Lez Michael Rayman-Bacchus

• PhD MA MBA
• Visiting Scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University

Purpose-This paper aims to emphasize the significance of integrating sustainable development (SD) content into higher education institutions (HEIs) curricula. The focus is on identifying areas of research demand related to SD in teaching and learning programmes. Design/methodology/approach-This study uses a comprehensive approach, combining bibliom...

For more than three decades, scholars and global policy making circles have been discussing intra-and intergenerational global solidarity, and the need for an institution to ensure a voice for future generations in contemporary global policy making. With the announced 2024 Summit for Future Generations expected to adopt a Pact for Future Generation...

Consensus about the universality of the power law feature in complex networks is experiencing widespread challenges. In this paper, we propose a generic theoretical framework in order to examine the power law property. First, we study a class of birth-and-death networks that are more common than BA networks in the real world, and then we calculate...

Institutions for future generations (IFGs) have lately become the subject of intense academic and political debate. That some had a short life prompted discussion about IFGs’ durability; indeed, to deliver any result at all, an institution first has to exist. One hurdle to the creation and survival of IFGs underlined in numerous studies is the lack...

Background “The impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the shutdown it triggered at universities across the world, led to a great degree of social isolation among university staff and students. The aim of this study was to identify the perceived consequences of this on staff and their work and on students and their studies...

Since January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the media and exercises pressure on governments worldwide. Apart from its effects on economies, education systems and societies, the pandemic has also influenced climate change research. This paper examines the extent to which COVID-19 has influenced climate change research worldwide during th...

Consensus about the universality of the power law feature in complex networks is experiencing profound challenges. To shine fresh light on this controversy, we propose a generic theoretical framework in order to examine the power law property. First, we study a class of birth-and-death networks that is ubiquitous in the real world, and calculate it...

This paper examines the potential for cultural policy to shape sustainable development in the context of expectations arising from research and policy work on development. We use, as the basis of a critique, the categor-isation of the relationship between culture and sustainable development proposed by a major study funded by the European Union, be...

COVID-19, as a pandemic, is impacting institutions around the world. Its scope and economic dimensions also mean that it poses a major threat towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article discusses how the coronavirus pandemic may influence the SDGs and could affect their implementation. The methods used entail an anal...

Aim: This paper reflects on the COVID-19 epidemic from the perspective of small probabilities and the difficulty of predicting similar events. Against the background of basic economic principles, the importance of the precautionary principle for crisis management is discussed, as well as potential consequences of this epidemic. Findings: The author...

Despite the considerable amount of research regarding trust as one of the most important characters and competitive advantages for an industrial cluster, few empirical studies have examined whether geographic proximity still leads to higher levels of trust in the current Internet era. This article explores this issue of trust from a network embedde...

A review of the literature reveals the scant research on sustainable procurement in the public sector, and in particular higher education institutions (HEIs). In this context, this paper aims to contribute to an emerging stream of research on drivers and challenges which higher education institutions and the extent to which they are endorsing susta...

The demands placed on Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to deliver sustainability initiatives alongside their long-standing social responsibility commitments has been recognised in literature. However, how these interrelate in practice continues to be relatively unexplored. The extant literature suggests that the integration of the two connected...

This overview paper describes the relevance of sustainability governance to traditional crafts communities in developing economies. It highlights the importance of this work, both as a livelihood and as way of life, for millions of people. Some theoretical lenses for thinking about traditional craft communities are presented, as well as the practic...

Within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, The European Union’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions, and the British Government’s introduction of appropriate legislation, universities across the UK have been tasked with developing and implementing strategies for reducing their own emissions. Universities and colleges generate large c...

In this paper, a baseline model termed as random birth-and-death network (RBDN) model is considered, in which at each time step, a new node is added into the network with probability p (\(0<p<1\)) and connected to m old nodes uniformly, or an existing node is deleted from the network with probability \(q=1-p\). This model allows for fluctuations in...

Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed...

This paper explores the decay of the scale-free property for a kind of birth-and-death evolving networks, in which at each time step, a node is added with probability p and connected with old nodes by preferential attachment; or a node is randomly deleted from the network with probability q=1-p. Employing the SPR-based Markov chain method, we calcu...

In this paper, a novel transmit beampattern matching design method is proposed for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. Whereas previous approaches first solve the correlation matrix $R$ and then use $R$ to design the transmit signal $S$, the proposed one-step method obtains the transmit signal $S$ directly through solving the wave...

In this paper, a general random birth-and-death network model (RBDN) is considered, in which at each time step, a new node is added into the network with probability p or an existing node is deleted from the network with probability q=1-p. For different p (1>p>1/2, 0<p<1/2, p=1/2), we calculate the degree distributions of RBDN and obtain their exac...

A firm’s ability to exploit external knowledge into product innovation is critical to its business success. Two well-established models, Absorptive Capacity (ACAP) and Dynamic Capabilities (DCAPs), offer insights into this issue. However, the constructs of these two models are confusingly mingled; and their effects are ambiguous. We argue that the...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are recognised as critical to local social and economic development. We explore the attitudes and practice of SMEs towards corporate responsibility/sustainability in a major ceramic tile manufacturing cluster, in Southwest China. The industry cluster offers a unique site for observing SME behaviour since clusters...

https://espace.cdu.edu.au/view/cdu:60391 This paper presents a visual research approach for segmenting emerging markets and investigating the consumer segments therein, on the basis of observed household living conditions. The study contributes to the paucity of visual research in the marketing arena, and reveals how ethnography-photography can ser...

This study proposes a probability routing strategy for improving traffic capability on scale-free networks. Compared with the shortest path routing strategy depending on central nodes largely and the efficient routing strategy avoiding hub routers as much as possible, the probability routing strategy makes use of hub routers more efficiently, trans...

Purpose – Firms in the same industry often display a striking propensity to agglomerate. These geographic concentrations significantly affect innovative behavior of individual firms and therefore have important strategic implications. The purpose of this paper is to report on how networks within the cluster influence firms' commitment to innovation...

Understanding society in emerging markets is often difficult due to shortcomings in the data resources available. Visual research examining the broader societal make up in a developing country is particularly helpful for enhancing understanding and is a useful supplement to other more traditional (non-visual) methods of data collection. This paper...

Much has been written about the behaviour of muntinational corporations (MNCs) and their relations with the nation state. However, there seems room for closer examination of the dynamics of such relations between developing economies and MNCs operating in sectors of strategic importance to the developing economy. The research reported here examines...

This paper investigates corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy management in multinational companies (MNCs). The focus is on examining the relationship between subsidiaries and headquarters in the management of CSR, in terms of the commonplace notion of ‘think global, act local’. Primary and secondary data was collected in one MNC and a case...

Corporate ethical behaviour has long been debated, and some observers have been questioning the legitimacy of the corporation. While capitalism is credited with propelling the wellbeing of many economies, repeated instances of corporate wrong-doing fuel a deep distrust in the corporation. Corporate misbehaviour during the last two decades has promp...

This essay examines the notion of student diversity in the context of one Higher Education institution. It suggests that diversity is a double-edged sword, offering valuable insight while at the same time contributing to the building of unhelpful categories and potential discrimination. A broader interpretation of diversity is suggested as being mo...

This essay examines the notion of student diversity in the context of one Higher Education institution. It suggests that diversity is a double-edged sword, offering valuable insight while at the same time contributing to the building of unhelpful categories and potential discrimination. A broader interpretation of diversity is suggested as being mo...

This essay examines the challenges of reconciling student diversity with an assessment regime based on the standard essay. In doing this, the notion of student diversity is determined to vary with their motivation, prior knowledge and experience, how students learn, and cultural and social antecedents. These factors in combination are meaningful in...

This essay examines the challenges of reconciling student diversity with an assessment regime based on the standard essay. In doing this, the notion of student diversity is determined to vary with their motivation, prior knowledge and experience, how students learn, and cultural and social antecedents. These factors in combination are meaningful in...

Over the last decade of the 20th century, the question of the relationship between organisations and society was subject to much debate, often of a critical nature. The decade saw protests concerning the actions of organizations, exposures of corporate exploitation and unfolding accounting scandals. At the same time, ethical behaviour and a concern...

Corporate governance systems aim to supervise and guide corporate behaviour. Information and communication technologies and in particular the Internet are providing unprecedented scope for innovative behaviour, both undesirable and useful, and as means for greater scrutiny and control. There are calls to reform the governance system, to make it mor...

This paper assesses the current state of development among the Internet-based providers of tourism services. The study focuses on leading intermediary businesses and enabling groups: travel agents; specialist service providers; reservation technology providers; and public agencies. In studying some 50 leading web sites, spanning a range of differin...

Research in the natural and social sciences has come to be seen as crucial to economic and social progress across a wide range of fronts, from wealth creation through technological advances and the imputed shift to a Knowledge Economy to the development of more effective, evidence-based public policies (Cabinet Office 1999). These issues have attra...