A5081642955- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Public Procurement and Policy
- Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
- Quality and Supply Management
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Service and Product Innovation
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
University of the West of England
2011-2024
At Bristol
2015-2022
University of Bath
2001-2009
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature suggests CSR initiatives extend beyond meeting the immediate interests of stakeholders for-profit enterprises, offering potential to also enhance performance. Growing disillusionment business models has drawn attention entrepreneurship and innovation ease issues. Adopting a systematic review relevant research, article provides collective insights into research linking with entrepreneurship, demonstrating growing interest in area over last...
This discussion paper aims to set out the key challenges and opportunities emerging from distributed manufacturing (DM). We begin by describing concept, available definitions consider its evolution where recent production technology developments (such as additive continuous process technologies), digitisation together with infrastructural (in terms of IoT big data) provide new opportunities. To further explore evolving nature DM, authors, each whom are involved in specific applications DM...
SUMMARY The problems associated with transparency in supply relationships — the two‐way exchange of information and knowledge between customer supplier represent chronic difficulty for managers. sensitivity such exchanges appears to interfere even negate their effectiveness value. This may be because insufficient consideration types a propensity domination relationship. research is aimed at exploring these difficulties order understand dynamics varying nature this context (including proposed...
Shifts in the philosophy of “state” and a growing emphasis on “Big Society” have placed an increasing onus newly emerging organizational form, social enterprises, to deliver innovative solutions ease societal issues. However, question how enterprises manage process innovation remains largely unexplored. Based insights from both in-depth interviews quantitative empirical study this research examines role stakeholder relationships supporting within enterprises. We find that are adept at...
Crises test the resilience of public service organizations. Healthcare providers must respond and innovate within tight constraints to address challenges. Presenting COVID-19 as a knowable unknown (black swan event), we adopt information processing theory investigate how healthcare their suppliers asymmetry support decision-making. Building on primary secondary datasets, demonstrate managers were innovating internal structural responses. For black events, in-house 'intelligent clients' are...
Purpose To examine management literature for guidance on what constitutes a discipline. supply publications to determine whether the field discipline or an emerging contribute structured evaluation body of theory/discipline development knowledge. Design/methodology/approach Literature review and initial assessment is Development research questions used design tests, using combinations qualitative pattern matching, journal quality rankings, social science citations index impact factor....
Sustainable procurement is the pursuit of sustainable development objectives (WCED, 1987) through purchasing and supply process, involves balancing environmental, social economic objectives. It rising on policy agenda for many countries, but knowledge remains limited. This study explores emerging issues focus groups at a workshop. The 44 participants included senior policy-makers, academics practitioners from public private sectors professional bodies. Focus group discussion data were taped...
The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the global economy, laying bare coordination challenges and vulnerabilities of value chains (GVCs) across sectors. Governments, consumers, firms alike have called for greater GVC resilience to ensure critical products are delivered right place, at time, in condition. This article investigates whether reconfiguration through adoption redistributed manufacturing (RDM) local production can deliver against unexpected, disruptive events. It proposes actionable steps...
The authors address the need for supply relationships to generate, support, and respond discontinuous innovation (DI), noting that established ways of working appear insufficient. peculiarities DI are explained contrasted with well‐known concepts within innovation. customer firms be both closely collaborative suppliers while also exploring potential, unpredictable elsewhere is proposed, by means strategic dalliances . A model presented understanding this emerging management challenge.
Purpose – Public procurement has been increasingly seen as an important innovation policy tool. One neglected aspect of the public is, however, diffusion. The purpose this paper is to counter neglect by exploring how institutional coordination may affect diffusion innovations procured a agency.
Research on the innovation process and its effective management has consistently highlighted a set of themes constituting "good practice". The limitation such practice" is that it relates to what might be termed "steady state" — essentially innovative activity in product terms which about "doing we do, but better". prescription works well under these conditions (relative) stability products markets not good guide when elements discontinuity come into equation. Discontinuity arises from...
Purpose The emergence of distributed manufacturing (DM) is examined as a new form localised production, distinct from previous manifestations multi-domestic and indigenous production. Design/methodology/approach Supply network (SN) configuration infrastructural provisioning perspectives were used to examine the literature on established production models well DM. A multiple case study was then undertaken describe explore DM model further. maximum variation sampling procedure select five...
Adoption of change management best practices continues to be offered as a route towards improved cost, quality and productivity public services. These approaches are predominantly drawn from private sector research their application by the remains relatively under-researched area. In this article we investigate with three case studies local authorities one popular approach – cross-functional team-based working. We analyse varying success teams organisational mechanisms that supported...
This paper explores the constraints and enablers of process innovation within context UK health care supply networks. Building on a comprehensive literature review established recent network research, presents three levels analysis: sector level networks, focal organization networks dyadic relationships. The reports first round fieldwork conducted with 12 different organizations. are applied during analysis findings considered in terms key themes that have emerged practical theoretical...
Objective To identify how public contributors established their legitimacy in the functioning of a patient and involvement programme at health network. Design A longitudinal case study with three embedded units (projects) involving contributors. Interviews (n=24), observations (n=27) documentary data collection occurred over 16 months. Setting The West England Academic Health Science Network (WEAHSN), 1 15 regional AHSNs England. Participants were conducted (n=5) professionals (n=19) who...
Energy costs and fuel poverty are major concerns for social housing tenants, many of whom vulnerable citizens. To meet challenging NetZero targets, public organizations have used strategic procurement (SPP) in decarbonizing stock to make it more energy efficient. Drawing on SPP stakeholder engagement, we theoretically argue that organizations' diverse set internal stakeholders integral SPP. Empirically, provide evidence a disconnect between organization-facing customer-facing groups which...
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