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Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study (2015)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., Dallari, F., & Melacini, M. (2016). Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study. Production planning & control, 27(3), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2015.1090030

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper presents a supply chain network design framework that is based on multi-objective mathematical programming and that can identify 'eco-efficient' configuration alternatives that are both efficient and ecologically... Read More about Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study.

Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management (2015)
Journal Article
Strozzi, F., & Colicchia, C. (2015). Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management. Journal of Scientometric Research JSCIRES ; official publication of SciBiolMed.Org, 4(3), 195-205. https://doi.org/10.4103/2320-0057.174860

The field of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has recently gained considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. This has caused an exponential growth in the number of publications related to different aspects of sustainability in... Read More about Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management.

Entrepreneurship skills: literature and policy review (2015)
Report
Snowden, N., Johnson, S., Mukhuty, S., Fletcher, B., & Williams, T. (2015). Entrepreneurship skills: literature and policy review. London: Department of Business, Innovation & Skills

BIS research paper no. 236

Boundary games: how teams of OR practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention (2015)
Journal Article
Velez-Castiblanco, J., Brocklesby, J., & Midgley, G. (2016). Boundary games: how teams of OR practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention. European journal of operational research, 249(3), 968-982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.08.006

An operational research (OR) practitioner designing an intervention needs to engage in a practical process for choosing methods and implementing them. When a team of OR practitioners does this, and/or clients and stakeholders are involved, the social... Read More about Boundary games: how teams of OR practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention.

Project management learning: a comparative study between engineering students’ experiences in South Africa and the United Kingdom (2015)
Journal Article
Ojiako, U., Chipulu, M., Marshall, A., Ashleigh, M. J., & Williams, T. (2015). Project management learning: a comparative study between engineering students’ experiences in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Project management journal, 46(4), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmj.21510

This study explores how engineering students studying project management perceive their learning experiences. To facilitate an understanding of the constituent components of engineering students’ experiences, and to understand how these experiences i... Read More about Project management learning: a comparative study between engineering students’ experiences in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Corporate image: a service recovery perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Mostafa, R. B., Lages, C. R., Shabbir, H. A., & Thwaites, D. (2015). Corporate image: a service recovery perspective. Journal of Service Research, 18(4), 468-483. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094670515584146

This article explores direct and indirect antecedents that contribute to corporate image formation in a service recovery context. Two studies were carried out in Egypt. Study 1 comprises 29 semistructured interviews with complainants of mobile phone... Read More about Corporate image: a service recovery perspective.

Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Gregory, A., & Ronan, M. (2015). Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 66(4), 627-636. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2014.27

This paper provides an account of an ongoing project with an independent school in the UK. The project focuses on a strategy development intervention which, from the start, was systemic in orientation. The intention was to integrate simple systems co... Read More about Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective.

Antimicrobials in animal agriculture: Parables and policy (2015)
Journal Article
Scott, H. M., Midgley, G., & Loneragan, G. H. (2015). Antimicrobials in animal agriculture: Parables and policy. Zoonoses and public health, 62(s1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12191

In addition to the scientific, economic, regulatory and other policy factors that impact on antimicrobial decision-making in different jurisdictions around the world, there exist ethical, social and cultural bases for the contemporary use of these pr... Read More about Antimicrobials in animal agriculture: Parables and policy.

Heterogeneity and perception congruence of project outcomes (2015)
Journal Article
Ojiako, U., Chipulu, M., Marshall, A., Ashleigh, M., Maguire, S., Williams, T., & Obokoh, L. (2015). Heterogeneity and perception congruence of project outcomes. Production planning & control, 26(11), 858-873. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2014.994684

This study examines the impact of project manager and practitioner heterogeneity on congruent perceptions of the outcome of service operations projects. More specifically, the study focuses on congruence in the formation and subsequently revision of... Read More about Heterogeneity and perception congruence of project outcomes.

Systemic Intervention (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Midgley, G. (2015). Systemic Intervention

This paper describes the practice of systemic intervention, emphasizing (1) the need to explore stakeholder values and boundaries for analysis; (2) responses to the challenges of marginalization processes; and (3) a wide, pluralistic range of methods... Read More about Systemic Intervention.

A multi-agent architecture for outsourcing SMEs manufacturing supply chain (2015)
Journal Article
Kumari, S., Singh, A., Mishra, N., & Garza-Reyes, J. A. (2015). A multi-agent architecture for outsourcing SMEs manufacturing supply chain. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 36, 36-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2014.12.009

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Abstract In the present, global and competitive market customer's demands are very volatile. It is very difficult for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) to satisfy their customer with quality product in reasonable price. La... Read More about A multi-agent architecture for outsourcing SMEs manufacturing supply chain.

The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains (2015)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., & Khan, Z. (2015). The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains. British food journal, 117(1), 443-460. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-12-2013-0357

Purpose – A suitable leadership approach and multiple dimensions of performance (operational and social dimensions contributing to financial performance – the effectiveness of international agri-food supply chain coordination) are important because o... Read More about The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains.

A two-echelon production-inventory model for deteriorating items with multiple buyers (2015)
Journal Article
Ghiami, Y., & Williams, T. (2015). A two-echelon production-inventory model for deteriorating items with multiple buyers. International journal of production economics, 159(January), 233-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.09.017

In a production-inventory system, the manufacturer produces the items at a rate, e.g. R, dispatches the order quantities to the customers in specific intervals and stores the excess inventory for subsequent deliveries. Therefore each inventory cycle... Read More about A two-echelon production-inventory model for deteriorating items with multiple buyers.

Knowing differently in systemic intervention (2015)
Journal Article
Rajagopalan, R., & Midgley, G. (2015). Knowing differently in systemic intervention. Systems research and behavioral science, 32(5), 546-561. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2352

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This paper makes the case for extended ways of knowing in systemic intervention. It argues that the deployment of formal (even reflective) thinking and dialogue methods are inadequate, on their own, to the critical ta... Read More about Knowing differently in systemic intervention.

Using portfolio optimisation to calculate the efficient relationship between maritime port security residual risk and security investment (2014)
Journal Article
Talas, R., & Menachof, D. (2014). Using portfolio optimisation to calculate the efficient relationship between maritime port security residual risk and security investment. International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, 6(3), 314-338. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTL.2014.060788

The research employs an adaptive cross-disciplinary research strategy in an industrial example to address container port facilities’ inability to assess whether their security systems are efficient. The research combines subjective assessments of the... Read More about Using portfolio optimisation to calculate the efficient relationship between maritime port security residual risk and security investment.

Political pressure and procyclical expenditure: An analysis of the expenditures of state governments in Mexico (2014)
Journal Article
Abbott, A., Cabral, R., Jones, P., & Palacios, R. (2015). Political pressure and procyclical expenditure: An analysis of the expenditures of state governments in Mexico. Europäische Zeitschrift für politische Ökonomie = European journal of political economy, 37, 195-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2014.12.001

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. Government expenditures are procyclical if they increase in periods of economic growth and decrease in periods of economic downturn. This paper tests the proposition that (within federations) political pressures for public expend... Read More about Political pressure and procyclical expenditure: An analysis of the expenditures of state governments in Mexico.

Action research in a problem avoiding culture using a Buddhist systems methodology (2014)
Journal Article
Shen, C.-Y., & Midgley, G. (2015). Action research in a problem avoiding culture using a Buddhist systems methodology. Action Research, 13(2), 170-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750314558428

Problem avoidance can be an issue in both Eastern and Western cultures, and in some Eastern contexts it can stem from the desire to promote organizational harmony: identifying problems can lead to blame, thereby fracturing harmonious relationships. T... Read More about Action research in a problem avoiding culture using a Buddhist systems methodology.

The role of information systems in the prevention and detection of transnational and international crime (2014)
Book Chapter
Demetis, D. (2014). The role of information systems in the prevention and detection of transnational and international crime. In I. Bantekas, & E. Mylonaki (Eds.), Criminological Approaches to International Criminal Law (192-221). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107446700.009

© Cambridge University Press 2014. All around the world criminal activity remains at the forefront of governmental concerns, not only as a problem that distorts the very fabric of society within the confines of national jurisdictions, but also as a p... Read More about The role of information systems in the prevention and detection of transnational and international crime.