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Doing good, staying capitalist: Business school representations of social entrepreneurship and the commitment to capitalism
Full text linkIn recent decades, social entrepreneurship (SE) has gained widespread appeal as a way to deliver sustainable social change across sectors. Within business schools, SE has been institutionalized as the pedagogy that prepares business students to solve social challenges. It has also been heralded as a way to address the “crisis of legitimacy of capitalism”. While SE has been widely studied, its role as a response to critiques of capitalism and business schools has received less attention. To address this, and drawing theoretical inspiration from Boltanski and Chiapello’s New Spirit of Capitalism, this paper explores how business schools, through their representations of SE, sustain and reproduce capitalist commitments. Using a critical discourse analysis-informed approach to analyze SE texts from elite business schools, we show how business schools' representation of SE, leveraging SE’s ontological emptiness, addresses fairness, ensures security and generates excitement and maintains commitments to capitalism. In doing so, it sheds light on the role of the business school and management education in the transformation of capitalism and underscores the limitations of the business school as a leader in addressing social challenges
Organising the distribution of goods to country houses in Germany and England, c.1740–1800
Full text linkThe growing range and quantity of goods consumed by eighteenth-century householders did not just appear at the customer's house, yet we know remarkably little about the routes, processes and costs of transporting them between the (work)shop and the home. In this article, we start to address this lacuna through comparative analysis of consumers from the land-owning elite in Germany and England whose archives offer invaluable insights into how the many and varied things they consumed arrived at their country residences. Drawing on correspondence, bills and account books, we discuss the ways in which different goods were packaged for transportation, the choices made in terms of the mode and route by which goods were carried, the role of agents in cities, and the costs that all of these incurred for the householder. Bringing together an analysis of Germany and England allows us to assess the common concerns and processes involved in moving purchases to the customer's house. These commonalities are apparent despite differences in retail networks, local state involvement, topography and geography. Overall, we argue that both countries had systems of logistics that were well integrated and allowed for the (generally) safe movement of consumers goods, often over long distances
Narrative review on artificial intelligence in regenerative pediatric and congenital heart surgery: clinical applications and the path to responsible innovation
Full text linkArtificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery by
enhancing diagnosis, refining risk assessment, optimising perioperative planning, and supporting
clinical decision-making. In congenital heart defects, the complexity and diversity of conditions,
combined with the scarcity of specialist expertise, create a strong case for AI integration in
regeneration and repair. Advances in machine learning, deep learning, and large language models
offer the potential to analyze multimodal clinical and imaging data at scale, identify patterns
beyond human detection, and deliver timely, personalized recommendations. Early applications in
imaging, telemedicine, and decision support demonstrate promising performance, particularly in
improving diagnostic consistency and prioritising high-risk patients for intervention. However, most
artificial intelligence tools remain at the prototype stage, with limited multi-centre validation and
challenges in generalisability, interpretability, and data quality. Ethical and governance frameworks,
such as the FUTURE-AI consensus, emphasize fairness, transparency, and robustness as essential
for safe deployment, especially in vulnerable pediatric populations. This review outlines current and
emerging applications of AI in the care and repair of pediatric and congenital heart defects, highlights
opportunities for improving outcomes and equity, and discusses the critical steps needed for
responsible, clinician-led integration of artificial intelligence into surgical and perioperative practice.
Key Words: artificial intelligence; clinical decision support; congenital heart defects; deep learning;
large language models; machine learning; pediatric cardiac surgery; regenerative cardiac surgery;
regenerative medicine; surgical repai
Top Tips 3. Parents' attitudes to children's digital activity
No full textThis infographic presents some key findings from the Toddlers, Tech and Talk study about parents' attitudes towards their young children's use of digital technology
The Digital Wanderlust: Exploring How Tourism Short Video Cyberloafing Translates into Travel Intentions
No full textDespite the prevalence of tourism short-video cyberloafing (TSVC) in digital media consumption, its impact on tourism behavior remains underexplored. This study investigates how incidental exposure to tourism short videos during non-work-related online activities influences travel intention through the mediating roles of destination image expectation and desired destination value. Grounded in the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) framework and expectancy theory, it examines the psychological mechanisms shaping pre-travel perceptions and decision-making. Based on a sample of 387 respondents, the findings reveal that TSVC positively influences destination image expectation, desired destination value, and travel intention. Destination image expectation enhances desired destination value and travel intention, while desired destination value also drives travel intention. Additionally, destination image expectation and desired destination value mediate the TSVC-travel intention relationship, with a sequential mediation effect observed. This study advances tourism research by introducing TSVC as a novel construct, extending SOR and expectancy theory to passive digital media contexts.
Keywords: tourism short video cyberloafing; destination image expectation; desired destination value; travel intention; cyberloafing behavio
From project to place: conceptualising place-based factors leading to successful social innovation in sport
Full text linkResearch question
Although social innovation has recently received some interest in the sport management field, extant studies have predominantly focused on the organisational factors leading to innovations in the Sport-for-Development and Peace (SDP) context. There is limited understanding of the context – and place-specific factors affecting social innovation in sport in rural areas. This research aims to unveil the key factors that lead to successful social innovations in sport in rural areas.
Research methods
This study adopts a Constructionist Grounded Theory approach to explore how sport has been anchored for a social innovation project to revitalise an impoverished rural area through the case of Village Super League (VSL) in China. A total of 28 open interviews have been conducted with stakeholders involved in the social innovation process.
Results and findings
The main result of this study is the empirically grounded identification of five place-based factors, namely, domain (football), local context, institutional support, individual agency and empowerment, and community engagement, as well as digital technology as a catalyst, which jointly contributed to the success of the VSL. The result is strengthened by providing a conceptual framework that depicts these factors and their interplay in leading to successful social innovation in sport.
Implications
The conceptual framework provides a theoretical basis for future empirical research on social innovation in the sport context and practical implications for practitioners and policymakers on how best to design and leverage localised sport-based social innovation projects for community and/or rural area development
Misconceptions about variance comparisons for exploring the presence of treatment response heterogeneity in randomized controlled trials
Full text linkLetter to the Editor. To the editor: Regarding treatment response heterogeneity (TRH), we contest claims in Ref. 1 about variance difference statistics, especially the standard deviation of individual responses (SDIR)
Relational and Feminist Pedagogic Approaches for Developing Engagement and Inclusion of Girls at Risk of Exclusion in England
Full text linkThis paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing. Excluded girls often experience long-term challenges with wellbeing, skills, and support networks. In 2022, the National Literacy Trust launched their Represent programme to address the comparatively lower educational achievement of girls at risk of exclusion. The independent evaluation of the programme generated data from 263 girls and 60 facilitators and found that Represent improved students’ communication skills, wellbeing, resilience, and understanding of forming positive relationships. The programme’s small group teaching, and resources curated to enable reflection upon ‘lived experiences’, provided a different space within educational institutions and facilitated an ethic of care through relational pedagogies. Focusing on these aspects, this paper critically analyses data from the evaluation using a feminist lens. We argue that Represent inadvertently utilised feminist praxis, contributing to the positive outcomes reported by participants. As such, pedagogical aspects of the programme such as dialogical approaches and a social justice-orientation, could be adopted by the education system at a structural level to reduce exclusions of girls; changing the system rather than individual girls
Implementation of dementia communication skills training in acute hospitals: a longitudinal, mixed-methods case study evaluation
Full text linkObjectives
Acute hospital staff identify that supporting patients with dementia is challenging. This study implemented a communication skills training programme for preventing and responding to distress in patients with dementia in acute hospitals and assessed its impact.
Method
A mixed-methods, multiple case study in six wards across three English acute hospitals. Observational, interview, and staff survey data was collected immediately pre, post and 1–3 months post training. The 7-h training programme consisted of two half-days separated by a reflective period of 2–4 wk. It was delivered face-to-face by local clinical educators, and comprised interactive content and discussion-based learning including multi-media PowerPoint presentations, video resources, a reflective diary and skills practice.
Results
145 staff attended the training. Delivery was feasible, however challenges with training organisation and releasing staff occurred. Staff reported the training as engaging, relevant to their role, and valued opportunities for reflection and skills implementation between sessions. A statistically significant improvement was found immediate post-training on staff communication knowledge (CI 0.01–1.2) and confidence in caring for people with dementia (CI 4.9–7.3). Staff reported a range of learning which most planned to implement in practice. Some reported challenges applying specific communication principles to wider practice situations. Evidence of impacts on observed patient agitation and staff communication practices was challenging to provide.
Conclusion
Although challenging, it is feasible to deliver dementia communication skills training in acute hospital settings Communication training can lead to perceived increases in staff knowledge and confidence to support distress in this population
The evolving mission and responsibility of statistics education
No full textIn this issue, we congratulate and celebrate the winners of two statistics education prestigious prizes that have demonstrated excellence in the teaching and learning of statistics, selected from papers in Teaching Statistics issues 1–3 in 2025