migration (2016)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Liu, J. (2016). Can 'distant water ... quench the instant thirst'? The renegotiation of familial support in rural China in the face of extensive out migration. Journal of Aging Studies, 37, 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.02.002

This article addresses debates on modernisation, ageing and intergenerational support in developing/emerging economies. By examining the impact of rural to urban migration on elder support in Chinese rural families, it examines how support is being r... Read More about Can 'distant water ... quench the instant thirst'? The renegotiation of familial support in rural China in the face of extensive out migration.

‘I think I'm more free with them' : conflict, negotiation and change in intergenerational relations in African families living in Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Waite, L. (2016). ‘I think I'm more free with them' : conflict, negotiation and change in intergenerational relations in African families living in Britain. Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 42(8), 1388-1402. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1073578

While the family is increasingly being recognised as pivotal to migration, there remain too few studies examining how migration impacts on intergenerational relationships. Although traditional intergenerational gaps are intensified by migration, argu... Read More about ‘I think I'm more free with them' : conflict, negotiation and change in intergenerational relations in African families living in Britain.

CSR : the role of stakeholder dialogue in achieving peaceful coexistence between host communities and multinational gold mining companies in Ghana (2014)
Thesis
Nartey, S. CSR : the role of stakeholder dialogue in achieving peaceful coexistence between host communities and multinational gold mining companies in Ghana. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216886

Gold mining has the potential for doing great good, and also causing environmental, socio-cultural and economic harm. This has increasingly become the focus of CSR orientated research. When conducted in a developing country context, it is argued that... Read More about CSR : the role of stakeholder dialogue in achieving peaceful coexistence between host communities and multinational gold mining companies in Ghana.

CSR, co-optation and resistance: the emergence of new agnostic relations between business and civil society (2013)
Journal Article
Burchell, J., & Cook, J. (2013). CSR, co-optation and resistance: the emergence of new agnostic relations between business and civil society. Journal of Business Ethics, 115(4), 741-754. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1830-z

This article examines the theoretical implications of the changing relationships between NGOs and businesses that have emerged as a response to the evolving agenda around CSR and sustainable development. In particular, it focuses upon examining wheth... Read More about CSR, co-optation and resistance: the emergence of new agnostic relations between business and civil society.

Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue (2012)
Journal Article
Burchell, J., & Cook, J. (2013). Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue. Journal of Business Ethics, 113(3), 505-518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1319-1

Campaigning activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have increased public awareness and concern regarding the alleged unethical and environmentally damaging practices of many major multinational companies. Companies have responded by deve... Read More about Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue.

Banging on open doors? Stakeholder dialogue and the challenge of business engagement for UK NGOs (2011)
Journal Article
Burchell, J., & Cook, J. (2011). Banging on open doors? Stakeholder dialogue and the challenge of business engagement for UK NGOs. Environmental Politics, 20(6), 918-937. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2011.617176

In recent years, increased pressure from civil society and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has heightened the need for companies to engage with their critics. As the notion of corporate social responsibility has come to the fore in the business... Read More about Banging on open doors? Stakeholder dialogue and the challenge of business engagement for UK NGOs.

Accession 8 migration and the proactive and defensive engagement of social citizenship (2011)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Dwyer, P., & Waite, L. (2012). Accession 8 migration and the proactive and defensive engagement of social citizenship. Journal of Social Policy, 41(2), 329-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279411000766

Following the expansion of the European Union in 2004 unprecedented numbers of Accession 8 migrants from Central and Eastern Europe entered the UK. These migrants are often concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods, which are already routinely... Read More about Accession 8 migration and the proactive and defensive engagement of social citizenship.

Belonging among disaporic African communities in the UK: plurilocal homes and simultaneity of place attachments (2010)
Journal Article
Waite, L., & Cook, J. (2011). Belonging among disaporic African communities in the UK: plurilocal homes and simultaneity of place attachments. Emotion, space and society, 4(4), 238-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2010.08.001

This paper compares the emotional attachments to place(s) of first and second generation African migrants in the UK. Qualitative studies from the field of migration studies have tended to examine generational cohorts in isolation from one another rat... Read More about Belonging among disaporic African communities in the UK: plurilocal homes and simultaneity of place attachments.

Exploring older women's citizenship: understanding the impact of migration in later life (2009)
Journal Article
Cook, J. (2010). Exploring older women's citizenship: understanding the impact of migration in later life. Ageing and Society, 30(2), 253-273. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X09990195

Research on the ways in which having been an international migrant in later life shapes the welfare needs, preferences and expectations of non-native older people in rich countries is in its infancy, for both the ageing and migration fields have been... Read More about Exploring older women's citizenship: understanding the impact of migration in later life.