Dr. Natalie van der Wal was scheduled to chair the session “how an interdisciplinary team can boost the societal impact of business school research” at the Chartered ABS Research Conference and Exhibition 2020 “Reach – Relevance – Impact” in Nottingham, 18th of March. Although the conference is currently cancelled, we hope there will be a…
Astrid Kause, along with co-authors Joel Millward-Hopkins (School of Earth and Environment, Uniersity of Leeds) and Wandi Bruine de Bruin (University of Southern California) has an article on The Conversation about their research on food entitled “Even concerned consumers don’t know which food choices have the lowest climate impact”. In a national UK sample, they…
Barbara Summers has been reviewing submissions for IAREP 2020 as part of the Scientific Committee for the conference. IAREP (the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology) runs annual conferences (sometimes organized as a joint IAREP/SABE conference) that attracts academics, policy makers, and practitionners from psychology, economics, business administration, marketing, consumer behavior and related fields….
Richard Hodgett and Alan Pearman delivered a module on Executive Decision Making for the United Nations System Staff College as part of their UN Secretariat and UN System Executive Management Programmes. Alan delivered a series of webinars and Richard delivered the face to face training in New York in December 2019 and in Turin in…
Gulbanu Kaptan has been successful in receiving financial support from the Challenge Fund – an annual scheme of LUBS Research Office offering seed funding up to a maximum of £50,000 to support the preparation of significant grant applications. The 6-month project that will be led by Gulbanu is a cross-disciplinary research collaboration involving academics from the Business School…
Chris Riley,previously a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Leeds, working with Barbara Summers and Darren Duxbury (Newcastle University Business School), has had his research on reference points published in Management Science. Chris’s work in this area won a graduation prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. He is now a Lecturer at the University of Leicester….
Panagiotis Stamolampros has a new paper “Evaluating Domestic Bias on Airline Passengers’ Ratings: The Moderating Effect of Cultural Value Orientation” in the International Journal of Hospitality Management – citation and abstract below Stamolampros, P., Dousios, D. & Korfiatis, N. “Evaluating Domestic Bias on Airline Passengers’ Ratings: The Moderating Effect of Cultural Value Orientation”, International Journal…
Panagiotis Stamolampros is a guest editor for a forthcoming special issue of Electronic Markets, with a focus on “The Cultural Impact in Platform Competition.” The call for papers can be found here
The paper examines to what extent emotional place attachment is impacted by people’s feelings towards international companies associated with the place, and what mechanism and conditions drive such effects. The research draws on the feelings-as-information perspective and empirically tests the relationships in three international multi-method studies. The results demonstrate that brand loyalty plays a key…
Natalie Van Der Wal was interviewed on an ITV programme about whether ‘Blue Monday’ is real. Blue Monday, the third Monday in January is alleged to be the most depressing day of the year. Natalie talked about how her computer simulations help to understand human behaviour better by predicting frustration levels in stranded passengers and…
