Gary GrahamUniversity of Leeds · Africa College
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HRM challenges, migrant workers and the regulation of migration post-Brexit/post-COVID-19: evidence from four sectors
This research paper analyses policy and practice implications of the changing migration regulation regime in the UK for four sectors: hospitality, warehousing, food manufacture and care work. These sectors have tended to be highly...
Blog for Digital Futures at Work Research Centre Data Observatory: https://digit-research.org/blog_article/employers-responses-to-the-end-of-free-movement-rhetoric-and-realities-of-automation/
The dominant approach of understanding supply chain resilience has been a ‘downward’ reading of action, which treats agency as a second-order concept; the result is an ontology that prioritizes structure over agency. In this work we put the spotlight on the ontology of supply chain resilience thus departing from the dominant way of its conceptualis...
Blog for CERIC Research Centre: https://cericleeds.wordpress.com/2022/01/13/from-a-health-crisis-to-a-labour-crisis-omicron-brexit-and-labour-shortages/
Big data technologies (BDT) are the latest instalments in a long line of technological disruptions credited with advancing the field of supply chain management (SCM) from a purely clerical function to a strategic necessity. Yet, despite the wave of optimism about the utility of BDT in SCM, the origins of value in a BDT-enabled supply chain are not...
Purpose
Using the constructal law of physics this study aims to provide guidance to future scholarship on global supply chain management. Further, through two case studies the authors are developing, the authors report interview findings with two senior VPs from two multi-national corporations being disrupted by COVID-19. This study suggests how th...
The fourth Industrial Revolution is driving the creation of a more connected ecosystem. Organizations are now re-shaping their strategies to become increasingly transparent, including their supply chain management (SCM). The area of supply chain digitalization is starting to attract growing attention; however, its research status remains unclear. W...
This research explores the development of local community-based ‘makerspaces’ as potential scalable forms of redistributed manufacturing (RDM). Makerspaces are rapidly emerging in post-industrial economies and have been identified as a catalyst of local regeneration in urban areas. However, their role in local production systems is limited. There i...
The concept of social capital has attracted much attention from researchers and policy makers, largely due to links with positive social outcomes and philanthropic acts such as volunteering and donations. However, a rapid growth in internet technologies and social media networks has fundamentally affected the formation of social capital, as well as...
Advances in Internet technology are making it possible for individuals to volunteer online and participate in research-based activities of nonprofit organizations. Using survey data from a representative sample of such contributors, this study investigates their motivations to volunteer for five online volunteering projects using the Volunteer Func...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how the sourcing process of the electric sports car sector is changing with respect to competitive advantage, required capabilities and emerging opportunism.
Design/methodology/approach
The case study data collection covered the period from January till August 2017, which implies a total period of ei...
This research explores the development of local community-based “makerspaces” as potential scalable forms of redistributed manufacturing (RDM). Makerspaces are rapidly emerging in post-industrial economies and have been identified as a catalyst of local regeneration in urban areas. However, their role in local production systems is limited. There i...
The smart city idea refers to new ways of organising city functions and urban life, which are believed to move production and consumption from global to local, manufacturing from competitive to collaborative, and business from a shareholder to a multiple-stakeholder point of view. Most previous research has focussed on the societal level of smart c...
It was not a natural disaster but terrorism (the September 9/11 attacks) that brought into question the transactional orthodoxy guiding the post-Cold War design configuration of international supply chains. The US government reaction was to put social pressure and introduce trade measures on multi-national enterprises (MNEs), who were importing man...
Big Data has been hailed as the ‘next big thing’ to drive business value, transform organisations and industries, and ‘reveal secrets to those with the humility, willingness and tools to listen’ (Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier, 2013: 5). However, despite growing interest from organisations across industry sectors, Big Data applications appear to have...
The concept of social capital has attracted much attention from researchers and policy makers, largely due to the strong theoretical and empirical evidence linking it with a variety of positive social outcomes; including philanthropic acts such as volunteering and donations. However, the rapid growth in Internet technologies and social media networ...
This chapter explores manufacturing in the smart city, and presents a framework that integrates distributed manufacturing with smart city technologies (such as big data and the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)). This framework aims to explore the interplay of smart city technology with production organization and design. The following are the i...
Big Data has been hailed as the ‘next big thing’ to drive business value, transform organisations and industries, and “reveal secrets to those with the humility, willingness and tools to listen” (Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier, 2013: 5). However, despite growing interest from organisations across industry sectors, Big Data applications appear to have...
Purpose
The smart city idea refers to new ways of organising city functions and urban life, which are believed to move production and consumption from global to local, manufacturing from competitive to collaborative, and business from a shareholder to a multiple-stakeholder point of view. Most previous research has focused on the societal level of...
The purpose of this paper is to explore how “Big Data” will inform the shape and configuration of future operations models and connected car services in the automotive sector. Cases are used to explore the characteristics of the resources and processes used in three big data operations models.
Big data is the new “guy about town.” Indeed, the buzz about Big Data and business intelligence (BI) as drivers of business information data collection and analysis continues to build steam. But it seems not everyone is taking notice. Whilst scholars in main are excited about the “fields of possibilities” big data and related analytics offer, in te...
Over the years, traditional car makers have evolved into efficient systems integrators dominating the industry through their size and power. However, with the rise of big data technology the operational landscape is rapidly changing with the emergence of the “connected” car. The automotive incumbents will have to harness the opportunities of big da...
Text analytics and sentiment analysis can help researchers to derive potentially valuable thematic and narrative insights from text-based content such as industry reviews, leading OM and OR journal articles and government reports. The classification system described here analyses the aggregated opinions of the performance of various public and priv...
The ontological turn in organisational capabilities theorising has pitched methodological individualism against methodological collectivism. Although illuminating in their own right, it has been acknowledged that reconciling this dichotomy holds the key to unlocking the capabilities paradox. In this work we attempt to provide a solution to this mic...
New democratic participation forms and collaborative productions of diverse audiences have emerged as a result of digital innovations in the online access to and consumption of news. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework based on the possibilities of Web 2.0. outlining the construction of a "social logic", which combines comput...
This paper is a first step to understand the role that a smart city with a distributed production system could have in changing the nature and form of supply chain design. Since the end of the Second World War, most supply chain systems for manufactured products have been based on ‘scale economies’ and ‘bigness’; in our paper we challenge this trad...
The rapid growth in Internet technology is making it possible to volunteer in online settings, with participants able to contribute directly to research-based activities supporting non-profit groups and charitable organisations. This study undertakes an investigation into the profile and motivations of contributors to these online volunteering proj...
This discussion paper aims to set out the key challenges and opportunities emerging from distributed manufacturing (DM). We begin by describing the concept, available definitions and consider its evolution where recent production technology developments (such as additive and continuous production process technologies), digitization together with in...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine intrinsic forms of motivation and particular incidents of play, socialisation, fun and amusement on an online crowdsourced citizen science platform. The paper also investigates gamised activity (Greenhill et al., 2014) as a form of intrinsic motivation adding a sense of play to work and tasks (Xu e...
This editorial article provides an overview of the scope, aims and objectives of the SI. It also outlines the key categorising themes which have been used to organise the eight papers selected for publication.
Smart city initiatives could be expected to radically change the ways businesses are organised. This paper is a first step to understand the role of smart cities in supply chain management, with a specific focus on supplier networks. In this paper, the following question is posed: How will smart cities change supply chain management? Further, a con...
The notion of smart cities is growing in prominence in the digital economy. The integration of urban infrastructures with information and communication technologies enables the development of new operations models. Digitised infrastructures offer opportunities for public and private organisations to design and deliver more customer-centric products...
We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), including the astronomy projects Galaxy Zoo (www.galaxyzoo.org) and Planet Hunters (www.planethunters.org). We use econometric methods to test how measures of project participation rel...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge of the transformative potential of big data on city-based transport models. The central question guiding this paper is: how could big data transform smart city transport operations? In answering this question the authors present initial results from a Markov study. However the authors also s...
Purpose – The purpose of this work is to explore whether there is a “fulfilment gap” between customer expectations and fashion retail strategies over the purchase journey. Specifically this study focuses on two small-to-medium sized enterprise (SME) retail firms in Iceland. Design/methodology/approach – An on-going case study is still being conduct...
This paper is a first step to understand the role that a smart city with a distributed production system could have in changing the nature and form of supply chain design. Since the end of the Second World War most supply chain systems for manufactured products have been based on “scale economies” and “bigness”; in our paper we challenge this tradi...
The growth of cities in the 21st century has put more pressure on resources and conditions of urban life. There are several reasons why the health-care industry is the focus of this investigation. For instance, in the UK various studies point to the lack of failure of basic quality control procedures and misalignment between customer needs and prov...
Although current literature highlights a wide variety of potential citizen science project outcomes, no prior studies have systematically assessed performance against a comprehensive set of criteria. The study reported here is the first to propose a novel framework for assessing citizen science projects against multiple dimensions of success. The a...
While the literature highlights a wide variety of potential citizen science project outcomes, no prior studies have systematically assessed performance against a comprehensive set of criteria. Our study is the first to propose a novel framework for assessing citizen science projects against multiple dimensions of success. We apply this framework to...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework to understand the influence that the social era is having on the value chain of the local news industry. The authors theoretically advance value chain theory by, firstly, considering the influence of community type and age on consumption and, secondly, exploring the role that...
Purpose: This paper develops a conceptual framework to unde rstand the influence that the social era is having on the value chain of the local news industry. We theoretically advance value chain theory by firstly, considering the influence of community type and age on consumption and secondly exploring the role that consumers can play in value addi...
The fictional prototype uses imaginative narratives based explicitly on science fact as a design tool in the development of technology. Through traditional research and development we begin to define and understand what a technology is. This is the typical work that is going on in industrial labs and universities all over the world. Usually this wo...
This paper examines incidents of play, socialisation, fun and amusement to consider how these forms of social interaction relate to the serious gaming elements of the citizen science platform. Through an ethnographic study we reveal how participants of citizen science projects demonstrate aspects of ‘Gamised’ behaviour. ‘Gamised’ behaviour is defin...
How can local newspapers survive in a digital age? Gray Graham and Anita Greenhill examine findings from interviews, thoughts from leading industry experts and macro-level trade insights to try to answer this question. One thing is certain: newspapers must respond to this digital age of media turbulence fast.
This special issue (SI) explores the use of creative fictional prototyping to motivate and direct research into new high-tech products, environments and lifestyles. Fictional prototyping combines storytelling with science fact to explore a wide variety of possible futures. We define what a prototype is, then outline the design challenges. Commentar...
This fictional prototype presents a future proposition of people interacting with technologically designed or socially engineered producer entities. Entities customised specifically to solve complex societal problems. In this case that of crime and punishment. The prototype speculates how entrepreneurial firms will be able to exploit ‘crowdsourcing...
Purpose
This paper aims to understand the level of synergy between print and online activity and to assess the influence of print/online synergy on the log of circulation change.
Design/methodology/approach
In order to meet this aim the authors conducted an empirical study of 100 regional newspapers supplying news media services in the UK. Two hyp...
In the last two decades, organization theorists have sought to apply complexity theories developed in the natural sciences to the study of organizations. This article develops a fictional approach for critically interrogating two important complexity concepts — order-through-fluctuations and autopoiesis. Using these concepts in a metaphorical sense...
Science fiction prototyping (SFP) and crowdsourcing are among a range of promising methodologies that are set to transform all spheres of human landscape be it science, business or social. This paper exploits the SFP and crowdsourcing methodologies and presents “crime-sourcing”, a prototype designed to explore futuristic crowdsourcing ideas. Its pu...
This editorial explains how creative prototyping could make both a theoretical and methodological contribution, to the long and established tradition of user-driven forecasting and foresight scholarship. We provide summarized reviews of thirteen articles from emerging prototype researchers. This SI contains a very diverse and exciting crop of paper...
Synergies between print and online activity in the newspaper industry are not fully understood. Nor is their influence on newspaper circulation rates. Both issues are investigated using data from a small survey of regional newspapers. In particular, we show how cross-media synergies for print and online interaction can be estimated against a simple...
With global economic development and growing international competition, supply chain collaboration (SCC) has become both an important strategic and operational issue. The organization therefore must rethink both its electronic business (e-business) and global supply chain management (SCM) strategies. This research investigates electronic supply cha...
The concepts of supply chain design and management has come to the fore, due to the ever- increasing complexity of the systems driving buyer supplier relations in both industrial and consumer based markets. The unprecedented levels of supply chain management complexity are partly attributed to the Internet, through its more recent business acceptan...
This research article primarily investigates supply chain integration with an emphasis on the use of B2B ecommerce as an organizational strategic tool for improving supply chain performance. The balanced scorecard (BSC) approach was adopted to measure the impact of e-business strategy on supply chain integration. The related perspectives of BSC wer...
Purpose
This paper aims to understand the impact of the internet on different value activities in a physical goods (newspaper) supply chain.
Design/methodology/approach
Case studies were used to obtain rich data from three newspaper companies. The selected case study companies had experienced changes in their value chains as a result of the intern...
News-media organisations are operating in increasingly competitive and fragmented markets for audiences and advertising revenues. Through the advent of the Internet, regional news media are experiencing a revolution in their production and administrative processes, such that their survival depends on their ability to find a workable online business...
Newspapers are operating in increasingly competitive and fragmented markets for audiences and advertising revenues, government
media policy and changing audience requirements for news and the ways in which it is presented and delivered. A growing army
of bloggers and amateur citizen journalists now delivers - but rarely edits - content for all medi...
The literature on electronic commerce has bombarded managers with various suggestions and recommendations as how to understand and manage the Internet from the perspective of value chain management (Choudhury and Karahanna, 2008; Stone, 2003). There is however limited academic research on the newspaper industry. Our research sought to answer the qu...
Newspapers are operating in increasingly competitive and fragmented markets for audiences and advertising revenues, government media policy and changing audience requirements for news and the ways in which it is presented and delivered. A growing army of bloggers and amateur citizen journalists now delivers—but rarely edits—content for all media pl...
This article analyses the overlapping of consumption and production on the supply chain for electronic dance music sector in Finland. Although the music establishment have seen their control and production of music consolidate over the last 50 years as a high-value, capital growth process, the structural formation of the music industry in Finland i...
This theoretical article analyses the overlapping of consumption and production in the value chain for the newspaper industry. The creation and consumption of the digitally printed newspaper are theoretically shown as being led by the decentralised nature of the value chain network. Such that the conventional distinction between consumer and produc...
This paper explores competition between firms in the online music market. It is evident from the analysis of our research dataset that firms acquire competitive advantage, by differentiating themselves on the range and quality of their music stock and through building social relational mechanisms with customers. The contribution of the work to elec...
Purpose
– Music can be copied and distributed almost without cost via the internet, while payment and distribution technologies are reducing the transaction costs of its commercial exchange. In the case of MP3 the cost of swapping music files is negligible, for both the supplier uploading the file and the receiver who is downloading the music. In l...
This article explores the impact of the Internet on the supply chain for music. Music is a massive global industry worth $38 billion annually. The global music industry is dominated by the “big five” major record companies. However, as this article will show, the advent of the Internet is having a significant impact on both the supply chain for mus...
A contractor prequalification process is a typical multiple criteria decision-making problem that embraces both quantitative and qualitative criteria. When facing such problems, a decision maker may need to provide uncertain, incomplete, or imprecise assess- ments due to a lack of information, time pressure and/or shortcomings in expertise. A multi...
An evidential reasoning (ER) approach is applied to evaluate pre-qualification criteria in selection of a main contractor. This approach has proved to be useful and practical when a decision problem under consideration includes multiple criteria, which are of both a quantitative and qualitative nature. In this type of problem, a major difficulty is...
This paper reports the application of an evidential reasoning (ER) approach, to deal with the evaluation of a contractor, from among different fabrication options of aero-engine equipment. This is followed by a review of current evaluation practices, which begins by highlighting their limitations and then goes on to justify the use of an evidential...
The central aim of this paper is to link the competitive performance of small defence firms to their ability to adapt to changes in the Ministry of Defence procurement process favouring more European collaboration. The paper draws upon an extensive research study focused on small, high technology defence firms in the UK. The empirical analysis on t...
As the information superhighway reaches unprecedented levels of growth and acceptance in the commercial business sector, the key challenge for many firms is to become an architect in the new revolution of electronic commerce. The Internet increases the richness of communications through greater interactivity between the firm and the customer. This...
This paper examines the peculiar nature of buyer-supplier relations from a value chain perspective in the UK aerospace sector. A detailed examination is made of buyer strategies in terms of acquisition, management and exploitation of supplier product, process and marketing technologies. Porter’s value chain framework was evaluated and subsequently...
The concepts of supply-chain design and management have come to the fore, owing to the ever-increasing complexity of the systems driving buyer-supplier relations in both industrial and consumer-based markets. The unprecedented levels of supply-chain management complexity are partly attributed to the Internet, through its more recent business accept...
A new modeling environment for the creation, testing and
validation of HDL-based models is presented. The environment is designed
to support the generation of multiple hardware description languages
including MAST, VHDL-AMS and Verilog-AMS. The software architecture and
feature set of the environment is described. The main use model is
illustrated...
The central aim of this paper is to link the competitive performance of small, high technology defence firms to their ability to adapt to changes in the procurement process. The paper draws upon an extensive research study focused on small high technology defence firms in the UK. Firms in the sample range from 5 to 200 employees, and £50,000 to £10...
The ever-increasing pace of technological change is the primary impulse that guides the development strategies of nations enjoying high economic growth. The diverse range of technological possibilities creates unprecedented change and as a consequence organisations are required to be responsive and adaptable to such conditions. For many, product in...
The proper matching of industry structure to strategy is expected to have a positive impact upon organisational performance. This relationship has not been fully examined in the defence industry. The central aim of this paper is to link the competitive performance of small, high technology defence firms to their ability to adapt to industry structu...
In this Science Fiction prototyping article I present a future proposition of people interacting with technologically-designed or socially engineered producer entities. Entities customized specifically to solve complex societal problems. It is within this consumption/production interaction space that I propose that entrepreneurs will be able to exp...
Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 1986. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 436-465).
Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1979. Includes bibliographical references.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia Institute of Technology, 1984. Directed by G.P. Rodrigue. (U.M. order no. 84-05,592). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-144).
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This research seeks to expand the conversation around the adoption of digital twin in the context of supply chains. It is beginning to emerge from industry and academia, that digital twin technology can indeed help to optimize supply chains. It is accepted that, digital twin technology has value-added potential. In what are unprecedented times, set against the fragility of highly strained supply chains across the globe. Thus, the positive impact of digital twin technology alongside digital twin capability warrants further investigation.