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The impact of leadership on organizational ambidexterity and employee psychological safety in the global acquisitions of emerging market multinationals (2016)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Akhtar, P., Merchant, H., & Rao-Nicholson, R. (2016). The impact of leadership on organizational ambidexterity and employee psychological safety in the global acquisitions of emerging market multinationals. The international journal of human resource management, 27(20), 2461-2487. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1204557

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the impact of leadership on organizational ambidexterity and employee psychological safety (EPS) based on a sample of 105 global acquisitions of emerging market multi... Read More about The impact of leadership on organizational ambidexterity and employee psychological safety in the global acquisitions of emerging market multinationals.

Four domains of complexity (2016)
Journal Article
Midgley, G. (2016). Four domains of complexity. Emergence: complexity and organization, 18(2),

In this short paper, which reflects on one of my contributions to the systems literature in 1992 (Pluralism and the Legitimation of Systems Science), I discuss the context at that time. Systems scientists were embroiled in a paradigm war, which threa... Read More about Four domains of complexity.

A new connectivity index for container ports (2016)
Journal Article
Bartholdi, J. J., Jarumaneeroj, P., & Ramudhin, A. (2016). A new connectivity index for container ports. Maritime economics & logistics, 18(3), 231-249. https://doi.org/10.1057/mel.2016.5

We propose a new index, the Container Port Connectivity Index, to measure the trade connectivity of ports within the network of container shipping. This index is based on both economics and network topology, and a distinctive feature is that the stre... Read More about A new connectivity index for container ports.

The influence of industrial policy and national systems of innovation on emerging economy suppliers’ learning capability (2016)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Lew, Y. K., & Akhtar, P. (2016). The influence of industrial policy and national systems of innovation on emerging economy suppliers’ learning capability. Industry and Innovation, 23(6), 512-530. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2016.1189811

This paper links the industrial policy and national systems of innovation literature to the investigation of learning capabilities of suppliers in the context of the automotive parts industry of Pakistan. Drawing data from 50 Pakistani autoparts supp... Read More about The influence of industrial policy and national systems of innovation on emerging economy suppliers’ learning capability.

Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities (2016)
Journal Article
Creazza, A., Restelli, U., Porazzi, E., Garagiola, E. R., Croce, D., Arpesella, M., Dallari, F., & Noè, C. (2016). Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities. Benchmarking, 23(4), 817-842. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-12-2013-0123

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a benchmarking framework for assessing the performance of the distribution models adopted by the local branches of National Health Services (NHSs) for delivering health technologies to patients at a l... Read More about Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities.

Cloud-based multi-agent architecture for effective planning and scheduling of distributed manufacturing (2016)
Journal Article
Mishra, N., Singh, A., Kumari, S., Govindan, K., & Ali, S. I. (2016). Cloud-based multi-agent architecture for effective planning and scheduling of distributed manufacturing. International Journal of Production Research, 54(23), 7115-7128. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2016.1165359

In modern world, manufacturing processes have become very complex because of consistently fluctuating demand of customers. Numerous production facilities located at various geographical locations are being utilised to address the demands of their mul... Read More about Cloud-based multi-agent architecture for effective planning and scheduling of distributed manufacturing.

An efficient approach to radiotherapy dose planning problem: a TOPSIS case-based reasoning approach (2016)
Journal Article
Malekpoor, H., Mishra, N., Sumalya, S., & Kumari, S. (2017). An efficient approach to radiotherapy dose planning problem: a TOPSIS case-based reasoning approach. International Journal of Systems Science: Operations and Logistics, 4(1), 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/23302674.2015.1135354

© 2016, © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Dose planning of prostate cancer is a complex and time-consuming process. Usually, oncologists use past experience and spend a large amount of time to determine the optimal combi... Read More about An efficient approach to radiotherapy dose planning problem: a TOPSIS case-based reasoning approach.

Taming the ‘trolls’ : major public projects in the making (2016)
Journal Article
Klakegg, O. J., Williams, T., & Shiferaw, A. T. (2016). Taming the ‘trolls’ : major public projects in the making. International journal of project management, 34(2), 282-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2015.03.008

Major projects are not yet sufficiently understood, and practices in project governance and project management do not yet reflect the current state of knowledge of large, complex projects. In an attempt to understand the reasons, the authors therefor... Read More about Taming the ‘trolls’ : major public projects in the making.

Reshaping medical practice and care with health information systems (2016)
Book
Dwivedi, A. (Ed.). (2016). Reshaping medical practice and care with health information systems. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9870-3

Technology has become an integral part of our daily interactions, even within the hospitals and healthcare facilities we rely on in times of illness and injury. New technologies and systems are being developed every day, advancing the ways that we tr... Read More about Reshaping medical practice and care with health information systems.

Embracing supply chain agility: an investigation in the electronics industry (2016)
Journal Article
Tse, Y. K., Zhang, M., Akhtar, P., & MacBryde, J. (2016). Embracing supply chain agility: an investigation in the electronics industry. Supply chain management, 21(1), 140-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/scm-06-2015-0237

Purpose – This paper aims to identify the antecedents of firm’s supply chain agility (SC agility) and how SC agility impacts on firm’s performance. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a comprehensive literature review, a conceptual model was propo... Read More about Embracing supply chain agility: an investigation in the electronics industry.

Small fish in a big pond : an architectural approach to users privacy, rights and security in the age of big data (2016)
Book Chapter
Merali, Y., Angelopoulos, S., McAuley, D., Mortier, R., & Price, D. (2016). Small fish in a big pond : an architectural approach to users privacy, rights and security in the age of big data.

Paper presented at 37th International conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016), 11-14 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland. ABSTRACT We focus on the challenges and issues associated with Big Data, and propose a novel architecture that uses the princip... Read More about Small fish in a big pond : an architectural approach to users privacy, rights and security in the age of big data.